Comment by firstOrder
12 years ago
> Through the years that he has been at the California Institute of Technology (REDACTED) he has in my opinion made a definite point of knowing well and cultivating such persons as the president of California Institute of Technology, the dean of the school of physics, department heads (including REDACTED and Linus Pauling), regents of California Institute of Technology, as well as REDACTED.
Well it shouldn't be too much detective work to figure out what Caltech department head Feynman was buddy buddy with other than Pauling. They seemed to feel need to redact the name for some reason.
From all of the references to Caltech implying a personal knowledge of the school, to the continual references to Feynman being a religious skeptic and critical of Republicans, I'd guess this letter was written by a conservative working at Caltech. It would make sense in terms of the initial FBI contact, the acquaintanceship but not friendship with Feynman etc.
Why would someone working at Caltech be interviewed in Idaho? The ex-wife theory seems a whole lot more credible.
I have no idea but as long as we're speculating there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_National_Laboratory and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I