New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross requested and received copies of Leonard Bernstein's FBI file. He writes about the experience for the magazine's News Desk:
"... the first serious
inquiry came in March, 1949, when David Niles, President Truman’s
administrative assistant, asked the Bureau to look into the young
musician’s background. Niles wanted the information because Truman and
Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, were scheduled to attend
an event at which Bernstein was slated to perform."
Read Bernstein and the FBI.
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