Newly-unsealed FBI files on Marilyn Monroe
have been obtained by The Associated Press, 50 years after her death.
In the documents that began in 1955, it's revealed that the Bureau kept
tab on the actress because they were concerned about the actress' ties
to some suspected communists.
One of her pals with leftist views mentioned in the file was Frederick
Vanderbilt Field. She reportedly met him in Mexico on shopping trips.
The encounter was described in a chapter titled "An Indian Summer
Interlude" by Field himself in his autobiography "From Right to Left".
"She talked mostly about herself and some of the people who had been or
still were important to her," he wrote. "She told us about her strong
feelings for civil rights, for black equality, as well as her admiration
for what was being done in China, her anger at red-baiting and
McCarthyism and her hatred of (FBI director) J. Edgar Hoover."
Though mentioning about Monroe's linkage to some lefty people, FBI which also kept close eyes on some other celebrities like Frank Sinatra
and Charlie Chaplin under Hoover's watch couldn't find any evidence
that the actress who died in 1962 was a member of the party.
"Subject's views are very positively and concisely leftist; however, if
she is being actively used by the Communist Party, it is not general
knowledge among those working with the movement in Los Angeles," the
file stated in a July 1962 entry.
Regarding her death, AP reported the FBI was aware of theories that she
might be killed, "but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to
investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe's
death was a probable suicide." One of the rumors suggested she was
murdered by government due to her political leanings.
Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who performed autopsy on her body, said in his book
that he "would call Monroe's suicide 'very probable'." He, however,
added, "But I also believe that until the complete FBI files are made
public and the notes and interviews of the suicide panel released,
controversy will continue to swirl around her death," referring to the
heavily-censored documents.
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