The Daily Beast digs in.
From the piece...
Bradbury got exactly what he didn’t
want. The FBI investigation of Bradbury spans April 2 through June 3,
1959, and included surveillance from special agents.
“There’s
some case notes to indicate they were parked outside the street of his
house, watching his house. There were definitely agents stationed,
watching his family and the goings on at the Bradbury home,” Weller
says.
According
to Martin A. Berkeley, a former member of the Communist Party and one
of few named sources in the files, Bradbury, “was probably sympathetic
with certain pro-Communist elements in the WGAw [Writers Guild of
America, West].” He told the FBI that during a meeting of the Writers
Guild, formerly the Screen Writers Guild, the union was considering
whether to keep Communist Party members from joining, and Bradbury rose
up and shouted, “Cowards and McCarthyites.”
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