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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by jjoonathan on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:18AM (#6906035)
> his brilliant career in the United States came to a screeching halt in 1950, when the FBI accused him of being a member of a subversive organization

Yep, looks like the FBI created the problem they were ineptly trying to prevent.

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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by salient on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:33AM (#6906095)
And more than a half a century later, nothing changed:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-hatched-some-crazy-te...

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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by protomyth on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:43PM (#6907230)
from the article:

Qian returned to Caltech in 1949 and a year later faced the accusation by two former members of the Los Angeles Police Department's "Red Squad" that he was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

thanks LAPD

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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by shiven on Saturday December 14, 2013 @07:26PM (#6907723)
And everyone needs to ask how many deserving scientists are being mistreated in a similar manner by being labeled as bogeymen with du jour-isms of our time.
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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by yetanotherphd on Sunday December 15, 2013 @12:10AM (#6908463)
James Watson for starters
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