By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
For 24 years, the FBI spied on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Washington Post reports.
The FBI began investigating the Columbian writer in 1961, just after he helped Cuba establish a news service, according to recently obtained records.
He later became “a close friend of (Cuban dictator) Fidel Castro” and was a well-known leftist.
His fame spread with the acclaimed novels, “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and he be befriended international dignitaries.
The records don’t explain the motive behind the FBI’s spying, but the records indicate that the FBI was interested in his travels and friendships.
