List of Americans under surveillance

This is a list of some of the prominent U.S. citizens who are known to have been put under surveillance by the federal government of the United States.

Activists

• Helen Keller
• Alice Lee Jemison
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Businesspersons

• Bernard Baruch

• Howard Hughes

Journalists

• Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist for Life magazine
• Art Buchwald, a columnist for The Washington Post
• David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and historian
• Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Norman Mailer, novelist, columnist and The Village Voice co-founder

• Tom Wicker, a columnist for The New York Times

Politicians

Congress

• Sen. Barry Goldwater
• Sen. Frank Church
• Sen. Howard Baker
• Sen. Strom Thurmond

Supreme Court

• Associate Justice William O. Douglas

White House

• First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Science and philosophy

• Albert Einstein
• Howard Zinn
• Noam Chomsky
• Edward Said

Sports and entertainment

Actors and actresses

• Jean Seberg
• Marilyn Monroe
• Marlene Dietrich

Athletes

• Muhammad Ali

Composers

• Aaron Copland

Jazz musicians

• Duke Ellington
• Frank Sinatra
• Louis Armstrong
• Nat King Cole

Other

• Robert Hanssen

See also

• Mass surveillance in the United States

References