Walt Disney: The FBI Files

The FBI file on Walt Disney will fascinate any Disney enthusiast. It contains dozens of newspaper articles that document Walt's political activities and other events as they were seen at that time, as well as the many FBI internal memos on Walt and the Studio. This book takes all of the legible documents from the FBI files on Walt Disney and puts them in chronological order to help demonstrate their relationship to events at the Studio and in Walt's life. The discussion about Marc Eliot's book shows why the speculation about Walt's parentage is foolish, as well as showing how only one of Eliot's "shocking allegations" proved to be true and how many others were demonstrably false. The book talks about the 1941 strike against the Disney Studio and how the effects of that strike are felt in the Studio to this day. Last, but not least, the memos show how the FBI's paranoia about Communism distorted their judgement, culminating with the bizarre conclusion that the Walt Disney Studio "has probably been infiltrated."

The book includes:

• Over 200 documents taken directly from the FBI's File on Walt Disney
• The complete transcript of Walt's 1947 testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
• Over 50 capsule biographies of people who were prominent in the Walt Disney Studios' family
• A biblioigraphy of Disney-related books, focusing on biographies of Walt

Note: This book is out of print as well as out of date, but I have started to prepare a second edition that I will make available either on CD-ROM or as an e-book. Please contact us if you would like to be notified when the second edition is available.