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Home of lucille ball7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The file contains memos stamped "confidential" and addressed to Hoover. Our associate Scott Sleek obtained the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secret file on Ball and her first husband, Desi Arnaz. The FBI director continued to collect evidence about Ball, even though the FBI claims that it never officially investigated her. But she said she did it to appease her socialist grandfather and that she was never an active member of the party. During a 1953 investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Ball admitted that she had registered to vote as a Communist in 1936. Comedian Lucille Ball was hauled before Congress at the height of Sen. Americans loved Lucy, but Uncle Sam never forgot that as a young woman she declared herself a communist. ![]()
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