Walt Disney was an FBI Informant
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In November 1940, animator and producer Walt Disney, known for creating Mickey Mouse and films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, started working as an informant for the FBI. He did so until his death in 1966, but his secret work was kept hidden for more than 50 years. Disney worked for the FBI’s Los Angeles office and was tasked with collecting information about communists in Hollywood. Names from classified documents disclosed in the 1990s were redacted, so it’s unclear whom he reported to the bureau, although some may have been his studio animators. Disney was also pals with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.