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FBI documents reveal longtime surveillance of playwright Arthur Miller NEW YORK Documents reveal the late playwright Arthur Miller was under government surveillance for a long time. His F-B-I files were obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. Miller, who died last year at age 89, was a longtime liberal. He opposed the Vietnam War, supported civil rights and, in one play, "The Crucible," linked the Cold War pursuit of communists to the Salem witch trials of the 17th century. In 1956, the House Un-American Activities Committee asked him to give names of alleged communist writers with whom he had attended meetings in the 1940s. Miller refused and was convicted of contempt of Congress. The decision was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court. The F-B-I ended up making a more convincing case that he was a dissenter from the Communist Party rather than a sympathizer. ---------------------------------------------------
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