while many laughed at dave's assertion calling him paranoid it turns out he was right journalist aaron j. leonard was discovered has discovered through a freedom of information act request that the f.b.i. was indeed surveilling dave van ronk from one nine hundred sixty three intell at least one nine hundred seventy three informants were reporting of membership in an offshoot organization of the socialist workers party which felt the party was not radical enough and should be saturating unions the newly released files show that the f.b.i. reviewed copies of dave enron's albums self made sure that wrong was kept from movie renu in his merchant marine union membership questioned his neighbors tapped his phone and eventually put him on the f.b.i.'s security and that's divan rock folk musician a guitar player was put on a list that at the time meant in the event of a national emergency his arrest and detention would be required what makes this case so important is that it's a silly story of our past but a precursor to our present journalists are being put on a list by the department of homeland securi