On of my profs had the craziest stories. Him mother and father were communists in the 50's. Him mom got involved in some industrial espionage thing and ended up wanted by the FBI. She fled to the soviet union with his fathers best friend. The FBI didn't know where she was, thinking she was either in Czechoslovakia or Croatia. After seven years she was declared legally dead, and his dad remarried.
His dad was a physics prof at MIT. He wanted to take a job in India but was denied a passport due to being a communist. He sued the U.S. gov. which I think resulted in this
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/357/144/Anyway every time his course got bumped up in the court system, it made the news and he would lose his job. So he ended up going from an MIT prof. to a prof as some small community uni.
So after 30 years he gets a letter from his moms new family, his step sister, who just found a letter that his mom had written to him but never sent. So he finds out where she is. The guy she ran off with had stolen a bunch of stuff from Bell labs and had set himself up as a huge name in soviet electronics. He also had died of a heart attack. Anyways his step mom developed Alzheimer's and after the collapse of the soviet union, his real mom comes back and ends up living with his dad while they take care of his step mom. My prof also came to Canada to avoid the draft. Crazy life.
