Dylan wrote anti-McCarthy satire while under actual FBI surveillance

Evidence

“Talkin’ John Birch” ended with the newly minted Bircher declaring his vigilance, and looking for “them Reds” under the sink, beneath his chair, up the chimney and “deep down” his toilet bowl. The words take on additional relevance in that Rotolo and, by extension, Dylan, were under FBI surveillance. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 364

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did FBI surveillance of Rotolo/Dylan shape what Dylan later claimed about this period? Possibly worth chasing in later chapters or archival material.
• XREF: connects to: New Criticism’s rise and fall tracked McCarthy-era anti-communism