Warhol muse Susan “Viva” Hoffmann was shocked to learn she had one more, previously unknown credit to her name.
Viva was on a long cast list of artists, actors and newsmakers who made it into the files of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, after the spy chief ordered a probe of late British talk show host David Frost and his guests.
“What a waste of money [to keep tabs on an] entertainment interviewer?” Hoffmann told The Post on Wednesday. “I’m not shocked there’s a file on me, but I am shocked there’s a file on David Frost.”
The “Lonesome Cowboys” actress said she and her anti-war activist friends, such as student organizer Abbie Hoffman, regularly joked about what information the FBI had likely dug up on them.
“It couldn’t have been more clear that people like Abbie were obviously enemies of the state,” the feisty 75-year-old Hoffmann sarcastically said from her home in Palm Springs, Calif.
“The mood of the country was of real anger against the government. Everybody was against the war and we knew there would be lists.”
Viva said she doesn’t recall what movie project she was pushing on Frost’s show. But she’s 100-percent sure she sneaked in some anti-Vietnam rhetoric.
“I always squeezed it in no matter what,” she said. “They [a talk show staff] always interviewed you ahead of time and, you know, tried to give you a script of what to say [on the actual show]. I always threw away that script.”
Viva said she was no radical — in opposing US action in Vietnam — but understood how she might have stood out to authorities.
“I mean who wasn’t against the war?” Viva said. “I guess I would have been targeted because I was so vocally against it.”