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 Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:57 pm FBI releases final John Lennon files |
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| Quote: | The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.
The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday's editions.
The FBI had unsuccessfully argued that an unnamed foreign government secretly provided the information, and releasing the documents could lead to diplomatic, political or economic retaliation against the United States.
The newly released documents include a surveillance report stating that two prominent British leftists had courted Lennon in hopes that he would finance "a left-wing bookshop and reading room in London" but that Lennon gave them no money. Another page states that there was "no certain proof" that Lennon had provided money "for subversive purposes." |
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/38337739
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| Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:38 pm |
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Wonder if they would ever suspect someone with ties to right-ist organizations.
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| Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:43 pm |
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| WeAz wrote: | | Wonder if they would ever suspect someone with ties to right-ist organizations. |
If "right-ist" governments were against the US, I'm sure they would. This wasn't a simplistic matter of hating the Democrats. The reason the US was so hard against the left-ist people were because we were in a Cold War with the U.S.S.R. and the Vietnam war. Guess what side they leaned on?
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