Last John Lennon FBI docs
p2pnet.net News:- The FBI has finally released the last 10 documents from its secret John Lennon files.
They’d been withheld for a quarter of a century because they might prompt “military retaliation” against the United States, campaigners for their release said, according to Reuters.
“The files turn out to contain only well known information about Lennon’s ties to left-wing leaders and antiwar groups in London in 1970 and 1971, said Jon Wiener, a history professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union,” says the story, which has Wiener saying:
“Today we can see that the national security claims the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning. The Lennon FBI file is a classic case of excessive government secrecy.”
Wiener’s campaign was detailed in a book and formed the basis of the 2006 documentary “The U.S. vs John Lennon”.
He’s posted the documents on John Lennon – Files.
(Thanks, Julie)
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Reuters – FBI releases last of secret John Lennon files, December 20, 2005
December 21st, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I doubt those files will ever come out. There’d be fear of street riots if they ever revealed all the nasty things the FBI and CIA spies did to try to destroy him.
December 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Who do you think “did” him? And who do you think “did” John F. Kennedy? And who do you think “did” JFK’s Russian counterpart six months after JFK was “done”? Did you know that BOTH Countrie’s Leaders where “done” the SAME exact way?
HELL NO it won’t come out!! THAT’S how ‘gov’ works. This John Lennon thing PROVES it!!!!
AND, if the ‘gov’ has been doing this type of thing ’simply’ about John Lennon what do you think they have on each and every one of us. ESPECIALLY in this digital day and age when they are spying on every single keystroke we make on the net and listen in on our telephone conversations!
No, sadly, the Martin Luther King thing will never come out for more than the reason YOU ‘imply’.
December 21st, 2006 at 8:25 pm
And the documents are Soooo redacted. Go find some unredacted versions on eMule.