Mounties spied on John and Yoko
p2pnet news | music:- “Police were on duty along the corridors to hold back fans and to scrutinize the credentials of the fifty or so press representatives who turned up either to gaze in wonder at the most famous couple in the world, or to dismiss the visit as more weird stuff from the weirdest family around,” Ritchie Yorke wrote in 1969.
However, reporters weren’t the only ones being watched.
Declassified records by the Canadian Press show the Mounties “monitored efforts by the iconic musician and wife Yoko Ono” when they staged their three-day concert in early July, 1970, at Ontarios Mosport Park, says CP.
“The Mosport Peace Festival was initiated by John Lennon (of Beatle fame) and his wife, while visiting Canada during December 1969,” says a April 1970 letter to a liaison at the US Embassy in Ottawa from the RCMP’s J.E.M. Barrette, director of security and intelligence.
“The RCMP correspondence, portions of which remain secret, found its way into what would soon become an extensive FBI file on Lennon.”
Substantial portions of security memo are, ” based on a newspaper account of the Toronto announcement, though several passages of material acquired through other means were deleted from the version disclosed to The Canadian Press,” says the story, adding, ‘As further information becomes available, same will be reported on this file,’ the investigator wrote.”
Also See:
Ritchie Yorke – Boosting peace, February 7, 1969
Canadian Press – Mounties spied on Lennon, July 24, 2007
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