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Classified FBI documents on John Lennon
After Lennon's death, historian Jon Wiener filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files on Lennon, which document the Bureau's role in the Nixon Administration attempt to deport Lennon in 1972 to stop his anti-war campaign before the Nixon re-election campaign. The FBI admitted it had 281 pages in its files on Lennon but refused to release most of them, they contained "national security" information. In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, it took fourteen years of litigation to force the FBI to release the withheld pages. The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favorable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991. The Bush Justice Department appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in April, 1992, but the court declined to review the case. The Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues in the case outside the court in 1997, when most all of the contested documents but 10 were released, respecting President Bill Clinton's new rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm." In January 2000, he published a book titled Gimme Some Truth, The John Lennon FBI Files, referring to the same titled song of Lennon, from University of California Press which contains facsimiles of the documents, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges". The story is told in the documentary The U.S. Versus John Lennon, by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, released in theaters in September 2006, and on DVD in February 2007. The final 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file, which had been withheld as containing "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality," and reported on Lennon's ties with London anti-war activists in 1971, were released in December 2006.

Books


 * Gimme Some Truth The John Lennon FBI Files University of California Press by Jon Wiener 9780520222465

When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld—along with almost 200 other pages—on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. '''This book tells the story of the author's remarkable fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. With the publication of Gimme Some Truth, 100 key pages of the Lennon FBI file are available—complete and unexpurgated, fully annotated and presented in a "before and after" format.'''

Lennon's file was compiled in 1972, when the war in Vietnam was at its peak, when Nixon was facing reelection, and when the "clever Beatle" was living in New York and joining up with the New Left and the anti-war movement. '''The Nixon administration's efforts to "neutralize" Lennon are the subject of Lennon's file. The documents are reproduced in facsimile so that readers can see all the classification stamps, marginal notes, blacked out passages and—in some cases—the initials of J. Edgar Hoover. The file includes lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges.'''

Newspapers


 * Has Stephen Colbert Been Hiding John Lennon’s F.B.I. Legacy? NY Times
 * Who Killed John Lennon? by John W. Whitehead December 2, 2008, Huffington Post

guardian.co.uk


 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/mar/19/popandrock.elliottsmith critic of the theory "The claims about Elliott Smith might well have been filed alongside spurious notions that John Lennon was murdered by the CIA ..."
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7719611,00.html John Lennon's killer denied parole for 5th time
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/apr/01/dvdreviews.shopping critic of the theory mention

independent.co.uk


 * http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-by-cynthia-lennon-509685.html

bbc

magazines


 * http://filmmakermagazine.com/directorinterviews/2008/01/andrew-piddington-killing-of-john.php
 * www.infowars.com infowars.com is fringe, does not meet our sourcing guidelines and should not be used/who-killed-john-lennon/ from http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=565 Rutherford Institute John W. Whitehead
 * http://www.beingtheremag.com/content/0502/reviewsunearthed.html
 * http://www.commondreams.org/views/022500-102.htm
 * http://www.democracynow.org/2005/12/8/john_lennon_1940_1980_history_professor
 * http://www.democracynow.org/2000/5/25/gimme_some_truth_the_fbi_files
 * http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000313/wiener
 * http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/1362 from http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-20429610-details/FBI%3A+Lennon+too+stoned+to+be+a+threat/article.do

dedicated sites


 * http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com/footnotes.asp?id=145
 * http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm
 * http://ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com/2005/12/q-who-killed-john-lennon-the-cia-or.html

theory sites


 * http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Usenet/Perdomo.htm
 * http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/lennon_report.htm
 * http://www.wh4le.to/b/lenn.html filter
 * http://www.fr33republic.com/focus/f-news/1756224/posts?page=131 filter
 * http://www.konformist.com/rocknroll/chaos.htm

personal


 * http://edward.de.leau.net/who-killed-john-lennon-20081228.html
 * http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/problems/problemB/Bsample09.txt

not related


 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/lennon_wenner.shtml
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/oct/22/thriller

Imagine

 * http://ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com/
 * http://www.konformist.com/rocknroll/lennon.htm
 * http://www.wh4le.to/b/lenn.html
 * http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm
 * http://www.john-lennon.com/playboyinterviewwithjohnlennonandyokoono.htm
 * http://www.amazon.com/Killed-John-Lennon-Fenton-Bresler/dp/0312923678 Who Killed John Lennon Fenton Bresler
 * http://beatlesnumber9.com/lennon.html
 * http://www.democracynow.org/2007/6/27/with_release_of_family_jewels_cia
 * http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/cia.html
 * http://filmmakermagazine.com/directorinterviews/2008/01/andrew-piddington-killing-of-john.php
 * http://home.swipnet.se/allez/Local/3/chaos.htm
 * http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/lennon.html
 * http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_300.shtml
 * http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/3761
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA427&lpg=PA427&dq=%22john+lennon%22+cia+involvement+assasination+chapman+bresler&source=bl&ots=teeeP_uku9&sig=AYRWa4If_3MTNS2pLcIN1erxQbA&hl=tr&ei=Y6EcSqTUIoy4sgaq3ISRAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10
 * http://search.nation.com/nation_trivia/ws/results/Web/Assassination%20Of%20John%20Lennon/1/302357/RightNav/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true
 * http://www.classicbands.com/MysteryofJohnLennon.html
 * http://www.classicbands.com/JackJonesInterview.html
 * http://www.slemen.com/visions.html
 * http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Crime/Murder/Lennon,_John/
 * http://www.dgl.com/msg4/messages/1019.html
 * https://salempress.com/store/pdfs/chapman.pdf
 * http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/PDFs/Para03.pdf
 * http://www.geocities.com/matwilson_2000/ch13.htm
 * http://lennonbio.blogspot.com/
 * http://www.rense.com/politics5/instantkarma.htm
 * http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081108214350AAZ2CdO
 * http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/boleri/124653.shtml
 * http://www.midway-house.freeserve.co.uk/RareFilms9.htm

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