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The ultimate and most comprehensive book on the John Lennon FBI files. For the first time, the complete FBI files on John Lennon are published, explained and illustrated. These documents, completed by CIA and INS archives, shine a new light on John Lennon's post-Beatles life in New York City. He was investigated for pornography, harassed for several years by President Nixon's administration that wanted to deport him because of his political and anti Vietnam War activism. The FBI also investigated when Lennon and his family were later threatened for money. The last file tackles issues relating to his murder in December 1980. This book is a must have for every Lennon fan and for anyone interested in his life, artistic achievements, political activism and peace campaigns.
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. Fascinating, engrossing, at points hilarious and absurd, Gimme Some Truth documents an era when rock music seemed to have real political force and when youth culture challenged the status quo in Washington. It also delineates the ways the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations fought to preserve government secrecy, and highlights the legal strategies adopted by those who have challenged it.
The strange and sinister story of the U.S. government's secret war on John Lennon and Yoko Ono is dramatically told in this book based on recently released documents from the FBIUs own archives.
The FBI began to watch John Lennon closely soon after he and Yoko Ono arrived in New York in 1971. Nixon's aides feared that Lennon--through his involvement with New Left activists such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin--might use his fame to mobilize American youth to vote against the president. In 1972 Lennon was ordered to leave America--partly due to a 1968 conviction for possession of marijuana--and he was not granted permanent residence until July 1976. Includes facsimiles of some original FBI documents, with handwritten comments and an indication of the extent of censored passages.
In the early 1970s, the FBI - along with anyone who listened to the things he said at the time - worked out that John Lennon harboured left-wing sympathies. But only now have the US authorities revealed the extent of the data held on the ex-Beatle. According to one of J Edgar Hoover's confidential sources, John Lennon experimented with illicit drugs, and was busted once for possession of marijuana. Such are the highlights of the last 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file - documents deemed so sensitive that, for years, the US government refused to release them on the grounds that to do so could "reasonably be expected to... lead to foreign diplomatic, economic and military retaliation against the United States." Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we can now reveal to you the shocking news that John Lennon - despite his bewilderingly long hair and his mystifying habit of lying in bed for days at a time - was a peace activist who opposed the Vietnam War, spoke out against British military intervention in Northern Ireland, met and gave interviews to leading anti-war advocates on both sides of the Atlantic, and was even known, on occasion, to open his cheque book to put his money where his mouth was. What this is really about is the FBI and the four presidents since Nixon who kept this secret. These are scanned copies of the actual FBI file in entirety. You'll even see the hand written notes. THIS BOOK WILL ABSOLUTELY BLOW YOUR MIND. A DEFINITE MUST READ! THE FBI NEVER WANTED THE PUBLIC TO SEE THIS FILE. GET YOUR COPY NOW!
John Lennon was the world's biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of their popularity, they headed to Canada. Canada was already a politically charged place. In 1968, Pierre Elliott Trudeau rode a wave of popularity dubbed Trudeaumania for its similarities to the Beatlemania of the era. The sexual revolution, hippie culture, the New Left and the peace movement were challenging norms, frightening the authorities and provoking backlash. Quebec nationalism was putting the power of the English-speaking minority running the province on the defensive, and threatening the breakup of the country. John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a "bed-in for peace?" at an upscale downtown Montreal hotel. The couple, aided by the CBC, saw a steady stream of journalists, musicians and activists arriving for interviews, political discussions, singing and art-making. The classic "Give Peace A Chance" was recorded there with the help of local Quebecois musicians. Three months later they were back in Canada with Eric Clapton and other friends to play a concert festival in Toronto arranged by local promoters. American acts like Little Richard, The Doors, Bo Diddley and Alice Cooper, along with many Canadian pop musicians of the time, played at the festival. At year's end, the duo met with Prime Minister Trudeau in Ottawa. By this time Trudeau was cracking down on dissent, mainly in Quebec, and falling out of favour with the counterculture crowd. Recounting the story of these events, historian Greg Marquis offers a unique portrayal of Canadian society in the late Sixties, recounting how politicians, activists, police, artists, musicians and businesses across Canada reacted to John and Yoko's presence and message.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, c1984.
Contains declassified official FBI files.
"248 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering John Lennon. Files cover an investigation conducted when the FBI learned that John Lennon contributed $75,000 to a group it believed was planning to disrupt the Republican National Convention in 1972. The files cites Lennon's overseas drug conviction, John and Yoko Ono's immigration problems, Files indicates bureau desire to see a local police department arrest Lennon [on] drug charges to help the deportation case."--Http://www.paperlessarchives.com/lennon.html.
Based on six years of extensive research into the background and motives of assassin Mark Chapman and the circumstances of the murder, the author contends that Chapman was part of a political plot