Final Lennon FBI Files Released.
PRESS RELEASE:
After 25 Years, FBI Releases Last Ten
Documents in John Lennon FBI File
LOS ANGELES – The FBI late Tuesday made public 10 documents from their files on John Lennon that have been withheld for 25 years under the claim that releasing them could cause “military retaliation against the United States.”
The files, however, contain only well known information about Lennon’s ties to New Left leaders and antiwar groups in London in 1970 and 1971.
“I doubt that Tony Blair’s government will launch a military strike on the US in retaliation for the release of these documents, ” said Jon Wiener, a historian at the University of California at Irvine, who first requested the files in 1981. “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.”
More information can be found at www.LennonFBIfiles.com
