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John Lennon - The FBI files
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The
FBI assembled around 300 pages of files on John Lennon in
1971-72, part of President Nixon's effort to deport Lennon to
silence him as a critic of the war in Vietnam.
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files were released to University of California, Irvine, historian
Jon Wiener, who wrote about them in his book "Gimme Some
Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files." Portions of the files had
been withheld under the claim that releasing them would
"endanger the national security." With the help of the
ACLU of Southern California, Jon Wiener sued the FBI under the
Freedom of Information Act, asking the courts to order release of
the withheld portions of the Lennon FBI file. |
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