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"ARREST
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE"
Acting FBI Director Gray received an airtel
(HQ-24) from the New York FBI office, dated July 27,
suggesting that it be "emphasized" to "local
Law Enforcement Agencies" in Miami that Lennon should
be "arrested if at all possible on possession of
narcotics charg." The New York office provided a
helpful explanation: "Local INS has very loose case in
NY for deporting subject. . . . if LENNON were to be
arrested . . . he would become more likely to be immediately
deportable." This memo sounds like a proposal to set
Lennon up for a drug bust. The ACLU cited this passage as
evidence that the FBI was engaged in an "abuse of its
authority in order to neutralize dissent."
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