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"UNABLE
TO MAKE A NARCOTICS CASE"
The urgent coded teletype sent to Acting
Director Gray on May 18 by the New York FBI continues with a
report on the previous day's immigration hearings (HQ-18
page 2). Exactly why this would be sent in code is a mystery
- the same information had been reported widely in the day's
newspapers and TV news shows.
The last four lines were withheld for fourteen years as
confidential source information and released only in the
1997 settlement: they report that "New York police
department . . . has been unable to make a narcotics case on
the Lennons." This came after the FBI had been trying
to orchestrate a drug bust to expedite Lennon's deportation
at a time when, as this page reports, "appeals could go
on for years."
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