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Judge orders FBI to release Lennon files
Reuters
| October 1 2004
FLASHBACK:
Silence In The Brain: The CIA Assassination of John Lennon
A US federal judge has ordered the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to turn over files on John Lennon to professor
Jonathon Wiener from the University of California.
Professor Wiener requested the information for a book he
was writing, shortly after Lennon was murdered in 1980, and he says the
documents show Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5, shadowed the late Beatle's
political activities.
Rejecting the US Government's national security claims,
District Judge Robert Takasugi brought Professor Wiener's 23-year battle
to a close.
Professor Wiener says: "The issue has become government
secrecy and the absurdity that, today, when the FBI should have better things
to do, they are still trying to keep secret 34-year-old documents about
the anti-war activities of a dead rock star."
US Department of Justice spokesperson Charles Miller says
Government lawyers are "reviewing the court's ruling and no determination
has been made as to what our next step will be".
The 10 documents at issue were part of a file on Lennon
gathered by the FBI during the early 1970s, when he participated in protests
against the Vietnam War.
In 1997, Professor Wiener and the American Civil Liberties
Union won the release of about 200 pages from the file, the contents of
which were chronicled in his 2000 book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon
FBI File.
He says the documents revealed efforts by President Richard
Nixon to deport Lennon in order to silence his anti-war activities in 1971
and 1972.
"Lennon was planning a national concert tour through
the United States to urge young people to vote," Professor Wiener said.
"Nixon got wind of this and ordered Lennon deported
so he couldn't do this concert tour."
Professor Wiener says the documents ordered to be released
this week probably contain similarly embarrassing, but not damaging, information
collected by the British Government.
"All they've told us is these pages contain information
provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality,"
he said.
"We think these are MI5 reports on Lennon's left-wing
political activities in England."
The US Government has 60 days to announce whether it will
appeal the ruling.
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