Gimme some truth : the John Lennon FBI files / Jon Wiener.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c1999.Description: 344 pages : black and white illustration ; 26 cmISBN:- 0520216466
- 782.42166/092 B 21
- ML 420 .L38 W52 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.
Part one: History -- Getting started -- From District court to the Supreme court -- Deposing the DBI and CIA -- The Clinton administration takes action -- After the settlement --
Part two: The files -- Guide to FBI files pages -- The files --
"When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld―along with almost 200 other pages―on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. This book tells the story of the author's remarkable fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. With the publication of Gimme Some Truth, 100 key pages of the Lennon FBI file are available―complete and unexpurgated, fully annotated and presented in a "before and after" format. Lennon's file was compiled in 1972, when the war in Vietnam was at its peak, when Nixon was facing reelection, and when the "clever Beatle" was living in New York and joining up with the New Left and the anti-war movement. The Nixon administration's efforts to "neutralize" Lennon are the subject of Lennon's file. The documents are reproduced in facsimile so that readers can see all the classification stamps, marginal notes, blacked out passages and―in some cases―the initials of J. Edgar Hoover. The file includes lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges. Fascinating, engrossing, at points hilarious and absurd, Gimme Some Truth documents an era when rock music seemed to have real political force and when youth culture challenged the status quo in Washington. It also delineates the ways the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations fought to preserve government secrecy, and highlights the legal strategies adopted by those who have challenged it." Summary from Amazon website.
Gift of Karen Wald.
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