In addition to all the other absurdities of the claim, Jimi Hendrix was a veteran and a flaming, pro-US, adamant anti-communist supporter of the Viet Nam War with generally conservative views. I've never heard that before. I have always felt guilty for liking him - assuming that he was a hippie loser. Do you have a link?
Hendrix was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, circa 1962. The site says nothing, however, about his political views, or what they were.
My brother is also a Hendrix fan and recalls a TV interview with Eric Burden of the Animals said that "talking to Hendrix was like talking to Richard Nixon." Contrary to Hendrix's reputation as brooding and gloomy, Burden described Hendrix as cheerful and upbeat. A black friend of mine who spent a few hours with Hendrix told me the same thing and that "you'd have liked him, he was a right-winger."
The following link and excerpt from the Snopes bulletin board dispute the claim that the CIA killed Hendrix and cites a bio of Hendrix:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=000909;p=1
"It's sincerely doubtful that the federal government would want Hendrix dead. To begin, he served in the 101st Airborne Division (stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky) as a trainee paratrooper. After breaking his ankle on his 26th parachute jump, he received a medical discharge. What the youth group of the late-60s didn't know (and probably didn’t want to know) is that Hendrix supported the war in Vietnam until his death. He would often defend the war with statements to the effect that communist China needed to be curbed, etc...
Furthermore, near the end of his life, the Black Panthers attempted to convince Hendrix to play at their rallies, to write more "Black Power" oriented music. Hendrix adamantly refused. Truth be told, much of the black community, at the time, felt Hendrix was somewhat of an Uncle Tom.
Truly a strange biography for a man generally identified as the leader of the counter-culture movement of the late-60s."
--See Jimi Hendrix : The Man, the Magic, the Truth by Sharon Lawrence.