Secret John Lennon Files Released By FBI

ClickonDetroit ^ | December 20, 2006 | AP

[dljordan]

"So he really WAS just a washed-up dopehead hippie?"

No, he was actually very high up in the Bavarian Illuminati and J. Edgar knew this. They deleted any reference to his involvement to this shadowy group in so they wouldn't spook the pubic.

[escapefromboston]

This is the best use of my taxes, to annoy a celebrity I mildly dislike.

[raybbr]

So are you ...

Why the personal attack? Did I insult you?

[dhs12345]

And she can't sing worth a darn either. Lennon must have been blinded and made deaf by love.

[raybbr]

At a minimum its an example of what government-including ours-is all about and thats power.If they do this with something so ridiculously insignificant, what are they doing with the important stuff?

Gathering information without using it is a waste of time. I don't think it qualifies as a grab of power to investigate Lennon.

[ShadowDancer]

Nope, just stating the truth. And if this thread is so insignificant to you, why didn't you just bypass it entirely? That's what I do when a thread doesn't interest me.

[atomicpossum]

Lennon must have been blinded and made deaf by love.

Or the LSD.

[jimtorr]

I'd say the FBI did a good job stringing the case along until nobody cares. 25 years is the right length of time to declassify secrets, anyway.

The Brits were most likely the source of the information. Their Official Secrets Act is a bit different from ours. Something like the life of everyone concerned, plus 20 years. One of the people indirectly concerned, Yoko Ono, is still alive.

[John W]

25 years of national security claims for this info is what I was talking about, not the initial investigation.

[EricT.]

Yoko Ono was a CIA plot to neutralize the Marxist threat that Lennon posed. < /tinfoil >

[Tribune7]

Imagine you're a limo lib.
married to a battle ax
And you hate the country to which you immigrated
So you wouldn't have to pay a tax.

You may say he's a schemer
Well, you're not the only one.

[katdawg]

"But is Paul dead or isn't he?"

Yeah, but his soul has entered Hanoi Jane's body....

[meanie monster]

lol

[HawaiianGecko]

"Gathering information without using it is a waste of time. I don't think it qualifies as a grab of power to investigate Lennon."

I agree it's not a grab of power, however, doesn't one have to gather information and analyze it to discover it was a waste of time?

[subterfuge]

The newly released documents include a surveillance report stating that two prominent British leftists had courted Lennon in hopes that he would finance "a left-wing bookshop and reading room in London" but that Lennon gave them no money.

"But if you want money for people with pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow."---John Lennon on Revolution.

[50sDad]

KooKooKatchu!

[raybbr]

Nope, just stating the truth. And if this thread is so insignificant to you, why didn't you just bypass it entirely? That's what I do when a thread doesn't interest me.

Wow! You must be a psychic. You know by a headline that the story won't interest you?

The headline caught my eye but the resultant story proved to be insignificant. Am I not allowed to comment on your threads? Are people only allowed to comment if they agree with you?

Still, why insult me? Just because someone posts a story doesn't mean the comments are about the poster of that thread. Yet, you chose to insult me. How thin skinned of you.

[period end of story]

He later admitted to regretting that line about Mao.

He said it was a last second thing that he shouldn't have written.

[raybbr]

I agree it's not a grab of power, however, doesn't one have to gather information and analyze it to discover it was a waste of time?

I agree. That's what makes it a non story. The only reason anyone got worked up over this was because it was a socialist, John Lennon, who got investigated.

[highball]

The FBI doesn't want us to forget who's in charge.

Agreed. I'm no fan of his politics, but it seems clear that the FBI stepped over their bounds because they didn't like his politics either.