FBI Releases Last Lennon Documents

12/20/2006
Alex Lang
ACLU says last documents prove government secrecy was not necessary.

The FBI has released the last 10 documents of secret files on John Lennon, which had been withheld for 25 years because they could prompt "military retaliation" against the United States, campaigners for their release told Reuters.

However, the files only contained long-known information about Lennon's ties to leftwing leaders and antiwar groups; Jon Wiener, a history professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union told the wire service.

"Today we can see that the national security claims the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning. The Lennon FBI file is a classic case of excessive government secrecy," Wiener said in a statement.

One of the documents states Lennon "encouraged the belief that he holds revolutionary views...by the content of some of his songs," according to Reuters.

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