Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI FilesUniversity of California Press, 21 jan. 2000 - 344 sidor 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. |
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... activities were precisely the kind protected by the First Amendment , which is not limited to U.S. citizens . The story of the Lennon files is also the story of the fourteen - year legal battle to win re- lease of the withheld pages , a ...
... activities were precisely the kind protected by the First Amendment , which is not limited to U.S. citizens . The story of the Lennon files is also the story of the fourteen - year legal battle to win re- lease of the withheld pages , a ...
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... activities ; and to recruit persons to come to San Diego during the Republican National Convention in August 1972. These individuals are the same persons who were instrumental in disrupting the Democratic National Convention in Chicago ...
... activities ; and to recruit persons to come to San Diego during the Republican National Convention in August 1972. These individuals are the same persons who were instrumental in disrupting the Democratic National Convention in Chicago ...
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... activities , in violation of the very same National Security Act of 1947 . The FBI codebook for the Lennon file divided " national security " material into eleven subcategories , starting with " identity of a foreign government ...
... activities , in violation of the very same National Security Act of 1947 . The FBI codebook for the Lennon file divided " national security " material into eleven subcategories , starting with " identity of a foreign government ...
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... activities in an election year . This is the point at which " information gathered by the United States ... from a foreign country " enters the story . The Nixon administration claimed as the legal basis for its ef- fort to deport ...
... activities in an election year . This is the point at which " information gathered by the United States ... from a foreign country " enters the story . The Nixon administration claimed as the legal basis for its ef- fort to deport ...
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... activities . ( In 1987 , the cryptonym would be released ; see chapter 3. ) The CIA released one of its Lennon documents in September 1984 — a teletype dated February 8 , 1972 , reporting on Lennon's plan for a " caravan of entertainers ...
... activities . ( In 1987 , the cryptonym would be released ; see chapter 3. ) The CIA released one of its Lennon documents in September 1984 — a teletype dated February 8 , 1972 , reporting on Lennon's plan for a " caravan of entertainers ...
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Deposing the FBI and CIA | 52 |
The Clinton Administration Takes Action | 72 |
After the Settlement | 88 |
The Culture of Secrecy | 96 |
THE FILES | 104 |
Guide to FBI File Pages | 104 |
Notes | 305 |
Glossary | 313 |
Chronology | 317 |
Bibliography | 321 |
Acknowledgments | 325 |
Index | 327 |
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Sida 6 - States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States...
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Sida 12 - Columbia, has jurisdiction to enjoin the Agency from withholding Agency records and to order the production of any Agency records improperly withheld from the complainant.
Sida 16 - In such a case the court shall determine the matter de novo, and may examine the contents of such agency records in camera to determine whether such records or any part thereof shall be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in subsection (b) of this section, and the burden is on the agency to sustain its action.
Sida 4 - Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.
Sida 27 - Is this course of action which we have agreed upon lawful, is it legal, is it ethical or moral?
Sida 18 - It is vital that some process be formulated that will (1) assure that a party's right to information is not submerged beneath governmental obfuscation and mischaracterization, and (2) permit the court system effectively and efficiently to evaluate the factual nature of disputed information.
Sida 78 - In some exceptional cases, however, the need to protect such information may be outweighed by the public interest in disclosure of the information, and in these cases the information should be declassified.
Sida 310 - Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (DC Cir. 1973), cert, denied 415 US 977 (1974).
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