Monday, October 04, 2004

U.S. Judge Orders Release of Lennon FBI Files

"The issue has become government secrecy and the absurdity that, today, when the FBI should have better things to do they are still trying to keep secret 34-year-old documents about the anti-war activities of a dead rock star," Wiener said.
Government lawyers are "reviewing the court's ruling and no determination has been made as to what our next step will be," U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said.
The 10 documents at issue were part of a file on Lennon gathered by the FBI during the early 1970s, when he participated in protests against the Vietnam War.

[For those files already released, see http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/lennon.htm --ed.]

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