The FBI started its obsession with Lennon after taking note of his lyrics and remarks on stage during a performance at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Michigan in 1969 (an event held to protest the 10-year prison sentence assigned to a poet for 2 marijuana joints).įrom that point on, the continued surveillance mounted up a plethora of trivial observations that were classified for fear that their release would pose a "threat to national security." Though it's hard to comprehend why the lyrics to his track 'John Sinclair' needed to be locked up, considering they appeared on the sleeve of his album. We better get on right away A million workers working for nothing. Weiner's book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, is revered as one of the most in-depth analyses of the relationship between John Lennon and the United States government and depicts just how absurd their investigations were.
Historian Jon Weiner fought for almost 20 years to gain access to FBI files on Lennon and confirmed in an NPR interview that the agenda against Lennon and his naturalization process was an ongoing effort encouraged by President Nixon.
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