After more than thirty years, the FBI has released documents on John Lennon, having previously refused to release them because of the supposed danger they posed to the United States.
The documents were originally requested by Californian historian John Wiener in 1981. Whilst some minor new details have emerged about Lennon's anti-war movements during the 1970s, most have already become public knowledge since Wiener's original request.New details include Lennon's interview with the left-wing publication 'Red Mole', as well as suspicion over his support for Cambodia after US military attacks during the Vietnam war. Lennon and Yoko Ono had signed a petition in support of the Cambodian monarchy.
Reinforcing their status as one of the most paranoid institutions in the western world, the FBI had previously refused to publish these trivial details because they could "reasonably be expected to ... lead to foreign diplomatic, economic and military retaliation against the United States."
