Post by Shadow on Sept 23, 2005 21:05:00 GMT -5
This is London
By John Line, Metro
22 September 2005
John Lennon was dismissed as a Communist threat to the US only because he was always stoned, secret FBI papers revealed yesterday.
The ex-Beatles singer was thought to be a ringleader of revolutionaries plotting to hijack a Republican conference, the documents show.
But his drug-taking - which in the early 1970s included heroin, cocaine and marijuana - ultimately ruled him out of FBI inquiries.
Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein were also investigated as suspected Communists, according to the files, published for the first time.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the FBI kept many celebrities under close watch for links to radical politics, the mob, gambling, drink or drug abuse.
After seeming undecided about radicalism in his 1968 Beatles song Revolution, Lennon became more politically active after moving to New York in the early 1970s.
By John Line, Metro
22 September 2005
John Lennon was dismissed as a Communist threat to the US only because he was always stoned, secret FBI papers revealed yesterday.
The ex-Beatles singer was thought to be a ringleader of revolutionaries plotting to hijack a Republican conference, the documents show.
But his drug-taking - which in the early 1970s included heroin, cocaine and marijuana - ultimately ruled him out of FBI inquiries.
Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein were also investigated as suspected Communists, according to the files, published for the first time.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the FBI kept many celebrities under close watch for links to radical politics, the mob, gambling, drink or drug abuse.
After seeming undecided about radicalism in his 1968 Beatles song Revolution, Lennon became more politically active after moving to New York in the early 1970s.
