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Show A34_ The SaltLake Tribune__Friday,September26,1997 OPEN TODAY 9ANM-2P! AT GUR SPORTSCASTLE® STORE, 5550 S. 900 E FBI Releases Compilation Of Secret Lennon Files can convention in August 1972,” he said. “In fact, as the informa- LOS ANGELES — Under pressure from a Los Angeles federal judge, the FBI has grudgingly surrendered most of its remaining secret files on Nixon-era sur- veillance of former Beatle John Lennon, bringing a 16-year legal battle close to conclusion. a OFF. '96-'97 MFG. eIa8 WOSSIGNOL SALOMON Tread Ie a NORDIA HF eravanae an BunrGi AlRWALK OR» a thor of a 1984 book on the late rock star. The memos, which the FBI had fought for morethan a decade to keep secret on grounds including national security, range from reports on Lennon's contacts with anti-war organizers to a description of a talking parrot in an activ- ist’s grungy New York apartment “This action gives to professor Wiener all but a thimbleful of the documents he originally sought,” said Mark Rosenbaum. legal di- rector of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern Califor- nia, co-lead counsel for the “These documents show that biest tabloid journalist imaginable and they show that the FBI had nothing better to do than record the utterances of a parrot and indulge in gossip and innuen- do about rock musicians who hap- The memostates that Lennon reel ee “GIVE ain 5 Show yoursupport for the US Ski Teamand “Give For The Gold” by making a donation at any Gart Sports location. PresentedbyPark City Mountain Resort, Utah's largest winter resort, with over $7 million in upgradesfor the ‘97 season Visit Our Website At: www.gartsports.com A D#970308 quish the documentsturned over this week, saying they were released on a discretionary basis. Krovisky also offered an explana- tion of why the FBI launched its Lennon probe 25 years ago “The investigation of Lennon was precipitated because a source provided the FBI with information that Lennon was going to con- tribute and did contribute $75,000 to an organization which said it was going to disrupt the Republican National Convention in 1972. When the FBI got that information it was obligated to checkit out.” The files turned over by the FBI include a February 7, 1972, memo stating that a confidential source told the agency Lennon had contributed $75,000 to assist in the formation ofa group called Election Year Strategy Information Center, or EYSIC. The memo over this week is an April 26, 1972, FBI memo from an unnamedagencysource describing a NewYork, where she met with e continues to believe that it has never been obligated to relin- was to “direct movement activities during the coming election year designed to culminate with demonstrationsat the Republican National Convention in August, trip by a Madison, Wis., leftist to HEA EAN 4 DESCENTE ass GIVE FOR THE GOLD” Justice Department spokesman states that “Yippie and Zippie representatives” pianning demonstrationsat the August 1972 Republican National Convention. PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT PRESENTS properly complied with the Free- penedto take political stances. Among the documents turned mae: ade shows that the agencyhas not Joe Krovisky disagreed. He said Wednesday that the department ducted in the mannerof the shab- mee” ae documents for more than a dec- professor Jonathan Wiener, au- professor. ith Both of Wiener’s attorneys said the fact that the FBI withheld the dom of Information Act. the FBI investigation was con- A Atomic AT AGOL® }Columbia told them in April 1972 that Lennon would only participate if the demonstrations were peaceful.” The agency this week turned over about 40 pages of documents onits investigation of Lennon to University of California, Irvine. SAVE0% i tion released to us this week now reveals the F3I’s own informant told the activists that ‘he will come to the conventions if they arepeaceful,” and onthe condition that his appearance not be advertised in advance. Los Angeles attorney Dan Mar- malefsky, Wiener’s co-lead counsel, said that documentaloneillustrates the spurious nature of the FBI investigation of Lennon. “The wholeostensible purpose for having Lennon under surveil- the group's purpose 1972.” Nothing in the documents turned over by the FBI this week or earlier in the case describes Lennoninvolved in the planning of anyillegal act or engaging in any illegal act. Ultimately, he skipped the Republican convention. The lengthy April 1972 memo also describes the slovenly apart- ment of a young New Yorkleftist who had trained her parrot to chirp “Right On” whenevera political conversation got particularlylively. 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