Recently declassified files reveal that the RCMP and CSIS released information about John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the FBI in 1970. The crime: organizing a "peace festival" at Mosport Park:"Declassified records show the Mounties sent confidential correspondence to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning efforts by Lennon and wife Yoko Ono to assemble a star-studded lineup of performers for the July 1970 event at Mosport Park.
"The Mosport Peace Festival was initiated by John Lennon (of Beatle fame) and his wife, while visiting Canada during December 1969," says the April 1970 letter to a liaison at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa from the RCMP's J.E.M. Barrette, director of security and intelligence.
The RCMP correspondence, portions of which remain secret, found its way into what would soon become an extensive FBI file on Lennon.
In the months before the Beatles formally parted ways in 1970, Lennon devoted much of his energy to promoting global harmony."
Promoting global harmony? Baaaaastaaaaard!!!
This is so silly it's almost unbelievable. It's a good thing governments have grown up a little and spend their time (and taxpayers' dollars) investigating the real threats.
This is so silly it's almost unbelievable. It's a good thing governments have grown up a little and spend their time (and taxpayers' dollars) investigating the real threats.
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