During a December, 1971 rally at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), undercover FBI agents recorded remarks made by Lennon and others. This is only one case of many, all pointing to a pattern of consistent governmental spying upon Lennon. Under the Freedom of Information Act, Bresler obtained U.S. government files on Lennon. The files show that Lennon was under constant government surveillance, especially during the years 1971-1972.

For example, in an April 10, 1972 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the FBI's New York office, Hoover orders his agents to "...promptly initiate discrete efforts to locate subject [Lennon] and remain aware of his activities and movements. Handle inquiries only through established sources... Careful attention should be given to reports that subject is heavy narcotics user and any information developed in this regard should be furnished to narcotics authorities and immediately furnished to bureau in form suitable for dissemination."

"Lennon knew from early in 1972 that he was under constant surveillance, being followed in the streets and with his telephone tapped." The ex-Beatle was aware of the surveillance by secret police agencies and so stated on several occasions. For example, in December 1975 he told

one interviewer, "We knew we were being wire-tapped... there was a helluva lot of guys coming in to fix the phones."

One of the methods used by the U.S. government to harass Lennon was the threat of deportation. The government had extra leverage in its efforts due to a previous conviction against Lennon which charged him with "moral turpitude." On October 18, 1968, in Britain, Lennon and Ono had been arrested and charged with possession of 1.5 ounces of marijuana. Two weeks before the bust, Lennon had been warned that the police were out to get him because he was a "loudmouth." As a precaution, he had (as he put it) "cleaned the house out [of drugs]." Nevertheless, marijuana was found in the house by the police. According to Lennon, he had been set up. His opinion is backed up by the fact that the arresting officer was later sentenced to two years in prison for planting evidence in other cases.

In order that Ono would not be charged, Lennon "copped a plea". Charges against Yoko Ono were dropped and Lennon was fined and found guilty of "an offence of moral turpitude." At the time of their arrest, Yoko Ono was pregnant and almost suffered a miscarriage. Although she was immediately hospitalized, a month later she lost the baby."On being told the

end of their child's unborn life was near, Lennon had a tape recorder brought into the hospital room and, with a stethoscope microphone, he recorded his second son's failing heartbeats before he died."

Examples of Lennon's political activism are seen in songs such as "Give Peace a Chance," "Power to the People," and "Working Class Hero." In an interview published in *Rolling Stone* (and later as a book entitled *Lennon Remembers*), Lennon called the song "Working Class Hero" a "...song for the revolution... It's for the people like me who are working class."

In the interview, Lennon further states that "...the people who are in control and in power, and the class system and the whole bullshit bourgeois scene is exactly the same except that there are a lot of middle-class kids with long hair walking around in trendy clothes... The same bastards are in control, the same people are runnin' everything... They're doing exactly the same things, selling arms to South Africa, killing blacks on the street, people are living in fucking poverty with rats crawling all over them. It's the same. It just makes you puke."

"With Lennon, rock had become revolutionary -- and for real. He and Yoko took part in demonstrations, they campaigned for a public inquiry into the case of James Hanratty, convicted of murder and hanged in the early 1960s... they marched for the IRA [Irish Republican Army] and they called for help for striking shipbuilders."

Bresler interviewed Arthur O'Connor, the lieutenant who was commanding officer of the twentieth precinct of the New York police that dealt with Lennon's murder. He quotes O'Connor as saying, "As far as you are trying to build up some kind of conspiracy, I would support you in that line. Like I said originally over the phone, if this gentleman [Chapman] wanted to get away with it, he could have got away with it. There was the subway across the road and no one around to stop him."
Instead, once Chapman had accomplished his task, he calmly sat and waited for police to come.

"Why one method rather than the other, the amateur as against the professional? Because that way you avoid any awkward questions. If Lennon had been gunned down by a professional killer, the whole world would have known: such swift expert assassinations carry their own individual hallmark. It would have been obvious what had happened and, with Lennon's history of anti-government radical political activity, there would have been [an in-depth investigation]."

"But if you program an amateur to do the job, a so-called 'nut', very few questions are asked."

In 1968 the British Intelligence opera- tives in accordance with a CIA request busted John Len- non in his flat in Montague Square - for "cannabis pos- session". Sound familiar? That was so he would never be allowed to enter the USA as a foreigner with a criminal record. This was some time BEFORE he ever met Yoko Ono.

Why wasn't John Lennon assassinated in Los Angeles during his break with Yoko - instead of New York City? He moved around Hollywood much freer than when living East Coast. Assassinating him in Hollywood would be a scenario TOO MUCH for Hollywood and the State of California to stomach for sure! Hollywood, the most 'patriotic' and 'flag waving' town in the entire USA, wouldn't dream of letting an 'assassination' happen on their doorstep. That place being the cradle of the most pro-Israel Mafia in all of the USA! Heaven forbid America's movie colony be tainted with the REAL enemy within and not the fake celluloid versions they portray in their tinsel-town films.

UK 'footballer' Dvid Beckham and his wife Victoria (Posh).

Now Hollywood have the likes of a photogenic British super sports star, David Beckham and his fashion-junky wife Victoria (Posh), to welcome with open arms as one of their own. Laying out the red-carpet and millions of Green-backs for the most superficial TALENT the Brits could possibly export abroad. In place of John Lennon? Hollywood can't wait to jump on the bandwagon and produce their own JUNK film version of Who Killed John Lennon! UK-USA 'special relationship: LOVE/HATE'?!

Mark David Chapman before (left) and later (above right)

Also easier for the spooks to wait until his return to New York - which already had become death-valley prior to 9/11. Lennon's killer was given short shrift by calling him insane which warranted a shorter sentence. Add the Mark to his name and it begins to ring a bell?!

But no PUBLIC investigation in the USA over such a tragedy? Good ridden to bad rubbish? Even from the Brits who owed him so much for turning the UK into a superstar Popsicle state worldwide in the 1960s? A spent empire - having lost it all after WW2 by the German bombings and Americans confiscating every last ves- tiges of British Empire? Forcing the UK to 'borrow' mon- ey (with 2% interest) to pull itself up by its boot straps after WW2. Son devours fatherland? Pouring tons of Dollars into Germany and Japan free of charge (let alone interest!)? Who won that war?