FBI investigating The Monkees?

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Kevin M.

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Aug 30, 2022, 4:48:41 PM8/30/22
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As the late Paul Harvey would say, it’s true. 

Mr. Dolenz has filed an FOIA request for the files

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Tom Wolper

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Aug 30, 2022, 6:41:59 PM8/30/22
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It’s hard to imagine how malign a force the FBI were in the sixties. Hoover maintained a McCarthy level of paranoia about communism from the fifties and the FBI considered all of youth culture to be communist. Regarding civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War, the FBI broke more laws than they enforced. Anybody who was popular with young people in that era has an extensive FBI file.

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Kevin M.

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Aug 30, 2022, 7:00:33 PM8/30/22
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Indeed. It’s astonishing to me that the progressives now find themselves in 2022 America in the unenviable position of defending federal agents. I won’t claim to speak for anyone but myself, but I believe liberals would much rather be the ones bad mouthing “the man,” but we find ourselves hoping/praying that some justice can be found amidst the ocean of Trump wrongdoings. I’ll be the first to say that if the events of Jan 6th go unpunished… if the leaders who literally willed it to occur get away with it the way Nixon got away with his treachery, I’ll be leading the campaign to dismantle the Justice department as well as the legislative branch of government. 

I marvel at the FBI behavior in the days of the Monkees and John Lennon and all the other famous subversives. Back then there was no check and balance. Today we are lacking a different set of checks and balances. I suppose we can be mildly amused by the absurdity of the FBI in the ‘60s, but one can draw a clear line from those days to the flawed system in place today, and I don’t find that amusing at all. 

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PGage

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Aug 30, 2022, 7:04:02 PM8/30/22
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My parents were local leaders of CORE (then one of the respected “Big Three” Civil Rights Organizations) in Southern California in the 1960s and 70s. My mother was arrested several times. In the early and mid 70s my mother became convinced that our home phone was being bugged by the FBI. She became obsessed with every click and hiss she heard while on the phone. As an obnoxious tween and early teen, nothing gave me more pleasure than teasing my mother for her paranoia, and when talking to her on the phone I would often address J Edgar Hoover, L Patrick Gray, and the rest of the “Boys at the FBI”. A few years later my Mother had the last laugh when my parents filed a Freedom of Information Request, and found proof that our home phone really had been bugged by the FBI. 



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