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The surprising list of celebrities the FBI has files on
As Micky Dolenz, The Monkees solely surviving group member, is suing the regulation enforcement company for entry to any information the FBI could have on them, it could appear a criminal offense to not have a look at among the different popular culture figures the FBI has seemed into through the years.
The Monkees have been investigated by the FBI for alleged anti-Vietnam battle actions in 1967 associated to a live performance through which they flashed footage and messages in protest towards the battle, based on the criticism filed by Dolenz.
Different stars who additionally had information on them associated to politics embody the late singer John Denver (whose look at an anti-war rally in 1971, coupled with the drug use he documented in his 1994 autobiography “Take Me Residence: An Autobiography,” put him on the FBI’s radar), famed deaf and blind activist Helen Keller (who was a socialist, which was thought of harmful within the early twentieth century) and baseball legend Jackie Robinson (whose file accommodates data on his civil rights work and suspicion that he could have had ties to a Communist group).
Iconic actress Marilyn Monroe had a file, partly resulting from one in all her husbands. The FBI suspected playwright and screenwriter Arthur Miller, who was married to Monroe from 1956 to 1961, of being a Communist.
The late rappers Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, also called “The Nototrious B.I.G,” Tupac Shakur, and Russell Tyrone Jones a.okay.a. “Ol’ Soiled Bastard” from the Wu Tang Clan all had information on them as properly.
Apple founder Steve Jobs earned a file when he was being thought of for a attainable appointment to the US President’s Export Council in 1991.
The FBI pulled collectively information on some celebrities not due to their actions, however the actions of others.
The file on the late singer Whitney Houston contains data on an alleged extortion try towards her and a few intense consideration from followers, which included a number of letters and cassette tapes despatched to her.
The late Princess Diana had two transient FBI information, one pertaining to threats towards her and Prince Charles after they have been married and the opposite about safety points associated to her 1989 journey to the US.
There’s a disclaimer within the FBI’s Freedom of Info Act Library, which accommodates among the information associated to popular culture figures. In line with the disclaimer “the knowledge present in these information could now not replicate the present beliefs, positions, opinions, or insurance policies at the moment held by the FBI.”