JOHN LENNON Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files (1999 UK 344-page 10" x 7" softback book by Jon Wiener. When FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he beganby explaining that Lennon was a 'former member of the Beatles singing group'. When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld - along with almost 200 other pages - on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. This book tells the story of the author's remarkable fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court)