A Federal Court judge ruled that the FBI must turn over the final 10 pages from its file on ex-Beatle John Lennon to a professor who waged a 21 year legal battle to have the files declassified.

Lennon was followed by FBI agents in 1971 and 1972 when he was placed on Richard Nixon's infamous enemies list. The files that have been released thus far deal primarily with Lennon's relationship with leftist political figures such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Lennon was at one point involved in a plan to hold rock concerts to help defeat Nixon in the 1972 presidential election although that never came to fruition. Lennon was never accused of any illegal activities in any of the papers released thus far but because President Nixon considered Lennon a threat to his re-election campaign, he was put under surveillance.

University of California-Irvine history professor Jonathan Wiener has fought for 21 years to have the full Lennon files released under the Freedom of Information Act. Thus far, he has written two books about Lennon's political activities, 'Come Together: John Lennon in his Time' published in 1984 and 'Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files' released in 1997.

The government had argued that if the last 10 pages were released, national security would be put at risk due to the involvement of a foreign government in supplying some of the information. Judge Robert Takasugi rejected that arugment.
Now, almost 24 years after his death, the last of the Lennon files will finally come to light.