The following are excerpts from John Lennon's FBI file, in the future if I have access to a scanner I may scan in whole pages. For now there is only stuff I typed in.

Memoranadum

TO: 	Director					DATE: September 18,1973
	Federal Bureau of Investigation			HEP:JLM:RPW:CN
							39-51-NEW 
FROM:	Henry E.Petersen
	Assistant Attorney General
	Criminal Division
	
Subject:In re John Winston Ono Lennon
	Board of Immigration Appeals
	
	The individual named on the attached list is the subject of
     a deportation proceeding before the Board of Immigration Appeals
     scheduled for October 29,1973, at 2:00 p.m.

	Would you please supply us with electronic surveillance
     information pertaining to the individual named on the attached
     list, following the form set forth in our memorandum to you
     dated April 16, 1969.

	In addition, should your files reveal that the individual
     or the premises in which he had a proprietary interest were
     subjected to electronic surveillance, we would appreciate your
     furnishing Mr. Robert P. Weidner, Government Regulations Section,
     Criminal Division, with the following:

		1.  Logs disclosing the conversation of the individual
		    and logs of any of the premises in which the
		    individual is or was the owner, lessee,or
		    Licensee.
		
		2.  Any airtels which expand or summarize the protions
		    of the logs disclosed unless fully reflected in the
		    logs themselves.
		
		3.  Any memoranda, including reports to the Department
		    of Justice, which expand or summarize the portions
		    of the logs mentioned above or which demonstrate
		    pertinent leads which may have come from the illegal
		    electronic surveillance.
		
		            -2-
		
	It is also requested that you advise us whether the individual
      has been subjected to any lawful electronic surveillance, including
      such surveillance where one of the parties may have consented to the
      surveillance, as well as such surveillance conducted pursuant to the
      provisions of Title III of Public Law 90-351.

	If your records indicate that the individual has used names
      other than that given, please check your electronic surveillance
      indices with respect to the additional names.



Attachment
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Name:					John Winston Ono Lennon

Wife:					Alien Citizen of Japan, age 40

Entry:					Entered U.S. at New York 8/13/71

Present Address:			Dakota House, Central Park West,
					New York City (most recent)

Prior Address: 				105 Bank Street
					New York City
					
Aliases:				None Known

Date of Birth:				October 9, 1940

Place of Birth:				Liverpool, England

Citizenship:				English Citizen

Employment:				Entertainer

Last Place of Employment:



Attorney:				Leon Wildes
					515 Madison
					New York, New York 10022

Proceedings Date:			October 29, 1973, 2:00 p.m.

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