The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz Sues FBI for Files on Band, Members
Micky Dolenz is that the last living member of the Monkees, and he’s filing a case against the FBI for failing to unleash any documents which will involve himself, his fellow late band members, or the band itself.
The band member filed the suit on Tuesday, Aug. thirty through his lawyer, Mark Zaid, wherever he requested that the Department of Justice disclose a duplicate of records relating the band and its members.
within the lawsuit that was initial reported by Rolling Stone, it mentions that Dolenz had already tried to amass the documents by requesting them via the liberty of knowledge Act, that permits the general public the correct to request access to records from any federal agency. Dolenz has nonetheless to receive a response.
In 1967, the Monkees were investigated by the FBI for alleged anti-Vietnam war activities. Redacted FBI records that were discharged to the public embrace reports from an government agent who obviously attended the concert.
“‘The Monkees’ concert was employing a device within the variety of a screen came upon behind the performers who compete bound instruments and Panax quinquefolius as a ‘combo.’ throughout the concert, unperceivable messages were portrayed on the screen that within the opinion of (name redacted), set up ‘left-wing innovations of a political nature,'” the file reads. “These messages and photos were flashes of riots in Berkeley, anti-U.S. messages on the war in Vietnam, racial riots in Selma Alabama, and similar messages which had received unfavorable response from the audience.”
Dolenz’ attorney provided an announcement to USA nowadays wherever he mentioned that the Monkees case “seeks to show why the FBI was observance the Monkees and/or its individual members.”
His statement went on to say, “We know the mid-to-late Sixties saw the FBI survey Hollywood anti-war advocates and people who drawn the counter-culture of the flower/hippie/drug use movement.” He continued: “And the Monkees were within the thick of things defrayment time with musicians adore Hendrix and John Lennon, each of whom were in the sights of J. King of Great Britain Hoover.”
