In a bit of “Well that’s odd that this exists” news, Micky Dolenz of the 1960s band and TV show the Monkees has filed a lawsuit to access FBI records targeting his band. Yes, the FBI kept tabs on the Monkees.
Micky Dolenz the Last Living Member of the Original Monkees Demands the FBI Records Made During the 1960s
For a bit of context, in the 1960s, the FBI was keeping tabs on anything considered to be subversive or left-leaning. This was the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, so anything related to the Civil Rights Movement, protesting the Vietnam War, the hippie movement, and drug use were being observed and possibly infiltrated.
Following a feud with the CIA and a Red Scare-Lavender Scare combo during the 1940s and 1950s, 1960s counter-culture and activism were like a cigarette after sex for Hoover’s FBI.
This brings us to Micky Dolenz, the last living member of the Monkees’ original lineup wanting those documents from the FBI. Worth noting is that Dolenz actually requested those documents in June 2022 and we’re now in September.
Sure, it takes time to recover those files—especially if a director of the FBI was aware of them and opted not to waste time converting them to digital.
Honestly, it would make sense if they were destroyed in these almost 60 years if a post-Hoover director figured “We wasted time and taxpayer money surveilling the f**king Monkees of all acts.”
Again: the request was put in back in June by Dolenz and we’re now in September. If the documents aren’t particularly hard to find and send, it makes you wonder how much they have on the Monkees.
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