The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz Sues the FBI Over ’60s-Period Information

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is taking the final prepare to …federal courtroom. The beloved ’60s group’s lone surviving member has filed go well with towards the FBI “to acquire any information the FBI created and/or possesses on the Monkees in addition to its particular person members” following the company’s lack of a well timed response to a June Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) request, based on paperwork reviewed by SPIN.

The go well with says Dolenz, 77, and late Monkees members Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork “have been recognized to have related to different musicians and people whose actions have been monitored and/or investigated by the FBI,” together with the members of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, amongst others.

“In actual fact, the FBI acknowledges on its web site that it maintains responsive information relating to the Monkees, together with data that continues to be withheld. It describes seven pages as follows: The Monkees have been a U.S. pop band created for a tv present of the identical identify in 1966. The band additionally toured and made report albums even after the present was cancelled. References to the band seem in two locations in FBI information: a 1967 Los Angeles Discipline Workplace memorandum on anti-Vietnam battle actions and a second doc redacted fully.”

A quick portion of 1 FBI doc was launched greater than a decade in the past, involving an FBI informant’s report from a present on the Monkees’ debut 1967 tour. “In the course of the live performance, subliminal messages have been depicted on the display which, within the opinion of [informant’s name redacted], constituted ‘left wing intervention of a political nature,’” the doc says. “These messages and photos have been flashed of riots, in Berkley, anti-U.S. messages on the battle in Vietnam, racial riots in Selma, Alabama, and comparable messages which had unfavorable response[s] from the viewers.”

With the assistance of controversial legal professional Mark Zaid, Dolenz filed a FOIA request for the remainder of the information on June 14 with the FBI, which acknowledged the submitting 9 days later however has but to reply additional. Dolenz is searching for instant disclosure of all Monkees-related FBI information in addition to courtroom and legal professional prices.

Dolenz just lately spoke with SPIN in regards to the 5 albums he can’t stay with out. He has a handful of reveals on faucet this fall, starting Oct. 7 in Hanover, Pa.