FBI

Jefferson Airplane - The Grateful Dead - Split

“A foolish time”: When the FBI attempted to infiltrate Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead

Taking it one step too far.

May 17, 2024

Soul versus the state- Why did the FBI investigate Aretha Franklin for 40 years?

Soul versus the state: Why did the FBI investigate Aretha Franklin for 40 years?

A targeted campaign of harassment.

Mar 25, 2024

Phil Ochs - American Songwriter - Musician - Singer

Subversive life, mysterious death: inside the FBI file of Phil Ochs

Upsetting the established order.

Mar 14, 2024

John Denver - Musician - 1971

Inside the FBI file on John Denver

The country legend has a strange history with the FBI.

Mar 10, 2024

When the FBI investigated the Grateful Dead

A bizarre tale from rock history.

Dec 25, 2023

Industry Plant - Music - General

The simple garage song that cost the US government millions of dollars

A tale of untold stupidity.

Dec 23, 2023

Elvis Presley meeting Richard Nixon. December 21, 1970

When J. Edgar Hoover went to war with rock and roll: “Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies”

The dawn of the culture wars.

Sep 15, 2023

Swans' Michael Gira names his favourite albums

How FBI surveillance tapes made their way onto a Swans album

Brilliant.

May 31, 2023

Elvis Presley: Richard Nixon’s inside spy on pop culture

00 Presley.

Dec 21, 2022

How 'It's A Wonderful Life' originated from a Christmas Card

The FBI once accused ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ creators of communist propaganda

Communist propaganda?

Dec 20, 2022

The most faithful film depiction of psychopathy according to the FBI

Beware.

Dec 17, 2022

FBI returns 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic to Italy

FBI returns 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic to Italy

“The mosaic belongs to the people of Rome.”

Sep 7, 2022