The last surviving member of the Monkees, drummer and vocalist Micky Dolenz, is going up against the FBI. Dolenz, who is 77, has filed a suit against the Justice Department, seeking the release of a file the FBI kept on the rock band during the late 1960s. As The Washington Post reported, the file contains FBI agent observations of "'subliminal messages' on a screen at one of their concerts, depicting racial-equality protests and 'anti-U.S. messages on the war in Vietnam.'"
The agent, whose name is redacted in the part of the file available to the public, described the so-called subliminal messages at a Monkees concert as "left wing intervention of a political nature."
