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Did the CIA Kill John Lennon?

1. Mark Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside his New York apartment building in 1980. 2. Some conspiracy theories claim that Chapman was mind-controlled by the CIA, FBI, or right-wing groups who saw Lennon as a threat due to his influence and left-leaning political views. 3. These theories argue that Chapman was programmed as part of the CIA's MK Ultra program to travel from Hawaii and assassinate Lennon in front of witnesses, though there is no concrete evidence that Chapman was mentally dominated or that the CIA/FBI were directly involved in the killing.

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Did the CIA Kill John Lennon?

1. Mark Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside his New York apartment building in 1980. 2. Some conspiracy theories claim that Chapman was mind-controlled by the CIA, FBI, or right-wing groups who saw Lennon as a threat due to his influence and left-leaning political views. 3. These theories argue that Chapman was programmed as part of the CIA's MK Ultra program to travel from Hawaii and assassinate Lennon in front of witnesses, though there is no concrete evidence that Chapman was mentally dominated or that the CIA/FBI were directly involved in the killing.

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Conspiracy Theory

“Did the CIA kill


John Lennon?”
SUMMARY
Introduction
1.The murder
2. The plan
3. Testimony
4. The book
5. Who wants a green card?
6. Peace and love
7.The comeback
8. The Classic Of Evil
8.1 On the other hand…
8.2 On the other hand…
Introduction

John Lennon was one of the founders of the British


band The Beatles, in which, along with Paul
McCartney, was one of the most important
composers of the twentieth century. In 1966, he met
the Japanese plastic artist Yoko Ono, with whom he
initiated a personal, sentimental, artistic and
professional relationship.
1. THE MURDER
At 10 pm on December 8, 1980, American
Mark Chapman fired five shots at former
Beatle John Lennon in front of the Dakota
building in New York where the artist lived. But
Chapman would not have acted on his own. He
would be mind-controlled by the CIA, FBI and
members of the extreme right, who allegedly
saw Lennon as a threat to society.
2. THE PLAN
The plan was being architected a few
years back, as Chapman would be one
of the men prepared by the MK Ultra, a
mental-control program of the US
intelligence agency. His mind would
have been scheduled to leave Hawaii,
where he lived, and kill the musician, in
cold blood, in front of witnesses who
could prove that he was the murderer.
3. TESTIMONY
In his testimony to the police,
Chapman said he did not feel
emotion when firing, only heard a
voice in the head that repeated "do
this, do it". He pulled the trigger
hard and stood there. Months later,
he claimed that he had killed the
beatle to promote J.D. Salinger's The
Catcher in the Rye Field. Chapman
would have alleged that the song
"Imagine" denied God, proposing
that paradise and hell do not exist,
and that Lennon was a blasphemer,
for saying that the Beatles were
more famous than Jesus Christ
4.THE BOOK

In 1989, British lawyer and journalist


Fenton Bresler released the book Who
Killed John Lennon ("Who Killed John
Lennon", not published in Brazil), in which
he claimed that the musician was
eliminated as a subversive influence. The
FBI and the CIA would consider him
dangerous because of his ability to
communicate with young people. In
addition to Lennon, other popular leaders
would also have been killed for the same
reasons
5. WHO WANTS A GREEN CARD?
Lennon would have become a danger in 1971
when he gave the Free John Now show for
the release of the American poet John
Sinclair, arrested for possession of marijuana.
From then on, Lennon would have been
investigated until 1976, resulting in a 300-
page dossier. He, who was English, still grated
to win the American visa - the country was
headed by Republicans Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford
6. PEACE AND LOVE

Lennon's visa came in 1976, along with new


winds in the country's politics. According to
conspiracy theory, the election of Democrat
Jimmy Carter to the presidency that year
would have contained the murderous
impetus of the CIA and the FBI. It was
peacetime, which Lennon took advantage of
to get out of the spotlight and raise his son
Sean, born in 1975 from his relationship with
Japanese multimedia artist Yoko Ono
7. THE COMEBACK

In November 1980, Lennon and Yoko


released the album Double Fantasy. This
return coincided with the end of Carter's
term and the rise to power of Ronald
Reagan, a Republican who had his
campaign manager William Casey. In
January 1981, shortly after the murder,
Casey became the new director of the
CIA
8. THE CLASSIC OF EVIL

A copy of The Catcher in the Rye Field would also


have been found in the home of John Hinckley Jr.
(who shot President Reagan in 1981) and Lee
Harvey Oswald (a prisoner accused of the murder
of another President, John Kennedy) in 1963 The
book, one of the most important in the US, would
be a trigger for preprogrammed killers. The
mission would be "asleep" in the mind until the
person read the book
8.1On the other hand…
• There is no evidence that Chapman was a madman with a
dominated mind
• In October 1980, Chapman went to New York to kill Lennon,
but gave up. On the day of the crime, he arrived in the
Dakota, found Lennon, asked for an autograph and waited a
few hours to kill him.
• The English musician was even closely investigated. In 2004,
the opening of an FBI file revealed that the institution was
suspicious of beatle connections with the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) and UK left-wing politicians, which has not been
proven
• After receiving the American visa, Lennon actually took a
sabbatical
• Prisoner in flagrante delicto and sentenced to life
imprisonment, Chapman has been at the prison for 37
years in Attica, New York
8.2On the other hand…
 The killer was examined by psychiatrists and
psychologists, who did not find anything abnormal
 Upon being arrested, he stated that he only wanted
to be famous, and that Lennon was the most
accessible victim. Its list of targets had the actress
Elizabeth Taylor and the television presenter Johnny
Carson.
 The MK Ultra design to control minds really existed.
The Strange World has already spoken about it.
 Chapman was in fact obsessed with The Catcher in
the Rye Field. He even signed a letter like "The
Catcher in the Rye" (original title)
Bliobliography
https://mundoestranho.abril.com.br/crimes
/teoria-da-conspiracao-a-cia-matou-john-
lennon/

Livro Who Killed John Lennon, de Fenton


Bresler; O Estado de S.Paulo, The
Guardian e Rolling Stone

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