Jon Wiener, the UC Irvine historian and KPFK radio host who has been slowly extracting John Lennon's files out of a very reluctant FBI, finally won the last round. On Tuesday, a federal judge here ordered the final 10 pages of the Lennon Files unsealed. "I never wanted to spend—what has it been?—21 years on this," Wiener told the Times. "I just wanted to write something about Lennon." He has authored two books on the murdered ex-Beatle.

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