Elvis Wanted To Be A Government Spook
Elvis Presley wanted to be an FBI
informant, according to his FBI file, which was recently placed on
the Bureau’s Web site (www.fbi.gov). Presley told the FBI in 1971 that he had been “approached by individuals and groups in and outside of the entertainment business whose motives and goals he is
convinced are not in the best interests of this country.”
The memo said that “Presley indicated that he is of the opinion
that the Beatles laid the groundwork for many of
the problems we are having with young people by their filthy,
unkempt appearances and suggestive music … He advised that the
Smothers Brothers, Jane Fonda and other persons in
the entertainment industry of their ilk have a lot to answer for in
the hereafter for the way they have poisoned young minds by
disparaging the United States in their public statements and
unsavory activities.”
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, however, refused
to meet with Presley. “Presley’s sincerity and good intentions
notwithstanding, he is certainly not the type of individual whom
the director would wish to meet,” an FBI memo noted. “(Presley) is
wearing his hair down to his shoulders and indulges in the wearing
of all sorts of exotic dress.”