The Los Angeles Times has published an article about “John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s deportation battle; The couple had powerful friends who helped them fight and win their deportation battle with the Nixon administration.”

One of those “friends” was John Updike, who, with fellow writer Joyce Carol Oates, sent a letter in support of Lennon and Ono. Writer and UC-Irvine professor of history Jon Wiener, who used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the information, has created a website on which he includes a photocopy of the Updike postcard written on their behalf. Wiener tells the whole story in his book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, and the material is also the subject of a documentary, “The U.S. Versus John Lennon.”