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Alan Stang is author of It's Very Simple; The Actor; and, The HighestVirtue. His radio commentary, The Alan Stang Report , is heard on 75 stations.

• OVER the years it has become atruism that American Indians havebeen mistreated. Indeed, it is fair tosay that in comparison the experienceof American Negroes, at least sincethe Great Emancipation, has beenidyllic. Indians have been victimizedby every other con man who has comedown the pike. But the latest suchcon operation is unique. In the pastthe villains have usually been whitemen, trading firewater for land, ormanipulating the Indians for otherpurposes in distant Washington andNew York. Today, the villains arestill white men, but they are .collabo­rating with various Red men of as­sorted colors who are traitors to theirtribes - as part of a carefully orches­trated scheme to betray them, and allAmericans, into Communist slavery.The name of the game is A.I.M.- the so-called American IndianMovement - and now comes a manwho can tell us much about it .

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Douglass F. Durham is a formerMarine who later served for threeyears as a Des Moines policeman. Hemoved up from street patrol to thevice squad, then left the departmentand went into the food business,where he wound up with a string ofthree restaurants. One of them waslocated in a nasty neighborhood, andwas frequented by Black Panthersand other crooks, such as safecrackers- and the Federal Bureau of Investi­gation approached Mr. Durham withthe request that he keep the Bureau in­formed. He did so; in fact, on the verynext day, by keeping his ears open, hedelivered a couple of robbers, alongwith information about a robberyscheduled to take place soon. Later,Douglass Durham worked for the DesMoines police chief as a paid intelli­gence agent; for the federal immigra­tion and customs authorities; and, forthe Bureau of Narcotics and Danger­ous Drugs.

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The mug shot above is of policeundercover agent Douglass Dur­ham, taken during one of his manyassignments to gain informationfrom criminals and convicts. Durhamwent undercover in A.I.M. for theF.B.I. and quickly became its Na­tional Security Director. Mr. Durhamis shown below out of his disguise.

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Mr. Durham is an expert pilot,photographer, SCUBA diver andlocksmith, and has written pam­phlets used in police training. Once,on official assignment, he flew somedrug pushers into Mexico. Althoughhe is a white man, he is, incredibly,an honorary Black Panther. He hasfingered various bombers. On manyoccasions, he was sent to neighboringstates to be thrown in jail and gainthe confidence of an important crim­inal. Once , at nearly midnight, hewas ordered to Lincoln, Nebraska, forthat purpose, where he sat patientlyin his automobile with his burglartools until the local police obliginglylocked him up - in a cell with anunsuspecting safecracker who soonspilled the beans to Durham. As DougHendricks, Mr. Durham was some­times arrested for official purposes twoand three times a day.

As we have seen, Mr. Durham iswhite. As far as he knows, he has noIndian blood. But on February 27,1973, some ex-convicts posing as "In­dian leaders" seized control of thevillage of Wounded Knee, on the PineRidge Reservation of the Oglala Siouxin South Dakota. And a Des MoinesF.B .I. agent named Larry Bastockyasked Durham to infiltrate the crim­inal organization responsible. Dur­ham read the newspaper clippingsand studied AJ.M. ; went to DesMoines A.I.M. director Harvey Majorwith the story that he was one-quar­ter Chippewa,* and suggested thathis experience as a pilot and photog­rapher could be helpful. Within oneweek Doug was A.I.M.'s director ofpublic relations in the area. Indeed,at a meeting in the Camelot Inn, inTulsa, Dennis James Banks, the topAimster, who has fifteen criminalconvictions for assault, forgery and

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burglary, appointed Durham as Na­tional A.I.M. Pilot, Personal AffairsManager, Personal Bodyguard, andN ational Security Director - inwhich capacity Durham was sup­posed to pre vent infil tration by F.B.I.operatives like himself. By Septem­ber, 1973, F .B.I. operat ive Doug Dur­ham was one of the handful of peoplerunning the American Indian Move­ment.

Civilians like your reporter are na­turally always curious about the lifeof an undercover agent. In a memo tohis F .B.I. superiors, enti tled "Why ItIs Difficul t To Do What I Am Doing,"Durham explains what it is like:"T heir die t is atrocious and the sani­tation conditions at AIM Saint Paulare even worse. Toilets are stopped upand the building stinks. There aremice and bugs everywhere and evenra ts. T he water pipes leak. There isno circulation in the bu ilding . We areexpected to sleep in the middle of thison a mattress on the floor . I havefound an out in warm weather bysleeping in my van.

"The day starts at approxim ately7:30 in the morning and sometimesdoesn't end until 2:00 a.m. Most ofthe Indian people who come to SaintPaul for the trials and don 't have tofollow the hectic schedule I do, stillcan't take it for more than a week ortwo at a time. Even Russell Meanslives in the Holiday Inn.

" Since Dennis is in court duringthe day, he calls upon me to handlethe day-to-day operation of theMovement. It involves making deci ­sions and taking actions that could besubject to a lot of criticism. With astomach full of rotten food, a con­stant fear of the sweat lodge , woefullyinadequate sanitation facilities, astrong desire to take a shower, thephone constantly ringing, attemptingto pre vent violent outbreak aroundthe country without exposing myself,

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Above is one of many governmentcheques supplied to A.I.M. by thefederal government. In this case it isfor $700 - small change, when onerealizes that A.I.M . received at least$400,000 in grants from the O.E.O.and $66,000 in cash after do ing some$3,000 ,000 in damage to the Bu­reau of Indian Affairs Building inWashington. Douglass Durham re­ports that he also saw cheques pay­able to A.I.M. from a top CommunistFront and that identified Commu­nists were active in financing A.I.M.

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the constant fear of being exposed,the hea vy schedule I have to main­tain, along with gleaning per t inentinformation for the FBI, spendingmonths away from my wife and chil­dren, and dealing with some realcrazy people - the only thing worsethey can do to me is con me intosundancing an d piercing my chest,making me dance for four da ys with­out food an d water, while staring atthe sun.

"I'm not comp la ining - I justwant you to know that for a honkylike me, it's dam n hard to be anIndian."

In short, AJ.M . headquarte rs isnot a place in which you could expectto find James Bond . Durham rep ortsthat during his two-ye ar ordeal he ·saw his wife only a few t imes, oftenfor as little as an hour. T he sweatlodge he refers to is an Indian versionof a sauna. The sun dance is a reli­gious ceremony long ago declared il­legal by the federal government. Rus­sell Charles Means is of course anoth­er top A.I.M. leader, with a longstring of arrests for such pranks asmugging and theft . The crea tion ofA.I.M. , in 1968, found t his " t ra­ditional Indian leader" working asan Arthur Murray dance teacher inCleveland. Indeed, Means, as wehave seen, resided at the Holiday Inn- while his followers suffocatedsleeplessly on the insect-ridden floorof AJ.M. headquarters - during hisnine-month-long trial in St. Paul oncharges of having led the seizure andterrorism of Wounded Knee, SouthDakota, on February 27, 1973.

It is interesting to note that afterU.S. District Judge Fred J . Nicholfinally dismissed all the charges,A.I.M. threw a Victory Party at theHoliday Inn. It must have been quitea blast , because the motel sent A.I.M.a bill for the affair , da ted October 1,1974, for $1,742.90. Two days late r,

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executive director Dennis J. Bankspersonally replied, in a signed memo­randum, announcing A.I.M.'s refusalto pay for the following reason: "Wewould be foolish to pay a bill of thissize for liquor when we have contin­ually taken the stand against alcoholand drugs, that we have announced inthe past." The reason for that sensi­ble stand is obvious. Alcohol has de­stroyed the lives of innumerable In­dians. But notice that the stand isphony: Banks doesn't claim the partydidn't happen - he simply refuses toissue evidence that it did , in the formof a cancelled check . Apparently, hedoesn't want his followers to knowhow he lives.

Yes, the ' ~traditional Indian lead­ers" of A.I.M. certainly know how tospend your contributions. Durhamreports that when Banks is in LosAngeles he stays at the Encino Hiltonfor fifty-five dollars per day. Nothingis too good for an A.I.M . hustler.Durham also reports that " poor, op­pressed, abused, unloved" DennisBanks owns fifty thousand dollars'worth of trust land in Minnesota.This same Dennis Banks also receivesand uses federal Food Stamps.

Much has already been writtenabout A.I.M .'s tendency to violence- at the Bureau of Indian Affairs inWashington, at Custer and WoundedKnee, and at many other placeswhere the Aimsters have terrorizedpeople and destroyed property. Here,too, undercover agent Durham shedsnew light. For instance, in August1973, while posing as an A.I.M . lead­er, Durham notified his F.B.I. superi­ors that he would lead some Aimstersin the seizure of the Grimes StateOffice Building in Des Moines . TheA.I.M . toughs held the second floorfor three hours, a feat for which Dur­ham was later fined one hundred dol­lars. It now turns out that the originalA.I.M. plan was to kidnap Iowa Gov-

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ernor Robert Ray, but Durham wasable to divert the terrorists to thepotentially less dangerous Grimesoperation --:- which Governor Ray willno doubt be delighted to hear..Alongthese lines, Aimsters will be happy tolearn that one of Durham's F.B.I.assignments was to protect DennisBanks, in order to prevent one of thereal Indians he has been victimizingfrom turning him into another revolu­tionary martyr.

Indeed, the Aimsters typically areincapable even of living together.Durham reports that at St. PaulA.I.M. headquarters, during the longWounded Knee trial, they constantlyabused each other. Two girls wereraped in the shower . Things were con­tinually stolen. People were slashed.In December 1974, Aimster PaulaGiese wrote to Durham about " thesuicide or murder, as the case may be,of John Moore, a young Penobscotguy who was living at the WKLD/OC[Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Of­fense Committee] barracks in Lin ­coln. This occurred some time Mon­day night; the body was found yes­terday morning. His throat had beencut; the bloody knife was nearby. TheWKLD/OC young legal workers (&John Thomas, who is now there) is­sued a statement it was suicide. Po­lice say murder, and I tend to agree;cutting one's own throat is kind ofdifficult, think abou t it . . . . "

Along these lines, word now arrivesthat a "contract" has been let on Mr.Durham, so it is worth taking thespace to mention that if he, too ," commits suicide," we will know ex­actly where to go.

During the trial of Banks andMeans in St. Paul, some CanadianIndians formed the Ojibway WarriorsSociety in Ontario. These worthieswanted to grab some land. and Cana­dian authorities will be interested tolearn that Banks secretly told them to

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Communist Party official Angela Da­vis is shown as she pickets theUnited Nations to support A.I.M.'sclaim that American Indians are vic­tims of U.S. colonialism and shouldbe supported as an independent na­tion. Letter below is from Ernest De­Maio promising to raise funds for theAimsters. DeMaio is now employedby Moscow as U.N. representative ofthe World Federation of Trade Un­ions. Durham reports that ComradeDeMaio proved very helpful indeed.

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go ahead and do so. They did asadvised, and seized Anicinabe Parkin Kenora, after which the Crownattorney called Durham in Tulsa,asking that he bring Banks to thescene of the crime to "negotiate."Judge Nichol generously recessed thetrial for the purpose, and Durhamflew to Ontario with Banks, who ar­ranged a "solution" in which thesquatters were supposed to surrenderboth the park and their guns. Dur­ham flew Banks back to St. Paul as a" peacemaker," except that Canadianauthorities may not yet know aboutthe orders Banks secretly passed toDurham during the negotiations,which read: "The arms will be hiddenand kept inside the park." Later, theOjibways rioted in Ottawa.

Durham also reports that Banksstored some automatic weapons ofCzech manufacture in his apartment.Law enforcement officials are won­dering whether they were used by theMenominee Warrior Society in theA.I.M.-inspired seizure on January1, 1975, of the Roman Catholic Alex­ian Brothers novitiate in Gresham,Wisconsin. A National Guard ser­geant who was there tells your report­er: "I just returned from Gresham,Wisconsin, where I as a NationalGuardsman observed and talked withmariy of the Aimsters in the abbeywhile they were holed up. I was on theonly check point that could see theabbey and with binoculars I visuallysaw the AK-47 Soviet weapons theyhad. I also was told that most of thepeople in the abbey were active atWounded Knee. This was told to meby an Indian in command who wasnamed Stan." Whether or not thiswas Stan Holder, your reporterdoesn't know.

Durham also reports that, duringthe Gresham affair, Banks oftentalked about the possibility of gettingguns from Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales.

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"We should get hold of Corky," Den­nis said. Rudolfo runs the revolution­ary Crusade for Justice in Denver,and has been active in the Commu­nist-backed scheme to do to Ameri­cans of Latin origin what Banks isdoing to Amer ican Indians. Later, theAimsters stole Durham's van andused it to run their guns out of Gres­ham; in a battle with the authorities,t wo Aimsters were killed.

It is interesting to note that on oneoccasion abou t three hundred angrywhites got together to consider vari­ous possibilities such as storming theabbey. Durham reports that RussellMeans contemptuously announced:"Let them charge. Sixty percent willbe killed." Durham, who at the time,remember, was still posing as anAJ.M. leader. . courageously went tothe whites and deflected their anger .

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to use Communist weapons. And ,since Wounded Knee, there havebeen many indications that A.I.M. ,like so many other revolutionarygangs, is Communist-backed - andis, indeed, an important new part ofthe Communist program. Exactlyhow true is this? Here, too, Mr. Dur­ham has a wealth of interesting, andexact, answers.

On February 1, 1974, DennisBanks was the featured speaker at theMinneapolis headquarters of the So­cialist Workers Party - a TrotskyiteCommunist gang - where he ex­plained that at Wounded Knee hehad the help of "white warriors,Black warriors, Chicano warriors, andthe Asian medical team that camefrom San Francisco." Also accordingto the Militant, of February 15, 1974,Banks explained "that a united effortbegan as a result of Wounded Knee ­that all races began to expose theWounded Knees in the United States

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of America and the Wounded Kneesall across this planet, and that theyjoined in their final effort to bringabout justice, not only for AmericanIndians, but for everybody."

In other words, at this Commu­nist-sponsored meeting Banks wasexplaining that A.I.M. is an impor­tant part of the international Com­munist scheme to enslave mankind.Leo Wilcox of the Oglala Sioux TribalCouncil recognized this on March 24,1973, when he declared over a BlackHills radio station: "Russell Means istrying to be a second 'Crazy Horse. 'The only part that fits him is thecrazy part. He is a genuine secondFidel Castro. Castro wears a beardand Means wears braids. Otherwisethey are twins. Castro divided hispeople so they fell into Communism.Now Means is trying the same tacticof trying to divide our Oglala Siouxpeople. He even cried 'Civil War' toour people . . . . "

Only a few hours later, Leo Wilcoxwas burned to death in his car.

Also along these lines , the DesMoines Register, of April 16, 1974,shows Dennis Banks picketing a localsupermarket in support of Cesar Cha­vez, who runs the Communist-backedscheme to seize control of our foodsupply. It is interesting to note that,like the Chavez gang, A.I.M. uses theblack eagle as a symbol on some of itspublications.*

On September 25, 1973, at anA.I.M. rally at the University ofMinnesota, Means spoke along withCommunist Angela Davis, who at­tacked the patriotic John Birch So­ciety for its earlier expose of A.I.M.Indeed, AJ.M. leaders apparentlymake a practice of appearing withAngela Davis. The Detroit News of

*At its 1973 Convention, A.I.M. decided to joinChavez in a nationwide boycott of Safewaystores.

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Dennis Banks owns property worthmany thousands of dollars, yet hereceives and uses federal FoodStamps (see above). When top rad­ical and Communist lawyers man­aged to free Banks and other Aim­sters from the charges against themas a result of their outrages atWounded Knee, South Dakota, theAlrnsters gave a boozy victory partyat the Holiday Inn costing $1,742.90.Banks, whose signature is on the in­voice, then marked it unauthorizedand refused to pay. The man whodismissed the charges was U.S. Dis­trict Judge Fred J. Nichol. DouglassDurham was with Means and Judgeand Mrs. Nichol in the latter's homewhen Mrs. Nichol was formally in­ducted into A.LM. by Banks andpromised to attend the trial to keepher husband "in line." In fact, F.B.1.undercover operative Durham is­sued her A.LM. membership card.

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February 25, 1974, reports that at arally to celebrate the election as De­troit mayor of Coleman Young, whohas been publicly identified as amember of the Communist Party, thespeakers included Davis and A.I.M.founder Clyde Thomas Bellecourt.*Clyde is a new National Vice Chair­man of the National Alliance AgainstRacist and Political Repression, whichwas founded and is run by CommunistParty officials Charlene Mitchell andAngela Davis, and is an importantCommunist operation. Indeed, Belle­courtis also one ofeightmembers ofthena tiona1board ofthe PuertoRican Sol­idarity Committee, which says it isworking for "the national liberation ofPuerto Rico." As always, the connect­ing link is Communism. Another mem­ber of the board of P.R.S.C. is LeRoiJones, a Maoist Communistfrom NewJersey. In March 1975,Jones ran a rev­olutionary meeting there, at whichShepherd Bliss, an instructor at God­dard-Cambridge in Massachusetts,made the following notes: " Keith De­marrias, American Indian Movement- We see the struggle as more armedthan electoral. Weare backed againstthe wall , but we will support you asmuch as we can."

Durham reports that A.I.M. leaderVernon Bellecourt, Clyde's brother,once called A.I.M. from the head­quarters of Venceremos, and read alist of the Venceremos people whowould be helpful. Venceremos soonsplit, creating the terrorist Symbio­nese Liberation Army which kidnap­ped Patty Hearst! It is also interestingto note that both Mr. Dennis Banksand Paula Giese worked with DanielEllsberg - who stole the Pentagon Pa­pers which wound up in the hands ofthe Soviet Embassy - on the so­called Honeywell Project to hamper

*Convicted of burglary, assault, and armedrobbery.

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military production during the con­trived war in Vietnam. Ellsberg laterspoke at A.I.M. headquarters, whereaccording to Durham he and Banksembraced like old friends .

Still another speaker at A.I.M.headquarters was Communist racistStokely Carmichael, who needless tosay is not an Indian. And A.I.M.'schief researcher Paula Giese, a formercollege instructor who is also not anIndian, wrote as follows to Durhamafter Doug had been exposed as anF.B.I. man: " Look ahead - The RedTrinity, Daddy Karl, Baby VIad andHoly Ho smiling atcha . .. . Social­ist salvation awaits even a lackey ofthe capitalist oppressors like you,brother, if you just believe in thefuture." Giese is married to ClaytonGiese, and lives at 2104 KenwoodParkway in Minneapolis.

Durham also reports that in Octo­ber , 1974, Banks travelled to Viennato attend a meeting of the WorldCouncil of Churches.* Not bad for an" oppressed minority." When he re­turned, Comrade Banks told Durhamt hat while in Vienna he met withofficials of the Palest ine Liberat ionOrganization. The P .L.O. is of courset he top Communist terror gang in theMiddle East ; it specializes in bomb ­ings and assassinations; and has mur­dered many schoolchildren. Most ofits vict ims have never set foot in theUnited States, and have never seenan American Indian .

Meet ing aft er meet ing, incidentafter organization - the cascadingevidence proves that, from the verybeginning, A.I.M . has been a Com­munist show. For instance, Durhamreports that he saw checks from theSouthern Conference EducationalFund, payable to A.I.M. For years,S.C.E.F. was the t op Communist

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Front in the South, identified as suchby a Committee of the Congress. T heS.C.E.F. also arranged for othergroups to finance AJ.M.

Then there is the letter dated Jan­uary 28, 1974, addressed to MissMary Jane Twohy of AJ.M.'s legaldefense committee, which asks her tosend an Aimster to a meeting: "Youmay be assured that the audience willbe friendly, and that there will be acontribution to their defense. Butmore important, delegates from thelocal unions will be present. We wouldwant the delegates to initiate actionto raise additional funds in their localunions." The letter is signed by Er­nest DeMaio, General Vice Presidentof the United Electrical, Radio &Machine Workers of America (U.E.)- who has been repeatedly identifiedas an important Communist and nowworks directly for Moscow as UnitedNations representative of the WorldFederati on of Trade Unions. Under­cover officer Douglass Durham re­ports that "Ern ie" has been very help ­ful to the revolutionaries of the Amer ­ican Indian Movement .

There is also Iona Andronov,United States correspondent for theCommunist journal New Time s ofMoscow, who lives in Apartment 14C,at 11 Riverside Drive, in -New YorkCity, where his telephone number is595-9739. Your reporter has no docu­mentary proof, bu t with your permis­sion is going to assume that Andronovis a Communi st . In the issue of J anu ­ary 3, 1974, he wri tes as follows:"Russell Means was surrounded bylawyers and guards when I met him atthe courtroom door. He put his armaround my shoulder and said: 'H ello,Russ ian. It's good you are here again .Write the truth about us Indians inyour magazine . It's not often we readthe trut h here.' "

You're reading it right now, Rus­sell, you fraud!

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In a letter postmarked March 14,1974, Andronov wrote as follows toMeans, Banks, and Mark Lane in St .Paul: "I hope to see you again andwrit e a new ar ticles [sic] for the So­viet press about your struggle . . . . Ibelieve in your success and victory."And the Aimsters apparently believein Andronov. Your reporter has seenthe rough draft of their reply, whichsays this: "What good news it is tohear of the widespread interest of theRussian people in the cause of theAmerican Indian. Your ar ticle forN ew Times is excellent; it is only toobad that the quality of Americanpress in relation to this trial could notbe as good."

As you see, A.I.M. is completelyundisturbed abo ut the Soviet Union 'sgenocidal record of suppression of itsracial minoritie s.

Top A.I.M . attorney Mark Laneha s long been prom inent in Commu­nist activities. "He was a sponsor ofa congressionally-cited Comm unist

. Front known as the National Com ­mittee to Abolish the House Un ­American Activities Committee. Hesigned a petition asking clemency forimprisoned Communists Carl Bradenand Frank Wilkinson. He has been amember of the Communist-domi­nated American Labor Party. Indeed,some years back Mark Lane was theguest of honor at a testimonial din­ner sponsored by Communist lumi­naries. Still another top A.I.M. at­torney is Kenneth Tilsen, who hasbeen identified under oath before aCongressional Committee as a Com­munist, by a former Communist herecruited. And there is A.I.M. attor­ney William Kunstler, who has alsorepresented the Communist BlackPanther Party, Communists JerryRubin and Abby Hoffman - andwho regularly calls for revolution. Ata rally in Denver sponsored by theCrusade for Justice on March 17,

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1974, William Kunstler said this: " Ipromise you revolution by 1976. It isbetter to die in the streets than togo down without a whimper." Rus­sell Means was also there, and alsocalled for revolu tion.

Indeed, on July 10, 1973, theWounded Knee Legal Defense/Of­fense Commit tee issued a reportwhich said as follows: "Support fromthe Na ti onal La wyers Guild : TheWKLDOC which has included manyguild lawyers and legal workers sinceits inception, has now received theofficial support and commitment ofresources of the organization . . . . "The trouble is that t he NationalLawyers Guild was long ago identi­fied by a Committee of Congress as" the forem ost legal bulwark of theCommunist Party."

But more interest ing than any­body else, in your reporter's opinion,is a gentleman named George C. Rob­erts. Mr. Roberts is the NationalPress Secretary of A.I.M. Like somany "Indian leaders" he is not anIndian. He is married to a Peruvian,and has travelled widely in SouthAmerica. He runs a chemical com­pany called Inca-One Corporation, at9014 Lindblade in Culver City, Calif­ornia. As far as the F.B.I. knows, hemade only fourteen thousand dollarslast year, but he always has plenty ofmoney to throw around. He lives at 17Avenue 23 in Venice, California. Heowns the property next door, at 19V2Avenue 23, which is now Westernnational headquarters of A.I.M. Dur­ham reports that the property waspreviously used to hide the missingPatty Hearst. Who knows, Robertscould even work for the K.G.B.

On July 26, 1974, his secretary,Polly S. Richardson, sent a note toDennis Banks. The note is on station­ery which indicates that she alsoworks at the Los Angeles office of

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RED INDIANSBlyth Eastman Dillon & Company,members of the New York Stock Ex­change. Along with the note , she senta copy of a cablegram from Roberts toSean O'Cionnaith, Irish RepublicanMovement, 30 Gardiner Place, Dub­lin, Ireland, which says: "Regretfullyadvise cannot attend important Bel­fast conference as planned . . . . TheAmerican Indian Movement supportsyour struggle and intends to sendIndian ambassadors to your countryfor further discussions at an earlydate .. .. "

Indeed, in October 1974, Banksand Durham were guests in the Rob­erts home. At the time, Banks wasafraid he might be jailed for the vio­lence and destruction in Custer,South Dakota, prior to WoundedKnee. Durham was there when Rob­erts told Banks, "I'll make .anotherChi! Guevara out of you." Robertscalled Faustino Perez in Mexico City.Perez, a physician, is a close friend ofAhmed Ben Bella, the former Com­munist dictator of Algeria. He alsohelped Fidel Castro grab Cuba andkeeps in touch. Roberts sent his wifeto Perez to arrange Banks' escape toCuba, but Castro turned thumbsdown because he is trying to improvehis relations with the United States.Castro suggested that Banks go in­stead to the Communist Chinese Em­bassy in Ottawa. He didn't have to, ofcourse, for a reason we shall underlinein a moment.

On and on it goes. So blatant is theCommunist nature of A.I.M. thatpeople inside it have protested. Yourreporter has already mentioned theriot in Ottawa. In it, the Reds burnedthe Canadian flag and attacked theRoyal Canadian Mounted Police withmetal spikes. Later, top CanadianAimster Ed Burnstick blamed the

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trouble on the Communists, andBanks ordered Durham to kick himout, along with Toronto A.I.M. leaderAlex Aquenzie, another protester.Durham did as ordered. He was alsopresent on another occasion whenA.I.M. chief counsel Ramon Roubi­deaux - who is an Indian, praise be- warned Banks about the results ofhis investigation of Mark Lane: " He'stoo Communist. He 'll hurt you. "Banks responded by firing Roubi­deaux and replacing him with Lane.

In short, the American IndianMovement isn't Indian, but it's Red.It was founded by Reds for revolution­ary purposes, and is an important newpart of the international Communistapparatus. *

Pressure From AboveThe Communists call the activity

of outfits such as AJ.M. " pressurefrom below." But pressure from belowhas no chance to succeed without thehelp and protection of individualshidden - and not so hidden - at thetop of the Establishment the " op­pressed" revolutionaries pretend tobe fighting. Much already has beenrevealed on this score by Dr. SusanHuck in the pages of AMERICAN OPIN­ION, and by North Dakota writerEdith Lee in her article, "ForkedTongues And Wounded Knees."These distinguished ladies have cata-

. logued the financial assistance and en­couragementgiven the Aimsters by theCatholic, Methodist, and Lutheranchurches; by top government officials;

. and, by radicals in the national press.For instance, Durham reports that

during the Wounded Knee trial, inOperation Daily Bread, the churchesfed the A.I.M . onlookers such deli-

•As this issue goes to press, we learn that Banks- along with Angela Davis - has signed aletter inviting Melba Hernandez to the UnitedStates. Hernandez is a member of the centralcommittee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

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cacies as beef, roasts, pork chops,chicken, and turkey. The churchesalso bought A.I.M. a W.A.T.S. (WideArea Telephone Service) line, paid forby a Reverend Hamm Muus of theWhy Wounded Knee Committee. Aletter to Durham, dated June 10,1974, on stationery of the UnitedMethodist Church of Iowa , andsigned by Administrative AssistantEdwin C. Boulton, says this: "Theenclosed check in the amount of$150.00 is the response of the IowaAnnual Conference to the recent con­versation shared between yourself,Bishop Thomas, and me. This willassure partial payment of the $500you indicated that would be neededto secure airplane transportation forMr. Banks to South Dakota." Ofcourse this is only a small example ofthe hundreds of thousands of dollarsthe churches have forked over to theAimsters.

Then there is a fascinating letter toBanks dated April 29, 1974, signed byJames G. MacCormack, who says heis "in complete sympathy with youraims, " and wants to "talk about im­proving your media visibility." Theletter is on stationery of Save TheChildren Federation, and MacCor­mack is its Press Relations Coordi­nator. Indeed, Durham reports thatthe Federation financed top A.I.M.official John Trudell for two years, bypaying him a salary although he wasnever there. Keep them contributionscomin', folks.

There are also the activities ofvarious celluloid humanitarians. AnA.I.M. flyer advertising a PeoplesConcert For .J ust ice in Atlanta onDecember 28, 1973, lists Troy Dona­hue and Burt Reynolds as masters ofceremonies. Sorry, girls. According tothe minutes of the A.I.M. meeting atthe St. Paul Hilton, on September 17,1974, Dennis Banks said as follows:"We can utilize Abby Mann, Brando,

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Julie Belafonte, Tony Bennett andothers in efforts of getting a programexposing the injustice at South Da­kota by focusing on Sarah. The 'To­day Show' can expose these injusticesand it will happen whenever theycan put it together. Abby has puttogether documentaries and can helpus through films with Columbia Stu­dios."

Sarah is Sarah Bad Heart Bull, anAimster who was locked up for herpart in the disturbance at Custer.Screenwriter Abby Mann is the au­thor of Judgment At Nuremberg andother films. Julie Belafonte is thewife of Harry. Tony Bennett is asinger. Brando is actor Marlon, whofinances A.I.M. with money and realestate. The Minneapolis Star of Jan­uary 26, 1974, says he gave A.I.M.twenty-five thousand dollars when itseized Wounded Knee. The St. PaulDispatch of January 25, 1974, sayshe "hugged" William Kunstler atthe trial. A star may be defined asa nebulous concentration of hotgases.

And there is a letter to Durhamdated September 19, 1974, signed byJohn Foreman, of Columbia Pictures,who says this: "With regard to theAIM airplane, I wanted you to knowthat we have done the arithmetic andat this point it seems like a good ideato acquire the plane both in behalf ofthe picture and, subsequently, in be­half of AIM .... I hope that theAero Commander will still be avail­able in a few months, or if not, youcan find another plane equally assuitable."

There is, finally, the incrediblerecord of help given A.I.M. by variousindividuals in government. For in­stance, in the fall of 1972, the revolu­tionaries seized the Bureau of IndianAffairs building in Washington. OnNovember 8, 1972, Frank Carlucci,Deputy Director of the Office of

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Management and Budget, and Leo­nard Garment, Special Assistant tothe President, wrote as follows onWhite House stationery: "We willrecommend that there be no prosecu­tion for the seizure and occupation ofthe BIA building." Carlucci then ar­ranged payment of sixty-six thousanddollars in federal funds to the Aim­sters. * He is now Henry Kissinger's" personal choice " . . . as U.S . Am­ba ssador to the Communist Govern­ment of Portugal.

On November 12, 1973, WilliamYoupee, Executive Director of theNational Tribal Chairmen's Associa­tion, wrote as follows to Secretary ofthe Interior Rogers Morton: " . . . Itis our belief that the general trendin Government in Washington.todayhas had an effect upon Indian affairsbecause of certain conspiratorial ef­forts within the Bureau and the De­partment and at the White Houselevel. " Mr. Youpee speaks of " t heconduct of BIA under Louis R. Bruce,his team, their associations, affilia­ti ons, and open complicity with theAmerican Indian Movement. " Therehave been "expenditures of extensiveamounts of funds for travel by AIMleaders to participate in sit-ins,demonstrations, and meetings tofurther their cause ."

The funds Mr. Youpee mentionsare of course taxpaye r funds, takenfrom your paycheques . In otherwords , B.I.A. official s are financingattacks again st it with your mone y.Indeed, says Mr. Youpee, they nowhave "complete control of the BIA."

"T he Native American Legal Defense andEdu cation Fund (1836 J efferson Place, N.W.,Washington, D.C., 202/833·9366) coordina tedmu ch of th e support for th e invaders. TheN.A.L.D.E.F. was formed in the spring of 1972by America ns For Indi an Opport unity , theLa Donna Harris out fit. On December 13,1972, t he Rockefell er Brothers Fund gaveN.A.L.D.E.F. twenty -five t housa nd dollars .

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In fact, in February 1972, theybrought the Dennis Banks family toWashington, where they provided " athree -bedroom, three-level town­house, with a full basement. " Some­body up there sure likes Banks.

Along these lines, it is interestingto note that during the revolutionaryseizure of the Alexian Brothers abbeyin January 1975, Wisconsin GovernorPatrick Lucey appointed ArtleySkenandore as his "personal negotia­tor." Mr. Skenandore is no doubt avery persuasive gentleman, probablybecause he is also a top national secu ­rity officer of A.I.M .

And there is Check Number6,209,326, in the amount of sevenhundred dollars, issued to A.I.M . bythe United States Treasurer on Octo­ber 2, 1974. It seems that the previousJune there was a hepatitis outbreakat an A.I.M. convention in SouthDakota. "National A.I.M. Pilot"Durham flew in the necessary serum,the federal government picked uppart of the tab, and A.I.M. used themoney to try to get Sarah Bad HeartBull out of jail. Compare all this withthe fact that Al Capone and JohnDillinger had to make it on their own.

But your reporter guarantees thatyou ain 't seen nothin ' yet . In the fallof 1973, Banks went to Mexico Citywith George Roberts, and was ar­rested. Durham called the State andJustice Departments. Justice calledback, with the news that Henry Kiss­inger had sent a telegram demandingBanks' release. And he got it . Mexi ­can au th orities presented Banks withsix sarapes, each costing one hundredfifty dollars, took him to the airport,and put him aboard a plane to LosAngeles .

There is also the interesting storyof how Durham was "burned" (ex­posed) . In March of 1975 he was con­fronted by Banks, Vern Bellecourt,and John Adams. Adams is on the

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staff of the Methodist Church, andrepresented the radical NationalCouncil of Churches at WoundedKnee. Durham recalls that the pressonce asked him about the fact thatTribal Council President Dick Wilsonwas calling him "an arrogant son of ab***h. " The distinguished Christianclergyman replied: "I am an or­dained son of a b***h."

In the confrontation, which Adamsrecorded, Banks and Bellecourt pre­sented Durham with F.B.I. reports toWashington about his activities, writ­ten by Special Agent Bastocky.

In other words, there is a leak toA.I.M. inside the F.B.I. How aboutit, Clarence Kelley? And along theselines, it is interesting to make noteof what Banks said to Durham afterthe revelation: "The governmentmay eliminate you. You know toomuch." The question arises of whythe government would want to elim­inate its own agent. And the answerof course is: Because he knows toomuch about the "pressure fromabove."

And finally there is the incrediblestory of Fred J. Nichol. He is the U.S.District Judge who presided at the St.Paul trial of Means and Banks. As thefarce wore on, more and more observ­ers began to wonder about his grow­ing tolerance for A.I.M. Indeed, afterhe declared a mistrial, the Aimstersbegan boasting of his "conversion."When did His Honor really begin tosee the light?

On October 22, 1973, before thetrial, Judge Nichol drove Mr. andMrs. Banks and chief counsel Roubi­deaux to his home. Durham followedin his own car and joined them. ThereMrs. Nichol showed her guests hercollection of Indian artifacts. Bankspresented her with a necklace. Whileher husband, the judge, stood bysmiling benignly, she said: "Don'tworry, boys. If Fred gets too stuffy in

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St. Paul, I'll be there to keep him inline." Banks apparently was im­pressed. He made out an A.I.M.membership card for Mrs. Nichol,Durham signed it, and they inductedher . Remember that this is not hear­say. Durham was there and saw forhimself. On the way home, Bankstold him - with good reason: "We'renot too worried about the trial now,are we?" And, sure enough, Mrs.Nichol was at the trial, as promised;in the A.I.M . cheering section. Infact, on July 1, 1974, the judge de­layed the trial because she was ill.Maybe he figured he couldn't getalong without her guidance.

Your reporter is not an attorney,praise be, but isn't this more thansufficient grounds to impeach JudgeFred Nichol?

Indian NationThe question of course arises: Why

is all this happening? Why are theCommunists in the streets, and theirsecret bosses at the top, doing somuch to con and terrorize AmericanIndians?

From the beginning, the Commu­nists have realized that America istoo big to be grabbed all at once. Sothey have been trying to divide it intodigestible pieces, and at the sametime to arrange safe military bases onAmerican soil from which to operate;as in the "privileged sanctuaries" do­nated by our Socialist rulers to theVietcong.

For instance, as long ago as theSixth World Congress of the Commu­nist International, held in Moscow in1928, Communist dictator Josef Sta­lin ordered his American flunkies towork for a Negro Soviet Republic,which was to be an independent na­tion, composed of Alabama, Missis­sippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and SouthCarolina, inhabited by blacks andruled by Communist whites. The

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scheme failed because of the patrio­tism and good sense of the great ma­jority of American Negroes; the factspublished by AMERICAN OPINIONmagazine; and, the unsung hard workof many Americans of all colors led byThe John Birch Society. In the 1960s,the Communists tried again, thistime in the Southwest, where thecannon fodder was scheduled to beAmericans of Spanish origin. Onceagain the scheme failed for the samereasons. Now the Communists aretrying to vict imize American Indians,for the same goal, and this time theyhave going for them the fact that theReservations they claim are indeedquasi-independent countries,havingbeen established by treaties after thevarious Indian Wars.

So once again, your intrepid cor­respondent thinks the thing to do is tosmite the enemy with the usual jaw­bone of an ass . Such jawbones arevery strong. For instance, when Rus­sell Means spoke at the University ofMinnesota with Angela Davis on Sep­tember 25, 1973, he exercised his jaw­bone by explaining that he is workingto " eradicate the United States ofAmerica's influence from within ourland ... . then we will sit downin diplomatic negotiations with theUnited States of America to settle upfor the western half of South Dakota,retroactive to 1868."

On October 29, 1973, Banks andRoberts issued an A.I.M . press re­lease calling for "re-establishment ofthe right of self-determination of In­dian people throughout America." InJune, 1974, A.I.M . organized the In­ternational Indian Treaty Council ata conference in Mobridge, South Da­kota, which declared: "This confer­ence directs the Treaty Council toopen negotiations with the Govern­ment of the United States through itsDepartment of State. We seek thesenegotiations in order to establish dip-

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lomatic relations with the UnitedStates . . . . " The Council was alsodirected to apply for membership inthe United Nations. At the confer­ence to advise A.I.M. was radical at­torney Joel Carlson, an exile from theRepublic of South Africa; and Rich­ard G. Falk, a Princeton professor.

Soon after he returned from theWorld Council of Churches confer­ence in Vienna, where he met with theP.L.O., Dennis Banks passed a long,secret memorandum to Durham, withorders to implement the policies itcontained. In it, Banks, or whoeverwrote it for him, speaks of the need to"create free Indian states," and the"re-establishment of reservation sov­ereignty and self-determination."Durham was directed to "establishand conduct negotiations with all na­tions of the world for free trade andeconomic relations" ; to establish li­aison and coordination with othergroups in this country that share sim­ilar views"; and, to "establish inter­national coordination."

Indeed, Durham was also told towork for " trade tariffs and interfacewith surrounding countries in theworld." Presumably this means thatsuch "independent" Indian nationswould require customs duties andpassports from products and individ­uals entering from "foreign" coun­tries like the United States.

And the same thing is going onin Canada, where various tribes arepressing claims that cover more thanone-third of the country. "We're acolony now but we'll be a nation thatcontrols its resources," says JamesWah-Shee, president of the NorthWest Territories Indian Brotherhood.In the Toronto Star of June 14, 1975,Mary J anigan also reports as follows:"The Indians' new, painstakinglybuilt network of political and culturalorganizations is propped up almostexclusively by heavy government

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funding and vulnerable to the dis­pleasure of Indian Affairs MinisterJudd Buchanan." The show is run byPrime Minister Pierre Trudeau, whohas along record of blatant Commu­nist activities. In the Star of June 17,

. 1975, Miss Janigan also quotes JoeBlyne, vice-president of the AlbertaMetis Association, who was releasedfrom a maximum security prison fouryears ago and has a long criminalrecord including attempted murder."I'm fighting for what is rightfullymine," declares Blyne. "And we'regoing to get it soon or hell will breakloose in this country."

Indeed, on February 17, 1974,Louis Hall, of Post Office Box I,Caughnawaga, Quebec, Canada,wrote to Dennis Banks: "Enclosedplease find some material explaininga big project scheduled by the War­rior Society of Caughnawaga andAkwesasne. Early in the month ofMay, the Mohawk nation shall moveback into their ancient homeland,situated in the present day New Yorkand Vermont States ....

" ... All national groups whohelp in retaking the land shall estab­lish an Independent North AmericanIndian State, get equal rights in thebenefits, privileges, protection andoperation of the government andstate that they shall help to establish.The plan is secret and should be toldonly to traditionalists. Others maybetray the movement."

Now here 's the kicker: "The moveshall help the AIM trials no end, byfocussing national and internationalattention on more injustice, persecu­tions, oppressions, racism, prejudiceand genocide by the U.S. nation. Wemay need manpower. Our initialmove is into an area mountainous,heavily forested and thinly popu­lated. Easily defended. We told theToronto Chapter of A.I.M. who camedown last fall for our confrontation

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with the Quebec Provincial Police,that an area shall be set aside for aland base for A.I.M. where their Viet­nam veterans may train young war­riors [in] the art of defending theirhomeland and where they may settlewith their families."

Also in the envelope, Hall sent .along some material about the pro­posed Indian nation, by Janice Horn,of Box 279 in Caughnawaga, who ex­plained that the economic systemproposed will be communal farms ina Communist system . Along theselines, laudatory mention is made ofDeaganawidah, "founder of theworld 's first people's republic. " Thereis to be a pledge of allegiance to thenew nation, " on the Sacred Wam­pum." There was also a map, showingthat the revolutionaries plan even­tually to claim all of Vermont and alarge part of upper New York State.

And all of this is no joke. The .operation went as planned, completewith the shooting last October of acouple of local residents. In fact, atlast word, the invaders are still there- more than a year after the inva­sion. Among them is Karoniakta, aMohawk from the Caughnawaga Re­serve near Montreal, who accordingto Val Sears in the Toronto Star ofJune 9, 1975, used to be a biomedicaltechnician. There is also chief spokes­man Kakwirakeron, who as steel­worker Art Montour was presumablya victim of horrifying oppressionwhile earning twenty-seven thousanddollars a year. And there is "bandelder" Karoniaktajeh, who says thatthe gang may appeal to the UnitedNations.

As usual, the authorities have donenothing to inconvenience these wor­thies, who once again have not onlyseized American territory but are for­eign nationals. And along these lines,on March 26, 1975, U.S . .SenatorJames Abourezk of South Dakota in-

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troduced S. 1328. This bill would notonly allow tribal courts all over theUnited States to try serious crimessuch as murder; it would give thetribe power to force any non-memberoff the Reservation.

Somebody up there is really push­ing Red Power.

Bicentennial And BeyondExactly what is the American In­

dian Movement planning now? InDecember of 1973, Dennis Bankswrote as follows: " . . . The proposedAlaskan pipeline, along with theMacKenzie Project in the N.W.T.also runs thru Indian villages. Thissituation warrants some responsefrom the American Indian Move­ment. Response which could possible[sic] make Wounded Knee look like aBoy Scout picnic." Banks explainedthat A.I.M. was "considering theadoption of the following plan: A. Tophysically stop the planned aggres­sion on Indian country. B. To encour­age Indian tribes to resist, by arms ifnecessary, all attempts to further dis­posses [sic] them of soveriegn [sic]titles. C. To appeal to the Arab Statesfor financial assistance to aid thisdefense. "

Exactly when all this is supposedto happen, if at all, your reporterdoesn 't know. But we do have exactinformation about something else. Itseems that A.I.M. is a leader, andmay even be the director, of the Com­munist scheme to disrupt our nation'sbicentennial in 1976. As we haveseen, A.I.M . attorney William Kunst­ler has promised us revolution by1976. At that same meeting, RussellMeans said this: "The white man hasthe G**d*** gall to celebrate a birth­day in 1976 over my blood. I promiseyou that it will be an unhappy bir th­day . Everyone everywhere shouldparticipate in blowing out the whiteman 's candle."

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In June, 1975, Douglass Durhamprepared this confidential report forpolice use: "After being instructed toestablish a coalition of groups to cre­ate chaos during 1976, I was con­tacted by Forrest Bivens, the easternUnited States leader of the BlackLiberation Army, and offered theirtotal assistance, support, and solidar­ity in the form of guns, dynamite, andtroops. The Los Tres Committee ofCalifornia (a Chicano organizationnumbering in the thousands) ; Casa (aChicano farm workers committee,numbering in the thousands); theBrown Berets (a nationwide secretChicano organization, supported bythe Socialist Workers movement);the Irish Republican Army; the Peo­ples Republic of China; German Lib­eration Youth Group; and the DogSoldiers Society (all of these supportsdocumented) formed a group directlyunder AIM's control, sometimes re­ferred to as Coalition of MinorityGroups (CMG) and sometimes re­ferred to as Coalition of OppressedPeople (COP). First meeting held inSt. Paul, Minnesota, at 553 Aurora,October 1974 . . .. "

Durham was also there when someof the methods to be used were dis­cussed: "During a meeting in Rose­bud in late 1974, it was mentionedthat Cleveland, Ohio, Farmington,New Mexico , and an undeterminedlocation in upstate New York (pos­sibly Eagle Bay) would be the candi­dates for the kick-off of revolutionarytactics, including bombing and oc­casional sniping . . . . In January,1975, a meeting held to discuss thetourist boycott of South Dakotaevolved into a planning session forBicentennial '76 activities . Thismeeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,attended by Herb Powless , DennisBanks, Vernon Bellecourt , DougDurham, Stan Holder , Ted Means,Bill Means, Larry Anderson and Din o

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Butler discussed the possibility ofDes Moines, Iowa, being one of themajor twenty-five cities in the UnitedStates for chaotic actions . . . . "

It is interesting to note that thebombings in Cleveland have alreadytaken place. Durham reports that theterrorists have stashed dynamite onthe Rosebud Reservation, and in Wis­consin, New Mexico, Kansas, Ne­braska, and Iowa. On one occasion,Russell Means pushed the idea ofblowing up Hoover Dam. Durhamwas there when identified Commu­nist Bert Corona, a "Chicano" leaderin California, announced, "We'll getit on out here. We're ready." And theterrorist Dog Soldier Society is armedwith machine-guns, a clear violationof federal law.

In preparation for the scheduleddecelebration, A.I.M . has establishedtraining camps around the country,in which political indoctrination,marksmanship, and guerrilla warfareare taught. In one of them, CampThirteen, a cab driver was murderedin the fall of 1974. Durham also re­ports that George Roberts has fi­nanced a training camp in Los An­geles. In fact, there are several inCalifornia. In this connection, Bankswrote as follows in 1973 to Robertsand Durham, while in hiding in theNorth West Territories, where thelatter had flown him: "It will be thecombined Responsibilities of both ofyou to maintain the Railroad. You willassume certain risk responsibilitiesthat may Endanger your lives. Underno circumstances are you allowed totransmit information to unclearedpersonnel. 'Clearance' will be grantedonly by D.J. Banks, Ron Petite. Per­sonnel that you clear must be clearedjointly by Ron and myself .... "

The term "railroad" refers to thesecret movements of AJ.M. soldiers.In the fall of 1974, when he returnedfrom his visit to the World Council of

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Churches in Vienna, Banks also saidthis in his long, confidential memo toDurham: "As AIM matures the needfor a realistic 'railroad' system willcome more to the fore. Until suchtime as the reservations revert to sov­ereign states there will be increasingdifficulty for Indian warriors to freelymove in the execution of their ap­pointed tasks. To alleviate this prob­lem it is suggested that each AIMchapter of 20 or more members main­tain a 'safe place' (SP) .... "

In other words, A.I.M. is by nomeans simply trying to right somewrongs. It is a military operation. It isa foreign army using guerrilla warfarein a scheme to destroy America. Thatis why in June, 1975, terrorists in PineRidge killed two F.B.I. agents as theyleft their car to serve a warrant. Dur­ham reports that the house the mur­derers were hiding in had been turnedover to Dennis Banks. The killers in­side it were planning to seize the entireReservation. A report from Pine Ridgesays thatA.I.M. has already tapped allthe telephones there.

How It Adds UpFirst, let us recognize again that

there is a problem. It is perfectlytrue that many fine people in thebureaucracy have tried to help theIndians - but the fact remains thatthe Reservation system is a disas­ter. No scheme except the firingsquad could have been devised toexterminate our Indian populationmore completely.

So what is the solution?According to A.I.M. the solution

is to abolish the Bureau of IndianAffairs, because it has made theIndians dependent on the federalgovernment in order to stay alive ­which is why the Reservations areplagued with poverty, despair, andsuicide. And A.I.M. is of coursecorrect in this. The Reservations

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have destroyed the self-res pect ofmany of t heir inma tes . Fro m theBowery bum to t he panhandlinghippie,a man who cannot take careof him self and his own is regardedwith contempt, by him self and byot he rs . T he Indian wh o had t herespect of your reporter and manyothers - even of those who were hisene my - was the Indian who in hisown way ran hi s te pee; grew hi sown corn and shot his own meat .T hat is why, no matter our color,we all feel a genuine resp ect forCrazy Horse. That is why we re­spect the many Indians who pro­vide for themse lves today . A manwho cannot take care of him self isno better tha n a child.

What would AJ .M . substit u teinstead ? First it would ' provoke a

-race- war, between almost two hun­dr ed million whi tes and fewer tha none mill ion Indian s; a war in whicharit hmetic would dictate the decima­t ion of the lat t er. Lik e it or not , thewhite man is not going to board afloti lla of M ayflowers and sa il back toEngland.

Second, A.LM . wants to replacet he Reser vati ons wit h " indepen ­dent " nations - which could n ot beindep enden t be cause t hey cou ldexist only on the largesse handedt he m by t he Gove rn me nt of t heUnited States. Indeed , as we haveseen, Ba nks and his fellow fra udsare by no mean s independent; are,in fact , in the pay of t he whiteconspira tors who mani pul at e ourgovernment, and who are t rying tose ize the wh ole country by usingthe Indians and others as cannonfodder. T he system A.LM . wouldimpose on the Indian s in those " in­depende nt " nat ions would mak ethe present Reservations seem like

the Happy Hunting Ground. In it ,t he Indians would be slaves of themost ruthless di ctat orship knownto hist ory. Professor iN . Zabolotsky ,of Soviet Russia , de scribes it asfollows in a World Coun cil ofChur ches booklet Banks brou gh tba ck from Vienna:

" Active labour is not on ly theri gh t , but al so t he duty of everycitizen able to work .. .. Workbecomes selfless du e to understand­ing of its usefulness for the societyas a wh ole. Labour enthus ias m ,lab our free of payment, lab our forthe society . . . ."

Which sums it up very well. Inthe system Banks wan ts to imposeon American Indian s, you work ­you are forced to work - bu t youdon 't get paid . T here is no unem -

. p loym en t , because slaves are nota llowed to qui t. M ayb e dan ce-in­st ructor Ru ssell Means would giveyou free Fox T rot lessons.

On the contrary, the real solu­t ion to the problem is to make theIndians genuine ly independen t, byabolishing B.LA. and the Reserva­t ion system in wh ich they arewards - slowly, so as not to victim­ize old people - and then leavingthem alone to live on their presentland or wherever (and how) they like;to work at what they want ; to go intobu sin ess or the professions or farm ­ing; as other ind ependen t Americansof all colors do now.

Bu t the first order of business isto stop the American Indian Move ­men t fro m terroriz ing Ame rica nIndians into submission - and thebest way to do that is to expose itfor the vicious, Communist fraud itis. Only then can Americans of allcolors find a sens ib le solution for.the problem.••

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