And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Note from the article in the Sioux Fall newspaper:
"Means... said he has a movie-production company that is
planning a fictionalized story in which the female lead character is
named Anna Mae. "It's my ode to her," he said."
<http://www.argusleader.com/news/Thursdayarticle2.shtml>
Means: AIM leader ordered 1975 murder
By LEE WILLIAMS
Argus Leader
published: 11/18/99
Minutes after testifying before a federal grand jury Wednesday,
Russell Means walked out of the courthouse, accused a leader of the
American Indian Movement of ordering a murder, then called the
grand-jury process a "sham."
Means said he told the grand jury, originally impaneled to hear
unrelated federal cases, that the AIM leader was working as an
informant for the FBI and ordered the killing of Anna Mae
Pictou-Aquash in 1975.
Because federal officials have not named the AIM leader as a suspect
in Aquash's death, and because the Argus Leader was not able to
contact him, the newspaper decided not to name him in today's
editions.
AIM officials have always maintained that the FBI orchestrated the
killing of Aquash. Her body was discovered on the Pine Ridge
Reservation in 1976. No one was ever charged with her slaying.
Means said he first told federal authorities of his allegations in
July, and that no action was taken until he held a press conference
in Denver.
"This was a sham. It was only done to pacify me, by federal
authorities, because they are intrinsically involved," he said
Wednesday.
Means said authorities know who the "trigger man" was in Aquash's
death, and that he gave the same information to the grand jury.
"I am convinced that the federal government is either so blatantly
racist or involved in the murder," he said.
He believes the FBI's COINTELPRO counterintelligence program of the
1970s was involved in the murder.
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