Robert Robideau (in Memoriam)

Short mention about Bob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Robideau

Book: Bob’s book AIMster GANGSTERS is unpublished

Obituary by Leonard Peltier:

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2009/02/leonard-peltier-remembers-bob-robideau.html

Interview with Bob:

http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.RobertRobideau.htm

http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.PAINTINGS.RobertRobideau.htm

(“All my research and findings will appear in a book written by Joseba Felix Tobar-Arbulu, a Basque
professor. The book will be published in the Basque language this year and hopefully picked up and
translated into English.”)

Here my book, in two volumes, 2008:

Amerindiar erreserbetako ondoezak Annie Maeren izpirituan (I) Bizipenak eta Heriotza
(http://eimakatalogoa.eus/vufind/Record/7637)

and

Amerindiar erreserbetako ondoezak Annie Maeren izpirituan (II) Epaiketa bat eta gatazkak
(http://eimakatalogoa.eus/vufind/Record/7638)
Interview with Bob (2005.07.15) in my book: http://es.scribd.com/doc/57990291/Interview- with-
Bob-Robideau-on-Annie-Mae.

Bob on:

- Dennis Banks:

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: THE REIGN OF TERROR OPERATIONS: THE U.S. GOVERNMENTS
IMPLACABLE IMPUNITY - MILITARY, PARAMILITARY AND COVERT ATTACKS (lpdcinc.blogspot.com)

- John Trudell:
JOHN TRUDELL: A Profile of Cowardice
(http://robert-robideau.blogspot.com.es/2008/08/john-trudell-profile-of-cowardice-fbi.html )

- Paul Demain:
IS HE A REPORTER, CRIME FIGHTER OR PEELED APPLE?
PAUL DEMAIN AND THE FBI
(https://white-bison.livejournal.com/17222.html)

- Bruce Ellison (Bob sent the work to different places but it was not published)

Published in Basque, in my book: http://eimakatalogoa.eus/vufind/Record/7638

Here the original, as sent by Bob to me for my book:

Bruce Ellison Revisited

Unknown to Leonard Peltier or myself, Bruce Ellison, a young white attorney just out of law
school volunteered his legal services to the Wounded Knee Legal Defense Offense Committee
(WKLD/OC) in Rapid City, South Dakota, choose to become involved in the killing of Anna Mae
Aquash-Pictou; and not only did he conspire with John Trudell in covering up the circumstances of
her death, but also conspired as a team for many years to place snitch jackets on two nationally
known respected American Indian Movement (AIM) activists whom have given many of their years
to defending Native rights and Leonard Peltier’s struggle for justice. This young white attorneys
arrival coincided with the Oglala shoot out on June 26, 1975. He was working with Ken Tilson and
other more seasoned attorneys defending members of the American Indian Movement on various
charges arising from the armed takeover demonstration at the historic site of the 1890 massacre of
300 men, women and children of Big Foots’ band of Minneconju Lakota by the 7 th Calvary at
Wounded Knee village, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973.

I have known Bruce Ellison for 30 years, and for many of those years I considered him a close
friend and political ally. Then one day he not only betrayed my friendship and trust, but he also
betrayed Leonard Peltier, whom he had defended in federal courts and in numerous public forums
for many years. The case of Leonard Peltier has awarded him in his professional field, and has given
him greater social and political status in his community.

I had spoken with Ellison for the first time about September 10, 1975 when he called me at a
hospital in Arkansas, Kansas, where I was undergoing eye surgery from an injury arising from a car
explosion. He wanted to know if my legal rights had been read to me. I told him that I had not yet
been arrested for any crime. Ellison would become Darrell Butler’s attorney of record before our
indictments of first degree murder were made public on November 25, 1975. From that point on
Ellison participated in all the Oglala shoot out court proceedings and trials, ultimately becoming
Leonard Peltier’s longest and famous attorney of record.

Unknown for many years, to Leonard Peltier or myself, Bruce Ellison had, for reasons never
explained, involved himself in the killing of Anna Mae Aquash in December of 1975. How he became
involved is not clear, but Candy Hamilton, another volunteer worker at the WKLD/OC in Rapid City,
South Dakota claimed, in a telephone conversation with me in September of 2004, that many
members of the American Indian Movement in Rapid City had formed suspicions about Anna Mae
that were openly expressed and discussed at the time.

Candy Hamilton claimed that Thelma Rios, Lorelei DeCora, Bruce Ellison and she became
involved in a conversation about Anna Mae Aquash’s loyalties to AIM. She said, “Somebody said
something about her [Anna Mae] being a snitch. I said, I’ve seen how she worked and lived in Oglala
and I know that she is not a snitch. They stood there a minute; either Lorelei or Thelma looked at
Bruce Ellison and said, “Well, what do you think?” Bruce said, “Well, everywhere she goes somebody
gets arrested.”

John Trudell said in the August 2005 taped Interview, “I have always liked Candy. [Hamilton] I
think Candy is ok. I don’t necessarily agree with her overview on everything, but I don’t think Candy
is a troublemaker or anything like that.”
 Shortly after my release from Leavenworth, Federal Prison in the summer of 1979, I began
hearing rumors about those who had involved themselves in the killing of Anna Mae Aquash. The
first person I spoke with about Anna Mae was John Trudell. This was during the Escape Trial of
Leonard Peltier in Los Angeles, California. He said that the, ‘feds had killed her’ and also in a long
conversation about the fire death of his wife and children claimed that he knew those in the federal
government that had killed his family, naming the persons he felt were responsible.

In the summer of 1980 I attended the Black Hills Gathering in Rapid City, South Dakota.
During a visit with my ex-wife, and son at Thelma Rio’s home, during the visit Thelma asked if she
could speak with me privately in her kitchen. Thelma said, “Did you know that they kept Anna Mae
in my Basement?” Surprised by the sudden revelation that AIM had killed Anna Mae I asked, “What
are you talking about?” She looked at me equally surprised and with the expression that told me
she thought I knew about all of it. But I knew nothing. I had always believed that Anna Mae had
been killed by the FBI because they knew that she had been a member of our group and had
expressed their intent of avenging their fellow agents. I had always believed the FBI did it because
according to John Trudell, “David Price told Anna Mae she would be dead within a year.” When she
showed up murdered, Trudell claimed the feds had made good their promise. (The Life and Death
of Anna Mae Aquash, 1980. Lynn Ritz. )

I asked, “Who was in the house with Anna Mae?”

Thelma said, “Madonna Gilbert, Lorelei DeCora, Bruce Ellison and others.”

“Where was David?” I asked

“He was not here.” Thelma said.

Anna Mae had become a member of our group shortly after Butler, Leonard and I were told
by Dennis Banks and Vernon Bellecourt to interrogate her at the Farmington AIM convention in June
of 1975. At that time Leonard cleared her of the accusations brought against her.

“They kept Anna Mae in my basement and left the gun lying on the top of my refrigerator
until I finally told them to get rid of it.” Said Thelma.

It was not until I returned to the LPDC in 1990 that further revelations surfaced unexpectedly.
An old AIMster I had known for many years revealed that he knew Bruce Ellison had been involved
in the killing of Anna Mae Aquash because Thelma Rios had told him that not only was he present in
her home when Anna Mae was being kept in her basement, but that Ellison along with Ted Means,
Lorelei (DeCora) Means, Glyde Bellecourt, Madonna (Gilbert) Thunder Hawk, and Thelma Rios
(according to Trudell‘s testimony in the Looking Cloud trail) had participated in the December 1975
WKLD/OC AIM meeting to determine if Anna Mae was a federal informant.

Thelma Rios had been David’s common law wife, they had parented one boy, but more
importantly David had always been a warrior, involved in many of the actions and had kept his
promise to our group that he would create diversions to assist us if in event there was a
confrontation with the federal government. The day after the Oglala fire fight, he kept his promise.
He had earned our trust and I still trusted him. Thelma had told David that the AIM ladies had,
“treated Anna Mae very badly, and for some unexplained reason Anna Mae was taking all the labels
off her clothing.” In explanation, David said, “You know how mean those AIM ladies were.”

“What do you know about Ellison?” I asked.

“Thelma said that Bruce Ellison was involved, and I have heard that he had papers that
showed Anna Mae was an informant.” David said.
Another confirmation that members of AIM had killed Anna Mae, but it still didn’t make sense
to me because we had not only cleared her of the suspicions of being an informant, at least to our
satisfaction and had made her a member of our group. The members that had revealed to me their
bits and pieces of information simply made me began to believe that maybe we were wrong about
Anna Mae, maybe she did turn out to be a government informant, but why kill her? We had never
even contemplated this drastic action when Douglas Durham, Al Running, and Louis Moves Camp
had been exposed as agents and informants. The only difference I could think of is that Anna Mae
Aquash was a woman, being a woman would normally mean that AIM women would have to deal
with her. This probably explains why Theda Nelson Clark was elected to lead Arlo Looking Cloud and
John Boy Graham; and why so many AIM women were involved as John Trudell testified to.

Sometime in 1984 Bruce Ellison told me about his and Trudell’s suspicions that David Hill was
possibly an “informant”. Despite the fact that they could never show evidence of their allegation,
both Trudell and Ellison, for more than 20 years continued to spread rumors within the AIM
movement and general public that they “did not trust David Hill” and thought that he was an
“informant,” and/or an "operative."

When Leonard Peltier asked David Hill to work for his freedom in 1989, both Trudell and
Ellison renewed their bad jacketing campaign against David Hill. In 1990, at the request of Leonard
Peltier, I again became the National/International Director for the LPDC. Shortly after I heard from
others in the movement that Trudell was denouncing David Hill as a “federal agent.” I took the
matter serious to both Ellison and Trudell demanding that they stop their “snitch jacket” campaign
against David Hill. Telling them both at the time that Leonard Peltier and I both trusted David Hill
explicitly.

On November 4, 1994, my son, and a companion, accompanied me from Denver, Colorado to

Rapid City, South Dakota to attend the last part of an AIM Tribunal against Vernon and Clyde
Bellecourt, whom we had brought evidence against for long list of crimes against Indian people and
the American Indian Movement. It was late when we arrived in Rapid City because of winter
weather conditions, making the roads icy and hazardous. When we arrived I called Bruce Ellison to
ask if he could put us up for the evening. Being an old friend, I knew he would be happy to have our
company. I drove out to Dark Canyon to his home, which he had remodeled to enjoy the beautiful
wooded splendor surrounding it, and Rapid creek that ran by it.

The following morning while making ready to leave for the AIM Tribunal at the Mother Butler
center in Rapid City, Bruce stopped me in the Kitchen as I was about to join my son and companion
who were waiting for me in the car. With consternation on his face he blurted out, “Bob, I think
that I am going to be indicted for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash!”

I looked at him for a moment to make sure he was serious. He was not just serious, he was
scared. I knew that there was another federal grand jury underway. “Bruce what makes you believe
that the feds are going to indict you for the murder of Anna Mae?” I asked.

“I went to the house where she [Anna Mae Aquash] was being held.” “Why did you do that?” I

asked.

“You know how it was in those days. We were always getting caught in situations for one
reason or another. It was one of those occasions.” Bruce answered.

“Well Bruce, I have known of your involvement for years. I don’t think that the feds are going
to indict you for the killing of Anna Mae.” I responded.

“Bob, this is what happened…..”

“Bruce, I don’t want to hear anymore about it. Ok. I do not believe they will indict you. You are
a white attorney, they will want the Indians first.” I left, troubled by thoughts that he really did want
to talk with me about all that shit. But I didn’t want to know because I still wanted to believe that
the FBI did it all.

After returning to Denver, Colorado at the conclusion of the AIM Tribunal, I was surprised
again when Glenn Morris said that Troy Lynn wished to speak with me about Anna Mae. I met her
at Colorado AIM’s office, in the basement of a church. The same location Troy Lynn had been
questioned by U.S. Marshal, Robert Ecoffey, BIA investigator, Poirier and an FBI agent in August of
1994. Glenn Morris remained in the office with us while Troy Lynn told me about what had
happened with Anna Mae in her house and what she knew of the killing of Anna Mae and who
killed her.

Troy Lynn said that, “Frank Dillon [Arlo Looking Cloud ] and John Boy Graham were members
of Colorado AIM and that Arlo Looking Cloud was the head of the Warrior Society. She told the same
story we know well from the Looking Cloud trial, but she also knew that Anna Mae had been shot
and killed in Wanblee, South Dakota by John Boy Graham.” Then she told me that, “John Trudell has
known about all of this from the time Anna Mae was taken from my house and the people that were
involved.” And, “John Trudell had known Arlo Looking Cloud and asked him to see what else he
could find out,” for Trudell. I was surprised because I had asked Trudell about what he knew of Anna
Mae and he had told me, “Nothing.”

Troy Lynn further said that Arlo Looking Cloud was in the Denver county jail serving 60 days
for DWI, and, “People were concerned about him because he had been visited by federal agents who
told him that he would be called to the grand jury than investigating the murder of Anna Mae
Aquash.” Troy Lynn said that Brenda (Last name not mentioned) had called and asked her to go to
the country jail and visit Arlo, who wanted to talk about, “something important regarding Anna
Mae.” Troy Lynn said that Arlo told her about the visit from the FBI agents and that, “Angie Begay
[Dennis Banks’ ex-girl friend and father to a child between them] gave information to U.S. Marshal
Robert Ecoffey and this information had that led the FBI to him.” Arlo asked her to get him an
attorney and said, “He seemed very anxious and worried.” (Notes from conversation at Colorado
AIM office and taped conversations with Troy Lynn Yellow Wood, 1994 and 2004)

Shortly after returning home, Edgewood, New Mexico, I heard that John Trudell was
scheduled to speak at the Salt of the Earth book store in Albuquerque on December 3, 1994. I picked
up my tape recorder and left for Salt of the Earth Books. Fully intending to confront him about his
continuing snitch jacket campaign against David Hill, National /International spokesperson for
Leonard Peltier, which I was determined to get Trudell to stop. Instead, I found myself asking him
questions about Anna Mae Aquash; and toward the end of the confrontation flat out accused him of
complicity in her death, which he denied.

In the course of the confrontation with Trudell, I told him that Bruce Ellison had confessed to
me that he had involved himself in the Anna Mae killing and asked him if he knew this.

John. Did I know that Bruce was involved in what way?

Bob. In the death of Anna Mae.
John. No I didn’t. I can’t imagine it.

Bob. Well he was.

John. Bruce Ellison. Who told you that?

Bob. I have known it for some time. He walked right up to me when I went to Rapid City about
four weeks ago.

John. How was he involved?

Bob. He went over to the house with a document where she was being kept in the basement of
Thelma’s.

John. I know about that.

Bob. He came up with this document. This document supposedly….

John. Here is what I know Bob. What I was told is that she was taken to a house in Rosebud.
(Transcription of taped confrontation, Salt of the Earth Books. December 3, 1994. Note: Anyone
interested is welcome to listen to this portion of the tape.)

In an interview by Leonard Peltier’s attorney Barry Bachrach in August of 2005, Trudell

reaffirmed that, "...I know Bruce’s name was brought into it, but I also know on practical terms, in
practical terms, Bruce was a young white attorney that was new to the place. Nobody would listen
to him Never. They would never take orders from him. Never in a million years would they take
orders from Bruce Ellison either because he was a young white guy, hadn’t been with WKLC/OC,
maybe six months, maybe a year, but I don’t think he was there that long." If no one would listen to
Bruce Ellison why did they make a special effort to include him in on the meeting at WKLD/OC
office? This meeting may not have been about giving orders, but it is about those who participated,
and contributed to the purpose of the meeting, in terms of interrogation, evidence presented and
augmented that served to condemn Anna Mae and got her executed. Who asked Anna Mae the
questions? Who presented the evidence? Who were these people at the WKLD/OC office who
acted in the capacity of Grand Inquisitors augmenting life and death? It is evident that these
individuals did ultimately play a very significant role in Anna Mae‘s execution. Bruce Ellison
represented to me over breakfast, in Toronto, Canada, in 2005, during a fund raising event for
Peltier, that, "When they brought Anna Mae into the WKLD/OC office, she was tied up and I told
them to take off the ropes." This admission goes further to show that he was present and
participated in the meeting. It also showed that he did have "authority" sufficient to command them
to "take off the ropes.")
 Trudell admitted that Bruce Ellison had brought documents to the meeting that allegedly
showed Anna Mae was a FBI informant. In doing so, he did act freely in deciding to become a major
player in deciding the fate of Anna Mae Aquash. Ultimately, this meeting did play the biggest role in
bringing fourth evidence that condemned Anna Mae, and she was executed the following day
(according to witnesses in the Looking Cloud trial) as a direct consequence of the evidence Bruce
Ellison and others presented at the WKLD/OC meeting. It gave the "Order" giver the final
supporting verdict to pronounce the sentence of death. Candy Hamilton and others testified at the
Arlo Looking Cloud trial about this meeting, which was underway during her presence. She further
testified that Bruce Ellison was at this meeting along with Clyde Bellecourt, Ted Means and the AIM
women Trudell also mentioned in the course of his testimony. It is interesting side note that in this
August 2005 interview Trudell defends the Bellecourts and Dennis Banks.

Trudell said further,"...So he may have been at WKLD/OC when they brought her there. I’m
assuming he was because I keep hearing it, but if he was, it would be, he can’t be in the place when
they brought her. There is no way he would have been a part of any decision- making process. The
decision to kill her was not made in that WKLD/OC office because if they had been, she would never
have been taken to Rosebud." I disagree with Trudell, because to me it is evident that decisions
where being made simply for the fact that questions challenging Anna Mae’s loyalty were being
posed and directed at her that meant they would be used to make a determination of guilt or
innocence. Also, documents were presented, allegedly by Bruce Ellison that showed some sort of
proof that she was, might be an informant working with the feds. Therefore, any decision to kill her
more probably than not was based on evidence gathered during the WKLD/OC meeting.

Trudell, soon after the confrontation, stated to the media, “I have been given information
that a Cointel (United States Government’s counter intelligent program against dissent groups in the
United States) operation is being directed at me, to neutralize me. I have been waiting for the
attack. This appears to be it. Now my life is in jeopardy. I find it very interesting that Bob Robideau
and David Hill are the vanguards of this.” David Hill was not involved in the confrontation at Salt of
the Earth Books nor was he in Albuquerque at the time.

Shortly after the confrontation with Trudell I called Bruce Ellison to tell him about it. His first

response was, “I would sure like to have a copy of that tape.” I told him that I would trade him a

copy of the tape for the names of those persons involved in the killing of Anna Mae. The phone

went dead. In June of 2004 Bruce Ellison, reaffirmed after 10 years that he was still very anxious to
know what Trudell had said about him during the confrontation e- mailed me, “Send me a copy of

the tape” and “You have my P.O. Box address.”

On March 7, 1995, I received a phone call from Bobby Castillo, International spokesperson for

Leonard Peltier, who told me that Leonard Peltier Defense Committee had received a fax, addressed

to Leonard Peltier, from Bruce Ellison stating, “Bob Robideau is attempting to implicate me in the

murder of Anna Mae Aquash.” Bobby Castillo, concerned said, “Bruce is trying to set you up Bob. He

is a friend of John Trudell.” (Taped phone conversation of Robideau and Castillo, 1995.) I phoned

Bruce Ellison on March 9, 1995, confronting him with the information. He admitting writing and

sending the accusation to Leonard Peltier stating, “Now, I did not do that out of being mean or

anything else, but when I woke up that following morning I thought that was appropriate. Right or

wrong, I thought that was appropriate. There was no effort or thought or interest in setting anybody

up. It was out of not knowing what was going on, but feeling that there was an effort to set me up

and wondering completely what in the world was going on.” (Taped phone conversation of

Robideau and Ellison, 1995)

After the confrontation with John Trudell in 1994 and Bruce Ellison in 1995, it began to dawn

on me why Bruce Ellison and John Trudell had targeted David Hill. David Hill had learned too much

about both of their involvements in the killing of Anna Mae. They must have reasoned that the most

effective method to neutralize him would be to put a “snitch jacket” on him.

Their attempts to accomplish this over the years mostly failed with the old AIM membership

who had fought beside Hill in many battles. But Trudell did convince his small handful of AIM

followers and white supporters, which included Darrell Dino Butler, who Trudell convinced to say

“Mr. X” was a “lie.” In an interview with Trudell in August 26, 2005 he said that he “told Bob” if he

went forward with exposing “Mr. X” as the person who shot and killed the agents he would, “…

publicly state that it’s not true….” But, Trudell instead of doing it himself, had his flunky Dino Butler

do it. Trudell further states that he had spoken with Darrell “Dino” Butler about it before Butler
publicly condemned “Mr. X” as a “Lie” in his famous interview, Relinquishing a legacy of hatred,

embracing respect for life, by E.K. Caldwell, in the Spring of 1995 issue of News From Indian Country.

Trudell stated several times in this interview that he has always supported Leonard Peltier

and in fact supports him today. Trudell, in the August 26, 2005 interview said, “see Leonard was

never my target. I was trying to help Leonard all these years. I’ve been more loyal to Leonard…” Yet,

in 1990 when Eda Gordon called to tell me that Leonard Peltier asked that I return and take over the

duties of National/International director in the summer of 1990, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the

presence of Eda Gordon and Paulette D'Auteuil, said, “Please, Bob don’t go back. Leonard has lost

respect for the people.” I looked at him with some disbelief. Trudell was begging me not to go back

to the National LPDC office and work for Leonard's freedom! I said, "What the f' do you mean,

Leonard has not lost respect for the people! I am going back rather you like it or not!" I looked at

Eda Gordon, spokeswoman for the Leonard Peltier Support Group of New Mexico, and asked, "What

do you think about what John just said.” She just looked at me for a moment and bowed her head,

not wanting to challenge Trudell.

If there is anyone in AIM that has sabotaged the truth and played into the hands of the FBI’s

activities to maintain the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, John Trudell’s actions, have clearly been

advancing in this direction. The continuous bad Jacketing of a highly respected member of AIM who

has demonstrated time and time again his loyalty to AIM’s principles and to the freedom of Leonard

Peltier. A man who served as National/International director of the LPDC and today remains one of

his National/International spokespersons. John Trudell, nor Dino Butler has ever considered serving

as Leonard's National/International director, why?

The “lie” Trudell perpetuated and put into Dino Butler’s head regarding “Mr. X” has done

harm to Leonard Peltier and many of us who at that time wanted the truth to come out to further

show that Leonard Peltier was innocent of the actual killing of the two agents, that the Government

had already admitted, “They do not know who killed the two FBI agents.” and “We have no proof to
show Peltier was the shooter." Yes, someone else obviously did shoot them, and he is a “X”, “Y” or

“Z.” Who was Trudell to make decisions about rather or not exposing the shooter would label Butler

and I “snitches.” This was clearly our decision to make. By preventing the real shooter to come

forward to tell his side of the story, Trudell committed a gross injustice to Leonard Peltier, and

played into the hands of the federal government. Why?

Interviewer. What about Dino? He came out against it. Did you talk to him about that?

TRUDELL: Yes.

Interviewer. Before he did?

TRUDELL:“Yes. See when Dino, the only, I got drawn into this thing because Bob approached Dino
about signing this affidavit naming David Hill. So Dino got in touch with me and asked me about [it].
My advice and I told him you don’t want to touch this. It makes you and Bob look like snitches and
David Hill will be able to prove [it]. My instincts, my intuition, my feeling is that David Hill will,
somebody will step in, the state will step in and prove that he couldn’t have been there. And that
made sense to Dino. Dino wasn’t going along with it either. So when we met with Bob and some
other people, when we sat down and met, that’s what pushed Bob to the edge because Dino wasn’t
going along with it. Dino was listening to what I was saying.”

Interviewer. And Bruce was listening to you too, right?

TRUDELL: “Well, I’m not going to say who was there. I’m going to say that Bob and Dino and me
were there.”

And, (Bruce Ellison did take part in the meeting, which took place at Max Gails in Santa Barbara,
California)

TRUDELL: “…I’m not paranoid about this, but I see a scenario where I’m being set up, alright, and
then something’s gonna, and they would try to have something happen to me and when that
happens, Leonard’s going to be accused of being involved in it because all this shit is coming out on
his website…” Trudell further expressed, “See if something happens to me, like then shit is going to
get even messier because I do have a lot of allies that would not let something happen to me go
quiet and be like it happened with Anna Mae.”

And,

TRUDELL: The pictures they are painting of me? (See my, July 14, 2005, article FBI PUPPETS, PAWNS
AND MURDERERS, but PELTIER remains THE TARGET.) Do you think that I have behaved in that kind
of way and did that shit?
Interviewer: Did you act that way?

TRUDELL: Do that stuff they are accusing me of? Do you find that believable?

(Bachrach taped phone interview, August 2005)

Trudell admitted that, "(I)...just know I told Kamook its ok to talk to these people (the

FBI) about what happened to Anna Mae." (Bachrach Taped phone interview, August 2005)

But the fact is Bruce Ellison somehow knew that Kamook Ecoffey was going to tell lies, paid for

by the FBI, about Leonard Peltier. How did Ellison know that Kamook was going to

testify that Peltier “confessed to her and others?” Leonard Peltier’s current attorney, Barry Bachrach

said, 'Bruce Ellison had contacted him to warn him that Kamook was going to be

testifying about Leonard's alleged confession in the Looking Cloud trial. (E-mail to me, 2004.)

The only person connected to Kamook and the case in contact with Bruce Ellison at the time

was John Trudell. We believe that Trudell knows more than what he is revealing about his

knowledge of Kamook Banks Ecoffey and the part he played in her "telling the truth."

The age old expression, “Birds of feather fly together,” appropriately wraps up John Trudell
and Bruce Ellison‘s affinity for labeling others “operatives” and “Informants” to protect themselves
from their own actions that have now been directly connected to the death of Anna Mae Aquash.

Robert Robideau

National/International Spokesperson for the LPDC

August 30, 2005

Bob’s last (radio) interview:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/redtownradio/2009/01/31/robert-robideau--his-last-words

(in http://teachingthevaluesofpeace.blogspot.com/2009/08/murder-of-annie-mae-aquash-and-
robert_27.html)

“Robideau, in a January 31, 2009 interview with Brenda Golden on Red Town Radio named Dennis
Banks as the ranking AIM leader in 1975 that gave the orders for the executive of Aquash. During
the lengthy interview, Robideau also charged that the government would utilize any upcoming
testimony in the Aquash trials as a way to prevent Peltier from receiving a positive parole hearing.

(...)
Robideau accused AIM brothers Vernon and Clyde Bellecourt for initiating the actions against
Aquash, and claimed that AIM Attorney Bruce Ellison of Rapid City, South Dakota had a hand in
framing Aquash as a "snitch." But Peltier himself, according to court testimony bragged to Aquash
and several other people, including KaMook Nichols-Banks and Bernie Lafferty at the time about
shooting the agents, leading to speculation about motives. Robideau argued that whatever Peltier
had said to Aquash, Banks and Lafferty, would not have been said if he did not trust the three.”

donejurgi (joseba felix tobar-arbulu)