Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1978, p. 334 54. Matthiessen, op. cit., p.195. 55. Johansen and Maestes, op. cit., p. 96. The flavor of this comes through clearly in an article by Thomas E. Slaughter, titled "FBI establishing identity of suspects," Rapid City Journal, July 3, 1975, p. 1. 56. The reconstruction of dialogue is from a deposition taken from Cecelia Jumping Bull by the WKLDOC staff during July of 1975; the transcript is on file at the office of attorney Bruce Ellison in Rapid City. 57. Matthiessen, op. cit., p. 205 58. Ibid, WKLDOC attempted to halt the Bureau's search and destroy operation through legal ac- tion; see " Injunction to be filed for FBI removal," Rapid City Journal, July 9, 1975, p. 3. 59. Ibid., p. 211; The petition was reported in the New York Times, June 30, 1975. For counterpoint from the area's non-Indian community, see the editorial titled, "FBI is in the middle of factional dispute," Rapid City Journal, July 6, 1975, p. 3 60. Mathiessen, op. cit. Also see "Lakota council approves resolution asking FBI removal."Rapid City Journal, July 14, 1975, .p. 3. (Agents of Repression) Pg 439[parenthesis, contents and pg. number handwritten] [following paragraph is bracketed by hand in the right margin beginning with the 4th line and enclosing the last line] 61. Memorandum from SAC Minneapolis (Richard G. Held) to Director, FBI, dated July 2, 1975, and captioned THE THREAT TO DESTROY MOUNT RUSHMORE (DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY); the memo was apparently prepared in response to a July 1 statement by AIM spokesper- son Ted Means that the organization would conduct a peaceful march to Mount Rushmore on July 4, in honor of "our brother who died near Oglala (Killsright)" Author Churchill was at Mt. Rushmore on the day in question; the most "militant" or "dangerous" act observed on the part of relatively few Indian people who gathered there was a tobacco ceremony. The federal security personnel in the area, on the other hand, proved both belligerent and menacing. For an establishment press account of what actually transpired at Mt. Rushmore, see Slaughter, Thomas E., "Banks says whites on trial," Rapid City Journal, July 5, 1975 [handwritten underline] 62. This July 5, 1975 incident, is recorded in Maithiessen, op. cit., p. 205; no FBI personnel were in- jured, although the helicopter was seriously damaged. Also see "FAA to probe 'copter crash at Pine Ridge," Rapid City Journal, July 5, 1975, p, 3. The bureau later unsuccessfully attempted to deny the cause of the helicopter crash; see "Shots did not hit 'copter says FBI," Rapid City Journal, July 8, 1975, p. 11. The 302 report of SA (name deleted) on July 4, 1975, p. 2, is, however, unequivocal; he quotes the pilot of the $140,000 helicopter as exclaiming, "We're hit! They got us! We're going to crash land! Hold on!' This version is reinforced by a joint 302 report of two Quantico-trained SWAT team members (names deleted), who were aboard the helicopter; this document was also filed on July 4, 1975. 63. This response by the Church Committee, which was and remains somewhat illogical (did the deaths of two agents, under whatever circumstances, somehow suddenly make COINTELPRO an "okay proposition"), may well have been exactly what the Bureau had in mind when provoking a firefight on June 26, 1975. One should not discount the bureaucratic savvy of the FBI's top leadership; once stalled, it is usually almost impossible to reinvigorate congressional investigations. 64. The incident is marginally recounted in Matthiessen, op. cit., p. 211. The authors are otherwise familiar with the incident, and are aware that Price bore a personal animosity towards Black Crow, based upon the latters exercising his right to physically evict the agent from his property the preceding winter. Price had come around, "claiming he was investigating a cow theft, without a warrant, and I threw him out," according to Black Crow. Also see "Wanblee man charges FBI with searching without a warrant," Rapid City Journal, July 5, 1975, p. 1. 65. This is probably a conservative estimate, accruing from WKLDOC researcher Candy Hamilton,....