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Secret COINTELPRO plot to infiltrate and destroy the American Indian Movement: “We wanted them to kill each other”—FBI agent admits after 5 decades of silence

Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on March 8, 2023 (more by CovertAction Magazine) |

February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890.
Leonard Peltier may finally get out of prison after more than 4 decades

Originally published: Leonard Peltier Matters on November 2021 by John Colson (more by Leonard Peltier Matters) (Posted Nov 25, 2021)

Peltier has served about four-and-a-half decades in prison for a crime–the killing of two FBI agents in a 1975 gun battle at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota–that even his erstwhile prosecutor now admits that Peltier did not commit.