Open Letter to Louis Freeh

December 15, 1997

Louis Freeh
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.

airport hotels LetterkennyDear Director Freeh:

We are all members of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes living onsovereign Fort Peck tribal lands. We now possess reports from manysources of most outrageous abuses of our people and sacred lands.

TO WIT: Evidence of a smuggling operation into Montana and over FortPeck tribal lands from Canada which involves and implicates rogue agentsof the FBI. The Canadian drug conspiracy also involves murder-for-hirekillings of participants or witnesses on our Fort Peck Reservation andsurrounding communities in Montana. Last October 12th, Darryle Buck Elkwas killed in Popular just months after he began to reinvestigate the broaddaylight killing of his wife Arlene Buck Elk. The persons responsible forboth deaths remain at large. These and other official investigations havebeen compromised.

OUR FACTS

1. South Florida FBI Agent, Terry Nelson is a target of an internalagency investigation involving the drug operation. Two former CIA officersWilliam Colby and Chip Tatum have confirmed this.

2. The drug smuggling operation occurred in flight routes to NovaScotia and Chapeau Airfield in Quebec; then over to Weyburn, Saskatchewanand down into North Dakota and Montana. The major shipping zones in Montanawere Sidney, Chinook, Havre and clandestine airstrips on the Fort Peck triballands. Alternative routes into Eureka, Libby, Whitefish, and Shelby mayalso have been used.

3. Corrupt Montana authorities in Chinook, Sidney and the Fort Pecktribal lands coordinated protection of the smuggling operations. Aprominent Montana state official received payments into accounts in theHelena Northwest Bank branch in conjunction with the multi-ton shipmentsof Columbian Cali-cartel heroin and cocaine.

4. In 1992-4, Phoenix investigator, Mike Roe, made an independentinquiry and found direct evidence of drug trafficking involving a Sidneylawyer and a police detective as well as a Chinook lawyer and banker.

5. The Roe Report submitted to the FBI in February, 1994 wassuppressed. The Sidney investigation of the related Wolfe-Madsen murdersin December, 1993 was also suppressed.

6. FBI agents operating out of the Glasgow office assisted the Nelsonsmuggling operations and involved Fort Peck tribal police as well as othertribal members in illicit activities. As a result civil rights violationsof individual tribal members were rampant.

7. Lambert trucker Clinton Mullen was approached by a Sidney attorneyto haul drugs from Canada in his trucking operation in 1992. When Mullendeclined, he and his wife were beaten outside a Sidney night spot at theinstigation of another Sidney lawyer associated with the Montana SupremeCourt Commission on Practice.

8. A Sidney man, Jerry Herdt, told friends he gave information to theFBI about the Sidney lawyer involving drugs two weeks before he was founddead near Glendive. Herdt was probably murdered.

9. Richard Cowan and his wife Bernadette Doiron were killed in Havreon the eve of Cowan's set time to give information implicating the thenBlaine County attorney in a large scale drug operation. Both Lloyd Wilsonand Rick Bone were convicted for the Cowan killings, and made statementsfrom prison implicating third parties and the then Blaine County attorneyin the drug killings.

10. Two Glasgow FBI agents involved in the drug operation likelycompromised dozens of investigations on the Fort Peck and Fort Belnaptribal lands. Many of the unexplained 40+ killings on the Fort Pecktribal lands may be directly linked to the corrupt enterprise involvingthe Canadian smuggling operation. Witnesses are available and haveinformation directly linking the Glasgow FBI agents and other officialsto drug related activities and violent civil rights abuses.

OUR DEMANDS