There are two different claims of what some call the Rosebud Files, some related to the war, others related to Peltier's case.
http://homepage.mac.com/karsten/Tech%20Ramblings/C1449323645/E20050702013220/index.htmlI hereby dub this latest CIA intelligence fiasco The Rosebud Files. As you may have heard, the Bush Administration is having a wee amount of difficulty finding a single drop of biological weapons or a single artillery shell of chemical weapons in Iraq....Desperate for political cover amid this dearth of dastardly destructive devices, the CIA has found a figurative fig leaf of said cover literally under the rosebushes of Iraqi nuclear scientist Mahdi Obeidi . He had something to trade with the U.S. officials: six or seven components manufactured in the construction of an experimental gas centrifuge - a machine used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons - and detailed designs for the machine that he had buried in his rose garden 12 years ago on the orders of Hussein's son Qusay.
But just as quickly as Obeidi's, ahem, components of mass destruction have been unearthed, they've been buried again...
The White House wasted no time citing the Obeidi finds as proof of WMD activity by Iraq - which, of course, it is, though at a threat level considerably below what some might think would necessitate a military invasion halfway around the world. You need thousands of these machines running fulltime for years in a major industrial plant , not a can of decade-old prototype parts, to enrich uranium to weapons grade. "What's notable is that this case illustrates the extreme challenge that the world community faces in Iraq as we search for evidence of WMD programs that were designed to elude detection by international inspectors," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said from the White House Press Room, not the White House Rose Garden . He provided no estimate of how many Iraqi rose gardens would now have to be dug up by American military forces in the coming months and years to assure our national security from dangerous foreign technology.
In the meantime, the Administration and CIA were so eager to show off to the world their figurative fig leaf, er, cache of components of mass destruction that they forgot that it's information, not hardware, that is truly dangerous. After posting an official statement concerning the Obeidi find on the CIA website ( mirrored here on the Federation of American Scientists website), somebody remembered, Oh, we're pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war over these exact same devices being built by the Iranians and North Koreans; perhaps we might not ought to show them pictures of similar Iraqi components of mass destruction, or they might learn a thing or two they didn't already know before...
So, the CIA pulled the Rosebud files and photos off its site, but not before everybody on the Internet had already made a copy-- including SciScoop; check 'em out below. We'll let you know whether our log files show downloads into Iran or North Korea before the FBI makes us take our copies off the SciScoop server.
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The pg notes in brackets are from the site's author. The claims of Janklow being a rapist are heavily disputed, but his role as an NDN hating racist willing to bend or break the law to go after AIM is well documented.
http://www.geocities.com/standingdeer1/peltier.htm"AIM countered Janklow's offensive when organizational officer Douglas Durham "discovered" the old Rosebud files. AIM leader Dennis Banks secured the filing of charges and brought the case before Rosebud tribal judge Mario Gonzales. Durham, meanwhile, had located Jancita Eagle Deer in Iowa, where she had resided since dropping out of school and leaving the reservation.
[pg note: Neither Matthiessen nor anyone else ever asked me about this; I'm the one who investigated the Jancita matter. Jancita bore an illegitimate son to Janklow, Janklow arranged his adoption by a white Iowa family. In 1989, the boy--who, despite his dark skin and hair facially resembles pictures of the young Janklow--repudiated his rapist-biological father and expressed the wish to be an Indian.]
Durham was able to persuade Eagle Deer to return to Rosebud to testify at the upcoming trial. Janklow refused to enter tribal jurisdiction to answer the charges. Gonzales then issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of rape and obstruction of justice. Durham and Eagle Deer apparently became lovers. (In any event she became her traveling companion.) [pg note: it would be more appropriate to say Durham served as her pimp, with Jancita in forced servitude to him.]. Janklow won his election bid on November 2.
In his new capacity as Attorney General, Janklow intensified his campaign against AIM, focusing his most lethal attentions upon Dennis Banks (who had showcased the charges) rather than upon Durham (who had brought them up and steadily pursued them). "The only way to deal with Dennis Banks is with a bullet between the eyes.&Quot Regardless of his political stance, Janklow is a trained attorney possessed with the usual legalistic logic. His omission of Durham from his personal "hit list" particularly given Durham's relationship to Jancita Eagle Deer (the one witness who could link him concretely to the rape charge), seemed odd at the time. It was soon to seem less so.
It was during the January, 1975 AIM occupation of the Alexian Brothers Abbey in Wisconsin that it came out that Durham was a paid ($1,000 per month cash) FBI informant. [pg: Well, AIM knew it them, I drove him away from the Shawano Motel where he was doing press relations and meeting with local vigilante groups, but it wasn't publicly revealed until the following March.] As head of AIM Security, Durham had been privy to many of the private defense team meetings during the so-called "Wounded Knee Leadership" trials of Banks, Means, and other AIM leaders, despite prosecution assurances--provoked by direct questions from the trial judge--that the defense team had not been infiltrated by government agents.
Although Banks and Means were acquitted at this trial, it remains true that no effort has ever been made to bring the prosecutors or responsible FBI officials to court on what amounted to flagrant perjury and contempt of court (as well as obviously attempting to deliberately cause miscarriages of justice).
[pg note: A few days after the conclusion of the St. Paul trial, the Justice Department gave prosecutors Hurd and Gienapp outstanding achievement awards in fact.]
Meanwhile, Durham essentially dropped out of sight--with Jancita in tow. [pg: No. He sent her to South Dakota to mingle where he no longer could.] In March, 1975, Eagle Deer was found dead alongside a road in central Nebraska. While the state police report listed cause of death as being "hit and run" even their autopsy report indicated she had been beaten sometime prior to having been run over.
[pg note: This is entirely wrong. Jancita was struck while walking uncertainly in the center of the road by a 17-year-old son of a local wealthy farmer. I interviewed the coroner, state police and others on this matter, both as a followup on Durham and in support of a lawsuit brought by Jancita's mother-in-law on behalf of her 4-year-old daughter. Coroner told me she might have been beaten or flung from a fast-moving car--I had established Durham picked her up earlier that day in South Dakota, driving his father's old blue Chevvy--but it was presumed she was drunk. No blood alcohol was done on her. Local efforts actually were bent toward protecting the 2 drunken farm boys whose car had struck her. They reported the accident from a nearby farmhouse. Hit and run wasn't involved, the only real question is whether she jumped or was pushed from the moving car driven by Durham. The insurance claim was unsuccessful in joining Durham to the cause of action.]
Durham was never questioned in the matter of his companion's death.
[pg note: Not true: I questioned him as extensively as I dared to in May of 1975, before he took off to Dallas, Texas, where he is living now, and continuing to work for other agencies of the U.S. government--the FBI were never his only employers.]
Durham was called as the sole witness before a House Internal Security Subcommittee investigating AIM in the summer of 1975. There he provided "evidence" that AIM was a "terrorist" organization, then went on a lecture tour for the John Birch Society during the winter of '75-'76.
[pg note: His tour had an odd itinerary--around towns by every major Indian reservation in the U.S. Durham's talk identified AIM as &communist sponsored" as well as terrorist. Durham also masterminded local incidents such as the shooting of AIM member Jerry Roy and the burning of AIM's files at the White Earth reservation, while speaking to John Birchers at Bemidji.]
Janklow, freed of the spectre of Eagle Deer's possible testimony against him, proceeded to secure a conviction of Dennis Banks--before an all-white western South Dakota jury--on "riot" charges stemming from a police assault on AIM in Custer, SD in January, 1973. Faced with a prison sentence in Janklow's tender care, Banks went underground. When he surfaced again, it was in California, where the circumstances surrounding his case were deemed odorous enough to warrant Governor Jerry Brown's granting of sanctuary from extradition to South Dakota.
As Matthiessen makes abundantly clear in his epic sifting of the facts, it is against the backdrop of such circumstances that the case of Leonard Peltier--indeed of AIM itself--must be understood and assessed."
