title: American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story about Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (Aim)
author: Joseph H. Trimbach
description: For the first time ever, an FBI Agent who was there tells the true history of the American Indian Movement (AIM). And for the first time, former Chief Agent Joseph H. Trimbach spills the beans on what really happened during those turbulent years in the early 1970s on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Trimbach's account exposes AIM's dirty little secrets unlike any other history book. In fact, <i>American Indian Mafia</i> exposes the history books! It is time to set the record straight for the benefit of historians, scholars, and all Americans who care about the truth.<P>The 1970s legacy of the Pine Ridge Reservation is haunted by the forgotten suffering of innocent victims and a falsified history found in almost every library in America. Sadly, what should have been a needed voice for Native America became a criminal enterprise on the reservation, where property was destroyed and lives were lost. A record founded in falsehoods and distortions completed the betrayal and denied the reality of lost opportunities, shattered lives, and a Movement hijacked by its leadership. Today, the perpetrators are known as "brave warriors" and "selfless activists," while many of their crimes against Indians are minimized, or not mentioned at all. <P>In this provocative narrative, former FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Trimbach chronicles the true legacy of the American Indian Movement leadership and how this small group of radicals tore a path of destruction through the Pine Ridge Reservation on their way to personal gain, fame, and fortune. "Bad things happen when good people do nothing," says Trimbach, but as his carefully compiled story demonstrates, "the truth will win out in the fullness of time." Trimbach's account is what Native Americans have waited for. Read it and reap!
zlib_text: “Everyone is alive,” I told Ben. “I can tell that much. What happened?”
  
  
  “Taken,” he said, then, “Federal agents.”
  
  
  Chills went down my spine. I had a degree in history. When the government
  moves against a segment of its own population, it is bad. Genocide bad. We
  needed the feds to protect the werewolves from the zealots in the general
  population. If the government had turned against us, the wolves would have to
  defend themselves. There was no good ending to that story.
  
  
  “Federal agents from which agency?” I asked. “Homeland Security? Cantrip?
  FBI?”
  
  
  He shook his head. He looked up at me and stared for a moment as if eye
  contact would let him sort himself out. He started to speak a couple of times.
  
  
  “They took everyone who was there?”
  
  
  “Everyone,” he said.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  [By Patricia Briggs](part0002.html)
  
  
  [About the Author](part0003.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](part0004.html)
  
  
  [Copyright](part0005.html)
  
  
  [Dedication](part0006.html)
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](part0007.html)
  
  
  