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PREC: ROUTINE
CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED
LINE1: RAAUZYUW RUEHCAA6612 2760126-UUUU--RHEHAAX.
LINE2: ZNR UUUUU ZZH
LINE3: R 030121Z OCT 97
LINE4: FM SECSTATE WASHDC
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030121Z OCT 97
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SECSTATE WASHDC
TO: AMEMBASSY PRETORIA 7524
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SUBJ:
INFORMATION ON THE LEONARD PELTIER CASE
TEXT:
UNCLAS STATE 186612
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM, PREL, SF
SUBJECT: INFORMATION ON THE LEONARD PELTIER CASE
REF: 97 PRETORIA 9957
1. POST MAY DRAW ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT THE
LEONARD PELTIER CASE IN RESPONDING TO THE SAG REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PELTIER CASE.
DETAILS OF PELTIER CASE
2.
LEONARD PELTIER WAS CONVICTED OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN
THE SHOOTING DEATHS IN 1975 OF TWO FBI SPECIAL AGENTS,
RONALD A. WILLIAMS AND JACK R. COLER. THEY WERE AMBUSHED
AND WOUNDED AS THEY SEARCHED FOR A ROBBERY SUSPECT (NOT
PELTIER) ON THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH
DAKOTA, THEN SHOT TO DEATH AT POINT-BLANK RANGE. LATER
THAT DAY, A GUN BATTLE ENSUED BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENTS, RESPNDING TO THE FBI AGENTS' CALLS FOR HELP SENT
PRIOR TO THEIR DEATHS, AND NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE
RESERVATION. DURING THIS EXCHANGE, A NATIVE AMERICAN WAS
KILLED. PELTIER IS CURRENTLY SERVING TWO CONSECUTIVE LIFE
SENTENCES.
3.
THE LATEST REVIEW HEARING BY THE COMMISSION ON THE
PELTIER CASE TOOK PLACE IN DECEMBER 1995. THE REVIEW
HEARING EXAMINER RECOMMENDED THAT PELTIER SHOULD NOT BE
GRANTED A PAROLE. ALTHOUGH THE HEARING EXAMINER ALSO
RECOMMENDED THAT THE COMMISSION REEVALUATE PELTIER'S ROLE
IN THE MURDERS, THE COMMISSION FOUND THAT THERE WAS NO NEW
INFORMATION TO JUSTIFY ALTERING ITS EARLIER CONCLUSION THAT
PELTIER HAD PERSONALLY PARTICIPATED IN THE SLAYING OF THE
TWO AGENTS. THE COMMISSION CITED THE EXTREME GRAVITY OF
THE CASE. IN ADDITION, THE COMMISSION ORDERED A FULL
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