American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story about Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)
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,American Indian Mafiaexposes 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.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.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!