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ame ew res NTE EI - . « ‘ v 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 * Phone (215} 2: ers . .f soa WAUACE T, COMET: — ‘ ™ . Chormon 3 LOUIS W. SCHNEIDER Executive Secretory June 2, 1976 . Wie - Bye ~ °- The Honorable Edward H. Levi SS 4g Attorney General cet otyye Washington, D..C. 20530 fee TF STDs ~ “Dear Mr. Attorney Generals: - “oe oN A The-hnerican an Friends Service Committee has been informed that the we tani Government, > through 4 its Embassy-in’ WaShington, has approached the U.S. Sta Department to request an urgent investigation into the handting of the cas of a Canadian citizen, Anna Mae Aquash, whose body was found on the Pine f+ Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota Tast February. According to re orts * the American Friends Service Committee has independently received, she was 4 first declared dead of exposure but a later autopsy at the request of her / family determined she had died of gunshot wounds. In addition, it way» (~~ . . .veported that the hands were cut off her. dead body and sent to the FB fog - fingerprint verification,-a procedure which can only be characterized a ; gruesome, | and one which raises grave questions about the procedure ysed. hadian Friends “Service Committee,. our sister Quaker organizafion in <> €anada, has asked us to support Canadian Quaker initiatives in sedking a __ thorough U.S. investigation of the case and appropriate subsequent action, =" which might well include compensation to the. family for mistreatment of the deceased.’ -- We earnestly support the Canadian Quaker initiative and urge your earliest _ effective response to the request transmitted through the Canadian Government. ~~ We are sending identical Tetters to: ars MT TT President Gerald R. Ford - - Secretary of State Kissinger SL } io REC, FBI Director Clarence Kelley. 4 . : = ~ 100M3S9 pil Your personal interest in advancing the handling of the request seams_called 4, for and we would greatly appreciate your effort to do so. a 7a 4a ~ . Sincerely yours, & Jun 16 a8 ie "| RECEIVED : LWS:at ‘JUN 101978 JUN '7 «1976 oe [yl 2,910 ra | 4 yun FED. BU, OF my