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rn ae er peer Ne Pf EE IK A - ~ { ¢ oo V 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphio, Pennsylvania 19102 + Phone (215) 2 ts ee a f ood WALLACE T, COMET. - * « Chairman LOUIS W. SCHNEIDER fies bo Dae, June 2, 1976 _ Executive Secretary _ mo baa] tu 7 QROM en pas ~ The Honorable Edward H. Levi Te me ane An So . __ Attorney General . ve Tye - Washington, D..€: 20530 ewe TT ‘Dear Mr. Attorney General: - oa OS The-hnerican. Friends Service Committee has been informed that the Be send Government, , through 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 Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota Jast February. According to re orts » the American Friends Service Committee has independently received, she was 7 | first declared dead of exposure but a later autopsy at the request of her if family determined she had died of gunshot wounds. In addition, it way ; , . . reported that the hands were cut off her. dead body and sent to the FB Fogle -~- +fingerprint verification,-a procedure which can only be characterizeg a ; STuesoMes | and one which raises grave questions about the procedure sed. _ The Gnadian 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: __°°7s, af ar President Gerald R. Ford _ Secretary of State Kissinger SL i FBI Director Clarence Kelley. REC-94 100 AV FF F ga f Your personal interest in advancing the hand¥ tng of the request seamscalled. wks for and we would greatly appreciate your effort to do so. , 1h ry 40 ™ . Sincerely yours, 4 JUL 16 O76 AMY « — ——- — dental ete OF INN, a ine \ LWS:at ‘JUN 101976 okt | JU 7 1976 7h OK ot | | we 51”