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FD.204 (Rcv.3-3-59) UNITEL Pstates department of Jus fEDeral bureau Of investigatiOn 1 - USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota Copy to: 1 - uSa, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Report of: Office: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Date: May z3, 6 Field Office File #:9-1842 Bureau File # 9-57729 Title: UNKNOWN SUBJECT; DENNIS JAMES BANKS - VICTIM; b6 WILLIAM M. KUNSTLER - VICTIM; b7C RUSSELL CHARLES MEANS - VICTIM Character: NOILHOLXH Synopsis: On 5/23/75, AUSA JR., Minneapolis, Minnesota, ' declined prosecution of this matter.. DETAILS: Reference is made to Minneapolis report of SA. dated August 14, 1974, and Minneapolis report of SA dated November 18, 1974. On May 23. 1975, SA Minneapolis Division, and Assistant United States Attorney (AusA) JR., Minneapolis, Minnesota, discussed the prosecytive merit of the above entitled case. During this conversation, SA advised Mr. as follows: On May 17, 1974, while in United States District Court, St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Wounded Knee leadership trial of DENNIS JAMES BANKS and RUSSELL CHARLES MEANS, Attorney WILLIAM M. KuNsTLER announced in court that he had just received a letter which threatened his life.. Investigation determined that this letter was postmarked from Sioux Falls on April 26; 1974. Mr. KuNsTLER and other. defendants threatened in'this letter were uncooperative with the FBi's investigation. Extensive investigation by the FBl has failed to. develop any latent fingerprints of value on the extortion letter and no logical suspects have been developed.. It vas also pointed out to Mr. that on the morning of May 17, 1974, when Mr. KunsTLER first announced..this threat, This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is Ioaned to your agency: it and its contents arc not to bc distributed outsidc your agency. U.S.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICH1970O406-840