The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVI, No. 41-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, July 8, 1976 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Kelley baCks FBI actions CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - FBI Di- rector Clarence Kelley, testifying yester- day in the trial of two men accused of killing FBI agents on the Pine Ridge In- dian Reservation, defended his agency's actions in dealing with Indians. Asked why helicopters, other aircraft and battlefield gear are supplied to agents at the South Dakota reservation, Kelley said the equipment is needed to protect the agents' lives. "IS LIFE ON the reservation more dangerous than in other parts of the country?" defense counsel William Kunstler asked. "More dangerous perhaps to FBI agents," Kelley replied. "There have been two agents slain there." Kunstler responded, "Many native Americans have been slain there too." KELLEY SAID agents use helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes to patrol the reservation. Kunstler said they were also issued M16 automatic weapons, bul- let proof vests and army type clothing. Kelley arrived in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday night after U. S. District Judge Edward McManus ordered him to ex- plain why he should not be held in con- tempt for failing to answer a subpoena to testify Tuesday. The contempt is- sue did not come up in open court, how- ever. Two members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) - Robert Robideau, 29, Portland, Ore., and Darelle Butler, 34, Rogue River, Ore. - are charged with killing agents Jack Coler and Ron- ald Williams, both 28, on June 26, 1975, at Pine Ridge. THE FBI claims the agents were am- bushed when they went to the reserva- tion, located near Oglala, S.D., to serve arrest warrants. Kelley was the first of several promi- nent persons expected to testify at the trial. However, plans for testimony by actor Marlon Brando, an Indian rights advocate, were canceled yesterday when the government was sustained on an ob- jection that anything he said would be hearsay. Kelley said the FBI conducted a thor- ough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the killing of the FBI agents. "I DON'T know if there was any" in- vestigation on the death of Joseph Stuntz of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, he said in ans- wer to a question by Kunstler. Stuntz was the Indian killed in a sub- sequent gun battle between FBI agents and several persons in a house a few hours after the FBI agents were killed. Kelley testified earlier that the FBI had no evidence to support the so-called "dog soldier" memo contending that AIM planned to kill the governor of South Dakota and blow up the state Capitol at Pierre. "We're in the business, the profession, the occupation, of preventing violence," Kelly said as justification for the memo. AP Photo MARLON BRANDO hurries on his way to the Federal District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he is observing the trial of AIM members Darelle Butler and Robert Robideau. The defendants are accused of slaying two FBI agents last summer on the Pine Ridge, S.D., Indian Reservation. POSSIBLE PENSION FUND ABUSE Teamsters boss questioned WASHINGTON (P) - Labor Depart- ment investigators interrogated Team- sters President Frank Fitzsimmons about the union's Central States pension fund yesterday amid reports of ques- tionable loan practices including possible fraud and embezzlement. Fitzsimmons was questioned under subpoena from a joint Labor-Justice De- partment task force. The subpoena was issued after he refused a request to give a deposition voluntarily. Neither he nor any of the Labor investigators would comment about the interrogation. FIVE OTHER trustees of the fund have been subpoenaed to appear in the next several days. They include William Presser of Cleveland, a vice president of the union who has been convicted in the Past of illegally accepting payments to the union from employers, obstructing justice and illegally destroying union records. The 68-year-old chief of the nation's biggest union emerged without comment after two hours of morning questioning. He was accompanied by three men who repeatedly refused to identify them- selves. Department officials said they were his lawyers. Asked by a reporter what had gone on during the session, one of the three replied: "No comment." FITZSIMMONS and the trio met with, the investigators again after lunch for several more hours of questioning. During the union's national convention last month in Las Vegas, Nev., Fitz- simmons defended the fund and com- plained of harassment. He said the fund "has been whipped by adverse publicity over the past two decades and has been investigated by every Dick Tracy in the land." As for himself, Fitzsimmons declared: "I have been harassed personally as far as grand juries, indictments and what- not . . . I'm in receipt now of a subpoena to appear in Washington, D.C., as a few, others sitting on this rostrum are." SOURCES SAY the investigators, head- ed by Lawrence Lippe, have uncovered questionable transactions by trustees of the $1.4 billion fund, which covers 400,000 of the union's 2 million members. The sources said evidence of possible fraud and embezzlement in two fund trans- actions has been turned over to the Justice Department. The fund's investments include an esti- mated $200 million in loans to Hotel and gambling operations in Las Vegas. Trustees of the fund include Fitzsim- mons, seven other union officials and eight representatives of employers of Teamster members. Under the law, the Labor Department could seek their re- moval. The probe has been under way since the fall.