Austrian accuses Lubicon of using AIM tactics

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An Austrian museum curator has charged that American Indian Movement (AIM) tactics are "very much apparent" in the Lubicon Lake Olympic boycott.

He claims that "the Lubicon themselves certainly would not have had this idea" and goes even further by saying, "their advisor (Fred Lennarson) is a form AIM employee and even if he was not, this is a strategy . . . practised by AIM in the U.S.A. in the '70s."

Christian Feest, who is the curator of the Museum for Volkerdunde in Vienna, defined the AIM strategy as "looking not for compromise but confrontation to create a media event."

Lennarson says that Feest's claims are "completely untrue," adding that, "I am not now, nor have I ever been employed by AIM in the United States or any place else. Neither have I ever had any other kind of relationship with AIM."

The Lubicon advisor responded to the suggestion that the Lubicon Lake people "didn't initiate and neither understand nor control their own Olympic boycott is incredibly condescending, insulting and a gross underestimation.