nterests of the empire and of his new religion to put aside boyhood affections and cultivate the view that Yueh was indeed a Judas The once mystenous and iconoclastic Preacher of Arrakis, whom we now know to have been Muad'Dib, was quoted as saying, "Every religion needs its Judas just as badly as it needs its saints "3 That the pnests of Aha's time regarded Yueh as the Atreides betrayer is clear Dur ing their systematic inquisitions into the he retical views of their religious and political rivals, the Ixians, Aka s priesthood condemned a number of outspoken scholars and historians to death One of these Bronso of Ix was accused of many traitorous 'crimes' The priesthood accused Bronso of maintaining that Yueh was merely an innocent \ictim of a classic feudal economic and political rivalry Bronso saw Yueh as of no possible value in military terms to either the Harkonnens or the Atreides He noted that Yueh's chief concerns during his final years were for the medical welfare of the Atreides and their subjects on Caladan He also was largely occupied by concern for the safety of his wife Wanna whom the Harkonnens had taken as a political prisoner approximate!} seven years before Yueh s death Bronso maintained, however, that Yueh knew enough of Harkonnen ways to have realized that Wanna could not have survned more than a few months of her captivity 4 As evidence Bronso notes that Yueh went through a prolonged spiritual and emotional depression YUEH 506 He submitted to extended psycho-counseling sessions, after which he personally conducted a memorial service for Wanna and finally gneved her passing All this took place at the Abrades family estate on Catalan three years before the family received the news that it would be leaving Caladan for Done The political significance of the claims made by Bronso would not have been lost on Alia's priesthood, which was dogmatically committed to the view that Yueh s motive for betraying Duke Leto was to win Wanna's freedom from the Harkonnens Man's opinion was similar, but clearly more sophisticated, as one might expect from a near-adept of the Bene Gessent Irulan maintained that Yueh's motive was not to seek Wanna's freedom, but finally to put to rest all of his private doubts about her death Bronso maintained until his death that Yueh was innocent The priesthood, apparently acting under instructions from Alia, silenced Bronso, claiming he was part of an Ixian plot to undermine the empire They then released the only item of hard but inconclusive evidence that this complex study has been able to discover It is a fragment of a Guild transport bill of passage that shows a party of 'four Sardaukatr and one female of the Bene ' '* This party of five traveled to Caladan about four months before Yueh and the others m the Atreides household left for Dune, spending only one evening on Caladan On that specific date Yueh is known to have been away from the family estate, traveling on a medical inspection