larTa_ae Berkeley t6 Albribl 1974 6:30 p.m.. news

Announcer: [after recapping latest developments on 3LA bank robbery and Oakland-Berkeley police raid on a Black 'Anther headquarters in Oakland] A representative of the Cttizens Research and Investightions Committee based in charged today that nolice action against the Panthers is at least in part a response to allegations by cam and the Panther newspaper that there are connections between one of the founders of the jymbionese Liberation /Low and law enforcement agencies and offithials. The man making these charges is Donald ed, of CaiC: Freed (voice): In the lig of what is happening in California we have to prematurely release the following information: gonald .Avid- IDeFreeze, known as Cinque, the general of the aymbionese Liberation Army, is a long time police agent, for the Criminal Conspiracy Section of the Los Angeles Police apartment, the special, intelligence unit organized by then District Attorney avelle J. Younger. Evelle J. Younger, as attorney general of California, maintained his hold over the Criminal Conspiracy Section, and was a - continued to follow the progress lagxlmakxtiaxamdximxtatk both outside and in jail of his former agenct, Donald rAVi'l ' e!reeze. The attack on the Mack Panther Party today, the timing of which reveals that the fear of the Adult Authority and the attorney general's office of the state of California, and the governor of California,. the fear that the police connections -- law enforcement connections 9f : onald ''avid DeFreeze will now emerge in the fast developing events. Je have from officialp sources a- everything I have said comes from official sources,mx including the fact that the file of nonald alvio DeFreeze is now missing from .;acramento, and together with the file of the two men called the ateiner (phon) brothers, former members of the cultural nationalists Usl Organiz- ation,U:1 OrganizatiOn, that escaped from prison within the last month -- the files for thama these three men are now under lock and key in the watch commander's safe of the Los Angeles Police Department's. intelligence division. Thos files are missing and are illegally now being hidden and suppressed in the watch commander's safe of the Los Angeles Police Department intelligence division -- that domes from official police sources to the Citizens Research and Investigations Committee. The obstruction of justice that is clear here, on the part of attorney general Younger, is -- was a clear tin-off that the Panthers and others would now be set up to blame for the SLA. The reason that there has been no statement from Younger or Meagan during all these weeks is that they watched, with apprehension the activities of their agent. There will be more information tomorrow. This is all that can be given now and given hastily. I repeat, they are all official jour Announce0: We asked Freed if he could substantiate any of his charges that Donald DeFreeze, or Cinque, has worked as a police agent. ''reed. (voice): The state of New Jersey attempted to extradite Donald -'. De7reeze from California in 1967, 68, and 69 and t970. The state of California refused to extradite leFreeze to New Jersey for the following reasonst : He was an important penetration agent for the criminal conspiracy section under Evelle 'ounger in Los Angeles. Two, the charge he was.ranted on in Wew Jersey would have taken him permanently out of circulation. The charges were: kidnaping, and attempted homicide. Therefore, the presence of oonald DeFreeze on the streets of California, in the Vacaville and prison system of California, and finally 2 in the affair involving Patricia Hearst and the assassination of Dr. Foster in Oakland, all these events relate to velle Younger's intervention in being responsible for the state of California refusing to extradite a man identified by one of younger's assistants -- we have the documentation on this -- stating that this man was a homicidal maniac and would kill a number of people. beyond that, Younger kept this man working because of the hysterical need felt by law enforcment for agents in the black community. Therernr, the man who was charged with kidnaping and murder in l'ew Jersey, was protected by California and its chief law enforcement official, Evelle J. Younger, and therefore they bear responsibility for what has happened in the Hearst affair, in the roster affair, in the bank robbery, and in whatever violence may he yet to come. 11ad it not been for the active intervention of Younger, then the state of California would automatically have given up a man with a long prison record, a long record of violence .and mental instability to the state of Jersey. Announcer: That was Donald Free4, speaking for the Citizens `research and Investigation Committee of Los Angeles. State Attorney ..eneral lounger could not be reached today for comment on these allegations. jdwl6apr74----

HW: This came in the same day you wrote your brief note of 4/16/74 about a brief conversation with Freed, apparently in a car. We've seen nothing further on this. If he tried, he apparently was unable to interest California locals in his story about Younger preventing New Jersey from extraditing De Freeze.

jdw23/apr/74 SLA 10: Profiles of Consuming Anger By Leroy F. Aarons Weahlagton iroel Staff WrLter BERKELEY, Calif.—Already the signs have r blossomed here, Tike omi- nous harbingers of summer: "Viva Cin- que," "Viva SLA," "Cinque Lives." Across the bay in Golden Gate Park a rock group calling itself Earthquake sings an ode to : Some of you got a fine limousine; Some of you got a good social scene— But now, you're sitting in the middle of madness . . "The middle of madness" is just 53 miles but a light-year away from the fast-growing farm town of Santa Rosa. There, between a new shopping cen- ter and a quickie hamburger stand, the Presbyterian Church of the Roses tries to maintain its dignity. Inside it is packed; this is the day of the memorial service JOT. . It is a strangely bloodless service. There are a few young people of Nancy's age, but most are middle-aged and older—many wondefing, perhaps, what have they done to our children? It passes understanding. Today, the meticulous minister intones, "Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death .. ." Seven years ago Nancy Ling, daughter of a well-to- do furniture merchant, worshiped at this church, Seven weeks ago, calling herself Fahizah ("one who is victorious"), she was saying, on tape: ''... All who choose to fight to the death are dying to live." One week ago, auto- matic weapon in hand, she gasped vainly for life as police - bullets ripped through her lungs and spinal. cord. The search for the remnants of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the fa- natic group that kidnaped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst last Feb. 4, is almost over. But the deeper search will go on—the quest for meaning. FLOM. the 1966-67 Dos Pueblon High Yearbook What combination of events, what Pat Soltysik at a California high school basketball game in 196'7. See PROFILES, A20, Col. 1 where west of their own value system. To this environment—a hub of "free- THE WASHINGTON POST lance radicals" in the words of a local Tuesday, May 28, 1974 editor, where "displaced people find it --- A 20 easy to live," where sexual cross-cou- pling is by now almost commonplace, where the guru and the gun runner live in opposition, where the most 10• fanciful of ideas and possibilities are • encouraged and tolerated—to this place came the SLA 10. They had already traveled, most of them, the continuum from peace- .'.Profiles- of marching to militancy. They had _watched the Vietnam war wind down to a stalemate, and with it the energy 6f-the Movement. But, where others Their Rage could move from cosmic dreams of change to the reality of daily life, they PROFILES, From Al could not control their growing rage. It took an escaped black prisoner, :little-understood motivations conspired Donald DeFreeze, to channel it and to ;,to move 10 individuals—most of them serve as the catalyst precipitating 'from conventional small-town settings these white revolutionaries toward a kidnaping, murder, and ulti- common destiny. mately, perhaps, suicide? r At last, they found fulfilment: To , It is a question that must haunt them, death was far more meaningful .many parents who until now believed tban inaction. that their children's restlessness had Here are their stories. limits beyond which rational humans 'would not venture. NANCY LING PERRY The answers may never be fully She was a tiny creature, Nancy Ling. , kriown. Six of the SLA are dead; three po more than 4-foot 11 inches. Later, ,—including, apparently, Patricia When it was reported that she was Hearst—are fugitives, and two are in 'ine a topless blackjack dealer, her ex- Olson. mother-in-law would protest, "If you In the past week, staff writers and had seen her, you wouldn't have said Special correspondents for The Wash- plat. She was a very small girl, no ington Post have sought to assemble breasts, very flat-chested." ;dome pieces of the puzzle through in- k She grew up in Santa Rosa in the terviews in the home towns, among the ;,'S0s, not far from a main drag where ,families,' relatives, and friends of SLA ,teen-alters still tool their cars up and Pioldiers." ;back on Friday nights in a scene right .-They found, not unexpectedly, that ;out of "American Graffiti." Ai many cases the stereotypes did not But her world was centered in Mont- J #1t. True, most of the SLA troops grew lomery Village, an affluent subdivi- -up in the suburbs and towns of white Aion, where her furniture-dealer fa- America. But they were not consist- ther, Hal, kept close watch on the fam- ently upper middle class. There were lly of two boys and one girl. In school, is many individual differences as there he was perceived as a quiet type, not were individuals. tPa leader, nothing spectacular. The common thread, perhaps, was That was deceptive. Despite her stint anger, a burning rage against a system as a junior high school cheerleader which they became convinced, was con- .and her apparent approval of her fami- genitally antagonistic to significant ly's vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964, change. It was a consuming anger, one 'obe had an independent streak. that could not be assuaged by drugs Later, her parents would recall, (which two of them relied on heavily), :I"She was always asking questions and or by turning inward, or by taking up ;..iseeking answers . . . She was impetu- the smaller causes and limited goals Puns and impatient, and thus often frus- that filled the late-60s void for so "trated because she seldom found the many of their peers. olutions she felt were needed." It was an anger heightened, and fi- James D. Johnson, her high school nally crystalized to action, by the in- igovernment teacher, remembered that tense contradictions surrounding the Pier curiosity was punctuated by a will- destiny of blacks, particularly the pngness to experiment. "We once got struggle within the prisons. From their rinto the issue of psychology and gov- Berkeley perch just miles from San rernment. She contacted' a psychiatrist Quentin and Vacaville prisons they and had a couple of sessions with him could take part in that struggle with a ..just to find out what it was all about." sense of immersion in a firestorm. ';,,' Nine years after her graduation, Fueling their anger was the milieu ,.Nancy wrote in an SLA letter: "When of Berkeley-Oakland itself, an environ- was in high school . . . I witnessed ment so richly diverse and picaresque, itthe first military coup against we the so alien to the common soil of the na- people ... accomplished by assassinat- tion that to the great mass of Ameri- cans it remains another country, some- Ong the then president Jam nenneay . his life. It opened mm to A/lark. Lenin, o • I asked (my teachers) to tell me the Mao, Eldridge Cleaver, Malcolm X. ...meaning of (it all) . . . The answer to Early this month Little told the 11 my questions then was either Si- Phoenix, an underground paper in San ence or a reply filled with confusion Francisco, "I was way behind and 1and lies." started catching up, going to marches, ra In 1966 she. moved to the University rallies . . . in the spring getting right- California at Berkeley, and began eously angry about Kent State, Jack- sthe restless search that carried her son State. When I went home that ,:into uncharted territory. She dropped summer a long-haired, pissed-off radi- siin and out of school, toying with var- cal — my parents and friends didn't oiled career goals, experimenting with know what to think." "drugs. (James Johnson saw her once. In the summer of 1971, he drifted to "stoned, deeply into it. You name the Berkeley, in time to experience, close ;drug and she- went through it.") at hand, the impact of the death of ti In 1967 she married a black musi- George Jackson, killed while allegedly cian, Gilbert Perry, and, her older trying to escape from San Quentin. "I :brother, Gary, recalls, became exposed studied Debray, Che, Carlos Mari- ft"to the experience of being black and ghella—urban guerrilla warfare . . It :oppressed and poor ... It angered her. was becoming obvious that the New "She felt not only that it shouldn't Left was floundering." HI be that way, but not for another min- By now, the long-haired and mus- tached Little, ivti ue • " 24, settled in East Oak- The anger festered through the land, a semi-ghetto where politics tend 1,1 event of the late 1960s, notably an inci- to be more working-class, hard-core al- 10 dent in People's Park, when she saw a ienated radical than Berkeley's. He .1 bystander killed by a police bullet. joined the prison-reform movement to "There was a fire burning in her," said "search out, the revolutionaries, politi- cal prisoners and prisoners of war, and see what their thoughts were." Mingling in the gun-oriented radical Gary, a graduate mathematics student collectives of his new environment, he at Berkeley. "She couldn't reconcile all met people of like mind—Joe Remiro, the contradictions. She wasn't happy, a Vietnam vet; Emily and Bill Harris; she was so keenly aware of the mis- and , who became his clos- ery." est friend. He also met Angela At- A year ago, her up-and-down mar- wood, the beautiful would-be actress riage ended. from Indiana, and Nancy Ling Perry in Last summer, she bagan visiting time having an affair with each of the black prisoners. "I have close ties with women. our incarcerated brothers and sisters," And, in Vacaville prison where he she said later. She became romanti- and his friends were cultivating black cally involved with Russell Little, an- prison relationships through the Black other white prison-reform activist. In Culture Association, he befriended an the fall, she began severing her ties inmate named Donald DeFreeze, a with friends. She suddenly cut off five-to-lifer who was up for his part In from drugs, quit her job at an orange- a with the police in a Los An- juice stand in Berkeley, and disap- geles bank. peared. In March, 1973, DeFreeze escaped On Nov. 6 , a black and disappeared into the friendly school administrator in Oakland, was white radical mileu of the East Bay. shot dead because, the SLA said later, Little continued to visit the prisons, it considered him a repressive figure developing the vision he was later to describe to the Phoenix: Urban guer- in the school system. rilla warfare is a feasible and success- Five days later Nancy Ling Perry ful respons,. to the repression here in showed up at her ex-mother-in-law's the USA. I believe that urban guerrilla house to wish her a happy birthday. warfare is and will spread to every ma- In December she wrote her parents jor city in the United States ..." for the last time: "I wish love and On Nov. 6, Marcus Foster was killed, happiness to everyone. Stay well and his body riddled with bullets later well informed. I love you. Nancy." matched to guns found in the SLA Less than a month later she emerged hideout in Los Angeles. Six died .in as Fahizah, theorist-soldier of the SLA. that hideout, but Russell Little, arrest- ed Jan. 10 and charged with the Foster RUSSELL LITTLE slaying, is a survivor. He grew up in a duplex in a govern- He was playing gin with Joe Remiro ment housing project and later in a In prison when news of the death of working-class subdivision in PensacOla. his comrades came. Ha laid down his The son of a mechanic at the Naval cards, cried, then resumed the game. Air Station there, he was raised In the segregated South, a white boy oblivi- JOSEPH REMIRO ous to the civil-rights movement, and Joe Remiro didn't cry at the news, went to the University of Folrida to "Joe was a political heavy," says some- study engineering. But, in 1969, he one who knew him in the Oakland radi- took a course in philosophy, taught by cal -scene. "I think his theory stunk, a young Marxist, that was to change a very real kind of smile. He didn't and he needed a lot more practice, but laugh much, he was more of a smiler, he came across heavy Joe c!, . When I look back, Angela (Atwood) manded that respect be given him." and Willie didn't have the kind of sec- He was brought up in , tarian, condescending politics, like Joe. a product of Catholic schools. "I wasn't He wasn't a heavy revvy." a pacifist," he told the Phoenix. "I Wolfe was the product of a privi- was a stoned reactionary. The Catho- leged, upper-middle-class home in Al- lics trained me right, boy. They taught lentown, Pa., a fact he never seemed able to live down. He was looking for a life of a little deprivation," recalled me to hate Commies, you know, kill Michael Carreras, a black Puerto Ri- Commies for Christ." can with whom Willie lived during a year in New York—'When you've had At is, Joe signed up with the Army it easy, maybe you feel guilty because for Vietnam and served two hitches. you haven't been able to experience As he tells it, he became a pacifist the life in the raw." day he left. "I'd seen enough people Wolfe is remembered by his step- killed trying to be nice guys to realize mother, Sharon, as "an angry young that I had to be a terrible m--r if man." After high school, he traveled I was going to get home. We were such considerably, worked at odd jobs, In a racist army . • . We'd go to the 1970 he spent nine months in Europe, whorehouses in the city, we'd beat up seeing a lot of poverty, "traveling the whores." around on 10 cents a day and seeing Coming home, in January, 1969, he how people were living, comparing it was haunted by the memory of it. "At to our affluence," she says. first .. . I felt guilty and I started He came home disenchanted, tried to do a lot of acid and go back in time to convince his brother and sisters I wasn't sane .. It was over a year (from three different marriages by his before I could go outside my house father, Dr. L. S. Wolfe, an anesthesi- without being completely drugged out ologist) that poverty was a virtue. of my head Roxanna, his older sister, recalls: Once back on his feet, he took part ' "Willie would complain, all you peo- in peace marches. He joined Vietnam ple ever do is sit around and drink and Veterans against the war, and then booze and smoke cigarettes and have a Venceremos, a heavily radiral organi- ' good time. You flaunt your money and zation in the bay area. But they fell you live high. Your income is outra- geous—all you need to live on is $3,000 short of his increasing militancy, and a year.' " he moved on. He read books like Bra- zilian terrorist Carlos Marighella's Increasingly, his rhetoric took a "Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerril- Maoist tinge, although friends remem- ber that his knowledge of political la." causes was limited. ' He worked as a mechanic, divorced He went to Berkeley in 1971, got in- his wife and had relationships with terested in the prisons, joined the Va several women, including Angela caville Black Culture Association, and Atwood (who was also involved with fell in with the radical leftist East Russell Little). "Joe needs a lot of Oakland group. He urged his father to love, he needs a lot of attention, and a lobby against severe tranquilizer drugs lot of freedom," commented a woman he said were being administered to friend. prisoners against their will, and Dr. At the end of October, 1973, he went Wolfe remembers being able to do underground, along with Little, Willie some good. and a few other breakaways. Wolfe In October, 1973, Dr. Wolfe visited There was a convulsive, final meeting his son in Oakland. At the time Willie of his radical circle in late October, in was living with Joe Remiro. The elder which Remiro broke with several Wolfe recalls seeing plenty of evidence friends who opposed immediate revolu- of militancy, but no guns, no talk of tionary action. Three weeks later, Fos- violence, ter was slain. The SLA surfaced two Two months later, Willie came home days later, claiming responsibility for for Christmas and announced he was the shooting. going to Sweden to get married. His Remiro was arrested with Little on family got the impression he was run- Jan, 10 and charged in the murder. ning away from something. On Jan. 11, On May 2, two weeks before his com- the day after the arrest of Remiro and panions died, he told the Phoenix. "This period .. is the most dangerous period for a revolutionary . .. a period Little, Willie received three long-dis- of making fatal mistakes and getting tance collect telephone calls, said he lot of people killed . ..But it's a ver: was going to New York and disap- necessary period . peared. "Hey, look, man, the SLA ain' nothing man. The revolution is wha:'.: On Valentines Day his mother re- ceived a card from him. He was not counts." heard from again until he turned up in WILLIAM (WILLIE) WOLFE the ashes in the house on East 54th As a fellow radical in Oakland put i Street, Los Angeles. He had died of as. Willie Wolfe "bad a magnificent smite phyxiation. He was 22. ing an SLA "safe" house elsewhere in EMILY and WILLIAM HARRIS Oakland with guns, ammunition, sleep- They met at the University of Indi- ing bags and revolutionary books. Mrs. ana. He was a Marine veteran, slender, Bunnell left on Jan. 7. Three days 5-foot-6-inches tall with long, black later, Remiro and Little were nabbed curly hair and "a little boy look," a for- in the Foster killing, and the Harrises mer landlady recalls. He had grown up disappeared, leaving coffee half-pre- in Carmel, Ind., a small town north of pared in their kitchen. Indianapolis, the son of a building sup- On Jan. 30 Emily wrote her parents plies salesman who died in 1966. saying, "I am in love with a beautiful His mother, Betty Bunnell, now re- black man who's conveyed to me the married, emphasized how "typically torture of being black in this coun- middle-class and mid-American" the family was, "William would have never "Bill and I have changed our rela- thought of arguing with his dad." tionship . . so that it no longer con- "Throughout high school, Bill re- fines us and I am enjoying relation- mained politically unaware," his ships with other men." mother said. In the Marines, he spent Five days later, Patricia Hearst was eight months in Vietnam. In letters kidnapped. Now, nearly 15 weeks after home, he expressed growing disillu- that, the situation has changed. Patri- sionment with this country's involve- cia and the Harrises, now compatriots, ment in the war. are fugitives together. Out of the service, Harris joined the 1967 march on the Pentagon and took ANGELA DE ANGELIS ATWOOD part in demonstrations at the 1968 She was an unlikely revolutionary. Democratic National Convention. He An Oakland friend says, "Angela was distressed by the police action and was like a goddess. She was not gor- frustrated by the ineffectiveness of geous. but she was far better looking peaceful protest. than the pictures I've seen of her. Back at the University of Indiana, he There was a certain presence about rented a trailer, plastered it with pos- her, like in Dylan's 'Just Like a ters of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, Woman.' Like a naughty little girl." and took up studies as a theater major. She grew up in a modest New Jersey There, he dated a popular sorority co- suburb of Patterson, the daughter of a ed named Emily Schwartz. Teamsters union official. Her goal was Emily came from the well-to-do sub- to be an actress. She told a friend of urb of Clarendon Hall, outside Chi- how she had dreamed about approach- cago. Her father is a consulting engi- ;rig theater and seeing her name in neer and a member of the village lights. board. Pretty and popular, she was Her friends called her Angel. At the also bright — a straight-A student. She University of Indiana she studied act- was studying for a degree in English , ing, became friendly with Bill and Em- when she met and married Bill in 1971. ily Harris. A former employer recalls, They are remembered as a loving "Angel was her nickname, but it fitted couple with close tes to their families.. They wrote and communicated often. In May, 1972, when Bill received his her personality, too. She was an ex- master's degree, the couple moved to California, and settled in Oakland. tremely warm, sensitive person, per- There things changed swiftly. haps overly so." Emily became involved with the She met her husband, Gary Atwood, women's movement. She and Bill while playing Perdida in a college pro- plunged into the prison reform effort. duction of "Winter's Tale." Their May, Barbara Shoup, a childhood friend, re- 1971, wedding reception on a farm was members getting letters from Emily describing "how horrified they were like a revel. "The band quasi-played by conditions in the institutions," and and quasi-drank, people ran around how Emily was frustrated because, as naked ..." she said in one letter "There's nothing When they left for California at the really you can do within the frame- end of that summer, they' ad what one work of society.' " friend described as an "Easy Rider" Emily, worked as a typist at the Uni- outlook toward life. versity of California at Berkeley, and A year later, Gary was back in Indi- Bill worked for the post office. ana. They had split up. Angela was Emily took a course in self-defense heavily into the women's movement. and became involved with Vencere- She turned to Joe Remiro. "She wasn't politically sophisticated," said the Oak- mos, the now-defunct Maoist group. In January, Bill's mother came for a visit, land friend. "She had just broken out found their Oakland apartment "cute" of a depression about her husband. It but saw nothing unusual. was only after a couple of months that she really realized that the One report has it, however, thilt dur- marriage ing this period, Bill Harris was stock- was over. And, it was like she needed to be in love, and Joe needed to be in .,love, and they were in love." Together, they drifted toward ex- tremism. For Angela, it might have been emotional, or it might have been for Patricia Soltysik, a nanusome u ni- the drama that appealed to her. Thea- versity of California dropout who lived ter at last; real live theater. in the same apartment building on She died in the Friday, May 17 Channing Way. During their affair, shootout, at age 25. `II can't envision Camilla wrote her a poem and refer- Angel firing a machine gun out the red to, her as Mizmoon. "I will cradle window at those policemen," said a you in my woman hips./Kiss you with friend in Indiana. my woman lips/Fold you to my heart and sing/sister woman/you are a joy Gary Atwood learned about it late to me." Sunday morning from a neighbor, in Bloomington, after Angela's charred The affair waned, but the friendship body was identified. He cried out, ran lingered. Mizmoon (she legally out his door and down the street. The changed her name) was the strong one. next night he was back . on his door- Camilla was the "buoyant, bribbly, cre- step, According to Bob Rodenkirk of ative spirit," as described by Miz- the Indiana Daily Student, seeking moon's brother. She was absorbed in what he termed "the dawn of an age of poetry and literature and art (she ped- compassion and tact." dled her work sucessfully at art fairs). She took a job as a gardener, hym,:s ing her college-trained qualifications Her father remembers: "One day she to work in a manual, nonprofessional was reading. She loved to read so field. much. She was in another part of the She became involved with the Na- house and she was reading 'Lord of tional Organization for Women, whose the Flies.' She came to the part where former chairwoman, Karen McDonald Simon, one of the characters died. I remembers: "I liked her. An earthy, could hear her crying from the other side of the house," Berkeley friends remember: "She wore combat fatigues, green, or work sensible person who didn't seem all clothes, overalls, short blond hair, that radical. And she had a good sense thick granny glasses. She had a low, of humor. One time when we were deep voice. She wore hiking boots. I demonstrating at a park board meet- thought of Pat (Soltysik) and Camilla ing, she showed up in her workclothes as people motivated by love, not hate. Life kind of people, not death kind of carrying a chain saw—and looked people." damn threatening. It was hilarious." A friend from the early years in Soon after that, Camilla was fired Minnesota: "She shuddered when she from her job. She 'complained around saw my father's hunting rifle." that time of a kidney infection, a dis- ease that had taken the And, on April 15, she carried a gun lives of her into the Hibernia Bank with Patty brother and sister. A second brother Hearst and other SLA members, held died of a mysterious ailment. "Perhaps up the bank and helped make off with their deaths may have caused her to $10,960. lose some regard for the value of her Even more than , hers own life," her father theorized later. will be one of the enduring puzzles. We will never know. On Feb, 21, 17 She grew up in a Minnesota plains days after Patricia Hearst was kid- town, the daughter of a Lutheran min- naped, Camilla Hall disappeared from ister. In those days she believed in her Berkeley apartment, taking only eventual worldwide acceptance of the her beloved Siamese cat. On May 17 Christian religion. She was a pacifist Camilla's body was found among the who, a friend remembered, "abhorred ruins of the house on East 54th Street. war and its tools that cause death and Next to her lay the skeleton of a cat. destruction." MIZMOON (born PATRICL4) SOL- She traveled with her missionary fa- TYSIK ther, the Rev. George Hall, to Africa She may have been the brightest and South America. '"She seemed up- one. At home, in the middle-class tract- set to see all the squalor and the pov- house subdivision of Goleta, Calif., 10 erty," the friend remembers. "She was miles north of Santa Barbara, they re- angered that we weren't more actively member her as a hard worker with a pacifist on the war issue. She wanted will to achieve, well organized, a tough me to speak out more on social issues." competitor. '4,Sginae kids are • cut out She went to the University of Minne- like that," said Steve Sullivan, a re• sota, and graduated, with a degree in porter who used to car pool Patricia to sociology. There began the unfolding 4-H meetings. "You can see at that age of her preference for women. By some that they're going to get out there and reports she became an avowed lesbian. get what they can for themselves." .. She took a job briefly as a social She was one of seven children, the worker in Duluth, and in late 1970 daughter of Louis Soltysik, a pharma- moved to Berkeley. cist. Her mother, Annette, was born in There she established an attachment , Belgium. She and her husband were . divorced around the time Patricia a senior in high school in 1968. was At Dos Pueblos High School, they re- the SLA. To the world, it was Field Marshal Cinque who was put forward as the leader and the inspiration of the SLA. Was he the leader? Or was it Nancy Ling Perry, the alleged theoretician? Or a combination of the strong white women? Or was it, rather, decision by consensus, faithful to the concept of the name they chose—Symbionese- which they understood to mean an in- terdependent union of individuals with different backgrounds but unified goals?

These things remain shaded, lost in the debris on East 54th Street. The ex- traordinary thing about most of the. SLA band, once their anonymity is peeled away, is how ordinary they were. Nancy Ling Perry, the dimintitive angry young woman who found • a cause in Berkeley-Oakland with Rus- sell Little and his friends; Little, the southern boy who found in the prisons of California a rich, heady potion from which to make revolution; Willie I Wolfe, his friend from affluent begin-I nings, who found in the black prison; cause the answer to his yearnings for identity; Joe Remiro, the Vietnam vet- eran whose anger and impatience gave, drive to the group's grim adventure;' Bill and , the well-to-do couple from Indiana, late arrivals in mid-1972 who found common cause with their new radical friends. And, the others: Angela Atwood, who yearned to be an actress but whose romantic entanglements with Little and Remiro carried her to a higher drama; Mizmoon Soltysik, the brilliant student whose growing stri- dency took full flower when Donald DeFreeze walked into her life; and Camilla Hall, the animal-loving paci- fist, perhaps carried along by her asso- ciation with Mizmoon. Together, by accident of time and place, they produced a fusion whose ef- fects are still undetermined. For, in the eyes of like-minded peo- ple, the SLA did not fail. Indeed, it is viewed in some places as a spectacular success. Already new tapes. new organ- izations, new "armies" are emerging, eager to follow SLA's example. The fiery death of the predecessors, to most a waste and tragedy, to °Liters is an example. Many people fear that spreading terrorism may be the grim legacy of that strange band known as the Symbionese Liberation Army, Contributing to this report were Washington Post staff writer Austin Scott and Washington Post special cor- respondents Robert Joffee, Ken Dozes deli, Joel Weisman and Kathleen S.

member Patricia with a mixture tit Ul• belief and pain. She was what high school teachers dream about—an hon- ors student, a leader, treasurer of the student senate, president of the Usher- ettes services organization. For all that, there was something err simmering underneath that emerged PROFILES, From A20 in her writing. In a senior-year essay, she wrote: On May 17, in Los Angeles, the trail "Often today's vitamin-packed, ended. Mizmoon died on her 24th house-trained and censured youth have birthday. a completely bleak, if not pessimistic DONALD DAVID DeFREEZE attitude. They flow through our insti- tutions studying what's forced in front Cinque had always declared that . . . he would sooner die then be taken. of them and commenting on how the ;and world would most certainly become a he enjoined upon his comrades ',to take his knife and avenge his death Pompei . . . But many come to realize .-that they had better die the opaque position they are in and in self-de- strive to clarify it . .. The day of God's :lease than, be hung . . „ command of disillusion will come. But From an account of the 1539 slave tOrlsinir until it does, men can live to their ful- on the slave-ship Amistad. lest only by observing an optimistic at- DeFreeze would become the keeper titude. The pessimist will live only the :•1;f the myth. His role in the unfolding life of a fugitive." .tlf the Symbionese Liberation Army re- mains shrouded in mystery. She moved on to Berkeley, where she saw People's Park, the constant • Nancy Ling Perry once described trashing—turmoil on campus, Cambo- 1iim as "a prophet" and compared him dia, Kent State, the Soledad Brothers to George Jackson, the Soledad drama. brother whose writings and example, and whose death at the hands of Her response was anger grown to guards in the courtyard at San Quen- fury. "Hers was not an evolution," her tin, have made him one of the mythic older brother Fred recalls. "It was a heroes of the Left. giant leap. Berkeley is a vortex. It con- sumes people. When the war ended There are parallels in the two lives. there were few places to go. She took 'Both were children of working-class up the women's struggle:She was gen- black ghettos (DeFreeze in ). tle, but took on a strident voice. It was gloth struggled through difficult rela- hard to put the two together. Alonships with their fathers, both took to street crime early, both, ultimately "I tried to interject a perspective," were sentenced to potential lifetime he remembered painfully. "I tried to terms in California prisons after hold- show her that Berkeley wears its blin- up attempts in Los Angeles. ders, that Berkeley isn't the hub of the But unlike Jackson, there is nothing universe, not even the hub of Califor- The original Cinque, a slave. nia . . . Neither of us were very good to indicate that Donald DeFreeze was listeners." an original thinker. All there is from the pre-prison era are letters pleading least, appeared to have been focused Amid the growing stridency, there for clemency, written to judges. They were the gentle moments. A friend re- on leadership struggles and a program show a raw intelligence, a gift for per- DeFreeze devised to phase black in- members the Thanksgiving dinner in suasion, a shrewdness and deviousness. 1971 when Pat, now legally Mizmoon, mates back into family and society. arrived with Camilla. But there is nothing in the pre-prison In 1972 and 1973 the Oakland radical period to indicate a political conscious- groups—Russ Little, Willie Wolfe and "There were three turkeys and about '. mess. 40 people there. They, Pat and Cam- others—got involved in the BCA. The DeFreeze moved from city to city, question remains: Did DeFreeze radi- illa, were holding hands and that's ',getting himself arrested frequently for when they publicly wanted everyone to aclize them, or was he himself re- petty crimes, often involving posses- cruited for the unfolding terrorist vi- know. It was almost like an announce- sion of guns and/or bombs. There are sion of the white radicals? ment, as if somebody were to walk in strong indications that, in the Los An- At the end of 1972, he was transfer- and announce they were going to be geles days in the late '60s, he informed married next year." red to minimum security at Soledad for the police in order to stay on the Prison. Rumor has it that he might The Soltysik family accepted the re- 'streets. have earned that change by serving as lationship, and the two lovers occasion- He finally went to prison in 1970, af- a "snitch" in Vacaville. In any case, ally visited Goleta together. But the - -ter trying to cash a check he allegedly DeFreeze wheedled his way to a posi- communication with home began to "I had stolen from a woman's purse a few tion from which he was able to walk dwindle. The romance with Camilla - days before. It was a bumbling effort off to freedom in March, 19'73, shortly ended, followed by a brief affair with a "that ended in a shootout. A clumsy pat- --, after his parole request had been man. tern shows up in DeFreeze's criminal turned down. In the spring of 1973, escaped pris- history. Official psychological reports He disappeared into the Berkeley- oner Donald DeFreeze sought shelter -:.;.indicate he was psychotic and danger- Oakland complex, somehow made the in Mizmoon's apartment. From there, - ous, but up to the time he went to link with Mizmoon, holed up there, the history is spotty. Presumably, De- , prison he had never killed anyone. and with his white radical friends Freeze linked Mizmoon and Camilla to •The prison experience—he was as- hatched the plan that was to electrify the Little-Remiro group in Oakland 'I 'signed to the California Medical Facil- the nation and the world a few months , ity at Vacaville—remains part of the later. Around Christmas Mizmoon came ..s.7-mystery. DeFreeze did not have a rep- home for the last time. She talked In prison, he had taken the name about shooting some pictures to illus- utation as being one of the prison radi- Cinque, after the leader of the 1839 trate a book of poetry, possibly Camil- --1'‘eals. His involvement with the Black slave revolt, and it was as Cinque that la's. The next the family knew of her Culture Association, on the surface at he became the symbol and talisman of she was a kidnaper, a bank robber, a fugitive. See PROFILES, A21, Col. 1 .7. FALSE LEAD—Police from Los Angeles and two other van — they stopped near Santa Barbara in search for Patricia counties train rifles on young couple in a mustard•and•white Hearst and Bill and Emily Harris of the SLA. At right, one United Press Internisttonal of the van's occupants sits in police car. The couple was released after police said they were not the SLA fugitives.