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SE 100-33069 b> In this communique, the George Jackson ae Brigade claimed credit for the rescue of JOHN WILLIAM SHERMAN _, who had been captured during an "unsuccessful attempt to -.. .-.-- expropriate $43,000 from.the Tukwila Branch of the Pacific National Bank of Washington". The communique suggested other members of the bank robbery were members of the George Jackson ~ Brigade. Communique went on to comment on “tactical criticisms" of the unsuccessful bank robbery, the “murder of their comrade" (BRUCE RICHARD SEIDEL), and the necessity to shoot the sheriff's deputy during the rescue of SHERMAN because “he failed to cooperate as fully as possible". SEIDEL is then further - a eulogized, the Grand Jury system criticized, and the communique ‘concluded by sending “greetings and love to our comrade ED MEAD still in custody". Communique was signed “Love and Struggle, George Jackson Brigade, March 1976", and a poem follows. - In a newspaper article dated March 30, 1976, in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", a Seattle newspaper published daily, MEAD remarked to a reporter that the George Jackson Brigade is responsible for the August 5 bomb attack on FBI offices in Tacoma and the bombing August 6 of the Bureau. of Indian Affairs office in Everett. He further stated “There > are a lot of actions that were never claimed by the Brigade". ~ MEAD's statement, if true, would raise to six the number of bombings by the Brigade starting May 31, 1975, in. Olympia to the New Years Eve destruction of a City Light substation. In a newspaper article dated April 7, 1976, in the "Seattle Times“, a Seattle newspaper published daily, MEAD, at his trial remarked "What we were doing we had an : : absolute right to do in order to further political goals" in remarking on the bank robbery. MEAD described himself as a communist whose philosophy is"extracted from the teachings . of ail revolutionary leaders". MEAD~further said that "I'm going to put the issue of revolution on the adgenda. It is government that needs to be tried, not me." MEAD said he believes “That this government must be brought down, and change can't happen peacefully .. . its going to take a revolution by the masses of people". Sources acquainted with various militant. and revolutionary type activities in the Seattle area were contacted routinely during March and April, 1976, and advised they were not acquainted with the George Jackson Brigade or any of its members outside of individuals whose names are in the local newspaper as having made statements to the press. ~4-. Foe pee eee *