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GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE On 3/10/76, SHERMAN escaped from custody and was assisted in this escape by two male Negroes, identity unknown. A King County Sheriff's deputy was seriously wounded during the escape. On 3/10/76, the fourth member of the bank robbery, MARK EDWIN*GOOK, born 10/26/36, was arrested by Bureau Agents and Seattle Police Department. SHERMAN's whereabouts are currently unknown. we On 4/12/76, MEAD was found guilty on state charges of assaulting police officers. The bank robbery trial involving MEAD and COOK will take place 4/19/76. a communique from the GJB entitled "Internati 7 a Communiaue, George Jackson Brigade". In this communicue, the GJB 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 GJB. 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". SFIDEL is then further 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. EDWARD ALLEN MEAD, born 11/6/41 has made numerous statements to the local Seattle newspapers regarding his involvement and membership of the GJB. Following is a summary of these remarks: - In a newspaper article dated 3/30/76, 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". MFAD's statement, if