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RE: GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE During 1974, an organization called "Convention Movement" headed by MARK EDWIN COOK, a prisoner on work release =a from the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Washington, = 3 emerged in Seattle. This group formed to protest treatment of ne prisoners in Washington, .and promoted a prisoner's union, | offering the "Convention Movement" members as mediators between 4 the state government and state prisoners, in disputes over { oe Adult Corrections Authority at Olympia, to make demands related 3 to the "Convention Movement" program. COOK was also a leader in 4 the highly militant "Black Panther" chapter formed inside the - walls of the WSP at Walla Walla. ? About Summer of 1974, MARK COOK became an active volunteer with a program known as “The Family Group", an organization formed by a former inmate at WSP to provide a program of self-help to increase wages for prisoners at the WSP. This program lasted about seven months and was dissolved. The “Sunfighter" newspaper continued publication through 1974 and into 1975. About the Vatter part of 1975, an underground group emerged from the above semi-legitimate prison reform groups, calling itself the “George Jackson Brigade". The group, founded on a communist philosophy, was apparently dedicated to the op commission of acts of urban guerilla warfare, including acts { of violence to further the realization of the imagined ideals of the organization. Members of the George Jackson Brigade From information resulting from members who have been arrested, or from records discovered in a search of a house previously occupied by members 6f the GJB, the following persons were determined to be members of the George Jackso Brigade: vi Pan WILLIS SHERMAN, aka Karl osephi* Newland, Barry. Albert “I AGrimesy Jay ReNewmarch, PaukDavis, williapfarris, George \i /Lindsay; white,;~male, American, born August 28,1942, 5'10°-11", 170: pounds, brown hair, hazel eyes, medium build (Fugitive). Vv ‘ Z THERESE. AbN-COUREZ, aka Carel Alice-WNéwland, Katherine-E= Wilsons. white, female, American, born November--30,1952, 5'6", 120 pounds, ‘blue eyes, brown hair, usually wears glasses, slender build (Fugitive). demand for prison reform. On various occasions, COOK led loud and disorderly protest groups into the offices of the Washington State