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, , Clainiag t “4 he attack had been nade ti Qo Liberation * Army (SLA). - | . | The’ letter, ueted 11/6/73, purported to ecnme frov. the western Regional Youth a of the SLA. It stated that Foster and Blackburn were marked as tareets by a “Court of the People" which found then “guilty of supporting and taking part in crimes committed against : the children and the life of the people.” Specifically, the letter complained of a school identity card system, of cooperation among police, probation officers and school officials, and of the planned creation of a school system police unit. Issues which have been loudly vocalized by @ radical Oakland organization, the Coalition to Save Our Schools (CSOS) which includes former members of the Venceremos Organization (VO). Note: The Venceremos Organization (VO), was a splinter group of the Revolutionary Union (RU) and the most violent of -the Maoist communist groups operating in the United States from . : ' 1971 until it began to disintegrate in the spring of 1973, : a process that appeared complete by September. The VO - openly called for the overthrow of the U.S. government and advocated the use of weapons for "self-defense" against * “represéion." Several seubers or former weubers of VO have been indicted or convicted for pirticipation in the escape of convict Ronald Beaty from Chino Prison in 1972. A guard was killed in that ambush-escape. It is considered of some significance that SLA appears to have emerged in August ,1973, and that another self-styled Bay area terrorist group, the August 7th.Guerrilla Movement also developed at the time that Bay area members of VO ceased - their overt operations. , S a a4 ri = rer, The SLA letter of 11/6/73 was mailed in an envelope bearing an 8¢ Revolutionary War Bicentennial commemorative stamp with the slogaa “Rise the Spirit of Independence." As a cover to its three pages of : text was a photocopied drawing of a coiled seven-headed cobra,similar to the part-serpent, part-human "naga" of Hindu and Buddhist mythology. i os (A similar design appeared on the 1967 record album ty Jimi Sendrix, Axis: Bole as Love.)