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ee BO Memorandum to ur ¥. S. Miller. ae ; ae Re: SYHNBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY (SLA) oe wo EXTREMIST MATTERS position to afford overall supervision to the investigative aspects of the situation and permit the local SAC to handle matters such as those which were occupying most of the time of SAC Bates. This Z is certainly not reflective on SAC Bates. He was being continually ». _. hounded by news media representatives by telephone and frequently “°° da person when he was out of the office. I feel that any SAC in <o. & Comparable situation would have the same problems which Bates ~--- : was facing and by permitting the local SAC to devote his time to ~~ _.. . Such problems and another SAC supervising investigative matters, . -:,.., it would work to the Bureau’ Ss best interests in cases of this = ; _ magnitude. oe re ot ee oe On 2/8/74 former ‘Special. Agent Willian HL “Stapleton. sho is now Assistant Staff Director, House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS), furnished to Inspector Bowers a 14=page background paper n the SLA relating to some of its members and activities. A review f this paper by the Intelligence Division revealed six separate —_ items of apparent significance to the SLA which had not previously ~ been called to the attention of the Intelligence Division by the San Francisco Office. Accordingly, a copy of this paper had been ___......8eat to San Francisco and had been received prior to the writer's em-u-.-.8¥rival there, The HCIS paper contained information reportedly ~~ : secured from public sources, The information related to material ~ which had been found in a Sutherland Court house formerly occupied --- by one of the principal suspects in this case, Nancy Ling Perry. - j- ~ Bhe had set fire to this house on the day of the arrest of Russell Little and Joseph Remiro who had been charged with the murder of © Marcus Foster, Superintendent of the Oakland School District. The \HCIS report referred to other information seized by the Oakiand | Police Department as a result of searches of a house at 5939 Chabot . Road, Oakland, which had been one of Little's residences and certain . other addresses where persons suspected of having SLA connections BO had resided. ; ; . ore & BAO ier sf Bees ‘Upon arrival in San Francisco, the writer discussed with : -ASAC Druken the material which HCIS had secured but which apparently t the San Francisco Office did not have. Druken said that efforts [be been made to secure the material recovered by the Oakland Police [Department, but there was playing the case close to his chest as a murder case and had declined toa turn over to our San Francisco Office pertinent material. -After the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, the Oakland Police Department permittec cur Agents to photograph a material