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a @ ©@ FS! Date: 2/28/74 —— ee ye iy a hl ge Transmit the following in [Type tw plaintend or code) Via ALRTEL (Priority} t ‘t oe ee ee ee ee ee eee ere rene Loe tue ee _ TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (7-15200) 7 ied AATIN: GID & INTD) . ‘A f FROM: iF AC, SAN FRANCISCO (7-855) (P) | Cy >) ‘5 SUBJECT: HEARNAP ~~ 0O: “SAN FRANCISCO The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) is believed to have been in existence since August, 1973. On 11/6/73, MARCUS FOSTER, a black Superintendent of Oakland, Cali- ” fernta, Fublic Schools, was assassinated and his assistant . ~ seriously wounded by gunfire. The following day, SLA OR Communique Number 1 was mailed from San Francisco claiming \. credit for the assassination by the use of cyanide bullets. At the time of the mailing of the Communique, no one outside of the Oakland Police Department had been aware that the bullets killing FOSTER had indeed contained cyanide. On ~ 1/10/74, RICHARD LITTLE and JOSEPH. REM[TRO, SLA members, were arrested near Concord, California, after a shootout . with police and were charged with FOSTER's murder, t ~ —_/ PATRICIA CAMPBELL HEARST, the daughter of RANDOLPH HEARST, was abducted from a Berkeley, California, apartment on the evening of 2/4/74. By cassettes and fe an hh, : Piet ye ol i” af ” _ ; . - co “Hy Bureau (RM) (Enc. 72) geet NS J - +: J. 02 “7 Pe Chicago (RM) ae _ en Cleveland (RM) a . . ndianapolis (RM oO 3 sos Angeles (EM). ee 19 KAR i9 i974 ¢ copy TEED IN /S7 “) * ; tere no oa hens t— UN?! ‘. Sacramento (RM) = .San Diego (RM) FA ¥ yy? ~; San Francisco KS (18 ; ™“ Approve Sent - Mey - Spe yi Agent in Charge U.S.Goverr.ont Printing Oftice: wre pets hy ag _Bak : wee fs 314 —