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Pere rie ener es ' k et oh ol ME 7-998 eee nee could furnish information regarding the theft of military weapons and ammunition in Ohio. A later version was generally to the effect that the group he described was believed by him to be responsible for the HEARST kidnaping based on the fact that he had seen photographs of PATRICIA HEARST at the “headquarters” in San Francisco, but in this version he still maintained he had never seen or had any type of dealings personally with PATRICIA HEARST. A later version encompassed his actually meeting and talking with PATRICIA HEARST in San Francisco as outlined in the statement. A still later version shifted the focal point to Portland, Oregon, where he claims he believes PATRICIA HEARST is now being held. After he furnished the latest version, he stated he saw the photograph of HEARST in Portland not in San Francisco as first alleged. There were numerous significant discrepancies of individual situations which he described, No effort is being made to set forth all these discrepancies inasmuch as he has taken the position that the information in the signed statement is his final version and allegedly is the truth. Agents made every effort to give him no benefit whatever of information already known to the Agents and after he signed the statement, Agents reminded him of a statement which he had furnished to Agents in Atlanta on 1/29/74, in which he accounted for his activities 1/10-29/74, sng awhich great variance with his present statement. & soli shrugged his shoulders and stated that anything mm the Atlanta statement that was contrary to the Memphis statement was false. He stated that immediately following his arrest he did not want to furnish any information which might have revealedhis “real activities” during the period in question. : n spite of all of the information known about uttee, it is realized that he still might possess information ch might be, of value. It is recalled that in a Memphis BR case where the Memphis Office had been unable to develo sufficient information to indict a known bank robber, a furnished information which he acquired while confine of the bank robbers and as a result of talking with that bank robber he was able to repeat in great detail information -~3-