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O'Connell to Gebhardt Memorandum Re: HEARNAP . father. Weinberg was alerted to notify the FBI in the event Jack Scott should contact him. There is no "negotiating" underway. As for Weinstein, the UPI release was from San Francisco where he was attending a rally and our New York Office is endeavoring to locate and interview him through his home office in New York. 4, UPI dated 3/15/75 reported: ". .. ‘The Chicago Tribune’ said that Miss Hearst was in Las Vegas 3 weeks ago and had been later sighted in Palm Springs, California. The newspaper said the FBI believes she is now back in the San Francisco Bay area. There is no official comment from the FBI.” . . We have no indication that Patricia Hearst was in Las Vegas or Palm Springs, California, within the past few weeks (Los Angeles Office observed that this release may be a spinoff from the 5/17/74 SLA shootout when KQED reporter Marilyn Baker advised SAC Bates, San Francisco, one of her sources wanted $10,000 front money for furnishing Hearnap fugitive in- formation. Baker's source advised her the fugitives were at a trailer court in Palm Springs, California). Los Angeles Office investigated this information and it proved false. There has been no recent “sighting” of Patricia Hearst in that area according to the Los Angeles Office. 5. UPI dated 3/17/75 reported: "“'The San Francisco Examiner’ said the fugitive trail is ‘bound inextricably‘ to a Berkeley, California, radical group which may have been the prototype for the SLA. The newspaper said the three connected with Scott through the radical group soon after the Los Angeles shootout last May that left six other SLA members dead." PH 4389-PCI advised 2/3/75 that Jack Scott stated his initial contacts were made with Patricia Hearst at Berkeley, California, during the last week of June, 1974. (See J. E. Q' Connell to Gebhardt memorandum dated 2/11/75, attached) There is no indication a previous contact ensued nor a radical group which may be the "prototype for the SLA” exists in the Berkeley area. The latter statement appears to be unfounded. 6. UPI dated 3/16/75 reported: "a report from 'Time' Magazine Sunday said Miss Hearst and SLA fugitives Bill and Emily Harris hid out in a Las Vegas motel operated by Jack ‘Scott's parents and in a New York City apartment. They then moved to. - an apartment on New York's West 92nd Street where Jack Scott and his wife joined them at the behest of an unidentified "West Coast Radical Leader" and from there sought a retreat at the ol - CONTINUED - OVER on) wee. rr ee ee ae ew re eee