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. ~ was peeked uy 4 . r at. | of eenhialeu “bver' the United | Star > Alb over the wortd.” . ““; T' a came a@ seties of threats on | Mas... «: tite-and the Feb. t8 bomb- {ing .'*:opt Guarded by the police, } so. }.') and her younger son Chis, : 23, 1 ify resumed her digging. An- : oth at. -nymous phone tip and a check of - ct tagistration lusts enabled her 10... i + Patricia Soltysik, the female - brow if ise SLA, known as “Mizmoon,” as «be ..a8 calied in a love poem wnit- yien i+! + by her lesbian fover, Camilia r He ..ighter af a Lutheran minister. _ anti - 3 member of the SLA. > t.. toa next found a man who had { ber. 2 cell mate of DeFreeze and | Whe os: He told her—on the ait— his i: cy of how the entire SLA plan ha. |: % concocted in prison by De- Fre Wheeler and radical visitors tro: outside. {Among the visitors j Me. Her identilied one white youth ' ne + iphe Wolte.} Not only had they { ds: “3 the Marcus Foster murder ; anit © bearst kidnaging, bul possible ix: . 38 of other vichms as well—~ : Su - Vice President Geraid Ford's * de -and a massive jail break at In ‘ceantime, Marilyn’s son Jeft-— iwt . -‘ng-haired, looks fike @ radical, . ks undercover tor her—came j 2g wiiness who hed Wille Wolle | iy. -. -un classes held every Sunday L _ om - py Joseph. Remiro, one of the ' we ot! men atready arrested in the NM Foster murder. Remo 1s 4 iv veteran known as ‘Gi Jee," tar ‘arms expan. Jeff's source also 2 op. d several of Remjro’s students , a : an classes: Mariyg $c00n ioenk- o fie a tough her sireel contacts a) a Aginieabighibe 27° Gilt Hae- + ys, of course, Paincia Sottysik— an! ‘om had disappeared, as had WN ng Perry and Camille Hel, as }£ vitly became public. n now knew ihe enhte core of membership, and she broke ~ ite the story well ahead of everybody else on March 22. Those she identified have ‘now been named officially as having participated in the kidnapping and also in the Apr 15 Hibernia Bank robbery in which Patricia Hearst took part. For weeks, nearly every substantial clue you read or head aboul the Hearst case of the SLA came Girecily or in- Gitectly from Marilyn Baker. CSS used paris of her SLA revelations in its eve- ning newscasts. On the day of the bank robbery, ABC in New York wouldn't re- port that Pally Hearst was involved untt someone phoned Marilyn in San Fran- cisca for confirmation, TV and news- paper reporters from ali over ihe world loliowed der around—and interviewed her to find out what was going on in the case, even afier the bloody May 17 shooioul in Los Angeles. in being the first to identify “General Field Marshat Cinque” and the lesbian sisterhood that dominates ihe SLA, Marilyn was usually a week ahead o! the flaccid Jocal FB! office—and two weeks ahead of the San Francisco police, whose ineptitude has inspired comparison with the Keysione Kops. While other San Francisco TV te- porters were joshing. each other on their “happy tatk"’ newscasts, of playing catds in comlonabte press trailers while waiting for press conferences at the Hearst mansion, Marilyn Gaker was pushing through the back atleys to hind evidence. She glisiens-—like the Emmy and Peabody awards she will probably wih next year—amid the dulf and shametul torpor thal seemed to grip all journalism in the case. There were some milgating circumstances, not Ihe least of which was Randoiph Hearst's plea that jouraatists not “do anylning to endanger Patty's file." This jed to the SLAs manipulation of the media, which gave iuil play to the SLA’s rambting and sncoherent propaganda messages. Maryn admits that she and KQED were aiso manipulated for a while, bul she was the first to see that the media were being used by, as she put it on the air, “common hoadiums.”* She said biuntly, “This has been muddied into a political story when it’s nothing bul a basic mur- der-kidnaping-robbery story.” Marilyn has had many firsts in the bizarre case {including exclusive in- terviews with ex-SLA associale Chris- | topher Thompson, who was “sentenced” to death by the SLA and later hidden for severat days by Jeli! Baker}, but she is ihe first to admit thal, like any investigative reporter, she has made her share ot mistakes. “it wasied days.” she said, “having Jeff check mountain caves marked on ihe SLA maps t found in the DeVoto house. My news director Joe Russin and 1 jost $300 at a midnight drop in an Oakland parking fot: we were supposed to get an SLA tape telling us where Patty was. instead, the tape was just a recording of @ rock song--’My Baby's Oadey is a Millionaire.’ “{ have aiso had changing views of Paity Hearst. At first 1 thought she had been lorced into the bank robbery. Bul it may be that she is like Silly Pully, someone who can be moided into anything anyone wants her to ba. My sources al Berkeley have told me that at various limes she was though! to be a conservalive, a fiberal, a drug absiainer, a drug user—all according to her associanons at a gwen time. There's a tot of sex im the SLA, boln heterosexual and homosexual; perhaps in @,Cloud af contusion she has mis- faken that ior ine kind of true love that she thinks may have been missing in her famity tite and in her relationship with Sieve Weed, her tiance. i'l! never forget my conversation with Randolph’ Hearst afler the first SLA tape with Patty's voice on it, f said. ‘f've got two SONS, and i either of Ihem got into this king of woudie, he'd say some secret iting thal only | could understand.’ Mr, Hearst mumbied, *f wouldn't know TV GUNDE JUNE 8, 1974 of anyihing. We -newar had that kind of close relationship with Patty’.” On the other hand, it should be noted that Patty, in her taped messages, seemed clearly io be reading from a script prepared in advance, and if she was being forced to read them, it is rot likely that ine SLA would permit her to add any “secret things” of her own. And if she had, the SLA could easily have erased them. Also, such a Signal, if subtle enough nol to be noticed by the SLA, might also be so smafl as 10 efude her tamily. And further, if the Hearsis had noticed some small signai from Pally, hey might-very well be risking her life if they made it public. Speculation of this sort, al- though aitsactive and almost unavoid- able, is also inconclusive. As an investigative reporter of some years’ experience, f joined Marilyn an her deat for four days. More than any- thing efse, she is apparently fearless: after finding a neighbothood where merchants had said the SLA‘’s Mizmoon and Camitla Hali had made food and gasoline purchases, Marlyn went chasg- ing into hostile, commune-type houses. . We had a clandestine meeting with Christopher Thompson, who is stiit hid- ing out and stil under the SLA's death semence. tater we hac a@ secret meet- ing wih one cf Mariyn's faw-enforce- ment cantacts. She told him of Thomp- son's predictions of the SLA’s next possible aciions; he said, “For God's sake, Maniyn, be caretult’ The next day, in a newspaper in- letview, Charles Bates. the FBI agent: in: charse of the case, paid Matilyn }the ufimaie tnbute: “ft wish to God we had that broads connections.” Marilyn's only reaction to the grudg- ing COMP wwe eam thal right before her KOcD Newsroom telecast. She said, “Ths is the Hh shew in a tow where this underpaid. middle-aged Broad hasnt had the time to put on ner faise eyelashes.” | elm‘ “th — t+ ‘el ea att