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meu. FE -30? ‘REV. 14-27-70} 2 . e od DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION @ Bote of treonseription__ 4/17/74 He has been furnished with six cassette tapes of communications from the SLA received on various dates in February, March, and April, 1974. These tapes were received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) _in San Francisco, California. He has reviewed the messages with the help of @ qualified fellow psychiatrist and he has completed his review and analysis. He advised as follows: There are three possibilities as to PATRIcIs HEARST's involvement in her kidnapping and related , = acts: One, she was in on it from the beginning and had some prior knowledge of her kidnapping. Two, at the tine she was kidnapped and up to the present time, she is operating under toiai compulsion; that is, the "gun at the head" theory. In this context, she is not acting voluntariiy. Three, at some point in time after the kidnapping, . members of the SLA were able to achieve sincere conversion Ss in her mind so that she became voluntary in subsequent acts. The third category is commonly knowm as "brainwashing". ay .::: subscribe to the theory that at the presen me she is under almost total compulsion in recording the last tape and what ever subsequent acts have become known since then. She is operating out of fear of bodily harm. — a <<: : that there is a slight tendency on her pa vo have accepted some degree of brainwashing, perhaps ten or fifteen percent at the most. This brain- washing stems from a fear of death that would occur if a a si i 261 ations aor canctlusions of the FBE fis the gragerty cf the FAC and is locned to your agente: Ihig dotumen' contoins neither tacemmand W aed costenh ace not te be Jbiributed outside your ogenczy. Pa ee a ee MP eee OOF ar ned oe