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“Mo Liberation Front. The Malcolm X Combat Unit of the Symbionese Liberation Army left the San Francisco Bay area in a successful ‘ffort to break a massive pig encirclement. It had become clear hrough intelligence reports from other SLA elements and from the people.in the community that the pigs were preparing to trap us on the San Francisco Peninsula. We knew that there was a great risk in setting up a base of operations in San Francisco which is a natural defile, a trap. The area is very small surrounded by water and with limited choices for breaking a major encirclement. However we accepted this potentially dangerous condition because we saw the importance of making solid contacts in the oppressed communities of the city. We considered ourselves to be an underground unit, however, the - majority of our units’ members moved about freely and in the five months we-were there we made many good contacts. We decided to move our base of operations to Southern California concentrating on the greater Los Angeles area an with its | vast oppressed communities and more favorable terrain. In | April the War Council dispatched an Intelligence and - Reconnaissance Team to los Angeles. Its mission; to make some additional contacts and survey the area. Based on the favorable results of this mission and the concentration of pig activity in the San Francisco Bay area, our unit slipped out of San Francisco and into Ios Angeles on May Day 1974. On Thursday, May 16, 1974, three members of the Malcolm X Combat Unit of the ear FE ee, stan, © rs Ne fe