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Hd fs. fam. ‘* ‘rx ~ , «8 a - . @ ee San@bancisco | 25 May 1974. ge Shgss ° Ved © — The Honorable William Saxbea, : .) Fo United States Attorney General, + 22 Department of Justice, j EE Constitution Avenue at 9th, Sore ay Washington, D.C. 20530 oo SS, Sir: I have admired you as a man of uncommon common sense and candor, so may I ask you respectfully, sir, ina vernacular you are not unfamiliar with: "What the hell is heppeninc to the FBI?" " While it is not ifmited to these, I refer to the in- credible aftermath of the shoot-out.with the SLA in Los Angeles and the anateurish investication of the ~ -- hide-out gutted by fire and the confusion, contradictio s, Statements, counterstatements; and the entire bewilderinre “and tragic Keystone PoRs comedy of errors surrounding the so-called Patricia Hearst kidnapping. . ~ - ~ —a eee, Less than 48 hours after the gun battle and fire, _ authorities appeared on television to antiounce the site had been checked for clues {during which,. incidentally, another corpse happened to be discovered in the basement, and I suspect all the Les Angeles Dodgers could have perished unnoticed down there as’ you look on the conduct - of the investization in retrospect). . I was astonished to learn, at the same time, the ruins had been opened to sight-seers who had already pawed throush the debris looking for a finger, a scrap of skull, or a bloody bone as a grisly souvenir. (I have known of untrained, unsophisticated county sheriffs and constables who possessed enough investicative intellisence to seal ofr ‘a house or an area where a crime or police business was involved until every inch of the scene was gone over with a fine-toothed comb), ~- - I was flabbergasted when s of the souvenir hunters _ ‘.showed up at a local {Vv station (Channel 7) with the ‘of the SLA victims, and others brought in readily . sadentifiable pictures of SLA members in battle dress and armed ~- photographs which have been printed in the ~~ papers and in which Miss Hearst has been posit a AEN identified by @ spokesman for the Los Angeles P oe Department. qarne When asked why they brought this evidence to th OW station instead of the FBI, all said they felt they would receive om. o> i PED REG UNA