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© Aseac. Dir. | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memoran@im » — @ PEES ¢c E ” "TnL ~74 File han - 0°: MR. JENKINS — DATE: meee - . ' Ge rt. FROM, £-MC DERMOTT i | dhe : i ry Lotter . ‘ . , Laboratory — - Plon. & Evob. _. \ - Spec. tre, eae ar a ” . ~ Lagel Coun. Telephone Re. Director See’y oo According to the Director's routing slip 7-1-74, gies ~~ called in the absence of the Director and left a message that "I've been working on the | “QP indicated that the message relates Tribune, but after the fact.' to some articles or the FBI that the Chicago Tribune had printed. The Director inquired, 'What is this?" SAC Richard G. Held of the Chicago Office informed me earlier * \ today that the Sunday, 6-30-74, edition of the Chicago Tribune carried a NS page 1 headline, "FBI Bungles Chance to Find Patty Hearst." This article - ~ referred to the fact that SLA member Camilla Hall was known to have a b ® bank account containing $1500. The article indicated that rather than —- . “staking out" the bank the FBI had merely arranged to be notified of any. ' transactions in the account. Through an inadvertent mix-up, the bank failed to notify FBI, San Francisco, until a week after Hall withdrew the Xx funds on 3-1-74. In today's Chicago Tribune an article in effect accuses the FBI of sloppy work for having failed to locate cyanide tipped bullets a in the apartment from which Patty Hearst was kidnaped during its first Ft search of the premises. Lie. 52 00 _ 95°bS R Both articles are written by : ol of the Chicago Tribune News Service in Berkeley, California‘ ry — apeemenienee 974 ¢ With regard to the story concerning the bank account? Mb 8 1 if we had agents "staked out" at the bank we would still have to Cely.UpQRe sensu! |notitieation from a bank official that a transaction was taking place. There-. fore, the "“bungling'' was by a bank official, not by FBI, San Francisco. a t 4 aa’ ¢ ? > my ee ee fos 4 ON Oe em ey Ua! | ENCLOSURE with regard to the second story concerning the cyanide tipped bullets, the first thorough search of the apartment was conducted by the Berkeley Police Department on 2-4-74 and it was they who failed to find the bullets. FBI, San Francisco, actually located the bullets on its first | i Prveree WVatoe a search of the apartment on 2-5-74, a a } a McD: crt he XEROX 7 5 / 4,4 - Mr. Gebhardt gun 35 81 — (OVER....) fA ree A iamwmeiwe 4 ~ ae ee Lt tern Se for *,