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Pi to trace Patiy wasimissed By Larry Hatfield . oan « "The FBI apparently missed” a “fantastic” chance lo trace and possibly rescue Patricia Hearst from her kid- napers only 25 days after she was kidnaped, varinus _ Soutces revealed yesterday. . “They had a near-perfect chance and they Ilew it.” said one top Joca} investigator who. like other local authori- Ges involved in the case, was not told the circumstances of the possible rescue until well after it had been missed. poe oe ee mee 8. ey eee * 4 top Oukland police invesiigator in the case called the missed chance ‘fantastic’ and still another investiga- tor in the ease said angrily: . “This is typical of the way this case ‘has heen bungled . . from the start. The vaunted investigative resources of the . : FBI have been as effective as a cub scout troupe.” This source, like other local authorities in the case, was critical of the FBI’s reluctance to share information. The link that might have led police to Miss Hearst. who . ‘then had not adopted the revolutionary name ‘Tania’ and . foined her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army. was bank right across the street from the FBI's Berkeley af- icA, 7 At least two of the SLA kidnapers had accounts in the . i Central Bank at 2187 Shattuck Ave. One of them, Camilla . , _ Hali. withdrew her entire account even after the FBI was - _ : . !aware that she and Nancy Ling Perry both had money in _ , ~ ! ‘the bank Jocated a block from the University of California , me ' campus where Miss Hearst was a student. - cA pula phrdy - Bane eT _ marrage wnat es |