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Vep. AU Inv. Asst. Dis.: . @ So hdmi . oe Comp. Syst. __ "Ext, Affoirs @ i * eee -" . Gen, Inv. I Missed. Charice’ to Reseag" a oa , Miss Hearst, Didn 't Watch Bank "Ube Plan. & Evol, _ Spee. Inv. “an : Knew Where Camilla Hall Had ‘Account but: Depended on | Training is . - Manager Who Failed to Quickly Signal $1; 565 Withdrawal. Legal Coun. pr eee KE] LEYi-= Tye dlederal F “Sut heth Rowley an Gitieiag Telephone Rm. t Bureau of Investigation’ missed 2\ in Berkeley refused to discuss the} Pirector See’y * chances to rescue Patricia Hearst on! . Hall bank aceount ineident, © 23,. Others involved in the Hearst- SLAY ‘ dease were not so'reticent.. Some police in the Bay Area have been resentful for months ahout the ¥ way the FBI ‘has’ conducted its in-- : March 1, only. 25.days after she’ was | : kidnaped, it has been learned... - 5. ' *Phis was a time when she still ape) ; parently was being held against her: Oe f guerrilla warfare. ‘ been led to Miss Hearst by. keeping watch on the-Berkeley bank- where "agents knew several of her’ kidna- _ pers had checking accounts. * Among the SLA members with ace . IT CS ON pw Er ka PEA Pry pack” dinar ar aia a titatatart irl, - " . ‘Hall and Nancy Ling Perry, ‘it was Jearned. ~ The FBI discovered the existence “of the bank accounts Feb. 25 in the ‘course of investigating the Feb. 4 ‘kidnaping. A-stakeout might have paid off within four days, because on . arch 1, Camilla Ha)! entered the bank, withdrew her money, “ and » Wil, It was not until early April that’ “the 20-year-old ‘newspaper ‘heiress | _ renounced her family and said she - * was joining her Symbionese Libera-- tion Army captors in a life of urban: From interviews and secret” ; government documents, it’has been: i. learned that the FBI might have’ counts in the ‘bank were Camilla’ _Seatigetion, it was Jearned. con conlend- “Mngsthet- federal agents delibesotely | ‘withheld information from them. °° “ "It would have been only logical to. put one hell of a surveillance on that” bank,” one-source close 1o the inves- | tigation told the.Chicago. Tribune.. }, . "And had the FBI shared some of- jis information on the case with oth- -er police agencies in the Bay’ Area, ‘any one of a dozen departments_ [watch have jumped at the chance to [ watch ‘that bank inside and ‘ out, , night: and day.” | Records on file show that the fed-. . eral government} subpoenaed the’ records of the Central Bank, includ- , ‘ing the names of depositors, on Feb, 25, exactly. three weeks afler ‘Miss .' « Hearst's ‘kidnaping. The. bank .rec- . ords ‘showed that Miss Hall had. j made: a 4, 500: ‘deposit, on: Reb. 18: . etal 1 At-ct toe ze: ct Caarso-h. t.¢ Qrtrwtle ppecka. / ” The Washington Post Washington StarNewa Daily News (New York} pilopeite As pee fret oe, walked out: again, records show. . ot 7; The New York Times Had“ ‘she been followed, some a H thorities belieyé Miss “ Hall, would have led agents to the nideoat The bank | ‘is not only across the street: from ithe FBI -office but also. ‘one block. from the UC Berkeley’ campus, where Miss Hearst had been- The Wall Street Journal The National Observer = The Los Angeles Times fr} "a student at ihe time of her kidnap- ing and where SLA members were? OT ' belived:to have mingled with others JU N 3 0 4974 in the.campus counterculture, © -.- Date an The FBI was known to be check-" | , where , Miss. Hearst then, ‘was being , ; ‘held. °"" | But: Instead. ‘of posting ‘agents: in i the bank, the FBI apparently ce \ “pended on a bank official to notity: ' h ing all banks. near the campus. In‘ (Ree : ‘te "the bank offi ; “addition | it is beheved that even be The bank that required “watching” on a Senta Bank. dy war » _ was the Central Bank at 2187 Shat- Be Ferry, <0, already pud-. Z i * i “licly identified as an SLA Jeader.: = tuck Ave. » Berkeley, which is across “Newspaper etortes mentioned ‘her: ee ny ERCLOSURE -/S 200 2&1 —et meee a} the street from the Berkeley office .i a of the FBI at 2150 Shattuck Ave. *. i name only a few days after the kid- The bank manager, Fred Rowley, : porte when the SLA was boasting . said in an interview that he is a wa for it. amen 18 JUL 31 1974 ‘friend of many of the federal agents |! | _aint“piey? handball with tires" eI oe