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———? —~ have caught at least three members of the SlA—and maybe there wouldn't have cven been a Hearst kidnaping. “AS if Was, as soon as the news of the arrest was broadcast, ‘Mes. DeVoto’ was Seon feaing the house after setting it on fire. The fire deparimen! got there in @ hurty and put out the tire, and than the cthoritls got thete and found WECTOBA and all kinds of SLA stuf” The next day. Maritya got there. In- credibly, the house was unsealed and unguardéd—neighborhioud kids caning off such souvenirs as bayonets and a target pistol. Eitiming the unines sd hach coor, Marilyn found a stare of rengerce no! even touched by Ihe poke recs prolescional make-up equine ger ots. ets fui! Of nonhippie, micdic-cli:s” tot: in3, MINS and a manuncint ebesst tha SLA’s aims in which, cach tite tne words “mes and women” were yoo! foto: had oassed thom cut ant wotlen jn "“Wwonien and men.” “From ait this," Marilyn said, “I Geduced that whoever these poagte “wore, Iney uced raiddie-class disguises and were living among us, no? as hip- pies. The make-up, all dark, indscaled that thay wanted tocir whites to appeas to be blacks, and the manuscript changes told me this outfit was run by #omENn—Neavy-women’s-lib-lype worm- “Harlyn juined the i @ evidence over to the Oakland police, went oan the! air with her hypotheses, and then set out to identify the "Mrs. DeVoio" who had renied the house. From references | given to the real-estate agent, she | tracked down an authentic Mrs. DeVoto in the East; when Marilyn described to her the 4-foot-11-inch, dark-haired woman who had fled the burning house, she said, "That sounds like Nancy Ling. | went to school with her. She must have used my name." From her street-peopie contacts in near-by Berkeley, Marilyn then learned that a Nancy Ling. a former ultracon- servative, Bafry Goldwater supporter in 1964, had been fiving with @ black! musician named Gilbert Perry. She found Perry, jearned that he and Miss Ling had been married, taped an in- terview with him about her background, Jsmcwenf on the ait with it, “<———. + t | Macilyn thus identified ihe_ firs} 4 the slrange women within the SA. ‘few days later, an Jan. 47, Nancy Ling Perry admitted her SLA involvement in a jengthy "Letier lo the People’ de- livered to tadio slation KPFA. The com- munique set forth the SLA’s "death to the fascist insect’ philosophy and aiso directly answered Iwo points made by Marilyn in her news broadcasts. As a sardonic joke, the envelope in which the communique was delivered bore Marilyn's name and Station KOED as the return address. Then, on Feb. 4, Patly Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment. Three days falter, @ communique fram the SLA, accompanied by one of Patty’s credit cards, announced thal she had j been taken as a “prisoner af war.’ Marilyn spent the weekend contacling all of her hundreds of sources in ihe San Francisco slums, in the streeis around the University of California in Berkeley, and in all the area’s faw-en- forcement agencies—asking for any information about the kidnaping. «On Moaoday. Feb. t1, thecigiarmas} tion came to her. Her phone rang al 6:10 A.M. and an unidentified voice said, “There are two black escaped convicts in the SLA." The caller mentioned two names—Wheeler, and what sounded like Diffuse’ —and then hung up. All that day, Marilyn checked Cali- fornia's prisons. Finally, a1 Soledad, the warden toid her that the preceding March a black man named Donald DeFreeze had been iaken outside the ‘main compound of Soledad to repair a boiler—and had simply walked away. She asked him ii DeFreeze had had a nickname in prison. The warden said, “Yes. He called himself Cinque.” At Vacaville Prison Marilyn learned of the similar escape of a convicl there named Thero Wheeler in August 1973. In Berkeley she learned from her street- people about "a black dude, calis him- self Cinque (Sin-cue)} and brags ‘aboul being an escaped convict, trying to hook up with radical groups, but he was talking about such violence that we thought he was an agent of the police teving {Oo stir things up.” end Ce {A the next SLA communique. the voice of "General Field Marshal Cin- ' que” was heard for the firs) time. Marilyn already knew that he was De- Freeze, and ihal Wheeler had probably aided him in the kidnaping. She phoned Randolph Hearst and toid him that she was going to identity DeFreeze and Wheeler on the air. He begged her not to, and asked her instead ta tel! what she knew to an FBI agent stationed with him, She did; Hearst then gave her a specia! untisted number so she Could keep in fouch—the only reporter to be s0 favored during the enlire ordeal. Two days later, Hears! phoned her : and told her to go ahead with her story. “You've got it straight," he said. She broadcas! her findings on KOED's evening news of Feb. 14, and “before i finished,’ she says, “our switchboard ; was swamped with Calis. The story ~> iwas picked up ali over THe 7Umbed Suess over the world.” Then came a series of threats on Marii;n's fife-—-and the Feb. 18 bombo- ing altempl. Guarded hy the potice, gon Jel and her younger sen Chris, _ 23, Mariya tesumed fer digging. An- i Other gnoryrncus phone Up anc a cacan 18 voler-reoisination lists enaniod her | I i to identify Patricia Soltysik, the femt's brain of tha SLA, knawn as “Mizmorn } &S she wee called in 2 love poem wril- | ten te fer by hei leshiae feu, C z i ! \ iiatita Ha, deughicr of a Lutheran ministes i end atzo a modmer of the SLA. Marnyn naxt found 2 man wha hed pean a cek mate of GeFresza ara, Wheeltr. Ho toh} heron the are | his theory of now the enite SLA plaa | hae been connoctes in orison vy De- Freeze, Woaeoies and sadica! visnors from the outside. {Ainoo7 the us iors Marites talon iGantiie ds one whe youth y same Wibie Walle.) Nev con bad they | discussed the Matcus Fuster mercer} and the Heafst kicnaping, out possidi« kidaapir ys of other victims as well-— | such as Vice President Gerald Ford's | daghter—and a massive sait breaks at Vacoeta, | el ——--—— ;