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ae le ee ee ete eet effort to break a ma ssive pig encirclement. It had become clear | | aay Liberation Fro: . The Malcolm X Combat U'‘t of the Symbionese Liberation Ar ‘Left the San Francisco @, area in a successful hrovgh intelligence reports from other SLA elements and from thd cople-in the community that the pigs were preparing to frer us Qn the San Francisco Peninsula. We knew that there was al great risk in setting up a base of operations in San Francisco which is a natural defile, a trap. The area is very small surrounded py water and with limited choices for breaking a major encirclement. However we accepted this potentially Gangerous condition because we saw the importance of making solid contacts jn the oppressed communities of the city. We considered oursclves to be an underground unit, however, the majority of our units! members moved about freely and in the - five wouths we were there we made many good contacts. we decided to move our base of operations to Southern California concentrating on the greater Los Angeles area an with its vast oppressed communities and more favorable terrain. In April the War Council dispatched an Intelligence and Reconnaissance Team to Los Angeles. Its mission; to make some additional contacts and survey the area. Based on the favorable results of this mission and. the concentration of pig activity in the San Francisco Bay area, our unit slipped out of San Francisco and into Los Angeles on Hay Day 1974. On Thursday, Nay 16, 1974, three members of the Malcolm X Combat Unit of the