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HEARNAP — Part 21
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sa at his place of employment by
SA’ Following his extensive review of
tapes, and brorecv pes of those tapes, prepared by the
offered the
Sym!:i onese Liberation Army (SLA),
following analysis:
The ranaining SLA members have likely gone under~
ground with symprthizers to regroup and gather new members,
rather than going off by themselves to purely elude capture..
He sees them ticing in with individuals who may already have
an organization, oF individuals who have credibility. with the
new Left movement Che used the example of someone like JOAN
BAEZ, singer and omtiewar activist of the 1960's).
He feels that the next time the SLA is heard from
it will be via some urban guerrilla-type of tactic, a hit
. and run situation, in which they will attempt to show that
F "the mon" or the establishment is very vulnerable. Aa example
of this tactic weuld be the knockinr out of a power station
or destruction of a building, Random killing of Law enforce-
ment officials or the other “Meonicmies' of the SLA is viewed to.
be an unlihely tactic. They consider themselves the true
patriots, the Lost defenders of the Constitution, and they
must fight the catablishment to the death,
voli Ora, wers cenback
The rebuilding of the SLA at this point centers
around the three original inembers (WILLIAM and EMILY HARRIS
and PATR{C1iA HEARST) as symbolic leaders, with the deceased
members of the SIA as martyrs. He finds no weakness in the
remaining three members not. feeling guilty about the deaths
of the others. Since they do not fcel responsible for the
deaths of the others, any tactic of law enforcement aimed
at working on a guilt will not yield results. On the
contrary, they feel proud of the deaths. That is, they
° feel that their comrades have fallen in battle, the most
noble gesture, and they will use that as a concept and tactic
for retrenchment. In recruiting new members, they will point
to the deaths of the other SLA members as an example that
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