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|The | 4 was only a few days efter I was bw to cover’ the kidnaping of Patty Hearst that f began hearing the fore question I“wa$ to meet hundreds of times during the next nine months: y bas the Federal Bureau of Investi- ation -been unable to find the 20-year- id publishing heiress? ; After all, the FBI has carefully nur-: the image thru the years that it jalways gets its man, and it very often does s0. But the failings of the super Sleuth ageacy have: been glaring in the earst case. Basically, the FBI is out of date anki cling in team structure. For example, pisndreds of agents were assigned to the - £ for Patty, yet only a few knew - "hat the others were doing. It was | simply a case of one hand not knowing - bat the other was deing. The inbred burecracy of the FBI also indered the investigation. As new: 7 Heads were developed early in the in- {quiry, they were being sent from San ranciseo to Washington for study. This caused unecessary delays in dis- minating the clues to agents and Po; ‘Ice on the west coast, Probably the most significant probe -fiem is that the FBI is simply not geared ito handle a politica! kidnaping. Keep in mind, the Heorst case was the first political kidnaping in this country, & ftime set in-motidn by a tiny band “f radica)-thinking revolutionaries, . ‘ne FBI didn't know how ‘to react { aad still dees nol, as is evidenced ty the fact that Patiy and her two con Panions have eluced agents for monthi. ‘sure, the FBI knows how lo handle conventional kidnapings in which greed is the’ motive. And handling bank rob- beries? Easy, since bank robbers think alike and the FBI files are filled with character portraits of those who mace Stupid mistakes and got caught. ; But the asency wasn't dealing with | greedy kidnapers or dumb bank robbers jin the Hearst case, It was dealing wilh | peonle who had studied urban puerrilis tactics thoroly and had adopied to the letter the textbooks of Latin American | terrorists, As carly as 1$7, law caforcement jofficials who were keeping a watchful ?eg'e on the activitics of Loc Latin Ame*+ ‘ean gucrrillss became fearful that some- ;orm would apply these same tactics. to ‘2 holiticat kicdiaping in Uhis countrys earst case shows J ; bat for Patty. | (Bs f ; The warning signs were there. The ' ioe Uncerground had alreacy t ken a page from the Latin American i térrorists. Since 1970, this group had P successfully planted 19 bombs against “symbols of the establishment,” The FBI should have been preparirg for a Patty Hearst type kidnaping ever i Since the Weather, people disappeared ' into the radical underground [and were | never found). Ht did not, and this Jack | ° foresight was dne reason the FEI Was always three Steps behind in iPe Te In recent years, the federal govern ment has poured millions of dollars in its fight against the Mafia, but no fed. eral funds have been made available ; for countermeasure techniques to com: { bat political terrorism. i! Yet, when was the last time you ever |} heard of the Mafia kidnaping anyone ° to convert him to the life of a gangster? | i Or when has the Mafia ever sent out communiques saying that it wanted ito estroy America? . Even FBI Directer Clarence Kelloy | acknowledges that his agency was deal- ing with an entirely unfamiliar situation : in the Hearst case. “These are people ; who do not make contact with friends, | relatives, and associates,” he said rei cenily, “They go underground,” t Unfortunately, the FBI doesn't have : the faintest idea where “underground”! The prediction {s that Patty and her - two companions, Bill] and Emily Harris, won't get caught thru any superinyesti- galive work by the FBI. Recciving a parking ticket or making some oth>: siupid mistake will more “likely lead to their capture. The patie has already been estan , shed. my oS 27-1520 _ an ol PROURCTIRE 208 phe” EI 224 A ace 2 : hy lindliegt: pane, name of Hewepayer, wily ond Binter.) - ~ F . 4 ‘SuNDAY ‘TRIBUNE CHICAGO, ILLIN | SECTION: 2. : . . a ° UL/L7/74 te: = Editioe: Author: Edttor: Title: 77-2004 “G* FINAL RONALD KOZIC WALTER SIANC Cherscrae: Clarattiestion: Subaitting Ome: CET CAGO Cl Bednsy prowess Mapttest ee ee Se Ee ee