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ANGa wf VIE "Ne ond fa frme ursil ao ars ul q -_ ala 7 ‘free.” While I wish you could be a comrade, I ' don't axpect it. All I expect is that you try to MI uiderstand the changes I've gone through. I have been given a choice of t) being released in a safe area, or 2) joining the forces of the . Gm TD S y >: Synbdionese Liberation Army and fighting for ay) ©... ‘ ae | a. 2 freedom and the freedom of all oppressed people. I have chosen to stay and fight. CONVERSION or COERCION?? Based on ny first-hand know- ‘the LACS eo bun edge of Patty, I betleve that it would be virtually imposs- 19 Sy _ ible for her to have changed so radically in a mere two : months without being coerced and psychologically manipulat- iia i all -ed, Although her announcement of a new life on the tape SC OO BIN - may seen like an open confession, two voice experts who ’ have analyzed Patty's voice have concluded that high levels: te i os of stress often appear. The highest levels of stress occum Byie SUWOO Les ed when she stateds "ZI have never been forced to say any- thing on tape, nor have I been brainwashed, drugged, tor- @ nes tured..." and “as for being brainwashed, the idea is ridi- culous to the point of being beyond belief.“ This fact alone seems to indicate that Patty was probably coerced in- 21 3 E " C © il © ge 739-9431 ° “ihder oseece penta ont wecheps physical stress and pressure Patty probably became compietely disoriented and demoralized, and in effect lost her personality. Her mind kxas then free to ba manipulated by the S.L.A. I,see Patty's conversion as being basically sinilar to the conversions accomplished by the Chinese communists during and after the {949 revolution. We know from the hundreds of case histor- les of people subjected to thought refomn procedures that the methods used frequently achieve dramatic and sudden ideological conversions. . ; By subjecting the prisoner to environmental extremes KN C) 4 for hours on end, such as deafening noise, blinding light, or total darkness, the captive becomes exhausted and dis~ f oriented, His inner self becomes as confusing to hin as the environment to which he is subjected. Through these wn x HOC red OJ m1 ruc SUE el 1S) i methods and varlations of them, the prisoner is nace to C{A oO L “~* PIF = U ime Cod © Ba lose his sense of both self-control and self-identity. At ¥ the point when the prisoner seems to have been most dis- oriented from his previous identity 1s the tine when the & SF Wiig) 9,9) ‘ introduction of thought reform is usually most effective. hs In this mental condition verbal abuse toward those people Ls RAE oe € Wel if = . q with whom the captive had formerly lived -- tn Patty's case ReanWide EGE Cu fr iS r- her fiance, close {rieuds, and fanily -- can be what final- : ee ; . ly breaks the prisaner. The captive himself 1s then forced *~ +. . EXAG! the Comme nity to verbally betray whon and what is dearest to hin, baby va & It should also be mentioned that during this tine most . prisoners live in total fear, and this must have been the _ ~ . . case with Patty, ‘She was cut off from any comaunication iphone VS SAAR CARE : fron the outside world, except for what the S.L.A. told her. fata : She lived not only with the fear of being killed, but also ~“ ee Se (z (Sol : n [Xs a. BS with the fear of harm coming to her family and friends, * BO0OZG02, a, a = Vier ; - These fears alone ure enough to completely arode a person's