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(Parks Stearns) prosecuting the case actively invited perjured testi- mony :on.the part of another witness? U.S. v. Hearst. Co (Faote Police. and FBI agents were aware that it had been William Har- rig ‘who gaulted Mr.:.Shepard on Ruthelen Street and not Miss Hearst ' ae MresSfepard strongly implied and subsequently were..aware that ’ . Pierre abd Mre. Davis had testified to a grand jury/what., they hag fons the agengs. But. Mr. Browning and Iir. Stearns were ‘notsaware that jthe . address given on the tow truck receipt as to where the VW.vari=was } . ~” found wagi-en the down side of the hill -~- which is why:,they overlooked > this little inconsigtancy when they induced Mr. Shnepardi.to lie” about. “ what he. had seen.) And how about that witness to the ‘Hibernia bank rob- bery who saw Miss Hearst and Miss Hall go in ahead of the others, there- by showing that Patricia was the one who was telling the truth? I know this person exists, even though I don‘t know who it is -- yet.) =... -:. . .\'a' piased and dishonest investigation that ‘comes about by agents vigor- -*, ously pursuing leads that lead to conclusions/of guilt while vigorously dgnoring leads that lead to conclusions“of innocence? U.S. vy. Hearst. . Co oe a uo - (Facts Vernon Kipping went out of his way to.make up movies that showed Miss Hearst close up and in slow motion’but never bothered to make up any movies that spliced the "A" and "b" films together so as to show the exact relationship between Miss Hearst and Mrs. Perry -= ‘this in a case where a citizen 1s either the perpetrator of a crime un- - der tederal jurisdiction onthe victim of one. I might ada that, when : I looked at the film rile, Ixsaw.indications of the most overt duress | imposed upon Miss Hearst -- a$.Mizmoon Soltysik sprints across the lob- by of the bank, passirig between Perry and Hearst, Perry. turns the car- bine she had trained on Miss Hearst,to the side so it is not pointed at _ Mizmoon; Perry then backs out of the picture, but, the next time she re- appears, she has her gun trained on Patricia. And what about that _ time in mid-March 1975 when I called Agent Charles Kiley in Los Ange- les, saying that=I..thought I might have something of an exculpatory ‘nature,rand he’ told“me he 3" interested? . Is this the way you al-— ions? ws tee ee, Toe, re Are these FBI successes that no one evel gets to hear about gained by -. ways conduct investigat Are these FBI siiccessea that no one ever gets to hear about gained by . investigators motivated by a strong sense of malice rather than Justice? (Facts Atter Miss Hearst was forced to take. the Fifth Amendment 42 times following Judge Carter's acceptance of the Government's improper offer of proof, I ran into Mr. Stearns in the elevator. "That was a - @eAth sentence," I told him. "Let's hope so," he told me.) Sn Aa [as Co ~ . . Bguse’ sant. you to bé assured, Mr. Kelley, that these and other FBI. “success ‘Seave not been overlooked nor forgotten... When I write the, - . vrelevantgchapters-in the book I am doing on this case, all will be _ given pipminent mention. After all, the American people have a right — . to Know @bout these successes. OM ie, . Now, my oniy™question is: Do’all these flow rrom the general policy -of ' “the FBI or are they tactics that are reserved for innocent women who - . get kidnapped,‘ raped, and tortured, who are forced to commit an armed , =: Bank=robbery, and who then are required to further compromise their “~-dnnocence in an erfort to defend themselves trom such. common criminals _