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2 tak Pehl ares t,t. DPTIONAL # ORM NEN! Fo , Ry _ aVkY 1679 KOITION ' & I al ‘GBA PPMR tI CPRItOi-tte | - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | Memoranda ee as 4 Sipecror, FBI | PAT 9/28/76 ; [a ATTN: EXTERNAL’ AFFAIRS DIVISION | SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (7-855) |. Ts In connection with the one-year anniversary ‘appre-- : : hetiston of PATTY HEARST, ET AL, on 9/38/76, KRON-TV, San ae vc" Francisco, carried a newscast which’ was srecorded by a viewer -_ a.s and was recently forwarded to thig ogtic 3 The contents | Hee Of the newscast. are as follows: re ee - “" What were you doing one your, azo. today? “Well ‘ ".* here in San Francisco the FBI. was writing. a-page in the = history books of crime. Under the direction of Agent in .. Charge Charles Bates, the FBI very quickly, quietly, and - < efficiently arrested Patty Hearst without a shot being . , ; fired. Newswatch cameras were on the scene moments after we .- the FBI picked up Bill: “and. Emily Harris and the remaining ....%. ‘members’ of the SLA. The. Harrises were arrested by an FBI:..-. ~ stake-out team as they returned from jogging in the city. - - '.-.Then an hour later authorities ‘burst through the door of ‘. the flat used by Patty and hers :companion, Wendy Yoshimura, os. and Patty apparently was so frightened that she actually ae - -wet- her pants. ‘Apparently she had long feared that she Z .: « would be killed in a fiery shootout similar to the one in w. Los Angeles,-that killed Donald Cinque DeFreeze and the rest ‘~;- Of the SLA. _But, long hours of investigation by Bates and ~ Bie his” Agents paid off. Experts called Patty's arrest one of *- the smoothest ~ Law, enforcenent operations in. the history | of . (Ordmes Nec . ye FECIS 2 1s 200 7 x58 Unc re ge - wo We ze . 3 - San Francisco — . ne 2 RO (1 ~ 7-855) oe 7 tr 1976 €(1-2 g0-419B) a< GYQ- Me ERICKSON) 00065) MPCE a 7 a ee