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SYMBIONSSS LIBARATION ARAY TAPED COMMUNIQUE U6.4 " Subject: UVemend for a Good Faith Gesture Issued By: The Court of the Feorle Date: February &, 1974 H'Se WHO WOULD BEAR DIE HOPES AND PUZSURE OF CUR ail LET THE VOICE OF THEIR GUKS EXPRESS THE WORDS OF Fr See) Greetings to the people and comrade sisters and brothers. My name is Cinque and to my comrades I am known as Cin, I am a Black man and a rerresentative of Black peonle, TI acli che rank of General Field Marshal in the United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Today I have received an order from the Symbionese War Council, the Court of the People, to the ‘effect tnat I am ordered to convey the following message in be- half cf the SLA ani to insert a taned word of comfert and verifi- cation that Fatricia Campbell Hearst is alive ansé sofe,” .The Symbionese Liberation Army is comnosea cf mililary/per i tical elements of many different liberation struggles and of many different races. Our unified purpose is to liberate the. orvressed veornles of this nation and to aid other onnressed people around the world in their strugele against fascist imperialism and the robbery of their freedom and homeland. Since this is the purpcse ana goal of the SLA, it is therefore clear to us, as it will be to all onpvressed people, that our snterest 'g to serve and defend the people and not ourselves, since the people shall always come first in our hearts and souls. The SLA has arrested the subject for the crimes that her mother and father have, by thetr actions, committed against Wy the American peonle and the oppressed veonle of the world. In understanding this charge, we must first understand who the Hearsts are and who they serve and represent. Randolph A. Hearst is the corporate chairman of the fascist media empire of the ultra right-wing Hearst corporation, which {s one of the largest pronaganda instutions cf this present mili- tary dictatorship of the militarily armed corrorate state that we now live under in this nation, The primary goal of this ex- pire is to serve and form the necessary propaganda anc smoke-screen to shield the Amerikkkan people from seeing the realities of ths corvorate dictatorshir which Richard Nixon and Gerald ford rev1e- sent, This network of propaganda and confusion has succeeded in hiding the truth from the people. That truth being that th netion has suffered its first military cornorate cour an. inl the Canstitution which some of us still believe in has deen overthrown o