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POPEYE - 16 this guy Mayo or something’. What? She said: ‘Mayo'. I said oh, Nao. God- damnit, you better learn this shit if you're gonna he an undercover agent. For Christ's sake, Mayo! "She knew what Popeye was, she'd seen him all her life; she was a little street rat. She knew Popeye was just'a big con-man niger... she knew he wasn't no... higher level of consciousness crap, he was just a big bullshitter. He liked her because she did a lot... they had these benefit dances and things and he trusted her because she wasn't a revolutionary and he put her at the door to collect money. ...he'd go back and take the money and she wouldn't say anything about it because, she didn't give a shit; she was stealing money too, probably. If a revolutionary were there, they would say: ‘we took in 500 bucks and where's this gonna go?* She said that the other women were al- ways fighting over him, (saying things like): ‘\ihen Popeye comes in, I'm sit- ting next to him', ridiculous stuff." Alex spent a lot of time watching Popeye: "One girl I talked to... was a | whore down in the Mission, and she was really afraid of Popeye, because he beat hor up a couple times. He'd come up, just a pimp: Hey ditch, I want you to work for met and she'd aay: ‘I don't work for you'ees He'd slap her around and try to recruit her; she was afraid of him, And she bought drugs, she bourht heroin from him. That was one case I could have substantiated (at the big trial}, I blew it! Jessy was telling me about all the drug dealing, he was doing. I thought, gee, maybe some time when she knows he's carrying a lot of heroin... we'll make a little set-up. I was trying to think about it but oes I didn't want to break up what he was doing... I didn't get along with the | cuys in narcotics that well anywoy, ‘Then he gets arrented... and they say I