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® ® dh POPRYN - 36 had tried so hird to revoke his parole less than a year before. John Will- ints? reasoning that “they were tired of hascling with him" doen not seem sound since they have never prown tired of hassling with anyone else. The argument that Popeye would be too much ofa problem at Gan Quentin or Folsom is absurd, Nobody's much of a problem in the adjustment center and, if they are, they can be put in a strip cell or, for that matter, shot dead, Would Popeye have been a greater problem than brother George? Would Fredericks, Popeye's nemesin, have passed up an opportunity to get "one of the worst"? t And so, the court concluded, Popeye was caught in the cruelest squeeze of all; San (uentin en one side, and the SS on the other. It might have gone some- thing like this. Fredericks: “If you don't want to go back to San .mentin with your time refixed for a crime where you were caught cold and for which you can expect little sympathy from the movement, you'd better start playing ball fant." What could Popeye do? What would you have done? The head of the 5S turns out to be no less than on assistant Director of Corrections. His name is not on any of the directories and his office is in the transportation section of the hugh State Cffice Building No. 8 in Sncra- menta; not even on the same floor with the rest of Corrections. You can't get in to see him but if you heng around in the corridors, look for a thick, muscular man with practically no neck. He apends a lot of time walking in the corridors and a peoplest investigator confronted him there and asked for the SS manual. He was told that it was secret which was later confirmed by Outh- ric, and=theawictessoprtmt ie found out the investigator's name and the fact that he waa an ex-con from Guthrie and ordered his secret police to investi- pate him. 4A witness in the department will swear that this investigation took place; an illegal investigntion since the person investigated was not Vay . \