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Meanwhile, the FBI was evaluating new leads that might link Patty to other crimes. The fresh evidence was found in the San Francisco apartment occupied by Patty and Wendy Yoshimura, 32, a traveling companion, when they were seized. Another mother lode of material was discovered in the dwelling of William and Emily Harris, members of the S.L.A. who had traveled with Patty. FBI laboratories are examining firearms, ammunition, explosives, documents, telephone numbers, addresses, notes scrawled on scraps of paper and radical literature retrieved from the two apartments. "The stack of stuff is four feet high," reports one agent. "Checking...
...confiscated material led investigators to suspect that the S.L.A. financed its activities by staging bank robberies. As a result, the agency has opened fresh investigations of a score of unsolved bank robberies in California in the past 17 months. The FBI has already linked Patty or her companions to two jobs. On Feb. 25, the Guild Savings & Loan Association in Sacramento was robbed of $3,700. Authorities say that the apparent leader of the holdup was a man described as resembling Bill Harris. The driver of the getaway car was a young woman. Going through the material found...
...apartment at 625 Morse Street where Patty and Yoshimura were captured, the FBI discovered a single greenback-denomination undisclosed-that was stolen from the bank in Carmichael. It was a "bait bill"-a piece of currency, whose serial number has been previously recorded, that bank tellers often surrender to stickup men in the hope that the loot may be traced...
...wicker basket to a vacant lot 1½ blocks from the city's Ingleside police station. The mover became wary, looked into the basket and discovered a 14-in. pipe bomb wired to a clock. A similar bomb was found in the Harrises' apartment, leading the FBI to wonder whether they had been involved in at least two pipe bombings in the area hi recent weeks...
...plan, he now concedes, was largely irrelevant because the CIA had already adopted many of those practices. "If we had known all these tools were being used and were still not getting results," said Huston, "it might have changed our whole approach." Mainly because of the opposition of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell, the plan was rejected by Nixon five days after he had approved it. As if nothing had happened, the CIA continued its illegal mail spying...