Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been spotted at a farm in South Canaan that the fugitives had used as a hideout. A former owner of the car told authorities he had sold it to one Kathleen Soliah, who had given her address as a post office box number in San Francisco. Checking further, the FBI learned that Soliah had been friendly with S.L.A. members and other radicals, known as the "Tom Thumb" group, suspected of robbing a bank near Sacramento last April 21. A young woman led the masked bandits who looted the bank of $15,000 and killed a housewife with a shotgun blast...
Accordingly, early last week the FBI set up a surveillance on Kathleen Soliah's postal box in San Francisco and discovered that mail was being picked up by messengers and taken to two addresses: 288 Precita Avenue and 625 Morse Street...
Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S San Francisco office and the man directing the overall search for Patty (see box page 16), ordered a watch to be kept on both dwellings. On Precita Avenue, four agents sat in a light green Ford LTD parked at the curb, and three more waited in a yellow and white camper just down the block. The agents wore sandais, beards and beads, hoping to blend in with the inhabitants of the area. Still, neighbors spotted the stakeout and watched with considerable interest to find out who was being trailed. No one appears...
...tried to get away, only to be caught within 20 ft. But the man calmly put up his hands, says another witness, "like a little kid who had been caught doing something wrong." His attitude seemed to be, she adds, " 'Well, I'm caught.' " Swiftly, the FBI agents handcuffed William and Emily Harris...
Then, as city police cars closed off both ends of the block, some agents hurried into the apartment; while others, guns drawn, burst into a few of the neighboring houses to look unsuccessfully for Patty Hearst. In the Harrises' apartment, the FBI found 40 pounds of black explosive powder, three .30-cal., fully automatic carbines, two shotguns, two pistols and a substantial amount of ammunition...