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...guess I'm not really a very reliable guy," Oliver Wellington Sipple remarked last week. It seemed an odd comment, for it was Sipple who grabbed the arm of Sara Jane Moore as she took a shot at President Ford, perhaps helping to save the President's life. But then Sipple hardly conforms to any stereotype of the all-American hero...
...found no direct links between the attempts to kill Ford and the state's hard-core revolutionaries. Lynette Fromme was a follower of the psychopathic murderer Charles Manson; Sara Jane Moore tried to move from the left fringes and join the extreme radicals, but was never accepted. On the other hand, the underground radicals helped Patty Hearst and the other Symbionese Liberation Army fugitives elude the FBI for a year and a half...
Among them were Patty's lover, Steve Soliah, and his sisters Kathleen and Josephine. All three had been active and apparently nonviolent leftists. In 1974 Kathleen addressed a rally of radicals in Berkeley that was attended by Sara Moore. But the Soliahs have turned out to be members of the violent underground, and now the FBI is hunting Kathleen, who was accompanied in flight by Josephine, for questioning about Patty. Asks a bewildered police official: "How do you know when someone like them has gone over the edge from being merely a radical dissident to being an urban guerrilla...
...Sara Jane Moore played two roles last week. When she fired a shot at President Ford she became a failed assassin. She was already an active, paid informer of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The day before the assassination attempt, she had helped a Treasury agent build a case against the dealer who sold her the gun she fired at Ford. Previously, she had spied on radicals for the FBI and worked for the San Francisco police. All in all, a stunning performance in deviousness that would surely give informers a bad name...
...informers-ranging from undercover officers to turncoats and professional finks. "Liberals are as much at fault as conservatives," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. In the '60s, informers by the hundreds infiltrated not only radical movements but also Southern racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Sara Jane Moore's lurch into the limelight has only renewed the debate about law enforcement's almost unchecked reliance on the breed...