Friday, June 12, 2026

Comet Ping Pong

Podesta Emails - Pizzagate sparked in 2016 when Wikileaks published over 20,000 emails from the inbox of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman during her presidential run. It's important to note here that while the interpretations of the coded language within the emails is unsubstantiated, the Podesta emails were reviewed and confirmed to be authentic by multiple US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, and the NSA, which is the National Security Agency. One of the first emails that really caught people's attention was sent by Susan Sandler, a philanthropist and political donor who did donate to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign run to John Podesta. The email reads: "Hi, John. The realer found a handkerchief. I think it has a map that seems pizza related. Is it yourus? They can send it if you want. I know you're busy, so feel free not to respond if it's not yours or you don't want it. 

I just came from checking the fieldhouse and I have a square cloth handkerchief, white with black, that was left on the kitchen island. Happy to send it via mail if you let me know where I should send it.'' 

The handkerchief code is a color-coded system that people use to communicate their interests and pleasures non-verbbally. Different colors relate to different acts or things that people are into. 

Another email that caught people's attention was sent to John Podesta by Herbert Sandler, who was at the time a co-CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation, a major political donor to the Clinton campaign: ''Mary and John, I think you should give notice when changing strategies which have been long in place. I immediately realized something was different by the shape of the box, and I contemplated who would be sending me something in the square shaped box. Lo and behold, instead of pasta and wonderful sauces, it was a lovely, tempting assortment of cheeses. Yummy. I'm awaiting the return of my children and grandchildren from their holiday travels so that we can demolish them. Thank you so much. I hope you and your gang are well. I miss you both. Best wishes, fro a happy New Year, Herb. P.S. Do you think I'll do better playing dominoes on cheese than pasta?''

Hot dog stand - Wikileaks email from Todd Stern, Democratic donor tied with the Clintons to John Podesta: ''Man, I miss you. The next 3 months are going to be rougher internally than in Beijing between 7th and 1600. No fun. Hope you're doing okay. I'm dreaming about your hot dog stand in Hawaii...'' (Cheesybay connection)

Email sent from Tony Podesta, John Podesta's brother: ''Would love to get a pizza for an hour.''

''Bonnie will be Uber service to transport Ruby Emerson and Mave Lazado (11, 9 and almost 7). So you'll have some farther entertainment and they will be in that pool for sure.''

Reportedly, Lozado ran a website known as Eevee's Crib, which was kind of like a blog. It's hard to confirm because as soon as people started talking about this, it was removed almost immediately. But if this blog is real, it looks really bad. The website apparently featured many pictures of Lazado around young children, including her step granddaughter, Eevee. The header of the website reads, "Evelyn is growing up. Soon she will be the queen of the entire US of A. Right now for a limited time only you can spend some time with her online raw and uncut. Take advantage of this now as in the future she will have the power of life and death over you.'' 

Posts were labeled under categories such as psychopath, evil white bitch filth, malpractice, discomfort, manipulation, and ambient. Ambient, for those who don't know, is a prescription drug that is classified as a hypnotic and is used to treat insomnia short term. One of the side effects of ambient is that it wipes your memory. Many people have no recollection of anything else that occurred or what they did after dosing. Another picture on this blog shows a baby after bath time. And while not inherently sinister, it's definitely a little bit weird even though you can't see anything. But the caption here is what really stands out. It ends with: ''unrated version of this photo available only to premium subscribers.''

Marina Abromavich - The last email we'll cover for right now is sent by Maria Abramovich to Tony Podesta and later forwarded to his brother John Podesta. Google describes Abramovich as a conceptual performance artist who has pushed the boundaries of performance art as a visual art form since the 1970s. Personally, I would just say that she's a freak, but anything is art, right?: ''Dear Tony, I am so looking forward to the spirit cooking dinner at my place. Do you think you will be able to let me know if your brother is joining? All my love'', It seems innocent enough at first glance. Spirit cooking is an art form oracle ritual invented by Abramovich, inspired by the idea that ghosts feed off of intangible things like light, sound, and emotion. For this reason, her recipes involve things like evocative instructions for actions and thoughts and bodily fluids. A few excerpts from her cookbook are as follows: ''With a sharp knife, cut deeply into your middle finger of your left hand. Eat the pain. Look in the mirror for as long as it is necessary for your face to disappear. Don't eat the light.'' In an AMA on Reddit, Marina says herself that the context is what makes something art or not: "Everything depends on which context you are doing what you are doing. If you are doing the occult magic in the context of art or in a gallery, then it is art. If you are doing it in a different context, in spiritual circles or private house or on TV shows, it is not art. The intention, the context for what it is made and where it is made defines what art is or not.'' 

A video shows Abramovich writing phrases from her cookbook on a wall in pig's blood and then doussing the statue of a small child in it. 

Coincidentally, in photographs from around that time, John Podesta can be seen with a band-aid on his left hand's middle finger. And people online have also mentioned that his hands and particularly his fingers are awfully scarred as if they've been deeply wounded repeatedly. 

Comet Ping Pong - This is where James Alefantis and his world famous pizza come in. And it only gets weirder. So who is James Alefantis? Well, he's an entrepreneur who owns Comet Pingpong, a pizza restaurant located in Washington DC and also a location that was frequently mentioned in the Podesta emails. He's also one of the most powerful and influential people in the nation that you've never heard of. Despite being nothing more than a restaurant owner, GQ listed him as one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington in an article published in 2012. GQ writes: "Liberal 20somes in khakis, drink beer, and eat pizza at Alefantis owned Comet Pingpong. More established progressives whine and dine next door at Alefantis owned Bucks Fishing Camping. Aphontis is also the board president of Transformer, the contemporary art gallery that shamed the Smithsonian for removing an installation offensive to right-wingers. When it comes to DC radical chic, Alefantis is unsurpassed. If you don't know him, you aren't wearing your scarf right.'' If this guy is one of the 50 most powerful people in our nation's capital, he must make some pretty good pizza or have connections somewhere else? James Alefantis is a gay man who was involved in a relationship with David Brock, who was chief of Media Matters, a major media organization tied to the Democratic Party until he left in 2022. David Brock also founded Correct the Record, a super PAC created in 2016 to support the Clinton campaign. At a surface level, this doesn't seem that weird, and it does help explain some of the political power and influence that James Alefantis has. 

Jimmy Comet - But then people found his Instagram account @ Jimmy Comet. And as you can probably guess, it only gets weirder. We'll start with this picture that he had up on his Instagram showing a young child being held in a man's arms. Nothing wrong with that, but the caption of this picture is #chickenlovers. Chicken lover is well-known coded language that was used in the 1994 documentary film Chicken Hawk that focuses on homosexual relationships with a large age gap. An age gap. so large that it makes the relationship itself criminal. There's also this image that appears to be of a walk-in cooler being referred to as the kill room in the comments. Alefantis captioned this picture, "Oh yeah, this looks fun." And then he went into the comments under his own post and wrote # murder. 

There's this picture of a young child with euros in his mouth. And Jimmy Comet writes, "# Caris James loves spending euros." 


There's this picture of a baby doll holding a sign that says, "German baby, $1,200. Please do not touch." Jimmy Comet writes, "Way overpriced." 


There's this picture of a young child with their hands taped to a pingpong table. And in the comments again, someone else writes, "#Harris James."


People realized that Jimmy Comet's profile picture on Instagram wasn't a picture of him. It was actually a picture of a statue. Nothing weird about that except that this specific statue was the statue of Antinuous, a Greek pubescent who got involved in a relationship with Roman Emperor Hadrien who was in his late 40s and he is specifically known as the Greek boy lover.

Now, this wasn't seen as anything bad in the ancient world societal norms. But of course, we look at that a lot differently today. And this easily could have just been a coincidence, but in the bigger picture and everything else being considered, it's not hard to see why it would raise some questions. And that's really what this entire theory is based off of. How many coincidences are you willing to overlook in order to believe the official narrative that there's nothing else going on here? Even if you think this is just a bunch of conspiracy nonsense, it's not hard to see why so many people buy into it. Because in order to believe there's nothing else going on, you have to chalk so many things up to coincidence and just overlook them. The cryptic emails, the occult rituals being mentioned in the emails, the profile picture, the pictures posted on the Instagram. And there's also the elephant in the room of why is this man who is attracted to other men, so he has no kids of his own spending so much time around so many different young children? Putting aside the weird context and captions of these pictures, who even are these children? And clearly, I'm not the only one wondering that because even Snopes notes how strange his Instagram was and how James Alefantis does not have any children and neither do his closest associates. And they also note how it was privated only 2 days after it was found. So clearly he knew how bad this all looked.

James Alefantis has this picture of Marina Abraovich posted to his Instagram. So, at the very least, he's a fan of her work, which I would say isn't exactly normal. I don't think I've ever personally met a Marina Abramovich fan, and I think most people don't even know who the hell that is. 

James Alefantis also has connections to Tony Podesta, John Podesta's brother. Here they are pictured together in what seems to be some sort of campaign or fundraiser taking place at Comet. doesn't really matter. But there they are. Okay, but that could just be a campaign. It doesn't really prove that they know each other, right? Well, here's another picture from the event that is much more candid and it was posted to Jimmy Comet.

Tony Podesta Art Collection - Tony Podesta's art collection. And that's a whole another can of worms that I'm not going to open here. All I'll say is that if you look at this guy's art collection, it feels illegal. It feels like I'm doing something wrong seeing it on my computer and it's all over this guy's walls. When I started researching this, I went in hoping to find answers to some of this, but it doesn't seem like there are any. Everyone's very quick to tell you that this is all conspiracy and it's made up nonsense. And that very well might be the case, but nobody actually shows you where it's been disproven. Now, let's talk about some of the symbolism that people have noticed because I know I've said it a few times at this point, but it really does just get weirder and weirder. 

Spiral - In 2007, an FBI document leaked showing specific symbols that predators use to identify each other. While looking at this document, people noticed that these symbols appear quite frequently in businesses logos and imagery of not only Comet Pizza, but surrounding businesses as well. For starters, Comet Pizza had this play, eat, and drink or peed logo on their website, which many people believe resembles one of these symbols. 

The Comet Ping Pong website was hacked in 2016, and the hacker shared an apparent membersonly section. This members only area was password protected, but when a password was entered, it brought you to a downloads page. On this page, you're able to download various large zip files, but each one requires a specific download key. Keep in mind, this is a pizza place. What could possibly be the reason to have a membersonly section on the website with downloadable files available? And what is in these folders that is so exclusive that each one requires a unique password in order to be able to download it? And this wasn't some staff only area of the website, which even that wouldn't really make any sense, but there were apparently 110 people in this exclusive pizza club. And again, once this came out, the entire section of the website disappeared, which really does make you wonder why. It's already bizarre that it was there to begin with, but why was it removed once the public found out about it? Again, assuming this is all real, because I don't have a way to verify it myself at this point. It was apparently deleted 10 years ago. But why did they try to bury it? Why did they try to cover it up? What's there that they don't want you to see? While looking into Comet Pizza, some people noticed something peculiar about the logo of Besta Pizza, another pizza place in Washington DC, located only two blocks down from Comet. Besta Pizza's logo is literally the boy lover symbol from the FBI document. Of course, this could be a coincidence, but again, as soon as people started talking about this online and pointing it out, Best of Pizza immediately changed their logo and removed the symbol. Could they have just genuinely not known this? And then as soon as people start talking about it online, they realize and change it. Yeah, sure. And to be honest, Best of Pizza was kind of put in a lose-lose situation because if they ignore what's going on and don't do anything, people are going to point to the symbolism and say they're involved. But if they do do something like change their logo, people are going to say, "Oh, well, obviously they did know about this symbolism and now they're trying to cover it up." Some people online have made the claim that Best of Pizza, which is now closed, was owned by Andrew Klene, who worked with the human trafficking prosecution unit under Obama's Department of Justice. And if that was the case, it would be a glaring red flag and would make the symbolism in the logo being a coincidence, seemingly impossible. However, doing my own research, that doesn't seem to be the case. And I would say that there's a very small probability that there's any truth behind that claim at all. The DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs listed Besta Pizza under the corporate entity Uptown Pizza Inc. And Andrew Klein is listed as a non-commercial registered agent, which means that he was a third party associated with Best of Pizza, most likely a lawyer, but definitely not the owner. I say most likely a lawyer because Veritus Law Firm in Washington DC has an Andrew J. Klein listed as their co-founder who's been representing business and real estate clients for over 30 years. And from his picture, he's visibly a different person than the one associated with the Obama administration. If you ask me to point to one part of this whole theory that I think is most likely to be just a coincidence, it would be this part. And I really do think that these two men are just both named Andrew J. Klein. But who knows? Maybe the lawyer isn't a real person and he's actually a honeypot designed by the deep state in order to make the whole conspiracy more easy to delegitimize. I don't think that's likely, but crazier things have happened. 

Just across the street from Comet Ping Pong and Besta Pizza is a French restaurant known as Terasol Gallery. And again, just like Best of Pizza, as soon as people started talking about this logo online, it vanished from their website. They were put into the same lose-lose situation. And again, people took this response in action as an admission of guilt. And again, if there weren't so many other coincidences, I don't think that people would have harped on this point so much, but there are so many other coincidences, and people can only lend you so much credence. Also on the Terasol website was a picture of Hillary Clinton there.


Now, stay with me because this is going to sound like a reach, and it did to me at first, too. But people pointed out that the comet logo features crescent moons similar to some depictions of Malo. For those of you who don't know, Malo is a deity from the Hebrew Bible strongly associated with child sacrifice. Some depictions of Molo, especially later depictions, show him with a star on his forehead and two crescent moons around either one of his hands. I know this seems like a massive reach, but guess what old world god's name appears in an Instagram post by Jimmy Comet. That's right. In this post on Jimmy Comet's Instagram showing off some Christmas presents he received, if you zoom in on the bottom left, you can see the word Malo. That is so strange. And it's not like it's in a book or anything either. It looks like it's printed out on a single sheet of paper. Personally, I've never received any sort of gift, especially not a Christmas gift, referencing Moloch or any other deity. Maybe this is normal and I'm just out of the loop or something, but to me, that seems really weird, especially when you keep in mind all the ties to the occult in Marina Abramovich. It's all just so strange. And when that's the best case scenario, when the best case scenario is that you do occult rituals and worship oldw world deities that are connected to human sacrifice, it doesn't exactly leave a positive impression on people. The pizza gate conspiracy all coalesed into one incident that took place at comet pingpong. And my good friend Mr. Pild is going to jump in and give you the rundown on the entire event. 

Edgar Welch attack - In 2016, a crazed lunatic driven mad by absurd conspiracy theories stormed into Comet's pizza armed with a rifle. Totally incoherent and insane, of course, he starts firing wildly at everyone and hurts no one and only destroys one very peculiar and convenient item. According to the official Department of Justice narrative, 29-year-old Edgar Welch did indeed walk into Comet's Pizza armed with a AR-15 and revolver. Customers and employees alike fled while Edgar himself remained inside of the restaurant for about 20 minutes. What was he doing in there? Well, he found a locked closet door and he tried to jimmy it open. But when he couldn't, he decided to fire rounds into the door. After that, he didn't try and continue to get inside. He didn't break down the door. He stashed away his rifle and his revolver, walks outside unarmed, and is then arrested and sentenced to 4 years in prison. Now, what was inside that closet randomly that happened to get hit and destroyed? It was a computer and everything on it was now gone. I don't know about you, but even before looking deeper into it, even the official narrative is very weird. It's just way too clean for an active shooter event like this. Historically speaking, these are not so happy ending. Authorities claimed that the AR-15 and the revolver were recovered inside of the restaurant and then they discovered a shotgun hidden in his trunk with some ammunition. But one of the only eyewitnesses to this event, a lawyer in Maryland named Sheree, who was there with his wife and kids, claims that Edgar walked in initially with a shotgun. While this whole thing was going down, Sharief was making a series of tweets detailing the situation, while he also claims that Edgar stashed away the shotgun potentially for future use. In the official narrative, it does describe Edgar stashing weapons away for potential future use. However, my problem lies in the discrepancy between what kind of weapon, and that's because you don't have to be a firearms expert to tell the difference between a shotgun and an AR-15. They're very distinct. They have very distinct profiles and silhouettes. 

Edgar Welch is an actor listed on IMDb. Now, that alone would be just a crazy weird coincidence, right? But his father, Harry Welch, owns a media company by the name of Forever Young Productions. That's not where the oddities end, though. Harry Welch is a creature in his own. According to his IMDb bio, Harry Welch is a very, very distinguished fella. Let's take a look at it. Written over 30 screenplays. He took up karate in his 30s. That's pretty late. Pretty old to be fighting. And then went undefeated in 200 matchups. Wow. Holy moly. He holds seven Guinness Book World Records for one armed, one finger, and one finger tip push-ups. Very impressive. Not only is he a physical specimen, but he's got a soft side, too. He served as a foster family to three different children and is an avid animal lover, being a rescuer of animals for 30 years, rescuing tigers, jaguars, leopards, serverless, and operating a no-kill shelter for dogs, housing up to 55 at a time. They have found forever homes for over 300. So sweet. Things start to get a little bit more serious though in his bio, saying he worked on federal, state, and local task forces fighting the war on drugs. served five years with the Rowan County ''ABC police''. Steakouts, watching illegal stills, patrolling the county for suspected bootleggers, even working with the ATF. Gross. Even the president of the United States in 1988, Ronald Reagan himself recognized the excellence of Harry Welch because he hand selected him and 15 others to check out various military installations, even giving them national clearance and letting them check out the Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker, which is a command alternative for NORAD. However, I think the weirdest highlight was one that stood out mainly because of the context. Served as executive director for Protect a Child, a national nonprofit organization to prevent abuse and abduction of children, appointed by Governor Jim Martin to the Governor's Commission on Child Victimization in conjunction with this story and this conspiracy theory. That's a little weird. But what's weirder is the fact that this protect a child organization doesn't exist. At least I couldn't find anything on it. So, as far as I know, this is just this doesn't exist. So, why would he put it in his bio? That's about as far as it goes for Harry Welch. I couldn't really find anything else. But, I want to bring this back to Edgar because his story is not finished yet. So, I like to remain skeptical when I dive deep into these subjects. So that way I don't get sucked into that I want to believe mindset, you know, because I think that's pretty easy. I was I was asking myself if he was really a part of this conspiracy, what would he gain from destroying that computer? What would be his motive to do that? And looking into Edgar's past, I think I found a fairly reasonable potential answer to that. 

Previous to the charges that landed him a four-year sentence after walking into Comet's Pizza, Edgar had struck a 13-year-old child in a reckless driving incident. And as a man who had previous DWI charges, he was facing a pretty serious sentencing. And if we're playing with the idea that some very powerful people needed a scapegoat or a way to get rid of some evidence or or a way to maybe suppress these conspiracy theories that were making their ways out into the public, then I think it'd be a no-brainer if he was left between the choices of leaving his fate and his freedom up to the court system, potentially facing much harsher punishment, or, you know, walk into this pizza joint. Don't hurt anybody. Don't do nothing too bad. Just destroy this computer, get four years, you know, fairly light, and then be on your way. Have your previous charges nullified. It's a good deal. I'd take that deal. Just some food for thought. Well, to finally wrap this chapter up, Edgar didn't even get to enjoy his freedom because 5 years after his release in January of 2025, Edgar was killed in a officer related shooting after a traffic stop. Apparently, he pulled a gun on officers and no one knows why. Sounds a lot like a loose end tied up to me, but what do I know why? 

Alpa ProjectHillary Clinton, who is seemingly very tied into this whole alleged scandal. She's very connected to all the people who are directly involved. Well, Frank Gestra, a member of the Clinton Foundation Board of Trustees who's donated over $100 million to the foundation, helped fund the Alpa Project, a project focused on raising the living conditions of refugees. And the logo is literally the exact same as the symbol mentioned in the FBI document for boy lover. The Best of Pizza logo was pretty on the money with that same symbol. This is literally just that symbol. It's exact. It's not even a different color. It is just a giant blue spiraling triangle. 

Laura SilsbyAnother person connected to the Clintons is Laura Silsby, the founder of New Life Children's Refuge. She went to Haiti in 2010 to help rehome orphaned children after the catastrophically destructive magnitude 7 earthquake. What a kind-hearted woman, right? Surely she would never traffic children. Well, guess what? She was caught by Haitian authorities smuggling 33 children on a bus across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic. She was doing this without permission from Haiti, so illegal. And then when she was detained, it became quickly apparent that most of, if not all of these children weren't even orphans. So she took essentially a class full of children, took them away from their families, and then tried to flee the country and cross the border. Well, she was held in Haiti facing charges of conspiracy and child abduction until Bill Clinton stepped in and got her charges reduced to arranging irregular travel. She served a six-month sentence in Haiti and then was returned to the United States. And fun fact, this woman who tried to smuggle children across the border away from their families has since changed her name to Laura Gayler and has since been given an executive role at Alert Sense, the company that provides the delivery infrastructure for Amber Alert, the shit that pings your phone when a child goes missing. Yeah. A woman who was tried for child abduction is working for that company as an executive. And then when Monica Peterson, the assistant director at the human trafficking center in Colorado, began looking into the Clinton's involvement in Haiti, she was found dead. Of course, this was ruled to be caused by her own valition.




FBI operation pacifier 2007. The takedown of the play pen, a dark web pedophile forum, verified in court documents, The investigation revealed that food terms are used as code for pedophiles.

Cheese pizza (CP) = child p**n.

Lasagna = underage girls.

Hot dogs = underage boys.

Walnut sauce = underage person of color. 

In 2015, the Department of Justice prosecuted a case where predators used the word pizza as code to solicit child sexual abuse material. 

Media basement descrepancy - Corporate media like CNN Washington Compost deliberately conflated this with 4chan trolls to discredit Pizzagate researchers. They deliberately said there is no basement, even after the fact that Alefantis himself admitted to the place having a basement in another interview. Even the guy who shot up the place drove all the way from North Carolina to DC to fire one round that magically managed to hit the Comet Ping Pong computer server. 

Artwork form inside Comet Ping Pong:





Cuomo on CNN: ''it's illegal to possess uh these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you're learning from us, and in full disclosure.'' let's take a look at what is in there and what what did they hide?

Podesta emails discussing spirit cooking, a reference to Marina Abramovich's occult rituals. 

Emails which mention donations to Comet Ping Pong's owner.


Why did the FBI never subpoena Comet Ping Pong's guest lists? 


John Blair Smith on Instagram refers to his brother, Jeff (Jbsmith614) as ''My favorite pedo''.


Jeff Smith is also @woorkinonmahnightcheese, mentioned in the Jimmycomet ''killroom'' post.


James Alefantis is also pictured on Jeff Smith's Instagram. Jeff even refers to him as his boss along side someone called @gonelongo.


@gonelongo tagged @
Jbsmith614 (Jeff Smith) in a post by @gioforbice depicting a baby and a hallow mask.


Gio Forbice is a designer. Here are some of his other posts.



Walter Pearce Instagram posted a picture of him with Gio Forbice, captioned: ''miss my brother @gioforbice''


Walter Pearce if friends with designer, Rachel Chandler.


Pictures from Rachel Chandler's blog:



Rachel Chandler with celebrities including Bill Clinton and Diddy.


@mrsolier on Instagram tagged Rachel Chandler on an omanous picture of a little girl. They alos tag James Alefantis in a nother post




Rachel Chandler comments a heart on a post by @lottavolkova featuring Walter Pearce.


Here are some other posts by Lotta:





Laura Silsby worked for New Life Children's Refuge and was tried on child trafficking charges after she was arrested in Haiti while attempting to smuggle 33 non-orphaned kids across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic without documentation after the 2010 earthquake. In a transcribed interview between a Fox News host and Jorge Puellow, who was the lawyer for Laura Silsby and the other Americans detained in Haiti on these charges, when asked how they got these children, Puelo is quoted as saying, "There was an orphanage that collapsed in Haiti. It was called Friends of the Orphans of Haiti, and there was somebody over there that told them that the orphans had no place, no room to place them." Friends of the Orphans is an orphanage branch of the MPH.

Bill Clinton would intervene in Laura Silsby's case when she was facing the charges of conspiracy and child abduction in Haiti. He got the charge dropped down to arranging irregular travel, which allowed her to return to the United States after serving a 6-month sentence in Haiti and later changed her name to Laura Gaylor and gain an executive role at Alert Sense, the mass notification company that provides the software for Amber Alert. 

On January 18th, 2010, only 6 days after the earthquake, Friends of the Orphans or the St. Helen Orphanage reported that all 350 children being housed in the orphanage are safe and sustained no injuries. Only a month prior in December of 2010, the official mph.org website, which to remind you owns this orphanage that Herod was running and that Silsby tried to traffic children from, claims that the St. Helen orphanage was home to 450 orphans. So this orphanage that was at the center of this scandal under reportported the number of children that were there after the earthquake by 100. One of New Life Children's Refuge's missions was to gather specifically 100 orphans from the streets and collapsed orphanages of Haiti and then take them to the Dominican Republic. This was said to be done with the intent of rescuing them by illegally taking them away from their families across the border. All 33 children that Laura Silsby was caught with were not even orphans. They had parents in the country. But Silsby said that she got these orphans from that orphanage that under reportported how many orphans were staying there. So either Silsby is lying about where she got these children from or that orphanage was holding these children that were not orphaned for god knows what reason.

On Hillary Clinton's private email server that she was illegally using to send classified information on while serving as the US Secretary of State. Huma Abedine, who was Anthony Winer's wife, was sending her consistent updates on Laura Silsby and the other US missionaries kidnapping charges that they were facing while in Haiti. Remember Jorge Pello, the lawyer who represented Laura Silsby and the other US missionaries that were detained? Well, guess what? Jorge Puellow wasn't even a lawyer at all. Jorge Torres Puellow was arrested in Haiti in March of 2010, less than a month after he became involved in Silsby's case. And it was found out that he was a fugitive wanted in four countries posing as a lawyer. At the time of his arrest, he was wanted in the United States, Canada, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic for charges like human trafficking, exploitation of minors, and involvement in organized crime.

James Alefantis connection

In 2016, Jame Alefantis's boyfriend, David Brock founded the super PAC, Correct the Record, in order to defend Hillary Clinton from online rumors. Well, in 2011, Brock was involved in a civil lawsuit with his former partner of over 10 years, William Gray, who accused Brock and his Elephantis, of the wrongful retention of over $250,000 worth of his personal property. Brock counter sued Gray for blackmail, alleging that Gray threatened to expose embarrassing information about Brock's personal life, donors, and organizations unless paid $850,000. The lawyer who represented Brock and Alphantis in this case was Max McKobe. On Max McCabe's law firm profile, he's listed as being on the board of directors of Friends of the Orphans. He is on the board of directors for the nonprofit charity Friends of the Orphans and is an advocate for their cause. Max's father, Michael McKobe is an American anthropologist and psychoanalyst, globally recognized as an expert on leadership for his research in improving organizations and the nature of work. In a DC neighborhood meeting that was held in 2016 regarding Comet Pingpong operating past midnight, advisory neighborhood commissioner Frank Winstead accused the owner of the establishment, James Alphantis, of seeking to turn this quiet stretch of Connecticut Avenue in Forest Hills, into a haven for essays and murder. Michael McCabe reportedly stood up to this DC official by saying that he will seek to remove anyone who opposes Comet Ping Pong. Michael McCobi reportedly stood up to this DC official by saying that he will seek to remove anyone who opposes Comet Ping Pong.

Michael, is credited on the McCabe Group's website as being a coach to leaders of Newestros Penos Armanos or NPH. The NPH is a prominent international charitable organization dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean, including in places like Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. The Clinton Foundation and its affiliates have historically supported and worked with the MPH on high initiative projects like the 2010 Haiti earthquake where Bill Clinton in his role as UN special envoy facilitated resources that benefited MPH operations on the ground.

Laura Silsby Child Trafficking

Laura Silsby worked for New Life Children's Refuge and was tried on child trafficking charges after she was arrested in Haiti while attempting to smuggle 33 non-orphaned kids across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic without documentation after the 2010 earthquake. In a transcribed interview between a Fox News host and Jorge Puellow, who was the lawyer for Laura Silsby and the other Americans detained in Haiti on these charges, when asked how they got these children, Puelo is quoted as saying, "There was an orphanage that collapsed in Haiti. It was called Friends of the Orphans of Haiti, and there was somebody over there that told them that the orphans had no place, no room to place them." Friends of the Orphans is an orphanage branch of the MPH.

Bill Clinton would intervene in Laura Silsby's case when she was facing the charges of conspiracy and child abduction in Haiti. He got the charge dropped down to arranging irregular travel, which allowed her to return to the United States after serving a 6-month sentence in Haiti and later changed her name to Laura Gaylor and gain an executive role at Alert Sense, the mass notification company that provides the software for Amber Alert. 

On January 18th, 2010, only 6 days after the earthquake, Friends of the Orphans or the St. Helen Orphanage reported that all 350 children being housed in the orphanage are safe and sustained no injuries. Only a month prior in December of 2010, the official mph.org website, which to remind you owns this orphanage that Herod was running and that Silsby tried to traffic children from, claims that the St. Helen orphanage was home to 450 orphans. So this orphanage that was at the center of this scandal under reportported the number of children that were there after the earthquake by 100. One of New Life Children's Refuge's missions was to gather specifically 100 orphans from the streets and collapsed orphanages of Haiti and then take them to the Dominican Republic. This was said to be done with the intent of rescuing them by illegally taking them away from their families across the border. All 33 children that Laura Silsby was caught with were not even orphans. They had parents in the country. But Silsby said that she got these orphans from that orphanage that under reportported how many orphans were staying there. So either Silsby is lying about where she got these children from or that orphanage was holding these children that were not orphaned for god knows what reason.

On Hillary Clinton's private email server that she was illegally using to send classified information on while serving as the US Secretary of State. Huma Abedine, who was Anthony Winer's wife, was sending her consistent updates on Laura Silsby and the other US missionaries kidnapping charges that they were facing while in Haiti. Remember Jorge Pello, the lawyer who represented Laura Silsby and the other US missionaries that were detained? Well, guess what? Jorge Puellow wasn't even a lawyer at all. Jorge Torres Puellow was arrested in Haiti in March of 2010, less than a month after he became involved in Silsby's case. And it was found out that he was a fugitive wanted in four countries posing as a lawyer. At the time of his arrest, he was wanted in the United States, Canada, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic for charges like human trafficking, exploitation of minors, and involvement in organized crime.

James Alefantis connection

In 2016, Jame Alefantis's boyfriend, David Brock founded the super PAC, Correct the Record, in order to defend Hillary Clinton from online rumors. Well, in 2011, Brock was involved in a civil lawsuit with his former partner of over 10 years, William Gray, who accused Brock and his Elephantis, of the wrongful retention of over $250,000 worth of his personal property. Brock counter sued Gray for blackmail, alleging that Gray threatened to expose embarrassing information about Brock's personal life, donors, and organizations unless paid $850,000. The lawyer who represented Brock and Alphantis in this case was Max McKobe. On Max McCabe's law firm profile, he's listed as being on the board of directors of Friends of the Orphans. He is on the board of directors for the nonprofit charity Friends of the Orphans and is an advocate for their cause. Max's father, Michael McKobe is an American anthropologist and psychoanalyst, globally recognized as an expert on leadership for his research in improving organizations and the nature of work. In a DC neighborhood meeting that was held in 2016 regarding Comet Pingpong operating past midnight, advisory neighborhood commissioner Frank Winstead accused the owner of the establishment, James Alphantis, of seeking to turn this quiet stretch of Connecticut Avenue in Forest Hills, into a haven for essays and murder. Michael McCabe reportedly stood up to this DC official by saying that he will seek to remove anyone who opposes Comet Ping Pong. Michael McCobi reportedly stood up to this DC official by saying that he will seek to remove anyone who opposes Comet Ping Pong.

Michael, is credited on the McCabe Group's website as being a coach to leaders of Newestros Penos Armanos or NPH. The NPH is a prominent international charitable organization dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean, including in places like Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. The Clinton Foundation and its affiliates have historically supported and worked with the MPH on high initiative projects like the 2010 Haiti earthquake where Bill Clinton in his role as UN special envoy facilitated resources that benefited MPH operations on the ground.

SLA

On January 17, 1969, a shootout erupted on the campus of UCLA between members of the far-left Black Panther Party and Ron Cororinga's Black Nationalist US organization. UCLA's Black Student Union had just held an election to choose its leader for that year, and Coringa's preferred candidate lost, causing tensions with the Black Panthers to boil over. It isn't known for sure what events immediately precipitated the shootout or who fired first. But the aftermath left Panthers John Huggin and Bunchie Carter dead, while those on the US organization side either disappeared permanently or served substantial prison terms. The shootout was the culmination of months of tension between US and the Panthers, which was followed by a period of heightened violence during which a pipe bomb would destroy the San Diego office of USR and four more Black Panthers were assassinated. But what no one involved in the shootout realized at the time was that much of those rising tensions between the groups over the preceding months had been a direct result of an FBI cointelpro campaign intended to pit black activist groups against one another. Leading up to the shootout, the bureau had created political cartoons mocking the Panthers and distributed them under the US organization name and sent a letter to USORG containing fake plans for an assassination attempt on their leader Ron Cororinga by the Panthers. FBI memos written shortly after the UCLA shooting show the bureau happily taking credit for the violence and planning to provoke more: ''shootings, beatings, and a high degree of unrest continues to prevail in the ghetto area of southeast San Diego. Although no specific counter intelligence action can be credited with contributing to this overall situation, it is felt that a substantial amount of the unrest is directly attributable to this program. The Los Angeles division is aware of the mutually hostile feelings harbored between the organizations and the first opportunity to capitalize on the situation will be maximized. It is intended that US Inc. will be appropriately and discreetly advised of the time and location of Black Panther activities in order that the two organizations might be brought together and thus grant nature the opportunity to take her due course.''

Donald DeFreeze (Informant) - The first pieces of the SLA puzzle came together well before the establishment of the group itself, when Donald DeFreeze was just a petty criminal operating on both coasts of the United States. Despite a long rap sheet, Defreeze had an incredible ability to avoid prison time, even on serious charges. In the course of just 5 years, from 1964 to 1969, Defreeze acred no less than seven separate arrests for possessing guns or explosives, almost all of them stolen, plus an attempted bank robbery, a motorcycle theft, and a failed gun store burglary, receiving probation each time. Although it's not known for sure when his informant work began, it couldn't have been any later than 1967. Because in December of that year, Defreeze would be arrested after a violent incident with a prostitute in Los Angeles when he was found to be in possession of 12 handguns that had been stolen in a military surplus store robbery that netted over 200 firearms. Defreeze would lead police to the man who had supplied him with the guns. In return, Defreeze walked with a sentence of 5 years probation, and the LAPD even let him keep some of the pistols from the robbery. But the freeze didn't get away unscathed as this plea deal seems to have been the precipitating event that kicked off his career as a prolific informant for the LAPD's version of CONITLPro run out of their infamous criminal conspiracy section and the criminal investigation and identification unit where DFreeze had handlers who weren't exactly subtle about the kinds of missions they'd send him on. Perhaps the most transparent setup of Defreeze's informant career took place in 1969 when he was temporarily back on the East Coast in Newark, New Jersey. As recounted in the book Revolution's End by Brad Shriber on May 9, 1969, Defreeze was involved in the most convoluted of his crimes up to that point. Because Defreeze had lived in New Jersey, whether by California Attorney General Evil Younger directly or by a member of the California Criminal Investigation and Identification Unit in Sacramento, he was assigned to attempt to set up for arrest Ralph Cobb, an influential Black Panther in the Jersey City chapter. In New York, Alfred Whiters, 32, custodian of the temple Beni Abraham, told local police that two black men, later identified as Defreeze and Cobb, 20 of Jersey City, abducted him on a rainy morning and drove Whiters around in his own car for an hour with a shotgun held to his head. Whiters said they demanded the phone number of Wim Prince, the temple's nationally renowned rabbi, in order to extort from him $5,000 to then be used to free a Black Panther brother in jail, referred to only as the enforcer. Whiters gave to Freeze and Cobb the number to the temple's answering service, and they left him. No one could explain why his abductors didn't directly confront the rabbi, who was listed in the area phone book and lived in Orange, New Jersey. A week after Cobb was arrested, the temple was seriously damaged by fire. Rabbi Prince publicly stated that he assumed the Black Panthers were responsible, although no one ever claimed credit for the arson. On May 28, Whiters was again questioned by the police, and under pressure, Whiters identified Cobb's accomplice via mugsh shot as Donald Dreeze. Both Cobb and Defreeze were investigated for assault, extortion, and the kidnapping of Whiters, but Cobb was released without an indictment. According to a story in New York Magazine, Essex County prosecutor Hugh Francis told New York attorney Milton Friedman, who defended Cobb and the New Jersey Black Panther Party that the case should never have come to the court. There was a plethora of inconsistencies and unanswered questions that Francis noted to New York Magazine. To begin with, White's grand jury testimony was confusing. He also contradicted his own statements at times and suspiciously refused to take a lie detector test. Francis and Freriedman recognized that kidnapping a caretaker to demand the phone number of a wealthy rabbi listed in the phone book in order to make a ransom demand made little sense. And the charge of kidnapping carried a sentence of 30 years to life or to free a black panther they refused to cite by name. While Defreeze was in jail, Temple Benai Abraham was still receiving threatening phone calls about the incident. One anonymous caller chillingly stated, "Your caretaker, Whiters, identified the wrong man in court, and we want $10,000 or we'll blow up the temple." No bombing took place. "It appeared to be a clumsy attempt to implicate the Jersey City Black Panthers and create the context for a reprisal by law enforcement." "It occurred to me," County prosecutor Hugh Francis told New York Magazine, that the FBI had engineered the whole thing. Putting aside for a moment the question of exactly which law enforcement organization Defreeze was working for at the time, it is remarkable to have the county prosecutor openly telling the media that he suspects a case he's prosecuting is an FBI setup. Ralph ''Buddha'' Cobb was a respected officer of the Jersey City chapter of the Black Panther Party considered important enough to the movement that coverage of his criminal case appeared in the Panthers national newspaper. And the plot he was accused of enacting, kidnapping a rabbi's assistant to attain the phone number of a different rabbi. Even though this rabbi's phone number was listed in the phone book in a scheme to extort this other rabbi for money, all on behalf of some unnamed Black Panther called the enforcer, who Defreeze made sure to mention repeatedly sounds like it was specifically engineered to make the Black Panthers look bad without much thought put into its believability. All kidnapping related charges against Defreeze would be dropped, but Ralph Cobb took the case to trial and won acquittles on all counts. But in November of 1969, Donald Def would bungle a crime so badly that he risked exposing the LAPD's role in his crime spree. Defreeze would rob a young tourist of her purse, battering her with a butt of a gun in the process. He may have escaped punishment for this initial robbery. But 2 days later, Defreeze entered an LA bank attempting to cash a check made out in his victim's name. When the teller became suspicious, Defreeze ran, getting into a shootout with the bank security guard and police who had shown up in the meantime. Defreeze was arrested on the scene, charged with two counts of assault to murder, plus first-degree robbery and possession of a fraudulent completed check. But the LAPD wouldn't be intervening to save him this time. According to Brad Shriber in Revolution's End, the criminal conspiracy section of the LAPD after the failed armed robbery at the Bank of America was done arranging probation for DeFreeze. One of the main reasons was the 32 Beretta he used in that incident. Defreeze fired upon the security guard and police with one of the stolen guns acquired among the 200 in the prior firearms case. For his cooperation, DeFreeze was allowed to keep some of them for resale and likely to set up Panthers in future police agent activity. But now with a gun potentially traceable to the LAPD recovered after a bust, DeFreeze was jeopardizing the department. In late 1970, Donald Defze was found guilty and sentenced to a then legal indeterminate sentence of 5 years to life in the California Department of Corrections. It was California law at the time that all newly incarcerated prisoners should spend a short observation period, typically between 6 weeks and 90 days at the California Medical Facility at Vakavville to determine what level of security the inmate should be housed in and whether or not he required medical or mental health treatment. But DFreeze would end up spending three years at Vakavville despite having no known serious medical or mental health diagnosis. Starting well before Defriez's arrival, the facility at Vakavville had been a site for CIA funded psychological research, specifically subject 3 of a program known as MK SEARCH, the successor program of MK Ultra. This fact was confirmed by the congressman and CIA critic Leo Ryan, who incidentally would die just a few years later in the infamous Jonestown cult massacre. In a 1978 letter he received from the deputy director of the CIA, Frank Carluchi, as described in Revolution's End, quote, "Carluchi's letter to Leo Ryan acknowledged voluntary testing on prisoners at Vakavville with a drug called magnesium peel and claimed it had concluded in 1968. The letter, however, did not address other drugs or techniques that had been or were still used at the facility. Carluchi's carefully worded reply to Ryan merely stated that DeFreeze hadn't been involved in the Pemlin experiments. In so far as our reports reflect the names of the participants, there is nothing to indicate that DeFreeze was in any way involved in the project. While the precise experiments DeFreeze was subjected to remain unknown, the superintendent of Vakavville later admitted that DeFreeze quote volunteered for medical research at the prison, which in the context of Vakavville often just meant that the prisoner was coerced into signing a consent form as a means of escaping punishment for some infraction. Common treatments at Vakavl from the period included electroshock therapy, labbotoies, paralytic drugs like anine, and so-called zombie drugs like prolixen, which later investigators discovered had been administered to DeFreeze. But it seems clear that the most consequential part of DeFree's stay at Vakavville was the relationship he developed with an employee there who happened to be a CIA operative freshly back from helping run the Phoenix program in Vietnam. As detailed in Revolution's End, ''Colston Richard Westbrook became Donald Dreez's early vakil confidant, sponsor, and supporter.''

After Patty Hearst was kidnapped, Colston Westbrook (DeFreeze' Handler) gave frequent media interviews about the SLA. And in one he was asked if the behavior modification programs at Vagavville may have influenced the SLA's actions. Responding at least the top leadership of the SLA has been trained in this process. The top leadership of the SLA was Donald Defreeze. Notably, Westbrook didn't say he was subjected to behavior modification, but that he was trained in it.

Colston Westbrook (DeFreeze' Handler) - Westbrook was an asserbic character who could only have existed in that time and place. He was black, pot-bellied, and wore dashiki and other African garb. And while he spoke seven languages, including Swahili, he preferred to use black street language whenever possible. Westbrook served at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, just miles from the town of Vakavville, and his facility with languages enabled him to travel all over the world in his military career. Westbrook was an adviser to the KCIA, the South Korean equivalent of the CIA. He also claimed to have had a direct line of communication in a past assignment to Cambodian Prime Minister Law Null, who replaced Prince Noram Sahan, in a coup orchestrated by the CIA. Between 1967 and 69, Westbrook was an adviser to the South Vietnamese Police Special Branch under the cover of working as an employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers. Westbrook was in South Vietnam during the CIA's Phoenix Program, during which 20,000 to 40,000 citizens, alleged Vietkong sympathizers were murdered over a 2-year period. Professor Peter Dale Scott wrote in the essay the assassinations of the 1960s as deep events that Westbrook after the destruction of the SLA applied for a teaching job in Scott's English department at UC Berkeley. The chairman asked me to peruse Westbrook's curriculum fet and I immediately noticed that while in Vietnam Westbrook had worked as a civilian employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers P& was a well-known cover for the CIA in Saigon and ISO notified the chairman. Westbrook did not get the job. Among others who confirmed P&E was a proprietary of the CIA was Bart Osborne of the Fifth Estate, a Washington DC research group made up of former intelligence community members who changed their minds about the validity of the Vietnam War. Osborne himself was in charge of teams of men involved in the notorious Phoenix program. Pacific architects and engineers contracted the building of the interrogation torture centers known as province interrogation centers in every one of South Vietnam's 44 provinces. These compounds were surrounded by high walls and gun towers and could communicate instantly with CIA headquarters in Saigon. The interrogation centers were staffed by South Vietnam's plane closed secret police, the special branch, working in conjunction with South Vietnamese military intelligence officers and advised by undercover CIA liaison officers like Colston Westbrook who used the cover of P&E. The CIA's Phoenix program targeted only civilians known as Vietkong infrastructure presumed to be sympathetic to the Vietkong. VCI prisoners, like their American and South Vietnamese counterparts, experienced torture and deprivation. But these non-combatants had no form of redress and were not protected by the Geneva Conventions. Once accused, they were swept up and imprisoned without confirmation or any form of due process. Bart Osborne testified before Congress that all of the VCI suspects he dealt with in Vietnam died due to their mistreatment. When a VCI gave what was deemed actionable intelligence, a provincial reconnaissance unit was assigned to hunt down and kill the target. PRUs were a mixture of South Vietnamese and American military, mostly Navy Seal teams, under the command of the CIA. Four years after the Phoenix program was initiated, the New York Times on July 15, 1971 revealed that 26,843 non-military Vietkong insurgents and sympathizers had been neutralized in the previous 14-month period. The exact total of civilian injuries and deaths due to Phoenix will never be known. After Westbrook returned to the United States from Vietnam, William Herman, advising Governor Ronald Reagan on counter intelligence measures to combat leftist militancy, enlisted Westbrook to create and run the Black Cultural Association at Vakavville Medical Facility. The BCA was ostensively an education program designed to instill black pride in Vakavville inmates. In reality, it became a cover for an experimental project to explore the extent to which unstable or susceptible prisoners could be controlled for the purpose of infiltration of Bay Area radical groups. Westbrook was euphemistically named an outside guest coordinator while in control of the BCA. His cover was as a teaching assistant at UC Berkeley's Afroamerican Studies Department. His encouragement of black prisoners to talk about their experiences and identities, coupled with his outsized personality, helped him initially gain the trust of many inmates at Vakavville. Westbrook chose to befriend Donald Dreeze, the former LAPD informant, in a prison where coercive treatment of prisoners was the norm. As Dr. And Colin Ross noted in the CIA doctors, there was a process by which DeFreeze later treated Patricia Hurst as a kidnap victim. It utilized isolation, psychological threats, physical abuse, and alleged dosing of Hurst with hallucinogenic drugs. All in all, it was a methodology that DeFreeze learned from his experience in Vakavville. Where did a street hood and unsuccessful robber like Donald Defze learn such sophisticated programming techniques? My conclusion is that DeFreeze was a controlled controller created in part by Phoenix program veteran Coloulston Westbrook. Shriber identifies Westbrook's teaching assistant role at UC Berkeley as a CIA cover position. And although this can't be proven for obvious reasons, it was amusing to read Westbrook's quotes in newspaper stories about the SLA. Westbrook loved talking to the media, in which he gave the journalists a different job title in every interview he did. Sometimes he claimed to be an urban affairs instructor. At others, he was a linguist or an instructor in black lexicon. Apparently, Westbrook had trouble keeping his cover story straight. Westbrook's role as an outside guest coordinator at first revolved around his handling of the prison's black cultural association, an advocacy group for black prisoners at Vakavville, where inmates were encouraged to immerse themselves in the radical politics common in California prisons. There was a belief popular among students and radical left-wingers at the time that since African-American convicts, who the students naively referred to as political prisoners, were the primary victims of America's carceral state, they would be the ones most likely to lead the revolution against it. It was this strain of thought that elevated people like George Jackson, Bobby Seal, Huey Newton, and Geronimo Pratt to positions of influence within the left-wing counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Westbrook would use his position on the UC Berkeley campus to recruit young white radicals to volunteer for the Black Cultural Association, inviting the true believers to interact with the supposed vanguard of their coming revolution. By all accounts, Donald Dere was totally uninterested and uninformed when it came to politics. But in those BCA meetings, Westbrook would rapidly elevate DeFreeze to a position of authority that no other prisoner enjoyed. The DeFreeze faction in the BCA counted many future Symbionese Liberation Army militants as its members. People like Willie Wolf, Russ Little, and Joe Romero. And Westbrook seemed to be positioning to freeze to have as much influence over these outsiders as possible. Westbrook was even the one who gave to freeze his name, Cinque, which was a misprononunciation of the surname of Joseph Cinqué the African chief who had led the slave revolt on the ship Amistad. The word symbion was also a Westbrook invention a neologism he had coined that was supposed to refer to the biological concept of symbiosis. The BCA charter required that its leader be chosen by election every 6 months. And since most of the inmates were transferred out in less than 3 months the pool of eligible candidates was small. When DeFreeze put his name in the running and lost, Westbrook allowed him to create his own group separate from the Black Cultural Association called Unicite. Unicight had a vague mission statement that seemed to serve little purpose besides giving DeFreeze more free time with the outside radicals. In exchange for his cooperation, DeFreeze enjoyed privileges at Vakavville far beyond what any other inmate could expect. Fellow inmates told later investigators that the Vakavville guards chose DeFreeze as their designated marijuana dealer on the inside, smuggling in packages of weed for him to sell and split the profits 7030. The guards also secretly gave DeFreeze unfettered access to the prison's conjugal visit trailers, usually reserved for married prisoners, so DeFreeze could enjoy occasional asignations with the radical women of the BCA and Unic. Two of those women, Nancy Lang Perry and Patricia Sultic would later become core members of the SLA. In fact, there was a third woman who occasionally accompanied the freeze to the conjugal trailers whose presence during this period completely destroys the conventional narrative of the Symbionese Liberation Army. According to Revolution's End, ''when Patty Hurst met future SLA member Patricia Sultzik in Berkeley and was invited to attend a women's rights meeting, her path toward meeting Donald at Vakavville was set.''

DeFreeze ''Escape'' - Several Unicite members proceeded to freeze to Solidad. And once there, Defreeze quickly began making plans for their escape. One UNICE member and former crime partner of Defreeze named Fred Brazwell claimed that Defreeze's escape was planned with the California Department of Corrections ahead of time. The most specific testimony about Defreeze being allowed to escape Solidad came from Fred Brazwell. He made the discovery by accident. I caught Defreeze and Lieutenant James Nelson talking in the custody room one day. Brazwell wrote, "And that's when I was sure the CDC knew of our plans. They were discussing the SLA when Nelson saw me and ordered me into the recreation yard." The Freeze told Nelson, "No, let him stay. He knows everything. He's the second man. So then Nelson looked at me and told me I was going to escape. I didn't trust Nelson. I quietly started warning some of my people that the Department of Corrections knew our plans. Brazwell, unlike to freeze, feared the expendability of a prisoner who worked clandestinely with the prison. He refused to cooperate, assuming that once they had done their duty, black SLA soldiers on the outside would be hunted down and killed rather than rearrested and allowed the chance to publicize their incriminating knowledge. Private investigator Lake Headley spoke to a Solidad inmate who recounted he made an offer to help DeFreeze get a better work assignment. The Freeze's reply was that in a few days he was going to work in the boiler room of the South facility. This was peculiar. Those inmates employed in that section of the prison tended to be trusted by the administration because there were no guards or gun towers there. Prisoners did their work in South Facility and then were escorted back to the mainline. Defreeze was at Solidad less than three months, and his contentious history with the Black Cultural Association at Vakavville did not make him an ideal candidate for an unsupervised job. Defreeze was asked by the same Soladad prisoner how he managed to get such an assignment when other convicts who had been at Soladad much longer had been turned down for it. He answered by merely giving a wide enigmatic smile. True to his prediction, Donald Dreeze was given the midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift at the boiler room in South Facility on March 5, 1973. Headedley reported that a number of prisoners claimed that the south facility was used at the time as a holding area for informers. After prison guard Jim Tucker accompanied the Freeze, driving him in a pickup truck to South Facility, he left, returning the prisoner who had served the 400 p.m. to midnight shift. By the time Tucker returned less than an hour later, Defreeze was nowhere to be seen and could not be found. After Don split, Brazwell remembered, "I got my queue in June when I was ordered to minimum security at South facility. I refused this offer because I knew we would all die." Several weeks later, I was in the recreation yard and a guard motioned for me to walk towards him. He was standing next to the gate and I started walking towards him. The guard opened the gate and walked away. I then turned around and walked back to the recreation yard. Because Brazwell refused to be involved in the undercover counter-revolutionary black prisoner SLA, the California Department of Corrections moved to the next candidate, Damian Tomita. A year later, James Nelson called Toita into his office, well aware of the money Tomita owed for the marijuana he smoked. He forced Tomita to agree to sell marijuana in the prison with the usual split. 30% to the convict and 70% to the prison. During this year, I was called into his office several more times, Tomita wrote. And Nelson tried to pressure me to sell harder drugs. However, since I had been in prison 8 years, and additionally, because my brother had become a narcotics addict at a young age, I continually refused these requests. Incurring the wrath of Nelson led to Tomita's name being put on an execution list, as he termed it. I lived under perpetual fear of danger until late August 1973 when I was approached by Nelson in my cell. To my astonishment, instead of threats or further pressure, he told me, "Well, I have information that you're supposed to be leaving here soon." While I was still reacting to this first statement, he continued, "Yes, Defreeze tells me that you're supposed to be leaving soon." Defreeze had already escaped. These statements stunned me for a moment, and I asked him, "What the hell is going on here?" But the lieutenant only replied, "You'll be notified when you're supposed to leave. You're supposed to be a new recruit of Defreezes. Either accept this or suffer the consequences here. Toward the end of the month, Tomita was approached by two guards who informed him they were working with Defreeze. Soon thereafter, one of the guards brought a dummy which was placed as a decoy in Toita's bunk. He was told to hide in a plumbing fixture in the prison yard, wait until dark, climb over the fence, and walk to the highway where a car with two white men waited for him. They drove me to Berkeley, California, Tomita wrote, where a room was waiting for me. I was told that I would be contacted soon, and they left. The location of the room was a few blocks southwest of the university. On the outside, Defreeze quickly moved in with one of his girlfriends from the Black Cultural Association, Patricia Sultisic, also known as Msiz Moon. Using the social network he'd built in the BCA in Unicite, Defreeze began approaching other Bay Area radical groups with proposals for violent direct action that were as obvious of setups as the earlier rabbi kidnapping plot. According to Revolution's End, quote, Tim Finley, who wrote often on the SLA for the San Francisco Chronicle, filed a story that quoted many Berkeley community activists who met Defreeze after he had escaped from Solidad. Finley noted that a number of these radical organizers had their suspicions about Defreeze and included a quote from one person who said to Freeze came on so heavy that he might be a provocator. The public television station in San Francisco, KQED, ran a news report after the kidnapping of Patty Hurst, stating that a few leftist groups in the Bay Area were approached by Defreeze shortly after he escaped from Solidad. Defreeze startled them by offering his services as a hitman or contract killer. While late night bombings of presumably unoccupied buildings, which represented oppression had occurred with regularity years before via the Weather Underground and others, the idea of a radical hitman seemed incomprehensible to the groups that were approached. The KQED report said these activists suspected Defreeze of being a police agent. The San Francisco Chronicle had even more detail about Defreeze's outrageous offers to the radical left. It cited the fact that Defreeze had reversed the process with some Bay Area activists. Instead of offering his services as a killer, he asked if any of the groups would agree to be paid for a contract killing. Now, it's at least possible to imagine that a newly escaped convict who spent years stewing in the violent rhetoric of prison radicalism and is desperate for money but unable to work because he just escaped prison might actually dream up a scheme to make money by committing crimes for his newfound friends in the movement. But why would DFreeze offer to become a hitman and then turn around days or weeks later and try to hire a hitman from among the middle-ass college radicals of the Bay Area? And where would he get the money to do so? It's so patently absurd, so logically inconsistent, and so obviously intended to ent trap the groups he approached. It sounds like something an outofouch right-wing cop or FBI agent would think up to entrap radical groups he didn't quite understand.

The SLA's tactic of targeting non-violent individuals for arcane, ideologically vague reasons, on the other hand, seemed almost perfectly tailored to enrage average Americans. Even some of his closest associates in the SLA sometimes suspected that Defreeze wasn't really the one in charge. Theo Wheeler, a high-up member of the SLA, later told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I think he was being used by a lot of other people that felt certain things should be done, but they didn't have the nerve to do. And because he was an escaped convict and was mad, you know, at the world and what was happening to him that they used him." The original core of the SLA after Defreeze got out of prison, however, were two of his girlfriends who had no such doubts. Nancy Ling Perry, described as the chief theoretician of the SLA, whose ideology would become the basis of the communicates the group would later send, and Patricia Sautisic, the woman who opened her home to Defreeze after his escape. Willie Wolf, Russ Little, and Joe Romero were other early joiners from the BCA days. The crime that would announce the Symbionese Liberation Army to the world was just as incomprehensible and ideologically backwards as the hitman proposals. 

Marcus Foster assassination - On November 6th, 1973, the first black superintendent of the Oakland school district, 50-year-old Marcus Foster, was walking out of his school district's headquarters with his superintendent, 38-year-old Robert Blackburn, when they were accosted by two people who opened fire with a shotgun and two pistols. Blackburn was rushed to the hospital and survived. Foster wasn't so lucky. The next day, November 7, the SLA's first communique was found among mail delivered to the Berkeley radio station, KPFA. The communicate was read aloud on the radio and would soon be published by both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune. According to Revolution's End, quote, "The charges against Marcus Foster were three-fold, including the use in Oakland schools of a political police force, compiling of bio dossier through the forced youth identification program, and building of files for the internal warfare identification computer system. In fact, by using initial capitalization, the SLA suggested there was a specific computer system for identifying students. Nothing of the kind existed. And anyone who actually followed Oakland Unified School District activities and politics knew that Foster had taken bold steps to improve the status of non-white children, not deprive them of their privacy or other rights. Foster's discussion of security in the Oakland school district did not include weapons or police. In response to previous violent incidents on school grounds, Foster had created a $1 million plan for the integration of police, the juvenile court system, county probation, and parole departments, including peace officers and safety coordinators in selected schools, a truency coordinator and student ID card program. No one objected to it, either in the administration or in the community. It simply couldn't get sufficient funding. In October 1973 though, the California Council on Criminal Justice about to provide $275,000 to the district changed their previous agreement with Foster, saying in a revised draft of the new program that school security had to have a police background. Foster staff checked the revised draft and missed the change. Just before the October 9th schoolboard meeting, Foster caught the oversight, very upset. "He called me over and pointed it out," Blackburn remembered. He said, "Have you seen this?" The most incredible thing. The community objected strongly at the schoolboard meeting, having seen public mention of the change in the agenda. Foster explained what had happened and assured a concerned audience at the meeting that he did not and would not endorse the CCCJ provision on security with police backgrounds in schools. He even agreed to back away from an ID card proposal. Robert Blackburn said that the October 9 meeting was not any more rockous or emotional than most. Interestingly, Willie Wolf was sent to the meeting to report back to the SLA. If Wolf privately told Defreeze of Fosters's firm resolve at the meeting, no mention of it was ever made among the other SLA members. Many in the SLA later spoke as if Foster was about to create a school system not unlike apartheid South Africa. The assassination of Marcus Foster was somehow even more inconsistent with any kind of rational left-wing objectives than the rabbi kidnapping and the hitman discussions, if that's even possible. Foster was black, first of all, and a rather milkto-ast mid-level bureaucrat, unobjectionable and generally popular among the largely black constituency of parents he served. But more importantly, the SLA's main charge against Foster that he was instituting mandatory ID cards for students wasn't even true. And moreover, they knew it wasn't true because an SLA member had attended the very schoolboard meeting where the issue of ID cards was decided. And the reasoning the SLA offered for the assassination in their first commun was similarly objectively false. After the shooting, the Pacific News Service reported, "According to Bay Area journalists with connections on the left, and according to a group of activists who split from the SLA last fall, Foster had been marked for assassination by the SLA last summer, meaning the ID card allegations were likely a misdirection, as the SLA had settled on Foster as a target months before he raised the issue of security or ID cards in Oakland schools." The wider radical left reacted to the assassination of Marcus Foster with open suspicion and hostility towards the SLA. The editors in the respected journal of the 1970s new left, Ramparts magazine, put into print what many radicals were privately saying to each other about the assassination. Namely, the act itself was so brutal, so morally unjustifiable, and so politically incomprehensible that most Bay Area radicals assumed the SLA to be a cover for some right-wing or police group. 

Even those who had previously considered themselves allies with or members of the SLA denounced them. A letter appeared in Berkeley's biggest underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb titled, "Exsymbian send letter to the people," saying: "We are ex-members of the Symbian Federation. We resigned collectively from the federation immediately after the assassination of Dr. Marcus Foster by resorting to abstract violence. The SLA not only separated itself from the rest of the revolutionary movement, but became the example to avoid the stereotype of the mad terrorist so indispensable to our oppressors to put us down even more with new laws and restrictions. We began to suspect that the war council, meaning in reality, Defreeze, was manipulated either by some local right-wing organization or the CIA itself. The secret decision to kill Marcus Foster and its execution, confirmed our suspicions.'' Even those in DeFreeze's inner circle, didn't seem to understand the rationale for attacking Foster. SLA member Russ Little would later say, quote, I remember saying to DFreeze, "Why? Why would you kill a black guy? Jesus Christ, man. It's like there's black people being killed all over the place, man. You know, if you're going to kill somebody, why in the world would it be him?'' It's a good question. Why would Defreeze, who knew very little about politics, much less obscure local schoolboard politics, choose Marcus Foster of all people, as a target? What could possibly have been his motivation? Shriber offers one explanation.

Colston Westbrook had condemned Marcus Foster back when Defreeze was attending the BCA in Vakavville. Westbrook even called him a fascist, a completely nonsensical charge, ignoring the white racism Foster diplomatically battled within the school district. A member of the BCA who was interviewed after the shooting said Westbrook was quote always murdermouthing about stopping Foster, screaming about his putting cops on campuses and giving identity cards to students. He should have known better. He knew how easy it was to get consled. Of course, maybe he wanted that. So Westbrook hadn't just chosen the names for DeFreeze and his new group, but he'd even picked their first victim. Westbrook had filled the bumbling apolitical convict to freeze his head with outrageous slanders against a bureaucrat in the local education system of all people and then set him loose with predictable results. 

After the Hiburnia Bank heist, in which Patty Hearst participated, a task force was set up to investigate the SLA by the left-wing screenwriter and journalist Donald Frerieded called the Citizens Research and Investigation Committee. A private investigator they employed, Lake Hedley, interviewed LAPD Sergeant RG Farwell on tape and extracted perhaps the clearest evidence yet of DFreeze's informant background. Toward the end of the interview, Hedley talked about a letter Defreeze had written in 1970 to a judge overseeing a criminal case against him in which Defreeze made extended, sometimes rambling references to his newfound religious beliefs. Sergeant Farwell replied, "Well, that's why I cut him loose. He was getting into that, and I knew he was unstable as far as psychological things are concerned." Forwell admitted that he had used Defreeze for informant work, but maintained that he had stopped doing so in 1970 because Defreeze was becoming psychologically unbalanced. Perhaps realizing the gravity of the admission, Farwell cut the interview short, saying, "Okay, right now I'm going to stand where I am. I don't mind talking to you, but the guy Defreeze is in trouble. And if word gets out that he did anything at all for the police, he's dead." Just weeks later, on May 7, one of Hedley's private investigators discovered that numerous files regarding Donald Dreeze were lost at the LA County Clerk's office. including his probation reports, letters from Defreeze's wife, and even Defreeze's 1970 letter to the judge, which had supposedly convinced Farwell of his mental illness. Headedley's research also revealed that the Freeze had been working not only for Sergeant Farwell at the criminal conspiracy section of the LAPD, but also for the California State Equivalent of the FBI, the Criminal Investigation and Identification Unit, also known as the CI. The Los Angeles area arrest record of Defreeze lists him as CI number 277103. His affiliation with the CI explains why Defreeze's informant activities stretched from the San Francisco Bay area all the way to the state of New Jersey. The admission from Sergeant Farwell prompted an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that Defreeze had been a highly protected and valued informant for the LAPD from 1967 to '69 and that he continued to be a snitch in Vakavville and Solidad. The newspaper contacted Sergeant Farwell, who only said that his superiors ordered him to say nothing more about the subject to anyone. Facing new media pressure, LA Police Chief Ed Davis admitted that Defreeze had once turned in a partner to police, presumably a reference to the 200 gun theft case, an admission he couldn't avoid because Defreeze had used one of the guns to fire on police. But Davis then suggested the LAPD had a longer history with him, saying to Freeze, quote, proved himself to be a cheap, undependable turnover punk. Evelle Younger, the attorney general of California under then Governor Ronald Reagan, released a calculated statement pretending to address the issue. Quote, "At no time during my tenure has Donald DFreeze been an informant for the Attorney General's office. No one had suggested Defreeze worked directly for the Attorney General's office." In yet another of his many media interviews, Colston Westbrook made a similar admission. I'm not an informer, but I am an informant. I collect information from a lot of people and sift it and pass it on. I've given it to both the FBI and the SLA. By this time, SLA members Russ Little and Joe Romero had been arrested while in possession of the guns used to shoot Marcus Foster and were facing charges for his murder. Surviving SLA members have unanimously claimed that the real shooters were the original core group of the SLA, Nancy Ling Perry and Patricia Sultzic with help from Defreeze. But Little and Romero were still loyal to the SLA at the time and refused to snitch on their comrades. Interviewed after the revelations about Defreeze's informant work, Russ Little appeared to re-evaluate some of DFreez's actions in light of this new knowledge. Defreeze made mention of some psychological warfare against the police. It was like trying to fake the police out, but it seemed like he totally lost track of that. Are you doing this for the police? Is the communicate for the police or is it to try to explain to people what you're doing? I mean, who is it for? Increasingly desperate and paranoid, the group split up and fled San Francisco for LA, turning to theft to provide their basic needs. While stealing clothes from a sporting goods store, Bill and Emily Harris were confronted by security, who were trying to detain the couple when, from across the street, Petty Hurst opened fire with an M1 rifle, allowing the Harrises to escape. They would ditch the getaway car, and Hurst and Emily Harris wound up carjacking and kidnapping a series of drivers to escape the area. While the San Francisco underground had been largely willing to shelter and protect members of the SLA, Los Angeles proved less accommodating. The rest of the SLA, Nancy Ling Perry, Camila Hall, Angela Atwood, Patricia Sultisic, Willie Wolf, and Donald Dere had resorted to bribing a woman renting a house in South Central LA to let them hide there. Within days of their arrival, the mother of the woman sheltering the SLA made an anonymous call to the LAPD, informing them of the group's location. The house was quickly surrounded by the LAPD and the FBI, who made almost 30 surrender announcements to the SLA in the coming hours. When the LAPD SWAT team began launching tear gas canisters into an open window, the SLA opened fire with automatic weapons, starting the biggest firefight in LAPD history up to that point. Less than an hour later, thick smoke began billowing out of the house, followed by fire. Within 2 hours, every SLA member in the house would be dead. Despite having fired multiple pyrochnic gas grenades into the house during the shootout, the LAPD would roll the cause of the fire as undetermined. Nancy Ling Perry's body was found about 10 feet away from the back of the building, unarmed and shot in the back, suggesting she had been fired upon while trying to surrender. The rest had died in the fire or from gunshot wounds. There was no effort made to fight the fire, even as it grew and spread to surrounding buildings. Fire trucks had arrived on scene, but were blocked from the street by the LAPD. In Westbrook's last major newspaper interview about the SLA, he told the interviewer that he believed Donald had just been following orders and that the true leader of the SLA was still at large. When the journalist asked who the real leader of the SLA was, Westbrook replied, "You really want to get me in trouble, huh?" She asked him if it was someone known to the public. "Yes, at the right time, you exposed your hand. There's a theory that I'm number one because I haven't been killed yet." Westbrook continued, "How would you like to join the CIA?" "You'd be a natural." As the interview wound down, Westbrook asked the journalist what she would do if she found the true leader of the SLA. "Would you tell me?" Westbrook asked. When the journalist answered in the negative, Westbrook leaned in and whispered, "How do you know I don't already know?" The remaining SLA members, Bill and Emily Harris and Patty Hurst, would go underground, traveling to the East Coast, and recruiting new members. In April of 1975, during a robbery of a Crocker National Bank branch in Carmichael, California, Emily Harris would accidentally fire her shotgun at a bank customer, MNA Opsol, who didn't survive her wounds. In September of 1975, Bill and Emily Harris would be arrested by the FBI while jogging near their apartment in San Francisco. The same day, Patty Hurst and Wendy Yoshimura were arrested in an apartment in the Outer Mission District. The remaining SLA members would disappear into the underground with some evading arrest for almost 30 years.

So, if the SLA had been an OP, then who was in control if it wasn't to Freeze? While Lake Headedley and the Citizens Research and Investigation Committee uncovered documentary evidence proving that Defreeze had been an informant for the LAPD under the Criminal Investigation and Identification Unit and the Criminal Conspiracy Section, which the department chief and Defreeze's handler, both admitted in media statements. This could at the very least explain Defrieza's early informant work and the New Jersey Black Panther entrapment plot. But there are other possibilities. In 1971, just a few years before the formation of the SLA, an informant for the criminal conspiracy and special investigation sections of the LAPD named Louis Tackwood went public with allegations that the LAPD had coordinated with the FBI to create a special political intelligence unit called Squad 19 that specialized in false flag, agent provocator, and other subversion operations targeting the political left. Tackwood maintained that in his role as an informant, he'd been induced to call in fake anonymous tips to the LAPD, one of which resulted in a police raid of a black Muslim mosque in LA. According to Tackwood, the LAPD had funneled money and guns to Ron Cororinga's US or with the understanding that they would be used in violent confrontations with the Black Panthers, identical to the FBI plots, which would later be revealed with the release of classified COINTEL profiles. Tackwood said he'd been sent undercover in a joint CI FBI operation to infiltrate black militant groups and spy on Berkeley city council candidates. He further claimed to have been involved in an abortive squad 19 plot to provoke violence and possibly even plant explosives at the 1972 Republican National Convention in San Diego as a false flag operation to provide the pretense for a national crackdown on radical groups. Tackwood had convinced members of the underground press of his credibility by allowing them to record his phone calls with his LAPD handlers in which they discussed their prior operations together, but the mainstream media never picked up the story. Could Defreeze have been intended as an agent provocator to entrap Berkeley radicals? An arrangement like this could explain to's bizarre hitman plots where he both offered his services for and tried to solicit contract killings. 

As for Defrieza's time in Vakavville, the deputy director of the CIA, Frank Carluchi, admitted that Vakavville had been the location of MK search research prior to Defrieza's arrival there. However, the prison had continued its medical experimentation, behavior modification, forced medication, and thought control techniques well into Defrieza's incarceration there. Obviously, this is pure speculation, but it's entirely plausible that the CIA had continued conducting MK Ultra-like research in Vakavville under some other program name. The existence of MK Ultra wasn't revealed to the public until the summer of 1975 with the release of Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission reports. So any behavior modification experiments during Defrieza's Vakavville stay wouldn't have faced the kinds of suspicion and scrutiny that existed after 1975. The presence of Colston Westbrook, a known CIA operative and admitted FBI informant at this prison, which had ostensibly just ended its MK Ultra experiments a couple years earlier, is suspicious to say the least. The entire pretense of Westbrook's role at the prison was that he was a UC Berkeley professor, altruistically facilitating interactions between college students and black convicts. But when asked what subject he actually taught at Berkeley, Westbrook seemed to name a different discipline every time, suggesting his university placement may have been a cover story. And Westbrook was just backstates side from having helped run the Phoenix program in Vietnam, which was a counter intelligence and interrogation operation aimed at extracting intelligence from suspected Vietkong collaborators. It's not hard to imagine why the CIA or the FBI would want to implant someone with interrogation and infiltration experience into the Bay Area prisons where political radicalism seemed to be taking over. Westbrook admitted that the leadership of the SLA, meaning to freeze, was trained in the process of behavior modification, which casts his later treatment of Patty Hurst, the blindfold, the sleep deprivation, the druggings, and forced propaganda recitations in a much different light.

Another possible vector of federal involvement was the FBI's pris or prison activist surveillance program, a branch in the co-intelpro family of operations specifically targeted at prison-based radical activism. Although it officially launched in 1974, the program that became prisac existed at least as early as 1970 under different names. Prisac created a liazison program through which the FBI would establish ongoing contacts with key people in prisons throughout the country. They organized a symposium at FBI headquarters called the National Symposium on Prisons as a revolutionary target where the FBI would teach the tactics of counterrevolutionary warfare to prison bureaucrats from across the US while theyworked with administrators from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and the CIA. At the 1973 symposium specifically, the prison administrators were taught to think about their work as a domestic war and then trained by people who had engaged in counterinsurgency warfare throughout the world. Counterinsurgency warfare like the Phoenix program. The operation that became prisac started as a classification in FBI files called black extremist activity in penal institutions. An appellation that showed up on the FBI files of the Black Liberation Army, the Black Guerilla Family, Geronom Pratt, George Jackson, and eventually the SLA. As for the intelligence motive in creating a group like the SLA, it's worth noting that the Black Panther Party was notoriously difficult to infiltrate because membership relied on a personal word of mouth and vouching system where admission was limited to black people who had demonstrable social ties to a specific neighborhood or to someone already in the Panthers. Hence why the LAPD was resorting to having people like Louis Tackwood call in fake tips against them. The few informants the government was able to cultivate were mostly long-standing members who were induced to provide information to get out of criminal charges. But the Panthers were generally extremely paranoid about informants and dealt with more than one snitch with extreme violence up to and including murder. Perhaps the government thought it would be easier to entrap black radicals in more serious charges if they were approached by peers like Defreeze with the credibility of having served time or committed violent acts for the cause. Louis Tackwood, the informant who revealed the existence of Squad 19, said that in exchange for his CI and FBI informant work, he was given a license to steal. In other words, the police gave him leeway to commit crimes below a certain threshold so long as he remained on informant. Maybe Defreeze started out with a similar arrangement. Hence, the numerous firearm arrests for which he walked away with probation. But then at some point, he started to believe his own hype as the general field marshall Cinque and burned the handlers who were protecting him. It is notable that the only arrest to actually earn DeFreeze prison time was the one in which he used an illegal gun the police had already confiscated from him once, suggesting Defreeze had a similar license to commit crime until it jeopardized the LAPD's plausible deniability regarding his informant work. By all accounts, Donald Def was politically ignorant and apathetic upon his arrival at Vagavville. And during his time leading the SLA, he left the actual political theorizing to Nancy Ling Perry and Bill Harris. Even after becoming the ostensible head of his own political terrorist group, Defreeze still occasionally called it the Lebanese liberation army and his strategizing seemed to flow backwards compared to a typical guerilla faction leader. Rather than becoming so outraged over Marcus Foster's policies that he felt violence was the only answer, the freeze appears to have decided on violence first and then Coloulston Westbrook just sort of aimed to freeze in the direction of Foster. And what's more, their whole justification for targeting Foster in the first place appears to have been a cover story since they already knew that Fosters's alleged crimes against the people, the ID card and school police policies had been cancelled well before his assassination. The mainstream media seemed to accept Patty Hurst's kidnapping at face value when the whole ordeal was fraught with contradictions. How did the SLA find Hurst's apartment in the first place if they were strangers? Why did it take weeks for the SLA to release their ransom demands even though that was ostensibly the whole point of the kidnapping? Why kidnap Randph Hurst's daughter instead of Randolph himself? The underground press and the citizens research and investigation committee recognized the absurdity of the situation immediately, but predictably the mainstream media coordinated to portray the wealthy Patricia Hurst as favorably as possible. The true history of the SLA has been obscured in a maze of classified programs, prison snitches, intelligence operatives, and agents provocator. So, parsing reality from rumor and misdirection is a difficult task. The SLA latched onto the nent radical movement of the 1970s and cartoonishly embodied its most irrational and destructive aspects, mimicking their lingo and aesthetics while pushing a political program that sounded incoherent and vague to outsiders. If DeFreeze's handler's objective was to make the radical left seemed deranged and violent to normal Americans, they couldn't have done a much better job. [Music] >> For those people who still believe that I'm brainwashed or dead, I see no reason to further defend my position. I am a soldier in the people's army. Patria Benzeros. Death is a fascist insect that plays upon the life of the people.

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