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GEORGE JACKSON BRIGADE true, would raise to six the number of bombings by the Brigade starting May 31, 1975, in Olympia to the New Years Eve destruction of a City Light substation. In a newspaper article dated 4/7/76, in the "Seattle Times", a Seattle newspaper published daily, MEAD, at his trial remarked "What we were doing we had an absolute right to do in order to further political goals" in remarking on the bank robbery. MEAD described himself as a communist whose philosophy is "extracted from the teachings of all revolutionary leaders". MEAD further said that "I'm going to put the issue of revolution on the agenda. It is government that needs to be tried, not me.” MEAD said he believes "That this government must be brought down, and change can't happen peacefully...its going to take a revolution by the masses of people". In a newspaper article dated 4/21/76 in the "Seattle Times", MEAD acknowledges his membership in the GJB stated in a recent interview with a Seattle reporter "We believe that this government must be brought down, and change can't happen peace- fully...it is going to take a revolution by the masses of common people". MEAD described the Tukwila bank robbery as a “military operation" which involved an elaborate diversion plan with fake bombs, three getaway cars, radio communications and heavily armed "comrades". The Brigade is named after a California prisoner and writer killed during an escape attempt in 1971 sent in a communique last month that the robbery was to acquire money "for weapons, explosives and survival". The Brigade has also taken responsibility for SHERMAN's escape in which an accomplice seriously wounded a county policeman escorting SHERMAN to a hospital for a wound re- ceived during the robbery. In a newspaper article dated 4/22/76 in the “Seattle Times" it was reported that EDWARD ALLEN MEAD, 34, proclaimed member of the GJB was sentenced today in the Superior Court two consecutive life terms for shooting at police during an attempted Tukwilla bank robbery on 1/23/76. In a newspaper article dated 5/19/76 in the "Seattle Post Intelligencer" it was reported that a Federal Grand Jury investigating the revolutionary GJB brought new charges against two of its avowed members and MARK EDWIN COOK in a wide range conspiracy indictment. The Jury said the conspiracy not only included a January 23 bank robbery attempt in Tukwila, Washington and a bloody jail escape on March 10 but also involved the plot to rob another bank and planned to free any captured members from McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary or Walla Walla State Prison, the indictment said. The Grand Jury indictment charged COOK,