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SCHEME TO KIDNAP 4 BROWN’S SISTER: TOLD tar, ¢ Continued fron First Pase age and thal it was being treated " as _@ Strious matter.” : i He said Brown was keot infor * of the steps being taken lo pois Lhis'sister, who is a member of tne * Las Angeles Board of Education. But" he declined lo confirms. recorts tha: Brown's father and mother also were “placed under police guard. = =. Evidence of the plot first came to the allention of the FEI a day or two . aller several news media received phoiccopies of a memo purroriedty — from the SLA calling on sympxthiz- ‘ers to unite in a “niass effort lo mexe “nationwide arrests Of ths rich, Jastut “insetls—to Le reteaitd only when bail has been posted for ali our com: ‘yades with funds Irom the honey-iae iden hives of the rutiag ¢lase.” co ~ Gates, however, said he doubted thal the SLA communinus wes relat- . ad to the pian lo kidnap Mrs. Rice, * The “Fst turned ils information over to the LAPD which tozan gn Jnvestigatien of the kicnao plot. SOUTCES, and Was 5 closely associated’! with the Harrises who paid him =F ‘humerous visits while he was.in Pete 216 , son ir, 1273 and 1974. ' Bering Che LAPD investigation of + the kidnap p.ot, Hotiicay and more’* than five other EGF members were kept under surveillance, an informed 4 source Said, ~ The sveveillanee of Holiday ended * Now. 1 when he and Michael Cowacs, 23, were arrested 23 suspects in a te. “double murder m a Souh-Centeal © 2je'. Los anzeiss apartment rouse. : Cowans was sent lo San Quentin in 2 , 1253 for kidnaping and raping a 16- * wearan'd pici and wa3 pasoted last | Dee. 21. When arrested on the mere 7 tr charge, he reportediy bragged - that ne was “high up" in in the SLA. a poem : . Gates refused to wentiiy thé sus. Peels or confirm the inveivement of the Black Guerrilla Famuiy in the Plot to kidnap Mes. Rice. « However, ‘other law eniorcement yourees told The Times that a cenizal “suspect in the piot was James Harold (Dor) foiliday, 33. who was parcied . "from San Queatin duly 23 after serv. °° : ing nearly 13 years for murder. oa « Holliday was known as a icader in the EGF, according to intelligence a-. 4 Fe te ah ee eet eet eet ee oe ee eee