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ae | Q or a a I a A ee A et ra, aan My A at a Deity kl he eo” ee en ne SE RS) Se SCHEME TO KIDNAP | BROWN’S SISTER TOLD “ee ware fo ae . . ; . : ~ Coniinucd fron: First Page sources, and was closely associated 3g0 and that it was being treated "as. withthe Harnses who paid him a serious matter." ots numerous visits while he was.in pri- ~~ #'He said Brown was kept informed son in 1973 and 39747 — . ame. - "Of the steps being taken to nrotect During the LAPD investigation of .. his sister, who is a memoer of the the kidnap plot. Holiday and more ‘Les Angeles Board of Education. But ‘than five cther BGF members were - he ‘declined to confirm resorts that kept under surveillance, an informed Brown's father and mother also were Source said. . ‘placed under police guard. =” The surveillance of Holliday ended ~. Evidence of the plot first came to Nov. | when he and Michaet Cowans, the atlention of the FEladay ortwo 29, were arrested a3 suspects in a after several news media received doudle murder in a South-Central photocopies of a memo purporiediy Los Angeles apartment house. ~ Jtom the SLA calling on symoaihiz- Cowans was sent to San Quentin in vers to unite in a “mass efiort to make 1968 for kidnaping and raping a 16 : nationwide arrests of the rich, fascist year-old itl and was paroled last , 8 Insects—to be released only when Dec 31. When arrested on the mur- bail has been posted for al! nurcom- der charge, he reportedly bragze Zades with funes iron the honey-la- that he was “pigh up” in the SLA. -den hives of the ruting class.” , “ot ~ Gates, however, said he doubted that the SLA communique wa5 relate- ed to the plan to kidnap Mrs. Rice. The FBI turned its information , over to the LAPD which bezan an Investigation of the kidnap plot Gates refused to identity the suse pects or confirm the involvement of . _the Black Guerrilla Family in the . ; Plot to kidnap Mes. Rice. « However, other law enforcement ‘sources told The Times that a central . Suspect in the plot was James Harold ‘(Doc) Holliday. 33. who was paroled ‘from San Quentin July 23 after serv . ing nearly 13 years for murder, re » Holliday was known as a ica¢er in ~ the BGF, according to intelligence . € se ity uO G LATIMES: Wfuf7s ex? -12- Pt ee ee + PS Se ae