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Sey tne de eek 3 i Satine SB: ° ihe aA Pe LN g tp eae ys ort as at te erat ‘4 awe tT anes peas Laduale el ne eek ee eee . ne or rer Bert SURE he A suspects ia the killings. ® mbes were kilied. ‘ t Investipators sald they Heved the two killings wh connected to narcotics traffic and bad nothing to do with any plans to kidnap Mrs. Rice. * Officially, the Los Angeles Police Department and the cover- mor’s office said that Mrs. Rice Was never a kidnap target of the. _Black Guerrilla Famuy and .the SLA. ‘ However, the Examiner was told, both Mrs. Rice and the governor, aod their parents, [or- mer Gov. Edmund G. Brown and . his wife, Berailce, were told ‘of the plot. = : Mrs. Rice sald she did not’ want to comment on the plot —Asked- if sbe had been told by - Los Angeles police of such a plat, sbe replied: “There was some talk ~ but I don't want to comment.” » : Holiday, who was considered so dangerous in prison that he was housed in a2 San Quentin segregation unit uct} the day he was released, was informed of his parole date July 1, just 22 days | before release. / * He was an old friend of the SLA and ‘was visited by William Harris seven times in priscao. the last visit occurring Nov. 22, 1973, two weeks after the SLA ascassi nation of Ozkland Scaco! superin| tendent * farcus Foster. | * Holiiday now is in jail in Los Axzeles along with SLA members Wiliam and Emily Harris, who} Page 26— ey. Examiner wt Mon., Now. 10, ee ee ee ee te er adh a. er ay 7 7 , t be + es mR Sr idee Nye meee wet OES "Ga The Harrises were removed to Los Anreies after thelr arrest bere [ast Sept. 18 atone with Patricia Hearst, Wendy Yoshi- mura and Steven Soilab. Also in jall down there are SLA members Joseph Remiro and Russeli Little. convicted of Fos. ter's assassination. They are on -trial, under a change of venue, on charges stemming from a sboo-. tout with Concord police that preceded their arrest for the Foster murder. One of the connections be tween Holliday and Cowans, who reportedly braceed that be was “high in the SLA.” Los Angeles police sources said, was that the __ pals were said to have escorted 3a gicl friend of Remira when she visited him in the Los Angeles jail Remiro and Little were the only two SLA members in prison at the time the plot concerning Mrs. Rice was said to have been formuated. ‘ connection, recailed that documents Teportedly seized after the Harris- es' arrest indicated that the original motive for the kidnaping of Miss Hearst by the SLA Feb. 4, 1074, wus to bring the release of; Little and Remiro. Holliday, who was sent to San “Quentin Aug. 8, 1901, after convic- lion as the driver in a fatai jiquor store robbery, had been beld in -13- re tem a we ee ee eb oe Ex: wer sources expressed’ ‘ astonish. ent that he would have ty} paroled, inasrnuch as he was te;,arded as a dancerous prisoner - because of his Black Guerrilla Family affiliation, Corrections Department spokesmen, however, said that a convict rerarded as dancerous to other prisoners and gusrus inside prison was not pecessarily pe- garded as & menace on ie Streets. a& spokesman noted that Holli- _ day bad served a lone time and it was impossible to say how he : would behave once released. aA ” Also, jt was noted, there has been considerable impetus on the: - part of the Adult Authority toe fix parole dates for convicts in view “of the increasing opposition in recent years toe the indeterminate” Sentence system, widely criticized a3 a Cause of prison violence. Information that the plan to keep a watch on Mrs. Rice as 2 potential kidnap target was devel- oped while Holliday. was in prison meant the plan was worked out while the Harrises were stall at. large. . .- ‘heen: - Gevein ror s sister SEA kidnap target By Stephen Cook © 1975, San Francisco Exeminer Gov, Brown's sister, Kathleen ~" Rice, was a target of friends of the Symbionese Liberation Army who wanted to kidvap ber to force release of imprisoned SLA niem- . bers, The plot was hatched in Son Quentin and was to have been carried out under direction of James H. “Doe” Holliday, sus- pected Icader of the Black Guer- Filla Family. the Examiner was told by a reliable, well-placed law enforcement source. © Noltiday, a friend of SLA ‘and Weather Underground members, was p3roled from Son Quentin _ Jast July 23 from a life term he ‘was serving for murder. Me and SLA sympathicers had Mes. Rieww a Sevearad + Membet of the Les Anevlss Boar of Edutaten, under surrveillinte, the criminal conspiracy section of the Los Angeles Police Depart ment Jearaeu. The plot was aborted when Holliday, Xt, was arrested after 3 shootout with bas Angeles potive Speelab Weapons gud Tacues SWAT? offlewis Nov: 1 The arrest catae shortly after (40 inet Were piece ‘tanl and 2 man aml wernan inpued m4 Nestetiewmend Bess Asietedie tiaecn