Revolution's end

the Patty Hearst kidnapping, mind control, and the secret history of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA

235 pages

English language

Published May 22, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-5107-1425-0
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OCLC Number:
941875586

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"'Revolution's End' fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned; she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification. Neither Hearst nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze realized that he was molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape, thanks to collusion with the California Department of Corrections. DeFreeze's secret mission: infiltrate and discredit Bay Area anti-war radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of seventies activism. When the murder of the first black Oakland schools superintendent failed to create an insurrection, DeFreeze was alienated from his controllers and decided to become a revolutionary, since his life was in jeopardy. 'Revolution's End' finally elucidates the complex relationship of Hearst and …

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Subjects

  • Kidnapping victims
  • Radicalism
  • Symbionese Liberation Army
  • History

Places

  • United States