page_title: Symbionese Liberation Army
hierarchical_section_title: Symbionese Liberation Army
caption_attribution_description: English: Digital recreation of the flag/banner of the "Symbionese Liberation Army", as it appeared behind Patricia Hearst in a notorious publicity photograph. The symbol on the flag is the "Seven headed Cobra", as designed by SLA leader Donald DeFreeze.
context_page_description: The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army was an American left-wing organization active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence.
  The SLA became internationally notorious for the kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old from Berkeley, California. Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to and broadcast by regional news media, announced that she had joined the SLA. Hearst later said that members of the terrorist group threatened to kill her, held her in close confinement, and sexually assaulted and brainwashed her.
  As of 2017, all but one of the surviving SLA members have been released from prison.
context_section_description: The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American left-wing organization active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence.
  The SLA became internationally notorious for the kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old from Berkeley, California. Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to and broadcast by regional news media, announced that she had joined the SLA. Hearst later said that members of the terrorist group threatened to kill her, held her in close confinement, and sexually assaulted and brainwashed her.
  As of 2017, all but one of the surviving SLA members have been released from prison.
caption: Flag/banner of the Symbionese Liberation Army
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