Revolution's end
Subtitle: the Patty Hearst kidnapping, mind control, and the secret history of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA
By: Brad Schreiber
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781510714250
Subjects: Kidnapping victims; Radicalism; Symbionese Liberation Army; History
Description: "'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 DeFreeze and proves that one of the largest shootouts in US history, which killed six members of the SLA in South Central Los Angeles, ended when the LAPD set fire to the house and incinerated those six radicals on live television, nationwide as a warning to American leftists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.