Dr. West firmly asserted that while Donald " Cinque " DeFreeze and other movement members had used a rather coarse version, they did employ the classic Maoist formula for thought control ; Hearst was young and apolitical enough to be at extreme risk and, in his professional experience, that it would have even broken many experienced soldiers.

I did not mean that DeFreeze was black ; it had suddenly occurred to me that, in the photos taken during the bank robbery in which Patty Hearst participated, you could barely see DeFreeze's face.

SLA members also envied persons, like DeFreeze, who had served time in prison.

DeFreeze has been accused by some sources of being an informant from 1967 to 1969 for the Public Disorder Intelligence Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department.

DeFreeze escaped from the Soledad State Prison on March 5, 1973 simply by walking away while on work duty in a boiler room located outside the perimeter fence.

While incarcerated at Vacaville Prison, DeFreeze met with some far-left radicals who were working as volunteers in the prison and was converted to their political ideas.

In her trial for armed robbery Patricia Campbell Hearst testified that she was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California apartment by Atwood, Donald DeFreeze, and

On March 5, 1973, Donald DeFreeze escaped prison and future SLA members Russell Little and Willy Wolfe took him to Soltysik's house because unlike their other associates, Soltysik didn't visit the prisons.

The SLA formed after the escape from prison by Donald DeFreeze, a. k. a. " General Field Marshal Cinque.

On May 17, 1974, the Los Angeles Police Department surrounded a house where DeFreeze and five other SLA members were staying.

DeFreeze, along with Patricia Soltysik, founded the Symbionese Liberation Army and soon recruited members for his group.

Atwood, along with five other founding members of the SLA, including Donald DeFreeze, was killed in Los Angeles, on May 17, 1974, in a shootout with police.

The two became lovers and Soltysik and DeFreeze created the first SLA literature.

The SLA manifesto for sale in a magazine-store in StockholmIn his manifesto " Symbionese Liberation Army Declaration of Revolutionary War & the Symbionese Program ", Donald DeFreeze wrote, " The name ' symbionese ' is taken from the word ' symbiosis ' and we define its meaning as a body of dissimilar bodies and organisms living in deep and loving harmony and partnership in the best interest of all within the body.

Although the SLA considered themselves leaders of the black revolution, DeFreeze was its only black member.

DeFreeze took the name Cinque from the leader of the slave rebellion who took over the slave ship Amistad in 1839.

DeFreeze and Soltysik became lovers and began to outline the plans for founding the " Symbionese Nation.

Donald David DeFreeze ( November 15, 1943 – May 17, 1974 ), also known as Cinque Mtume, was the leader of the American guerilla group Symbionese Liberation Army, a group operating in the mid-1970s, under the nom de guerre " Field Marshal Cinque.

DeFreeze was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Louis and Mary DeFreeze.

DeFreeze adopted the name " Field Marshal Cinque " ( pronounced " SINK-you "), having taken this name from Joseph Cinqué, the reported leader of the slave rebellion which took over the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839.

DeFreeze is primarily suspected of having murdered Foster and shooting Assistant Superintendent Robert Blackburn.

DeFreeze and others crawled through a hole in the floor into a crawlspace beneath the house.

Apparently burning alive, DeFreeze committed suicide by shooting himself in the right side of his head.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.