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From the book  American Pictures by Jacob Holdt:

Outside the prison an effective campaign was started to get Popeye released, and at longlast he was freed. We threw a big "back in the world" party for him. Popeye had often

warned me against FBI-infiltrators among the members of the Union. Having always

trusted anybody I met in my vagabonding, I took his warnings lightly as normal ghetto paranoia. For some reason I had difficulty imagining anybody I knew being secret police.

Therefore it totally knocked me out to experience the terror the system utilized against

Popeye's union and to realize that one of my friends whom I had most faith in indeed wasfrom the secret police.

It was Sara Jane Moore, who was a bit older than the others, and whom we thought was a

nice, sympathetic, although slightly confused, housewife from the suburbs It thereforeshocked us when suddenly in the newspapers she openly confessed that she was a spy for 

the FBI, but now had pangs of conscience because during our work she had been

converted to Popeye's views. Two months later she was close to changing world history,

when she attempted to shoot President Ford seen here in the limousine on Union Square.She had such terrible torment over what she had brought about by her FBI work that she

wanted to get revenge on the FBI by assassinating the very head of the system, as shesaid.

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Here is Sally seen with Popeye a few days before their murder. The assassin has not been

found, but now when Sara Jane Moore has been sentenced to life and in an interview withPlayboy has given her harrowing account of her work for the FBI and how the FBI began

threatening her life when they realized she was being converted to Popeye's ideas, few of 

us have any doubts. Popeye had often warned me of ex-convicts who could have struck special early release deals with police. But Popeye was never afraid of dying and the San

Francisco Chronicle later revealed that police previously had threatened to kill him.

Source: http://www.american-pictures.com/roots/chapter-67.htm

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Both Popeye Jackson and Sara Jane Moore are also tied to the SLA:

Wilbert "Popeye" Jackson, a president of the United Prison Union, had played a key rolein the Hearst food giveaway. He had been a close friend of Sara Jane Moore, the FBI

informant who had been assigned to spy on Jackson and other radicals working with the

 program. Jackson drew criticism from leftists. It was rumored that he was trying to bargain with Hearst to locate Patty, provided that the newspaper publisher use his

influence to keep Jackson’s parole from being revoked for a drug violation. His parole

was not revoked and some radicals theorized that Jackson’s good fortunes were tied to hisco-operation with Hearst and, worse, the FBI.

Jackson was also becoming more openly critical of bombing tactics of groups like the

 NWLF. At a May 18, 1975, rally in Ho Chi Minh Park, Jackson told a crowd: "I wonder why when we drop bombs in buildings,particularly [California Attorney General Eville

Younger], we don’t bomb him. Until we begin to adhere to these things the SLA taught

us we can’t say that we are revolutionaries."

A week later a NWLF communiqué charged Jackson with living like a capitalist and

sounding like a provocateur, and questioned his being allowed to remain free after beingcharged with a drug violation.

In the early morning of June 2, while Jackson and a girlfriend sat in his car outside his

apartment, a young gunman came up from behind and emptied the clip of a 9mmautomatic pistol into their bodies. Both Jackson and his schoolteacher friend Sally Voye

were killed.

Police would later say that they found an unsent NWLF communiqué claiming credit for 

the Jackson execution in an apartment shared by Wendy Yoshimura and Patty Hearst.

They also ‘claimed to have discovered an undelivered "NWLF Death Warrant issuedagainst another black prison reformer in the East Bay area named Maalik el Maalik. Still

another communiqué allegedly took responsibility for the Carmichael bank robbery.

Shortly after Jackson was killed, a NWLF letter, delivered by the Soliahs’ Bay Area

Research Center, charged that the police had probably killed Jackson. The communiqué,

which demanded proof that Jackson was an FBI informant, was signed by the "SLA

Strategic Command." It was from the Harrises.

Bill Harris said that his group had indeed sent the communiqué questioning whether 

Jackson was "snitch." But he denied having produced a letter claiming responsibility for the execution and signed the "SLA Strategic Command Post."

"A lot of people use New World Liberation Front and SLA to add excitement andlegitimacy to what they’re doing," Harris said. "We don’t know who a lot of these people

are. For example on the Popeye Jack son killing, there’s supposed to have been some

communiqué from us claiming credit. That’s bullshit. The murder of Popeye Jackson was

fucked up. We had nothing to do with it and denounced it in really strong terms in a

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righteous communiqué that came out after the phony one. We signed ours ‘SLA Strategic

Command.’ The one that got the pig publicity was attributed to the New World

Liberation Front [and] was signed. ‘SLA Strategic Command Post,’ We never put ‘post’on the end of ‘command.’ .

"On the ‘Maalik’ communiqué, we don’t even know who he is."

Source: http://presslord.com/ldsla142.htm