Symbionese Liberation Army
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Oct 15, 2026
CapitalisimoGUEST
But Donald DeFreeze, who is the person who, um, brainwashed Patty Hearst, uh, was a test subject of Jolyon West.
CapitalisimoGUEST
And hilariously enough, uh, after those, uh, after he, he learned so well that he used it on, on Patty Hearst, uh, and Patty Hearst was, uh, convicted in her part in the Symbionese Liberation Army's, uh, crimes, uh, Jolyon West ended up on her defense team, uh, as, as a subject matter expert, which in- indeed he was.
CapitalisimoGUEST
He's the, the guy you would wanna hire for that.
CapitalisimoGUEST
So, um-
CapitalisimoGUEST
But Donald Defreeze, who is the person who, um, brainwashed Patty Hearst, uh, was a test subject of Jolyon West.
CapitalisimoGUEST
And, pfft, hilariously enough, uh, after those, uh, after he, he learned so well that he used it on, on Patty Hearst, uh, and Patty Hearst was, uh, convicted in her part in the Symbionese Liberation Army's, uh, crimes, uh, Jolyon West ended up on her defense team, uh, as, as a subject matter expert, which in- indeed he was.
CapitalisimoGUEST
He's the, the guy you would wanna hire for that.
CapitalisimoGUEST
So, um-
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It wasn't until the following year that the term took hold in the US and beyond.
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Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of the newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was taken from her Berkeley apartment by a far-left gang called the Symbionese Liberation Army, SLA.
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Two months later, Hearst appeared on a bank surveillance video as Tanya, threatening customers during an afternoon heist in San Francisco.
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Up, up, up against the wall, motherfuckers, she hollered.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
It is an ordinary feature of human life, practiced by families, schools, armies, prisons, and anyone else with the power to shape another person's behavior.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
Leary pointed to Lieutenant William Calley of My Lai Massacre fame, who was programmed by the Army, Lynette Fromm, programmed by Manson, and Patty Hearst, programmed by Donald DeFreeze, otherwise known by the absurd nom de guerre General Field Marshal Sin-Q of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
Manson and DeFreeze, they argued, had learned their techniques of manipulation somewhere.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
While a generation of conspiracy theorists place the blame at the feet of the CIA, the reality is less exotic.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
It is an ordinary feature of human life, practiced by families, schools, armies, prisons, and anyone else with the power to shape another person's behavior.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
Leary pointed to Lieutenant William Calley of My Lai Massacre fame, who was programmed by the army, Lynette Fromm, programmed by Manson, and Patty Hurst, programmed by Donald DeVries, otherwise known by the absurd nom de guerre General Field Marshal Sinque, of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
Manson and DeVries, they argued, had learned their techniques of manipulation somewhere, While a generation of conspiracy theorists place the blame at the feet of the CIA, the reality is less exotic.
Joseph L. FlatleyHOST
The prison system is where the people society has discarded are violated and manipulated.
BKHOST
Yeah.
BKHOST
He, uh, and, and he joined a revoler- revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
BKHOST
This is, like, in the '70s.
BKHOST
Like, there was all k- Remember, like, Bill Ayers, Obama's mentor? Yeah, there were all these in sev- '60s and '70s, they had all these radical left-wing groups running around, like, k- actually killing people and blowing shit up.
Tyler Austin HarperHOST
So do you think we'll, we'll see a non, uh, like, uh, rationalist, uh, effective altruist commune movement?
Jay Caspian KangHOST
No, I mean, I think that if there's a real commune movement that gets like politically weird or like politically active in the ways that the old communes did or the old sort of splinter political movements like, I don't know, let's say the Symbionese, Symbionese Liberation Movement or something like that, army.
Jay Caspian KangHOST
Um, that it will come from, uh, people who are formerly AI commune people who have moved on and decided to become anti.
Jay Caspian KangHOST
You know, like it, it-
speaker_1HOST
Bill Harris's wife, Rebecca Young, says he died of a heart attack last month.
speaker_1HOST
Harris moved to the Bay Area in 1971, where he joined the Symbionese Liberation Army, a far left militant group.
speaker_1HOST
He helped plan Hearst's kidnapping and served eight years in prison.
speaker_1HOST
In 2002, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for a deadly 1975 Crocker bank robbery and served another four years.
Bill AllredHOST
Uh, Bill Harris has died.
Bill AllredHOST
Uh, Bill Harris was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Gina BarberiHOST
Ooh.
Bill AllredHOST
Bill Harris, uh, a Marine Corps veteran, was one of the main kidnappers of Patty Hearst, the heiress of the Hearst fortune, uh, in his role as a top lieutenant with the Symbionese Liberation Army, uh, the underground b- uh, b- band of firebrands that epitomized, and to many helped discredit, the revolutionary far left of the '70s.
Bill AllredHOST
He died in San Francisco.
Bill AllredHOST
He was 81 years old.
Mark MayfieldCORRESPONDENT
His wife confirms he passed away last month in San Francisco of a heart attack.
Mark MayfieldCORRESPONDENT
Harris was a member of the far-left Symbionese Liberation Army, which in 1974 kidnapped Hearst from her apartment in Berkeley, California.
Mark MayfieldCORRESPONDENT
Hearst, the daughter of media tycoon Randolph Hearst, would later appear to join the group, participating in a bank robbery in San Francisco.
Mark MayfieldCORRESPONDENT
In the years after the kidnapping of Hearst, Harris served stretches in prison for armed robbery and second-degree murder.
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