#1230 - Brad Schreiber

Brad Schreiber is an award-winning author, journalist, and screenwriter, his work extends to many aspects of media. Brad talks about his reporting for his book "Revolution’s End" which details 1970s heiress Patty Hearst’s relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Neither she nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze knew he was a victim of prison behavior modification and an informant. Molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape, DeFreeze’s secret mission was to infiltrate and discredit Bay Area anti-war radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of 70s activism.