Editing Symbionese Liberation Army (section)

==== Conditions of early captivity of Patty Hearst ====
The FBI conducted an unsuccessful search for Hearst as the SLA took refuge in a number of safe houses. Hearst later claimed she was subjected to a series of ordeals while in SLA captivity; her mother later described these as "brainwashing". The announced change in Hearst's politics through the following months has been attributed to [[Stockholm syndrome]], a psychological response in which a hostage exhibits apparent loyalty to the abductor.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} Hearst was later examined by specialist psychologist [[Margaret Singer]], who came to the same conclusion.

[[Terence Hallinan]], the first attorney who represented her, was planning to argue involuntary intoxication, a side effect of which is amnesia.<ref name="foundsf.org" />

Hearst's attorney [[F. Lee Bailey]] used the Stockholm syndrome argument as part of her defense at trial. He claimed that she had been confined in a closet barely large enough for her to lie down in; that her contact with the outside world was regulated by her captors; and that she was regularly threatened with execution. Hearst's lawyer said that she had been raped by both DeFreeze and Wolfe. Both men were among those who died in 1974 in a firefight with police.<ref name="foundsf.org"/> The SLA publicly claimed to be holding Hearst according to the conditions of the [[Geneva Conventions]].<ref name="Toobin" />

The SLA subjected Hearst to indoctrination in SLA ideology. In Hearst's taped recordings, used to announce demands and conditions, on day thirteen of her capture, Hearst can be heard extemporaneously expressing SLA ideology.<ref name="Guerrilla 2004"/> With each successive taped communiqué, as the group called them, Hearst expressed increasing support for the aims of the SLA. She eventually denounced her former life, her parents, and fiancé. She later claimed that at that point, when the SLA had ostensibly given her the option of being released or joining the SLA, she had believed she would be killed if she turned them down. She began using the [[nom de guerre]] "Tania", after [[Che Guevara]]'s associate "[[Tamara Bunke|Tania the Guerrillera]]".