Murder Suspect May Be Leader Of the Revolution

The alleged murderer of Boston patrolman Walter A. Schroeder has identified himself as "commander-in-chief, Revolutionary Action Force-East."

Stanley R. Bond II made the announcement in a letter to WBZ-TV reporter Steve Nevas. The letter was written three days after the murder and postmarked Spokane, Washington. Bond is under arrest in Colorado for the September 23 bank robbery killing.

Bond said in the letter that he was writing "because the U. S. government has chosen not to make public the formal declaration of war presented to it by Revolutionary Action Force (RAF) in August of this year."

"Bond also says the RAF insists that any of its members taken prisoner by the U. S. government, or by what he calls its local or state representative, be treated as prisoners of war," Nevas said.

Nevas said law-enforcement officers he spoke to had never heard of the RAF, although Bond claimed in the letter that it was nation-wide.