C The two named execs were D. E. Stanberry, of the Colgate-Palmolive Company in Berkeley, and Charles W. Corner of South San Francisco, who was president of the T. A. White Candy Company, which S.L.A. claimed was a "subsidiary of ITT." Later evidence indicated that surveillance had already begun on these two and that more than a dozen other businessmen were being considered for warrants of "arrest" and/or "execution." It is probable that plans were also being made to kill Oakland Tribune publisher William Knowland and Raymond Procunier, head of the California prisons.
Twelve names that definitely were down on S.L.A.'s hit list were Donald T. Lauer, of Wells Fargo Bank; D. S. Langsdorf, of Bank of America; Theodore Lenzen, of Standard Oil; Arthur P. Shapro, of Liberty National Bank; Robert T. Shinkle, of Crocker-Citizens Bank; James H. Woodhead, of the Kaiser Corporation; Willsie Wood, a retired banker; Calvin T. Townsend, of ITT; UC Regent Joseph A. Moore, Jr.; Robert A. Magowan, of Safeway Stores; Edwin A. Adams, of Bank of California; and the late John E. Countryman, of Del Monte Foods, who had been dead several months before the always well-informed S.L.A. decided they wanted to kill him.
Mizmoon Soltysik and Nancy Ling Perry were not the least bit ashamed of the somewhat amateur quality of their research and surveillance. Admitted the two in a memo that accompanied one of the wipe-out lists:
Understanding that we are all just learning how to do this, and that it takes practice, and that the list is suggestions of things, the most important, that we'd like to know and realizing that many of them are difficult to obtain, and wanting to remind you to be extremely cautious and as inconspicuous as possible, also to let you know that the maps and drawings do not require that you be an artist.
