Below
are pages vii to xv (the Contents & appendixes Listings) from:
The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the
Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy,
A Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US
House of Representatives dated May 15, 1979.
Portions of the report listed in red are included in the classified version only..
Page
FOREWORD..................................................................................................................................... III
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL........................................................................................................... V
I. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................... 1
A. Ryan trip
background ............................................................................................... 1
B. Summary of events
of November 14-19, 1978.................................................... 3
C. Chairman Zablocki's
mandate for an investigation ............................................ 6
II. THE INVESTIGATION................................................................................................................
8
A. Preparation ................................................................................................................. 8
B. Washington
activities-I............................................................................................
9
C. California
acttvities ................................................................................................... 9
D. Washington
activities-II ....................................................................................... 11
E. Guyana activities ..................................................................................................... 12
F. Washington
activities-III ....................................................................................... 14
G. Information
management....................................................................................... 14
H. Miscellaneous
information..................................................................................... 14
I. Statistical summary
of interviews ........................................................................... 15
III. FINDINGS.................................................................................................................................
16
A. Jim Jones and
People's Temple ......................................................................... 16
Background.................................................................................................... 16
Tactics of
Jim Jones ................................................................................... 17
Motivation
of People's Temple members .............................................. 19
People's
Temple as a "church" ................................................................. 20
B. Conspiracy against
Jim Jones and People's Temple...................................... 20
C. Opponents and media
intimidated; public officials used................................ 22
D. Awareness of
danger, predicting the degree of violence ............................... 24
E. U.S. Customs
Service investigation .................................................................... 25
F. Conspiracy to kill
Representative Ryan................................................................ 26
G. The Privacy Act and
the Freedom of Information Act-..................................... 27
H. Role and
performance of U.S. Department of State........................................
29
I. Involvement of the
Government of Guyana ........................................................ 32
J. Social security;
foster children .............................................................................. 33
K. Future status of
People's Ternplec ...................................................................... 35
IV. RECOMMENDATION.............................................................................................................
36
(1) Review of
exemption provisions under the Privacy Act and
Freedom of
Information Act....................................................................... 36
(2) Review of Internal
Revenue Service rules and regulations
regarding
churchea......................................................................................
36
(3) State Department
organization and procedures ............................................. 36
(4) Concentrated
program of research and training on cults
needed_.......................................................................................................... 37
(5) Inclusion of the
subject of cults on the agenda of the White
House
Conference on the Family ............................................................ 37
APPENDIXES 1
I. Introduction.................................................................................................................................
39
A. Ryan trip
background............................................................................................... 43
1.
Correspondence between Hon. Leo J. Ryan and various
members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.............................. 43
(a)
October 4, 1978 letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki............................................... 43
(b) October 12, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Hon. Leo J. Ryan............................................... 44
(c) October 17, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki................................................ 45
(d) October 18, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to Hon. William S. Broomfield ........................................... 46
(e) October 18, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki................................................ 47
(f) October 24, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki
to Hon. Leo J. Ryan............................................... 48
2. Correspondence
between Hon. Leo J. Ryan and the U.S.
Embassy in Guyana, Jim Jones and Mark Lane............................. 49
(a) November 1, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to Jim Jones........................................................................... 49
(b) November 1, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to Ambassador John R. Burke............................................ 50
(c) November 5, 1978 State
Department cable
describing conditions the People's Temple had
established for Ryan Codel visit to Jonestown................ 51
(d) November 6, 1978
letter from Mark Lane to Hon.
Leo J. Ryan ,........................................................................... 52
(e) November 10, 1978
letter from Hon. Leo J. Ryan
to Mark Lane .......................................................................... 54
B. Summary of events of
November 14-19, 1978 ................................................. 57
1. List of People's
Temple. members who chose to leave
withRyan Codel on November 18, 1978 ............................................ 57
2. List of. injured persons
during attack on Port Kaituma
airstrip ....................................................................................................... 57
3. Time
chart illustrating the sequence of events on November
18, 1978, culminating in the attack on the Ryan Codel
according to various individuals interviewed by
the staff investigative group ................................................................. 58
C. Chairman Clement J. Zablocki's mandate for
an investigation ..................... 60
1. Correspondence between
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki, Chairman
of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, and the Department of
State, and State
Department materials provided to the
committee at the
request of the Staff Investigative Group .............. 60
(a) November 21, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of State 62
(b) December 8, 1978
interim response from the
Dept.of State to the November 21, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablock ................................... 63
(c) December 12, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of State ................................... 64
(d) December 13, 1978
final response from the
Department of State to the November 21, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J. ZablockL................................. 65
(e) November 28, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of State................................... 81
(f) December 19, 1978
interim response from the
Department of State to the November 28, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki.................................. 82
(g) January 9, 1979 final
response from the Department
of State to the November 28, 1978 letter
from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki; ........................................... 85
(h) December 28, 1978
letter from the Department of
State providing various materials requested by
the Staff Investigative Group. (Materials include
a chronology of significant events with respect
to the People's Temple settlement in Jonestown
from 1974 to 1978, guestbook of the Jonestown
settlement, and a list of the deceased').............................. 88
(i) January 4, 1979 letter
from the Department of
State providing information and materials requested
by the Staff Investigative Group. (Materials include
a series of memoranda detailing impressions of
U.S. Government officials who had visited
Jonestown since 1974 and a Department of
State cable related to the visit of Lt. Gov. Mervyn
Dymally of California to Guyana in 1976. Other
materials provided in the January 4, 1979 letter
from the Department of State are retained in the
committee files on a confidential basis.) ........................ 127
(j) January 31, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of State ................................ 150
(k) February 11, 1979
interim response from the
Department of State to the January 31, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki................................. 151
(l) March 2, 1979 final
response from the Department
of State to the January 31, 1979 letter from
Hon. Clement J. ZablockL .................................................. 152
(m) February 2, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of State.................................. 153
(n) March 14, 1979 final
response from the Department
of State to the February 2, 1979 letter from
Hon.. Clement J. Zablocki.
(Materials contained
in this response include statements of U.S.Embassy
personnel in Georgetown, Guyana who had contact
with the People's Temple and a copy of the land
lease for the Jonestown settlement agreed to by
the People's Temple and the Government of Guyana.
In addition to the documents shown here, a number
of classified documents pertinent to appendix I-C-1
are maintained on a confidential basis in the
committee files)..................................................................... 155
2.
Memorandum from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki to the Staff
Investigative Group establishing the parameters of the
Jonestown inquiry ............................................................................... 183
II. The investigation ................................................................................................................... 185
A. Preparation ............................................................................................................. 193
1.
(In classified version only.)
2.
Correspondence between Hon. Clement J. Zablocki and
various executive branch agencies and information and
materials provided by various executive branch agencies
at the request of the Staff Investigative Group. The
December 11 letter from Chairman Zablocki to Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare and other related
materials do not appear in this appendix. They appear
in appendix III-J-2 in connection with the Investigative
Group's findings entitled "Social Security, Foster Children"......... 193
(a) December 11, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of Justice............................ 193
(b) December 28, 1978
letter from the Department
of Justice to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki ........................... 194
(c) March 30, 1979 letter
from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of Justice ........................... 195
(d) April 12, 1979 interim
response from the
Department of Justice to the March 30, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki .............................. 197
(e) April 19, 1979 final
response from the Department
of Justice to the March 30, 1979 letter from Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki...........................................................
198
(f) December 11, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Department of the Treasury .................. 200
(g) January 5, 1979 letter
from the Department of the
Treasury to Hon. Clement J. ZablockL............................ 201
(h) March 21, 1979 letter
from the Department of the
Treasury providing information and materials
requested by the Staff Investigative Group.
(Materials include a synopsis of the investigative
activities carried out by the U.S. Customs
Service concerning the People's Temple.).................... 202
(i) March 30, 1979 letter
from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the U.S. Customs Service ............................ 205
(J] December 11, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Federal Communications
Commission......................................................................... 206
(k) January 5, 1979 letter
from the Federal
Communications Commission to Hon. Clement
J. Zablocki............................................................................. 207
(l) December 11, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the National Security Agency....................... 208
(m) December 29, 1978
letter from the National
Security Agency to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki................ 209
(n) December 11, 1978
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to the Central Intelligence Agency................... 210
(0) December 28, 1978
letter from the Central
Intelligence Agency to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki......... 211
(p) February 28, 1979
letter from the Department of
State to the Staff Investigative Group providing
materials requested by the staff investigative
group. (Materials provided include two
Department of State documents related to the
Stoen Custody case.) ........................................................ 212
(q) April 19, 1979 letter
from the Department of State
to the Staff Investigative Group providing
materials and information requested by the Staff
Investigative Group. (Materials include the lease
agreement executed by the People's Temple
and the Government of Guyana, the December 19,
1978 visa application of Mrs. Pat Small and
Department of State memoranda and cables
concerning various aspects of the Jonestown
incident.) .............................................................................. 217
3. Legal
opinions concerning constitutional limitations on
Congressional investigations of religious groups and the
feasibility of distinguishing between bona fide religious
groups and religious "cults" .............................................................. 236
(a) December 21, 1978,
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Prof. Richard Delgado .................................. 236
(b) January 8,1979, letter
from Prof. Richard Delgado
to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki. (Professor Delgado
also provided materials related to the issue of
defining and investigating religious "cults.") ................. 238
(1)
"Religious Totalism: Gentle and
Ungentle Persuasion Under the First
Amendment," Richard Delgado, Los
Angeles Daily Journal Report,
December 1,1978 ............................................ 241
(2)
"Investigating Cults," Richard Delgado,
New York Times, December 7, 1978............ 273
(3)
"Psyching Out the Cults Collective Mania,"
Louis Jolyan West and Richard
Delgado, Los Angeles Times,
November 26, 1978 ......................................... 274
(c) Staff Investigative
Group summary of January 15,
1979, letter and enclosures from Prof. Richard
Delgado to Hon, Clement J. Zablocki ........................... 277
(d) December 21, 1978,
letter from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Prof. Norman Dorsen 280
(e) January 25,1979,
letterfrom Prof. Norman Dorsen
to Hon. Clement J. Zablocki.............................................. 281
(f) Staff Investigative
Group summary of January 25,
1979, letter from Prof. Norman Dorsen to Hon.
Clement J. Zabloeki ,.......................................................... 283
(g) March 8, 1979, letter
from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Leo Pfeffer, attorney at law ......................... 284
(h) March 26, 1979, letter
from Leo Pfeffer to Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki............................................................ 285
(t) Staff Investigative
Group summary of the
March 26, 1979, letter from Leo Pfeffer to Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki............................................................ 289
(j) March 8, 1979, letter
from Hon, Clement J.
Zablocki to Prof. Arthur Mille............................................. 291
(k) March 19, 1979, letter
from Prof. Arthur Miller to
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki.................................................. 292
(l) Staff Investigative
Group summary of the
March 19, 1979, letter from Prof. Arthur Miller
to Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki.......................................... 293
B.
(Washington activities-I: In classified version only.)
C.
(California activities: In classified version only.)
D.
(Washington activities-II: In classified version only).
E. Guyana
activities.................................................................................................... 294
1.
Correspondence between Hon. Clement J. Zablocki and
the Government of Guyana ............................................................... 294
(a) March 2, 1979 letter
from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Prime Minister Forbes Burnham,
Government of Guyana ................................................... 294
(b) March 13, 1979 letter
from H. E. Dyett, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Government of Guyana, to
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki.................................................. 296
(c) March 16, 1979 letter
from Hon. Clement J.
Zablocki to Prime Minister Forbes Burnham,
Government of Guyana ................................................... 298
(d) March 28, 1979 letter
from H. E. Dyett, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Government of Guyana, to
Hon. Clement J. Zablocki.................................................. 299
2.
(In classified version only.)
3.
(In classified version only.)
F.
Washington activities-III........................................................................................
300
1.
(In classified version only.)
2.
Relevant newspaper and magazine articles, key
documents, and affidavits ................................................................. 300
April 10,
1978 affidavit of Yolanda D. A. Crawford............... 300
May 12,
1978 affidavit of Debbie Layton Blakey................. 304
Letter
from Jeffery Haas, attorney at law to Elizabeth
Powers, Special Consular Services, Department of
State, enclosing the affidavit of the June 15, 1978
affidavit of Debbie Layton Blakey_.................................. 306
"Inside
People's Temple," Marshall Kilduff and Phil
Tracy, New West Magazine, August 1,1977................... 319
"Ukiah
Weekly Target of $5 Million Lawsuit,"
George Hunter, Ukah Daily Journal, August 23, 1977... 327
"Charles
Garry Visits Jonestown: 'I Have Been to
Paradise,'" the Sun Reporter, November 10,1977 ........ 328
"Scared
Too Long," Tim Reiterman, San Francisco
Examiner, November 13, 1977 ........................................ 329
"Jones
Temple Asked to Return Child," Tim Reiterman,
San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1977............... 335
"People's
Temple in Guyana is 'Prison,' Relatives
Say," Bob Klose, Santa Rosa Press Democrat,
April 12, 1978 ....................................................................... 337
"Grim
Report From Jungle," Marshall Kilduff, San
Francisco Chronicle, June l.'5, 1978................................. 340
"People's
Temple Harassed," San Francisco Examiner,
October 4, 1978..................................................................... 342
"Ryan To
Visit Reverend Jones' Jungle Refuge,"
Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle,
November 8, 1978...............................................................
343
"Probers
Head for a Reluctant Rev. Jim Jones,"
Tim Reiterman, San Francisco Examiner,
November 15, 1978.............................................................. 344
"Expedition
to Reverend Jones' Refuge," Ron Javers,
San Francisco Chronicle, November 15,1978................ 345
"Temple
Probe Hits Wrangling," Tim Reiterman,
San Francisco Examiner, November 16, 1978 .............. 347
"Ryan, at
People's Temple, Learns Jones Is Very Ill,"
Tim Reiterman, San Francisco Examiner,
November 16, 1978 ............................................................ 349
"Reporter's
Account of Guyana Detention," Ron Javers,
San Francisco Chronicle, November 16, 1978.............. 351
"Ryan's
Ready To Lead Group to Temple Base,"
Tim Reiterman, San Francisco Examiner,
November 17, 1978 ............................................................ 353
"Angry
Meeting in Guyana," Ron Javers, San
Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 1978 ..................... 355
"A Visa
Error and People's Temple Is More Remote
Than Ever," Tim Reiterman, San Francisco
Examiner, November 17, 1978 ........................................ 357
"People's
Temple Invites Ryan in and Nobody Else,"
Tim Reiterman, San Francisco Examiner, November
17, 1978 ................................................................................ 359
"Reporter's
Account: Guyana Adventure," Ron Javers,
San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 1978............... 360
"Reverend
Jones Became West Coast Power,"
Larry Kramer, Washington Post, November 20,1978.... 361
"Cult Head
Leads 408 to Deaths in Suicide-Murders,"
Leonard Downie, Jr., Washington Post,
November 21, 1978 ............................................................ 363
"Suicide
Carnage Follows Jones' Tribute to Death,"
Baltimore Sun, November 21, 1978 ................................ 368
"People's
Temple Had History of Threats, Violence,"
Art Harris, Washington Post, November 21, 1978.......... 371
"Survivor:
They Started With The Babies," Charles
A. Krause, Washington Post, November 21, 1978........ 373
"Bodies in
Guyana Cause Confusion," Charles A.
Krause, Washington Post, November 22, 1978............. 375
"Son
Depicts Leader of Cult As a Fanatic and a
Paranoid," Jon Nordheimer, New York Times,
November 22, 1978 ............................................................ 378
"Cult
Chief's Beginning in Indianapolis Recalled,"
James Feron, New York Times, November 22,1978..... 380
"Indianapolis
to Guyana: A Jim Jones Chronology,"
Washington Post, November 22, 1978............................ 382
"I Never
Once Thought He Was Crazy," Jon
Nordheimer, New York Times, November 27, 1978...... 383
"Suicides
Called 'Punishment,'" Karen De Young,
Washington Post, November 27, 1978 ........................... 385
"Note
Found on Jones' Body," Nicholas M. Horrock,
New York Times, November 27,1978............................... 388
"Consular
Officers: Babysitters, Etc." Graham Hovey,
New York Times, November 29, 1978............................. 390
"Jersey
Psychiatrist, Studying the Guyana Survivors,
Fears Implications for U.S. Society From Other
Cults," Jon Nordheimer, New York Times, November
30, 1978 ................................................................................ 392
"What the
Media Did," Charles B. Seib, Washington
Post, December 1, 1978...................................................... 393
"* * * And What Government
Can't Do" William
Raspberry, Washington Post, December '21, 1978....... 395
"The Cult
of Death," Newsweek, December 4, 1978........... 397
"Saturday
Night Horror," Neville Annibourne, the
Guyana Chronicle, December 6,1978.............................. 436
"Jones'
Suicide Calls, Gunshots Heard on Tape
Recording Found at Jonestown," the Baltimore Sun,
December 8, 1978 .............................................................. 441
"Jones'
Tape of 'White Night' Reveals Dissent to
Suicides,' Leonard Downie, Jr., Washington Post,
December 9,1978................................................................. 443
"Paper
Calls Jones Communist in 1950's," Nicholas
M. Horrock, New York Times, December 20,1978........ 445
"Mass Cult
Immigration Violated Jones' Agreement
with Guyana," Nicholas M. Horrock, New York
Times, December 24, 1978 ............................................... 447
"Jonestown
Explosion May Be Yet To Come," Bill
Rhoden, the Baltimore Sun, December 28, 1978........... 451
"Jones
Commune Found Stocked With Drugs To
Control the Mind," New York Times, December
29, 1978.................................................................................. 455
"Profiles
of Seven Whose Faith in Jim Jones Carried
Them to Death in Guyana," New York Times,
December 29, 1978 ............................................................. 456
"The
Appeal of the Death Trip," Robert J. Lifton,
New York Times Magazine, January 7,1979.................. 461
"Practices
of Cults Receiving New Scrutiny,"
Miss Jo Thomas, New York Times, January 21,1979.... 466
'"DA
Accuses Deputy of Pro-Temple Ploy,"
James A. Finefrock, San Francisco Examiner
and San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 1979 .......... 469
"Some in
Congress Seek Inquiries on Cult Activities,"
Miss Jo Thomas, New York Times, January
22,1979................................................................................... 472
"Many Find
Coercion in Cult's Hold on Members,"
Nathaniel Sheppard and Jo Thomas, New York
Times, January 23, 1979 .................................................... 475
"FBI Has
Copy of Cult's Radio Order To Kill,"
Charles A. Krause, Washington Post,
January 29, 1979.................................................................
478
"Jones'
Last Will: Estate to Wife, 5 of 7 Children,"
Tim Reiterman, San Francisco Examiner,
February 8,1979...................................................................
480
"Why 900
Died in Guyana," New York Times Magazine,
February 25, 1979 ................................................................ 483
"Jonestown,"
Michael Novak, American Enterprise
Institute, Reprint No. 94, March 1979 .............................. 495
"Portions
of a Transcript of Tape From Jonestown,"
New York Times, March 5, 1979....................................... 505
"Copy of
Jonestown Tape Reveals How Jones
Pursuaded 900 to Die," New York Times,
March 15, 1979 507
"Tape Hints
Early Decision by Jones on Mass Suicide,"
the Baltimore Sun, -Iarch 15, 1979 ................................... 509
"Jones
Aide Dies After Shooting Himself," The
Baltimore Sun, March 15, 1979 ......................................... 511
"Hurry My
Children, Hurry" Nation, March 26, 1978............. 512
"Reverend
Jones Accused of Coercion," New York
Times April 12, 1979 ........................................................... 515
"Real
Story Behind the 900 Guyana Suicides," Jeanne
Mills, National Enquirer, April 17, 1979............................ 516
"Voices
From Guyana Back Reverend Jones," San
Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 1979 ................................. 521
III. Findings................................................................................................................................... 527
A. Jim
Jones and the People's Temple ................................................................. 527
1.
(Tactics: In classified version only.)
2.
(Motivations: In classified version only.)
3. Staff
Investigative Group internal memorandum describing
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules and regulations
concerning tax exempt status of religious organizations, ............ 527
B. Conspiracy against Jim
Jones and the People's Temple.............................. 531
1.
(In classified version only.)
2.
Executive Orders 11905 and 12036 limiting and defining
CIA responsibilities with respect to intelligence gathering
on U.S. cit.lzens .................................................................................... 531
C.
(Opponents and media intimidated, public officials used: In classified version
only.)
D.
(Awareness of danger, predicting the degree of violence: In classified version
only.)
E.
(U.S. Customs Service investigation: In classified version only.)
F.
(Conspiracy to kill Representative Leo Ryan? In classified version only.)
G. The
Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act .................................... 566
1.
(In classified version only.)
2.
Correspondence between the Department of State and Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki. (The correspondence contained in this
appendix was generated as a result of the February 2, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki to the Department
of State found in appendix I-C-1.) ..................................................... 566
3.
Department of State implementation of the Privacy Act
and the Freedom of Information Act ................................................ 570
(a) Materials provided to
the Staff Investigative
Group stemming from the February 2, 1979
letter from Hon. Clement J. Zablocki. (Materials
include guidelines and information provided to
U.S. Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana with
respect to implementation of Privacy Act and
Freedom of Information Act and internal
memoranda regarding Department of State
processing of Privacy Act requests made by
legal counsel for the People's Temple.) .......................... 570
(b) Staff Investigative
Group internal memorandum
describing the general provisions of the Privacy
Act and the Freedom of Information Act and
the Department of State's performance in
implementing those two acts ............................................. 699
(e) Staff Investigative
Group memorandum elaborating
on the provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act and exemptions from agency disclosure of
information under the Freedom of Information Act ....... 705
H.
(Role and performance of the U.S. Department of State: In classified version
only.)
I.
(Involvement of the Government of Guyana: In classified version only.)
J. Social security and
foster children ..................................................................... 709
1.
(In classified version only.)
2.
Correspondence between Hon. Clement J. Zablocki and
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on the
issue of the alleged theft or fraudulent use of social
security payments to members of the People's Temple............... 709
(a) December 11, 1978
letter from Hon,
Clement
J.
Zablocki to the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare .......................................................................... 709
(b) March 7, 1979 response
from the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare to Hon.
Clement J. Zablocki providing materials and
information related to the responsibilities of
the Social Security Administration in paying
benefits to members of the People's Temple................. 710
(c) February 1, 1979
letter from the Staff Investigative
Group to the Social Security Administration.................... 716
(d) February 12, 1979
interim response from the
Social Security Administration to the Staff
Investigative Group..............................................................
718
(e) February 23, 1979
final response from the
Social Security Administration to the Staff
Investigative Group providing materials and
information. (Materials provided include
names of social security recipients living in
Georgetown or Jonestown, Guyana, whose
Social Security checks were cashed or
undeposited as of November 18, 1978.) ........................ 719
(f)
Listing of social security beneficiaries who were in
Jonestown, number of social security beneficiaries
who are confirmed deceased, total of social
security beneficiaries who were in Jonestown
that are deceased but remain unidentified and
total of social security beneficiaries who were in
Jonestown that are known survivors................................ 775
(g) April 29, 1979 letter
from the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare to the Staff
Investigative Group .............................................................. 776
3.
(In classified version only.)
K.
(Future status of the People's Temple: In classified version only.)
IV.
Statement of Hon. Joseph H. Blatchford concerning his involvement
with Jonestown survivors ................................................................................................. 777
1 Appendixes
II-A-l, II-B, II-C. II-D, II-E-2, II-E-3. Il-F-l, IJI-A-l, III-A-2, IlI-B-l,
IlI-C, III-D. IlI-E, IIl-F, III-G-l, III-H, III-I, III-J-l, III-J-3, IIl-K,
and parts of appendixes I-C-l and III-G-3 remain classified and are retained in
committee files on a confidential basis.
