BB-31-a-150
Submitted to Garry, 7/3/78
TOS – involvement with members of PT etc.
Jim Randolph: During a time when his job was in jeopardy (he worked as a social worker for the Mendocino County Welfare Department), Tim Stoen, then Assistant District Attorney for the county, took upon himself to speak to the Welfare Department director on behalf of Jim Randolph. Tim Stoen subsequently told Jim Randolph that the director, Dennis R. Denny, had threatened to get Stoen’s job in retaliation. It is known to Jim Randolph and others that on at least two separate occasions Mr. Denny and trying to get Randolph’s job.
In a bragging matter Tim Stoen told Jim Randolph that he had answered Denny’s threats with words to the effect that if he (Denny) tried to get Stoen’s job, Stoen would “sue him once a month for the rest of his life.” He also remembers Stoen saying he had told Denny, “You know that I can do it.”
Party X: There are several people who know decisively that Tim Stoen gave Party X instructions to proceed with a major money transaction and claimed that the instructions were directly from the Office. The Office did not know anything about the instructions Stoen had given. The directions were outrageous and eventually led Party X to jail.
There are a number of people who know that TOS sent a threatening letter to his wife, Grace Stoen.
Phyllis Houston was advised by Tim Stoen to use her position [handwritten insertion: “from Feb-Oct 1975”] as dispatcher in the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department to “get rid of” tape recordings that he wanted off the record. She could not erase the tapes but did arrange the designated dates’ recordings so they would 1) be out of filing order and 2) be sequence to be automatically erased for reuse by the office.
David Smith: Tim Stoen advised David Smith NOT to pay his federal income taxes.
Sandra Bradshaw was advised by TOS to actually hide Jack Arnold Beam when the sheriff’s deputy came to the Redwood Valley Center to pick him up for questioning in a child abuse charge. Ms. Bradshaw did as Stoen asked and took Beam into a small office in the complex for the sole purpose of hiding him from the authorities. She acted on instructions from Stoen whom she had called at his DA’s office. After she had hidden Beam she went back out to talk to the Sheriff’s deputy because she worked with the deputies in the Probation Department where she was employed and knew they would tend to believe her story that Beam was not in the building.
Phyllis Houston was told by Stoen to look at the sheriff’s report on the above incident and report the contents directly to him. She read the report and as she recalls she relayed the contents directly to Stoen in his office.
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Stoen advised all members of Peoples Temple who possessed any kind of handgun, rifles, shotguns and ammunition to turn them in directly to him and he stored all that was surrendered to him in his own home. There were several hundred guns in his keeping.
Sandra Bradshaw was advised, along with Jack Arnold Beam, Hack Beam Sr., Mike Prokes, Gene Chaikin, Harold Cordell, Rick Cordell, to get licenses to carry handguns by Tim Stoen.
Stoen used his office to order a copy of the “Anarchist’s Cookbook” which is a well-known, how to do book in the planning and operation of terrorist activities. He got it with the express purpose of directing the Temple members into this kind of activity. He gave the book to Bonnie Beck when he received it, [handwritten addition: “telling her to read the part about making explosives, center to Santa Rosa to Xerox the book for him.”]
Phyllis Houston was advised by Tim Stoen to look into records of complaints about any kinds of activities perpetrated against Peoples Temple by members of the community. She did this whenever he asked and reported the contents of confidential sheriff’s department files to him directly.
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[Editor’s note: This page was typed on a different typewriter, and contains many typographical errors, that have been corrected.]
Outrageous things that Stoen suggested.
- When I first came to the church Stoen wanted me to join the sheriff department’s department. He used your name in trying to get me to join. His reason being that I could infiltrate the police, carry a gun, and be licensed to do so while also keeping tabs on the police. He wanted me to sign up as soon as I turned 21, which I did. However – I never followed through with it and when I checked with you as to whether I really had to do it or not, you seemed unaware of the whole thing.
- That same year, Stoen suggested that I change my major from pre-med to chemistry when I went back to school. He suggested that I move into an apartment in San Francisco with Tom and have a back room where we would make bombs. He wanted Tom to drop out of school and work for a pharmacy thus enabling Tom to steal the needed supplies for bombs.
- It was Tim who brought up the idea of poisoning a major city as a revolutionary tactic. I don’t know if he ever discussed this with you but what was to have happened was that he wanted to clear with you the possibility of having Mac [Jim McElvane] study the layout of Washington DC and the rest of us research poisons that would be appropriate to poison a massive population.
- It was Stoen who recommended getting [Lester] Kinsolving by coming up behind him and tying a burlap bag over his head and beating him to a pulp.
- It was Stoen who did that whole layout for the money.
- It was Stoen who gave me which numbers in the DA’s and police could be called without risk of being taped.
- In the Delancey Street voter fraud cases and the voter fraud cases in general he steered away from the big money holders and did not hit the big fish.
- Instructed the stealing of tapes out of northern California Police Department.
- Tim Stoen called the federal government that his passport was lost when it ain’t that was not the case.
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