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research on George:
from Lily and Rex
– weds. 4/19 was the 1st we went by his house. – Mertles van out front – also Steve’s old green car – parked in front. George’s little blue car – got license # and Brewster ran it – is licensed in George’s name to a PO Box 933, SF.
– Went back Fri. – Got license # of brown station wagon there – Brewster ran it – and it was owned by Mertles rest home.
– Back again to observe – saw Elmer come out and drive off late at night. Blue car there at that time.
– Back off and on for the most part of the last week and half – ever since we got the word we could … what we have found in general is that they are always together. There is always someone at George’s house. Even if he is not there – and even when he comes in later – the white van and brown station wagon are there – as is the green old car of Steve’s.
– What we figure is that they spend the night there if not every night – then just about every night. The big house in front is a boardinghouse – so it is possible that Steve and Sandy live in the boardinghouse – the Mertles stay with George.
– for several mornings Andre Mertle has walked up to George and picked up a young white kid – smallish and skinny – light hair – wonder if it is Mert’s or Deanna’s by another marriage – was not familiar looking. Andre will walk this kid down to the corner to the bus stop and then walk back to the rest home. This AM he came in sloppy clothes – walk up to where George’s is – and then came back in good clothes – so obviously Andre’s clothes are either in the big boardinghouse or at George’s. It is all very strange.
– Last weekend – think Fri. night we saw the white grand torino from Texas – and gave it to Christine to run down – it came back – registered to
Ronald E. Coleman [handwritten addition: “or Roland?”]
208 Birkhead Rd.
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This is right next to San Antonio, Texas.
I called the base – it is an army base – and they have no listing for Ronald E. Coleman – they do have a Roland E. Coleman – so it could be an error. They said this man is a Colonel – that Roland is – but they would not give me his #.
– Anyway – not much eventful watching – just they are there every night – even when George is not there. But the same night that we first saw the Texas car there – Mertles van pulled up out front about 10:00 PM and a whole bunch of people poured out of it. This is when we saw the black woman and her two daughters get out and go to their car and drive off. It looked like all the rest of the people were white – but hard to tell – a lot of them were the young people in the Mertle house – and of course – Andre. It was impossible to follow the white car then – as the people were still in the van and we could not move.
– After watching several mornings unsuccessfully for the blue car (there are 3 roads that meet at his house, we finally got the idea that maybe he took BART – so we looked in the parking lot – and sure enough there was his blue car – he drives a 69 Toyota. We went over to the car – and looked in – the doors were unlocked so I got in and didn’t find anything except
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a great big rolled box in back – an unlimited said Eureka Resources Associates Inc.… Exploration Consultants. It was sealed – so I left it there – and we left. Just some other paper in the back seat about Hatha Yoga classes. And on the dashboard on the far right-hand side were two gold JJ initials that someone had stuck up there.
– 5/2/78 – after finding this lead this a.m. – I called Eureka Resources Assoc and asked about their business. The man was very inquisitive – first thing he asked was why did I want to know about their business. I gave him some story and he referred me elsewhere – but not without asking nosey questions. He did tell me tho – that it was geological exploration company – they did “scientific” work – for private companies and “including the government.” What his secretary told me before I got him was that it was to “find out different areas and geology.” But this man told me they didn’t make “maps” – but the big roll in the back of George’s car could only have been some kind of “plans.”
Anyway, this guy was very paranoid of me calling. Then we called the Better Business Bureau to find out what we could about this company – and it was not listed – so we got the address and will go by tonight to see if we can tell anything from looking. Sounds fishy tho – they are on 2161 Shattuck Ave., Berk.
(Rex says that sounds like CIA involvement – they do maps for research all over the world). We are going to write NACLA [likely North American Congress on Latin America] and see if they have any background on it).
Things we are doing:
– reporting Linda Mertle’s little VW for not having been registered since 1975 – (Christine could find no record of it since then) – illegally registered.
– Reporting Mertles to SS [Social Security] for never being home at night and who is watching their patients etc. – just check and see the cars are never there at night etc.
– (Tesky) – called health department on someone who had hepatitis working in their kitchen// called phone company on them to take one of their phone lines out.//Don’s wife is working on Tesky when she comes down once a week – she has a long-range plan to tie them into Synon [Synanon] and Bibles etc.// drugs.
– we don’t have much time these days – and watching George’s is a morning and night time job and not much time for anything in between.
– Olivers were at George’s last night – left about 10:00 PM. (Busy place he has there).
– the man that called our escrow company to ask about Medlocks property – said he was the attorney for the Medlocks [handwritten insertion: “calling from SF”] and was preparing for a quit on behalf of them… did she have a copy of the deed, what date did they sign the deed – did she have a copy of the deposit receipt? The woman said the realtor should have all that and the man said that realtor was in Guyana and probably wouldn’t be very cooperative. Then the woman called Mac [Jim McElvane] and told him this – as I guess she is in good terms with Kay [Nelson] and Mac.
– We are working on getting Bessie Proby out and Dorothy Lewis is with her family there Mac says and Exie Eleby is dragging her heels and so are Vernon and Winnie Smith. So Mac is trying to budge them out – but they need to be gotten on the government list –