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[Editor’s note: Undated handwritten note from Jim Jones, likely from early 1970s]
Dear Tim [Stoen],
My friend Larry [Layton] (and I say that with deep feeling even though I’ve known him a relatively short time) has another situation that would qualify him for a 1-Y classification [under the Selective Service System]. He never brought the problem to me – I discerned it and he in his unusual sense of honesty completely confirmed it, i.e. is that he has homosexual thoughts on occasion when he is masturbating. I also sensed that he has looked admiringly at himself in a mirror on specific occasions (i.e. in a narcissistic fashion). I give these vivid details to assure you that this is not something he thought of using to evade the draft, and as you are well aware of my prophetic faculty anyway, I don’t feel I need to go further into the verification of this! I sensed that he had passive feelings in his latent homosexual imagination even though he
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can & does perform the heterosexual act frequently and completely satisfying to his very charming & lovely young wife.
Naturally he is reluctant to even discuss this but I feel he should not ever be faced with the risk of being confined in a prison situation. Admittedly I have a prophetic reason for this. This is no weak person either, but I foresee a situation which might give him little room for choice should he be confined!
Of course don’t advise this course unless it is an only alternative. Mr. but not Mrs. Layton naturally is completely aware of what I’m writing because I asked him to go over this before I sent it via him to you.
With deep regards,
Jim Jones
P.S. I stand ready to do anything I can to help this young man. He is very honest and objective about his thoughts & feelings.