Serial 1305-7

[Editor’s note: One of the subjects of this serial whose name is deleted – but which is revealed on page 9 – is Clifford Gieg, who survived November 18, by being on the boat the Cudjoe on the Kaituma River. The deleted information from the memorandum – designated by brackets – which is known to the editor has been indicated by red type. In addition, many of the FBI interviews summarized in the FD-302s of the RYMUR investigation deleted the verb following the deleted name of the interview subject; most oftentimes, that word was “advised.”]

FD-302

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date of transcription 12/18/78

[Name deleted] [Clifford Gieg] was interviewed in the presence of [name deleted], Special Agent (SA), Secret Service, at Hangar 17, John F. Kennedy Airport. [Gieg advised] he did not have any specific knowledge of acquisition, licensing, or shipment of any weapons by People’s Temple (PT) members to Guyana or anywhere else.

[Gieg advised] he had observed Tom Kice, Bob Kice, Al Simon, and Joe Wilson going out into the jungle with weapons and that he subsequently heard shots.

[Gieg advised] he was not aware of any threats to harm public officials or current and former members of the PT as result of leaving the church or attempts to expose the church and subsequently Jim Jones or attempting to infiltrate or cause any current member to leave the church.

[Gieg advised] he was not aware of any caching of weapons or money by Jones either in Guyana or at previous Temple locations.

[Gieg advised] the only contingency plan of which he was aware was the plan “to fight to the death” if Jonestown were threatened.

[Gieg was] unaware of any officials, federal, international, or other, who was set up for a target for murder, nor any discussions regarding the same.

[Gieg advised] he would consider the following as members of the inner core of the Planning Commission:

Lee Ingram
Terry Buford
Jean Brown
Rennie Kice
Laura Johnston
Vera Young
June Crym
Ava Jones
Sandy Cobb

[Page 2]
BQ 89-495

Mike Prokes
Tim Carter
Sandra Ingram
Judy Flowers
Harriet Randolph
Jim Randolph
Carolyn Layton
Johnny Jones
Jack Beam
Ravina [Rheaviana] (ph) Beam
Dale Parks
Judy Ijames
Carol Stahl
Clara [Claire] Janaro
Richard Janaro
Bonnie Beck
Don Beck
Marie Kasaras [Maria Katsaris]
Paula Adams
Karen Layton
Rita Tupper
Tish Leroy

[Gieg advised] the following as members of the Security Force (SAT):

Joe Wilson
Gary Johnson
Tom Kice
Bob Kice
Tim Jones
Calvin Douglas
Johnnie [Johnny] Cobb
Johnnie [Johnny] Jones
Lou [Lew] Jones
Al Simon
Emmit [Emmett] Griffith
Billy Oliver
Bruce Oliver
Tom Grubbs
Marie Rankin
Bob Rankin
Dick Grubbs, alias Ken Norton

[Gieg is] not familiar with the term “angels.”

[Gieg does] not have any information concerning bribery or influence peddling by members of the PT.

[Page 3]
BQ 89-495

[Gieg advised] he was not aware of any discussions regarding the assassination of Congressman Ryan and his party nor of any practice drills for ambush of anyone who disturbed the Jonestown compound.

[Gieg advised] he had been present at one “White Night” when there was a suicide drill. The PT members were asked if they were ready to die for Jones and all replied they were. A liquid purported to be poison was given out and the members lined up to drink it. After a while, Jones told him it was not poison but a test. [Gieg advised] narcotics were not used to facilitate the suicide drills. Jones told the PT members “Don’t worry about the people who aren’t here, they will be taken care of.”

[Gieg does] not know of the existence of an assassination squad.

[Gieg advised] he became involved with the PT through his mother, [name deleted], in Redwood Valley, Ukiah, California, when he was [several words deleted]. When his mother left the PT after five or six years, he stayed on because he liked the youth activities of the PT. He advised he left home and lived with [2 names deleted], members of the PT.

In about 1974 or 1975, he moved to San Francisco where he resided with [name deleted] and continued his affiliation with the PT.

Around the period April 10-15, 1976, [line deleted] he stopped at 41 Dennis Street in Lamaha Gardens before continuing on to Jonestown where he arrived via the Cudjoe, a boat belonging to the PT. [Gieg advised] when he arrived there, the colony was still in its infancy with only about 60 people there.

[Gieg advised] he survived the mass suicide because he and [Herbert Newell] had taken [line deleted] stated that he was told by Teddy McMurray [McMurry] that “Jim (Jones) want you to take [line deleted] he departed Jonestown at about 10 AM and arrived at Kummaka at about 3 PM. He said the first he knew of the mass suicide was when he was arrested by the Guyanese authorities at 12:30 AM on the following morning. [Gieg advised] he cried when he first learned of the suicides.

[Page 4]
BQ 89-495

[Gieg advised] he did not have any information regarding the involvement of members of the PT in any criminal offenses.

[Gieg is] unaware of any radio code and advised he knew the following to be radio operators:

Sandy Cobb
Mike Prokes
Mike Carter
Harriet Randolph
Karen Layton
Sharon Amos

[Gieg advised] the only oaths or signed statements he knew of her statements which members signed confessing to crimes they did not commit and statements to the effect, “I’ll do anything in my power to prevent the movement from going down.”

[Gieg advised] he did not have any knowledge regarding relocation plans in the event of mass suicide.

[Gieg advised] about six months ago, two Soviets had come to Jonestown, one official and a doctor who was there to see Jim Jones about an illness of his.

When asked about Jones’ bodyguards, [Gieg advised] Jim Jones usually walked around with Tim “Day” Jones, Jimmy Jones, and Johnny Cobb.

[Gieg advised] at meetings, Jim Jones had praised Lieutenant Governor of California Dimalley [Mervyn Dymally] and San Francisco Mayor Masconi [George Moscone] had been at the PT in San Francisco on a couple of occasions. [Gieg advised] Jones had helped Masconi to get elected by having PT members assist in electioneering. He also advised Harvey Milk had been at the PT in San Francisco.

[Gieg advised] he had no information regarding Paula Adams being “Jones’ sexual secretary” and having sexually compromised government officials, nor had he any information regarding a primitive nuclear device.

[Page 5]
BQ 89-495

[Gieg advised] a “white night” was a practice alert in which the Security Force was dispersed around the perimeter of the camp and the members gathered at the Pavilion where Jim Jones harangued the members.

[Gieg advised] the first “white night” came about when the Guyanese government did not want to license Dr. Schacht as a physician. He advised they were held whenever anything went against the movement and were held as often as once a week and lasted as long as three days. All these meetings were not dying for this or that and some security force members guarded the people in the Pavilion.

[Gieg advised] Hut 14 was where Johnny Cobb and Jimmy Jones, Jr. lived. He had never seen any weapons there.

[Gieg advised] descriptive data regarding the following individuals as indicated:

Joe Wilson
Negro male
25 years old
Six feet
Heavy build
Wife – Leslie Wilson (Presumed dead)
Worked in firewood crew

Albert Touchette (Presumed dead)
White male
5 feet, 11 inches
Long bushy blonde hair
Medium build
Coordinator – handed out construction jobs

Ron James (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet, 2 inches
Thin build
22 – 23 years old

Tom Kice (Presumed dead)
White male
6 feet, 2 inches
Skinny build
40 years old
Walked with a limp

[Page 6]
BQ 89-495

Bob Kice (Presumed dead)
White male
Medium build
30 years old
Probably work on wood crew

Tim “Day” Jones (Alive)
White male
6 feet, 1 inch
Medium build
19 years old
Member of basketball team

Jimmy Jones, Jr. (Believed alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 2 inches
Medium build
18 years old
Member of basketball team

Eddy [Eddie] Crenshaw (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet
Heavy build
25 years old
Truck driver

Ron Tally [Talley] (Presumed dead)
White male
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium build
30 years old
Vacuumed barracks

Herbert Newell (Alive)
Negro male
5 feet, 11 inches
Medium build
20 years old
Mate on “Cudjoe”

[Page 7]
BQ 89-495

Johnnie [Johnny] Cobb (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 3 inches
Medium build
18 years old
Dance group “Black Velvets”
Member of basketball team

Johnnie [Johnny] Brown Jones (Presumed dead)
Negro male
Skinny build
28 years old
Coordinator of jobs and aide to Jim Jones

Lou [Lew] Jones (Presumed dead)
Korean male
5 feet, 8 inches
Thin build
22 years old
Conga player

Mark Cordell (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 11 inches
Medium build
19 years old
Drove caterpillars – bulldozer; worked in kitchen;
Member of basketball team

Jim MacElvane [McElvane] (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet, 4 inches
Large build

Gary Johnson (Presumed dead)
Negro male
5 feet, 11 inches
Heavy build
19 years old
Firewood detail; singer for band

[Page 8]
BQ 89-495

Emmit [Emmett] Griffith (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet, 1 inch
Medium build
20 years old
Bulldozer operator

Billy Oliver (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet
Heavy build
19 years old

Bruce Oliver (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet
Medium build
20 years old

Steve [Stephan] Jones (Alive)
White male
6 feet, 4 inches
Medium build
19 years old
Son of Jim Jones
Bush Clearing; Caterpillar Operator; Member of Basketball Team

Tim Tupper
Alias of Tim “Day” Jones

Chris Newell (Presumed dead)
Negro male
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium build
17 years old
Worked in kitchen

Doug Sanders (Presumed dead)
Negro male
6 feet, 2 inches
Heavy build
30 years old

Jim Macabone
Alias of Jim MacElvane

[Page 9]
BQ 89-495

Stanley Gieg (Presumed dead)
White male
Mechanic
Brother of Clifford Gieg

Don Sly (Presumed dead)
White male
6 feet, 3 inches
Medium build
41 years old
Former worker on Cudjoe

Lee Ingram (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 2 inches
Medium build
30 years old
Counselor; member of basketball team

Chris O’Neal [O’Neill] (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 10 inches
Medium build
20 years old
Was to leave with Representative Ryan
Worked in brick factory

Danny Moten
Unknown to Gieg

Calvin Douglas (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet
Medium build
18 years old
Member of basketball team

Cleveland Newell (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 1 inch
Slim build
Member of basketball team

[Page 10]
BQ 89-495

Wesley Briedenbach (Presumed dead)
White male
5 feet, 11 inches
Medium build
19 years old
Tractor driver

Yvonne Hayden (Presumed dead)
Negro female
5 feet, 5 inches
Slim build
20 years old

Bonnie Simon
Unknown to [Clifford Gieg]

Paul McCann (Alive)
White male
6 feet, 3 inches
Slim build
25 years old
Light brown hair
Sawmill worker

Pauline Groot (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 5 inches
Slim
28 years old
Crazy
Library worker

Don Fields (Presumed dead)
White male
5 feet, 4 inches
Slim build
45 years old
Pharmacist

Tom Grubbs (Presumed dead)
White male
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium build
School principal

[Page 11]
BQ 89-495

Marie Duckett (Presumed dead)
Negro female
5 feet, 10 inches
Heavy build
30 years old
Field worker

Robert Rankin (Presumed dead)
Negro male
Slim build
28 years old
Field worker
Husband of Marie

Terri Buford (Alive)
White female
6 feet
Thin build
25 years old
Blonde
Secretary at San Francisco

Jean Brown
White female
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium build
28 years old
Secretary at San Francisco

Rennie Kice (Presumed dead)
Wife of Bob
Negro female
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium build
28 years old
Drug department – handed out medicine

Lora [Laura] Johnston (Alive)
White female
5 feet, 10 inches
Thin build
28 years old

[Page 12]
BQ 89-495

Vera Young
Unknown to [Clifford Gieg]

June Crym
White female
Short
Thirties
Not in Jonestown; was a member of PT

Ava Jones (nee Cobb)
Alias Ava Brown
Sister of Johnny Cobb
Wife of Johnny Brown Jones
Negro female
6 feet
25 years old
Medium build
Coordinator and counselor, school

Sandy Cobb
Sister of Johnny Cobb
Negro female
5 feet, 7 inches
Slim build
23 years old
Worked in radio room

Mike Prokes (Alive)
White male
28 – 30 years old
5 feet, 8 inches
Slim build
Worked in radio room; close to Jim Jones; came out of Jonestown with money and guns

Tim Carter (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 9 inches
Slim build
28 years old

Sandra Ingram (Presumed dead)
Alias Sandra Bradshaw; wife of Lee
White female
5 feet, 8 inches
Thin build
35 years old
Secretary

[Page 13]
BQ 89-495

Judy Flowers
Negro female
5 feet, 7 inches
Heavy build
35 years old
Secretary at San Francisco

Jim Randolph
White male
5 feet, 9 inches
Thin build
30 years old
Handled crates

Harriet Randolph
White female
5 feet, 4 inches
Thin build
Worked in radio room

Carol [Carolyn] Layton
White female
5 feet, 9 inches
Thin build
Secretary
Closest to Jim Jones

Leona Collier
Negro female
5 feet, 5 inches
40 years old
Secretary

Jack Beam (Presumed dead)
White male
Heavy build
56 years old
Father of Joyce Parks
Farm superintendent

Ravina [Rheaviana] Beam (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 4 inches
60 years old
Thin build
Formerly ran used clothing shop in Kammaka

[Page 14]
BQ 89-495

Dale Parks
White male
5 feet, 8 inches
Slim build
29 years old
Conducted services in United States when Jones was not available; Respiratory Therapist in medical department

Burrell Wilson (Alive)
Negro male
5 feet, 10 inches
Medium build
18 years old
Member of basketball team

Judy Ijames (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 8 inches
Heavy build
Registered nurse

Norman Ijames (Alive)
White male
Caribbean commercial airline pilot
Visited Jonestown a couple of times

Carol Stahl (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 4 inches
Slim build
50 years old
School teacher

Clara Janaro (Alive)
Alias Claire
Wife of Richard
Visited Jonestown
Lives in California

Richard Janaro (Alive)
White male
6 feet
Medium build
40 years old
Purchasing agent in Georgetown; worked in boat Albatross

[Page 15]
BQ 89-495

Don Beck
White male
5 feet, 10 inches
Heavy build
35 years old
Kindergarten schoolteacher in Redwood Valley

Bonnie Beck
White female
Wife of Don

Marie Kasaras [Maria Katsaris] (Presumed dead)
White female
6 feet
Slim build
25 years old
Financial secretary at Jonestown

Paula Adams (Alive)
White female
5 feet, 8 inches
Thin build
28 years old
Secretary at Georgetown

Karen Layton (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 9 inches
28 years old
Secretary; radio room

Rita Tupper (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 4 inches
Heavy build

Tish Leroy (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 7 inches
Heavy build
40 years old
Agricultural secretary

[Page 16]
BQ 89-495

Chuck Bikeman [Beikman] (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 10 inches
40 years old
Heavy set
Shoe repairman
Father of Tom Bikeman

Sharon Amos (Dead)
White female
5 feet, 3 inches
Thin build
40 years old
Radio
Cut throat in Georgetown

Joyce Touchette (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 4 inches
Counselor; kitchen head
Wife of Charlie

Charlie Touchette (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 8 inches
Heavy build
40 years old
In charge of business

Michelle Touchette (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium build
Laundry

Mike Touchette (Alive)
White male
6 feet
Medium build
28 years old
Head bulldozer operator
Assistant basketball team coach

[Page 17]
BQ 89-495

Debbie Touchette (Alive)
Negro female
5 feet, 9 inches
Slim build
Wife of Mike
Financial secretary at Georgetown

Harriet Troop [Tropp]
Alias of Harriet Randolph

James Cobb, Jr.
Alias “Big Jim”
Negro male
6 feet, 2 inches
Heavy build
30 years old
Called “traitor” by Jim Jones who threatened to have him killed.

Elhue [Elihu] Dennis (Presumed dead)
Negro male
5 feet, 11 inches
Medium build
30 years old
Mechanic

Stanley Clayton (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 1 inch
Thin build
25 years old
Kitchen
Escaped suicide

Mary Lee Bogue (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 7 inches
Heavy build
18 years old

Tom Bogue (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 8 inches
Slim build
16 – 17 years old

[Page 18]
BQ 89-495

Tina Bogue (Alive)
White female
5 feet, 10 inches
Heavy build
22 years old
Sister of Tom

Odell Rhodes (Alive)
Negro male
5 feet, 9 inches
Medium build
30 years old
Walks with a limp
Worked with children

Eugene Chaikon [Chaikin]
White male
5 feet, 10 inches
Slim build
40 years old
Attorney for PT

Debbie Daughette
Alias of Debbie Touchette

Mike Daughette
Alias of Mike Touchette

Margaret Romano (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium build
28 years old
Worked with children in school

Bibby Romano (Presumed dead)
7 years old
Daughter of Margaret

Liz Pizzaro
Unknown to [Gieg]

Pam Bradshaw (Presumed dead)
White female
5 feet, 8 inches
Heavy build
25 years old
Field worker

[Page 19]
BQ 89-495

John Bidelph [Bidulph]
White male
Left with Jim Cobb years ago

Wayne Pietila
White male
Left with Cobb and Bidelph
Came to Jonestown with Ryan

Vera Ingram
Bidelph’s wife
Left with Bidelph

Mike Carter (Alive)
White male
5 feet, 7 inches
Medium build
Bushy hair
20 years old
Radio room
Married to Jocelyn

Archie Ijames (Alive)
Negro male
6 feet, 4 inches
Medium build
65 years old
Carpenter
Came to Jonestown and left; in United States
Father of Debbie Touchette

Edith Parks
White female
60 years old
Grandmother of Dale

Brenda Parks (Alive)
Sister of Dale

[Gieg has] no idea where the poison was acquired and did not know whether Schacht was aware of the Contingency Plans in the event of Jones’ death or the fall of the PT including mass suicide or death of Congressman Ryan.

[Page 20]
BQ 89-495

[Gieg advised] Schacht as being a “Schizo”, weird, and a former drug addict whose education was financed by the PT. [Gieg knew] nothing of Schacht’s friends and associates in the United States. He believed Schacht was a licensed doctor although he had never seen the license.

[Gieg knew] nothing of Becky Last Name Unknown (LNU), John Alvin Cleveland, or John Rueben Herrera.

[Gieg advised] he had no knowledge of foreign bank accounts belonging to the PT, Jim Jones, or anyone else.

[Gieg advised] there was a “silent weapons” team at Jonestown which practiced with bow and arrows as well as crossbow weapons. The members were Tom Grubbs, Marie Rankin, Bob Rankin, and Dick Grubbs alias Ken Norton.

[Gieg advised] he knew nothing about a PT in Venezuela. He advised Joyce Parks had gone with elderly patients to a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, and as a result not been present at the mass suicide. He reported he had heard Parks had gone from Caracas to San Francisco and was living on Page Street.

[Gieg advised] the basketball team had left Jonestown about two weeks before the mass suicide and were to have been away in Georgetown until December 27, 1978.

[Gieg advised] he felt that his brother [Stanley Gieg] who had died at Jonestown, would never have willingly taken poison. He stated his brother was a mechanic and had become involved in the same way as himself.

[Gieg advised] he had heard that Mike Prokes, Tim Carter, and Mike Carter, who had attempted to take money out of Jonestown, had been given handguns and told by Jim Jones “Your job is to stay alive.”

[Gieg advised] he thought it strange some survivors had escaped leaving members of the immediate family behind. He provided the following list of these individuals who had all stayed together at the Park Hotel in Georgetown:

Richard Clark Son Cleveland
Robert Paul Wife and baby

[Page 21]
BQ 89-495

Johnny Franklin Wife and child
Tim Carter Wife and child
Mike Carter Wife and child
Dale Parks Child

He also advised none of the above would speak with him and appeared to be “scared of him”.

[Gieg advised] he knew nothing of any importation or exportation of illegal drugs, nor had he had ever observed anyone using same.

[Gieg advised] PT members were taught “not to question” and were discouraged from leaving because even an indication one desired to leave would mean confrontation and humiliation before the other PT members. He advised he personally enjoyed what he was doing in Jonestown and had no desire to leave.

[Gieg advised] he had seen many weapons at Jonestown and a lot of ammunition. He stated he believed there were about 40 rifles (.308 semiautomatic, 30-30 rifles, .22 caliber rifles), and about 20 shotguns (some automatic), and pistols. He advised he had seen a big pistol in the hand of Jim Jones and had heard it was a ..357 Magnum. He advised when Jim Jones wanted this gun he would say, “Bring me my Bible”.

[Gieg advised] that PT members on Social Security would be brought their checks by Security Force members who would wait while they were endorsed and then take them from the recipients.

[Gieg advised] a box was used to punish PT members by placing them inside, and that they were usually released on the following day. He advised thoresene [Thorazine] had been administered in the infirmary to troublemakers and to people who had attempted to escape. He stated the Security Force was used to bring back the escapees.

[Gieg advised] Larry Layton with weird and that his sister Debbie Blakey had left the PT. Jim Jones was angry at Blakey for causing problems to the PT and would often say he was going to get “that bitch”. [Gieg advised] this puts a lot of pressure on Blakey’s mother, Lisa Layton, who was at Jonestown. Lisa Layton eventually died and [Gieg advised] Larry Layton blamed her death on Jim Jones.

[Page 22]
BQ 89-495

By way of background, [Gieg advised] the PT was not really a church as such but more of a social experiment. He advised they held no services on Sunday and when there was a meeting which was not a “White Night”, Jim Jones would advise the PT members of current news and there would be entertainment.

The following description [of Gieg] was obtained through observation and interview:

[Editor’s note: information related to physical description, occupation, education and family members deleted.]