Airtel<\/p>\n
Date 2\/8\/79<\/p>\n
To: SAC, San Francisco, FBI
\nFrom: Director
\nRYMUR<\/p>\n
Enclosed for San Francisco is a copy of an Associated Press story regarding captioned matter.<\/p>\n
San Francisco advise FBIHQ of the facts as set forth in enclosure.<\/p>\n
[Page 2]<\/p>\n
Jonestown<\/p>\n
San Francisco (AP) \u2013 Federal investigators have uncovered evidence that a drum of dangerous chemicals was shipped to the Peoples Temple colony in Guyana a few days before a death ritual claimed more than 900 lives, according to a published report.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Examiner, in a copyrighted article published in Tuesday’s editions, quoted unidentified sources as saying the drum of toxic chemicals, possibly the potassium cyanide used in the mass murder-suicides, arrived a few days before the Nov. 18 murders of Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., and four others.<\/p>\n
Ryan was on a fact-finding mission to the agricultural colony when he and his party were gunned down. A short time later, the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to their deaths in a bizarre murder-suicide ritual, exhorting them to drink a deadly punch.<\/p>\n
The Examiner said a Temple boat docked at nearby Port Kaituma a few days before Ryan’s arrival with a regular cargo of provisions. Also aboard was a 100-pound drum of chemicals, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
“We checked it in,” the newspaper quoted Harold Cordell, who escaped from Jonestown with the survivors of Ryan’s party, as saying. “It was not on the order list or inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cordell, according to the Examiner, said Temple agronomist Russell Moton “looked up the composition and said it was a dangerous chemical\u2026 I don’t recall the name of the chemical.”<\/p>\n
The newspaper said federal authorities believe the drum contained the cyanide use despite the punch that killed colony members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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