{"id":122708,"date":"2023-04-19T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=122708"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:25:42","slug":"fbi-section-160-ss-1-counter-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=122708","title":{"rendered":"FBI Section 160 \u2022 SS-1 \u2022 Counter Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Section SS-1 \u2013 which is labelled in the Guyana Index as \u201cCounter-Conspiracy\u201d \u2013 comprises 34 pages, consisting of the contents of a box of alphabetized index cards. The cards with the letters of the alphabet on them are blank, but the remaining 89 include entries summarizing the evidence of the conspiracy against Peoples Temple. <\/p>\n<p>The listing below is complete for this section of the FBI\u2019s FOIA release. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SS-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The citation for these documents should open with the FBI\u2019s official designation of these records, which, for this section, is \u201cRYMUR 89-4286-SS1A.\u201d Each individual page in these records has a unique number. The last entry, for example, is marked \u201cSS1A89\u201d. The complete citation for that page, then, would be \u201cRYMUR  89-4286-SS1A89\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The entries consist of a summarized event, notations of anyone in authority who was contacted about it, affidavits (Aff) and supporting documentation (Docs) of witnesses. Most of the abbreviations have been spelled out in the entries below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nARSON \u2013 RWV [Redwood Valley] Church (1972-3)<br \/>\nQ: Sheriff report Mendocino County?<br \/>\nAff: ?<br \/>\nNote: A fire bomb was thrown by a man who got out of a car, then drove off. Spotted by Security. Chaikin investigated it, doesn&#8217;t recall who he spoke with. Recommended that a report be called in to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nARSON \u2013 SF Church (1973)<br \/>\nDocs: Photos, Police Report, Fire Department Report, insurance company investigation report, newspaper articles<br \/>\nAff: Bea Orsot (ask her who else)<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nARSON \u2013 SF Church (1974)<br \/>\nAff: Archie [Ijames]? (Ask Jack [likely Beam])<br \/>\nQ: police report? News articles?<br \/>\n[Handwritten footnote in capital letters: &#8220;DO NOT FOLLOW&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nAssassination, Chris Lewis (1977)<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper Articles, Police Report (SF PD)<br \/>\nAff : Conversation with Verdella Duncan, Terr Buford<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 car followed, shotgun pointed on streets of SF. Date? [Handwritten addition: &#8220;(1976)&#8221;]<br \/>\nAff: JJ<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 run off the road by a truck in RWV (1970)<br \/>\nAff:<br \/>\nQ: Police Report? \u201cYes\u201d California Highway Patrol report?<br \/>\n[Handwritten addition, likely written by Eugene Chaikin: &#8220;JJ went out to get mail; guy came over to hit him. Made police report.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ, horse drugged and threw him, in RWV (1971)<br \/>\nAff: Jack Beam? Eva Pugh? Who?<br \/>\nQ: Police report?<br \/>\n[Handwritten footnote in capital letters: &#8220;DO NOT FOLLOW&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>8<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 shot in temple lot (1971)<br \/>\nAff. From Jack Beam<br \/>\n[Ditto marks] Carolyn Layton<br \/>\n9<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 armed man in &#8220;Blue Horizon&#8221; ballroom (1974)<br \/>\nAff: Jack Beam, Jim McElvane<br \/>\n[Handwritten footnote in capital letters: &#8220;DO NOT FOLLOW&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>10<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 bomb under bus (1974)<br \/>\nnewspaper articles<br \/>\nAffidavit of Prokes<br \/>\nQ: who found? Who reported to police?<br \/>\nExisting police report?<\/p>\n<p>11<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013  poisoning incidents, LA church (1975, 1976)<br \/>\nAff: Rose Shelton, Joyce Parks<br \/>\nQ:  Did we call a doctor? Go to hospital?<\/p>\n<p>12<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 &#8220;objects&#8221; through front window of Bus 7, with JJ riding (1976?)<br \/>\nAff: Mike Prokes, driver, Gene Chaikin, Karen Layton<br \/>\nDocs: photo, CHP or LAPD police report<br \/>\nnote: the fuzz insisted in writing it up that a couple of kids threw the rock though two witnesses in the bus swore it came from a passing van while the bus was traveling about 50 mph<\/p>\n<p>13<br \/>\nAssassination, JJ \u2013 Shooting in Jonestown (1977)<br \/>\nAff: Terri Buford, JJ, others?<br \/>\nDocs:  Newspaper Articles<br \/>\nQ: Guyana police report?<\/p>\n<p>14<br \/>\nAssassination, Marceline Jones \u2013 poison in food, SF church (1977)<br \/>\nAff: Terri Buford, Sandy Bradshaw<br \/>\nQ: Police report?<\/p>\n<p>15<br \/>\nATTACKS \u2013 JJ RWV Waylaid and mobbed<br \/>\nAff:<\/p>\n<p>16<br \/>\nATTACKS \u2013 Pin placed in Jim&#8217;s underwear, LA<br \/>\nAff: Rose Shelton?<\/p>\n<p>17<br \/>\nATTACKS \u2013 Jonestown &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; foray (11\/17)<br \/>\nAff:<\/p>\n<p>18<br \/>\nATTACKS \u2013 Steve Jones, LA<br \/>\nAff: Steve Jones<\/p>\n<p>19<br \/>\nBURGLARIES \u2013 Bonnie Beck&#8217;s auto in SF (1976)<br \/>\nAff: Bonnie Beck, Jean Brown?<br \/>\nDoc: Police report, SFPD<br \/>\nQ: insurance claims?<br \/>\nNote: theft of several items from her car trunk in May of&#8217; \u201876, including the church books of account.<\/p>\n<p>20<br \/>\nBURGLARIES \u2013 files stolen from trunk of Patty Cartmell&#8217;s car<br \/>\nAff:<br \/>\nQ: police report made?<\/p>\n<p>21<br \/>\nBURGLARIES \u2013 RWV  homes and law office, fall of (1972)<br \/>\nDoc: Mendocino County Sheriff&#8217;s office, reports<br \/>\nDocs: Gene Chaikin, David or Phyllis Chaikin, ? (Ask Jack)<br \/>\nNote: JJ said ditch all the s. lit. There were a series of burglaries within 36 hours after, including Chaikin Law office @ time of the L. [Lester] Kinsolving investigation<\/p>\n<p>22<br \/>\nBURGLARIES \u2013 other files, etc. stolen from PT<br \/>\nQ: check with TB [Terri Buford]<\/p>\n<p>23<br \/>\nCHARGES PROVEN FALSE \u2013 John Head Case<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper articles carrying charges, saying suicide confirmed, reporting investigation of coroner; LA Coroner&#8217;s investigation report; LAPD report; Attorney General&#8217;s investigation of the coroner, report.<\/p>\n<p>24<br \/>\nCHARGES PROVEN FALSE \u2013 Opportunity High &#8220;influence&#8221; (1977)<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper articles, &#8220;Progress&#8221; and others, records of the SFUSD [San Francisco Unified School District]<\/p>\n<p>25<br \/>\nCHARGES PROVEN FALSE \u2013 New West \u201cBreak in\u201d (1977)<br \/>\nDocs: SFPD reports, newspaper articles &#8220;before&#8221; and &#8220;after&#8221;<br \/>\nAff: E.C. [Eugene Chaikin] or whoever saw TV where Phil Tracy showed &#8220;PT&#8221; file that had been &#8220;dislodged&#8221; and noticed that the file was entitled &#8220;Peoples Forum&#8221;<br \/>\n[Handwritten addition: &#8220;Note: We have [illegible word] of the &#8220;Tracy show&#8221; on tape&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>26<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 animals harmed, general history of cruelty to animals, cats skinned, crawdads under car wheels, etc.<br \/>\nDocs: relevant newspaper articles<br \/>\nAff: ?<\/p>\n<p>27<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 Custody case of John Stoen<br \/>\nDocs: Mazor statement from Grace as to paternity, Stoen statement as to paternity, Stoen statement in writing as to intercourse with Grace (lack of it), newspaper articles, legal file Stoen v. Stoen<br \/>\nAff: JJ<br \/>\nQ: Where did the $ come from to hire [Guyana attorney Clarence] Hughes<\/p>\n<p>28<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 goons trying to break Fresno picket line late at night when relatively few there (1976)<br \/>\nAff: E.C. [Eugene Chaikin],  John Harris, J. [Jack] Beam<\/p>\n<p>29<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 history of Jonestown siege (1977)<br \/>\nDocs: Resume by Terri<br \/>\nAffidavit:<\/p>\n<p>30<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 long history of crank calls<br \/>\nAff: J. Beam<\/p>\n<p>31<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013 \u2018personation [impersonation] phone calls&#8217; (1976)<br \/>\nCalls duplicating the voices of JJ &#038; Prokes<br \/>\nAff: JJ, EC<\/p>\n<p>32<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 airplane that we could not buy<br \/>\nAff: Norman Ijames<br \/>\nDocs: &#8220;Airplane Purchase&#8221; file<\/p>\n<p>33<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 Cleveland bus incident (1976)<br \/>\nQ: Police report made? Witnesses?<\/p>\n<p>34<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 hassles of our advanced crews<br \/>\nAff: Lee Ingram, Dick Tropp, Karen Layton, Patricia Cartmell,?<\/p>\n<p>35<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 LAPD hassle of LA Temple security following the LA &#8220;riot&#8221; (1973?)<br \/>\nAff: Versie Perkins, Kay Nelson<\/p>\n<p>36<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 gen hist [general history] of packages ripped open, letters opened, deliveries delayed<br \/>\nAff: ?<\/p>\n<p>37<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 Pan Am refusal of seats on flight to Guyana (1977)<br \/>\nDocs: records of travel agency &#8220;Jackson Travel Agency&#8221;<br \/>\nAff: Tim Carter, Karen Layton<br \/>\nnote: check travel agency for other inquiries into PT business, or refusals to book passages<\/p>\n<p>38<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 Promotion of Anti-PT materials in Guyana, by mail and in person<br \/>\nDocs: Copies of anti-PT materials distributed in Guyana, get from GuyGovt (thru [Vibert] Mingo)<br \/>\nQ: What does GuyGovt know about this? Who arranged distribution of stuff from USA? Where printed?<\/p>\n<p>39<br \/>\nINTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS \u2013 Santa Rosa Bus incident<br \/>\nDocs: Trial records, report of Santa Rosa PD<br \/>\nAff: Ronnie James, Joe Wilson?<\/p>\n<p>40<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Jim Clancy (1977)<br \/>\nDocs : Tapes of his show, tapes of his talks with Prokes, Mazor Information<br \/>\nQ: His agency connections? Working arrangements with Tracy? With Mazor? With Conn? With Mertles? Use all on the shows<br \/>\nCorr:  other Media Attack files, Mazor statements<\/p>\n<p>41<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Chronicle (1977)<br \/>\nAff: Charlotte Grogan-Beal overheard some conversation in the Chronicle about getting us any way that they could. Apparently gave the info to Prokes.<\/p>\n<p>42<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 wide USA distribution of anti-temple Literature<br \/>\nKinsolving column, Indianapolis Star, Review of the News (Birch Mag)<\/p>\n<p>43<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Coordination of \u201877 blitz<br \/>\nDocs: all media output (summarized)<br \/>\nAff: Dick Tropp, Mike Prokes<\/p>\n<p>44<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Kathy Hunter episode (1978)<br \/>\nDocs: GPD [Georgetown Police Department] records on bomb threats at Pegasus, Guyana Immigration records on K. Hunter entry and exit cards, other GPD records, all newspaper articles (Stoen greets her on return), our tapes?<br \/>\nAff: Tim Carter<br \/>\nnote: &#8220;calls from Prime Minister, invitation?<br \/>\narrest of our people at the Pegasus<\/p>\n<p>45<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 international spread of anti-Temple articles; Toronto Star, London Observer, Soviet News Times (article by Charles Foley), Caribbean?<br \/>\nDocs:  Copies of Articles<br \/>\nnote: syndication of Kathy Hunter material by UPI when local UPI man knew nothing of it.<\/p>\n<p>46<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Lester Kinsolving (9\/72 et seq)<br \/>\nDocs: His articles, materials from briefcase, transcripts of radio and TV tapes, other Examiner articles, all including his &#8220;foray&#8221; into the &#8220;SF Progress&#8221; in 1975, tapes and pix. Statement of John Moore (Stoen v. Kinsolving)<br \/>\nQ: His Agency connections<br \/>\nCorr: Caroline [Carolyn] Pickering of the Indianapolis Star, see correspondence<br \/>\nCorr:  IRS action \u2013 see Pickering Correspondence<br \/>\nnote: Correlation of his attacks to \u201873 Temple fire?<br \/>\n(over)<\/p>\n<p>[46 side 2]<br \/>\nnote: correlation between his first visit to PT in the Valley and the statement by JJ that a &#8220;hit man&#8221; and been hired by the Peace Mission and he was on the way out from the East Coast to JJ. It was just about then that LK walked into the church with his photographer and shot pix of our men armed in church. Correlation? LK&#8217;s articles describe JJ early visits to the Peace Mission and said he was using some of the same methods as Father Divine. Could he have contacted the Peace Mission, learned that they were real pissed JJ, and had the info phoned to JJ, knowing some of the members were licensed to carry?<\/p>\n<p>47<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Klineman SR Press Demo [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]<br \/>\nDocs:  His articles, statement by Conn that he was &#8220;big man&#8221;, his connection to Phil Tracy<br \/>\nQ: Nazi Connections?<\/p>\n<p>48<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 LA Magazine reporter tries to gain entry without disclosing he is a reporter (197_)<br \/>\nDocs: Pix?, License number tracing<br \/>\nAff: Patti Cartmell<\/p>\n<p>49<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Newsweek reporter lied at PT to gain entrance, said he was from AFSC [American Friends Service Committee] (1977)<br \/>\nAff:?<\/p>\n<p>50<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Caroline Pickering<br \/>\nDocs:  Her PT articles, her correspondence with LK, TOS [Timothy Stoen] notes on meeting with her, his trip to PsychBd.<br \/>\nAny PT correspondence with her?<br \/>\nQ: Her Agency connections?<br \/>\nCorr: Media Attacks \u2013 LK file<\/p>\n<p>51<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Press (unspecified) (1977)<br \/>\nAff: Harvey Milk told Prokes that he had heard some of the press discussing getting us set up for a Federal rap.<\/p>\n<p>52<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 [Tim] Reiterman, SF Chronicle?<br \/>\nQ: Agency connections? Tie-in with others, Tracy?<\/p>\n<p>53<br \/>\nMEDIA ATTACKS \u2013 Phil Tracy (New West Magazine)<br \/>\nDocs: New West Articles, Mazor Interpol report?<br \/>\nTapes and a TV Tapes of his various appearances<br \/>\nQ:  His Agency connections? His working with Examiner, Chronicle and other writers.<br \/>\nCorr: Media Attacks \u2013 M. [Marshall] Kilduff, &#8220;Concerned Relatives&#8221;, possible agents \u2013 Mertles, possible agents \u2013 Conn<\/p>\n<p>54<br \/>\nMISCELLANEOUS \u2013 SF media man? Tells JJ he is considered by the agencies the second most dangerous man in the USA, splits for Australia<br \/>\nAff: JJ?<\/p>\n<p>55<br \/>\nMISCELLANEOUS \u2013 Cubana Airlines Incident (1977)<br \/>\nJJ to be on plane<br \/>\nQ:? Reservations made?<br \/>\nAff: Maria Katsaris? Carolyn Layton?<\/p>\n<p>56<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Jim Cobb, the Santa Rosa Dorms, the Tomkai Residence, arms, subsequent harassment of PT<br \/>\nAff: Jan Wilsey, Joyce Parks, Sharon Cobb, Dick Tropp, Mike Prokes, Charlie Touchette<br \/>\nDocs: Complaint \u2013 Cobb v. PT, Mendocino County Sheriff Department report made when &#8220;8&#8221; left.<\/p>\n<p>57<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 David Conn<br \/>\nDocs: Banks Declaration, Mazor statement<br \/>\nAff: Christine Lucientes (under Conn house)<\/p>\n<p>58<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Joseph Mazor<br \/>\nDocs: His criminal history. His listing with Interpol. Notes of his Interpol report, his declaration tape, other taped statements, tape of his Media Appearances. Connection with State Department.<br \/>\nQ: Connections with agencies including AFT [Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco], Customs, FBI, IRS<\/p>\n<p>59<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Elmer &#038; Deanna Mertle<br \/>\nOriginal Conn Connection, joint employment with Standard Oil, theft of property and materials from church and subsequent use for smear.<br \/>\nDocs: Mazor statement, Conn&#8217;s statement to Banks<br \/>\nAff: Gene Chaikin (files returned last seen when in PT safe), (stuff in Mertle home after they left), subsequent anti-Temple activities.<\/p>\n<p>60<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Danny Phillips<br \/>\nnote: left PT in \u201869 or \u201870 to join military forces, supposed to have attended several special training courses, went to Germany. Returned to PT in early \u201873 or late \u201872, split 12\/30\/73 from Georgetown and ended up in Germany.<br \/>\nQ:  Who knew about him? Military history? Friends? Funds?<\/p>\n<p>61<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Benny Piriano, across from Redwood Valley church, emp<br \/>\n[employed by?]  temple people<br \/>\nQ: How investigate<\/p>\n<p>62<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 Timothy O. Stoen<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper &#8220;East Germany&#8221; article, Mazor  comments as to his CIA and Interpol connections, bad and divisive legal advice, subsequent use of confidentially obtained information against PT<br \/>\nAff: Gerne Chaikin, Jim Jones, ???<br \/>\nQ: Marcy, Canada a\/c? Venezuela funds? Source $<br \/>\nNote: t.c. purportedly of TOS before story broke that he was on our side and working for us that he knew what was happening <\/p>\n<p>63<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 David Wise<br \/>\nCros ref: tel tap file<br \/>\nAff: Marie Duckett (tel. tapp), Kay Nelson (disruption of LA Church), Versie Perkins (disruption of LA Church)<br \/>\nnote: interview Smart children, DW Parachute history<\/p>\n<p>64<br \/>\nPOSSIBLE AGENTS \u2013 The &#8220;8&#8221;<br \/>\nCross ref. Poss ag. \u2013 Jim Cobb<br \/>\nJim Cobb, Mickey Touchette, Wayne Pietela [Pietila], John Biddulph, Vera Biddulph, Teresa Cobb, Tom Podgorski, Lena Flowers<br \/>\nDocs: &#8220;exodus note&#8221;, Mendocino County Sheriff report, tapes of t\/c with Wayne Pietela?<br \/>\nNote: this is a &#8220;backup file&#8221; to the Jim Cobb file.<\/p>\n<p>65<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 Kinsolving &#8220;Burglary&#8221; (1972)<br \/>\nDoc: articles where he said his home had been burgled and inferred that PT had done it<br \/>\nAff: denial<br \/>\nnote: he lived in Berkeley<br \/>\nQ: did he file a police report?<\/p>\n<p>66<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 JJ and Prokes blind corridor<br \/>\nDocs: LAPD?\/SF PD? Report<br \/>\nAff: M. Prokes, JJ, Jane Mutschmann<\/p>\n<p>67<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 647 [could be 1647] on Jim, LAPD (1973)<br \/>\nDocs: LAPD report, our file, LA Municipal Court record, order to &#8220;seal&#8221;, D. Kwan file, AG review of judicial propriety of order to seal.<br \/>\nAff: D. Kwan, JJ<br \/>\nnote: TOS involvement in sealing, and w\/ AG office<\/p>\n<p>68<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 &#8220;LA Riot&#8221; 1973<br \/>\nDocs: LAPD reports, LA Municipal Court file, p. v. J. Brown, p. v. Cleveland Jackson, health department, ambulance report, pix?<br \/>\nAff: Prokes, JJ, Marcie<\/p>\n<p>69<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 Fire SF Examiner during picket (1972)<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper article, Examiner records, SFFD?<br \/>\nAff: ?<\/p>\n<p>70<br \/>\nSET UPS \u2013 threatening phone calls<br \/>\nthe format is to phone someone who is in an antagonistic situation with PT and threaten them in some way saying that they are from Jim or PT. Van de Kemp [Kamp] (LA DA), the Enquirer reporter, New West manager, Examiner editor John Todd (9\/72), Kathy Hunter, Steve Katsaris (9\/77),<br \/>\nDocs: Newspaper and magazine articles<br \/>\nAff: no PT involvement<\/p>\n<p>71<br \/>\nSURVEILLANCE, VERIFIED \u2013 Jonestown flight (1978)<br \/>\nDoc: copies of notes made, correspondence and reports to GuyGovt. Photos of plane? Tel. Statement of Enquirer man that he flew over (tape?)<br \/>\nAff:  Witness to plane, maybe Don Jackson (photographer)<br \/>\nWitness to telephone call with Enquirer man<br \/>\nNote: review John Moore statement of talk with Enquirer man<\/p>\n<p>72<br \/>\nSURVEILLANCE, VERIFIED \u2013 RWV Church (1973)<br \/>\nJeanette Kerns had split and returned, came to a meeting, van parked in front of church with electronic equipment, also car of her &#8220;Ukiah&#8221; friends, chase, etc.<br \/>\nDocs: Sheriff report? Pix?<br \/>\nAff: Jeff Carey, Jack Beam, EC, Mike T.<\/p>\n<p>73<br \/>\nSURVEILLANCE, VERIFIED \u2013 Unita B. Wright (11\/7\/76)<br \/>\nDocs: correspondence and responses, tapes? Notes?<br \/>\nAff: H. Tropp, Penny Kerns, P. Cartmell<br \/>\nQ: Involvement of [US Sen. John] Stennis? USAF Intelligence? Who was the target, UBW or PT?<\/p>\n<p>74<br \/>\nTELEPHONE TAPPING \u2013 David Wise (1975)<br \/>\nAff: Marie Duckett, a.k.a. Lawrence<br \/>\nJim caught him fucking with his phone &#038; Kay Nelson<br \/>\nnote: JB [Jack Beam] said he did time for phone work<\/p>\n<p>75<br \/>\nTELEPHONE TAPPING \u2013 Pacific Telephone, under Kinsolving (and FBI?) Request (1972)<br \/>\nDocs: \u201cGannatoes\u201d Statement, records of Pac Tel (complaints and investigation report)<br \/>\nQ: Police or sheriff report?<br \/>\nNote: Taps supposed to be made on Chaikin Law office and Temple phone.<\/p>\n<p>76<br \/>\nTELEPHONE TAPPING \u2013 Wires in SF Temple basement<br \/>\nAff: Donald Sheid [Scheid], aka, Cassinova [Casanova]<\/p>\n<p>77<br \/>\nTHREATS \u2013 bomb, LA church<br \/>\nDocs: LAPD report (they were called and came)<br \/>\nAff: <\/p>\n<p>78<br \/>\nTHREATS \u2013 Flowers delivered to SF Temple with death threat<br \/>\nQ: Do we have the note?<br \/>\nAff: Mike Prokes?<\/p>\n<p>79<br \/>\nTHREATS \u2013 phone calls, throughout history<br \/>\nQ: Police reports?<br \/>\nAff: Carole Stahl, SF phone operator? Versie P. [Perkins]? J. Beam<br \/>\nDocs: ltr to SF PD Chief [Charles] Gains outlining same in application for license to carry concealed weapons (1976)<\/p>\n<p>80<br \/>\nTHREATS \u2013 Shots into RWV church (1972)<br \/>\nAff: Jeff Carey<\/p>\n<p>81<br \/>\nUS CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT \u2013 opening crates (1977)<br \/>\nAff: James Randolph<br \/>\nDocs: memo from shipper, Mazor statement<br \/>\nnote: Mazor&#8217;s taped explanation that the ATF had investigated firearms allegations in RWV, and had put Customs up to checking crates as a part of that check<\/p>\n<p>82<br \/>\nUS FBI \u2013 denials of investigation<br \/>\nDocs: ltr from SF office denial, Mazor file on tape that he read FBI file on JJ church, business card; Gannatoes Statement working with FBI<br \/>\nAff: EC verbal denials of investigation by SF agent<br \/>\nnote: C. Pickering\/FBI connection, Jean Brown&#8217;s call. See summary \u201cFBI and Jim Jones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>83<br \/>\nUS POST OFFICE \u2013 interference with mails, checks<br \/>\nDocs: copies of letter cancellations, memo re delivery of checks<br \/>\nAff: Tom Adams, Hattie Newell, conv. w\/ P.O. worker<\/p>\n<p>84<br \/>\nUS SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION \u2013 interference with SSA checks for Guyana (Jonestown) recipients<br \/>\nAff: Maria Katsaris, got all from McCoy<br \/>\nDocs: Post Office memo<\/p>\n<p>85<br \/>\nUS TREASURY DEPARTMENT \u2013 investigation of PT<br \/>\nAff:  Patty Cartmell putting Conn in Brightman home; Dennis Banks, Lee Brightman. Adams affidavit of J.R. Purifoy statement.<br \/>\nDocs: notes Banks made at the time, tape under Conn House??? Mazor Statement that Conn was working with a T. [Treasury] agent<\/p>\n<p>86<br \/>\nHARASSMENT \u2013<br \/>\n5 whites in a car outside of PT RWV, Bruce Turner stopped them and got their names\u2026<br \/>\nAff: Bruce Turner<\/p>\n<p>87<br \/>\nHARASSMENT, telephone, calls JJ dead<br \/>\nAff: N.S. Darnes, Novella Sneed, Mabel Johnson<\/p>\n<p>88<br \/>\nARSON, Molotov cocktail at RWV Church<br \/>\nAff: Chuck Beikman<\/p>\n<p>89<br \/>\nUS FBI \u2013 File in Mendocino County Sheriff office<br \/>\nAff: Penny Kerns, told by brother of Sheriff when she first joined that there was a complete file on JJ, and that he was a communist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section SS-1 \u2013 which is labelled in the Guyana Index as \u201cCounter-Conspiracy\u201d \u2013 comprises 34 pages, consisting of the contents of a box of alphabetized index cards. The cards with the letters of the alphabet on them are blank, but the remaining 89 include entries summarizing the evidence of the conspiracy against Peoples Temple. 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