Members of Peoples Temple were aware of the efforts of families in the United States to retrieve their relatives from Jonestown, and they knew of Joe Mazor\u2019s involvement in the efforts. They just weren\u2019t sure how Mazor was going about it. More to the point, they weren\u2019t sure that the private detective and the people in the Concerned Relatives organization which had hired him wouldn\u2019t resort to kidnapping children from Jonestown.<\/p>\n
To learn more about Mazor\u2019s intentions and strategies, Temple loyalist Carol McCoy set up a meeting with the investigator, pretending to be a distraught parent trying to get her four children back from Jonestown. Soon after she returned, she sat with Jean Brown and June Crym from the San Francisco headquarters of the Temple and recounted what was said during the interview. She then transcribed the tape, noting that its beginnings are from her memory since the \u201cfirst part of tape is messed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mazor talks about Jim Jones\u2019 influence with the Guyana government, about the difficulty a parent would face, and about commitment in time and money it would require. As wide-ranging as the conversation apparently was, it is nevertheless a transcription of the recollections of a conversation in which each party is uncertain about the other, which means both parties are undoubtedly wary about what they\u2019ll reveal. Nevertheless, it does seem to confirm much of what the Temple feared about Mazor\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n
This meeting likely followed Carol McCoy\u2019s call to Joe Mazor, which was recorded on tape Q 689.<\/a> <\/p>\n Carol McCoy Transcription of Mazor Interview<\/b>, RYMUR 89-4286-S-1-b7a \u2013 S-1-8a(1) Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":66768,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88568,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13176\/revisions\/88568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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