{"id":13936,"date":"2013-02-17T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13936"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:34:34","slug":"troppmemoonryan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13936","title":{"rendered":"Richard Tropp Memo on Ryan Visit to Jonestown"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Nota del editor<\/b>: una traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol de este memo se encuentra aqui<\/a>.<\/span><\/em>)<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

There were two schools of thought within the Jonestown leadership about how the community should respond to Rep. Leo Ryan\u2019s plans to visit. One was to maintain that Ryan had no authority to enter Jonestown, that the community was within its rights to deny him access, and that he should be barred from coming in. The second point of view acknowledged Ryan\u2019s lack of authority but emphasized that the community had hosted many visitors \u2013 including some who\u2019d been dubious or hostile \u2013 and that everyone left impressed with what they\u2019d seen. The people of Jonestown had nothing to hide, according to this second view, but it would seem that way \u2013 and more importantly, they said, the Concerned Relatives and other critics would spin it that way \u2013 if Ryan were denied access.<\/p>\n

The debate had not resolved itself when Ryan\u2019s delegation left Georgetown to fly to Port Kaituma on November 17, and the congressmen, the press and the accompanying relatives had to wait several hours while Temple lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane made final arrangements for Ryan to get past Jonestown\u2019s front gate.<\/p>\n

Richard Tropp apparently sided with those who argued for access. His undated memo<\/a> offers a number of suggestions on how they would ensure Jonestown would show both well and honestly. As he writes halfway through the one-page document, \u201cOur aim should not be merely to present a Clean and Neat Jonestown \u2026 but to educate this Congressman, to open his eyes to what we are doing here.\u201d To do that would mean preparation and planning, and the memo presents a blueprint of those plans.<\/p>\n

Richard Tropp Memo on Ryan Visit to Jonestown,<\/b> RYMUR 89-4286-AA-1-x-1
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