{"id":28257,"date":"2013-07-25T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28257"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:04:22","slug":"708-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28257","title":{"rendered":"Q708 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Identified Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>One unlabeled 90 min\/ \u201cCharles Garry\/ June 11\/11\/78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents of tape consistent with note<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nCharles Garry, Temple attorney (speaks)<\/strong>
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney
\nLeo Ryan<\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em>
\nTom Adams
\nJean Brown
\nLeona Collier
\nJune Crym (speaks)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nMarceline Jones<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this telephone conversation recorded a week before the deaths in Jonestown \u2013 and only a few days before Charles Garry decides to go to Guyana \u2013 Temple member June Crym tries to get a read on how the Temple\u2019s principal attorney has reacted to developments of the previous two weeks. He has not reacted well.<\/p>\n

The developments are: Rep. Leo Ryan has written a telegram<\/a> to Jim Jones, announcing his intention to visit Guyana and \u2013 hopefully \u2013 to come to Jonestown; representing himself as the Temple\u2019s attorney, Mark Lane writes a two-page letter<\/a> which not only asks Ryan to delay the trip until Lane can clear his own schedule, but includes the news that the Temple is considering another emigration to another country; and Ryan has responded<\/a> that he is not concerned about Lane\u2019s schedule, that he plans to go to Guyana, with or without Lane\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n

Charles Garry is even more furious than Ryan. Characterizing Lane\u2019s letter to the congressman as \u201cdisastrous\u201d, he says the government of Guyana would be infuriated if it ever saw it \u2013 and with good reason \u2013 and twice urges Peoples Temple \u201cto completely disown that letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

But his greater anger is Lane\u2019s apparent usurpation of the role as Temple attorney. There cannot be two attorneys, he says time and again. \u201cI cannot stay on the case under these conditions,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m either in charge, or I\u2019m not in charge.\u201d As Crym tries to placate him \u2013 and alternately asking for his patience or, later, his reconsideration \u2013 he has a single-word answer of \u201cNo.\u201d Indeed, during the course of the call, he goes from making his continued representation of the Temple conditional, to resigning altogether.<\/p>\n

Charles Garry ended up in Jonestown a week later, only because his paralegal, Pat Richartz, prevailed upon him that he shouldn\u2019t resign over the phone, that his lengthy history as the Temple\u2019s attorney dictated that he should personally tell Jones of his decision. When he flew down to Georgetown a few days later, he found himself on the same flight as his nemesis, and in fact, he and Mark Lane ended up having to spend several days together, including a number of hours sequestered in a Jonestown cabin while the deaths proceeded outside.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of transcription: 3\/13\/79<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On March 8, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B62-25. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Side A \u2013 Telephone Conversation Between JUNE LNU [Last Name Unknown] And CHARLES GARRY<\/p>\n

Side B \u2013 Unintelligible Background Noises And Voices<\/p>\n

Nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted May 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Identified Individuals Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: One unlabeled 90 min\/ \u201cCharles Garry\/ June 11\/11\/78\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28257","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=28257"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66543,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28257\/revisions\/66543"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}