{"id":68807,"date":"2017-03-15T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=68807"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:55:04","slug":"q1290-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=68807","title":{"rendered":"Q1290 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

\u00a0<\/strong>FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [None]<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>[None]<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 November 18, 1978<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJim Schollaert, aide to Rep. Leo Ryan (speaks)<\/strong><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana (speaks)<\/strong>
\nJoseph Hartmann, Vice-Consul, US Consulate (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDoug Ellice, Embassy official (speaks)<\/strong>
\nMrs. Ellice, wife of Doug Ellice (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDennis Reece, Third Secretary for the Vice-Consul (speaks)<\/strong>
\nFrank English, U.S. Embassy administrative officer (speaks)<\/strong>
\nDan Weber, consular officer (speaks)<\/strong>
\nPeter Londono [phonetic], U.S. Embassy Duty Officer<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple members:<\/em>
\nSharon Amos<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Radio codes:<\/em>
\nMr. Fraser (Temple Radio Codebook<\/a> translates this to “has died”; relates to final White Night)
\nMrs. Brownfield (Temple Radio Codebook<\/a> translates this to “Do whatever you can to even the score”; relates to final White Night)
\nMrs. Gilliam [phonetic]
\nSB [could be Sandy Bradshaw; see note 2 below]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This tape was obtained from the U.S. State Department under the Freedom of Information Act by Josef Dieckman, who also transcribed it. The editors of the site gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistant in both obtaining and transcribing this tape.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>(The editors also thank Doug Ellice for his assistance in setting the context for the conversations in this tape.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>At the beginning of this tape, the deaths in Jonestown are underway or about to begin. The plane which was supposed to leave at 2 pm to transport Congressman Ryan and his entourage back from the Port Kaituma airstrip, has obviously not left. And now the Embassy \u2013 in the person of Doug Ellice, who worked both with Peoples Temple and more immediately with the Ryan party \u2013 has received a coded message which doesn\u2019t seem to make any sense. The message \u2013 \u201cA lot of people have seen Mr. Fraser. I think Mrs. Brownfield has offered to help.\u201d \u2013 turned out to be the news from Jonestown that the final White Night would start and that others should do what they can “to even the score.”<\/p>\n

Before the end of the tape, one Embassy officer calls Ellice to say \u201cthat the reason that the planes haven\u2019t taken off was because it was reported there\u2019s been some kind of a shooting.\u201d The continued references to the coded names, and Jonestown\u2019s sudden radio silence, suggests that by the tape\u2019s end, the deaths are in progress.<\/p>\n

This series of phone calls back and forth seems to show how much at a loss anyone in Georgetown was about what was going on. Members of the Temple in Georgetown, as well as members of the Concerned Relatives who were staying at the Pegasus Hotel, have expressed their frustrations in their inability to collect, and then to comprehend, the news from Jonestown. These calls demonstrate how much the Embassy shared those frustrations and that incomprehension.<\/p>\n

Contextual note 1: Ogle \u2013 named a couple of times in the tape \u2013 was a tiny “town” east of Georgetown. Like most of the coastal land there then, it was mainly farmland.\u00a0 Ogle had a grass airstrip and hangars for the GuySuCo (Guyana Sugar Company) planes, one of which had been dispatched to Port Kaituma.<\/p>\n

Contextual note 2: There is a reference in the shortwave broadcast \u2013 which Ellice reports to Ambassador John Burke \u2013 to \u201cGet SB to help and get all the other folks\u201d. The Embassy officer suggests \u201cSB\u201d may be a Special Branch of the Temple. More likely, the reference is to Sandy Bradshaw, a Temple member in San Francisco who handled much of the radio traffic and who would have been entrusted with carrying out Jones\u2019 final orders.<\/p>\n

The FBI did not have this tape nor Q 1289 in its possession when it analyzed the other tapes recovered from Jonestown. The agency\u2019s notes may be found on Serials 2232 on FBI Section 33 and 2341 on Section 35, respectively.<\/p>\n

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

[None]<\/p>\n

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

[N\/A]<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Tape originally posted\u00a0March 2017.<\/strong><\/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. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. \u00a0FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [None] FBI preliminary tape identification note: [None] Date cues on tape:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 November 18, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68807","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68946,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68807\/revisions\/68946"}],"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=68807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}