{"id":90978,"date":"2019-08-12T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90978"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:40:01","slug":"serial-998","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90978","title":{"rendered":"Serial 998"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor’s note<\/strong>: A contextual note of this serial appears as Last Words \u2013 Tish Leroy<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

AIRTEL<\/p>\n

11\/27\/78<\/p>\n

To: SAC, San Francisco
\nFrom: Director, FBI
\nRYMUR<\/p>\n

ReButel to San Francisco on 11\/27\/78.<\/p>\n

Enclosed for San Francisco is the original and two copies of a FD-302 reflecting investigation conducted by SA [name deleted] at Washington, D.C., on 11\/24\/78.<\/p>\n

Also enclosed are SA [name deleted]\u2019s original notes. Additionally enclosed are four copies each one of the zerox copy of the note found on the body of Reverend James Jones and a typed-version of this note.<\/p>\n

ARMED AND DANGEROUS<\/p>\n

[Page 2 is copy of envelope with FD-302]<\/p>\n

[Page 3]<\/p>\n

Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/p>\n

Date of transcription 11\/25\/78<\/p>\n

At 2:00 p.m., 11\/24\/78, SA [name deleted] accepted an 8\u201d by 11\u201d sealed manila envelope stamped “Confidential” (reportedly containing a note found on the body of Reverend James Jones) from Mr. [name deleted], a civilian Air Force employee who is employed as a driver for the 436th Transportation Squadron, Dover Air Force Base (DAFB), Delaware. A receipt was given to [name deleted], acknowledging acceptance of this envelope by SA [name deleted] at the River Entrance, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. [name deleted] stated that he received the envelope at approximately 11:30 a.m., today, from Major [name deleted], the Information Officer at DAFB.<\/p>\n

[name deleted] stated that his instructions from Major [name deleted] were to deliver the envelope to the Pentagon, and upon arrival there to telephone Mr. [name deleted] at the State Department, telephone number [deleted], informing [name deleted] that he [deleted word] has a confidential package from Mr. [name deleted] at DAFB, and to ask [name deleted] what he [deleted word] is to do with the package. [name deleted] instructed [name deleted] to turn the package (envelope) over to FBI Special Agent [name deleted] at the River Entrance, Pentagon. [name deleted] also advised that he has no knowledge of what are the contents of the envelope.<\/p>\n

The initials “LAC”, together with the time and date of \u201c2:00 p.m., 11\/24\/78″ and the case code name of \u201cRYMUR\u201d were inscribed in the lower right-hand corner of the envelope by SA [name deleted]. The envelope was subsequently turned over, at 2:35 p.m., 11\/24\/78, to SA [name deleted], Document Section, FBI Laboratory, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C., by SA [name deleted]. SA [name deleted] opened the envelope, in the presence of SA [name deleted], and it contained a smaller manila envelope within which was a white letter-size envelope. The white envelope contained a folded-note (deteriorated) enclosed in plastic.<\/p>\n

[Page 4 consists of handwritten note repeating much of what appears on Page 3]<\/p>\n

[Page 5 consists of handwritten note by Tish Leroy, the text of which appears on page 6]<\/p>\n

[Page 6]<\/p>\n

Handwritten note on portion of lined notebook paper bearing following text:<\/p>\n

Dad<\/p>\n

Dad<\/p>\n

I see no way
\nout \u2013 I agree<\/p>\n

with your decision \u2013
\nI fear only that
\nwithout you the
\nworld may not make it
\nto communism \u2013 Tish [handwritten notation: \u201c(Fish or Tish?)\u201d]<\/p>\n

For my part \u2013 I
\nam more than
\ntired of this wretched, merciless
\nplanet & the hell
\nit holds for so
\nmany masses of
\nbeautiful people \u2013
\nThank you for the only life Ive known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor’s note: A contextual note of this serial appears as Last Words \u2013 Tish Leroy.] AIRTEL 11\/27\/78 To: SAC, San Francisco From: Director, FBI RYMUR ReButel to San Francisco on 11\/27\/78. Enclosed for San Francisco is the original and two copies of a FD-302 reflecting investigation conducted by SA [name deleted] at Washington, D.C., on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87660,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90978","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=90978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90980,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90978\/revisions\/90980"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}