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Jonestown — Part 1
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BQ 89-495
Specific instructions were given regarding RYAN's
group. Members were to stay away unless specifically instructed
to speak. Members were permitted to answer if questioned,
but were warned to be positive in their remarks about Jonestown,
since their lives and the lives of their children were hanging
on the results.(¥
Once, in an agitated state, JONES made the comment
"Somebody ought to shoot RYAN." Again one or two days before
RYAN'’s arrival, JONES said that his efforts to thwart RYAN's
visit failed and that he was coming, but perhaps his plane
would fall from the sky. (2
When RYAN arrived, he was shown around the camp
and on the first day was actually given a programmed tour
and presentation. That night, RYAN, his assistant and the
two attorneys, MARK LANE and CHARLES GARY slept in Jonestown. f uf
On the morning of November 18, 1978, ee apcriaed
et a empting to leave Jonestown, but
at this point they seriously decided to leave. They all
felt that something bad would happen because of JONES' frequent
5 references to RYAN. They weighed and then dismissed the
- possibility of travelling through the jungle to get help.
Finally, two of the BOGUE children approached them and said
that the PA f wished to leave
Jonestown. Caniiiciniiciniens .-.: to the pavillion
and told RYAN that they also wished to leave. RYAN and
« RICHARD DWYER advised them that they would be afforded protection
. and that they would leave with the RYAN party. omerreeert
was very skeptical when he heard that LARRY LAYTON was among
those who wanted to leave. (&
RYAN was originally to remain in Jonestown until
all those wishing to leave were boarded on the planes and
; leavnig, but a knife attacM by D RYAN caused the
' congressman to depart earlier. ONES
| ordered the knife attack to get RYAN ou o he could
be killed at the airport in Port Kaituma, iy
ie
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