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” . € . , FEDERAL BUREAU OF wi + TION Bete of transcription, ] 2/ 4 f 78 7 CHARLES GARRY, Attorney, home address California, telephone wor ess: Law 0 ces, 1235 Market Street, San Francisco, California, telephone 864-3131 was interviewed at his law offices concerning the Peoples Temple and his recent trip to the Peoples Temple Mission compound in Guyana, South America. tu Prior to any questioning, the interviewing Agents identified themselves to GARRY by display of their credenti resent during the interview was Secret Service scent lay nd occasionally during the interview GARRY's assistant (u Prior to the start of the interview GARRY advised interviewing Agents that he was most amenable to having the FBI interview him. He would attempt to be as frank and candid as possible /4/ GARRY advised that SNARK LAND wrote him a letter which instigated this trip to Guyana. GARRY advised he would make available a copy of this letter to interviewing Agents, which he did at the end of the interview. 7H) GARRY advised that he became the attorney for the Peoples Tomple in June;"1977, succeeding TIMOTHY STOEN, who had been the attorney for this organization for many years. It was - during this time, the summer of 1977, that the Peoples Tempic e was receiving bad publicity from the news media and various a defectors fr ye he Peoples Temple were filing litigation against OT, the Temple. / GARRY advised he made his first trip to Guyana in September " or October of 1977. At that time he spent four days at the a compound and returned to San Francisco with a tremendously high opinion of the Jonestown complex. GARRY stated he “fell in love with the place;" he stated upon his return that "I have seen paradise, where there is no sexism, racism, agism, elitism, no one ——- hungry." GARRY advised JIN JONES during this trip: "Jim, vou have got to let the world see this place." GARRY advised interviewing ; i Agents that his goal ever since has been to open up the compound to the public. (¥) lnterviewed on___11/24/78 San Francisco, CA. ries SF 89-250 7, (3 SA v SA DLP Bete dictoted V1/20/78 This document contains neither recommendations acre conclusions of the FRi. Mis the property of sce Fal and is loaaed to your agency; Aoand its contents ace not to be dutributed outids your ageniy St ay 3.4 be