'Last Stand Plan, t POSSIBILITY JONES LEFT HIT LIST IS INVESTIGATED By Phil Galley Asked if anyone has been warned I I Washington Star Staff Writer so far, the assistant attorney general Federal authorities are investigat- declined to say. ing reports that some surviving "It's highly inflammatory to, even members of the may talk about it," Heymann said:, be committed to another round of "There are such reports, and we will murder and . take the matter seriously. I don't Phillip Heymann, head of the Jus- want to suggest that we have a valid tice Department's Criminal Division, hit list, but when there's that kind of said yesterday that the Secret Serv- talk, you've got to take it seriously." ice is looking into allegations that , an attorney for the cult leader may have left Temple who escaped the carnage at behind a "hit list" of public officials that took the lives of more and other individuals who were to be than 900 persons, including Rep: Leo killed if anything happened to Jones Ryan, has said he has been ques- and his followers in Jonestown, tioned about a possible "hit list." . Lane says he is worried that his If such a conspiracy should be name may be on the list. He says his uncovered, Heymann said, "we will house has been broken into twice warn anyone whose name is picked since the Jonestown tragedy and that up, whether he is a federal official or he found several packs of Kool-Aid not," and arrange for their protec- outside his front door. MARK LANE . tion. See TEMPLE. E-11 Lpfy walls, cream couches Plague Mark Lane

FBI agents from joining the investigation on its soil, has charged three persons in connection with TEMPLE the murders and is detaining any material wit- Continued From A-1 nesses. Most of those Who died at Jonestown had swal- ONCE ANY suspects are charged and tried in lowed Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. 'Guyana, they cannot be extradited to the United In addition, some of the Jonestown survivors States, according to Heymann. ' have expressed concern that the fanatical Jones ,"The prosecution in this case is properly the left behind "death squads" to carry on the killing. business of the Guyanese," he said. "It's not my Heymann, at a briefing for reporters, also said business to speculate on the adequacy of that the FBI is investigating reports of possible suicide pacts among some of the cult's survivors in Heymann said the „U.S. government has been, Guyana and in the United States. providing technical assistance to the Guyanese in its investigation of the Jonestown tragedy and ex- - >= HEYMANN, NOTED `that not= a 'Pedts Guyana to share its findings and evidence. crime to commit suicide. But if the reports should prove valid, he said, "we'll try to figure out the de- "Most countries, including Guyana and the cent thing to do" to stop further by Jones' United States, are properly jealous about their followers. investigative jurisdiction," Heymann said "I hope Meanwhile, it appears unlikely that there will be they will call on us for any assistance they may any U.S. prosecutions of the murders and mass need in this matter." suicide in Guyana.' For one thing, Heymann said, the FBI jurisdic- tion in the case is limited to the murder of Ryan and the wounding of Richard Dwyer, an American Embassy official who accompanied Ryan to Jones- lown, at a remote airstrip in Guyana. Further hampering FBI efforts is the fact that key witnesses and two of the five persons eyewit- nesses saw fire on Ryan's party were among those who subsequently died at Jonestown. The Guyanese government, which has barred ▪

HOUSE BROKEN *lb,' k661.410 ON DOORSTEP . ., :::Ily Judy Bic:hotel) ;.. ,, .., ' ' ' "I called'' the Peoples rein , - Wasb,ington Star Staff Writer want you to know this..Ve. been : around the Movement -tt 10E MEMPHIS, Tenn. .;--;- Mark Lane• time. 'it anything 'shoul'happen: Aft- called the - People's Temple in San ' anyone I love, we'll be Co, Francisco recently. Things — curious San Francisco:. oMing out le: and troublesome thine; -- have been • ' - ' :, : ' -:',..„4-',.,: "A• woman , named : Vera VOW . happening ever since his escape from spoke: to me. She said, 'We have no: the mass deaths in Guyana. - Lane says his home in Washington' Continent.' ,j, 4444' ' ,•,-,Saidi:-"Youivitdeistiitd, I'mfAalt-• has been broken into twice, right be;'. -ing you if there is any plan to Win, IMIfIerlefferfreeir atm its ne fore the suicide-murders, and again - me or my family. And you're tally* new very well that something was last weekend. Each time the stereo me there'll be no comment?' . often in Jonestown even before the and TV sets remained intact. He has ] "She said, ' • : ,..''' . ass murders and suicides took , no idea What. if anything 'Well-I'll say this: Ati,ko.; ace, is under attack for not having was taken." ' present time, we have no such-plans;'. ' Last weekend, someone deposited be'- - "That's not very reassurieg,7- told Rep. and his party fore his front door, here in Memphis ' - that they might be murdered'-if they four packets of -Kool-Aid•;:the powder Mark Lane replied: ; ., :r went there. base for , the';' Soft drink • that the '. BUT THEN NOTHING cominiroilf "BUT. 1:',NEVER: thought for_ a doomed residents of Jonestown. of either San FrancisCo minute that it might happen," pro- drank down with: Cyanide: As a re- lately has been reassuring,. or Guyette:: Not the tests Lane. "The Peoples Temple had suit, Lane's two assistants left their ' been talking about it for years and ' fa ied in: jobs in fright. So' Mark Lane decided fact that More than 900 peopled hadn't done.it. So there „was no rea to set the record straight, - ' ' ' . 9 1, " , 'son to believe that they might do it. Why didn't the State Department tell c..iltyari not to go down there? Or thp. PBI? Did they warn him? . 'Mattitere m-memptita, a "On Oct. 6, 1977," Lane continues nan in a peital,farmAg‘,40(1:,; , in a rush, Jones decided to kill old his .nanie-.:*titglgoyeteci"*.... all the peo'pleInlonestown. Now that LAN st found lir-iiinAnesiiin4ftee was one year before I'd even heard of is..death".Arid I wü also 1.01.4,...by..tpo, • ::-Jonestown. There were international anorters..that..'this •mattfitaClieeit.-.. 4-7 entinued irrOin A-I' between s honed.6tsiiiti'opetwhaitiOjied; ,,Jonestown ;and onestown. Nor the TOO reports °lit mil- -ii*OlctiP01.60UPtm biiV '. r Peoples.,,Temple leader atm .titetr..0,7046'. Since Jones was talking about lines- had supposedly stashed niveY' enteiiota 044 ?y'revolutionary suicide,' which HueY r'Swiss banks, and of another Mill' ,THE''Clitailiti ANCES . are 'all . Newton had written about, it ,Was ar- ion he kept in Guyana. Nor, least of itoCkinglyiO4`m f4'cliffereht i , ranged for Newton to contact Jones the latest Word on how Jim Jones and beg him not to do it kAgela it' the syniptorns?! l:4 same ii .mended to spend some Of' that lots,: ceantertilat0ea. DaVis, was. also ArtYOLY,c4... $ati oney. Mark Lane, the 51-year-old • xi.gagannia.'-'" - ,0,effling rtith, lies and, inf. etierse;:- Murder:, Jones not to dolt.:AmtPlagef qawyer who could' double for ark Lane, has spent a' good.poftion knew about it.`,Nowitftee, aril an , dpheles on a. bad day; knows quite a'`r, f .. his -lifeswimswimming .against + the ' „ everyone elseltriew about It because. ft about the money and for what it eadherous currents of eonspiraCY there were radio communications on as intended. He heard it from ...a hat often threaten to entalf. him, It; the sue' ect' hoW,Could the State De- e eoples Temple defector who is now as he who °wrote "It sh to Judg- ', pertinent not know?" 14iis client. - nent," attacking the arren Corn- Lane insists -that he :told 'a Ryan ..' "It was called the Last Stand a ission report ' on the 'assassipationi aide (at Jim Jones' behest) ifok4o . tej Ian," says Mark" Lane.' "And:the t John: F Xennedy.'ItVhe tvliall *the- cengreasnean visit the 'MO* of Ian was to begin with the suicides. low taking the side of James ,Eari , Americans in Guyana . because it 4kild then to kill the defectors and iay, claiming , that' his client has might be considered tr. provocative ,people who helped them — like me. een wrongfulif' toniicted of snur-; 'action:4I ,.tol 't.Jciites. :Was a sick 4! • nd also to kill reporters and public.... .,-. ering Martin &tither King. That is ,. man that lie, it been taking drugs. nofficials. ' - hat brought him here to Memphis intravetioutly for five weeks. And I. "Whether the plan is being put into 0.1n- the first place — and to the house also said that Jones was thinking- of effect now, I don't know." with its curious leafy wallpaper and moving to A different-- country (the 5 But another part of the. Last Stand s cream colored couches, where he Soviet Union); one' that was tin- Ian, says Lane, called for the rem- sides with three women, one of friendly to tAe United States, and so nants of the Peoples Temple to take hom is his girlfriend. , . his visit tragbk;haVe embeirassinv. he pulse of the -American nation, FWalking into that hense is aneier-. i 1 c;° • fter the slaughter in Guyana.: If it . nluwenersarroPienceth'j 0.'' • urned out that most-Americans were e that ;:has SOT THERE IS another side to Att,_ ppalled by the deaths there, then uyana, one is never entirely certain Lane. Mark Lane who insists he was he remaining followers of Jones ' hatja„.paranoitt,4ad ia • ould condemn their leader and call Oat dedttearrTheltiarlifEMaiir7 , • im paranoid. It is, however, a fact, currence — Mark-Lane's Mustang West Magazine just two months ago • ays Lane, that the Peoples 'Temple tailed for the 'first time since he got', when it was tfiinkiatof liublishing-an • • eriously considered the 'possibility aesterdavmernIng=:Aiskgi, oWijarticle 'disittietty4W. to *the ghat many Ainericans would. find the ignificance out of all prepAitiOn . Peoples Templet:ad:Tint Jima. ass deaths in Jonestown "beauti- And now Mkrk Lane himself ;IC.: rider attack. Mark Lane is..consid- Jtane pauses;. .then' says 'drily, ied just.a:mite suspect by some beMay what happened' in Guyana • e More conventional lawyers in vas. terrible enough ,for . them. But ennessee who resent his causes and - . a.. is flamboyance, But more than that, them that way. But many of them were beautiful, warm people."" 4410VIt–wasn't.. a threat,"0„Ltine,lays.4 Mark Lane '-now stands 16 coyly. "I was simply adViaing them." 71 quite a bit of money detailing the Mark Lane first met Jim Jones in, lives and terrible deaths of those SeliteMber. of this year, when the beautiful, warm people for The Los leader-of the Peoples Temple invited Angeles Times, which will be syndi- him 'down to visit Guyana. Mark cating five of his articles, mainly for Lane says he agreed to go there out foreign publication. A West German of curiosity. publication has already shelled out "Jones was a very sympathetic.: $25,000, according to one, source.,Italu ped4Ort, the,Oltimate,con=man.?.Lantoi -law Swedish andlhitch "ptiblicatiO recalls. "In fact, Ryan said it best have reportedly paid $5,000 each. two months later when he visited the "Isn't The Washington Post going to place. He told me, 'This is a remark make money off the deaths of these le lace, and it took a genius like people?" Lane asks. "Isn't the re- 46-it:*BUt hedllsb the great- porter from The San Francisco eit enemy of this place. Examiner? Aren't you earning your ."That was a very astute observa- salary the same way?" tion." concludes Lane. But what struck Mark Lane when HE SHAKES HIS HEAD wearily. he visited Jonestown for the first Newsweek, he sighs, hasn't been kind time in September was that, "The to Mark Lane. Neither has Time. He ruling., circle .. was . predominantly was misquoted, he now says, in the 'white -;-; with 'One exceOtionNoties':', newspapers that reported he refused adopted son. Rut for the most part thing there they Couldn't find here." to eat in Jonestown, fearing that the the ruling . circle was middle class, j cheese sandwiches that were offered college educated, and white. And yet .E1E 'WAVES I1IS h,and in dligtiat: 1 contained drugs. Mark Lane calls the vast .majority of the people there., "So the media turns All these-people `- ,Writer of that particularAory "a f‘–.1 Were black, working clais and Poor: intectultists who died with smiles on liar." He says he never saw a cheese "Jones told, pie he,was very sick, their faces. Jim ones' dream,. bein sandwich until long after lunchtime, physically.' That he might have can- .theultimateconfidence man, is th t never was offered ,one„,. and didn't , cer. That he. had ;a heart condition. thOpteriCan media:would gall what . suspect that . the sandwiches, con- He celled his wite;t,Mothery'. AO he kappelred48417e . And tained, drugs. Mark Lane feels, that, kept saying to her„"Mothei, give me Ae:Mntriklor media has done it. Is it grade again in hit rough, and stormy a pill.' And then he would pop these suiCkle •when, ;children die? I saw feareer, he tiasheenyilified..Di -;;; nitroglycerinestills. 1 don't think that u t ere vg,i IdOzena .4)1 weapons, "Ire the Story of my'life,": heSays there viasanYthing virongwitit ttildiratid .::butomittic Shrugging. "I'm tired of all this bull '1/n' the other:, hand, during his two . ip as If s awde.b.btiles.mp to you.., visits. to JpnestoWn, Lane says, he . with an automatic!! weapon 'and tells But the Other,story,hf his, life is fount members ,of the. colongiv you'. to.drinktolion, the 'question is .1 how Mark Lane- saved. Leolityan's were 'very•-rational..in their nuitlyk„„ notxittifou wil but how you will life --"temporarily," as he says with Oohs for being there, and to this .do,, • z'die: The bodies, there were found a grimace. How he wrested the knife he harps on that theme constantlYp fled on 'each other four-deep. Is that away from the firtt assailant who at- with graveand deliberate insistence4. ow people " .tacked the congressman': ire subsides treallitv•itis 'chair: And no doubt he will . alio tie re- "AT THAT TIME," he saYsilloW these people are-lebeled weird, counting his strange escape from the "there 'were 800 black people there beeatisefit's. easier for us to dismiss dying colony and the guard who kept learehing for- 'human rightki", 'A mumbling over and over, "It's beau- pause. ."And they didn't find it In tiful to die, man. It's just beautiful to 'JonestoWn. But.I talked to.a 77-year- . die all together. This is the way you lady:r diked her, 'Are yaultar4 struggle against fascism: tive here?! , • "Killing children is fascist," Lane "And.: she said, 'When I lived in says he told hisguard. "But at least yfatts,A had four, locks on my door, you know that Charles Garry and I and was afraid to go out at night. I will be alive to tell the story." was caOtiVe in America.' Lane had known the guard whose "Id Jonestown," Lane continues, name was Poncho. He had talked "There were 70 medical workers and with him one time late into the night .one'.doctor; -And there was a 'school about the assassination of Martin Lu- system there superior to most public ther King. „ And,,so 4erhaps that is school systems in America.", why the guard let Mark Lane live. Mirk 'Lane is -asked abeiiiihe 're- And as for those who did not share ported tortures in Jonestown, the that privilege — as for network news- beatings, the humiliations; the sexual man Don Harris, for instance — well, practices. He is asked if it was really Lane has a story about him, too. so idyllic in Jonestown. Before they all went down to "Not idyllic.":He shakee his head. Jonestown, Don Harris called Lane. "But mix all these things together "I've heard great things and horrible And you'll find out why they' left things about Jonestown," said Har- America." ris. 'I've heard that they are good He leans forward in his chair for`' guys and that they are bad gUys.' emphaiis. "That's something the to deal with. And Mark Lane says: he told Har- media is not, prepared s ris, "Go easy, Don: :I'm not sure The central 'question. One thousand there are any good guys." Americans were looking for settle- "I know," said Harris. "I know." whit Preiklent...Cniter said .1aIgniVthe Joneithivii miss murder-suleide at his 'nationally televised news 'conference yesterday. , . . , 7 "----QUtSTION:. Mr. PresideaLl want to ask about Guyana:Do you thing'thoti'the nature of ,that cult says anything abOut Amettca? And 'secondly, what; „can tlw-toyetnitterit•:.do,:lto; :ayelet% haute : •,• • ?" , • :,.: , , , .7.21116:pkESIRENT: Itiatj 40001044Rigtot. America: I titiniti.:;these. er. obsessecl,;*ith. :11:1Articant;:yeii.eieee phob4opiiy,- Tthey were:ibviiinnIkthisled„:.# tregedy reauttedi: It did not take placelitiOut own Cotintty.'"i;;:4:, iTi• • • .41 #44,5 : In retrospect, 4WD!: us can cieplore what :did oc~ Cut; It Jit„istnonstitutioaallet,the:governMr of ?Mr coin o 'IfiVritigifi reTIMAM laws aniiiti any gtouPi. no matter hoW.MaCh they ,infght ePart frotvrOrma l custoML.w hit:based on teligiousr, belief. The dfilriception IS when there' some .!stibitantive. allegation that 'the activities of thOie .religious grOopi directly violate a federal law. mighkPoint Ott that Congreiiman Leo • an ottieFAtTgressmen id:go the st Partrikent:iever.al weeks orMonths.ago.. to go Into.. the„..so7Calle&brainWashing aspects of a few tell- : gioui cults around the cOuntry. My underStanding is that the so called Peoples Temple was not.one of . these thgoghWithent,titpaLtiroe4 be indulging t'brditiViltsiiing::' It. was: irtetent;: tate cliiifelop-:1 ment )one; so far le-Tithe*, was 'labia, to anticipate 'or assess wdennately:•,So: I don't ib ,„ flve:Ought.to have an over-reaction becaulie* Jonestown trigedy; by :lid etthig:4overrimeor. into ,trying to control people's religious beliefs. And:I iffy '410)1/614 tieed":10;idaiWt*) on'a :nationwi theffitEt. that• the 40nestoWn Cult, so-cailed;::Wael.t pleat of Am erica., beesuse It is MA: 4 eeing,,

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