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'Last Stand Plan, T Plague Mark Lane '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 Peoples Temple may talk about it," Heymann said:, be committed to another round of "There are such reports, and we will murder and suicide. 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 MARK LANE, an attorney for the cult leader Jim Jones may have left Temple who escaped the carnage at behind a "hit list" of public officials Jonestown 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." Guyana. 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 suicides 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 . ., , :hotel) ;.. ,, .., ' ' ' "I called'' the Peoples rein :::Ily Judy Bic want you to know this..Ve. ,ington Star Staff Writer - Wasb been : around the Movement -tt 10E MEMPHIS, Tenn. .;--;- Mark Lane• time. 'it anything 'shoul'happen:o, Aft- called the - People's Temple in San ' anyone I love, we'll be CoMing out le: Francisco recently. Things — curious San Francisco:. • ' - ' :, : ' -:',..„4-',.,: and troublesome thine; -- have been "A• woman , named : Vera VOW . happening ever since his escape from spoke: to me. She said, 'We have no: the mass deaths in Guyana. - Continent.' Lane says his home in Washington',j, 4444' ' ,•,-,Saidi:-"Youivitdeistiitd, I'mfAalt-• IMIfIerlefferfreeir atm its ne has been broken into twice, right be;'. -ing you if there is any plan to Win, new very well that something was fore the suicide-murders, and again - me or my family. And you're tally* often in Jonestown even before the last weekend. Each time the stereo me there'll be no comment?' . ' • : ,..''' . ass murders and suicides took , and TV sets remained intact. He has ] "She said, 'Well-I'll say this: Ati,ko.; ace, is under attack for not having ' no idea What. if anything was taken." ' present time, we have no such-plans;'. told Rep. Leo Ryan and his party Last weekend, someone deposited be'- - "That's not very reassurieg,7- - that they might be murdered'-if they fore his front door, here in Memphis ' ; ., :r went there. four packets of -Kool-Aid•;:the powder Mark Lane replied: "BUT. 1:',NEVER: thought for_ a base for , the';' Soft drink • that the '. BUT THEN NOTHING cominiroilf minute that it might happen," pro- doomed residents of Jonestown. of either San FrancisCo. or Guyette:: tests Lane. "The Peoples Temple had drank down with: Cyanide: As a re- lately has been reassuring, Not the been talking about it for years and suit, Lane's two assistants left their ' ied in: hadn't done.it. So there „was no rea jobs in fright. So' Mark Lane decided' factfa that More than 900 peopled 9 1, " , 'son to believe that they might do it. to set the record straight, - ' ' ' . 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 st found lir-iiinAnesiiin4ftee was one year before I'd even heard of LAN is..death".Arid I wü also 1.01.4,...by..tpo, • ::-Jonestown. There were international anorters..that..'this •mattfitaClieeit.-.. between s 4-7 entinued irrOin A-I' honed.6tsiiiti'opetwhaitiOjied; ,,Jonestown ;and TOO Charles Garry'. r onestown. Nor the reports °lit mil- -ii*OlctiP01.60UPtm biiV Peoples.,,Temple leader atm .titetr..0,7046'. Since Jones was talking about lines- enteiiota 044 ?y'revolutionary suicide,' which HueY had supposedly stashed niveY' Newton had written about, it ,Was ar- r'Swiss banks, and of another Mill' ,THE''Clitailiti ANCES . are 'all . , ranged for Newton to contact Jones ion he kept in Guyana. Nor, least of itoCkinglyiO4`m f4'cliffereht i and beg him not to do it kAgela the latest Word on how Jim Jones it' the syniptorns?! l:4 same ii DaVis, was. also ArtYOLY,c4...- ,0,effling .mended to spend some Of' that lots,: ceantertilat0ea. xi.gagannia.'-'" Jones not to dolt.: $ati oney. Mark Lane, the 51-year-old • rtith, lies and, inf. etierse;:- Murder:, AmtPlagef qawyer who could' double for ark Lane, has spent a' good.poftion knew about it.`,Nowitftee, aril an , f .. his -lifeswim „ everyone elseltriew about It because. dpheles on a. bad day; knows quite a'`r, swimming .against + the ' there were radio communications on ft about the money and for what it eadherous currents of eonspiraCY the sue' ect' hoW,Could the State De- as intended. He heard it from ...a hat often threaten to entalf. him, It; ', pertinent not know?" e eoples Temple defector who is now as he who °wrote "It sh to Judg- Lane insists -that he :told 'a Ryan ..' 14iis client. - nent," attacking the arren Corn- aide (at Jim Jones' behest) ifok4o . "It was called the Last Stand a ission report ' on the 'assassipationi tej t John: F Xennedy.'ItVhe tvliall *the- cengreasnean visit the 'MO* of Ian," says Mark" Lane.' "And:the Americans in Guyana . because it Ian was to begin with the suicides. low taking the side of James ,Eari , iay, claiming , that' his client has might be considered tr. provocative 4kild then to kill the defectors and 'action:4I ,.tol 't.Jciites. :Was a sick 4! ,people who helped them — like me. een wrongfulif' toniicted of snur-; .,-. man that lie, it been taking drugs. • nd also to kill reporters and public.... ering Martin &tither King. That is ,. hat brought him here to Memphis intravetioutly for five weeks. And I. nofficials. ' - also said that Jones was thinking- of "Whether the plan is being put into 0.1n- the first place — and to the house with its curious leafy wallpaper and moving to A different-- country (the effect now, I don't know." Soviet Union); one' that was tin- 5 But another part of the. Last Stand s cream colored couches, where he sides with three women, one of friendly to tAe United States, and so Ian, says Lane, called for the rem- his visit tragbk;haVe embeirassinv. nants of the Peoples Temple to take hom is his girlfriend. , . FWalking into that hense is aneier-. i 1 he pulse of the -American nation, c;°. nluwenersarroPienceth'j 0.'' • • fter the slaughter in Guyana.: If it e that ;:has SOT THERE IS another side to urned out that most-Americans were Lane.
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