Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 2

Dally Journal, Ukiali, Calif, Tuesday, AAarch 6, 1979 TEMPLE WARS (6 from Paget) no doubt laid awake nights imagining Panzer divisions roafring over social service systems and procedures, and wondered how he could gather more information, more "intelligence," about Jones until he finally pulled an ace from his defensive sleeve: A double agent. One of the eight temple members in the departrhent was his informant, telling him what was going on inside Fof-t Jones as it delated to social services. Denny repeatedly declined to name ttie informant who had to have been one of the following: Linda Amos, Laurie Efrein, Barbara Hoyer, Qaire Janero, Laura Johnston, James Randolph Joyce Shaw or Grace Stoen. But he did note, "In a humorous way, I figured if we could have six and seven staff members woriiing in here as informants to them which my anxiety told me was happening I felt it was only fair if I had one of them be a double agent. I felt comfortable enough about that." The Journal: "Did you really have a double agent?" Denny: "That's right.

I am a bad feUow." "Bad" in the sense tliat he could play as rough as Jones. Using a double agent, said Denny, "is very bad to acknowledge. But they pay me a salary to make sure everything happens correctly here." Denny worried double agent might betray him. "When I would ask about this and this and this, I would always wonder whether that person would go back and tell Jones, 'Yeah, I'm in the confidence of this guy'." Is the double alive? "Unfortunately, that person is dead." Only one identical name appeared or the list of confirmed Jonestown dead released by the State Department. That person, Barbara Hoyer, was listed as black- Yet the Barbara F.

Hoyer that worked for social services here was white. Although implying the double died at Jonestown, Denny did not say so, nor did he disclose what the double told him. He apparently brought up the double agent to strengthen the credibility of his broad statements about the temple. To further prove that his assertions about Jones' machinations were true even when he could not or would not reveal the evidence, Denny showed the Journal two reputedly official temple identification badges yellow and one black. They were dated and numbered and had the name of an ex-member still living in Ukiah, a woman whose name Denny asked be withheld.

He said the woman gave the square, clip-on badges to his department, which used them to infiltrate temple activities. Said Denny, holding a oaage lo nis chest with the pride of a master spy, "What happens to me when I dummy this up with whoever I want to send? What happens? Nobody knows everybody in an organization of 2,000." The Journal: "You did send someone in to temple functions?" Denny: "You can make any conclusion that you wish to make. But I don't know that you're hearing any denial of what you're saying." The Journal: "Can I assume that department investigators at one time may have used the badges to gain entrance to a function?" Denny: "I believe that's a conclusion that cannot be argued." Denny did not say what information the badges yielded. Along with espionage, social services practiced overt intelligence gathering by listening to ex-temple members who told the department "everything" they knew about the temple, according to Denny. Referring to the people who signed a Jan.

28,1979 Ukiah Daily Journal letter to the editor, he said, "Everyone of them on more than one occasion" gave information to social services. The letter signers were: Brenda Ganatos, Nancy Busch, Leroy Busch, Elma Cantu, Linda Blankenship, Joann Long, Linda L. Teach, Virginia Lamb, Doris Rupe, Gisella Minahan, Evelyn Detro, Myrna McKeehan, E. Madison, Ruth Boele, Robbie Renfro, Yvonne Alexander, Chris Zynda, Becky Lawson, Anita L. Krupa, Glennell Marsh, Denise Kindopp, Kuby Bogner, Don Pbnts, Carlie Borba, Marion H.

Freestone, Opal B. Freestone, Theresa Freestone Cpntreras, Lena McCown, George McCown, Ross E. Case, Luella Case, Evelyn Emery. Temple defectors, security edits, infiltrators, a mysterious double agent: vanguard of the war effort. Confronting the menace of Peoples Temple, Denny applied a personal version of the Monroe Doctrine to Mendocino County.

He could not control Jones outside the county, but within it, Jones would have to obey welfare law or face the wrath of Denny's social services. As Jones advanced, Denny and his aides pondered methods of containment, searched for alliances, studied the domino theory as it related to welfare and dug in ever deeper. During one skirmish with Jones, Denny found he could forget about an alliance with a man theoretically on his side: Mendocino County assistant District Attorney Tim who moonlighted as a top Jones lieutenant. Denny said he and a social services investigator went out to see Jones at his Redwood Valley church March 5, 1971. Denny wanted to check on two truckloads of federal surplus food missing from a San Francisco warehouse.

(The department gave food to clients before it joined the food stamp Said Denny, "One of the things that was terribly disturbing to me that day was that myself and the investigator were standing there talking to the Reverend Jones. While we were talking, who should come up but the assistant district Denny said he asked Stoen, "Whose counsel are you today, Tim? Here I talked lo you last month and you're my counsel, and all of a sudden I'm talking to you (now) and you're this person's counsel. "And at that point in time, to my displeasure and disappointment, Mr. Stden reflected the fact that he was Peoples Temple's (legal) "That, needless to say, brought about strained relationships between this department and" the district attorney's office, and especially Mr. Stoen." Asked if Stoen impeded the investigation of stolen foodstuffs, Denny said, "In my judgment he did.

We could not move as fast even at that day and hour as we would have liked. I fdt his action that day impeded us." Asked to offer specific examples of Stoen putting his allegiance to Jones before his duty to the county, Denny said he had to "hesitate because those questions are being asked by a (Mendocino County) grand jury investigation. Of course there are answers to those things, and they will be answered in the proper arena." Denny nevertheless noted, "Tim had a severe, tremendous conflict of interest." Stoen has "no comment" on any temole matter, according to his San Francisco attorney Patrick Hallinan. "I'm advising him not to talk," siiid Hallinan, calling Stoen's case "messy and bizarre." To answer questions about "Timmy" and the temple, he said, "you have to literally put yourself in an Alice-in- Wonderland world." "Everybody's looking for a scapegoat," said the lawyer, so they look at "Timmy." Donald Scotto, the social services investigator who was with Denny March 5, said he and Denny left the temple grounds after the exchange with Stoen. However Scotto said he was standing too far from Denny and Stoen to hear any of the words that went between them.

The department turned the case over to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which had ultimate jurisdiction over the allegedly stolen food, known as "surplus commodities." According to Scotto, USDA made an initial investigation but took no further action. The results of an earlier social services investigation alleged the temple was trucking USDA food stolen from a San Francisco warehouse up to Redwood Valley. The temple allegedly had some kind of supply line for peanut butter and canned apricots. Scotto said a social services informant had spotted a 40-foot flatbed truck hauling USDA food and that truck was to.the temple.

Scoltto guessed Jones hiay have been using the food to supply temple care homes and to feed followers whose earnings were depleted by donations to Jones. Asked if he ever saw armed guards on his visits to the temple in Redwood Valley, Denny said: "Never. Never. I saw people that were there, but no one ever brandished weapons or carried them." Denny said he was only on the temple grounds "a few times" and never went inside the temple or Jones' house. "The violent discussions that we had would not have been conducive to him inviting me into his house or into his parish." Did Jim Jones move to Redwood Valley for safety from nuclear holocaust or to set up money-making care homes for mental patients released from Mendocino State Hospital? Tomorrow, a look at the answer.

Journal story interrupted A story that appeared on Page 2 of Monday's Daily Journal, headed "Bay Area woman stabs companion with file" was inadevertently cut. The complete story should have read as follows: NICE An argument between two Bay Area residents led to violence Sunday evening, the Lake County Sheriff's Office reported today, with one participant hospitalized and the other in jail. According to Rubin Ellis, age unknown, of San Francisco, and 9iaron Davis, 24, San Francisco, were passengers in a van driving thrbugh Lake County. Sometime around 6 p.m. Sunday, the pair became engaged in an argument, and Eillis allegedly slapped Davis in the face, reports show.

Davis then pulled what is believed to have been a fingernail file, and allegedly stabbed Ellis in the neck. The stabbing took place while the van was Westbound on Highway 20 between Nice and Highway 53, reports show. Ellis is reported in stable condition at Hillside Hospital in Ukiah. Davis is being held for assault with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $2,500.

14-year-old arrested on vehicle charges Ukiah police arrested a 14-year-old boy on stolen vehicle charges late yesterday morning. According to reports, the youth was stopped on the 100 block of Gibson Street for erratic driving. A routine check reportedly revealed that the 1970 pickup he was driving had been stolen in Santa Rosa. Police said the youth gave a Marin County address, but had lived in the Ukiah area'in the past. He was reported in custody at juvenile hall today.

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