Speier worked for one of the weirdest congressman around back then, Rep. Leo Ryan (D-NY? or Cal). I met him one at a press conference and he had the look of an psychopath the whole time.
Speier is a wackjob and so was Rev. Jim Jones, a hardcore Marxist fake messianic preacher at Jonestown. His two lawyers were indentified Communist Party USA member, key lawyer, Charles R. Gary (With whom Hillary interned on the Alex Rackley Torture/Murder Black Panther Case) and Mark Lane (author of such con job books as “Unsafe at Any Speed” and “Conversations with Americans” (on alleged US atrocities in VN.
Unfortunately for Lane, leftist writer Neil Sheehan tracked down many of his “sources” and found that they had either not served, not served in Vietnam, not served in combat units - in other words, they lied and Lane lied.
Lane has been associated with the CPUSA since at least the 1960’s (and possibly earlier if it is true that he parents were Party members) and later anti-Semitic, far-right groups.
I think he his still alive.
Oh, by the way, the late actor Henry Fonda, the father of Jane, blamed Lane for sexually and mentally screwing up his daughter (after Roger Vadim has started it earlier).
Jonestown, where the communists meet the nuts who murder the innocent. Sound correct to me. A shame they missed Speier. Would have made the world a little bit saner.
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..... looks like old Leo Ryan was a bit of a lech with the younger "demure" Jackie.
It looks like she may have had something like the same relationship with Leo that Kamala had with Willie Brown.