The Hughes-Ryan Amendment, a 1974 law

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http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol29I4/page05.htm

“He was,” according to a source formerly close to Ryan, and who once accompanied him on a trip to Langley, “a pain in their ass.”

As a member of the House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee and its foremost CIA critic, he was the House sponsor of the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, a 1974 law that required the CIA to notify eight separate committees of Congress—totaling some 200 legislators and staff—prior to conducting undercover operations.

Hughes-Ryan also banned CIA covert paramilitary operations which were not expressly approved by the president and Congress. The agency hated this, a former Ryan associate told Freedom. But the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which seriously restricted CIA covert operations internationally, was only one index of Leo Ryan’s impact.

In 1975, Ryan leaked word of the CIA’s involvement in the Angolan civil war to CBS newsman Daniel Schorr, creating a wave of major embarrassment for the agency which reverberated for years.

In 1977 and 1978, Ryan pressured the agency to reveal the extent of its involvement in psychiatric “mind-control” experiments. Among the tests he pushed to expose were those performed in the early 1970s on inmates at a state hospital in Vacaville, California, which may have included among their subjects Donald DeFreeze, known as “Cinque,” a central figure in the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst.

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1. The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan

The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy
May 15, 1979
THE ASSASSINATION OF REPRESENTATIVE
LEO J. RYAN AND THE JONESTOWN,
GUYANA TRAGEDY

REPORT
OF A
STAFF INVESTIGATIVE GROUP
TO THE
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 1979
FOREWORD

This investigative factfinding report has been submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs by the Staff Investigative Group. Per my directives and pursuant to the committee's investigative authority, the Staff Group conducted a comprehensive inquiry into the international relations aspects of the activities of the People's Temple, the tragic events that led to the murder of Representative Leo J. Ryan and other members of his party, and the mass suicide/murder of the followers of People's Temple that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978.

The findings and recommendations in this report are those of the Staff Investigative Group and do not necessarily reflect the views of the membership of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Clement J. Zablocki, Chairman.

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http://www.rickross.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown2.html

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2. WGBH American Experience-Jonestown

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/jonestown/

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3. Leo Ryan honored 30 years after his assassination Nov. 18, 2008

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=6510073

by Anne Makovec

SAN MATEO, CA (KGO) -- A U.S. Post Office in San Mateo was re-named Monday in honor of late congressman Leo Ryan who was assassinated 30 years ago on November 18.

U.S. Representative Ryan was killed while investigating a controversial settlement called Jonestown in Guyana. His aide at the time, Jackie Speier, was shot five times and left for dead.

Speier was in San Mateo Monday at what is now the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Post Office. Monday was a day to remember all that Ryan was: A teacher, a politician, a member of the Navy, and a man who defended people who couldn't defend themselves, which is what he was doing on the day he died

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4. I remember that k*r

This is quite a story and if they facts are there, it requires further investigation, which, of course, will not
happen.

It was chilling to see Ryan and others gunned down by a bunch of thugs. Now we know why. Pay back!

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5. "Pay back"

I found the boys to be a bit thin skinned. Reactionaries to the core.

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6. Thanks for posting that. n/t

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7. You are very welcome.

:hi:

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8. Kick. nt

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9. Thanks n/t

:hi:

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10. Kick. n/t