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  Leo Ryan Information
Ryan then received V-12 officer training at Bates College and served with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a submariner.
During his time in Congress, Ryan went to Newfoundland to investigate the inhumane killing of seals; he was famous for vocal criticism of the judicial excess of the CIA, authoring the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which would have required extensive CIA notification of Congress about planned covert operations.
Leo Ryan's body was returned to the United States and is now interred in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.
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  Leo Ryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ryan then received V-12 officer training at Bates College and served with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a submariner.
During his time in Congress, Ryan went to Newfoundland to investigate the inhumane killing of seals; he was famous for vocal criticism of the judicial excess of the CIA, authoring the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which would have required extensive CIA notification of Congress about planned covert operations.
Leo Ryan's body was returned to the United States and is now interred in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.
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 Ryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ryan is a name from Irish Gaelic meaning 'small king'.
Traditionally a surname, Ryan has passed into use as a given name since the 20th century.
Division of Ryan, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland.
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 Leo Ryan
Leo Ryan (5 května 1925 - 18 listopadu 1978) byl Demokratický Congressman reprezentovat Northerna Kalifornie v 11.
V roce 1970, Ryan sám zastavil, zdržel a pás-hledal (pod pseudonymem a předstíranou totožností) vyšetřovat vězeňské podmínky v Kalifornii vězeňský systém.
Krátce potom, neúspěšný nožní útok na Congressman Ryan occured, zatímco on arbiting rozepři mezi rodinným rozkolem na odcházející, a proti jeho protestům zástupce vedoucího mise Dwyer objednával Ryana odejít, slibný k návratu pozdnější oslovit spor.
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 All My Children Update Tuesday 3/20/01
Leo tells him that they invested in a real estate deal and Leo took extra money that belonged to Ryan and reinvested it and now the money is gone.
Leo tells him that he is on the case and will have his case that day.
Ryan wants to come and see Leo and demands to know where he is. Leo hangs up and Ryan throws the phone down.
tvmegasite.net /day/amc/updates/older/2001/amc032001.htm   (1783 words)

  
 Leo Ryan - Revisiting the Jonestown Tragedy - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology
After the riots in Watts in 1965, Ryan, then a California state legislator, traveled to that community under a false identity and became a substitute teacher to investigate conditions in the fl community.
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.
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.
www.freedommag.org /english/vol29I4/page05.htm   (458 words)

  
 Leo Ryan archive at Ryan Morrison & MacMillan Ltd.
Leo Ryan archive at Ryan Morrison & MacMillan Ltd.
Published by Leo Ryan April 29th, 2007 in stories.
Published by Leo Ryan April 28th, 2007 in stories.
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 Leo Ryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Leo Ryan (5 May 1925 - 18 November 1978) was a Democratic Congressman representing Northern California in the 11th U.S. Congressional District who was killed by members of the People's Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre.
Afterthe Watts Riots of 1964, Ryan (then amember of the California State Assembly) went tothe area and took a job as a substitute schoolteacher to investigate and document conditions in the area.
Leo Ryan's body was returned to the United States and is now interred in Golden GateNational Cemetery in San Francisco.
www.therfcc.org /leo-ryan-95424.html   (825 words)

  
 Leo Ryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Leo Ryan (5 May 1925 - 18 November 1978) was an American Democratic Congressman representing Northern California in the 11th U.S. Congressional District was killed by members of the People's Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre.
After the Watts Riots of 1964 Ryan (then a member of the California State Assembly) went to the area and took job as a substitute schoolteacher to investigate document conditions in the area.
Leo Ryan's body was returned to the States and is now interred in Golden National Cemetery in San Francisco.
www.freeglossary.com /Leo_Ryan   (903 words)

  
 Keeping her brother's memory alive
Ryan had led a delegation of reporters and relatives of temple members on a fact-finding mission to the jungle compound to investigate reports from constituents and family members that those living at the religious settlement were not permitted to leave and were punished if they failed to work hard enough.
Ryan Torphy, who was 48 and lived in Colts Neck at the time, said she was alerted by her sister at midnight on Nov. 19 that Leo Ryan had been shot when leaving Jonestown.
Ryan, who was five years her senior and her only brother, was like a father-figure, she said, because her father had died when she was young.
www.rickross.com /reference/jonestown/jonestown32.html   (581 words)

  
 The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy
Ryan and members of his staff and this committee's staff received briefings and met with State Department officials on October 2, 25, and November 9 and 13.
Ryan outlining logistical difficulties if the Ryan Codel decided to visit Jonestown and informing Ryan that Lane would be unable to be in Jonestown at the time Ryan wished to visit the settlement.
Ryan addressed the assembled People's Temple audience of approximately 900 and received an extended, standing ovation in responce to his comment that "for some of you, for a lot of you that I talked to, Jonestown is the best thing that ever happened to you in your lives";
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 ipedia.com: Leo Ryan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Leo Ryan was an American Democratic Congressman representing Northern California in the 11th U.S. Congressional District who was killed by members of the People's Temple shortly before the Jonestown M...
Leo Ryan (5 May 1925 - 18 November 1978) was an American Democratic Congressman representing Northern California in the 11th U.S. Congressional District who was killed by members of the People's Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre.
In 1970, Ryan had himself arrested, detained and strip-searched (under a pseudonym and assumed identity) to investigate prison conditions in the California prison system.
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 Daily Recaps Archives | 2001 | All My Children @ soapcentral.com
Leo told her that at a zillion percent interest compounded hourly, he hoped he would be hit by a bus before the first payment was due.
Ryan wished he could check on Gillian to make sure she is OK. Gillian and Leo were talking and Leo told her that he should have let Greenlee bail him out of this mess.
Leo reasoned that she was a child and it wasn't her fault and Laura agreed that she had done it to aid her sick mother.
www.soapcentral.com /amc/recaps/2001/010326.php   (8583 words)

  
 TexasBowhunter.com Live Hunt - 2001 Opening Weekend at Ben's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Leo tripped the feeder and bolted to the brush blind in which Ryan was already positioned.
Ryan, though, was waiting for the larger hog, that was held up in the brush, to make it's way out into the clearing.
Leo Martinez is in a class by himself, as is Buck N' Boar.
users.ev1.net /~mmiddleton/Live/100601ryan/sundayam.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Tribute to congressman Leo Ryan held in Foster City
A quarter-century after U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of South San Francisco was killed during the Jonestown tragedy, friends and family members gathered today to celebrate the congressman's life.
Ryan's daughters, along with state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and other local politicians and friends, remembered him during a 25th anniversary memorial service in Foster City.
As Ryan's aide at the time, Speier was at Jonestown with the congressman when Jones followers ambushed their party at the airport.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2003/11/18/ryan18.DTL   (419 words)

  
 All My Children Update Thursday 3/22/01
Leo has lied about his name to the loan shark saying that he is actually Ryan Lavery.
Leo goes to the ladies room to meet the author of the note that was sent to him at his table.
Ryan can see that she is looking at something so he turns and sees as well that Leo is all over his fiancé.
tvmegasite.net /day/amc/updates/older/2001/amc032201.htm   (1468 words)

  
 Who's Who in Pine Valley | Leo du Pres | All My Children @ soapcentral.com
Leo's father refused to leave his wife and Vanessa was forced to raise her son by herself.
Leo was thought to be involved in the shooting, but he was never charged with anything.
Leo comforted Bianca after she revealed to him that she was gay and used his unique brand of humor to help male her feel better about herself.
www.soapcentral.com /amc/whoswho/leo.php   (2261 words)

  
 Church of Scientology International Protecting Human Right and Individual Freedoms: Freedom Magazine Investigating ...
Leo Ryan’s spotlight had been trained upon one of the darkest and ugliest corners of the American intelligence establishment, one for which the level of culpability could scarcely be measured—psychiatric “mind-control” experiments, possibly combined with an illegal domestic operation—and one which elevated his status from gadfly to mortal enemy.
More than 20 months after Leo Ryan was killed, his five adult children—two sons and three daughters—filed a lawsuit based on extensive investigation into what had precipitated their father’s death.
Nearly two decades after the death of Congressman Leo Ryan, America is still owed a definitive explanation for the many unresolved questions surrounding the tragedy.
investigations.freedommag.org /invest/usa/19940101.htm   (2019 words)

  
 Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Leo Ryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
US Congressman Leo Ryan was gunned down on Nov.18,1978 in Guyana, along with three reporters.
Ryan planned to leave on the morning of the 18th taking 17 defectors with him.
Upon hearing that Ryan had been killed, Jones gathered his 912 'children' and told them it was time to leave the evilness of the world.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3580&pt=Leo%20Ryan   (204 words)

  
 Scientology --- Leo J. Ryan Award Presentation Ceremony remarks, October 27, 2001
Leo J. Ryan was a congressman from the Bay area of California, who became concerned about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.
The individual who receives the Leo J. Ryan award is one who has demonstrated the courage and commitment that Congressman Ryan showed in the extreme; that individual who feels a duty as a human being to preserve and protect our most basic human rights.
I would like to thank the Leo J. Ryan Educational Foundation for framing our fight for freedom from cults within the context of global terrorism, because by doing so Leo Ryan's wish can be more readily understood in a world reeling from the same brand of terror and fear perpetrated by cults.
www.holysmoke.org /cos/leo-ryan-presentation2001.htm   (1104 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Leo Ryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream.
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
Congressional Gold Medal presented to Navajo Code talkers in 2000 The Congressional Gold Medal of Honor is the highest award which may be bestowed by the Legislative Branch of the United States government.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leo-Ryan   (3103 words)

  
 Friday Update January 19, 2001
Ryan is on the phone with one of his investors (Stan) and is finding out that it will take $10K to get in on a money-making scheme.
Ryan corrects her and interjects that his own bank statement is pretty darn confounding.
Leo bends down to her, picks up an olive-spearer and says: "Greenlee, think of something to do with this little plastic swordy thingy-dingy, ok?" He and Ryan walk out, leaving Gillian at Greenlee's mercy.
member.newsguy.com /~facbjs/Boogie/2001/Jan_2001/fri011901.htm   (4988 words)

  
 ASSASSINATION OF CONGRESSMAN LEO RYAN FRAMED ON JIM JONES(www.jonestown.com)
Although it is many steps from a smear campaign to the claim that Jim Jones was FRAMED for the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan, all those steps are being filled in with documentary evidence.
Stoen took the lies and smears of two vain young women, Yulanda Crawford and Deborah Layton, as “proof” that Jonestown was a “concentration camp,” and won over Leo Ryan with his knowingly false and volatile claim of paternity to Jim Jones’ own son.
The public was never told what Leo Ryan or Jim Jones had in common: Leo Ryan was the most anti-C.I.A. Congressman of his day, doing everything in his power to both investigate illegal C.I.A. operations, and to force the C.I.A. to report their covert operations to Congress (Hughes-Ryan amendment of 1974).
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 Friday Update June 22, 2001
Ryan's grief made him look haunted (not to mention hunted by the circling pack) and because CM didn't try nearly so hard to look like he was crying, the quieter grief was much more believable.
Leo now sitting in a chair with his head in his hands, listens as Jake says they've been trying to do that all night, but Ryan can't accept the fact that Gillian is gone.
Ryan starts to cry harder and says: "And if they do this, if they take out her heart, she won't feel it?" Jake: "She won't feel a thing." Ryan: "And if they put it in Laura, it's not going to die, will it?" Jake: "That's right.
member.newsguy.com /~facbjs/Boogie/2001/Jun_2001/fri062201.htm   (5121 words)

  
 KCRA.com - News - State Senator Remembers Jonestown Massacre
Also killed in Guyana was San Francisco Bay Area Rep. Leo Ryan, who was shot after taking a trip to investigate the group.
Ryan's aide at the time, who was also shot, is current state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo/San Francisco.
Leo Ryan's daughter, Erin, has been Speier's aide for the last three years.
www.thekcrachannel.com /news/2647456/detail.html   (470 words)

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