8 04-25-87 02:36 aed

   Rev.   Jim Jones' use of sex to control followers By PAMELA A.
MacLEAN

   SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) _ Cult leader Rev.   Jim  Jones  sometimes
engaged   in  sex  with  followers  of  his  People's  Temple  to
"subjugate and humiliate" them, an attorney testified.

   But some members of the People's Temple cult headed by  Jones,
who  led  912 followers in a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978, felt
it was a "privilege" to engage in sex with him, a former  defense
attorney for Jones follower Larry Layton said Friday.

   Layton's  former  defense attorney Tony Tamburello was grilled
by Layton's new defense attorney Robert Bryan, who is  seeking  a
third  murder-conspiracy trial for Layton on grounds the previous
defense team mishandled Layton's case.

   After his first  trial  ended  in  a  hung  jury,  Layton  was
convicted  at a second trial of murder-conspiracy for the slaying
of Rep.  Leo Ryan, D-Calif., and four others and the wounding  of
diplomat  Richard  Dwyer  at the Jonestown airtrip Nov. 18, 1978.
Ryan's  party  was  preparing  to   leave   after   investigating
conditions at Jonestown.

   Bryan  is  seeking  to  convince a federal judge that Layton's
previous defense team improperly refused  to  enter  an  insanity
plea for him or let him testify during the second trial.

   Bryan's  grilling produced the revelation Thursday that Layton
and Jones had engaged in homosexual relations.

   Layton had sex with the cult leader on at least two occasions,
Tamburello said after returning to the stand on Friday.   One  of
those  incidents included Layton's former wife Carolyn Layton, he
said.

   Bryan pressed Tamburello about the sexual practices  of  Jones
and  temple  devotees,  asking  whether  Jones coerced members to
engage in sex with him as a form of  humiliation  and  quest  for
control.

   Tamburello   said   in   some  instances  Jones  used  it  for
manipulation but in other cases the sex was  consentual  and  not
part of mind control efforts.

   "He  used  sex to subjugate and humiliate his followers didn't
he?"  Bryan asked.

   "In  some  cases  yes  and  in  some  cases  no,"   Tamburello
responded.

   "Layton  fit  into that normal heterosexual group in which sex
was used to break down pride and identity?"  Bryan suggested.

   "I really don't know if  that  was  the  purpose,"  Tamburello
said.

   Some  of  the  members  of Jones' inner circle were not forced
into sexual relations but "felt it was a  privilege,"  Tamburello
said.

   Both  of  the  instances  involving Layton occurred before the
group left California and moved  to  the  South  American  jungle
commune in Guyana, Tamburello said.

   Layton  contends that neither he nor his lawyers knew he faced
a mandatory term of life imprisonment if convicted.  He  said  if
he  had  known,  he  would have insisted on testifying in his own
defense.

   His former attorneys said he declined to take the stand in his
own defense for fear the homosexual actions with Jones  would  be
revealed.

   Ryan,  three  journalists  and  a  temple defector died in the
ambush at a dirt Guyana airstrip.  It occured a short time before
Jones led 912 followers in a mass suicide at  the  nearby  temple
compound.