Ryan Payne's attorneys did not want him to go public with this letter. You will note that it was written on September 19, 2016. He mailed it to me on October 3rd. However, the final decision to go public with it was withheld, at my request, until I received it and then got confirmation that he still wanted it to go public.
Today, October 13, I spoke with Ryan and he is still desirous of the letter going out. This has been edited for clarity, at Ryan's request. The PDF (linked at the bottom) is as I received it.
As you will see, Ryan's efforts were an attempt, by setting out false information, to provide a degree of safety for those patriot participants. If the government believed that there were things that really were not, then that would be an incentive to think before acting.