Remembering Jonestown
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The House of Representatives report, however, noted the "strong working relationship between the People's Temple and the Government of Guyana." The Temple was allowed either directly or indirectly to import items outside the normal Customs regulations, including weapons and cash.
The report also referred to the compromising of Guyanese immigration procedures, whereby the Temple was able to facilitate the entry of its own members, and inhibit the departure of defectors. In addition, the Guyanese immigration requirements were manipulated to the detriment of opponents of the Temple.
The allegations in the Grace Stoen case are well known, whereby Stoen, a Temple defector attempted through the Guyana High Court to retrieve her son from the commune at Jonestown. She failed, at least in part, it was said, because unknown officials were alleged to have influenced the outcome of the custody proceedings. Her child died with the others on November 18.
There were also charges of a sexual liaison between Temple member Paula Adams, and Laurence Mann, Guyana's ambassador to the United States at the time. It was reported that Adams made tape recordings of her trysts on behalf of Jim Jones, which he then turned over to the Guyana Government.
Adams was not in Jonestown on November 18, and she subsequently married Mann. However, they did not escape the legacy of that night, eventually becoming the victims of murder/suicide themselves.
Key figures in the story are now beyond earthly questioning, more especially Forbes Burnham himself, and whether we will ever know the full truth is perhaps debatable.
http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown_20.html from
Minstrel Boy
"Jonestown, the CIA and mind control"
Edited on Sat Jul-03-04 07:51 PM by Minstrel Boy
Seeing the names of Jim Jones, Moon, Falwell and others in a thread reminded me, there's another connection between many of the organizations enslaving American minds: a client relationship to the National Security State.
For instance, in 1985, The Portland Oregonian found the Bhagwan Rajneesh movement was linked to opium trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, illegal wiretaps and the stockpiling of guns and biochemical weapons. The paper's 36-part report found the cult had ties to CIA-trained mercenaries in Central America and the Far East, as well as to domestic operatives.
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/mindnet/mn116a.htm In 1987, a Washington-based cult called The Founders was raided by customs agents for alledged involvement in child pornography. The State Department advised them to "terminate further investigation." When they continued, the CIA made contact and admitted the group was a CIA front, but that it had "gone bad."
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/pedo6.html But to Jones:
Jonestown, the CIA and mind control
In 1973, just after the CIA's redirection in the next stage of testing and development of the M.K. ULTRA and related operations, it was decided that religious cults best represented a new and virtually fool-proof operations platform in which to further Mind Control technologies. Several religious "sects and cults" were examined by the Agency for their possible utilization by the CIA in Top Secret studies of Mind Control operations.
In late 1973, under this new focus of the CIA, Deep Cover Operative George Philip Blakey made the initial $650,000 deposit for purchase of what would become known as "The People's Temple" in Guyana, under the management of Reverend Jim Jones. During this period, Jones moved his People's Temple from California to Guyana, where the Agency felt it would be isolated and kept away from public or government scrutiny which might interfere with the operation.
Jones himself was already well known to many in California government. Among other things, he had been the Housing Commissioner of San Francisco. The CIA operations specialists were enthusiastic about the People's Temple operations. Like the abortive UCLA Center for the Study of Violent Behavior, The People's Temple membership was largely Black and impoverished, while the upper management under Jones was all White.
There was also help from within California state government to assist in building up Jones' power base. Among those assisting was Ukiah District Attorney Tim Stone, who was largely responsible for acquiring state mental patients, wards of the state, etc. and turning them over to the People's Temple to act as their Guardian. Many of the same interests in the UCLA Center also displayed interest in the People's Temple operation. Dan Mitrioni was another key player who aided the Agency in its operations base of the People's Temple. Mitrioni was an associate of Jones in the early days of the temple. Mitrioni was a former mid-Western police chief who went to work for the CIA. He was involved in the instruction of torture, brainwashing and public terrorism to government soldiers and security teams in countries such as Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil for the purposes of establishing and perpetuating the "National Security State".
much more:
http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/jjones.htmlJonestown massacre + 20: Questions linger
November 18, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Twenty years after the world was shocked by the mass murder-suicide in the supposedly utopian community known as Jonestown, the questions linger: How and why did 913 people die? Some believe answers may lie in more than 5,000 pages of information the U.S. government has kept secret.
"Twenty years later, it would be nice to know what went down," said J. Gordon Melton, founder and director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion.
Over the years, there have been rumors of CIA involvement. Some people believe CIA agents were posing as members of the Peoples Temple cult to gather information; others suggest the agency was conducting a mind-control experiment.
In 1980, the House Select Committee on Intelligence determined that the CIA had no advance knowledge of the mass murder-suicide. The year before, the House Foreign Affairs Committee had concluded that cult leader Jim Jones "suffered extreme paranoia." The committee -- now known as international relations -- released a 782-page report, but kept more than 5,000 other pages secret.
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/What the media won't tell you about Jonestown
Despite having few sources for known funds, Jones found enough money to travel with his wife and family to Brazil in 1961. Coincidentally, longtime friend Dan Mitrione was there as well, having advanced quickly in the IPA (the International Police Academy, a CIA front for training counterinsurgency and torture techniques). Mitrione had honed his skills at torture and assassination by practicing on kidnapped beggars. He himself was later kidnapped and murdered by guerrillas in Uruguay, an incident which became the basis of the Costa Gavras film State of Siege. Jones made regular trips to Belo Horizonte, site of CIA headquarters in Brazil -- and Mitrione's town of residence.
Apparently, this wasn't the only curious intelligence link to Jones. He told some of his neighbors that he was involved in the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence. The U.S. embassy provided Jones with transportation, groceries, and a large home. Considering his dear friendship to Mitrione and the funding of "ministries" in Latin America by the CIA, the theory that Jones was a U.S. intelligence asset makes quite a bit of sense.
In any case, according to his neighbor, Jones "lived like a rich man." Soon after the JFK assassination, Jones returned to the states with $10,000. In 1965, he formed the first People's Temple in Ukiah, California, and set up Happy Havens Rest Home. Without trained personnel or proper licensing, Jones' camp drew in prisoners, the elderly, people from mental institutions, and 150 foster children, many of whom were transferred by court order. Among those who contacted him: "missionaries" from World Vision (an international evangelical order that often fronts for the CIA); the local chapter head to the John Birch Society; and leaders of the Republican party, for whom his "church" members conducted voter organization and fund-raising activities for the Dick Nixon '68 campaign. Jones' advisors included a mercenary from UNITA, the CIA-backed Angola army. Also jumping on board was the Layton family, whose patriarch, U.C.-Berkeley chemist Dr. Laurence Laird Layton, had worked on the Manhattan Project. Dr. Layton was also chief of the Army's Chemical Warfare Division in the early 1950's. (Mrs. Layton was the daughter of Hugo Phillips, a German banker/stockbroker who became rich representing Siemans & Halske and I.G. Farben, two notorious Nazi Holocaust profiteers.)
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Congressman Leo Ryan visited Jonestown on November 18, 1978 to investigate allegations of human rights abuses. Congressman Ryan, a noted CIA critic, had authored the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which would have required the CIA to disclose to Congress -- in advance -- details of all covert operations. The State department offered Ryan no answers or assistance, despite numerous inquiries. He arrived with U.S. embassy official Richard Dwyer, as well as some journalists. Among the reporters was Tim Reiterman, who had covered the Patty Hearst story for the San Francisco Examiner.... At the airstrip, Leo Ryan soon became the first congressman to die in the line of duty, along with four reporters. (The Hughes-Ryan Amendment was killed in Congress soon afterwards.)
http://www.whale.to/b/jonestown1.html The Jonestown Jenocide
As the massacre unfolded, Jones is tape recorded as yelling, "Get Dwyer out of here!" Jim Dwyer was later found at the airstrip, methodically washing his hands.
In 1968, Dwyer was listed in the publication entitled, "Who's Who in the CIA". When asked if the allegation was true, he replied, "No comment."
Of course, Dwyer isn't the only link to CIA in Guyana. Besides those previously mentioned, John Burke, the U.S. ambassador, and Richard McCoy, another official, were both heavily involved with the intelligence community. The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown also housed the Georgetown CIA station. At the time, Guyana had a socialist government, and thus was a likely target for covert operations. Dan Webber, sent to Guyana after the massacre, was CIA as well. The "official" attorney for the survivors, Joseph Blatchford, was involved in a scandal involving CIA infiltration of the Peace Corps.
Then there is the missing money that just "disappeared" after the mass death. Conservative estimates place the amount at $26 million. Others place it at $2 billion. Judging the history of bank loot understatements, the second figure is likely closer to the truth. At the time, a major international money laundering operation was headquartered in Italy involving the Vatican and a mysterious fascist quasi-Masonic lodge known as the P-2. (The operation probably led to the murder of Pope John Paul I, but that's another conspiracy.) The P-2 had a major operation located in nearby Panama, and had numerous CIA links themselves. All this was disturbingly echoed in the S & L swindle of the eighties, which had CIA and Mafia prints all over the place.
http://www.whale.to/b/jones2.html more on Jonestown:
Witnesses at the airport, where Ryan and four others were murdered, described the gunmen as being “glassy eyed”, “mechanically-walking zombies” who were “devoid of emotion.” The question CIA theorists would like answered is who were these people? The official report stated that there were approximately 1100 people at “Jonestown” at the time of the massacre but other reports claim that there were closer to 1200. Of this number there were 913 dead bodies found and 167 survivors. Twenty people, if the 1100 figure is correct, are left unaccounted for. If they were the assassins, where are they now? Also unaccounted for, and never referred to in news reports, are the armed guards who were present in “Jonestown” but were free to come and go from the compound. A congressional aide may have been referring to these men in an Associated Press quote “There are 120 white, brainwashed assassins out from Jonestown, awaiting the trigger word to pick up their hit.”
Such a possibility seems to be confirmed for the theorists by a number of unusual deaths that have occurred since the “Jonestown” massacre. The first of these occurred in Georgetown at the People’s Temple headquarters at the same time as the “Jonestown” massacre. Charles Beikman, an early Jim Jones follower who had become an “adopted son” was found to be responsible. Apparently, Beikman was also a Green Beret, of which there were over 300 in Guyana at the time on a “training exercise.”
Nine days after “Jonestown,” San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed. Both men had received financial support from Jones while he was in San Francisco and were involved in an ongoing investigation into their involvement in the disappearance of People’s Temple funds. Dan White, described as being in a "zombie state" at the time of the killings, murdered them. White’s lawyers attempted to defend their client by stating that White had been temporarily insane due to the effects of eating too much sugar, a defence which was mockingly known as the “Twinkie defence.”
Some time later, Michael Prokes, a former member of the People’s Temple, informed a press conference, held in his motel room, that the CIA and FBI were secretly holding an audiotape of the “Jonestown” massacre and that he was an FBI informant. Immediately following his announcement, Prokes went into the bathroom where he supposedly committed suicide.
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/jonestown/connections_5.html?sect=8 Thanks, bob and Minstrel-san for helping to open our eyes to this ugly shadow history