Jonestown

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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.

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Jim Jones was first targeted as a CIA asset in the late 1960's. After spending eleven months in Brazil doing various front operations work, he returned with the operation financing to start the "Mendocino Operation" of the People's Temple. It was the Hughes/Ryan Act of 1974 which ordered that all CIA overt activities must be reported in advance to the oversight committees. It is "ironic" that the coauthor of the act, Ryan, would be assassinated by a covert operation in danger of being exposed.

The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) (November 18, 1978)

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The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) 2 of 2 -WARNING-

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Jonestown Mass Suicide Recording

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	For those that have never heard of this tragedy which occurred almost thirty years ago, this is the origin of all of those "don't drink the Koolaid" jokes that you may have heard over the years. Warning: this is the real thing.

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Jonestown was the communal settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California. Jonestown was founded in the mid-1970s by the cult leader, Jim Jones, for whom it was named. It stood amidst jungle, about seven miles (11 km) southwesterly from Port Kaituma. It had a population of about one thousand once it was fully established and the bulk of Jones' followers had moved there, but they occupied it only for a few years.

Jonestown gained lasting international notoriety in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-and-suicide ordered by Jones. Somewhat over nine hundred men, women and children were slain, Jones among them.

The place was abandoned promptly thereafter by the collapsing remnant of the Peoples Temple. Afterward, it was at first tended by the Guyanese government, which allowed its re-occupation by Hmong refugees from Laos, for a few years in the early 1980s, but it has since been altogether deserted.[1] It is now a scanty ruin, mostly destroyed by a fire in the mid-1980s and then left to decay and be swallowed up again by the jungle.

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From:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/

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	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.

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Mass Suicide at Peoples Temple: Jonestown Death Tape "FBI # Q-042"

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This video is based on the "Jonestown Death Tape" aka "FBI Tape No. Q-042". The audio is the complete 45-minute recording of the Reverend ... all » Jim Jones giving his fateful last sermon. Some of his congregation can be heard interacting verbally with Jones while others are in the background poisoning themselves and their children with deadly doses of potassium cyanide in a so-called act of "revolutionary thuithide".

The video portion is a compilation of cult images and footage from the PBS "American Experience" segment titled "Jonestown: The Life and death of Peoples Temple". The show is available on DVD and is, so far, the most complete and comprehensive Jonestown documentary ever produced.

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