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Corpses, only corpses all around .
.. Men, women, children ... A little less than a thousand bodies lying everywhere ... Such a picture was seen by people who came to Jonestown in the fall of 1978, where members of the sect "Temple of the Peoples". There are many mysterious rumors about this case.
Let's first restore in memory what actually happened there and what versions of this monstrous incident exist in general ...
The history of mankind knows many cases when mass suicides of people were committed, mainly on religious grounds. The most famous of those that happened in the twentieth century is the Jonestown suicide, when 922 people died at the same time on November 18, 1978. This tragedy shocked the whole world, and, of course, people tried to understand the reasons for what happened.
Jonestown is a settlement in South American Guyana where members of the Peoples Temple religious sect, founded by Jim Jones, lived. It is not difficult to guess that the settlement was named after him.
Jim Jones is an American religious preacher.
He was born in 1931 in Indiana. From early childhood, the boy went to church, but the sermons of the priests did not satisfy him. Jim was very sensitive to racial inequality, or rather, the superiority of white people over black people. Therefore, having matured, he decided to create his own religious organization that would preach the equal rights of people of all colors, and this happened in 1955.
In 1960, Jim Jones becomes a clergyman, marries and adopts with his wife several orphans with different skin colors. Well done, what do you say! The number of followers of the "Temple of the Peoples" grew very rapidly, and soon there were almost thirty thousand people. It would seem that a good idea and a beautiful picture, but the number of dissatisfied with this organization was great. Basically, these were relatives of people who were part of the “Temple of the Peoples”. They were sure that Jones was playing on the feelings of people who were in a difficult life situation. The fact is that almost all members of his organization are drunkards, drug addicts and other unfortunate people who have gone astray.
He gave them shelter and care, and in return demanded unquestioning obedience. Relatives of these people later said that Jones took money from them and subjected them to corporal punishment for the slightest violation of the rules of the sect (and this was it).
Relatives of the cultists filed lawsuits with the police, which is why Jones soon had the idea to settle everyone in one place, separate from the rest of the world. And in 1977, the Jonestown settlement was organized, where more than nine hundred people began to live.
Jim Jones felt like the sole leader here, who could do anything. Perhaps on this basis, he developed some mental illness, and he began to take potent drugs. Some experts believe that he became a drug addict with a clouded mind.
Of course, the authorities periodically checked Jonestown, often at the request of the same relatives, who did not believe in the idyllic picture created in the settlement. But all the checks did not find anything strange and terrible: they were met by people satisfied with life.
Residents of Jonestown worked from morning to night: they cut wood, took care of the surroundings, they built housing, a club, a kindergarten. And in the evenings, sectarians gathered for religious meetings, and, according to survivors, Jones often got everyone up in the middle of the night to arrange an urgent service. It is clear that people who were tired during the day did not like all this. Dissatisfaction with Jones grew like a snowball. The leader of the sect learned that some of the inhabitants of Jonestown decided to return "to the world", which he did not like very much.
In connection with the tense relative to the claims of the relatives of the "victims" dragged into the sect (the pressure was provided by the former lawyer of Jones, who went over to the other side, contrary to the former) atmosphere - it was decided to send Congressman Leo Ryan to the camp for verification. Journalists, members of organizations went with him to Guyana, the committee arrived at the place on November 17th.
Everything looked rosy, everyone was happy, but Ryan was secretly given the information that several community activists wanted to return to the United States. Realizing that not everything is so simple, the congressman decides to examine the situation in more detail, and finds 16 more who want to leave the camp.
The politician who arrived with a check issued a verdict that not everything is safe and the people staying here are in danger: that is, the camp and the community will soon come to an end. He decides to evacuate those who wished to leave Jonestown, and one of the most devoted activists of the organization flies with them, under the pretext of needing to leave for the United States, which surprised everyone.
According to the official version, Jim Jones realized that urgent action had to be taken. His brain, inflamed by strong drugs, could no longer think sensibly ...
He calmly agreed to the departure of those wishing to leave the settlement and did not persuade them to stay, which surprised many people.
When people, along with members of the inspection commission and journalists, got on the plane, one of the members of the sect opened fire on them. Several more zealous sectarians armed to the teeth arrived to help him, and brought the matter to an end. Five people were killed, including US Congressman Leo Ryan, including Ryan, and an NBC journalist who does not turn off the camera and the massacre is filmed.
After this monstrous massacre, Jim Jones gathered all the inhabitants of Jonestown to a meeting, told them about what had happened and said that it was time for everyone to leave for a more perfect world by committing voluntary suicide.
The main evidence in the case is: testimonies of witnesses (surviving members of the sect), a post-mortem video recording of the murder at the airport, the audio of the last service, in which Jones said that the congressman was not alive, and the pilot of the plane would also die soon, since next to him a person who will kill him, after which the leader of the “Temple of the Peoples” suggested that everyone commit a voluntary act of suicide, go into a new reality, stand on a higher level of existence.
Not everyone liked this idea, especially children did not want to die, and there were 270 of them. The main instrument of death was poisoned wine - someone drank it voluntarily, and those who did not want to be forced to pour it down their throats. There were cases when frenzied parents cut the throats of their kids who refused to drink poisoned wine.
A total of 918 people were killed. What about Jim Jones? He was afraid to drink wine and put a bullet in his temple, choosing a faster death. The same death was chosen by his closest accomplice. Two sectarians committed suicide while in another city in Guyana - Georgetown, after slaughtering two of their children. Thus, the total number of suicides is 922 people.
Some lucky ones managed to survive. Maybe they took a small dose of poison, or maybe their body was stronger and more resistant to the potion. It was they who testified that almost all suicides were voluntary. They also said that Jonestown was like a concentration camp, where armed men guarded the workers, beat them and raped them.
After this tragedy Jonestown was closed and the Peoples Temple sect was banned. But many sects are currently not only active, but also have huge influence and finances - look how everything looks there INSIDE THE SECT
A lot of articles, films, plots, screaming only that the sect is to blame for everything, filled the media space of that time. For example, the feature film “Three Days in Jonestown” was like a recreation of a tragedy, but in real life it is a mockery, an insult to the feelings of relatives ...
Unofficial version of the mass suicide in Jonestown
replete with either shocking or implausible facts, almost always more provocative than what we will see in the media after the processing of the services. But in the story about Jones and his organization, it was clear to anyone (well, or to many) that not everything is so simple, the story is dark, ambiguous. In particular, one of the versions is presented in the book “The death of Johnstown is a crime of the CIA” (S.
F. Alinin, B.G. Antonov, A.N. Itskov “Legal Literature”, 1987 year). However, this book is also considered to be another conspiracy theory.
However, it is strange that all this is considered unrealistic after the many Prohibited experiments on people in the USA have been studied and discussed including, for example, the already famous CIA MK-Ultra Project and How the CIA tested LSD on its citizens.
Here is what the facts say: Jones sympathized with the Soviet Union and wanted to move with all his like-minded people in the status of political emigrants to its territory.
“It was a social experiment, akin to the communes of Fourier and Saint-Simon, trying to organize the life of their followers after the example of the Israeli “kibbutzim” – i.e. the denial of private ownership of the means of production and "the work of each for the good of all", a kind of "patriarchal communism", as well as the struggle for human rights, against racial discrimination, etc.
Jones, in fact, being a preacher in his youth, eventually became disillusioned with religion and became an atheist, moreover, a socialist-Marxist (!), which was no secret to his associates. Why did he give the appearance of the church to his organization? Jones, being a practical man, took advantage of the taxation advantages given by American law to religious organizations.
Jones and his associates repeatedly expressed their sympathy for the Soviet Union. In an interview given to a TASS correspondent who visited the village, Jones stated that he chose Guyana for the settlement because it is a country of socialist orientation. In December 1977, members of the commune Deborah Tuchet, Sharon Amos and Michael Proks had a conversation with Fyodor Timofeev, Consul of the Soviet Embassy in Guyana, in Jonestown. The guests handed over a number of documents from the commune, and a week later, Jones' wife, Marceline, told the story of the creation of the organization and that despite their move from the United States, the commune continues to be persecuted.
Rumors began to spread in the commune about the imminent move of the community to the USSR. 17 March 19In 1978, the commune sent a letter to Timofeev with a request to transfer funds. On March 19, another letter was sent with an even more urgent request. On March 20, a delegation from Johnstown visited the USSR embassy and made known their intention to seek political asylum from the USSR, as well as their desire to deposit significant funds of the organization in the USSR State Bank, take Soviet citizenship and move to the Union.
This statement puzzled the diplomats, and they immediately started discussing this issue with Moscow, which recommended, first, that a delegation from the "Temple of the Peoples" be sent to the Soviet Union. September 18 1978 years another letter came. On September 27, Fyodor Timofeev and the embassy doctor N. Fedorovsky arrived in Jonestown to report on the decision taken in Moscow, after which all members of the commune finally believed in an imminent move.
To solve the practical issues of resettlement, Jones was scheduled to visit the USSR in late November - early December 1978. On October 25, 1978, a letter of congratulations came from the commune in honor of the 61st anniversary of the October Revolution. However, the tragedy prevented the development of further relations with the Soviet Union.
In the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, the Peoples Temple community rented a house, essentially a small hotel, a staging post for visitors from the United States. There was also a representative office responsible for the communication of the community with the Guyanese government agencies, and a radio station. Soon Timofeev visited this house and had a long conversation with a group of representatives of the leadership of the community: “All these people told me in detail that the struggle of the secret services against the “Temple of the Peoples” in the United States assumed alarming proportions: a number of members of the “Temple” were physically destroyed, many were arrested.
The FBI and the CIA, acting through the diplomatic mission in Georgetown, are involved in the persecution of the community, all correspondence is screened, the delivery of pensions that are paid through the consulate to the elderly members of this organization is blocked, the US customs delays cargo from the US to Jonestown without any reason, and economic leverage is used. against the Guyanese government to force the repatriation of members of the US community...". Then the conversation moved on to the main question: "how would the Soviet authorities react if the members of the Temple of the Peoples applied to the Soviet embassy in Guyana with a request to allow them all to move to the USSR?"
- This question was unexpected for me - recalls Timofeev - I said that I could not immediately give an answer to it, but I would inform the USSR Foreign Ministry. At the same time, he stressed that such a request must be made in writing. "Soon this document was transferred to the embassy, a photocopy of it was presented in the book.
Here you can see it here
United States, (most of the community remained there, many colonists maintained ties with relatives, and for passenger and cargo transportation, the community used two of its own small ships to save money), a favorable exchange rate - for five dollars in Guyana one could almost live there a week - and relative security, because Guyana belonged to the "non-aligned" countries, pursued a relatively independent policy and tried to build some kind of "cooperative" socialism.0003
Through the eyes of strangers
During the existence of the commune, it was visited by more than five hundred (!) visitors - Guyanese and foreign citizens - officials, journalists, politicians, employees of embassies accredited in Guyana. In the thick book of reviews, according to the Soviet consul F.M. Timofeev, all the reviews were positive, "the word "paradise" was often found in these records - people wrote about the impression they had that they had been in paradise and seen happy, spiritualized people living in harmony between themselves and wild, primordial nature".
Members of the US Embassy in Guyana visited the colony in 1974-76. three times, (in 1977 there was a visit of the official representative of the American "Agricultural Administration for International Development"), in 1977-78. five times (08/30/77, 01/11/78, 02/02/78, 05/10/78, 11/07/78), for the purpose of "... providing consular services, clarifying the welfare and whereabouts of American citizens ...". In fact, the embassy workers were complying with the State Department's demands to "...investigate allegations of detaining American citizens against their will...". These visits, which did not reveal any criminal activity, prompted a telegram from the embassy (January 1978) stating the fear that they "may give rise to reproaches against the embassy and the State Department for '... harassing activities...' ". The State Department agreed with this and ordered that one employee be sent no more than once a quarter, because. "...visits without any apparent purpose may serve to heighten the suspicion that the community is being monitored.
" During all visits, US officials had unlimited access to all structures in Jonestown and had private, unwitnessed conversations with any resident they chose. Embassy reports say that they constantly anonymously suggested that their interlocutors leave the colony, promising them their protection and guaranteeing immunity - and all as one answered that they did not want to leave, that they did not live in fear and were very happy.
From the embassy report after the visit on 01/11/78: "on the basis of his personal observations and conversations with members of the Peoples Temple and Guyanese government officials, the consul is convinced that reports that anyone is being held in Jonestown against their will are improbable "During conversations with members of the Peoples Temple, he never once felt that people were feeling fear, coercion or pressure. They looked quite well-fed and expressed satisfaction with their lives. Some were engaged in hard physical work, repairing equipment and clearing fields, but this was ordinary farm work.
.. the consul was on the lookout for possible attempts to embellish reality especially for his visit, but judging by the situation in the village, he does not believe that such attempts were made. Everything looked normal. The people with whom he spoke in private, (some of them were those who were allegedly held against their will), freely and naturally carried on a conversation, and answered his questions. Local government officials, often making unannounced visits to the village, told the consul that they had never noticed any strange phenomena in the village ... the consul, as usual, interviewed 12 members of the "Temple of the Peoples", regarding whom there were specific statements from concerned relatives as if the "Temple of the Nations" is holding them against their will. All answers were negative. The Consul asked similar questions of a general nature to other members of the "Temple of the Peoples", whom he approached on his own initiative ... in none of the cases did the Consul get the impression that the negative answers he received were rehearsed in advance .
.. all elderly people, with with which the consul discussed matters of welfare, were neatly dressed, and expressed their satisfaction with life at Jonestown. The Consul never got the feeling that the older members of the Peoples Temple with whom he spoke were in the least afraid to talk to him... On the basis of his observations, the Consul found it improbable that anyone in Jonestown was being held against their will. The Consul did not believe that any of the inhabitants (especially among the young people) could not simply find an opportunity to go into the jungle, get to Port Kaytum or Matthews Ridge and ask for assistance in further moving "
(Evening concert in the club)
After the visit on 02.02.78: "... the Deputy Head of Mission had the following impressions: the children he saw looked healthy and tidy, he did not notice any signs of a bad attitude towards people ... The tidy appearance of the village and the hard work done in clearing and developing a section of the jungle made a great impression.
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their relatives, answered in the negative when asked if they were being held against their will and were being mistreated. Three confirmed that they received letters transmitted by the consul through the headquarters of the "Temple of the Peoples" in Georgetown ... after the plane took off from Port Kaituma ... asked the pilot to slowly fly around the village in order to photograph it at an angle that would allow them to notice any roads or buildings outside the village that were not visible due to June gley from an airplane flying directly above them. When the films were developed, no such structures were found"
State Department report denies "Temple" smuggling weapons or anything illegal into Guyana. In September 1977 and January 1978, U.S. and Guyanese Customs conducted unannounced thorough inspections of shipments destined for Jonestown. Nothing illegal was found.
And one more important detail: the "Temple of the Peoples" was not at all some kind of Tibetan monastery, from where no one left alive.
Many colonists left it to visit their relatives in the US or for other reasons of their own, and then returned - or did not return, and this did not bother anyone. Some colonists were expelled from the commune for some kind of misconduct or on suspicion of "espionage".
So, we can make the following summary: the impressions of all visitors were in the range from enthusiastic to discreetly favorable, those who were directly interested in finding any violations of human rights in the commune (and having every opportunity to look for them) found nothing of the kind .
Here is what they write in the book “The death of Jonestown is a crime of the CIA”: ... Such an exodus from the "capitalist paradise" was not expected by the authorities in Washington, and "extraordinary means" were needed to stop this progressing process... The massacre in Jonestown was part of a large set of measures by the US punitive authorities, the purpose of which was to eliminate political protest movements: "Black Panthers", "Weathermen", "New Left" and others.
Members of the "Black Panthers" and "Weathermen" declared "terrorist" organizations were killed right on the streets and in apartments, opening fire without warning. In this way the radical movements of political protest were completely crushed »
This "conspiracy" version exists:
Everything else that culminated in the extermination of the members of the Peoples Temple is a tangle of mixed events that someone fabricated at their own discretion. The video, captured by an NBC journalist, shows gunmen, not Jonestown activists. A number of video and audio materials were fabricated, examinations of corpses were not carried out (and those few that were made look ridiculous), there were also explanations for the fact that Jones was shot for some reason and did not die from poison.
“All corpses were burned in the strictest secrecy at Dover Air Force Base.
Despite the fact that absolutely all the facts testified to the murder, the main US media, such as The New York Times, The Associated Press, immediately called the tragedy a "mass suicide".
The newspapers, as if on cue, blackened the name of Jones and the colonists in the same terms. This tragedy is the subject of a whole series of books and films, to which the CIA had a hand in encouraging the authors of these misinforming materials.
The surviving photographs and film footage of the faces of the killers and the last moments of the victims have never been published. The tape recordings allegedly recording the last hours of Jonestown and where Jones calls everyone to "revolutionary suicide", which arose after a long period of time, were most likely fabricated retroactively in the laboratories of the US intelligence agencies"
(Livejournal)
The extermination of Jonestown itself was organized by the CIA, carried out by a couple of hundred mercenaries, the airborne assault was dropped in the vicinity of the camp on the evening of November 18 from airplanes and helicopters. Having shot the strongest (first of all, Jones was killed - that is why the gunshot wounds were the cause of his death), the killers set about children, the elderly and women.
They were lined up and forced to drink a cocktail of sleeping pills and poison, they injected poison through syringes, and there is also a version that the mercenaries sprayed poisonous substances, since the animals were also dead (the performers were in gas masks).
It was intended to burn the corpses, for which they were stacked, this is evidenced by a photo from a helicopter. And a little later, by the time the journalists arrived, the corpses were again scattered. That is, they decided to just quit. Pathological examinations shocked with their illiteracy, their repetition became meaningless due to the strong decomposition of the dead in a tropical climate. However, one Indianapolis doctor who examined the victims managed to record traces of potassium cyanide injections made in the back. Later they were burned. All the media echoed each other and cultivated the idea of suicide against the backdrop of fanaticism, called for branding the cult as destructive.
Only one person was convicted in this case: survivor Larry Layton (who fired at the delegation that was about to leave Guyana in the cabin).
Immediately after this crime, American newspapers published the official version of the US government: religious mass suicide. For two days, the US Army and intelligence agencies were engaged in "it is not clear what" in Jonestown. The village was isolated from the outside world; even representatives of the Guyanese authorities were not allowed into it. Only on November 20, Guyanese officials and three journalists were able to get there. Inconsistencies began to appear in the American version of what happened. The first information transmitted by the army was that 400 corpses had been found. A day later, when "outsiders" were allowed to enter the scene of the crime, the number of corpses suddenly increased to 800. And, finally, on November 26, another 110 corpses were "discovered".
In the USA, as in most other countries of the world, if there is any doubt about the cause of death, the body of the deceased is autopsied. The conclusion of the pathologist is the main document in the investigation process.
The tragedy in Jonestown is very reminiscent of the number of bodies and the distance from the places of civilization, the fall of an airliner in the jungle. For such cases, there are standard procedures, such as photographing each body, face and posture, taking particles of tissue and fluids, marking on the ground the place and posthumous posture of the corpse with a contour - after that the body can be moved for a field autopsy or to the morgue, or, if necessary , embalm. According to Dr. Wecht, (pathologist, lawyer and member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Death of J.F. Kennedy), leading US forensic experts Sydney B. Weinberg and Leslie I. Lukosh, immediately after the spread of information about the "group suicide" they demanded an autopsy and offered their services. They also suggested using the military morgue in Oakland, since most of the deceased had relatives in California, which would greatly facilitate identification.
What did the US government do?
First, they asked the government of Guyana to bury the bodies in a specially dug ditch.
The question of autopsy was not even raised. The Guyanese government refused.
After two days of empty talk, after making sure that the US authorities did not take any action to remove the corpses decomposing in the tropical heat from the jungle and having received the refusal of the Americans to conduct an autopsy, the Guyanese authorities began to conduct their own police investigation and identification of the victims of the tragedy with the help of surviving colonists. A number of examinations were able to be carried out by the Chief Medical Examiner of Guyana, Dr. S. Leslie Mutu. There was no response to his repeated requests for help from American specialists. After examining only a small part of the corpses, the Guyanese pathologist found that 83 of the dead had been injected with potassium cyanide in the back. He added that he was unable to continue the study due to fatigue, lack of equipment and complete lack of assistance.
Only after the corpses lay in the tropical sun for four days, the first forty bodies were packed and sent to Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
There they lay on the ground for several more days, waiting for the arrival of "their" aircraft. Only on the 10th day the last corpses were delivered to the Dover base (Delaware). There, without an autopsy and without taking samples, they were embalmed.
Finally, on December 15, an examination of the remains of Jim Jones and six colonists was carried out. Pathologists noted the absence of frozen specimens taken immediately after death. To their complaint to Dr. Crook (responsible for removing the bodies from Guyana), the latter replied: "I did not even have a pocket knife, not to mention the special equipment and means to preserve the samples." Perhaps he was telling the truth, but we must remember the fact that there was a well-equipped clinic in Jonestown, and it was not difficult to turn to the Guyanese authorities for help.
Summing up the work done, the specialized journal Lab Ward (a reputable publication intended for directors of laboratories and forensic pathologists in the United States) wrote: “Contradictions, inconsistencies and doubts, the existence of which became apparent as a result of these interviews, leave many questions unanswered.
In fact, this episode points to the poor organization of all operations by the US government or its deliberate concealment of real factors.
After a short formal investigation, all the corpses of the Communards were burned in the strictest secrecy at Dover Air Force Base.
Despite the fact that absolutely all the facts testified to the murder, mainstream US media such as The New York Times and The Associated Press immediately called the tragedy a "mass suicide". The newspapers, as if on cue, blackened the name of Jones and the colonists in the same terms. This tragedy is the subject of a whole series of books and films, to which the CIA had a hand in encouraging the authors of these misinforming materials.
The surviving photographic and film materials depicting the faces of the killers and the last moments of the victims were never published. The tapes allegedly recording the last hours of Jonestown, when Jones calls everyone to "revolutionary suicide", appeared after a long period of time, most likely, were retroactively fabricated in the laboratories of the US intelligence agencies.
International Herald Tribune, January 25, 1979:
“Peoples Temple officially died at the end of a short court hearing in a crowded San Francisco City Hall. After a thirty-minute hearing, Judge Ira Brown read out the decision to disband the organization ... Attorney Y. Appalas did not object."
International Herald Tribune, November 6, 1981:
“Calling legal complications, a House Select Committee canceled a planned public inquiry into State Department officials in the mass suicide case... Florida Rep. Dante B. Fuschell announced that the hearing in the part that concerns the tragedy in Johnstown will be postponed indefinitely ... "
I.R. Grigulevich, an outstanding Soviet illegal spy, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Professor:
“The first thousand dissident Americans in the jungles of Guyana were only the vanguard of a huge army of potential political refugees from the United States ... Such an exodus from the “capitalist paradise” was not expected by the authorities Washington, and “extraordinary means” were needed to stop this progressive process .
.. The Jonestown massacre was part of a large set of measures by the US punitive authorities, the purpose of which was to eliminate political protest movements: the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the New left”, etc. ... Members of the “Black Panthers” and “Weathermen” organizations declared “terrorist” were killed right on the streets and in apartments, opening fire without warning. In this way the radical movements of political protest were completely crushed.”
Dr. N.M. Fedorovsky, doctor at the USSR Embassy in Guyana:
“I am not a politician and, perhaps, I am not very professional in judging some events. But even a person who is not sufficiently versed in the intricacies of politics is clear that the simultaneous death of members of the agricultural cooperative, or rather, the commune, the murders in Johnstown and Georgetown, the fatal shots at the mayor of San Francisco, who was friends with Jim Jones, are links in one criminal chain of political assassinations. And I think the destruction of hundreds of people in Jonestown is as similar to "suicide" as the death of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of Song My or the victims of the Zionists in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila is similar to "suicide.
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Alternative versions:
“The tragedy in Jonestown was ambiguously perceived by the world community and gave rise to many versions of what happened. In particular, the following versions were put forward:
Immediately after the tragedy, there were indications in the press that Congressman Leo Ryan, during his visit to Jonestown, discovered indisputable evidence that Jim Jones was a CIA staff agent who participated in a long experiment on mind control. And in order to hide the real facts (the dead are silent), a mass suicide was organized. The real purpose of what happened in Guyana was the assassination of Leo Ryan, and the mass suicide is just a cunning maneuver to divert attention.
Jones, along with his people, was killed by CIA agents on instructions from the US government to prevent the commune from moving to the USSR, where Jones could carry out anti-American propaganda with impunity.
The tragedy was provoked by agents of the US government who infiltrated the organization in order to increase the US military contingent in Guyana without arousing suspicion, and with these forces to destroy the Soviet missile base on the territory of this state as part of the upcoming nuclear war.
Most of the documents relating to the investigation of this tragedy were classified”
Be that as it may, it is already difficult to say for sure what happened there. On November 18, 1978, Jonestown became the grave for almost a thousand people.
Mourners watch as flowers are tossed onto names of loved ones engraved on the Jonestown memorial www.warandpeace.ru/ru/reports/view/48498/
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The sect moved to California in the mid-1960s. There, Jones's influence grew, and with it the attention of law enforcement. They maintained an interest in Jones and his group after the sect moved to Guyana in the mid-1970s.
As you can imagine, there was also some controversy over Jones' death. It is alleged that his body was found with a bullet hole in his head, which appeared to be self-inflicted. However, some researchers claim that there were high levels of barbiturates in this body, which would have made it difficult or impossible to pull the trigger on the gun.
In addition, some conspiracy theorists say that Jones' body was not identified by official means, such as dental records. These inconsistencies have led to disputes as to whether the body actually belonged to Jones, or whether he died at Jonestown at all.
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Leo Ryan was a representative of the US Congress who came to Jonestown on a fact-finding mission.
On the morning of 18 November 19At 78, Ryan recorded what he believed to be several human rights violations. He also rounded up about 15 followers of Jones who no longer wanted to be "stuck in Jonestown" and wanted to return to the United States. As Ryan was about to board his waiting plane, he was gunned down on an airstrip in Guyana.
His death - more precisely, what led to it - was full of conspiracy, and perhaps this is correct
Ryan intended to stay in Jonestown for a few more days. But a seemingly accidental knife attack by a member of the cult left Ryan with serious injuries. Although the wounds were not life-threatening, this event forced him to leave along with the returning sect members so that he could receive proper medical care.
As he and the others began to board the plane, they were ambushed by some of Jones's men (apparently on Jones' orders), who opened fire on the departing group. Five were shot, including Ryan. Several more people were injured.
One of the ambushers was Lawrence Leighton. Posing as a defector, he traveled with members wishing to leave Jonestown, despite several warnings from members that Layton should be forced to stay as he could not be trusted. They were right.
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At first glance, it might seem that Lawrence Layton was simply a devoted follower of Jim Jones and therefore took matters into his own hands. However, if you look at some of his family connections, especially in light of the Jonestown massacre, there is no doubt that his actions were predetermined long before that morning.
For example, his father, Lawrence Leighton. The elder is believed to have invested vast sums of money and resources in Jonestown. When you look at his past, it's easy to see why one or two of his eyebrows were raised. Layton Sr. was actively involved in the development of biological weapons programs and genetic experiments for the US government.
Layton Jr.'s mother had a shady past of her own. Her wealth is said to have come from IG Farben, the same company that was behind the Nazi death camps during World War II, and the company that was the subject of many conspiracies.
This connection to the Nazi regime is even darker due to the Jonestown mind control allegations, which are said to have originated in the concentration camps of Europe and then continued under Operation Paperclip by the US intelligence agencies.
Another link was George Philip Blakey. husband of Lawrence Leighton, Jr.'s sister. Blakey was a well-known CIA contract agent. He is said to have made a down payment to secure land for Jonestown.
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Although this is only an educated guess, the person most likely responsible for sending Leo Ryan to Jonestown was Richard Dwyer. He had a well-documented past with the CIA that goes back to the end of 1950s.
While the Jonestown fiasco unfolded in 1978, Dwyer served as Deputy Head of the US Embassy in Guyana.
In short, he was America's view of the land in Guyana and was perfect for watching Jones or helping him, depending on which side of the story you believe.
Some investigators also claim that Dwyer had close ties. cult leader Jim Jones. A recording made during the apparent suicides at the complex appears to offer evidence of Dwyer's involvement in the massacre. Jones can be clearly heard saying, "Get Dwyer out of here!"
This indicated that Dwyer was there at the time of the murders. For their part, intelligence agencies are simply saying that Jones was likely drugged at the time and misidentified Dwyer. Make of it what you want.
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One aspect of the entire Jonestown case that is easy to overlook was the treatment of attorney Mark Lane. He was well known for representing James Earl Ray, the man accused of killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Lane believed that Ray was set up and made his knowledge public.
Lane was also in the process of reinvestigating the Kennedy assassination during the Jonestown massacre.
In addition, he acted as an attorney for the People's Temple sect. He was openly positive about the band and Jim Jones in particular. Lane even publicly stated that he believes Jonestown was "heaven on earth" in an interview with the magazine.
After the discovery of hundreds of bodies and the possible mass suicide in Jonestown, many began to listen to Lane and his opinions. differently. According to some, this was deliberate on the part of the CIA to discredit Lane. More broadly, it would invalidate his view that James Earl Ray was innocent and that the JFK assassination warranted further investigation.
Given what we know about the JFK assassination, it is understandable that some feel they may see signs of intelligence intervention in Jonestown.
In his book Was Jonestown a CIA medical experiment? Michael Meyers explicitly stated that the CIA was pulling the strings of the Jonestown cult and that these were the last "field experiments of their MKUltra projects!"
This sounds a little fantastic, even outlandish, but Meyers makes a compelling argument.
He studies how the "members" looked more like prisoners, even with hospital-type bracelets.
Meyers also noted that the local medical facilities were completely modern, while most of Jonestown was poor. He even cited the demographics of the cult's members (many blacks, poor women, and ex-prisoners) as surprisingly similar to those seen in past CIA experiments.
If you add the connections of some people, such as the Leighton Family, Meyers' statements will definitely make you look again (maybe even three times) at the official version.
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including California Governor Ronald Reagan. . Reagan also took an active part in the election of the future mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone.
Presumably, these connections allowed the group to take over the Mendocino State Psychiatric Hospital. At first, there was an agreement that the hospital would supply the group with test patients.
But after a few weeks, every member of the staff became also a member of the People's Temple sect. Those who refused to join were fired and replaced with a band member.
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There was (and still is for some) a huge discrepancy about the number of people who died in Jonestown, the number of people who committed suicide there, and, ironically, how many bodies were actually found.
For example, while authorities were still in the process of identifying the dead and conducting a final body count, Robert Pastor, assistant to US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, ordered everyone in all cases, although 500 bodies were not found. Of the 400 people, only a handful have been properly identified. Oddly enough, the official explanation was that the missing 500 bodies were "found under" another 400 bodies.
In addition, Dr. Leslie Mutu, Guyana's chief medical examiner, has officially stated that from the bodies he saw, "only 200 people appear to have committed suicide!" Mutu believed that most of the members of the Jonestown cult were killed.
If we assume that these accusations and claims are true, what would the CIA gain from the Jonestown massacre? Well, actually quite a lot.
If we look at Leo Ryan, whose assassination indirectly triggered the Mass Suicide Pact, he was a man who had few friends and many enemies in the CIA. He insisted on CIA transparency and co-sponsored the Hughes-Ryan Amendment as part of this initiative.
Needless to say, the CIA is secretive even within its own organization and has no desire to act in such conditions. open path. They definitely wouldn't shed a tear over Ryan's passing, which saved them a headache.
In addition to being accused of mind control experiments, the massacre would also give the CIA the opportunity to train mercenaries who could be used in the region. They did the "dirty work" of intelligence whenever the "muscles" on the ground were needed for things like coups, uprisings, or even false flag attacks.
In short, if it's true that the CIA was involved in Jonestown, they had a lot to gain.
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They invested heavily in Mayor Moscone's campaign, and in return, many members of the sect seem to have gotten jobs with the city's Welfare Department. According to some researchers, this served as a recruitment platform, giving the cult access to the poorest, most vulnerable, and most impressionable members of society. Moscone also refused to investigate the sect before they moved to Guyana in the late 1970s, further tying him to the group.
In the years following the Jonestown massacre, it was revealed that Jones had organized "buses of people" to travel to San Francisco and illegally vote in the mayoral election. It has also been claimed that Moscone's name was on Jones' kill list.
