Summaries prepared in 1979 by agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice.

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This page provides links to lists of summaries that the FBI completed on all tapes found in Jonestown, Guyana. The general summaries are broken into five large files. The files indicate with a number sign (#) the tapes which are in possession of this website, and may be ordered directly from Fielding M. McGehee, III, at fieldingmcgehee@yahoo.com. Or to order any audiotape directly from the FBI, write: Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Section, Office of Public and Congressional Affairs, FBI, Washington, DC 20535-0001.

The files were arranged by the FBI in the categories of Jim Jones Speaking, Identified Individuals Speaking, Unidentified Individuals Speaking, Radio Transmissions, Miscellaneous Tapes, Tapes Not Summarized, Music, and Blank. Links to existing transcripts and summaries on this website appear within each file of FBI Tape Summaries.

The following links go to rather large files so it may take a minute to download if you are using a modem.

1. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 1 of 11, Q 001 — Q 150
2. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 2 of 11, Q 151 — Q 239
3. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 3 of 11, Q 240 — Q 299
4. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 4 of 11, Q 300 — Q 400
5. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 5 of 11, Q 401— Q 599
6. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 6 of 11, Q 600 — Q 679
7. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 7 of 11, Q 680 — Q 761
8. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 8 of 11, Q 762 — Q 810 (2)
9. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 9 of 11, Q 811 — Q 920
10. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 10 of 11, Q 921 — Q 999
11. FBI Tape Summaries, Part 11 of 11, Q 1007 — 1059 (Part 6)

Even before it prepared these summaries, however, the FBI made notes of what was written on the boxes which held the individual tapes and the markings on the cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes themselves. While those identification notes have been incorporated into the summaries above, you can click here for a full listing of the FBI’s preliminary tape identification notes in numerical order.

A second listing of the FBI notes – a chronological list only of those tapes which seem to have been recorded in Jonestown itself – appears here.

Any of the 750 tapes in this collection – whether transcribed or not – are available for duplication in cassette form. In addition, about 200 tapes have been digitized and are available as MP3s. Tapes which have been transcribed and/or digitized are indicated throughout the links above.

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