{"id":105960,"date":"2020-11-17T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=105960"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:59:54","slug":"serial-2678","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=105960","title":{"rendered":"Serial 2678"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Page 1 is photocopy of envelope]<\/p>\n<p>Mr. R. S. Young<br \/>\nInspector-In-Charge, Public Affairs<br \/>\nUnited States Department of Justice<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<\/p>\n<p>[Page 2]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">March 1, 1982<\/p>\n<p>United States Department of Justice<br \/>\nFederal Bureau of Investigation<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<\/p>\n<p>Attn: Mr. R. S. Young, Inspector-In-Charge<br \/>\nPublic Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your reply to my letter. Enclosed are some personal thoughts regarding the Guyana Mass murder of 900 persons in 1978. I have reason to believe that someone very close to me was involved in this horrible affair.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that you are much more knowledgeable about this matter and consider it classified information, not for publication. The only person who would know of any &#8220;financial arrangement&#8221; was the Rev. Jones. The other one is the &#8220;father&#8221; of the young black who claimed to have been subjected to torture.<\/p>\n<p>This does not require a response unless you have further questions.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<br \/>\n[name deleted]<\/p>\n<p>[Page 3 consists of medical record, seemingly unrelated]<\/p>\n<p>[Page 4]<\/p>\n<p>When the Rev. Jim Jones took his religious followers to Guyana and the belief that the way of life would be &#8220;freedom from government taxes&#8221;, etc. i.e., away from political intervention in their &#8220;way of life,&#8221; it is believed that he was &#8220;fully informed&#8221; of the living conditions in that part of South America, and perhaps misinformed.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;moving picture&#8221;, produced for television viewers in 1981, portrayed a &#8220;black boy&#8221; as being &#8220;punished&#8221; under orders by Mr. Jones for some inconsequential act and being told by his black mother that her son had disobeyed the &#8220;orders&#8221; of Mr. Jones and was violating God&#8217;s commandment therefore she concurred that &#8220;he should be punished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story goes on about the &#8220;boy&#8217;s father&#8221; (who never left North America) finally getting through to the United States Congressman, L. J. Ryan regarding the &#8220;horrors&#8221; being meted out to the &#8220;son&#8221;. The senator was, of course, murdered, and the story has it that &#8220;blacks&#8221; and &#8220;whites&#8221; committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes on to relate what is known or witnessed and publicized regarding the Rev. Jones&#8217; becoming &#8220;addicted to drugs&#8221; resulting in suicide and ordering his &#8220;cult&#8221; to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The writer witnessed the &#8220;moving picture films&#8221; which were &#8220;taken at the scene&#8221; showing Congressman Ryan falling and his aides also included in a hail of bullets. The film also showed &#8220;blacks&#8221; running for the airplane but &#8220;no whites&#8221;; they were all dead.<\/p>\n<p>It is the thinking of the writer that Rev. Jones was indeed on drugs, but not to his knowledge that it was &#8220;drugs&#8221; he was taking. Upon the realization that all &#8220;whites would be captured&#8221; by the &#8220;blacks&#8221; and the women and children &#8220;whites&#8221; subjected to possible torture and abuse, he &#8220;ordered them to take the pills which would kill them&#8221; rather than subject the women and children to unbelievable horrors. The guns were in the possession of the<\/p>\n<p>[Page 5]<\/p>\n<p>Africans. Were any &#8220;blacks&#8221; killed?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that you know by now who has been sponsoring &#8220;religious&#8221; cults and many other religious sects.<\/p>\n<p>After the 1978 mass suicide, Burnham (a black?) became president on October 6, 1980, under a new constitution that gave the office strengthened powers as chief executive and commander of the armed forces. Guyana is the only South American country with a British cultural background. It is also the only communist country on the continent. Perhaps the above is already known to government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\n[name deleted]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Page 1 is photocopy of envelope] Mr. R. S. Young Inspector-In-Charge, Public Affairs United States Department of Justice Washington, DC 20515 [Page 2] March 1, 1982 United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, DC 20515 Attn: Mr. R. S. Young, Inspector-In-Charge Public Affairs Dear Sir: Thank you for your reply to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":87679,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105961,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105960\/revisions\/105961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}