{"id":28067,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28067"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:51:40","slug":"188-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28067","title":{"rendered":"Q188 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c6-13-78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 News items consistent with tape label<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPart 1:<\/strong>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nMartha Peterson, US Embassy official in Moscow
\nWilliam Colby, former CIA director
\nAdmiral Stansfield Turner, CIA director
\nJohn Stockwell, former CIA agent<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Sen. Dick Clark (D-IA)
\nRep. Phil Crane (R-IL), congressman implicated in South Africa scandal
\nRep. John Dent (D-PA), congressman implicated in South Africa scandal<\/p>\n

Manea M?nescu, Prime Minister of Romania
\nKarl Marx, German economist, father of communism
\nAldo Moro, former prime minister of Italy<\/p>\n

Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China<\/p>\n

Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nKenneth Towsey, director of the Rhodesian Information Office
\nHilary Squires, Rhodesian Justice Minister
\nP. K. Vanderbaugh, Rhodesian Foreign Affairs Minister
\nElijah Njandora [phonetic], Rhodesian legislator
\nEndlaid (phonetic, first name unknown), reporter who wrote extensively about Rhodesia
\nLuta [phonetic] Dhlamini, condemned Rhodesian prisoner<\/p>\n

Donald Dekieffoher, Washington lobbyist for South Africa
\nB.J. Vorster,\u00a0 prime minister of Republic of South Africa
\nAgostinho Neto, president of Angola
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nKwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana
\nEmmanual Erskine, leader of UN peace-keeping force in Lebanon
\nFonji [phonetic] family, relatives of a former Lebanon prime minister<\/p>\n

Joaquin Balaguer, former president of Dominican Republic
\nAntonio Guzman, president of Dominican Republic
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua<\/p>\n

Huey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nAngela Davis, member of Communist Party, black activist
\nTerns (phonetic, first name unknown), death row inmate in California<\/p>\n

Part 2:<\/strong>
\nAlbert Schweitzer, physician, missionary
\nDr. Wall, first name unknown, physician who assisted Schacht<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nPart 1:<\/strong>
\nDeborah Blakey
\nSteven Katsaris
\nWade and Mabel Medlock
\nTim Stoen<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPart 1:<\/strong>
\nMaria Katsaris<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Part 2:<\/strong>
\nMike Prokes (speaks)<\/strong>
\nLarry Schacht [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

While principally a news tape, this daily reading of bulletins and commentary to the people of Jonestown includes several lengthy asides of more relevance to the community, and more editorial rhetoric on some of news items themselves. Jones also speaks more distinctly and with more animation in this tape than in others from previous days.<\/p>\n

The source of all of this could be his early announcement that former Peoples Temple attorney \u2013 and now \u201cclass enemy of the people\u201d \u2013 Tim Stoen has filed two lawsuits against the Temple. The two suits \u2013\u00a0one for $18 million filed by Wade and Mabel Medlock for fraudulent deprivation of property, the other a $15 million defamation action by Steven Katsaris \u2013 are intended to \u201cstarve\u201d the people of Jonestown, Jones says, and to turn the press against them. The Temple is no longer considered to be the source of healing or even religion, but rather a nest of socialists, and while that\u2019s good, it opens them to press attacks. \u201c[T]hey have all this self-righteousness about exposing socialists and trying to make them look bad, headline after headline. There\u2019s nothing in the news except Jim Jones, Huey Newton, and the cooperative named Synanon, and now a new wave of attack on Scientology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much later in the tape, after Jones has read numerous other items showing how socialists are persecuted in other countries, both by their governments and the press, as well as how some socialists have succumbed to the pressure and become revisionist, he notes that death will come to all of them \u2013 \u201crevisionist, apologist, opportunist, capitalist\u201d \u2013 as it will someday come to them. The only difference, he says, is in how you die. \u201c[T]he only thing that makes nobility is in what we stand for,\u201d he says, \u201cbut that dying then cannot be noble unless it is a revolutionary death.\u201d They have the will to live, the strength to go on, the desire to build the community for a lifetime, but if they are attacked by \u201cthe enemy of the people, a class enemy\u201d \u2013 i.e., the same description he gave for Stoen and the Concerned Relatives \u2013 \u201cwe are certainly ready and able to meet revolutionary death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse than that kind of death, he says, is abandoning the struggle, and this is something he sees infecting Jonestown. The symptoms are many: people waste food, destroy property, break tools, don\u2019t take care of themselves, and are driven by \u201cyour own animal and sexual appetites.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a theme he has built on for weeks, and throughout this session. Commenting upon a news story on the seven liberation movements in Africa \u2013 all of which have the support of the Soviet Union, according to the Carter Administration, but which are really are outgrowths of the people\u2019s demand for freedom from oppression, according to Jones \u2013 the Temple leader chastises his own people: \u201cSome of you will never relate to it, because you\u2019ve always had Father to provide your every need.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sentiment drives the concluding minutes of the news portion of the tape. \u201cHow much do we have to hear to be inflamed in our motivation to build this community, to be inflamed with a passion to protect it, for socialists\u2019 sake, to build it instead of wasting every day,\u201d he admonishes, then again a few moments later, \u201cI don\u2019t know how some of you do it, how you stop struggling for people, when they still can\u2019t determine their own destinies,\u201d and then finally, \u201cPlease, for socialism\u2019s sakes, awake out of your lethargy, out of your self-indulgence\u2026 Try to identify with the struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 emotional critique of his community plays out in his reading of the news as well. The session opens with a lengthy reading on a half million blacks in Rhodesia being placed in concentration camps, with hundreds of political prisoners being hanged each day, and hundreds more babies dying in their mothers\u2019 wombs due to malnutrition and lack of health care. He returns to it over and over, reminding his listeners that the camps are modeled on similar camps the US erected in Vietnam. \u201cThere should be nothing but an incensed indignity, a hatred, a passion that goes deep to our soul against that system that \u2026 has its hold on the throats, strangling and murdering and killing and torturing, by the hour, untold tens of thousands,\u201d he demands, then adds, \u201cWe should hate US imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other items covered in the news:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The US supports Israel in its breach of promise to return South Lebanon to local control;
\n\u2022 A US Embassy official in Moscow is arrested for being in possessions of explosives and poisons;
\n\u2022 400 Americans are arrested outside the UN for protesting war preparations;
\n\u2022 The press reports that the CIA helped overthrow a national leader in Africa ten years before, and the CIA admits that it is currently involved in the covert war in Angola;
\n\u2022 South Africa is paying off members of Congress;
\n\u2022 The national police is overthrowing a legitimately-elected \u2013 but leftist \u2013 government in the Dominican Republic;
\n\u2022 Two referendums curbing police powers in Italy fail, in part because of \u201crevisionists\u201d;
\n\u2022 Honduran peasants revolt to seize control of land.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/strong> of the tape is the end of an undated recording in which Jim Jones and Temple publicist Mike Prokes talk about the beauty of Jonestown. Intended principally for an audience in Georgetown, where the Temple aired regular promotional material, these tapes were also used in the US to entice more emigrants to the Promised Land.<\/p>\n

Most of the conversation between the two men consists of plugs for the jungle community \u2013 the air is fresh, the diversity of crops under cultivation is amazing, the medical care is outstanding, construction of new buildings is booming, new cottage industries are emerging, the interest of local Guyanese in joining the American settlement is encouraging \u2013 and is non-controversial. The only political stand which Jones takes during the broadcast is his opposition to a proposal to grant sanctuary to people from South Africa who have been part of the apartheid system, but since that view echoes that of the leading Guyana newspaper, as well as the governments of Guyana\u2019s closest neighbors, Venezuela and Brazil, he doesn\u2019t run the risk of alienating his benefactors.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of transcription: 6\/7\/79<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On May 25, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-14. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News of the day by JIM JONES specifically dealing with Rhodesia, followed by discussion of a lawsuit initiated by TIM STOEN and then a return to the topic of Rhodesia. A continuation of the news concerned such topics as Israel, the U.S. Africa Policy, the arrest of U.S. Embassay [Embassy] employee MARTHA PETERSON by the Soviets, Information about the arrest of 400 demonstrators at the United Nations in New York, and then a statement by JONES about revolutionary death.<\/p>\n

The tape ends with an interview of JONES by an unidentified male individual regarding background information of Jonestown.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted May 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c6-13-78\u201d Date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28067","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66396,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28067\/revisions\/66396"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}