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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 \u201c6-11-78 News\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>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nSen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
\nGerald Ford, former US President (by reference)
\nRichard Nixon, former US President (by reference)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

J. Edgar Hoover, former director of FBI
\nL. Patrick Gray, former director of FBI
\nW. Mark Felt, former FBI official
\nEdward Miller, former FBI official<\/p>\n

Leo McCarthy, California State Senator<\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nJosef Stalin, former Soviet dictator
\nAndrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nAndrei Alexandrov, chief of Brezhnev\u2019s personal staff<\/p>\n

Walter Scheel, President of West Germany
\nHelmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany<\/p>\n

Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China (by reference)
\nChiang Kai-shek, former president of Republic of China
\nChiang Ching-kuo, president of Republic of China (by reference)<\/p>\n

Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia by reference)
\nSaud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister
\nMohammed Siad Barre, President of Somalia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Roy Wilkins, head of NAACP, alleged FBI agent
\nJesse Jackson, head of PUSH, alleged FBI agent (by reference)
\nMartin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nCoretta King, widow of Martin Luther King<\/p>\n

Douglas Chang, liquor store owner
\nSteve Nelson, liquor store owner
\nShin Quan Yim, liquor store owner (phonetic)<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nLynetta Jones
\nGabriel Thomas<\/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

As with many news tapes from the summer of 1978, this tape features one lengthy article of commentary, numerous shorter news bulletins, and a few familiar instructions \u2013 in the form of admonitions \u2013 to the Jonestown community.<\/p>\n

As is also the case in most of the tapes, much of the news comes from unnamed sources. Here, however, Jones does credit part of the news as being from the Guyana Broadcasting Station, at one point noting that \u201cthere\u2019s a strong socialist content to today\u2019s broadcast\u201d from the network. The reference makes it seem as though it\u2019s a regularly-used resource.<\/p>\n

The featured piece from an unknown publication centers on the complicated relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. There are editorial comments throughout the piece, although it is sometimes difficult to tell which comments are in the article and which come from Jones himself. The continued references to Saudi Arabia as a \u201cfascist reactionary regime,\u201d for example, could easily be Jones\u2019, since it is typical of the rhetoric he employs to describes American allies. The representation that the Saudis feel that tensions in the Middle East \u201ccould bring confrontation between the Soviet Union and USA, and bring nuclear war,\u201d is more likely that of the Temple leader, and certainly the conclusion of the passage \u2013 \u201che said nuclear war would be preferable than to living under atheistic communism, godless communism\u201d \u2013 is almost undoubtedly Jones. (There are two places, however, where Jones allows that an editorial aside is his.)<\/p>\n

The reading is laced with language such as this. The Soviet Union is always portrayed as the avant garde<\/em> liberator, the United States is always a war-mongering bully driven by the profit-making motives of its puppet masters in the Trilateral Commission, Western allies are labeled as fascist, and mainland China is denounced as a renegade. Jones sums up much of his thinking at the end of a piece on small business owners being forced out of their livelihoods: \u201cWhat they called free enterprise is a hypocritical lie. USA is a monopoly capitalist nation, where only a few white ruling families have the control, and also control the destiny of billions<\/em> of people across the world, and cause two out of three to go to bed hungry every night, with our tax dollars raining napalm down upon black people, Asian people, and the poor of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

As elsewhere, he shows the relevance of the news to Peoples Temple. Following a story of the IRS issuing new restrictions on tax-exempt organizations that report views of political candidates, he adds, \u201cWe were too effective in that arena, and they\u2019re afraid I guess others will. You can see some of these laws are aimed directly at Peoples Temple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the topics covered in this tape:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The US seeks to breaks is economic relationship with Taiwan
\n\u2022 The US and China interfere in Zaire
\n\u2022 The US and Cuba, and the US and USSR, trade charges on meddling in Africa
\n\u2022 The illness of Leonid Brezhnev has profound implications for world leadership
\n\u2022 Italians vote on two referendums on powers of police and political parties
\n\u2022 Guyana Prime Minister Forbs Burnham pushes for passage of new constitution
\n\u2022 Three top FBI officials are indicted
\n\u2022 Roy Wilkins of the NAACP is alleged to be an FBI agent
\n\u2022 The Los Angeles taxing agency was instrumental to the success of Prop 13 at the polls
\n\u2022 Small liquor store owners react to California court decision on fair trade laws
\n\u2022 The belief in astrology and UFOs is on the rise in America<\/p>\n

The newscast concludes with his reminder that people are responsible for keeping Jonestown clean, and failure to do so has severe consequences. Not only would non-compliance result in fewer fresh fruits and meats coming to the community, \u201cevery time you waste food, every time you break something, every time you neglect this people\u2019s property, you are killing someone.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\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 26, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-25. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Sunday news by JIM JONES to include topics<\/p>\n

1. Taiwan
\n2. Mainland China and Zaire
\n3. U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia
\n4. Strategic Arms limitation talks
\n5. Italian elections
\n6. Prime Minister FORBES BURNHAM
\n7. IRS
\n8. California Proposition 13
\n9. Fair-trade laws
\n10. UFO
\n11. FBI
\n12. USSR
\n13. Saudi Arabia
\n14. FBI\/ROY WILKINS relationship<\/p>\n

The tape concluded with an announcement by JONES re the pending visit of a news group.<\/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 \u201c6-11-78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":68,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28076","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=28076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66403,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28076\/revisions\/66403"}],"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=28076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}