{"id":28102,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28102"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:49:59","slug":"256-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28102","title":{"rendered":"Q256 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:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c9-17-78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notation on tape box consistent with content<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nAnastasio Somoza Garcia, patriarch of Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nAnastasio Somoza Portocarrero, son of President Somoza (by reference)
\nAugusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguan resistance fighter, namesake of Sandinista National Liberation Front<\/div>\n

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Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nJos\u00e9 Lopez Portillo, President of Mexico
\nChinese communist party Chairman Hua Kuo-fenj
\nShah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
\nSubramanian Swamy, member of Indian Parliament
\nAtal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian foreign ministerU.S. President Jimmy Carter
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, National Secretary Advisor
\nHarold Brown, Defense Secretary
\nJames Schlesinger, Energy Secretary
\nAndrew Young, U.S. ambassador the United Nations
\nMauricio Sola\u00fan, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
\nPaul Warnke, SALT negotiator<\/p>\n

Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.)<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy, assassinated president
\nRobert F. Kennedy, assassinated presidential candidate
\nMalcolm X, assassinated black activist
\nMartin Luther King, Jr., assassinated civil rights leader<\/p>\n

Fred Busey, President of Texas Instruments
\nMark Lane, attorney and author (by reference)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nVincent Lopez<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

(Note: <\/strong>This tape was transcribed by Don Beck. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news of the day, and offers periodic editorial comments. He struggles at times, both with the pronunciation of some words and with the context of a sentence, and attributes his mistakes to the fact that he was up all night. Near the beginning of the newscast, he interrupts himself to warn people about the dangers of the jungle \u2013 snakes, tigers, and the ease in getting lost \u2013 but most of the tape is devoted to news and analysis.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the tape is devoted to a feature-length article about Nicaragua under the successive \u2013 and repressive \u2013\u00a0Somoza governments, and the struggles of Sandinista rebels to topple the current regime. Other news stories include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The removal of civilians from the Bikini Island atoll because of radiation resulting from nuclear testing;
\n\u2022 France\u2019s decision to back out of a nuclear reprocessing deal with Pakistan;
\n\u2022 New discoveries of oil in Mexico;
\n\u2022 The visit of Chinese communist party Chairman Hua Kuo-fenj to Iran;
\n\u2022 Negotiations on a longstanding border dispute between China and India;
\n\u2022 Chinese foreign policy in general; and
\n\u2022 Debate over US sales of electronic technology to the Soviet Union.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 editorial comments range from throwaway lines \u2013\u00a0\u201cWhat a crime,\u201d he says following a description of Somoza family land holdings in Nicaragua; \u201cNo doubt about it,\u201d he observes after reading the \u201creliable report\u201d that the CIA trained Somoza\u2019s National Guard \u2013 to more extended remarks. Both in content and pacing of the delivery, some of the longer statements seem as though they are part of the readings themselves, as when he speaks of \u201cthe contradictions of capitalism that sooner or later will bring it to its timely death.\u201d Other commentary is more familiar to Temple members listening to the report: \u201c[It m]akes our hearts ache when we think how much of our money went out to support this kind of devastating cruelty [in Nicaragua],\u201d he says, \u201cand all the children that have been napalmed across the world, all of the horrible acts of torture that have been done in the name of our tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recurring theme of Jones\u2019 own worldview appears numerous times in his choice of subject matter. In discussing the implications of Pakistan getting the bomb, especially given its disputes with India, Jones says that the proliferation of weaponry, the problems that atomic states face, and human fallibility will lead to a fatal mistake. \u201cIt\u2019s as inevitable as the sun rises.\u201d A moment later, as he reads a sidebar to the Franco-Pakistani deal about selling reprocessing technology to Brazil, Jones says that \u201cin light of that, \u2026 98.7 [percent] \u2026 of the leading scientists of the world said nuclear war would happen in the 1980\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discussion of Chinese foreign policy includes a caveat about the country\u2019s long-range plans: \u201cChina has a Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>, and unfortunately the nuclear age does not have time for us to pass through it, according to many theorists at least.\u201d Later in the same report, though, Chinese policy seems to mirror his own view: \u201cChina\u2019s doctrine\u2026 is based on the inevitability \u2013 that means the absolute certainty \u2013 of nuclear war. It\u2019s China\u2019s feeling that one must<\/em> get it over with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news closes with an endorsement of socialism as the only system which will \u201cserve the people well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/11\/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 30, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-2. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES giving news briefings and sermonizing to People\u2019s Temple members in Jonestown.<\/p>\n

This tape was reviewed and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of the murder of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted March 2009<\/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 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c9-17-78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28102","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=28102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97671,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28102\/revisions\/97671"}],"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=28102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}