{"id":28107,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28107"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:06:44","slug":"266-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28107","title":{"rendered":"Q266 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 (right track)<\/a>, Pt. 1 (left track)<\/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 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note<\/strong>: Labeled in part \u201c9\/27\/78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nPresident Jimmy Carter
\nFormer President Richard Nixon
\nFormer Vice President Spiro Agnew
\nZbigniew Brzezinski, Carter\u2019s national security advisor
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nMichael Blumenthal, U.S. Treasury Secretary
\nRichard Helms, former head of CIA<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-GA)
\nJerry Brown, governor of CaliforniaAdolf Hitler
\nPope John Paul II
\nQueen Elizabeth II (by reference)
\nBritish Lord Chancellor Frederick Elwyn-Jones (by reference)
\nKnut Frydenlund, Foreign Minister of Norway (by reference)
\nFranz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (by reference)
\nM\u00e1rio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, prime minister of Portugal
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary of USSR
\nAndrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister of USSR
\nJoseph Luns, NATO General Secretary<\/p>\n

Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
\nAnwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nMenachim Begin, prime minister of Israel
\nHafez Al-Assad, president of Syria (by reference)
\nKing Hussein of Jordan
\nShah of Iran Reza Pahlavi (by reference)
\nAmir Khosrow Afshar, Iranian Foreign Minister (by reference)
\nAzour Visnif [phonetic], unknown Defense Minister associated with Camp David<\/p>\n

Agostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nOlusegun Obasanjo, head of military government of Nigeria
\nMobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nB. J. Vorster, retired Prime Minister of South Africa
\nKofi Abrefa Busia, former Prime Minister of Ghana
\nZambian Home Affairs Minister, name unknown
\nPietr Kornkoff [phonetic], South African Minister of Sports and National Education
\nAmbassador Nasako [phonetic, first name unknown], Somalian Ambassador to U.S.<\/p>\n

Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of China
\nSunao Sonoda, Foreign Minister of Japan<\/p>\n

Augusto Pinochet, military ruler of Chile
\nSalvador Allende, President of Chile, deposed in 1973 coup
\nHortensia Bussi, widow of\u00a0 Allende
\nOrlando Letelier, assassinated Chilean ambassador to US
\nMichael Townley, American accused in Letelier murder<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\n\u00d3scar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador
\nElias Zayman [phonetic], leader of Maoist group in Argentina
\nRoberto Chistino [phonetic], leader of Maoist group in Argentina<\/p>\n

Wallace Deen Mohammed, leader of Nation of Islam
\nSam Shepard, School Director in San Francisco
\nGerald Crowley, president of California Organization of Police and Sheriffs
\nMyron Farber, jailed New York Times<\/em> reporter
\nMario Jascalevich, murder defendant who sought Farber\u2019s notes
\nDavid Frost, British TV host who interviewed Richard Nixon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nJames Edwards, aka Reb
\nPauline Groot
\nRichard Tropp<\/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 Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Jones reads the news for September 27, 1978. As with many newscasts, Jones seems to rely upon Soviet or Eastern bloc news sources. The items themselves focus on more international news than most Americans are used to, especially in their coverage of Cuba, Africa and Eastern bloc countries. In addition, the news includes several attacks on Chinese policies, revealing the then-ongoing struggle between the USSR and its Asian neighbor.<\/p>\n

The editorial comment that laces through the news \u2013 when not that of Jones \u2013 criticizes American economic and geopolitical interests. Jones does add his own comments, though, putting stories in the context of object lessons for the people of Jonestown.<\/p>\n

There is only one subject not related to the news which Jones raises, and he does so at the beginning of the tape: A storage tent in Jonestown has collapsed and exposed its contents to the elements. Items have been \u201cwasted,\u201d he says, including equipment that people in Jonestown specifically requested and which cost a great deal of money to bring there.<\/p>\n

Among the news items which Jones reports on are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rhodesia\u2019s threat to invade its neighbors, as well as Somalian threats to invade Ethiopia;
\n\u2022 The declaration of a South African government minister that the German ancestry of the nation\u2019s white minority guarantees its survival;
\n\u2022 UN calls for additional sanctions against South Africa;
\n\u2022 The true story of the deals emerging from the Camp David accords, and the reaction to the agreement in the Arab world;
\n\u2022 The progress which the West Saharan liberation movement claims to have made over Morocco;
\n\u2022 US support for the Somozan regime in Nicaragua;
\n\u2022 The massing of Chinese troops at its border with Vietnam;
\n\u2022 The US move towards production of neutron bombs;
\n\u2022 An earthquake in Iran;
\n\u2022 The crash of a PSA flight in San Diego;
\n\u2022 A strike by copper miners in Peru;
\n\u2022 US deficit figures of seven billion dollars for the year;
\n\u2022 The gentrification of the Fillmore in San Francisco;
\n\u2022 A California law enforcement endorsement of Jerry Brown for re-election.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Much of the editorialization is identifiable as being from Jones himself, especially that which seems to be spontaneous and more heartfelt. As he concludes the item on the redevelopment of the Fillmore, which had been the home of the San Francisco Temple, he adds, \u201cLittle by little, the Fillmore is being edged out for black people.\u201d When he reports on the police endorsement of erstwhile Temple supporter Gov. Brown, Jones comments, \u201cThat\u2019s the end of Brown, in my mind. That is the end, when we can see that kind of shit come from Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others are familiar enough to the people of Jonestown. He describes the neutron bomb as a weapon \u201cthe Air Force USA jokingly called their nigger bomb,\u201d but he does so twice in this tape, and he has characterized it dozens of times with almost the exact same words elsewhere. Similarly, his invocations of the inevitability of nuclear war \u2013 while inspired by news items about China or Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter\u2019s national security advisor \u2013 have not changed in 20 years.<\/p>\n

But there are specific messages in the news for the people of Jonestown, and these come from Jones rather than the stories themselves. The high unemployment rate in the Western Addition section of San Francisco leads him to wonder aloud, \u201cThat make you want to go back to San Francisco?\u201d He also reminds the community that they don\u2019t have earthquakes in Guyana \u2013 such as the one which rocked Iran \u2013 and no weather like hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones. Guyana, he says in summary, is \u201cone of the few places in the world that have absolutely no<\/em> natural disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another message with which the residents of Jonestown are well-acquainted \u2013 in large part because Jones has many opportunities to deliver it \u2013 is his call for people to hang their heads in shame at what their tax dollars do. Rhodesian war planes being used against liberation fighters? They were supplied by the U.S., that means American tax dollars at work. The survival of apartheid? It comes from being propped up by the U.S. government. Somalian plans to invade Ethiopia, a country with a black socialist government? \u201cMore of our tax dollars to make our stomach turn and cause guilt if you have any conscience at all.\u201d Napalm bombs which the Moroccan Air Force is dropping on Marxist-nationalist rebels? They are \u201cobtained, of course, you know where, with our tax dollars from the United States and then some of you say you have no guilt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how,\u201d Jones continues. \u201cBecause all<\/em> of you, if you were a child<\/em> even and bought a lollipop<\/em>, you paid taxes on it, [and] it went to help buy these bombs.\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 1B93-12. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News reports on current events by Rev. JIM JONES to members of People\u2019s Temple, Jonestown, Guyana.<\/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 2010<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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