{"id":28117,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28117"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:24:29","slug":"289-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28117","title":{"rendered":"Q289 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> Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part \u201cThurs News 10\/5\/78\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Tape contents consistent with note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nSen. James Abourzek (D-South Dakota)
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nCarlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez, president of Venezuela
\nRafael Antonio Caldera, former president of Venezuela
\nRa\u00fal Leoni, former president of Venezuela
\nJulio C\u00e9sar Turbay Ayala, president of Colombia [by reference]
\nSantiago Roel Garc\u00eda, Mexican foreign minister [by reference]Adolf Hitler
\n\u00c1lvaro Cunhal, secretary-general of Portuguese Communist Party (PCP)
\nM\u00e1rio Soares, former Socialist prime minister of Portugal
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nPope John Paul I<\/p>\n

Pahlavi Reva, Shah of Iran
\nMenachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nBoutros Boutros-Ghali, Foreign Minister of Egypt [by reference]
\nYasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
\nMohammed Siad Barre, President of Somalia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nHaile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia
\nPieter Willem Botha, South African Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Zdenek Cervenka, author of Nuclear Axis<\/i>
\nBarbara Rogers, author of Nuclear Axis<\/i>
\nDonald Soul (phonetic), South African ambassador to West Germany
\nJohn Vorster, former South African Prime Minister
\nHendrik Johan van den Bergh, head of South Africa\u2019s Bureau of State Security
\nWilly Brandt, former West German Chancellor
\nHelmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor
\nHans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Foreign Minister
\nGerhard Eppler, West German Minister for Developing Aid
\nWerner Maihoser, West German Minister of Interior
\nHans-Hilger Haunschild, West German State Secretary
\nDetlev Rohwedder, West German State Secretary<\/p>\n

Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia<\/p>\n

Basset Charlie Aiden [phonetic], American artist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nDebbie Layton BlakeyJonestown residents:<\/em>
\nGeraldine Bailey
\nTom Grubbs
\nPenny Kerns
\nEva Pugh
\nRose Shelton
\nJoyce Touchette
\nMary Tschetter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

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

The bulk of this tape consists of Jim Jones reading the news of the day from October 5, 1978 in Jonestown, but the most significant part of the recording is in the last 15 minutes, when Jones returns to the microphone numerous times \u2013 first with increasing stridency, then with a flattening lethargy \u2013 to complain that someone has attempted to poison his food. He has avoided the most severe effects of the assault because he didn\u2019t eat all of the food, even though both he and an unnamed nurse became ill. He tries to determine who is behind the scheme \u2013 at one point, it seems he will discern the culprit by looking at pictures of Jonestown residents \u2013 and his threats become more dire. \u201cYou better quit trying to poison me,\u201d he warns, \u201cbecause I will be here to see you die by normal means. You\u2019ll just die. Death process will take over, and it\u2019ll be you<\/em> that will be put six foot under, by your<\/em> own thoughts, minds, and attitudes, by touching the anointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledges more than once that people feel hostile towards him, and says that it \u201ccomes towards me for having to be the driving force for your freedom.\u201d He asks for more gratitude for himself, more appreciation for what he does for them, a recognition of how much he loves everyone there. \u201cTry hard,\u201d he pleads. \u201cTry hard to think of some reasons to be grateful, instead of always in your states of apprehension and hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The segments following the news also include announcements of increasingly draconian surveillance of people, to make sure they continue the production of the land. Jones describes the function of the \u201cwork observers\u201d late in the tape: \u201cThere are more observers today, and believe me, there will be names taken \u2013 plenty of them \u2013 because we have increased our observer staff by at least double\u2026 It won\u2019t be somebody just walking that you think you know. It\u2019ll be someone you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He defends his decision by holding out the carrot of a move to the USSR, where there is more room and additional benefits that Guyana cannot provide. But granting permission to allow Peoples Temple into the Soviet Union comes with a price: \u201clet us work hard. That was one request they made, that we study their constitution well, their language and to work hard, work very hard here, extra hours, to build this project to the very, very best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also wants people to do better on the tests \u2013 language, Soviet and Guyana history, news \u2013 and says people need to pay attention when he reads the news, because they are responsible for its content. \u201cI would advise that you listen, because the test will be more severe this time. To shut me out will be only to hurt yourself and require five extra classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reading of the news takes up the bulk of the tape. As is the case in other tapes, Jones adds periodic editorial comments. Some obviously come from him, as when he pauses to describe the US arms shipments going to the South African regime as being financed by US tax dollars, and adds, \u201cmuch to our sorrow.\u201d At another point, he praises a US Senator for decrying the Camp David accords, and concludes, \u201cBravo to such courage.\u201d At other points, however, it is hard to determine whether the use of such adjectives as \u201cfascist,\u201d \u201cimperialist,\u201d \u201cmonopoly capitalist,\u201d and \u201cdictatorial,\u201d comes from him or from the news copy he\u2019s reading from, since \u2013 as in other newscasts \u2013 he relies heavily upon Soviet and East European wire services for his information.<\/p>\n

Among the news stories which Jones reads:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Zimbabwe leaders agree that the Rhodesian government can be overthrown only by force;
\n\u2022 Arab states call for a rejection of Camp David accords;
\n\u2022 Dockworkers strike in Australia;
\n\u2022 Somalia executes participants in failed military coup;
\n\u2022 Portugal celebrates a communist-inspired festival;
\n\u2022 Parisians demonstrate against the Shah of Iran;
\n\u2022 Two Yemeni republics seek peace and resolution to differences;
\n\u2022 OAS and four Latin American countries call for investigation of human rights violations in Nicaragua;
\n\u2022 Vietnam protests Chinese incursion;
\n\u2022 USSR celebrates the first anniversary of a new constitution;
\n\u2022 USSR makes advances in microsurgery;
\n\u2022 The Union of South Africa and SWAPO try to counter each other\u2019s moves;
\n\u2022The price of gold reaches a record, and US currency drops;
\n\u2022 A communist-based economic alliance meets in Mongolia;
\n\u2022 Beirut is shelled;
\n\u2022 Pope John Paul I is buried;
\n\u2022 The Washington Post reports on CIA and FBI surveillance of American citizens;
\n\u2022 Carter lifts the US arms embargo ion Turkey;
\n\u2022 Venezuela and Guyana renegotiate a loan, discuss border issues.<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two of the stories do elicit a direct response from Jones. After reading about the anniversary of the Soviet constitution, he suggests that the Jonestown community draft a communiqu\u00e9 \u201cand send it in to the embassy, showing our deep and abiding loyalty to the USSR for being the avant garde of liberation all throughout Africa and the world.\u201d After reading about the death of Pope John Paul \u2013 whose tenure lasted 33 days \u2013 Jones comments wryly, \u201cSeems that God is having difficulty keeping his popes alive these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones follows the news with a review of a new book on a nuclear deal between West Germany and the Union of South Africa that would enable the racist Pretoria government to procure the bomb.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/13\/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 31, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-34. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES reading news, commentary, and announcements.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted January 2011<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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