{"id":28121,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28121"},"modified":"2016-02-28T02:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:04:38","slug":"302-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28121","title":{"rendered":"Q302 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\u00a0 <\/b>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/b>Labeled in part \u201cNews Oct 21 1978\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part I<\/b>: October 1, 1978 Pope John Paul I died \u201cFriday\u201d 28 September 78; China\u2019s communist revolution anniversary \u201ctoday,\u201d 1 Oct 78.<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nPart I<\/b>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nAndrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator, Democrat from West Virginia
\nCharles Diggs, U.S. Congressman, Democrat from Michigan<\/p>\n

Pope John Paul I<\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nHua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Chinese Communist Party<\/p>\n

Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria [by reference]
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia<\/p>\n

Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea [by reference]
\nLansana Beavogui, Prime Minister of Guinea [by reference]<\/p>\n

Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia
\nPaul Gann, co-author of Proposition 13
\nHoward Jarvis, co-author of Proposition 13<\/p>\n

Part II<\/b>
\nKim Il-sung, President of North Korea<\/p>\n

Mark Lane, Temple attorney
\nDon Freed, Hollywood screenwriter sympathetic to Jonestown<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/i>
\nPart II<\/b>
\nDebby Layton Blakey<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/i>
\nPart II<\/b>
\nHarriet Sarah Tropp<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

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

This tape has two separate parts, and Jim Jones may have recorded them on different days. In Part I<\/b>, Jones reads the news of the day \u2013 with the items corresponding to events of October 1, 1978, rather than the October 21 notation on the tape box label \u2013 while in Part II<\/b>, Jones speaks to the community about a serious invitation from the Soviet Union to emigrate to that country, and he appeals to his followers to make Jonestown attractive to Soviet visitors who are on their way to make that decision.<\/p>\n

Part I<\/b> begins with Jones reading an official statement of the Soviet Union\u2019s Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to a conference on racial discrimination. It is unclear whether Jones adds editorial asides, as he does when reading the news, or whether all of the language is from the statement.<\/p>\n

Among the items Jones covers in the news:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fighting in Lebanon
\n\u2022 SALT talks between USSR Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State
\n\u2022 The 29th anniversary of the Communist revolution in China
\n\u2022 President Carter\u2019s push for a full employment bill
\n\u2022 Carter\u2019s endorsement of Andrew Young, his embattled Ambassador to the UN
\n\u2022 Arab states criticism of Camp David accords
\n\u2022 UN calls for Namibian independence
\n\u2022 Continued US support for Nicaragua
\n\u2022 The death of Pope John Paul I
\n\u2022 Micronesia\u2019s appeal to the UN for independence<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

While Jones attributes quotes to the Voice of America more than any other news source during the broadcast, it is clear that most of the stories come from Soviet and Eastern Bloc outlets. The language is consistently anti-US and anti-Western \u201cimperialist\u201d interests, and at times even anti-Chinese. In marking China\u2019s anniversary of the revolution that brought Mao Tse-Tung to power, for example, Jones describes it as a \u201cso-called communist government.\u201d As with Jones\u2019 reading of the official Soviet statement leading the broadcast, it is sometimes difficult to know when the language of the news ends and Jones\u2019 editorial aside begins.<\/p>\n

Jones does make one comment about China which, by then, is quite familiar to the Jonestown community \u2013 \u201cThe Chinese are absolutely adamant in this policy of the inevitability and absoluteness of nuclear holocaust\u201d \u2013 although he does not continue with China\u2019s call (echoing his own) to get the war over with and let the survivors pick up the pieces. Similarly, the description of East Germany as \u201cthe only free part of Germany\u201d is likely his own, as is his comment about American struggles to reduce unemployment. \u201cThis is great expectations for the capitalist system in constant decline,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

His references to the Soviet Union as the \u201cavant-garde of liberation\u201d and descriptions of America\u2019s allies as \u201clackeys\u201d of US imperialism, terms often appropriated by Jones, likely comes from the news itself.<\/p>\n

The newscast takes up most of the tape, but Part II<\/b> is more significant. In it, Jones speaks more forcefully and specifically about taking the entire community to the Soviet Union than he does almost anyplace else. The Soviet Union is studying Jonestown as an example of how communism can truly work, and wants them to bring that model to the USSR. Towards that end, Jones urges his followers to \u201cproduce this project to the maximum\u201d when the Soviet delegation arrives.<\/p>\n

Jones repeats the call a few minutes later as he exhorts residents to keep up with the news and with Russian language lessons. \u201cThe Soviet Union has no desire for us to take long periods of time. They want us to speedily move forward, but they want us to produce this to the last hour as if it were a perfect model of communism, which in their minds it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absent from this message are warnings that the community might be broken up, or that he might not be able to continue as their leader, upon entry to the USSR. He also openly addresses the issue of race and prejudice. \u201cThey also are desirous to having black people in the Soviet Union because they\u2019re tired of the ridiculous charges against them, there\u2019s no large number of blacks in the Soviet Union. How could there be large numbers of black people in the Soviet Union when they never took slaves?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Jones describes the Soviets\u2019 invitation as \u201cwarm,\u201d he does not disparage where they are. They are happy to be in Guyana. The government still supports them. \u201cWe are without any pressure to move.\u201d But the move to the Soviet Union would be a real opportunity for them.<\/p>\n

The second part also includes Jones\u2019 announcement that the Temple attorney Mark Lane has \u201csquashed\u201d some negative publicity from being printed in the National Enquirer<\/i>. The weekly tabloid made the decision in response to Lane\u2019s threatened multi-million dollar lawsuit.<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:<\/b><\/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 June 1, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-47. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

News of the day and commentary by JAMES JONES. JONES speaks of administrative matters regarding Jonestown, i.e. (Bathrooms, cleaning of dishes.)<\/p>\n

JONES speaks of possibly moving the community at Jonestown to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:<\/b><\/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":"

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