{"id":28150,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28150"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:26:29","slug":"400-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28150","title":{"rendered":"Q400 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 \u00a0\u201cTuesday Oct 3\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> News items consistent with date on tape note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter, US President
\nCyrus Vance, Secretary of State
\nLillian Carter, mother of President Carter
\nRosalynn Carter, wife of President CarterLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nAlexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nErich Honecker, president of East Germany [by reference]
\nHans-Dietrich Genscher, foreign minister of West Germany [by reference]
\nAdolf Hitler
\nJames Callaghan, Prime Minister of Britain
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of British Conservative Party
\nUnknown ambassador from the Soviet Union to GuyanaNoor Mohammad Taraki, Afghanistan Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, president of Egypt
\nHafez Al-Assad, president of Syria [by reference]
\nElias Sarkis, president of Lebanon [by reference]
\nSaud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister [by reference]<\/p>\n

Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry, president of Sudan [by reference]
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nLouis Lansana Beavogui, prime minister of Guinea [by reference]
\nMengistu Haile Mariam, prime minister of Ethiopia<\/p>\n

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader, practitioner of non-violence
\nHo Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam
\nTon Duc Thang, president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
\nUnknown name, Cambodia\u2019s foreign minister<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua
\nCarlos Perez, President of Venezuela
\nForbes Burnham, prime minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Pope John Paul I
\nPope Paul VI [by reference]<\/p>\n

Daniel Ellsberg, Defense Department worker who leaked Pentagon Papers
\nSolomon Stepak (phonetic), banished Jewish dissident
\nVladimir Stepak (phonetic), father of banished Jewish dissident<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/p>\n

Gene Chaikin
\nAl Simon
\nSarah Tropp<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news of the day for Tuesday, October 3, 1978.<\/p>\n

While parts of the newscast may come from other wire services that Jones often used \u2013 the BBC, Voice of America, and European radio networks \u2013 he relies most heavily, and perhaps exclusively, on Radio Moscow and other Soviet news sources for this edition. It is not only the coverage of stories that reveals this, but the tone, the rhetoric and even the use of first-person pronouns when describing events in the Soviet Union and its allies. The bulletins of overt Soviet origin are scattered throughout the broadcast, including these items:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Congratulations to the new democratic republic of Afghanistan;
\n\u2022 An award given to the president of Vietnam
\n\u2022 Congratulations to Guinea on the 20th anniversary of its republic;
\n\u2022 Support for a conference on African liberation movements and against apartheid;
\n\u2022 Soviet perspectives on a meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
\n\u2022 Expressions of friendship between Leonid Brezhnev and the Ethiopian government
\n\u2022 Soviet geologist exploration of coal deposits in Mozambique
\n\u2022 Soviet space mission sets records
\n\u2022 Economic council of Soviet-bloc countries meeting in Mongolia;
\n\u2022 Discussion of role of trade unions in USSR
\n\u2022 Soviet development of boat to allow for navigation of small, winding rivers
\n\u2022 Soviet dissident \u00e9migr\u00e9 to Israel disowned by father<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

As with other news tapes, however, it is not always clear when the editorial asides are part of the copy, or whether they come spontaneously from the reader. The name of the country \u201cThe Soviet Union\u201d is almost always followed by \u201cthe avant garde of liberation of the world,\u201d but that is language that is common both to Radio Moscow and Jim Jones. This is also the case with a three-time description of Washington, DC as \u201cthe center of world imperialism.\u201d One commentary \u2013 \u201cthe USA and her Western imperialists were on the wrong side of every question and the Soviet Union and Cuba were on the right side of every issue\u201d \u2013 seems to be part of the news copy which Jones is reading, but a longer string of anti-Western invective in the description of NATO \u2013 \u201cthe military adventurers, aggressive expansionist fascist imperialist lackeys of US imperialism\u201d \u2013 likely comes from Jones.<\/p>\n

But it is Jones himself who takes advantage of several opportunities to disparage religion. When reporting that the pope had died after about a month in office, Jones comments that \u201cGod\u2019s representative on earth does not seem to be faring<\/em> very well.\u201d As he reports on monsoon floods destroying crops and killing thousands of people in India, he adds, \u201cAn act of God.\u201d When he notes that scores of pilgrims en route to a religious festival, also in India, drowned in a boating accident, he comments, \u201cIt seems that God does not protect his own while they\u2019re going to bow at his shrines of festivals and worship.\u201d Finally, in describing the battle for Lebanon as one between government forces and Phalangists Christian fascists, he offers the aside that \u201cChristians mostly all over the world are fascists except in Ethiopia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones is almost certainly the source of the several comments that the threat of nuclear holocaust will spin out to an inevitable conclusion. In reporting the talks between Vance and Gromyko on limiting strategic arms, he adds,\u00a0 \u201cLet us hope it\u2019s not too late before the terror of nuclear holocaust rains down upon North America.\u201d A moment later, he expands upon a story from the Middle East to suggest that this is \u201cthe spot that would lead to World War III, which would mean the end of US society. Over 200 million of our beloved people there would die in less than 13 minutes.\u201d Finally, he adds that an economic summit of Communist-bloc nations in Mongolia concluded with a statement that \u201cnuclear war is still absolutely inevitable, but may be postponed. Let\u2019s hope that they put the emphasis upon postponed, though most scientists say that, even within the year, nuclear war is likely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other commentary is familiar to the people of Jonestown: he describes West Germany as \u201cprid[ing] itself as being the successor to Hitler\u2019s Third Reich,\u201d he says \u201cfascist South Africa [is] upheld by US tax dollars which burns my stomach every time I think of it,\u201d and he labels the US condemnation of other countries\u2019 human rights record as \u201chypocritical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, there is some revisionist history: In the course of advocating for armed struggle against oppression, Jones quotes Mahatma Gandhi \u2013 \u201cthough he was a pacifist\u201d \u2013 as saying \u201cif it comes between a choice of slavery and violence, I would accept violence without a hesitant thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other news items include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Israel and Egypt will begin peace negotiations based on Camp David \u201csellout\u201d accord;
\n\u2022 Vance mission to Middle East only part of world reaction to agreement;
\n\u2022 Lebanon attempts to form new government, even as serious fighting continues;
\n\u2022 Rhodesian government officials encounter visa problems in coming to US
\n\u2022 Rhodesia shuts down black-run daily newspaper, and editor may be jailed;
\n\u2022 British Labour Party suffers setback, may lead to early elections
\n\u2022 Somozan government may be open to negotiations with opposition in Nicaragua, even as more world leaders condemn regime.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

The tape concludes with several messages to the Jonestown community, although these are quite familiar as well: people should study the news tapes in preparation for a test, so they won\u2019t have to take extra classes; they should work harder to produce the land, so their brothers and sisters still in the States can come to this sanctuary; and the suggestion box is always open for ideas on how to stretch the food supply they have.<\/p>\n

There is more discussion on this tape, however, about plans to emigrate to the Soviet Union (which may be the reason that Jones focused on Soviet news services that day). He tells the people that the Soviets who visit are uniformly impressed with the settlement, but if their plans are to go through, the people need to impress them even more. That includes knowledge of the news, knowledge of the Russian language and constitution, and cleanliness and neatness of their surroundings. This latter point isn\u2019t just about the grounds \u2013 although this is part of it \u2013 but to personal grooming as well. People must cut their hair, and men must not wear beards.<\/p>\n

But the sacrifices will be temporary \u2013 they can grow their hair again once they arrive \u2013 and they will be worth it, Jones promises. The Soviets are building them a coliseum, a gymnasium and other facilities. Moreover, they will not be subject to scrutiny by the American consular office.<\/p>\n

His voice is slow and ponderous by the tape\u2019s end, which he explains \u2013 \u201cI have been up for two nights, so excuse the sluggishness\u201d \u2013 but he continues to implore them to work hard. Jones ends the tape with his declarations of love for the community.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/26\/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 5, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B100-8. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Tuesday news by Reverend JIM JONES wherein he exhorts and threatens the people at Jonestown to listen to the news or face five days additional classes on Socialism.<\/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 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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