{"id":28158,"date":"2013-07-25T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28158"},"modified":"2019-12-31T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:18:52","slug":"414-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28158","title":{"rendered":"Q414 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<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note<\/b>: <\/b>Labeled in part \u201c6-7-78 News\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contents consistent with tape label<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nPart 1<\/b>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nJoseph Califano, Secretary of U.S. Dep’t of Health, Education & Welfare
\nHarold Brown, Secretary of Defense
\nGen. Alexander Haig, commander of NATO forces in Europe<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Joseph McCarthy, former U.S. Senator, Republican from Wisconsin
\nRichard Nixon, former U.S. President
\nArthur F. Burns, economist
\nHerbert Stein, economist
\nGeoffrey Moore, Commissioner of Labor Statistics under Nixon<\/p>\n

James Callaghan, Prime Minister of Great Britain
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of Conservative Party in Great Britain<\/p>\n

Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nIdi Amin, dictator of Uganda
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nKenneth David Kaunda, president of Zambia
\nHassan II, King of Morocco
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nL\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, president of Senegal (by reference)
\nWilliam R. Tolbert, Jr., president of Liberia (by reference)<\/p>\n

Karl Marx, German economist, father of communism
\nJosef Stalin, former Soviet dictator
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nAlexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident<\/p>\n

Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China
\nSuharto, president of Indonesia
\nTakeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (by reference)<\/p>\n

Ptolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Evelle Younger, attorney general of California
\nEd Davis, former chief of police for L.A., defeated candidate for governor
\nJerry Brown, governor of California
\nEdmund \u201cPat\u201d Brown, former governor of California
\nHoward Jarvis, co-author of Proposition 13<\/p>\n

Part 3<\/b>
\nSen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi)
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Part 4<\/b>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nAdolf Hitler
\nVladimir Ilich Lenin, father of Russian Revolution
\nMao Tse-Tung, leader of People’s Republic of China
\nAldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy
\nJames Callaghan, Prime Minister of Great Britain
\nGuyana Minister of Foreign Affairs (by reference) [likely former minister Fred Wills, could be Rashleigh E. Jackson]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/i>
\nPart 3<\/b>
\nTim Stoen<\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/i>
\nPart 1<\/b>
\nGuy Young<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/i>
\nPart 3<\/b>
\nEugene Smith
\nOllie Smith
\nMartin Luther Smith (by reference)<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

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

This tape consists of three distinct parts, with a burst of audio and slowed tape in between parts 1 and 2. The last two substantive parts follow a lengthy period of silence on side 2.<\/p>\n

In Part I<\/b>, Jim Jones reads the news and offers commentary. Among the news items he covers:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The recent passage of Proposition 13 in California and its implications for welfare and social services in the state;
\n\u2022 The race for governor in California, especially in light of passage of Prop 13;
\n\u2022 Disarmament talks and, elsewhere, SALT talks between the US and USSR
\n\u2022 The dispute between USSR and Japan over an island chain;
\n\u2022 African liberation movements, and capitalism\u2019s attempts to defeat them, including use of Japanese troops;
\n\u2022 The potential of the British Labor government falling to Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party;
\n\u2022 The Soviet Union offer of protection of Vietnam against China;
\n\u2022 The CIA\u2019s \u201cblank check\u201d \u2013 without oversight \u2013 to resume its activities
\n\u2022 The trial of a Soviet dissident;
\n\u2022 Egyptian demands that Israel abide by peace agreements<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

As with most news tapes, Jones is apparently using Soviet and eastern bloc services for the information he presents to the people of Jonestown. The tilt of the coverage and the language used in the press reports is both anti-Western (U.S., Europe, NATO) and anti-China. The descriptions of the West as imperialist, monopoly, capitalistic, and fascist are familiar; less so are the characterizations of the Soviet Union\u2019s other adversary as \u201cthe renegade mainland Chinese [with] imperialist designs\u2026 China obviously has some conscience but a very imperialistic foreign policy, and a very dangerous one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, as in other tapes, it is difficult to tell when the editorial commentary appears in the reading or from Jones\u2019 own spontaneous opinion. One that does appear to be his own, though \u2013 since it is bracketed by the same sentence \u2013 occurs when he quotes an article in the Morgan Guarantee Survey and describes Morgan as \u201cone of the rich families like DuPont, Rockefeller, I.G. Farben that made all the gas ovens to destroy Jews, blacks, and browns, that control imperialism in its final stages as it moves into a fascist mentality through the Trilateral Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/b> consists of two short segments of slowed tape which are barely understandable. In the second, Jones informs the adult population of Jonestown that their egg allotment will have to drop to two or three a week in order to continue giving younger children the eggs they need.<\/p>\n

In Part 3<\/b>, Jim Jones welcomes newcomers to Jonestown. He tells them of the miracles that happen every day, thanks to \u201cthe presence of one dimension of socialism confined only to this body,\u201d and adds that the people will be well fed and well taken care of.<\/p>\n

He does emphasize the increased security which all have to endure. He warns against bringing in or sending out messages, and ask that \u201cthere be no anarchy.\u201d The newcomers will have a couple of days off, but then \u201cyou\u2019ll be briefed why we have our rules, ask any question you want, bring any criticism about anything to our face, but no criticism behind our backs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part 4<\/b> is a segment of an article on the dangers of revisionism to the overall goal of revolution and victory of the proletariat. Most of the language does seem to come from the article, but the quote of Mao Tse-Tung that \u201call change must come out of the barrel of the gun\u201d is one that Jones often cites on his own.<\/p>\n

This segment of the tape continues on Tape 197<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/25\/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 1B100-20. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JIM JONES reading news, commentary and announcements followed by announcements from MARCELINE JONES and JIM JONES greeting new arrivals.<\/p>\n

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

The two snippets of a woman speaking in Part 3 of this tape are too short to identify Marceline Jones. Otherwise, the summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted June 2010<\/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\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201c6-7-78 News\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28158","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=28158"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93812,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28158\/revisions\/93812"}],"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=28158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}