{"id":28163,"date":"2013-06-16T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28163"},"modified":"2016-03-02T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:30:59","slug":"430-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28163","title":{"rendered":"Q430 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>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c6\/4\/78 Documentary\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nU.S. President Jimmy Carter
\nGeneral Alexander Haig, White House Chief of Staff
\nHenry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary
\nHelmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor
\nAdolf Hitler, German leader of the Third ReichKenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nSteve Biko, South African activist<\/p>\n

Che Guevara, Latin American Revolutionary
\nAlfonso L\u00f3pez Michelsen, President of Colombia [by reference]
\nGeneral Francisco Morales Berm\u00fadez, President of Peru
\nLuis Cisneros, Peru Interior Minister
\nHugo Blanco, Peruvian leader of peasant insurrection
\nRicardo Diaz Chaves [phonetic], Peruvian mine worker
\nVictor Quadros [phonetic], Peruvian mine worker<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana
\nHamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health and Labor<\/p>\n

Charles Moyer [phonetic], US District Court judge in Louisiana
\nHarold Greene, US District Court judge in Washington DC
\nRaymond Manune [phonetic], US Attorney
\nMorris Warren, accused rapist<\/p>\n

Dr. Martin Luther King, slain civil rights leader
\nReg Murphy, editor of San Francisco Examiner<\/em>
\nRupert Murdoch, newspaper magnate<\/p>\n

Carlos Maderon, man killed by police in Gadsden, Alabama
\nJack Madden, man killed by police in Gadsden, Alabama
\nCotton Reader, field officer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference<\/p>\n

Charles Garry, Temple attorney [by reference]
\nJohn V Moore, Methodist district superintendent, father of Carolyn Layton and Ann Moore
\nRobert Coleman, \u201cconspirator\u201d with Tim Stoen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em>
\nDebbie Blakey [by reference]
\nTim Stoen
\nDon Ponts, father of Donna PontsTemple members not in Jonestown\/ not on survivors\u2019 or death lists:<\/i>
\n\u201cRodriguez boy\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em>
\nPhil Blakey
\nTim Carter
\nLee Ingram
\nMarceline Jones
\nStephan Jones
\nKay Nelson
\nDonna Ponts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Midway through this news tape from early June 1978, Jim Jones warns about an attack which Tim Stoen \u2013\u00a0together with confederates from military intelligence and other participants in the conspiracy against Jonestown \u2013 is planning to launch. Even though the US military is spread thin around the world, advancing the demands of its imperialistic and capitalistic masters, there is enough of it to form a small mercenary force that could come into the community at any time, and the people should know what \u201cself-defensive measures\u201d to take against this enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e will provide protection,\u201d Jones says. \u201cWe will defend our community from all outside aggression. That is our duty. That is our stance, and we give no apology whatsoever for that stance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones does include a few words of calm \u2013 the invading force would not use mortar fire or bazookas, \u201cbecause they would not want the reputation for killing innocent women and children\u201d; and in actuality the purpose of the mission would more likely be to assassinate or kidnap him \u2013 and there are things they can do should an attack occur, like flee to the central tower with arms raised. Nevertheless, they have to recognize the foe for who he is. \u201cTim Stoen in his narcissism, now that he\u2019s full circle turned back to a capitalist pig, an open racist fascist pig in his associations \u2026 is impassioned with hate, he is fully a class enemy and must be considered so.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not his only reference to Stoen. Early in the tape, Jones recounts Stoen\u2019s efforts \u2013\u00a0indeed, his success \u2013 in getting television stations in LA and San Francisco to label Jim Jones an enemy of the people, even though that designation should go to the US government. Jones does not seem worried, though. He speaks of the community\u2019s defenders in the Guyana government \u2013 from the Prime Minister on down to local officials \u2013 and notes that they are \u201ccourted\u201d by Venezuela as well, a fact which gives them leverage in dealings with Georgetown. He also reminds his followers that both the school and the medical clinic have been accredited.<\/p>\n

These lengthy asides notwithstanding, this remains fundamentally a news tape, with Jones providing items from the community\u2019s former homeland of the USA, as well as international developments. He does read one lengthy commentary about the development and maturation of leftist parties in Peru, and a substantive list of rights and provisions in the Guyana constitution which is up for public vote by referendum in the near future, but most items are bulletin length.<\/p>\n

As with many of these tapes, he does not often identify his news sources. At one point, in decrying a story\u2019s lack of coverage in US media sources, he says it comes to them only \u201cthrough the socialist press.\u201d He just doesn\u2019t say which one.<\/p>\n

As a result, it is unknown whether some of the political rhetoric comes from the copy or from himself. The United States is always designated as imperialistic and capitalistic, NATO is consistently fascist \u2013 as are its member countries \u2013 mainland China is a renegade from communism, newspapers that parrot the US line are sell-outs, and blacks who do the same are Uncle Toms. \u201cRacism, chauvinism, classism, elitism, sexism, and ageism is upheld every day by the US imperialist-financed capitalism,\u201d he adds at the end of an item about a US Supreme Court decision. \u201c[A]nti-union positions taken by the British conservatives are an embarrassment to conservative parties that govern with the support of or in coalition with social democratic sellout reformist communists such as \u2026 the so-called Communist Party of Italy,\u201d he declares elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Other comments are undoubtedly his. Following an item about the retrial of an alleged white rapist, Jones pauses and adds, \u201cNow if he were black, not a middle-class white man, there wouldn\u2019t be this problem. They\u2019re always convicted one time round.\u201d A similar pause allows Jones to formulate a brief editorial comment following the story of US-Japanese trade talks that \u201cthe dollar\u2019s in disrepute all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some news items allow him to reinforce his own lessons and edicts for the Jonestown community. \u201cChe Guevara \u2026 was killed because of his indulgence in romance,\u201d he says. \u201cHe got diverted and was set up by the lady to be murdered by the CIA.\u201d It reflects what he has said on numerous occasions in Jonestown, that love and sex and relationships get in the way of production goals and revolutionary fervor.<\/p>\n

The tape ends with the promise that there will be testing on the news at the People\u2019s Rally scheduled for that night. He coaches them on what the test will cover, including the enemies of Marxist-Leninism, and reminds people that tapes in the library can help them prepare.<\/p>\n

As most of these tapes also do, Jones drops in periodic reminders of everything he himself does for the community, even if it means that he has to be up all night.<\/p>\n

Among the shorter items covered:<\/p>\n

\u2022 International troops have been sent to Zaire
\n\u2022 Eritrea continues its battle for independence from Ethiopia
\n\u2022 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith survives only with US support
\n\u2022 A strike continues at a hotel in Micronesia, a subsidiary of Continental\u00a0 airlines
\n\u2022 Conservative parties form alliances in Europe
\n\u2022 Leonid Brezhnev meets with German chancellor Helmut Schmidt
\n\u2022 The Japanese prime minister meets with President carter on economic issues
\n\u2022 Despite the use of drugs in its ranks, the US military says its troops are battle-ready
\n\u2022 A federal grand jury refuses to indict white cops in the killing of black men in Alabama
\n\u2022 The US Supreme Court rules that government and police agencies can snoop in newsrooms
\n\u2022 The court also upholds state laws declaring that the male is the head of the household
\n\u2022 Delta airline stewardesses lose a discrimination suit
\n\u2022 The US considers banning handguns<\/div>\n

 <\/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 6, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B100-34. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

A recording of a lecture on current events by JIM JONES and some music.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted May 2012<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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