{"id":28311,"date":"2013-08-10T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28311"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:12:03","slug":"886-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28311","title":{"rendered":"Q886 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>. To listen to MP3, click here<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue: Unidentified<\/b> Individuals Speaking<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape: October<\/b> 9, 1978 (\u201cThe Soviet people today observe Constitution Day.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nAdolf Hitler
\nformer U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin)
\nGen. Douglas MacArthur
\nU.S. President Jimmy Carter
\nLeonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nAndrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister, Soviet Union
\nKurt Waldheim, Secretary General of United Nations
\nIan Smith, Rhodesia Prime Minister
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nAgostinho Neto, Angolan President
\nHafez al-Assad, President of Syria (by reference)
\nAnastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan president
\nAugusto Pinochet, Chilean president
\nImelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
\nformer South Korean President Syngman Rhee
\nG. Greshukin [phonetic], Soviet official
\nA. Penkov [phonetic], Soviet plaintiff in lawsuit
\nMark Lane, attorney for Peoples Temple
\nDon Freed, screenwriter
\nCarlton Goodlett, physician and publisher of Sun Reporter<\/i>, black newspaper in S.F.<\/p>\n

Peoples Temple members and<\/i> Jonestown residents:<\/i>
\nJean Brown
\nJune Crym
\nLee Ingram
\nMarceline Jones
\nAl Touchette
\nAl Tschetter<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/b> \u201cThe USA still produces more critical commodities and still offers more services than the USSR, and standards of prosperity are generally higher, but man does not live by bread alone.\u201d (Luke 4:4, \u201cAnd Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.\u201d See also, Matthew 4:4)<\/p>\n

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

(Note:<\/strong> This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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

This tape consists of Jim Jones reading three international news briefings, although it is possible they all occurred at different times on the same day. As with most of the news read in Jonestown, Jones uses wire services from the Eastern Bloc of nations, and periodically adds his own commentary to that already provided by the pro-Soviet coverage.<\/p>\n

The first part begins with a long article about Soviet industrial capacity and production catching up with the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0It is written in the first person, and lovingly so, so when Jones first comes across a pronoun acknowledging that, he adds, \u201cwe who love the\u00a0Soviet Union\u201d\u00a0the describewho \u201cwe\u201d are. The tilt in the article is not subtle, describing the two world wars of the 20th<\/sup>century as \u201cthe wars which were perpetrated by even\u00a0US\u00a0imperialism in the beginning, even using [Adolf] Hitler as a buffer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The topics of the news include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 USSR Constitution Day;
\n\u2022 The Soviet and Syrian joint condemnation of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel;
\n\u2022 SALT talks;
\n\u2022 Civil war in Lebanon;
\n\u2022 Rhodesia;
\n\u2022 South Vietnam communiqu\u00e9 condemning China;
\n\u2022 Organizations opposed to apartheid in South Africa;
\n\u2022 Unrest in Nicaragua;
\n\u2022 The Soviet harvest;
\n\u2022 Cosmonauts in space;
\n\u2022 Soviet diplomats charged with espionage (charges which, as Jones adds, \u201care unfounded, as of course always they are\u201d).<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

The first part of the news ends with another commentary, this one on the fairness of the Soviet court system and especially its respect for the rights of individuals.<\/p>\n

Jones concludes the news with a reminder that there will be a test on it later on. \u201c[P]lease be sure you are listening to the news and not shutting it off, because you are responsible for the news as it proceeds.\u201d He then exhorts the workers to step up production \u2013 a fairly typical plea during the last months of Jonestown \u2013 and makes other announcements about keeping the community clean and about the movie scheduled for that evening.<\/p>\n

The second part of the tape begins with a long segment of news out of\u00a0North Korea, and its resistance to\u00a0US\u00a0imperialism. Jones dovetails the news with a plea for more production, so that the Jonestown community can help their comrades in other struggles, such as that in\u00a0North Korea. \u201c[I]f we work and produce, we can send out funds to help other systems. We also already have helped the DPRK [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea] while we\u2019ve been here\u2026 I would think you\u2019d take joy in just working to make funds for Zimbabwean Patriotic Front or the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea, or\u00a0Namibia. I would think that would turn you on, but some it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re the only socialist movement in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0to help these liberation groups, Jones says, so if we don\u2019t help, who will? The question is rhetorical, but his answer reveals his heightening sense of fatalism. \u201cWe must always work, we know the night\u2019s coming when no man can work,we\u00a0know nuclear war looks inevitable, we know it almost looks an absolute, but \u2026 we join with progressives the world over in demanding:\u00a0US\u00a0imperialism out of\u00a0Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part three of the tape consists of more international news, including reports on the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fighting in the Middle East;
\n\u2022 Madagascar\u2019s support for a Soviet proposal for security of non-nuclear states;
\n\u2022 The situation in Rhodesia, including Rhodesia\u2019s relations with the UN;
\n\u2022 The education of people in Ethiopia using Marxist texts;
\n\u2022 Nicaraguan strife;
\n\u2022 The Chinese government\u2019s support for Chile;
\n\u2022 News of Soviet manned space flight, with speculation of development of space weaponry;
\n\u2022 Turkey\u2019s calls for disarmament.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

As before, the news includes Jones\u2019 own perspectives, especially his fatalism. Commenting on Turkey\u2019s calls for disarmament, for example, Jones adds, \u201cThis point of view is shared by most of the UN members, because all scientists say that there will be a nuclear war within a matter of just a few years at the maximum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones concludes the news with an exhortation to love one another more, \u201cto put yourself out of the way more and put the suffering babies before your faces more realistically.\u201d As the tape ends, he calls once again for the people to work hard, and warns them, there are \u201cobservers \u2026 planted\u201d to see who cares about the community\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n

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

Date of transcription: 6\/21\/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,\u00a0Guyana,\u00a0South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in\u00a0Jonestown,\u00a0Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in\u00a0Guyana\u00a0and subsequently transported to the\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n

On June 10, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B102-C20. This tape was found to contain the following: A lecture on Socialism and current events.<\/p>\n

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

With one exception \u2013 the speaker is Jim Jones, not an unidentifiable person, as the FBI categorization of the tape implies \u2013 the summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted April 2004<\/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. To listen to MP3, click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Unidentified Individuals Speaking Date cues on tape: October 9, 1978 (\u201cThe Soviet people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28311","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=28311"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60132,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28311\/revisions\/60132"}],"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=28311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}