{"id":33250,"date":"2013-07-25T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33250"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:51:07","slug":"efreinafter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33250","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTHE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH: It’s Not Just the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why Bring In Help?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That should have been a starkly, even insultingly unnecessary question, with the wounded still strewn across the airstrip (indeed, one nearly lost an arm to gangrene due to the delay); more urgently still, with more people dying at Jonestown every minute that passed.<\/p>\n

Well, turns out not an unnecessary question at all, but a NEEDED one.\u00a0 We need address it head-on — to boot, with every brute cynical surmise, to comprehend its reverse:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>namely, Why NOT<\/em> Bring In Help?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namely, since help was accessible and the need urgent, then why did that NOT<\/em><\/strong> happen?<\/p>\n

I mean, this was A ONE-HOUR FLIGHT IN<\/strong> from the capital city of Georgetown.\u00a0 It was even still bright daylight, as confirmed by the NBC film footage.<\/p>\n

Yet help did not arrive until some TWENTY<\/em><\/strong> hours later, according to Jacqueline Speier, the Congressman\u2018s wounded aide on site.<\/p>\n

Let me make this explicitly clear from my own first-hand experience:<\/p>\n

The Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 18, 1978 was a Saturday night, hence there was a church service at the Peoples Temple in San Francisco, where I was living at the time.<\/p>\n

The services began at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0 I was running a bit late because I was getting out a mailer quoting the Congressman at Jonestown, praising<\/em> <\/strong>the community the night before.<\/p>\n

I did not yet know that the usual nightly contact via ham radio between\u00a0 San Francisco and Jonestown had been inexplicably severed.\u00a0 I was just listening to an AM radio station while I was preparing to finish up and join the night\u2019s church service.<\/p>\n

So I would fairly say that it was no later than 7:30 p.m. that night San Francisco time, when I heard an urgent report on the AM radio that Congressman Ryan had been shot while trying to depart Jonestown.<\/p>\n

No more than a few hours later (obviously I was glued to the radio all night), the reports escalated to, \u201cIt is believed that the people of Jonestown might be taking their own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Whatever exact clock time that horrifying news came through, of course, it was, as we will see, still MANY hours prior to the arrival of help.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 7:30 p.m. San Francisco time was 11:30 p.m. Guyana time.\u00a0 Plus God knows how many governmental channels this had to go through before hitting an AM radio station in the States!<\/p>\n

If some catastrophe had happened, let\u2019s say, in Chicago, then maybe there would be \u201cbreaking news\u201d within let\u2019s say an hour.\u00a0 The local police would be all over it, there would be cameras in the streets and it would be American news.\u00a0 But this was the deep dark jungle in a foreign country thousands of miles away.\u00a0 It had to have gone through \u201cchannels\u201d — at the least, the American Embassy in Guyana\u2019s capital, Georgetown, or even a go-ahead to release the news from D.C.\u00a0 This was, after all, a United States Congressman!<\/p>\n

Yet the news was already being broadcast in the States twelve hours before anyone was even into the area for rescue!<\/p>\n

So much for any claim of isolation or no communications; or that no one knew what happened when the Congressman\u2019s plane didn\u2019t arrive\u00a0 — especially since one of the planes, namely the smaller Cessna, DID fly on to Georgetown and knew of the shootings.\u00a0 The defectors on that plane even told the FBI who they \u201csaw.\u201c<\/p>\n

(Who they \u201csaw\u201d shooting?\u00a0 No, of course not.\u00a0 They were not even on the ground at the time!\u00a0 But everyone said that the shootings happened.\u00a0 That shots rang out at the other<\/em><\/strong> plane, then Larry Layton shot within their<\/em><\/strong> plane, Layton escaped out of their plane, then they flew off.)<\/p>\n

So the hit on the Congressman was known by an hour, hour-and-a-half after it happened, with radio contact from the Cessna even earlier.\u00a0 But say, it was actually known right away!\u00a0 Tim Reiterman claimed on his schematic of the airstrip (See<\/strong> \u201cThe Master Schematic:\u00a0 Tim Reiterman Versus NBC\u201d) that \u201cPilot<\/strong> [of the larger, Guyana Airways plane, the one that was attacked] Radios Georgetown.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 I.e., the plane itself was disabled by tires shot out, but the pilot radioed in.<\/p>\n

And as we can now trace on the NBC film footage (see \u201cTracking the Footwork,\u201d<\/strong>) the CIA attach\u00e9 to the American Embassy, Richard Dwyer, was at the pilot\u2019s side at the time of the attack, so we know that the CIA headquartered in Georgetown had confirmation immediately.<\/p>\n

So what was anyone\u2019s (and by the way, who was \u201canyone\u201d?) excuse for not sending in help — like, IMMEDIATELY?\u00a0 At the least, paramedics could have been on the scene within two hours of the shootings.\u00a0 Maximum <\/em><\/strong>time needed.<\/p>\n

Plus since somehow it cleared governmental, then media channels enough to broadcast on AM radio in the States that the entire community of Jonestown might be dying, then why was there that appalling time delay from the time of the airstrip killings, instead of an immediate rescue?<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Am I even suggesting<\/em><\/strong>that we are looking at a \u201cgo ahead and just let them die\u201d or even \u201cwe need to be SURE that they are all dead before we fly in\u201d scenario?<\/p>\n

Oh, no.\u00a0 Who needs to suggest or imply that at all?\u00a0 That much we know.<\/p>\n

We also know a lot else.\u00a0 A whole host of actions that had to be, and indeed were taken by the CIA to cover its own tracks and fend off any investigation of the assassination:<\/p>\n

Even With the Deaths at Jonestown Ensured, What Did They Need to Do to Fend Off An Investigation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that even from the CIA\u2019s standpoint, that they had an \u201coptimal\u201d outcome — i.e., that following the hit on the Congressman, the mad leader did indeed lead his own into mass death.\u00a0 The optimal outcome for them, the CIA.\u00a0 The one they wanted.<\/p>\n

They still had to plan for contingencies in a freakishly-unprecedented scenario.\u00a0 No small job:<\/p>\n

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      \u2022 They first had to ensure that should the cultists opt for mass death, that there was<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      NO INTERFERENCE WITH THE DEATH PROCESS <\/strong><\/p>\n

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          — that any help would arrive too late.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

          (\u201cThe Great Timeline Travesty:\u00a0 TWENTY Hours and Still Counting.\u201c\u00a0 Panel [1]<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              \u2022 Then they had to<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

              BAR ENTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                  into Jonestown, by the media, relatives certainly, or even by competing authorities — CIA-controlled forces only.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 In this case that would have been the Guyana Defense Force.\u00a0 The local, even the national police were barred for two days.)<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Yet days more of delay,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                      claiming a hunt for \u201chundreds of survivors who fled screaming into the jungle\u201d that they knew from the start was not the case.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                      (\u201cThe Great Body Count Snafu.\u201d\u00a0 Panel [2]<\/a>.) <\/strong><\/p>\n

                        \u2022 With the added \u201cbonus\u201d of deliberately letting the bodies rot beyond identifiability, necessitating mass graves with no dignified funerals, no questions asked, horror upon horror to even get close.<\/ol>\n
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                            \u2022 They also had to do the \u201cstandard operating procedure\u201d of placing the murder weapon (of<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                            the Congressman,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                that is) in the hands of \u201cthe patsies\u201d (namely, the dead cultists) to frame them for the Congressman\u2018s death.\u00a0 And they did that by brutally shooting a young woman at Jonestown post-mortem (as suggested by the evidence), then insinuating (through their conduit at The New York Times) that THAT was the gun also used to kill Leo Ryan.\u00a0 They just then got torpedoed by the unexpected twist that they happened to have \u201crandomly selected for shooting\u201d the ONE person discovered to have written a suicide note, who was clearly a suicide by self-poison.\u00a0 So how to parlay an autopsy result which reveals that the same person was both a willing suicide and also brutally shot?\u00a0 Well, then one LIES.\u00a0 One lies A LOT.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                (\u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster.\u201d\u00a0 Panel [3]<\/a>.)\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                    \u2022 They also had to portray the deaths<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                    at Jonestown<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                        as<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                        BRUTALLY <\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                            as possible so that the story of the cult who killed<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                            the Congressman<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                                would stick.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                                (\u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco.\u201d\u00a0 Panels [4-1]<\/a> & [4-2]<\/a>.) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                                    \u2022 Then they still had to ensure that there would<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

                                                    NO CREDIBLE INVESTIGATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      of the assassination, much less hearings.\u00a0 And the best way to ensure that from the start, was the myth that no, it\u2019s not \u201call over\u201d at all and now we settle down to investigate.\u00a0 No way!<\/ol>\n

                                                      There was still terrible danger, we were told.\u00a0 Peoples Temple as allegedly dangerous killers ongoing<\/em><\/strong>[!] (the mythical \u201chit squad\u201d<\/strong>), so that any move to investigate what had happened was instead deflected to ongoing fear.\u00a0 \u201cWhat if they strike again?\u201d\u00a0 (\u201cThe Great Hit Squad Myth.\u201d\u00a0 Panel [5]<\/a>.) <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Longer range, they even projected [via however convoluted a path] that somehow \u201dPeoples Temple was the CIA\u201d <\/strong>— because the Ryan contingent would presume that somehow the CIA had to have done it!\u00a0 Enmity between the CIA and Congressman Leo Ryan was too well-known.\u00a0 So best to plant that one with a close aide (namely, Joseph Holsinger) and the Ryan family real good, so all fingers still got pointed at Jim Jones.\u00a0 (See next section, <\/em>\u201cThe Long-Range Disinformation:\u00a0 Sealing Pandora\u2019s Box.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Thus this was a complex, multi-part \u201cPOST OPS\u201d following the tragedy itself.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go systematically down the list:<\/p>\n

                                                       <\/p>\n

                                                      The Great Timeline Travesty:\u00a0 A Tale of TWENTY HOURS <\/em>(Panel[1]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The Smoking Gun Log<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      It took twenty years<\/em> <\/strong>following the tragedy for the government log for that night to reach me from the hands of another researcher.\u00a0 Seemingly by chance.\u00a0 I had not even known that it existed.<\/p>\n

                                                      I believe that that researcher got all excited because it featured \u201cCIA\u201d right on the government log.\u00a0 Yet unthinkably, it somehow did NOT click in that since the people of Jonestown, including Jim Jones, were already dead when that communiqu\u00e9 came through, that no one from Jonestown was in any POSITION to orchestrate that unconscionably long delay?\u00a0 That there really was\/is \u201ca real CIA\u201d (i.e., not just the disinformation fiction of \u201ca Jim Jones CIA\u201d) and that the dastardly delay was on them?<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Short answer:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I do not believe that there was anything patently obvious that occurred to that researcher at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Me?\u00a0 I was aghast to see right from an official governmental source what had happened.\u00a0 A key piece of the puzzle from out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, that was just the first tip-off that something was tell-tale atypical with the response. A major international catastrophe has happened, the first headline being the killing of a United States Congressman.\u00a0 But even that wasn\u2019t transmitted over a secret CIA radio band, <\/strong>just the mass suicides.\u00a0 Very strange.\u00a0 Almost like a \u201chold off on any public announcements\u201d — awaiting what?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      And we will return to that since by now (not then) it is \u201can open secret\u201d that the Guyanese government was under CIA control.\u00a0 A small side trip to \u201cCIA Activities In Guyana\u201d in Wikipedia, quoting now-declassified CIA documents will set that one straight.\u00a0 And we will return to that.<\/p>\n

                                                      But the first shock to absorb is the outlandish delays all along the timeline of the log.\u00a0 <\/strong>A bit like slow-walking one\u2019s way to a five-alarm fire. \u00a0Let\u2019s clock out exactly what happened:<\/p>\n

                                                      Clocking Out the Hours of <\/strong>NO RESCUE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The Congressman was killed at an airstrip at 4: 15 p.m. Guyana time on November 18, 1978.\u00a0 Four others as well.\u00a0 Others were wounded with no one coming to their aid for TWENTY HOURS<\/strong> according to the Congressman\u2019s aide, now herself Congressional Representative Jackie Speier.<\/p>\n

                                                      The deaths at Jonestown probably commenced 30-60 minutes later and took, by some (probably realistic) estimates, about five-six hours.\u00a0 It is unclear what kind of optimally-timed intervention might have saved them and from whom and where.\u00a0 But TWENTY HOURS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      No one knew what had happened at the airstrip, much less at Jonestown?\u00a0 No one radioed anything in?\u00a0 No one ran away for help?\u00a0 There were no towns in the area?\u00a0 The towns had no police, much less an army post?\u00a0 Were there really raging thunderstorms that kept law enforcement professionals, the army and\/or police, from walking (or driving!) a few miles down the road, even though every escapee from Jonestown managed to find his way to help on foot and alone, terrified, in the dark?<\/p>\n

                                                      The Cover Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Let\u2019s first cut through the manipulated confusion.\u00a0 The New York Times\u2019 Nicholas M. Horrock\u2019s version on December 1, 1978 (Horrock having been their CIA pipeline as shown in \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco\u201d<\/strong>) was that news of the deaths at Jonestown got to Georgetown through some circuitous lengthy route that we might even believe were true were it not transparently false.<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, Horrock wrote, that escapees from Jonestown had purportedly made it (a rough hike!) to Matthews Ridge, an adjoining town, to the ARMY post there.\u00a0 Then that not a military commander, but somehow instead a POLICE OFFICER got word to Georgetown the capital in the middle of the night, to \u201ca Guyanese police<\/strong> official who was working as an agent for the CIA<\/strong> and reported it to the agency\u201d:<\/p>\n

                                                      Then the CIA (or the police, for that matter!) dispatched who?\u00a0 The police?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 They dispatched the military, the Guyana Defence Force, either from Matthews Ridge or another army post.\u00a0 And by the way, they took A REALLY LONG TIME <\/strong>to do it.<\/p>\n

                                                      But let\u2019s return to Horrock\u2019s story which was the CIA\u2019s story, or their \u201ccover story\u201d so to speak.\u00a0 Which allegedly accounts for the UNCONSCIONABLY LONG DELAY <\/strong>while also throwing us other twists.<\/p>\n

                                                      The escapees allegedly arrived at an ARMY post, yet Horrock is outing THE POLICE as CIA?\u00a0 Should be fireable anyway, if he was actually outing any real<\/strong> CIA agent, but he wasn\u2019t since it was an army post, not a police station,\u00a0 But say, if you are confused, well, you were supposed to be!<\/p>\n

                                                      Just A Planted Story to Divert and Conceal That This Delay Was DELIBERATE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Turns out that the whole story was just a planted diversion anyway, since most escapees went to Port Kaituma, a much closer, hikeable place — not to Matthews Ridge at all, which Nicholas Horrock himself wrote in the New York Times on December 14 was \u201ctwenty miles from Jonestown and roadless.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      (As relayed in her book, \u201cThe Slavery of Faith,\u201c Leslie Wagner-Wilson and a small group from Jonestown took a full day\u2019s hike to Matthews Ridge arriving at dusk, but brought no information with them.\u00a0 So this wasn\u2018t \u201croadless,\u201d as Horrock himself later claimed; but it was hardly a quick hike either.\u00a0 Those who escaped at the last all went to much-closer Port Kaituma.)<\/p>\n

                                                      So Horrock told a STORY about how the news got to Georgetown.\u00a0 Made up.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t happen that way and his handlers knew it.\u00a0 Possibly it was even done in part to cover that they had a CIA agent right on site at the airstrip, namely, Richard Dwyer.\u00a0 (See<\/em> \u201cExecution\u201d\u00a0 Tracking the Footwork.\u201d<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

                                                      Who, as we will prove, radioed in news of the killings at the airstirp immediately<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Well, the timeline on calling in the Guyana Defence Force to the airstrip could have been immediate<\/em><\/strong> as well!\u00a0 It was even still daylight.\u00a0 So let\u2019s put the shock right here up front:\u00a0 Namely, that the excessive time delay was deliberate<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      But instead, we were given a convoluted story.\u00a0 Leaving the impression that the only way to learn of what had happened was some impossible trek to Matthews Ridge.\u00a0 Not to much-closer Port Kaituma, much less from their own agent on site, Richard Dwyer.<\/p>\n

                                                      And at that, that no authorities at Matthews Ridge could possibly have known what was happening except for escapees from Jonestown making their way through reported \u201cbad weather and mud\u201d in an undoable twenty-mile trek, and then those poor soldiers struggling to trek the twenty miles back through the bad weather and mud.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, except for the part about them having military helicopters, not having found out through poor terrified Jonestown escapees on foot at all, and the like\u2026..!!\u00a0 In other words, that any given reason for excessive delay was fabricated.<\/p>\n

                                                      But why (well, except for the planted diversion right in a mainstream newspaper column of, \u201cLook, it\u2019s the Guyanese police who are CIA, not the Guyana Defence Force!\u201d) would this whole-cloth story have even been printed as \u201cnews\u201d?\u00a0 Well, deep dark jungle, tell the public anything, for one pretext.\u00a0 But why really?<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Clearly, no one from Jonestown found their way to Matthews Ridge, by foot, alone and in the dark.\u00a0 Leslie Wagner-Wilson\u2019s group from Jonestown did hike to Matthews Ridge that day; but they had already arrived by dusk and knew nothing of either the shootings at the airstrip nor the deaths at Jonestown.\u00a0 Leslie wrote that she was told of the shootings at Port Kaituma and the deaths at Jonestown BY the authorities in Matthews Ridge, not told it TO them.\u00a0 Then she heard helicopters overhead in the morning that she presumed to be headed for the Port Kaituma airstrip.<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, the escapees from Jonestown (the Carter brothers, Mike Prokes, Odell Rhodes and Stanley Clayton) wound up not at Matthews Ridge but at the police station at far-closer Port Kaituma, the very jurisdiction of the airstrip massacre, but somehow no one was dispatched from there at all.\u00a0 Strange, since police usually investigate crimes and this was a huge one, American on American notwithstanding.\u00a0 It was their airstrip.<\/p>\n

                                                      They Could Have Been There In An Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      We could get lost in those details but the larger point is that they were diversionary<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is the thing:<\/p>\n

                                                      Matthews Ridge had an army post.\u00a0 Which either had communications or didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Horrock even claimed that they had communications in the middle of the night, so surely they did<\/strong>.\u00a0 And they had helicopters.\u00a0 They were an army base.<\/p>\n

                                                      But even whether the military helicopters were sent from Matthews Ridge or from another outpost, the larger issue is the unconscionable delay in bringing in help at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The assassination on the airstrip happened at 4:15 p.m. Guyana time.\u00a0 It was known in Georgetown that that had happened in probably a half hour\u2019s time at most.\u00a0 And how do we know that?\u00a0 Because Tim Reiterman, prime reporter on site, even marked into his own schematic \u201cPilot Radioes Georgetown.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>Can\u2019t get more explicit than that.<\/p>\n

                                                      So the CIA hardly needed escapees migrating to Matthews Ridge twenty miles in the middle of the night to know what had happened.\u00a0 Moreover, WHATEVER was happening at Jonestown, help was obviously needed at the airstrip because of the massacre.\u00a0 They needed help immediately.\u00a0 As soon as it happened.\u00a0 Which they knew.\u00a0 I mean, that yes, they knew it immediately<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Their Own CIA Agent On Site Reported the Assassination Immediately<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Now, as shown in \u201cExecution:\u00a0 Tracking the Footwork,\u201d <\/strong>the Guyana Airways pilot and the CIA attach\u00e9 Richard Dwyer were working hand-in-hand, drawing Dwyer out of the line of fire within thirty seconds prior to the attack.\u00a0 So \u201cPilot Radioes Georgetown\u201d<\/strong> on the Reiterman schematic was quite the same as Richard Dwyer reporting into the CIA \u201cmission accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      (The Guyana Airways pilot was in on the assassination?\u00a0 See \u201cTracking the Footwork.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>That pilot had to have been <\/em><\/strong>in on the assassination.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s string this together now:\u00a0 Congressman killed at 4:15 pm.\u00a0 CIA notified no later than 4:45 p.m., if that.\u00a0 Simple to get help in there using a military helicopter had the CIA wanted<\/strong> to do that.\u00a0 The wounded might have been tended to by 5:30 p.m. when it was still light out.<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet there was no help forthcoming until the morning!!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Well, if military helicopters could be brought in the morning of the 19th, what was the bar to bringing them in late afternoon on the 18th?\u00a0 The answer to that is, \u201cNothing.\u201c\u00a0 After all, the CIA knew right away what had happened.\u00a0 \u201cPilot Radios Georgetown — Engines Are Running\u201d <\/strong>— in other words, it was radioed in right away!<\/p>\n

                                                      And since CIA the plant at the American Embassy, Richard Dwyer, is shown in \u201cTracking the Footwork\u201d<\/strong> as having moved himself out of the line of fire to be with the Guyana Airways pilot less than a minute prior to the attack, we know that WHO they radioed this in to was the CIA.<\/p>\n

                                                      WHY<\/em><\/strong> Not Just Rescue the Airstrip Survivors Post-Haste?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But don\u2019t you see that they had \u201ca problem\u201c?\u00a0 Namely being that they did not want<\/strong> to rescue anyone.\u00a0 Oh, I don\u2019t mean the injured at the airstrip.\u00a0 They probably would not have minded helping them.\u00a0 But since the perception was that the attackers had come from Jonestown<\/em><\/strong>, a perception they very much wanted in tact for that whole terrified night, then they would have been obligated to go there<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cTo arrest the [alleged] killers.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And if they went there and intervened in the death plan, then two unwanted things might have happened:\u00a0 1) that the residents of Jonestown might have denied<\/strong> that they killed the Congressman (they in fact \u201cbought into the frame,\u201d but that was not yet known) and there was NO chance that they wanted that aired in open sight of the airstrip survivors, especially the reporters; and more pointedly, 2) if there was a death plan about to be implemented, they might have intervened<\/em><\/strong> with the death plan, <\/em><\/strong>which they already knew was a contingency, as the community had threatened it before (see<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame\u201d.<\/strong>)\u00a0 They also had the confirming testimony of a defector from the community, Deborah Layton.<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And they didn\u2019t want to intervene with the death plan at all!\u00a0 That was a thousand dead patsies in the making.\u00a0 Why in the world intervene with that<\/em>?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      I also want to make it perfectly clear (yet again) that my own view is that Jim Jones went psychotic and that the death plan should NOT have been implemented, WHATEVER happened.\u00a0 But the CIA didn\u2019t want the death plan stopped at all<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It served their purposes in every respect to \u201clet this play out.\u201d\u00a0 And the only way they could do that was through an excessively long delay in getting to the airstrip<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      How Blatant Was This?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The difference between what could-have\/should-have been done and what was actually done, is not a fine difference.\u00a0 It was both blatantly disgraceful and disgracefully blatant:<\/p>\n

                                                      Just call in the GDF right away.\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 Dwyer radioed in to the CIA right after the hit happened and all that had to be done was to tell the GDF to helicopter in THEN, not the morning after!<\/p>\n

                                                      That\u2019s what could-have\/should-have been done if the priority was saving lives.\u00a0 But instead it took TWELVE HOURS <\/strong>to so much as authorize a MEDEVAC plane being flown in from\u2026\u2026.\u00a0 South Carolina??<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      What If This Had Happened in Hong Kong (for example)? <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      For sake of argument, let\u2019s say that this catastrophe had happened in Hong Kong, half-way around the world.\u00a0 Would the American Embassy have requisitioned medical help from\u2026\u2026 South Carolina?\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Even for visitors to Hong Kong (like the delegation)?\u00a0 Much less for a United States Congressman?\u00a0 Much less for legal residents in the foreign country, as was the community of Jonestown?<\/p>\n

                                                      Then would there have been a thirty-five hour delay instead of \u201cjust a twenty hour delay,\u201d instead of getting help from the local Chinese?<\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s get real here.\u00a0 Obviously, the unconscionably long delay was deliberate<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Let us now review what took up that ungodly delay of TWENTY HOURS.<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019ve already seen the WHY and the HOW.\u00a0 But what did the government log say happened?<\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s just first take a moment to backdrop this with WHO the feds, the American Embassy, actually were in this matter:\u00a0 namely, the CIA.<\/p>\n

                                                      The CIA In Guyana<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      As we will see in \u201cThe Long-Range Disinformation:\u00a0 Sealing Pandora\u2019s Box,\u201d <\/strong>extreme measures were taken to preclude even exploring whether the CIA, the real American CIA, was even in Guyana!\u00a0 There was just supposed to be some \u201cJim Jones CIA\u201d that had never existed at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Like \u201cPatsy Paradise\u201d for the people bearing the tales.<\/p>\n

                                                      First note that the log entry that news of mass deaths at Jonestown<\/em><\/strong> (not the airstrip) was relayed to DC on a secret CIA radio band, \u201cNOIWON,\u201c was not a misprint or an accident.\u00a0 At the time, CIA involvement in Guyana was of course suspected but there was no hard proof.\u00a0 Now there is.\u00a0 Just check out \u201cCIA Activities in Guyana\u201d on Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cGuyana 1967:\u00a0 A covert action <\/strong>was proposed to . . . an oversight committee of United States covert operations, which stated:\u00a0 \u2018It is established U.S. policy that Cheddi Jagan, East Indian Marxist leader of the pro-Communist <\/strong>People\u2019s Progressive Party in Guyana, will not be permitted to take over the government of . . . Guyana.. . . It is believed that Jagan has a good chance of coming to power . . . unless steps are taken to prevent this. . .<\/strong>\u00a0 Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. . . has stated that he is fully prepared to utilize the electoral machinery. . .\u00a0 to ensure his own re-election.. .\u00a0 It is recommended that he and his party be provided with covert support<\/em> . . .\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, the CIA\u2019s man, Forbes Burnham was still in power by 1978 and communist Cheddi Jagan was still trying to get him ousted!\u00a0 1967-1978 and still counting.\u00a0 By this time in Guyana, it was \u201cthe status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      So we can first of all, finally dispense with the question, \u201cWas it the real CIA or \u2018the Jim Jones CIA\u2019\u201d?\u00a0 That\u2019s not an intelligent, or even a viable argument, just a disinformation tale.\u00a0 There was a huge ongoing CIA presence in Guyana then, and Jim Jones and Peoples Temple had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

                                                      (Nor did the Temple have any direct confirmation of the CIA in Guyana at the time — they may have suspected but did not actually know. They did not even know that the Congressman was in the crosshairs of the CIA.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though that was common knowledge in D.C.)<\/p>\n

                                                      The last I knew myself was that the community wanted (communist) Jagan to take over Guyana from CIA puppet Burnham.\u00a0 There was even the last \u201celection\u201d while they were there, in which they nominally supported Burnham (had to — the host government) when the Temple preference was really Jagan.<\/p>\n

                                                      Note also that as we delineate what happened, turns out the Nicholas Horrock, the CIA\u2019s guy at the New York Times blatantly inserted the very Guyanese government (i.e., not just the American Embassy — the Guyanese government!<\/em><\/strong>) into CIA operations anyway in his December 1, 1978 article in the New York Times.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like we are arguing about \u201ca secret.\u201d\u00a0 This has long since not<\/strong> been a secret.<\/p>\n

                                                      What If the CIA Was Really <\/em>Innocent, Shocked, Taken By Surprise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 An American Congressman was in Guyana investigating Americans living there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, the CIA didn\u2019t like EITHER the Congressman or the cult — to put it mildly. \u00a0The Congressman had authored the Hughes-RYAN<\/em> Amendment<\/strong> to the Foreign Relations Act of 1974, attempting to all but ban CIA \u201cblack ops.\u201d\u00a0 (See<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame,\u201d<\/strong> panel 1.)<\/p>\n

                                                      And they sure did not like the cult either.\u00a0 They were in Guyana to keep pro-communist Cheddi Jagan out of power and here was self-proclaimed communist Jim Jones making friends with Castro\u2019s Cuba and attempting to re-relocate his group to the then-USSR?!\u00a0 One of their lead operatives, one Joseph Mazor was even on t.v. within days after the tragedy saying that, \u201cIt was believed that Jim Jones would become a major political force in the Caribbean within five years.\u201d\u00a0 An intelligence assessment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Then the Congressman is slain and everyone on site is \u201csure that the cult did it.\u201d \u00a0And that is radioed right in to the CIA.\u00a0 Remember Tim Reiterman\u2018s notation,\u00a0 \u201cPilot Radios Georgetown, Engines Are Running.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>(See<\/em> \u201cThe Master Schematic:\u00a0 Tim Reiterman Versus NBC.\u201d<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

                                                      (Incidentally, one thing noted by NBC producer on site, Bob Flick, was that the killers stayed away from<\/em><\/strong> the Guyanese pilot.\u00a0 He just neglected to note, much less question, that that\u2019s where Richard Dwyer had migrated to as well!\u00a0 Dwyer went on, of course, to falsely claim a minor wound in a part of his body that no one would or could check.\u00a0 In point of fact, a bullet would have had to ricochet 90 degrees to the victims\u2019 right to endanger him at all.)<\/p>\n

                                                      In other words, the first minute they are on that radio following the attack, they are telling the CIA headquartered in the American Embassy in Georgetown what had happened.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, let\u2019s say that the CIA had nothing to do with the attack and it is a total surprise.\u00a0 And yes, they may have hated the Congressman but he is already dead.\u00a0 There are just wounded survivors desperately in need of medical help; and meanwhile, it seems like the cultists, whom they also hate, are ripe for arrest.\u00a0 Indeed, they may even \u201ccome back to kill the rest of us.\u201d\u00a0 How would anyone know different?<\/p>\n

                                                      So you\u2019re in the shoes of Richard Dwyer at the airstrip or even in the shoes of the CIA headquartered at the American Embassy in Georgetown.\u00a0 What do you do?<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, especially <\/em><\/strong>as it is still light out (4:15 p.m. Guyana time), you call in the authorities.\u00a0 If you are up tight about calling in the local police, since this is obviously now an international incident, the slaying of U.S. Congressman, then you call in the Guyana Defence Force.\u00a0 They have military helicopters.\u00a0 They can be there in a hour, two at the most.<\/p>\n

                                                      Why not just have them go in, rescue the wounded at the airstrip and make arrests at Jonestown?<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you are really innocent, shocked, and taken by surprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      In fact, that was the stated panic at Jonestown, that the GDF would be coming to drag people away or worse.\u00a0 That \u201cthey won\u2018t let us get away with this.\u201d\u00a0 Because (as explained in other sections of \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201d) they had BOUGHT INTO THE FRAME.\u00a0 Not<\/strong> having investigated, not<\/strong> have had anyone returning from that airstrip saying \u201cI<\/em><\/strong> did it!.\u201d\u00a0 Larry Layton known to have gone off to the airstrip with a gun.\u00a0 Not realizing that anyone else was in the area or was targeting the Congressman.\u00a0 NOT<\/strong> having a line of vision to the attack or the attackers (See<\/em> \u201cThe Master Schematic:\u00a0 Tim Reiterman Versus NBC.<\/a>\u201d<\/strong>)\u00a0 Then \u201cThe Congressman is dead!\u201c — then yes, they thought that they<\/em><\/strong> had killed the Congressman.<\/p>\n

                                                      But returning to the CIA, what if they were NOT <\/strong>innocent, shocked, taken by surprise?\u00a0 That this was just the completion of their own pre-planned \u201cblack op\u201d?\u00a0 And the cult\u2019s leader, Jim Jones, had already threatened to off his own entire group if so much as his own child was forcibly removed — a far lesser crisis than their current straits.<\/p>\n

                                                      And sure, people have been wounded at the airstrip.\u00a0 Some may even die.\u00a0 And it would nice to get them help, but you have \u201cpriorities\u201d:<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, the cult leader will hopefully make good on his previous mass suicide threat, giving you a thousand dead patsies.\u00a0 That would be \u201coptimal.\u201d\u00a0 On the other hand, if they have NOT bought into the frame, believe they are innocent, and choose to live and fight, the last thing you want is to call the authorities and \u201chave it out right then and there.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Because then a) they don\u2019t have a chance to kill themselves and turn into the thousand dead patsies that you had hoped-for, your optimal outcome; and b) if they realize that they are innocent, then you don\u2019t want that m\u00eal\u00e9e in front of reporters eager to glean whatever information is to be had.\u00a0 Indeed, you want the survivors of the airstrip massacre to be exhausted, terrified and in pain for the longest possible time before help arrives.\u00a0 With every second of their misery to be blamed on the cult.<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus you are much better off deliberately delaying any help at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Then you act like the following:<\/p>\n

                                                      The Recorded Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k., let\u2019s begin into the recorded timeline:<\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s look at the After Action Log of the feds and see what information we can glean.\u00a0 Note that Panel 1 prints both the log and the accompanying cover letter from the Joint Chief of Staffs in DC.<\/p>\n

                                                      THE TIMELINE:\u00a0 The LOG is \u201cEST\u201d = Eastern Standard Time, one hour behind Guyana.\u00a0 So we will relay this information in D.C. time, not Guyanese time which ran an hour later.<\/p>\n

                                                      3:15<\/strong> pm DC time (4:15 p.m. Guyana time), Congressman killed.
                                                      \nAt 7:18<\/strong> p.m. DC time, the Sec of Def in DC was notified.
                                                      \nFour hour delay right there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      An understandable delay if it took that long to know what had happened?\u00a0 Deep dark jungle, all primitive and the like?<\/p>\n

                                                      No.\u00a0 It took nearly no time at all to know what had happened!\u00a0 To the contrary.\u00a0 Richard Dwyer had radioed in with the Guyana Airways pilot.\u00a0 As per \u201cTracking the Footwork\u201c<\/strong> that he was right there with the pilot (the passengers all being on the other end of the plane awaiting the gunmen) when the attack broke out!<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus what is certain is that the CIA stationed in Georgetown knew quickly<\/em><\/strong> what had happened at the airstrip.<\/p>\n

                                                      And what am I implying?\u00a0 Well, if a house is on fire, you call the firemen right away, right?\u00a0 But let\u2019s say that you\u2019re the arsonist and you have to figure out the contingencies of how your actions are playing out on the ground.\u00a0 Then you DON\u2019T call in help right away.\u00a0 You parce out your plans.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s not the destruction of other people\u2019s lives that concerns you.\u00a0 It\u2019s what best for YOU and how you will get away with it.<\/p>\n

                                                      And what served them best in any case was delay.\u00a0 See if Jim Jones was really mad enough to implement the death plan as he had threatened before.\u00a0 (Namely over the child custody suit a year earlier.\u00a0 See<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame.\u201d<\/strong>)\u00a0 Would save them a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Then the smaller Cessna plane took off and flew to Georgetown, 150 miles SE, so let\u2019s say an hour\u2019s air time.\u00a0 For a second report of what had happened, even though surely they received the first, and direct to them, the CIA, as well.<\/p>\n

                                                      So why would the American Embassy (of all things) delay one minute in letting D.C. know about the slaying of a U.S. Congressman?\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Much less delay needed help to the area?\u00a0 We\u2019ve just cited prime reasons.<\/p>\n

                                                      Next we come to 8:15 p.m. DC time<\/strong>.\u00a0 It\u2019s now a whole hour even later on when the MEDEVAC plane is first requested.\u00a0 FIVE HOURS <\/strong>past the assassination and still counting.\u00a0 We\u2019re coming now onto a long drawn-out sequence of times which also does not wash if any priority is given to saving lives.\u00a0 The Guyana Defence Force was hardly without transport as clearly evidenced by them showing up the next morning by helicopter!\u00a0 And even if the U.S. military was opted for, even Panama (with a large military presence) was closer.\u00a0 But what about that REAL close place, the Matthews Ridge army base just twenty miles away?<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet it is already 12:26 a.m. DC time <\/strong>before the MEDEVAC order is even completed!\u00a0 It\u2019s already NINE HOURS<\/strong> past the assassination and still counting.<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet there is still THREE HOURS MORE <\/strong>delay until 3:04 a.m. before the Medevac plane is flown out of\u2026\u2026.\u00a0 Charleston, South Carolina!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      We are now already at TWELVE HOURS AND STILL COUNTING <\/strong>after the slaying of the Congressman.<\/p>\n

                                                      Why the Switch in Communications Channels?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Here\u2019s where it gets yet more tricky:<\/p>\n

                                                      At 3:29 a.m. DC time, \u201cCIA NOIWON reports mass suicides at Jonestown.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>Presumably AFTER the departure of the MEDEVAC plane from South Carolina, though not by much.\u00a0 The MEDEVAC was in no way going to get to Guyana before daylight anyway.\u00a0 And the CIA surely knew what had happened at Jonestown before they radioed the news on their own secret NOIWON channel.<\/p>\n

                                                      (How exactly they found out, from whom and where, best surmisal, is that the escapees who arrived at Port Kaituma told the police, then the information was passed on.\u00a0 The MEDEVAC plane arrived in Georgetown, not Port Kaituma in any case, so the CIA had control over when any<\/em><\/strong> help arrived to the airstrip, much less Jonestown.)<\/p>\n

                                                      But why was news of the mass deaths at Jonestown not just reported via the same standard State Department channel, but rather one reserved for secret communiqu\u00e9s from the CIA?\u00a0 Which again, using our fire analogy, doesn\u2019t really wash.\u00a0 Namely, if one\u2019s PRIMARY concern was saving lives, not secret agency machinations, then why not report BOTH calamities –the airstrip massacre and the deaths at Jonestown– in the same manner?<\/p>\n

                                                      If you are actually concerned with loss of life, if that\u2019s your primary concern for both the airstrip and at Jonestown, then it\u2019s just first news of this, then news of that.\u00a0 Not one an open report and the other a secret report.<\/p>\n

                                                      Next, it is unlikely that the CIA first learned of what had happened at Jonestown that late into the night.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already seen that CIA-handled Nicholas Horrock\u2019s story about escapees trudging through the bush to Matthews Ridge 20 miles in the middle of the night to go tell the army base there (note, also providing a pretext for extended delay<\/em><\/strong>), was transparently FALSE.\u00a0 Anyone who wound up at Matthews Ridge was there by dusk and knew nothing of what had happened.<\/p>\n

                                                      Much less the MISDIRECTION story of how it was a \u201cGuyanese POLICE official who was working an agent for the CIA who then reported it to the agency.\u201d\u00a0 Then somehow (swicheroo times two) it was the GUYANESE DEFENCE FORCE (i.e., the military, not the police) who took endless hours to finally arrive at Jonestown.<\/p>\n

                                                      Bad weather, Horrock reported.\u00a0 Mud and the like.\u00a0 Never mind that when they finally arrived it was by helicopter.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t Normandy Beach.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, aside from the obvious move to peg the Guyanese POLICE as CIA agents, deflecting suspicion from the Guyanese MILITARY (indeed the Guyanese police later complained at inquest that the GDF had kept them out of the loop!), we have the more up-front obvious fact that Horrock himself in writing of the Guyanese inquest on December 14, says that Matthews Ridge was 20 miles from Jonestown in a \u201croadless\u201d area. <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Whether Matthews Ridge was really that far (it was, but not \u201croadless\u201c as falsely reported), or Mr. Horrock was simply attempting to discourage anyone from traveling there for any true report of the inquest! (which was subsequently lied about by Horrock as well), no one who knew what had happened at Jonestown made it to Matthews Ridge that night.\u00a0 That report was false.<\/p>\n

                                                      The more likely story is the one which had the escapees from Jonestown, the Carter brothers, Mike Prokes, Odell Rhodes and Stanley Clayton, making it to Port Kaituma, a closer location by far and reachable by foot.\u00a0 They are said to have reported there what had happened at Jonestown to the POLICE.<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But that also marks the news of the Jonestown catastrophe as being relayed earlier than 4:29 a.m. Guyana time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Local Police Not In the Loop?\u00a0 Even NATIONAL <\/em>Police Not In the Loop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      It remains unclear why the Port Kaituma police (since the massacre happened at the Port Kaituma airstrip) did not just go to the airstrip to at least see who needed medical help.\u00a0 Certainly there was not so much \u201cbad weather and mud\u201d there as described for Matthews Ridge.\u00a0 After all, numerous escapees had managed to trudge there in the dark, alone, on foot.<\/p>\n

                                                      There are things of course that we cannot second-guess.\u00a0 But that they, the Port Kaituma police, did not check out that their own airstrip had been turned into a crime scene because they just plain didn\u2019t care, was probably not one of them.\u00a0 More likely (though there is no direct verification), they were told that the Guyana Defence Force was taking care of this one, stay away.<\/p>\n

                                                      As if to drive in the point, C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d Roberts, Assistant Commissioner of Crime stationed in Georgetown, testified at the Guyana inquest that he did not arrive earlier at Jonestown (he got there on the 20th, not the 19th) \u201cbecause the Guyana Defence Force had not told me what had occurred at Jonestown.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      In other words he, the number two police official in the entire country, was KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP.\u00a0 <\/strong>He wasn\u2019t let into Jonestown until November 20.\u00a0 No one from the police was.\u00a0 Only the Guyana Defence was let in prior to then.<\/p>\n

                                                      Guyana Defence Force Very Much \u201cIn the Loop\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Apparently, \u201csomeone\u201d wanted the Guyana Defence force in the loop, not the police.\u00a0 <\/strong>Locals tend to make their own decisions.\u00a0 Military is under orders.\u00a0 And obviously, as we can see, the (the long-long-delayed) timing of the rescue was under CIA control.<\/p>\n

                                                      (The other question being of course what they wanted the GDF to do<\/em><\/strong> at Jonestown.\u00a0 See \u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster\u201d <\/strong>for what appears to have been that grisly reality.)<\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s just a big \u201cduh\u201d that if the CIA (well, we want to say \u201cthe American Embassy,\u201d but it was clearly the CIA operating through <\/em><\/strong>the American Embassy) gave any priority to either helping the wounded at the airstrip, much less intervening at Jonestown, then OF COURSE they would have had no problem about having the local police check it out.\u00a0 Or just send the Guyana Defence Force in there as soon as the Congressman was slain. <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s sort of like (though there is no real equivalent) declaring 9-1-1 a federal disaster and using that to bar the New York City police and firemen from assisting.\u00a0 Local police check things out.\u00a0 That is what they are there for.\u00a0 They have to be told<\/strong> not to.\u00a0 By some authority that claims to supercede them.<\/p>\n

                                                      Here by an authority, the CIA, whose interest was not in saving lives at all; but rather in keeping help out<\/strong> for that entire night; then delegating exclusive on-site control to the Guyanese military, for whatever nefarious reasons.<\/p>\n

                                                      Then finally, at 8:55 a.m. Guyana time on November 19, the MEDEVAC plane finally touches down in Guyana — and in Georgetown, to boot, not Port Kaituma.<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, the Congressman\u2019s aide Jackie Speier, said that help did not arrive until noon on November 19th.\u00a0 TWENTY HOURS LATER.\u00a0 <\/strong>She nearly lost an arm to gangrene over the excessively lengthy delay.<\/p>\n

                                                      Right on<\/strong> the scene, however?\u00a0 At Port Kaituma?\u00a0 Apparently just the Guyana Defence Force.\u00a0 Who also became THE FIRST INTO JONESTOWN<\/strong> the afternoon of Sunday, November 19th.<\/p>\n

                                                      The \u201cSTILL COUNTING\u201d Part of \u201cThe Great Timeline Travesty\u201d Never Brought to Light<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      This was the final part of the CIA \u201cblack ops\u201d that never hit the light of day.\u00a0 That the first party into Jonestown, namely the Guyana Defense Force, was never called to the Guyana inquest, indeed was never questioned at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      The primary question there obviously:\u00a0 Where are the guns that you allegedly confiscated from Jonestown?\u00a0 How can you (or anyone) claim that the cultists killed the Congressman if the gun(s) said to have done it has \u201cdisappeared\u201d?\u00a0 The people at Jonestown, including the accused gunmen, all wound up dead, did they not?\u00a0 After presumably bringing the the guns BACK TO JONESTOWN.<\/strong>\u00a0 And you, the GDF, were the first ones in.\u00a0 So where are the guns?\u00a0 Much less the match-up of ballistics to forensics?<\/p>\n

                                                      No one ever even asked.<\/p>\n

                                                      We will return to pick up this thread in \u201cTHE GREAT AUTOPSY DISASTER:\u00a0 BOTH<\/em> Poisoned and Shot?\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 But first, let\u2019s track the cover-up performed parallel to the protected timeline travesty.\u00a0 \u201cProtected\u201d meaning that it kept any<\/em><\/strong> unwanted parties out of Jonestown for at least the first week <\/strong>following the tragedy.<\/p>\n

                                                      Oh, the coroner, the police commissioner, a few survivors were let in for a day and it was obvious that everyone at Jonestown had died.\u00a0 (Police commissioner Roberts at inquest:\u00a0 \u201cI personally counted 914 bodies.\u201d)\u00a0 But government channels to the outside world were a series of lies.\u00a0 Thus were no media, relatives, any other interested party even told the extent of the catastrophe.\u00a0 Like the public (much less anxiety-stricken relatives) had not even the need to know?<\/p>\n

                                                      The Great Body Count Snafu:\u00a0 The Public Did NOT<\/em> Need to Know? (Panel [2]<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Controlling Entry into Jonestown<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The CIA had to cordon off Jonestown to their sole control for any number of reasons.\u00a0 Though as we will see, the first time segment of that (namely the day after, November 19) was reserved for the Guyana Defense Force.\u00a0 Even the police were barred from entry until two days later on November 20, as testified to by Assistant Commissioner of Crime, C.A. \u201cSkip\u201c Roberts at inquest.<\/p>\n

                                                      Time to let the bodies rot to unrecognizability; to fix any story of how it had happened; to confiscate materials on site that might be exculpatory; to be sure that the gun(s) used in the attack would be implicated as having been found at Jonestown — even if said guns were never produced or even asked for!<\/p>\n

                                                      They also needed to create as much uncertainty, chaos and confusion <\/strong>as possible (such as a delayed body count; delayed retrieval; with no way to individually claim a deteriorated body) to ensure that families would NOT<\/strong> swarm in to reclaim their loved ones or to unite in a firestorm of questions.\u00a0 Even to forestall any prospect of mass eulogies pushing for any real investigation.<\/p>\n

                                                      In-tact, identified bodies for the dignity of regular funerals, bad<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Mass confusion with your brother, your mother or your cousin unlocatable in a pile of degraded body parts, good<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Everyone too demoralized to even breathe.<\/p>\n

                                                      Also:\u00a0 If anyone thinks that the story of barring entry, then precluding investigation, added <\/em><\/strong>to the already-horror-story of the mass deaths, was just not doable, let\u2019s now consider that it was indeed done.<\/p>\n

                                                      But With the Whole World Reeling, How Do You Keep People Out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 We already know that help was deliberately kept out of the area for TWENTY HOURS<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Oh, but then wasn\u2019t the media, public officials, relatives, et al, swarming all over Jonestown?<\/p>\n

                                                      Oh, no.\u00a0 Not in the slightest.\u00a0 It was DAYS<\/em><\/strong> before there was a definitive body count released publicly, that count namely being \u201call dead.\u201d\u00a0 Even though they knew that it was \u201call dead\u201d by 4 a.m. that very morning at the latest as per their own log.<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet the body count tally got strung out for days.\u00a0 300 dead?\u00a0 400 dead?\u00a0 Finally a week later the full count.<\/p>\n

                                                      But they had to physically count the bodies in order to report \u201call dead\u201d; otherwise to report that hundreds might have escaped into the jungle?<\/p>\n

                                                      Of course they didn\u2019t!:\u00a0 It is even recorded on the Guyana coroner\u2019s inquest that C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d Roberts, Assistant Commissioner of Crime, was on site November 20th and that he \u201cpersonally counted 914 bodies.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>And the escapees had already reported all dead from the start.\u00a0 And the GDF knew that as soon as they arrived.\u00a0 That was never in doubt — just lied about.<\/p>\n

                                                      They knew that there were NOT<\/strong> \u201chundreds of people who might have escaped.\u201d\u00a0 That they knew for certain.\u00a0 They just did not tell the public that.\u00a0 Instead, they strung out an escalating body count to create confusion, uncertainty, chaos — especially to keep the public, media and (of course) relatives away.<\/p>\n

                                                      By the time they were done, there was \u201cno one to retrieve\u201d anyway.\u00a0 Even the 174 named, identified cultists, each tagged around their waist by Commissioner Roberts and Odell Rhodes (an escapee who provided the identifications) on November 20, had those tags washed away in the humidity and rain.\u00a0 The tedious task of matching up bodies with fingerprints was delayed until the bodies were shipped back to the States.\u00a0 (Apparently adults were required to be fingerprinted upon entry into Guyana.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Faceless, nameless mass death.\u00a0 No one to identify, no one to honor, none for which to say, this person I loved, this person was my own, and now I take him or her and lay them to rest.<\/p>\n

                                                      Look.\u00a0 There was no reason to not release the body count of \u201call dead except for a very very<\/em><\/strong> few\u201d right away.\u00a0 They just didn\u2019t<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      The Great Autopsy Disaster:\u00a0 BOTH<\/em> Poisoned and Shot? [3]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cIn the Loop\u201d Yet Not Called To Inquest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The Guyana Defence Force was clearly the first into Jonestown the next day, November 19.\u00a0 Whatever was discovered there, meaning not just dead bodies but any weapons, was evidence that became their sole responsibility.\u00a0 Yet as we note now (and be returning to) the GDF was never called at inquest.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 First in, obviously had to have confiscated at least one gun from Jim Jones\u2019 own cabin, yet never called.<\/p>\n

                                                      As even any viewer of police drama t.v. knows, every gunshot crime has two parts:\u00a0 ballistics and forensics.\u00a0 Not just the injury caused (forensics) but matching it to the weapon that did it (ballistics.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet even though the Guyana Defence Force had to have confiscated any gun(s) used on site at Jonestown, the ballistics were never matched up with forensics because the GDF, first into Jonestown, was never called to inquest.\u00a0 Nor was there any public disclosure (or known existent records) about what gun(s), type or caliber they found at Jonestown, much less in Jim Jones\u2019 cabin where the only shooting victims were found.<\/p>\n

                                                      We were just told that \u201cthe same type bullet\u201d and \u201cpossibly the same gun used to kill the Congressman\u201d was used to shoot Annie Moore, a young woman in Jim Jones\u2018 cabin at the last.\u00a0 But any verification<\/em><\/strong> was obviously something that we were never supposed to explore.<\/p>\n

                                                      A special, secret, hands-off status for the GDF?\u00a0 Well, um, would you think so?<\/p>\n

                                                      And doing the bidding of WHOM?\u00a0 Well, since the only public reference to ballistics appeared in two consecutive articles by CIA puppet reporter Nicholas Horrock of The New York Times, the only mention of such anywhere, then the CIA might be fair guess!<\/p>\n

                                                      What Standard Cover-Up Move Did the Guyana Defense Force Need to Perform At Jonestown?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Post-ops action on the part of the Guyana Defence Force is part of why \u201cThe Great Timeline Travesty\u201d might be alternatively sub-titled \u201cTwenty Hours and STILL COUNTING.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Deaths over, framing the patsies begins.<\/p>\n

                                                      Note<\/strong>:\u00a0 Of course both the public perception and that of the airstrip survivors was already that the cult had killed the Congressman.\u00a0 Even for anyone who had never heard of the Temple, the media announced Temple guilt for the assassination like it was open-and-shut.<\/p>\n

                                                      But it was not the public nor the airstrip survivors who might determine whether that crime was INVESTIGATED.\u00a0 And it was widely known (though not to Peoples Temple locked away in the jungle) that the CIA had it in for the Congressman, at least politically<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Thus it\u2019s not like they could just assume that they were \u201chome free.\u201d\u00a0 That took quite a bit more work — indeed \u201coverkill.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      The principle here being that when you commit a crime yourselves and want to frame it on others, you also have to make the crime scene fit.\u00a0 Some tell-tale sign that \u201cLook, they were the ones who did it!\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      The standard move of course, \u201cstandard operating procedure,\u201c so to speak, would be to place the murder weapon (meaning the weapon used to kill the Congressman<\/em>) in the hands of the people you wish to frame.\u00a0 <\/strong>Here readily done as the cultists were already dead and you could make the scene look however you liked.<\/p>\n

                                                      Notwithstanding that surely no one is minimizing that this was an exceptionally gruesome post-tragedy scene, self-created and \u201cmore than bad enough.\u201d\u00a0 But that still would not give cover for who killed THE CONGRESSMAN.\u00a0 That would require placing the weapon<\/em><\/strong> that killed the Congressman at Jonestown; while also, of course, making the dead cultists look like violent brutes who not only killed the Congressman, but turned brutally on each other — namely, first, the fiction of \u201cforced injections\u201d; and second \u201cthe coup de grace\u201d of not just the offending gun \u201cdiscovered at Jonestown\u201d but actually used to brutally kill someone there.<\/p>\n

                                                      What Evidence Did the CIA (through the GDF) Need to Cover Up, Rather than Produce?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      First note that there was no need to produce EXACTLY the same gun at Jonestown as the one that killed the Congressman.\u00a0 Merely asserting that it was same type gun, same type bullets would do.\u00a0 In fact, the SAME EXACT gun, especially one produced, serial number and all, would have been a bad<\/strong> idea.\u00a0 Because then allegedly \u201ctracing the gun to Jonestown\u201d would have just created another unwanted task for the CIA.\u00a0 Best bet would have been to file the serial number off, but that in and of itself would be a tip-off as to a cover-up!<\/p>\n

                                                      Or some survivor could pop up saying that we didn\u2019t HAVE any gun like that at Jonestown.\u00a0 Jonestown, never<\/em><\/strong> \u201can armed camp,\u201d and the group historically non-violent, was pathetically UNDER-armed — just 39 small weapons according to both the Americans and the Guyanese.\u00a0 They undoubtedly did not have, had never had, whatever sophisticated weaponry was used against the Congressman.<\/p>\n

                                                      (Note<\/strong>:\u00a0 The gun used to kill the Congressman did look like \u201can ordinary rifle\u201d on film — it had to because it was \u201ca look-alike frame.\u201d\u00a0 But dum-dum bullets were obviously not \u201cordinary,\u201d and it had to be high-powered to ensure quick brutal force.\u00a0 Though even that may have been a moot point since had any actual ballistics analysis ensued from a gun supposedly \u201crecovered from Jonestown,\u201d the serial number alone would have been a bar to public disclosure.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus the better bet would be to insinuate<\/em><\/strong> that the murder weapon was found at Jonestown; and to make that stick, blast off the head of someone there and claim that that was the gun also used to kill Congressman Ryan.<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus the game plan became to claim same type gun, same type bullets — \u201cYou see, the cultists did it!\u201d\u00a0 Or as Horrock printed The New York Times on December 12, 1978, \u201ca dum-dum bullet. . . . [that] possibly came from the same gun. . . used to kill the Congressman.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But understand, this was hardly a bank robbery where someone was killed and then the killer ran away with the gun.\u00a0 Everyone at Jonestown wound up dead; moreover, anyone shot in Jim Jones\u2019 cabin (the only ones shot at Jonestown at all) was shot with a gun(s) that had to REMAIN RIGHT THERE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Then the Guyana Defence Force came in the next day and whatever<\/em><\/strong> (gun(s) was in that cabin, they were the ones who confiscated it(\/them)! \u00a0Nor would\/should\/does any criminal investigation of gunshot where the forensics are done, just arbitrarily exclude ballistics when weapons were claimed to have been confiscated from on site by the authorities.<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet with Jonestown, no one ever heard hide nor hair of what gun(s) were confiscated from Jim Jones\u2019 cabin, the only place where anyone was shot.\u00a0 Just two big front-page insinuations by Nicholas Horrock in the New York Times that (in two articles), a dum-dum bullet was used to kill a young woman in Jones\u2019 cabin, and (in one article) that it \u201c[it was] the same type bullet used to kill the Congressman and possibly came from the same gun.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, \u201cconveniently,\u201d the first party in, the Guyana Defence Force was not only not<\/em><\/strong> called to inquest, but there is no record anywhere of the alleged \u201cpossibly the same gun used to kill the Congressman\u201d that was allegedly discovered in Jonestown.\u00a0 Who took it?\u00a0 Where was it?\u00a0 No one even asked.<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thus the ballistics and forensics were never, could not be, matched up, and could instead be replaced with \u201ca story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      What Did the Guyana Defence Force DO<\/em> at Jonestown?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      My own surmisal is that the most egregious thing that the GDF did, deliberately upon orders, was to shoot an already-dead young woman through the head with \u201ca high-powered rifle\u201d (as per Leslie Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner at inquest), which was twice claimed as per Nicholas Horrock, CIA pipeline on the beat, to have a) come from a dum-dum bullet; and b) from \u201cpossibly the same gun that killed the Congressman.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      And I say that it was done \u201cdeliberately upon orders\u201d because it was not only flagrant, gratuitous violence (why blast off the head of someone already dead?), but that its purpose was then made clear — namely, to nail the frame<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Horrock was clear in his article of December 12, 1978, that these were \u201cthe Guyanese field findings.\u201d (Specific source?\u00a0 Well, no one.\u00a0 Not ever.\u00a0 Anonymous.)\u00a0 In his follow-up article of December 14, he said that that is what Leslie Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner, had SAID at inquest.<\/p>\n

                                                      Except that neither the coroner (nor anyone else) had made such assertions at the Guyanese inquest at all.\u00a0 I suppose that Mr. Horrock thought that since he also printed in his December 14 article in the Times that there was no transcript of the inquest prepared nor were tapings allowed, that no one would ever know what was or wasn\u2019t said at inquest at all?\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Well, lo and behold, there is a surviving transcript and it does not conform with Mr. Horrock\u2019s (hence the CIA\u2019s) claims.<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus I believe that the gratuitous shooting of an already-dead young woman was done by the Guyana Defence Force when they entered Jonestown on November 19 because a) the timeline<\/strong> with their sole access to Jonestown the very next day, November 19, supports them being the prime suspects; and b) it was a critical move to nail in the frame; but also c) that ballistics is a key component of any gunshot query (\u201cgunshot query\u201d meaning of either<\/em><\/strong> the shooting of the Congressman or of Ms. Moore), yet the GDF was never questioned, never produced the evidence, and it was never pursued.<\/p>\n

                                                      No ACTUAL<\/em> Ballistics, But Much \u201cStoryline Ballistics\u201d About \u201cYou See, They Did It!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      There were just \u201cstories\u201d about how the cultists had to be the ones to have also killed the Congressman.\u00a0 Stories that made no sense:<\/p>\n

                                                      Jonestown HAD no dum-dum bullets!\u00a0 And the young woman shot was later verified at autopsy to have first been poisoned!<\/p>\n

                                                      All this was (even brutality, cruelty, and desecration of the dead put aside — though it\u2018s pretty impossible to do that), appeared to be rather a blatant move to try and place the weapon that murdered the Congressman back at Jonestown.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standard operating procedure for a frame.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Now when the Guyana Defence Force got into Jonestown on the afternoon of November 19, they of course discovered that Jim Jones was already dead by suicide, or I would aver that they gladly would have chosen HIM for \u201cthe coup de grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Then the storyline could have read, \u201cAs if to brag about what the cult had done, the leader had himself killed by the same gun used to kill the Congressman.\u201d\u00a0 And who would move to investigate THEN?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      (They would not have printed that?\u00a0 Best bet is that that would have been \u201cstoryline heaven\u201d to keep any investigation away.)<\/p>\n

                                                      But Jim Jones was already dead by gunshot.\u00a0 So it appears that they just shot whomever was lying close to him, which happened to have been a beautiful, idealistic young woman who had loved life there, but who simply happened to be laying dead in the wrong place at the wrong time.\u00a0 Except that that cruel added twist of fate also landed the authorities with a giantly inexplicable mess to \u201cre-write\u201d at autopsy and beyond.<\/p>\n

                                                      How Did This Shake Out In Legal Proceedings, Medical Proceedings and Media Coverage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The Inquest — What Was and Was Not True<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      We already know that the CIA lied about the findings at inquest through their puppet, Nicholas M. Horrock at the New York Times.<\/p>\n

                                                      We know that by tracing BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER:<\/p>\n

                                                      BEFORE = This Is What We Want Said<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      First on December 12, 1978, announcing in the New York Times what the \u201cGuyanese field findings\u201d allegedly were that were then NOT confirmed, even brought up, at inquest the very next day.<\/p>\n

                                                      This is apparently what Leslie Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner was expected to say — his \u201cmarching orders,\u201d so to speak.\u00a0 The key findings-that-never-were:\u00a0 alleged \u201cforced injections\u201d and the alleged \u201cdum-dum bullet. . . possibly from the same gun [that killed the Congressman.]\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      The lies about injections will be covered in\u00a0 \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco.\u201c\u00a0 <\/strong>The exact quote about the dum-dum bullets from the December 12 article are:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cMs. Moore was killed by a dum-dum bullet, a round projectile made to expand on contact.\u00a0 It was so forceful on impact that it blew half her face off, according to the sources.\u00a0 They said she was shot with the same kind of bullet as those that killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California at the Port Kaituma airstrip and that it possibly came from the same gun.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      They even added:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThe police are concentrating on matching up rounds from a bolt-action .30-caliber rifle mounted with a black telescopic sight that was found at Jonestown.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet as we could see in \u201cThe Great Timeline Travesty,\u201d <\/strong>the only ones who could have even known what gun (dum-dum bullets being generic –that does not specify what type gun) was used to shoot Annie Moore (the only other person shot at Jonestown besides Jim Jones) would have been the Guyana Defence Force, first ones into Jonestown.<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, the assistant police chief of the entire country testified at inquest that the GDF had left him out of the loop!\u00a0 Thus there was no \u201cthe police,\u201d as the Horrock article claimed; there was no \u201cmatching\u201d; there was neither any such plan nor any follow-up; it was just fiction presented with enough fabricated detail to sound credible, a la \u201cthe cultists did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And look, it\u2019s not like someone escaped with the gun.\u00a0 It was right there — EITHER found there OR planted there.\u00a0 In either case, there.\u00a0 Why would there even be any question of \u201cmatching up rounds to a gun.\u201d\u00a0 The Guyanese Defence Force either found<\/strong> a gun or planted<\/strong> a gun.\u00a0 Look no further.\u00a0 But the Guyana Defence Force was not called to the inquest at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Nor was this disinformation plausible to begin with.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like dum-dum bullets (designed for maximum damage with minimum traceablity — the fare of career criminals) were even known at Jonestown.\u00a0 The community was in fact pathetically UNDER-armed — about 39 small weapons to defend a community of twelve hundred people, according to both Guyanese and American authorities.\u00a0 For a group historically NON-violent for 25 years.<\/p>\n

                                                      AFTER\u00a0 = \u201cThis Is What Was Said\u201d — Whether it Was Or Wasn\u2019t!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Then there was the follow-up article by Horrock in the New York Times on December 14 announcing that the same \u201cfindings\u201d were given at the coroner\u2019s inquest although they were not:<\/p>\n

                                                      First, what it was claimed that the Guyanese coroner said — findings of injections of \u201c70 members\u201d and \u201ca dum-dum bullet\u201d in Annie Moore:\u00a0 But again, neither Mootoo nor anyone else said a single adult was injected.\u00a0 (Some babies yes.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Of the alleged dum-dum bullet in the December 14 article:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cA single shot of a dumdum type of bullet, which flattens on impact, causing the object to shatter and explode [not in quote marks and not said] <\/strong>had struck the left side of her [Moore\u2019s] face, Dr. Mootoo said, adding, \u2018<\/strong>She was murdered.\u00a0 This could not be a self-inflicted wound [in quote marks and he did say it].\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Horrock just printed lies.\u00a0 I mean, ironically, she might have yes, been shot with a dum-dum bullet and the Congressman as well.\u00a0 Surely the CIA killers did not want their<\/em><\/strong> guns traced!\u00a0 But Mootoo never said that at inquest; and for all we know, they knew that because they themselves (the CIA through the GDF) had done it.<\/p>\n

                                                      So don\u2019t tell a lie.\u00a0 Just produce the gun.\u00a0 But that never happened.<\/p>\n

                                                      Note also disclaimers for anyone wanting to check the inquest findings out:\u00a0 Matthews Ridge, Horrock writes, was in \u201cthe roadless Orinoco Basin jungle\u201d — accessible only by helicopter.\u00a0 Even though Leslie Wagner-Wilson writes in her book, \u201cThe Slavery of Faith,\u201d that her party had made it there in a day\u2019s hike, so that was clearly false.<\/p>\n

                                                      And besides, Horrock laments, \u201cno transcript was made of today\u2019s proceeding and reporters were forbidden to make tape recordings.\u201c <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Like don\u2019t even bother looking.\u00a0 Just take my word for it.<\/p>\n

                                                      Telling, however, is the actual quote from the inquest mixed in with the fabrications:\u00a0 Leslie Mootoo claiming that \u201cShe [Annie Moore] was murdered.\u00a0 This could not have been a self-inflicted wound.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Except Unlikely That This Woman Was \u201cMurdered,\u201d But Rather Shot Post-Mortem<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Ms. Moore\u2019s own heartfelt suicide note SIDING with the community\u2019s plight (\u201cWe died because you would not let us live in peace\u201d) belies any claim that anyone from within the community shot her.<\/p>\n

                                                      No, not that she was not shot.\u00a0 She was.\u00a0 But (especially since she was cloistered at the very end with the inner circle who all \u201cwent willingly\u201d) no one from within that community shot her.\u00a0 Far more likely it was done by outsiders, post-mortem, the prime suspect of course being the Guyana Defence Force since they were first in.<\/p>\n

                                                      In that sense, they \u201cpicked the wrong victim.\u201d\u00a0 (Not that post-mortem desecration of anyone<\/em><\/strong> would not have been despicable.)\u00a0 Were the gunshot only blasted at some \u201cknown dissident,\u201d like Christine Miller, let\u2019s say, who spoke against the mass death plan (on the final tape) just prior to its being implemented.<\/p>\n

                                                      But they did not need to identify<\/em><\/strong> the young woman they shot.\u00a0 They just needed to shoot someone in a visible location<\/em><\/strong> — like next to Jim Jones.\u00a0 So they \u201cmurdered\u201d (well, shot post-mortem) the one person for whom her stated intent in her own hand was suicide<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Best surmisal is that the GDF was simply acting under military orders.\u00a0 Shoot Jim Jones with a high-powered rifle with dum-dum bullets.\u00a0 Then say it came from the same gun as the one used to kill the Congressman.\u00a0 That will nail in the frame \u201cbut good.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Except that when they arrived, they discovered that Jones was already shot.\u00a0 So they shot the person next to him, who happened to have been Ann Moore.\u00a0 Never imagining that a suicide note, clearly<\/em><\/strong> a suicide note, would emerge from her.\u00a0 Indeed for many years, it was the only suicide note found.<\/p>\n

                                                      Also note (and we will return to that) that when Ms. Moore\u2019s body was autopsied by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology\u2019s team at Dover, Delaware as part of a \u201crandom\u201d selection of several bodies, cyanide poisoning was BOTH confirmed and marked as \u201cantecedent\u201d to the gunshot.<\/p>\n

                                                      One can parce that however one likes — because the autopsy finding of \u201cmanner of death undetermined\u201d does not seem to make sense.\u00a0 But why would anyone who had already self-poisoned herself, indeed with written suicidal intent, also be shot — by herself or anyone else?<\/p>\n

                                                      May be a Moot Point Anyway, Since the Autopsy Report Included a Deliberate Lie<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The autopsy report on Ann Elizabeth Moore prepared by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Dover, Delaware was clearly a first-year-med-student-would-know-better lie in any case<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, now the gunshot wound to the head was said to be \u201cclose contact\u201d and coming from the right.\u00a0 (Annie Moore was right-handed.)\u00a0 And indeterminate as to murder or suicide.<\/p>\n

                                                      But were that true, the Guyanese coroner would have seen powder burns on the right side of the head and marked this as a (at least probable) suicide.<\/p>\n

                                                      But Mootoo did not say that at all.\u00a0 He said THE OPPOSITE.\u00a0 Murder for sure and from the left side.\u00a0 Nor was it just \u201ca different opinion.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s Forensics 101.\u00a0 (Anyone can do the ten minutes of internet research required.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Even Horrock quoted Mootoo as saying that Ms. Moore was \u201cmurdered\u201d in an injury \u201cwhich could not have been self-inflicted.\u201d\u00a0 And Rudiger Breitenecker. M.D. (the front man for lying about the autopsies — we will get to him) told the press that the distance of the weapon from the body \u201ccould not be gauged.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>(\u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster,\u201d panel [3]<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

                                                      So much for a \u201cclose contact wound\u201d recorded on the autopsy report.\u00a0 A lie.\u00a0 Right on the government-run autopsy.\u00a0 A lie.<\/p>\n

                                                      Then as the New York Times article of December 19, 1978 affirms, Ms. Moore was \u201cshot to death.\u201d\u00a0 Well, on top of that inconvenient part about also being poisoned\u2026.\u00a0 Yet somehow the headline paragraph read:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThe Rev. Jim Jones and Anne Elizabeth Moore. . . . died of gunshot wounds to the head, and their deaths could be consistent with either suicide or murder\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Too confusing to process?\u00a0 Well, once the lies are stripped away, not really.\u00a0 But no one could possibly do that while still so close to the trauma and without even documents at hand.\u00a0 Without the inquest transcripts, the autopsy reports, and The New York Times articles all placed side-by-side and in dated order.<\/p>\n

                                                      Which brings us to the actual inquest findings on Moore.<\/p>\n

                                                      DURING = What Was Actually Said at Inquest<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Now compare the Horrock insinuation of \u201cpossibly the same gun used to kill the congressman,\u201d much less the doctored (I mean \u201cdoctored\u201d politically<\/em><\/strong>) autopsy report, to what was actually said.<\/p>\n

                                                      First, Ann Elizabeth Moore was declared at inquest to have been \u201cmurdered,\u201d but that finding omitted any test for cyanide poisoning<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      (Note, however, that C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d Roberts, the Assistant Commissioner of Crime noted that \u201ctwelve bodies [out of thirteen in Jim Jones\u2019 cabin] showed signs consistent with poisoning and one body [of the twelve, that is], that of Ann Elizabeth Moore. . . appeared to have a gunshot wound on the left side of her head.\u201d\u00a0 The American pathologists did in fact later confirm cyanide poisoning by medical testing.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 So this body was both poisoned and shot.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Leslie Mootoo testifying about Annie Moore:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cNext body\u2026. Ann Elizabeth Moore. . . . I found she had a head injury, the entire left aspect of the head was blown off. . .\u00a0 In my opinion that could not have been self-inflicted, she was murdered. . . <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A weapon of high velocity such as a high-powered rifle was used to cause her death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

                                                      And of Jim Jones:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThe body of James Warren Jones.\u00a0 On examination I found he had a bullet wound on the right aspect of the skull just above the right ear. . .\u00a0 There was a larger wound on the left side of his head above the left ear.\u00a0 On closer examination I found the wound on the right side was the entrance wound and that on the left side the exit wound. . .\u00a0 The area of the entrance wound is. . . the suicide area from a right-handed person.\u201d <\/strong>\u00a0(Jim Jones was right-handed.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

                                                      Thus Mootoo at inquest was clear:\u00a0 Jim Jones was adjudged by the coroner to be suicide; Annie Moore was adjudged by the coroner to be murder.\u00a0 (Well, \u201cmurder\u201d of an already-poisoned person, that is, as the American autopsy later revealed.)<\/p>\n

                                                      And Why Credit the Clear Findings of the Guyanese Coroner at Inquest Rather Than the Conflicting\/Switched Stories Coming Out of the U.S.?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Simple direct answers to that:<\/p>\n

                                                      At that early point, Leslie Mootoo was just a coroner trying to do his job, not follow the orders of the CIA.\u00a0 He was under oath; his findings on both Jones and Moore were unequivocal; he did the toxicological tests; he didn\u2019t note any injections; he said nothing about dum-dum bullets.<\/p>\n

                                                      There was also no mention of guns anywhere and the only party who could-have\/should-have been called to inquest about that, namely the Guyana Defence Force wasn\u2018t<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      I.e., Mootoo did nothing that the CIA, their guy on the New York Times, Nicholas Horrock, nor the AFIP pathologist who lied publicly about the autopsy results, expected\/wanted him to do — and even falsely claimed that he had!<\/p>\n

                                                      It was not even expected that the Guyanese inquest transcripts would ever be located, much less printed and scrutinized.\u00a0 The disclaimer to even try showed up in the New York Times, in the form claiming that the town where the inquest was held was \u201croadless,\u201d and with \u201cno transcripts prepared nor taping permitted.\u201d\u00a0 Like don\u2019t even bother.<\/p>\n

                                                      So yes, I credit the original findings of the Guyanese coroner.<\/p>\n

                                                      Once Leslie Mootoo was \u201cbrought to heel,\u201d of course, stories started to switch.\u00a0 The apex was his ridiculous interview with Scientology (a group whom the CIA would least<\/em><\/strong> want on any trail of a cover-up!), where his original testimony of no<\/strong> injections had by then morphed to \u201c187 bodies injected\u201d by \u201cpeople who knew what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, it is sad when public officials and medical professionals are twisted into political puppets.\u00a0 But yes, I credit his original findings.\u00a0 There is no reason not to.<\/p>\n

                                                      Already Angling for Story-Switching<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The CIA transmitting through the New York Times different.\u00a0 They seemed most dissatisfied that Jim Jones was suicide rather than murder; they tried to switch that one twice.\u00a0 And the findings on Annie Moore (suicide and murder, poison and gunshot BOTH) were at best, inexplicable.<\/p>\n

                                                      Referring to Horrock\u2019s original claim on December 12, 1978, \u201cthe sources said that it had not been established that Mr. Jones took his own life.\u00a0 Although there were powder burns around the gunshot wound above his ear on his right temple, <\/strong>the sources said this was not a conclusive indication of suicide\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, about ten minutes of internet research on forensics might have set the CIA straight on the powder burns being at the least on the side of the head that was shot!\u00a0 But the point there being that they were acknowledging that it sure looked<\/em><\/strong> like suicide even though they wanted<\/em><\/strong> it to have been murder.\u00a0 Because the wording of the article made clear the intent to override a customary (though not immutable) forensic conclusion — namely that powder burns mark the bullet\u2019s entry point, whether the wound is self-inflicted or not — it is just more customarily a suicide.<\/p>\n

                                                      But I suppose that a speculation would not do; that it took an outright lie to support their story-switching.\u00a0 Thus they then twisted a lie into the autopsy report on Jones (issued just three days later, on December 15) to deliberately head towards \u201cmurder, not suicide\u201d via another, falsified \u201cfinding\u201c:\u00a0 namely, the alleged autopsy finding on Jones now claimed a gunshot wound left-to-right<\/em><\/strong> instead of right-to-left <\/em><\/strong>even though the powder burns were on the right.\u00a0 They just now omitted that there were any <\/em><\/strong>powder burns.\u00a0 (First year med student, ten minutes internet research, take your pick.)<\/p>\n

                                                      And did that autopsy \u201cfinding\u201d mean anything medically?\u00a0 No, of course not!\u00a0 If you examine a body with a powder burn on the right but you say the bullet entered from the left, then you are just LYING.<\/p>\n

                                                      The front man for the government pathology team, Rudiger Breitenecker, M.D., could not even keep his own team\u2019s lies straight.\u00a0 He told the Times on December 19, 1978 that even though \u201cgenerally, the exit wound is larger than the entrance wound. . . it is just the opposite when you talk about a contact gunshot wound.\u00a0 So. . . . we could establish without any doubt <\/em><\/strong>[well, except maybe for the doubts created by lies, switched stories, and omission of the powder burns on the right?] that it was a contact wound from the left.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      With Ms. Moore, of course, the exact same alleged finding was the reverse!\u00a0 Marked as \u201ca close contact wound\u201d on the autopsy report (but no finding of powder burns), with a smaller wound on the right, now it was suddenly not left-to-right, but right-to-left and \u201cconsistent with suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      So were the American pathologists simply incompetent doctors compared to the Guyanese?\u00a0 No, probably not.\u00a0 The best one can make of a medical doctor out in public reversing their own findings at will, was that the purpose was not accuracy in any case, but rather spin:\u00a0 to give the public \u201ca story.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And the storyline <\/em><\/strong>of \u201ccult leader murdered\u201d (as Jim Jones was right-handed) just marked an angling to get the story switched.\u00a0 That\u2019s all.\u00a0 Conversely, the storyline of Ms. Moore\u2019s death being \u201cconsistent with suicide\u201d sidelined the problematic finding of \u201cBOTH poisoned and shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Even Stanley Clayton (an escapee from Jonestown at the last) said at inquest that:\u00a0 \u201cHe [Jim Jones] said words to the effect that he would see everyone dead and then he would take his [own] life.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Me, I knew Jim Jones for years.\u00a0 While IN NO WAY condoning what happened, I would say that that is exactly what he would have said and what he would have done.\u00a0 Whatever his obsessive control over others, in his own view he was their captain and of course would be the last to die.<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThey\u201d (meaning the CIA) just wanted the storyline that Jim Jones had to have been murdered.\u00a0 Murdered by his own.\u00a0 Hated.\u00a0 Everyone else forced to die through (allegedly) goons holding them down while run-amok Temple nurses went mad with hypodermic needles.<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, the young woman \u201cboth poisoned and shot\u201d was not a defensible finding shy of a post-mortem <\/em><\/strong>shooting, so they just switched it this way, switched it that way.<\/p>\n

                                                      But why that especially odious \u201coverkill\u201c — the shooting of an already-dead person?\u00a0 Well, they still had to protect the frame.\u00a0 <\/strong>And if the cultists were such brutes as to forcibly murder each other, did that also not mean that\u2026\u2026 they killed THE CONGRESSMAN?\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Moreover, since they had to nail the frame, but could not produce the gun that they allegedly \u201cdiscovered\u201d at Jonestown (the issue of serial number alone would have torpedoed that prospect), they had to shoot<\/strong> someone.<\/p>\n

                                                      Did the Coroner Not Know What He Was Looking At?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Leslie Mootoo was a highly-trained professional coroner, indeed tops in his country.\u00a0 (Well, before he got turned into a political puppet.)\u00a0 He knew the difference.<\/p>\n

                                                      I did ten minutes of internet research about powder burns and then even I knew the difference.\u00a0 If he found powder burns on Ms.Moore\u2019s head, he would have had some basis for adjudging it suicide.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t.\u00a0 He said that there was no way that she was not<\/strong> murdered; in this case \u201cmurder\u201d meaning at least that she was shot by someone\u2019s else hand, not her own.<\/p>\n

                                                      But how\/why would that have been done by anyone from inside the community?\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 Annie had already written a suicide note identifying with both the community and the deaths, indeed ending:\u00a0 \u201cWe died because you would not let us live in peace.\u00a0 [Signed]\u00a0 Annie Moore.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      He Did Know What He Was Looking At; So Why Does This Story Seem to Make No Sense?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Well, that would mean that Ms. Moore was NOT poisoned, right?\u00a0 Because how could someone be BOTH poisoned and shot?\u00a0 Did they shoot themselves first or poison themselves first?<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, Mr. Roberts (at inquest) surmised that her body was poisoned by visual inspection, from his experience as chief of police.\u00a0 It was Mootoo running toxicological tests — an impossible task for so many, of course, so he spot-tested.<\/p>\n

                                                      Mootoo simply did not test that particular body for poison.\u00a0 Perhaps he thought that unnecessary because the gunshot wound was so massive that that appeared to be the cause of death.\u00a0 Roberts, on the other hand, did not have to analyze the forensics of the gunshot wound, so he noted the appearance of the entire body in the context of all but one [namely Jim Jones] appearing to have been poisoned.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, perhaps even for seasoned medical professionals, and given the overall gruesomeness of the scene, figuring out how a body could be BOTH poisoned and shot might not have been first on their list of concerns.\u00a0 Mootoo saw two of the thirteen bodies in the cabin shot and focused upon that.\u00a0 He does not mention having run toxicological tests on those bodies, but rather on \u201c25 randomly selected bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s just that it\u2019s not like no one else noticed poisoning on one<\/strong> of the two bodies who were also shot.\u00a0 Roberts did.\u00a0 So that is verified, even by this stitch-together-accounts method.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, neither Mootoo nor Roberts were there to assign logic to such a heart-wrenching disaster.\u00a0 If they were, they night have noted that for anyone to be both poisoned and shot was, at the least, an anomaly requiring further query.<\/p>\n

                                                      BOTH<\/em><\/strong> Poisoned and Shot Medically Proven<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The actual proof of poisoning (meaning not just by inspection, but by medical testing) came in the American autopsy report, completed and signed onto on December 15, 1978.<\/p>\n

                                                      First, the American autopsy on Ann Elizabeth Moore (performed by the Armed Forces Pathology Institute at Dover, Delaware) listed BOTH acute cyanide poisoning AND a massive gunshot wound as the cause(s) of death. <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      What was this saying, or even implying?\u00a0 That someone who had already committed suicide (and the suicide note makes that intention clear) was then \u201cmurdered\u201d?\u00a0 Or was this \u201cdouble suicide\u201d?<\/p>\n

                                                      At least the American autopsy report clarified that the poisoning had to be \u201cantecedent\u201d to the shooting.\u00a0 And say, \u201cdouble suicide\u201d would be a stretch for most to absorb, especially with the Guyana coroner\u2018s conclusion<\/em><\/strong> (i.e. not speculation) that the gunshot wound \u201ccould not have been self-inflicted, it was murder.\u201d\u00a0 But they still left it at \u201cmanner of death undetermined.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, perhaps because any story of \u201csuicide, then [post-mortem] murder\u201d would be even more suspect than that of \u201cdouble suicide.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cmurder\u201d part requiring an outsider or intruder having done it.\u00a0 Tipping their own hand.<\/p>\n

                                                      Understand, personally I do not think that the CIA cared how<\/em><\/strong> anyone died so long as the patsies (for the assassination of the Congressman, that is) were dead and that no one would investigate.\u00a0 And the autopsies were apparently just another vehicle to present whatever stories they choose, with the integrity of the medical findings quite \u201ccoming in second.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      If anyone cared about true honest medical findings, then either the Guyanese or the Americans were incompetent, since the claimed American autopsy results were the opposite of the results given at the Guyanese inquest:<\/p>\n

                                                      Jim Jones now shot from left to right, not right to left, powder burns now omitted; Annie Moore now a \u201cclose contact wound\u201d from the right instead of being murdered from the left, the exact opposite of the testimony at inquest.<\/p>\n

                                                      They just badly tripped up by actually running a test for cyanide poisoning on Ms. Moore, leading to the inexplicable conclusion of \u201cboth poisoned and shot.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 They did their best to backtrack on that by then claiming that it was an impossible test to run.\u00a0 But apparently, some doctor on the pathology team actually thought that he was a doctor, not a political puppet and ran the test.\u00a0 (See panel [3]<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

                                                      As we shall see, they then attempted to \u201crepair\u201d that by having a pathologist on the team lie publicly about cyanide testing, claiming that any such testing on ANY<\/strong> of the bodies had allegedly been rendered impossible by embalming, despite the autopsy report he had just personally signed onto being marked \u201cacute cyanide poisoning.\u201c\u00a0 The medical non-ethics of that were clearly shocking, but I suppose that they realized that \u201cboth poisoned and shot\u201d might sound a wee suspicious, to say the least.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, their concerns were obviously not medical, but political<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Enough to push the story of \u201ca dum dum bullet from possibly the same gun used to kill the congressman,\u201c while never even touching on the imperative of producing the gun, which had to have been right there on site.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, that was a story they wanted — the dum-dum bullet story — they tried to push it twice.\u00a0 But if that meant an autopsy report showing \u201cboth poisoned and shot,\u201d then maybe it was time to scratch that story, even if it involved lying about a positive test for cyanide and to instead transfer \u201cthe murder story\u201d onto the cult leader.<\/p>\n

                                                      Are we sufficiently confused?\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s what happens with switched stories, lies and suppressed evidence.\u00a0 But one it is deciphered that these people were liars and deconstructing how they lied, it\u2019s actually clear.<\/p>\n

                                                      In Guyana, Ballistics Were Bypassed With No Further Notice; In the U.S. Press, Insinuations Were Supposed To Be Enough<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      In Guyana, not producing \u201cthe gun with the dum-dum bullets that was possibly the same as used to kill the Congressman\u201d was not deemed a problem.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t call the GDF to the inquest.\u00a0 The coroner and the police will show up but they have both been kept out of the loop.<\/p>\n

                                                      Remember that C.A.\u201dSkip\u201d Roberts, the Assistant Commissioner of Crime even said at inquest that \u201cthe GDF had not told him what had occurred at Jonestown.\u201d\u00a0 He got into Jonestown on November 20, as did the coroner.<\/p>\n

                                                      It was the GDF who were first in on November 19 and the only ones in a position to either discover the scene afresh or, conversely, to disturb<\/em><\/strong> that scene, such as by planting evidence or inflicting a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

                                                      And that wasn\u2019t any scrutiny that the GDF (or the CIA) wanted.\u00a0 Any guns originating from Jonestown would have serial numbers traceable to northern California.\u00a0 Thus even if the gun used to shoot Annie HAD been \u201cthe same used to kill the Congressman\u201d (most unlikely — the fled assassins would have had to somehow transfer it to the GDF that night), it would have at least required that the serial number be filed off — but that would be a prototype cover-up<\/em><\/strong> move, making the production of the gun a liability, not an asset.<\/p>\n

                                                      Nor was there ever any intention of matching up the forensics of the Congressman\u2019s injuries with the injuries to Moore.\u00a0 Mootoo did not even arrive at Jonestown until a day after the Congressman\u2019s body had already been removed.<\/p>\n

                                                      So up until now, the time of the autopsies, it was all \u201cjust take our word for it\u201d — look, here\u2019s The New York Times insinuating <\/em><\/strong>that the gun was one and the same.\u00a0 It even got folded into \u201cthe Guyanese field findings\u201d on December 12, with disclaimers then printed by Horrock on December 14 that anyone could even reach the locale<\/strong> where the inquest was held (\u201croadless\u201d); and that even if they got there, \u201cthere were no transcripts prepared or taping allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      So let\u2019s be clear:\u00a0 No one wanted the ballistics scrutinized at all.\u00a0 This was ONLY about protecting the frame, thus withholding what should have been prime evidence, namely, where was the gun(s) allegedly discovered by the GDF in Jim Jones\u2019 cabin.<\/p>\n

                                                      Why Did the American Autopsy Findings Present a Problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Once removed from Guyana, of course, there were only bodies to examine at autopsy.\u00a0 The glaring omission of \u201cWhere are the guns?\u201d had passed unnoticed.<\/p>\n

                                                      That was one potential pitfall undoubtedly considered neutralized.\u00a0 No one had asked about the guns at inquest, the appropriate time to have done so; no one would ask now.<\/p>\n

                                                      And no one ever did.\u00a0 But that still did not neutralize the amazingly UN-likely conclusion at autopsy that anyone\u2019s body had been BOTH<\/strong> poisoned and shot.<\/p>\n

                                                      Even the matter of dum-dum bullets appeared to have been discarded by the time the American autopsy findings were to be revealed.\u00a0 Much less any purported match-up of the gun used on Annie Moore with the gun used on Congressman Ryan.\u00a0 No one had produced any such gun at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Mootoo of course did not even testify about any forensic findings on the Congressman, whose body had been removed the day before.\u00a0 Thus for the Guyanese coroner, any claimed correlation between the gun used to kill Ryan and the gun at Jonestown would not have even been provisional.\u00a0 It would have been fictional.\u00a0 Nor does it appear anywhere in the inquest transcript, just out of the pen of CIA journalist-puppet Nicholas Horrock.<\/p>\n

                                                      But then what of the body of the young woman brutally assaulted (post-mortem, it would appear) by \u201ca high-powered rifle,\u201d as per the Guyanese coroner at inquest?\u00a0 At the time it might have seemed like a good idea (well, if \u201cgood\u201d and that brutality could possibly be matched.)\u00a0 I mean that it seemed necessary to plausibly plant the murder weapon used on Ryan right in the community of Jonestown.<\/strong>\u00a0 Standard operating procedure for a frame.<\/p>\n

                                                      Whether the ballistics were matched or not.\u00a0 Which of course would have required supplying the missing gun.\u00a0 One allegedly found at Jonestown by the GDF.<\/p>\n

                                                      But as we\u2019ve noted, they would-not\/could-not provide the EXACT same gun used to kill Leo Ryan (which did not come from Jonestown at all), so they just suggested the same type bullets (namely, dum-dum bullets) and turned \u201cthe story\u201d around that.<\/p>\n

                                                      But now they had \u201ca problem.\u201d\u00a0 If only they could have blasted off the head of Jim Jones.\u00a0 Then the storyline (\u201cAs if to brag that the cult had done it, the cult leader\u2019s head was blown off with the same rifle used to kill the Congressman\u201d) would have been so sensational-on-top-of-sensational that anyone proposing any REAL NEED FOR INVESTIGATION, <\/strong>would have had to stand down.<\/p>\n

                                                      They just couldn\u2019t do that on site at Jonestown because Jones had already put a bullet through his own head.\u00a0 So they blasted the head off of someone lying near him.\u00a0 But then since the body of that young woman was selected for autopsy in the States, how to deal with someone allegedly being \u201ckilled twice\u201d?<\/p>\n

                                                      Double murder?\u00a0 Double suicide?\u00a0 Murdered while already in the throes of suicide?\u00a0 Or maybe just confuse the terrain so badly, that no one will suspect foul play on the authorities\u2018 <\/em><\/strong>parts?<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, \u201call of the above\u201d pretty much covers it.\u00a0 Yet whatever was done behind the scenes, and however the bereaved were cruelly manipulated (such as Horrock\u2019s CIA article of December 12 nearly mandating that the bodies STILL not be released unless they were shown to be desecrated by CIA-invented injections! — see<\/em> \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco\u201c<\/strong>), they still left public evidence of ongoing subterfuge.<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, why would a pathologist, a medical doctor on the team set up by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, who had himself signed off on autopsy findings just three days earlier, go right out in public and lie<\/strong> about those findings?<\/p>\n

                                                      Meet Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      First note that the New York Times article about the autopsy findings (all marked \u201cSpecial to the New York Times\u201d) was not in the hands of Nicholas Horrock.\u00a0 All the purely medical aspects of the tragedy were delegated to Lawrence K. Altman, their medical journalist, and no one is claiming that he had any connection to the CIA.<\/p>\n

                                                      He did, however on December 19, 1978, feature \u201cthe star\u201d of the roll-out of the autopsy findings to the public, Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker, a civilian medical adjunct to the Armed Forces team.<\/p>\n

                                                      As anyone can note on panel 3, \u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster,\u201d<\/strong> Dr. Breitenecker was a signator to the autopsy findings on one Ann Elizabeth Moore.\u00a0 As we can also note, there was a specific, tested, verified finding of cyanide poisoning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      This is further buttressed by a follow-up letter provided by Dr. William W. Manders, Chief, Division of Toxicology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.\u00a0 Namely, the specific intramuscular test used on Ms. Moore\u2019s body to verify cyanide poisoning:\u00a0 NiCl-2.<\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s not like Dr. Breitenecker was a hired spokesperson for the pathology team who was simply briefed on the autopsy report before he went to meet the press.\u00a0 Dr. Breitenecker was part of<\/strong> the pathology team!<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet he went right out in public on December 18, all of three days past signing onto the autopsy findings and announced that no<\/strong> cyanide testing had been done.\u00a0 Not on anyone.\u00a0 That it had been rendered impossible by \u201cembalming fluid.\u201d\u00a0 (Note, even at that, the embalming that the pathology team itself had done!\u00a0 Not done by anyone else.\u00a0 They themselves in America, not in Guyana.)<\/p>\n

                                                      He even lamented how terribly unfortunate was the embalming (that his own team had done!) because \u201cAll someone had to do was drain a little urine or blood through a needle, not even do an autopsy.\u00a0 If it was worth the expense to\u2026 fly the bodies back, maybe it would have been worth a needle to establish what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, yeah, it would also have been great if a very member of the pathology team did not go out in public and baldly lie about dead bodies to grieving relatives\u2026.<\/p>\n

                                                      Moreover, any grounds for questioning was further cut away by now stating (as per the December 19 article) that BOTH gunshot wounds on Mr. Jones and Ms. Moore, respectively \u201ccould be consistent with either suicide or murder\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Why Leave Any Findings As Suspicious When They Can Simply Be Reversed At Will?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      In an article entitled, \u201cFindings in Jones Autopsy Called Consistent with Murder or Suicide,\u201d December 19, 1978, The New York Times, Altman writes:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThe Rev. Jim Jones and Anne Elizabeth Moore. . . died of gunshot wounds to the head, and their deaths could be consistent with either suicide or murder,<\/strong> a forensic pathologist [Rudiger Breitenecker] who was a member of the autopsy team said yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, yeah, maybe in a should-lose-your-license-if-you-are-really-that-incompetent type of \u201cfindings.\u201d\u00a0 As opposed to a win-a-gold-medal-for-being-a-medical-doctor-nervy-enough-to-spout-this-in-public \u201cfindings.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Suddenly Jim Jones was not \u201ca suicide\u201d at all.\u00a0 It was not even a gunshot wound from right to left.\u00a0 Now \u201cWe could establish without any doubt that it was a contact wound from the left.\u201d\u00a0 (Hmmm\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 A contact wound from left to right with powder burns on the right.\u00a0 Well, I guess there is always \u201ca first.\u201c)<\/p>\n

                                                      And with Annie Moore?:\u00a0 \u201cWe pretty well established the direction of the shot, right to left\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Not left to right as determined by Mootoo?\u00a0 Indeed, that blew off the left<\/strong> side of that young woman\u2019s face?<\/p>\n

                                                      But then comes the bemoaning, in feigned sympathy, that \u201cAll someone had to do was drain a little urine or blood through a needle, not even do an autopsy\u201d?\u00a0 And that he, Breitenecker was \u201cunhappy that a diagnosis of cyanide poisoning was not established in the early stages of the investigation\u201d?<\/p>\n

                                                      So Dr. Breitenecker BOTH signed off on the autopsy report for Ann Elizabeth Moore verifying cyanide poisoning by medical testing, but somehow did not read what he signed; AND also allegedly had no knowledge that Dr. Mootoo testified that he had tested bodies, vials, cups, syringes and vats, found ALL positive for cyanide poisoning and reported that as such at inquest.<\/p>\n

                                                      Starting to Twist the Coroner Into Findings He Never Found<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Then suddenly in the December 19 article, there\u2019s Leslie Mootoo cited (note, nothing in quote marks, just saying that he said it — who even knows if Mootoo knew of this article) as allegedly confirming that yes, cultists were injected:\u00a0 \u201cDr. Mootoo also said he found evidence of needle injections in the bodies of cultists, indicating that they had [been] murder, not suicide, victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Now \u201cDr. Leslie Mootoo, a forensic pathologist in Guyana, has [even] told reporters that he performed an autopsy on Mr. Jones, and that he suspected that Mr. Jones was murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Which of course he never found, nor did he say that at inquest at all.\u00a0 He said THE OPPOSITE.<\/p>\n

                                                      Now, I don\u2019t know what happens to people who treat the living badly and the dead even worse.\u00a0 But I would fairly say that blatant lies about dead bodies, moreover right to the faces of grieving relatives, to wit, for purely political<\/em><\/strong> purposes, was reprehensible and infuriating.<\/p>\n

                                                      And to use that lie to first cover up the desecration of that young woman\u2019s body for apparently political<\/em><\/strong> reasons, then extending it to a blanket lie that we\u2019ll (supposedly) never know how anyone<\/em><\/strong> died, all the worse.\u00a0 Especially since the speaker, Dr. Breietenecker, himself signed onto the very autopsy that verified cyanide poisoning.\u00a0 He had to have known that he was lying first-hand.<\/p>\n

                                                      No Doubt About Testing for Poison in Guyana<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But lest there linger any doubt, one thing the Guyanese coroner did do was to test for cyanide poisoning.\u00a0 As testified to at inquest, pretty extensively at that.\u00a0 On at least 25 randomly selected bodies, as well as on vials, vats, syringes, cups, all positive for cyanide.\u00a0 There was never any evidence that there was any other cause of death for the deceased except for the two bodies that were shot — that being Jim Jones suicide by gunshot; and Annie Moore, death by cyanide poisoning but ALSO SHOT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      It All Went Back to Protecting the Frame<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s just one more corner of infamy which ducked any radar of public scrutiny.\u00a0 But the larger point is that no one commits such infamy, then puts a medical professional from the autopsy team itself(!) up to backpedaling with wholesale blanket lies, unless they have something to hide.<\/p>\n

                                                      Like why something as grotesque as a post-mortem shooting was done in the first place.\u00a0 Namely, to protect the frame.\u00a0 Create a pretext for claiming that the murder weapon used against Ryan was found at Jonestown, to protect the frame.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      And again, the entirety of the scene at Jonestown was grotesque post-tragedy.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t about excusing, justifying or defending.\u00a0 It\u2019s about getting to the whole truth of it.\u00a0 That the death of the Congressman and the deaths of the people of Jonestown was not even enough for the CIA.\u00a0 They had to blame the death of the first on the dead patsies no longer alive to defend themselves — all<\/strong> to protect the frame.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The Great Injections Fiasco:\u00a0 A CIA-Created Fiction (Panels [4-1]<\/a> & [4-2]<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The fiction of massive forcible injections did not directly support the frame per se<\/em>.\u00a0 But it was designed to create an image of brutal, rather than gentle people.\u00a0 People who would brutalize each other, goons holding people down, Temple nurses running amok with hypodermic needles.\u00a0 Would they also not be of the same character to\u2026\u2026. KILL THE CONGRESSMAN?\u00a0 If they treated their own with such brutality, surely they would not hesitate to eliminate an outside threat, the Congressman, through assassination, would they not?<\/p>\n

                                                      We will not leave any doubt that this was A FICTION.\u00a0 But to do so, we need deal with medical issues, yes; testimony issues, yes; records issues, yes; and again (as was obviously the case with both \u201cThe Great Body Count Snafu\u201d and \u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster\u201c<\/strong>) political<\/em><\/strong> issues.<\/p>\n

                                                      Understand, no one who testified at the Guyanese coroner\u2019s inquest on December 13, 1978, said anything about any adult being injected AT ALL — only infants in some of the accounts.\u00a0 Anyone can review that and confirm.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, mass death in any manner is upsetting enough, and the inquest report is rough reading however one cuts it.\u00a0 But especially that being the case, then why blatantly LIE about the particulars, such as allegedly forcible injections that did not happen?<\/p>\n

                                                      To the contrary:\u00a0 Odell Rhodes, who escaped the death ritual well into the process was specific that, \u201cI did not see any adult settler refusing to drink poison.\u00a0 When I left there were only a few adults who had not taken poison.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Stanley Clayton, another escapee who also gave sworn testimony at the inquest, said that he was also there until just a few were left; that Jim Jones was trying to coax terrified people out of chairs saying that he loved them; and that Marceline Jones was hugging people.<\/p>\n

                                                      Nothing overtly forcible.\u00a0 Internal pressures?\u00a0 Group pressures?\u00a0 Undoubtedly immense and we can\u2019t EVER minimize factors of sheer terror.\u00a0 But forcible injections, no.<\/p>\n

                                                      Moreover, one of the two final notes recovered, which I myself printed under \u201cFinal Witness\u201d under my own former website, jonestown.com (and I believe to have been written by Marceline Jones), spoke of \u201cPeople hugging each other, embracing, we are hurrying — we do not want to be captured\u201d; and \u201cHugging and kissing and tears and silence and joy in a long line.\u00a0 Touches and whispered words as this silent line passes.\u00a0 Determination, purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And no, NO ONE is condoning the deaths, much less how they happened, at all.\u00a0 It is just clear from the only records we have from PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE AS IT HAPPENED, that some story about Temple nurses run amok, wildly stabbing cultists as they fled, much less goons knocking people down to the ground for forcible injections, is not anything that was ever verified; much to the contrary.<\/p>\n

                                                      So where did the story of forcible injections even come from?\u00a0 Who put it forward?\u00a0 What might have been their motives for doing so?<\/p>\n

                                                      The Nameless Faceless Ones Who Claimed Forcible Injections<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      First, we can trace where this claim first appeared, in a New York Times article on Tuesday, December 12, 1978,<\/strong> entitled, \u201cSome in Cult Received Cyanide by Injection, Guyanese Sources Say.\u201d\u00a0 Written by one Nicholas M. Horrock (remember that name?)<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 At the time, for those too young to remember, this was the biggest news story in the world at the time.\u00a0 Americans were polled and more of them had heard of Jonestown than had heard of Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus being a HUGE news story and involving two countries, Guyana and the United States, one would think that at the least, there were spokespeople for those governments, yes?<\/p>\n

                                                      No, not at all!\u00a0 To the contrary.\u00a0 Past the debacle of the Guyanese Minister of Information, Shirley Field-Ridley deliberately withholding the number of dead for a whole week (see panel [2]<\/a><\/strong>), there were no governmental spokespeople at all on either side!<\/p>\n

                                                      So where did vital information, like news of forcible injections, come from?\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s look:<\/p>\n

                                                      Apparently, it came from the name-faceless land called \u201csources.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell-placed Guyanese government sources.\u201d\u00a0 Then in a long news article, four columns\u2019 worth, they are alternately referred to as \u201cthese sources,\u201d \u201dthey,\u201d and \u201cthe authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      No mention of the Guyanese coroner.\u00a0 No mention of the Assistant Commissioner of Crime or his detective.\u00a0 No mention of ANYONE who was just about to testify (the next day, December 13th!)<\/strong> at the Guyanese inquest.\u00a0 People who were there at Jonestown<\/strong> following the tragedy.\u00a0 The only<\/strong> officials who testified at the Guyanese inquest that they were there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Not even any mention of the Guyana Minister of Information.\u00a0 Or who it was who was allegedly speaking for the Guyanese government.\u00a0 Or what department of that government they were with.<\/p>\n

                                                      In fact, no mention of ANYONE.\u00a0 It\u2019s a no-name article.\u00a0 It\u2019s nameless-faceless land.<\/p>\n

                                                      Who Was Nicholas M. Horrock of The New York Times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But surely SOMEONE had talked to the author of the Times article, namely Nicholas M. Horrock.\u00a0 So who was Horrock and whom might he have been talking to?<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Another bump in the road to decipher:<\/p>\n

                                                      Rebecca Moore wrote in her book, \u201cA Sympathetic History of Jonestown\u201d that:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThe Central Intelligence Agency relayed the first word to Washington that there had been mass deaths at Jonestown.\u201d\u00a0 [As yes, verified on the government\u2019s own log reprinted on panel (2).]\u00a0 New York Times, reporter Nicholas M. Horrock <\/strong>wrote on December 1, 1978:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cIn the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, November 19, survivors reached the Guyanese army post at Matthews Ridge, a few miles from the Jonestown camp with the story of the deaths.\u00a0 A police officer relayed this immediately to his superiors in Georgetown, the capital\u2026.\u00a0 A Guyanese police official who acts as an agent for the CIA in turn reported it to agency personnel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 Does anyone remember the outing of Valerie Plame, or does news just go by too quickly in this busy world?\u00a0 The huge flak over reporters outing CIA agents?<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, not only are reporters supposed to NOT do that, but if were not for the news coming from out of Jonestown being horror upon horror, this might have been red-flagged as a big \u201cNo-no.\u201d\u00a0 Fireable even.<\/p>\n

                                                      Fortunately for the sake of us today, so we can see who \u201cthe nameless faceless ones\u201d actually were, it\u2019s helpful; however much it should have been a big red-flag no-no for a reporter to have done it.<\/p>\n

                                                      We can clearly see from this, where the information feed for this particular ongoing story was coming from for Nicholas M. Horrock:\u00a0 the CIA! \u00a0In fact, anyone can research the history of this particular reporter and his most famous stories are CIA-based.\u00a0 (See<\/em> \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco.\u201d<\/strong>)\u00a0 He was a New York Times\u2019 go-to guy for the CIA, with all his stories marked \u201cSpecial to the New York Times\u201d — not syndicated.\u00a0 Not someone just accidentally assigned to this red-hot tale at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s actually more outrageous in that the CIA agent whom Horrock outs (well, \u201callegedly\u201d outs — it was the GDF in the pockets of the CIA on this, not the national police) was not even an American, but a highly placed Guyanese <\/em><\/strong>official!\u00a0 One with a direct secret route to the CIA in Guyana.\u00a0 Not American.\u00a0 Guyanese.\u00a0 Making the stories about Guyana having been a hotbed of CIA activity all the more believable.<\/p>\n

                                                      So when the article says that the story of forcible injections was coming from \u201cwell-placed Guyanese sources,\u201d but not only no name, but no department even in the Guyanese government is cited, logic might dictate that the \u201csources\u201d were at least \u201cincestuous\u201d — namely, maybe some Guyanese mixed in but a whole lot of American CIA.<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, of course, we have not even a single name given to check out, despite that this was the most public, horrifying news story in the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Since neither the Guyanese nor American government ever appointed any official spokespeople at all.\u00a0 Not a one.\u00a0 All there ever were, apparently, were shadowy \u201csources.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And who amongst the Guyanese, shy of those who appeared at the Guyanese inquest, could even speak directly to this? \u00a0Remember, the Guyanese coroner had just a small window to examine bodies at Jonestown at all.\u00a0 The afternoon of November 20th into the day of the 21st.\u00a0 By November 21st, the Americans were back in, making determinations about if or how to ship the bodies back to the States.\u00a0 No one even moved a single body (save for the Congressman and the others slain at the airstrip) to the capital Georgetown for any medical procedure at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet these \u201csources,\u201d the article began, claimed that \u201cAt least 70 members of the People\u2019s Temple,<\/strong> most of them adults, were given injections of cyanide at Jonestown instead of drinking it, suggesting they were murdered\u2026\u201d\u00a0 This according to \u201cGuyanese field findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And Who From the \u201cGuyanese Field Findings\u201d Cited Was Supposed To Be Verifying the News of Forcible Injections?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 \u201cThe Guyanese field findings\u201d (of November 20-21, that\u2019s when it was) were in the hands of two Guyanese officials:\u00a0 The coroner, Cyril Leslie Mootoo (generally referred to as just \u201cLeslie Mootoo\u201c) and the police commissioner (though NOT anyone referred to in Horrock\u2019s fictional claim of \u201cpolice match up of rounds\u201c) C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d Roberts.\u00a0 They were the ones who conducted \u201cthe Guyanese field findings\u201d and both testified as such to the Guyana coroner\u2019s jury.<\/p>\n

                                                      The forensic findings on the bodies was the job of Leslie Mootoo.\u00a0 The crime aspects of the scene was the job of Skip Roberts.\u00a0 (Well, minus any mention of guns<\/em><\/strong>.)\u00a0 Any matter of \u201cforcible injections\u201d would have been the province of Mootoo, who quickly became the main focus.<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 The New York Times article on December 12, 1978,<\/strong> says that the discovery of \u201cat least 70\u201d<\/strong> forcible injections was a done deal.\u00a0 \u201cGuyanese field findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Except that no one had actually yet officially SAID that.\u00a0 The Guyana coroner\u2019s inquest was coming right up though — in fact, scheduled for the very next day, December 13th.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Wow.\u00a0 Big news coming right up.\u00a0 Or was it?\u00a0 Leslie Mootoo yes, did testify to the coroner\u2019s inquest the very next day, December 13, but he said nothing of the sort!!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But you\u2019d better believe that he was SUPPOSED to.\u00a0 Because according to Rebecca Moore in \u201cLast Rights,\u201c upon expressing her anguish at the callousness, run-arounds and delays in obtaining any humane treatment, proper autopsies, truthful answers regarding the deaths of her sisters, reveals that she was also<\/em><\/strong> told that Leslie Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner, had told the coroner\u2019s jury in Guyana that when he examined 200 bodies at Jonestown, \u201che saw needle marks on at least 70.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      So Mootoo was the one to claim it, the \u201cat least 70,\u201d<\/strong> yes?\u00a0 At least HE WAS TOLD TO.\u00a0 And whether he said it or not, THEY CLAIMED THAT HE DID.<\/p>\n

                                                      One problem.\u00a0 Just look at the coroner\u2019s inquest report:<\/p>\n

                                                      The Times article was printed December 12, 1978, the Guyana coroner\u2019s jury was held the next day on December 13, but Leslie Mootoo said nothing of ANY injections, much less \u201c70.\u201d\u00a0 To the contrary.\u00a0 His story was about a scene \u201clittered with cups.\u201c<\/p>\n

                                                      Odell Rhodes, an escapee who was there until there were only a few cultists left, testified that \u201cI did not see any adult settler refusing to drink poison.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>(Some babies had been injected, but no adults.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, maybe by that point in time, Mr. Mootoo was not yet brought to heel about \u201cfollowing orders.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe he was just acting in his professional role as chief coroner.\u00a0 Maybe the \u201cwell-placed sources\u201d thought that no one would ever see the transcript of the inquest.\u00a0 Not available, not transcribed, everyone too busy grieving, just listen to what the authorities say — \u201cthe sources.\u201d\u00a0 (In fact, Horrock was quick to CLAIM \u201cno transcripts prepared, no taping permitted\u201d in his follow-up article in the Times.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Maybe a lot of things.\u00a0 But telling the public the truth was hardly one of them!<\/p>\n

                                                      The Times article went on to say that \u201cMany adults had fresh injection marks high on their upper arms, just below the shoulders.\u00a0 The sources said that these were cyanide injections and indicated that these persons had not been willing to drink the\u2026. cyanide\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Moreover, that:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201cThese sources said that Christine Miller, the one woman\u2026. who openly argued against the death plan, was one of the persons on whom authorities found the mark of a cyanide injection.\u201d\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 The body of whom was specifically examined and injection DISCLAIMED at inquest by police detective Vernon Gentle.\u00a0 See<\/em> \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco,\u201d <\/strong>panels [4-1]<\/a> & [4-2]<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, obviously the public needed to conclude that these brutes (i.e., the cultists) had first organized a brutal massacre at the airstrip (I mean, it had to have been them who killed the Congressman, <\/em><\/strong>yes?) and then a brutal massacre against their own.\u00a0 Well, one would think so anyway.\u00a0 So claimed the nameless-faceless \u201csources.\u201d\u00a0 Who weren\u2019t the Guyanese coroner, who weren\u2019t the Assistant Commissioner of Crime, who actually was not ANYONE in Guyana because there was no other medical access to the bodies prior to their return to the United States.<\/p>\n

                                                      And again, zero minimizing of every gruesome, even emotionally infuriating aspect of this matter on anyone\u2018s part.\u00a0 Just what happened and was it LIED about?\u00a0 And if so, WHY?<\/p>\n

                                                      And This Lie Should Have Prevented Release of the Bodies to the Relatives WHY?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 The Guyanese coroner, Leslie Mootoo, did NOT testify to forcible injections, or to any injections at all at the Guyanese inquest which was to take place the very next day.\u00a0 Nor did the Assistant Commissioner of Crime, who was also on the scene November 20th and manually inspected the bodies to the degree that he \u201ccounted 914 bodies.\u201d\u00a0 It would seem that under those circumstances, all those needle marks would have been hard to miss, yes?<\/p>\n

                                                      Especially, as \u201csources\u201d said, \u201cfresh needle marks\u201d (well, after two days left to rot in the tropical sun anyway) were all in the same place on the bodies; moreover, which some nameless-faceless not even on site just automatically knew had to be cyanide.<\/p>\n

                                                      Vernon Gentle, the police detective at the inquest even positively DISCOUNTED needle marks on the body of Christine Miller, which the Times article of December 12 specified were there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Apparently, the Times\u2019 conclusions were fictional (well, disinformation) since the only professionals in Guyana who had examined the bodies made no mention of \u201cwhat they were supposed to find\u201d at inquest at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Yet lo and behold, the nameless-faceless were expressing \u201cconcern\u201d!\u00a0 The article even sports a subtitle:\u00a0 \u201cConcern on Releasing Bodies\u201c:<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      No, not concern for the victims or their families.\u00a0 No, no, no.\u00a0 Just \u201cconcern, according to the sources, that the bodies of the victims are being released from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to their families.\u00a0 The concern is that the examination of the bodies by United States authorities was not thorough enough to confirm the Guyanese field findings on the forced injections.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 For the moment let\u2019s skip over what this LOOKS like, at best — namely, an instructional manual ordering the further desecration of human bodies.\u00a0 Because there were no \u201cGuyanese field findings.\u201c\u00a0 No one SAW those \u201c70 fresh injections on the upper arms\u201d and might never see them unless they were PUT there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s just try even for a moment to impart ANY benevolent intent to such \u201cconcern\u201d:\u00a0 Preventing closure for the families?\u00a0 Obstructing decent timely burials?\u00a0 Preventing anyone from organizing a mass eulogy?\u00a0 Fending off questions?<\/p>\n

                                                      The list goes on and on.\u00a0 There was NO benevolent intent to further delaying the release of the bodies.\u00a0 Honestly, the only intent I can see in all this was to create yet further trauma for the families and to re-enforce that the ONLY questions anyone needed to ask was about the purported brutality of the cultists, brutalizing each other after they killed the Congressman<\/strong> (i.e., to further nail THE FRAME) <\/strong>— not anything else.<\/p>\n

                                                      Mootoo Never Testified to Injections But He Was Eventually \u201cBrought Around\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      As already revealed in \u201cThe Great Injections Fiasco,\u201d although Nicholas Horrock printed in the New York Times on December 12, 1978, the day prior to<\/em><\/strong> the Guyana inquest that there were \u201cGuyanese field findings\u201d of \u201cat least 70 members of People\u2019s Temple injected with cyanide\u2026.\u201d, the Guyanese coroner did not testify to that at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      Horrock also printed in a subsequent article the day following <\/em><\/strong>the inquest, December 14, that \u201cDr. Mootoo and police officials said in interviews [there were no \u201cinterviews\u201d that early on] that [again] in at least 70<\/strong> of the bodies, the cyanide and fruit-flavored drink combination appears to have been administered by injection.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      This was fiction<\/strong>.\u00a0 There were no \u201cinterviews\u201d; there was no such \u201ctestimony.\u201d\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t really matter since Horrock is clear that no one would be able to verify that anyway:\u00a0 Matthews Ridge was in a \u201croadless\u201d jungle basin, and there were \u201cno transcripts prepared\u201d and \u201creporters were not permitted to make tape recordings.\u201d\u00a0 (See<\/em> reprint of article in \u201cThe Great Autopsy Disaster,\u201d panel [3]<\/a>.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

                                                      The Guyanese Coroner\u2019s Alleged Reversal Begins With a No-Quote-Marks Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      We\u2019ve already introduced Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker, the M.D. who was part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology team who signed onto the autopsies and then went out in public and lied.<\/p>\n

                                                      Well that same news article, December 19, 1978 in The New York Times (by their medical correspondent) begins the professed turnaround of the Guyanese coroner, who is now quoted as saying (though MINUS THE QUOTE MARKS) that \u201che told reporters [that] he found evidence of needle injections in the bodies of some cultists, indicating that they had been murder, not suicide, victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Of course, Mootoo never said that at inquest at all, his medical findings under oath.\u00a0 It was just a fiction not based on medical findings at all, but rather by inducing a medical professional (namely, Leslie Mootoo) into serving as a political puppet.\u00a0 (We will return to that.)<\/p>\n

                                                      There was actually no evidence anywhere of injection of adults.\u00a0 Some babies yes.\u00a0 But the Guyana inquest in fact ruled out adults, as per Rhodes and Clayton, the last ones there, and no mention<\/strong> by either the Guyanese coroner or the police commissioner.<\/p>\n

                                                      One more claimed testimony we should discount however.\u00a0 Namely, since the loudest clamor about allegedly forcible injections has been raised by a survivor who was back in Jonestown two days following the tragedy, it should be addressed directly:<\/p>\n

                                                      The \u201cMurder or Suicides?\u201d Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      An article was presented as alleged \u201cproof\u2019 that there were massive forcible injections at Jonestown.<\/p>\n

                                                      Unfortunately, there appear to be too many problems with this write-up to consider it as \u201cproof\u201d of anything.\u00a0 It had to have been a horribly traumatizing trip back to witness the mass deaths; and for that, the survivor has my empathy.\u00a0 It\u2019s just his conclusions which appear questionable:<\/p>\n

                                                      He was obviously upset to see what he called \u201chuge abscesses\u2026\u00a0 in haphazard and varied locations\u2026 [including] the left temple, neck, back of hand, upper arm, lower leg, and back of shoulder.\u201d\u00a0 Which he assumed had to mean INJECTIONS.\u00a0 Assumed.\u00a0 He did not see any needle marks.\u00a0 This was an assumption:\u00a0 that the presence of post-mortem abscesses must have equaled pre-mortem injections.<\/p>\n

                                                      He was further distressed that since he believes that Leslie Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner testified that \u201call injections were located between the shoulder blades\u201d (well, Mootoo never testified about injections at all) that, \u201cI believe that Dr. Mootoo was describing bodies from in the \u2018dorm\u2019 where Hyacinch Thrash and other older seniors lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Well, Dr. Mootoo mentioned NEITHER abscesses nor injections at the inquest.\u00a0 He said that he did not even begin examination of the bodies until the night of November 20th and that he stayed over at Jonestown, which the survivor did not.\u00a0 So who Dr. Mootoo examined or how many, was unknown to the survivor.<\/p>\n

                                                      It is not speculative, however, that C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d Roberts (the Assistant Commissioner of Crime) stated at the inquest that he personally counted 914 bodies and he said that only 22 were NOT in the main Pavilion area and of those, 13 were in Jim Jones\u2019 cabin, leaving only 9 to be \u201celsewhere.\u201d\u00a0 Seniors\u2019 quarters included.<\/p>\n

                                                      And Odell Rhodes said that the seniors\u2019 quarters had only \u201cfour bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      The survivor further complains that Mootoo (had allegedly) testified at the inquest that \u201cfewer than 20\u201d bodies were injected.\u00a0 (Again, he did not testify that anyone <\/em><\/strong>was injected.)\u00a0 And queries why was that \u201cso drastically reduced\u201d from what he himself saw?\u00a0 Namely, \u201ctwo dozen\u201d = 24.\u00a0 That he saw two dozen of the deceased with abscesses which he presumed (but could not know) meant that they were injected.<\/p>\n

                                                      20, 24.\u00a0 What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

                                                      But before we get too tangled up in the math, please note again that Mootoo did not testify that he saw ANYONE injected! <\/strong>\u00a0Not a one.\u00a0 It\u2019s rather Odell Rhodes, who was there well into the process, who testified that, \u201cI did not see any adult settler refusing to drink poison.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Well, the survivor is very emotional.\u00a0 O.k., everyone has had a lot of emotion invested in this.\u00a0 Emotion is most understandable.<\/p>\n

                                                      But by his own testimony he was also NOT THERE past the first few deaths.\u00a0 Odell Rhodes, who testified that \u201cI did not see any adult settler refusing to drink poison,\u201d<\/strong> was.<\/p>\n

                                                      And yes, this was a horrifying shock that yes, could readily have produced chaos at the start.\u00a0 Undoubtedly it progressed from surreal, to real, to terrifying.\u00a0 I feel for everyone and I, like so many others, was plagued with nightmares for years.<\/p>\n

                                                      But then the survivor left the community early on.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t in these people\u2019s shoes<\/strong>.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t caught between people watching their own die before their own eyes, the agonies of loyalty to others versus one\u2019s own survival, inner terrors versus outer outbursts, feeling that one\u2019s life was over even before it was actually physically over.<\/p>\n

                                                      And NO ONE (and I mean NO ONE — myself included) is saying that this was good or right.\u00a0 But I would never PRESUME to have lived in others\u2019 minds and hearts, much less proclaim actions that he, the survivor in question, never saw — to proclaim that they must have done this, they must have done that.<\/p>\n

                                                      He simply DOES NOT KNOW.\u00a0 So is there also not some obligation here to look at evidence? — evidence that should have, could have been examined earlier but no one ever did?\u00a0 Thus the \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201c project.<\/p>\n

                                                      Because officialdom LIED about that evidence.\u00a0 They just did.\u00a0 It\u2019s all being proven via materials right from the scene.\u00a0 And don\u2019t we have THE RIGHT to know what the actual evidence is?<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus I would say that evidence is what we should stick with, especially when cover-ups and lies about evidence are ALSO so wrong!\u00a0 Trumping up false tales of internal overt brutality to re-enforce the frame of what the community did NOT do, namely the killing of the Congressman, is ALSO wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Let\u2019s now return to the matter of abscesses.\u00a0 Regarding the abscesses that the survivor writes that he saw:<\/p>\n

                                                      Abscesses after two days of dead bodies in the tropical heat and a teeming eco-system, is in no way, shape or form proof of injections.\u00a0 As any internet entry on the subject will verify, dead bodies do swell from accumulated internal gasses stemming from deterioration of tissue, but not immediately.\u00a0 The common estimate appears to be within two-three days following death — a process which of course may be accelerated and intensified in conditions of tropical heat and humidity.\u00a0 The survivor\u2019s trip back to Jonestown was two days following the deaths.<\/p>\n

                                                      Now, swellings and abscesses are not necessarily the same.\u00a0 All abscesses are swellings but not all swellings are abscesses.\u00a0 Apparently, what is likely to produce an abscess is some type of puncture of the skin.\u00a0 But in that climate, bodies exposed to both heat and a teeming eco-system, one can take one\u2019s pick!\u00a0 Maggots, insects, rodents, birds\u2026..<\/p>\n

                                                      Even bodies that had been recovered from Jim Jones\u2019 cabin (i.e., a shelter from the elements) were reported on autopsy reports as being infested with maggots.<\/p>\n

                                                      So let\u2019s say that ANYTHING punctured the skin of a dead body prior to its swelling, which is not an immediate process.\u00a0 Then when the body swelled, it might have produced an abscess.<\/p>\n

                                                      Perhaps this even accounts for the survivor claiming to have seen abscesses in both completely different parts of the body, person by person; as well as completely different parts of the body than ever specified by the coroner or anyone else.<\/p>\n

                                                      And I reiterate, this was never the coroner\u2019s original testimony.\u00a0 Indeed, his tale, was shifting, changing, and did not start with a story about injections at all.\u00a0 That just got revved up once \u201canonymous unnamed sources\u201d were quoted with a sudden story about massive injections in the New York Times on December 12, 1978.\u00a0 One that Mootoo was apparently supposed to testify to at the Guyana inquest the very next day (December 13) but he didn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 Instead, he just did his job and gave his actual findings under oath.\u00a0 Which did not include injections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Then suddenly he, the coroner, started to change his own story as well.\u00a0 No injections, 20 injections, 187 injections and still counting\u2026.<\/p>\n

                                                      The survivor himself notes that Mootoo was maddeningly inconsistent, changing stories back and forth.\u00a0 But the survivor\u2019s upset appears to be that one of Mootoo\u2019s shifting claims was a low estimate of 20.\u00a0 But why would one even want<\/em><\/strong> stories of huge numbers, albeit never in the original coroner\u2019s inquest at all?\u00a0 To justify conclusions that make no medical sense to begin with?\u00a0 About abscesses that allegedly could have had no other cause than pre-mortem injections?<\/p>\n

                                                      So yes, the survivor\u2019s upset is real, but no, he has not provided \u201cthe only explanation\u201d by far.\u00a0 He actually has not provided any<\/strong> explanation that cannot be discounted with ten minutes of internet research.<\/p>\n

                                                      Honestly, even if the story did make sense medically, then the only explanation would be run-amok nurses wildly stabbing at people\u2019s necks, legs, cheeks, hands, wherever, as they were fleeing into the jungle.\u00a0 For which there is no verification anywhere — certainly not from anyone who was there for most of the process before they escaped (namely, Odell Rhodes and Stanley Clayton), much less from the final note left by (I believe) Marceline Jones.<\/p>\n

                                                      I would just like to add that since it was all gruesome enough; that this was a historically non-violent group; and that for the most part, the community was comprised of loving, gentle, non-violent people, that creating the impression that this was a pack of brutes at each other\u2019s throats internally up to the last, when there is actually NO evidence of that, may not a fitting memorial.\u00a0 Can we not tread a little more carefully?<\/p>\n

                                                      O.k., What About<\/em> Leslie Mootoo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But since Mootoo, the Guyanese coroner, has so come into play, then what about him?<\/p>\n

                                                      A lot of people were upset with this guy.\u00a0 I mean, he just wouldn\u2019t say that hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds!) of people were forcibly injected at Jonestown.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t even repeat the \u201c187 and still counting\u201d story consistently<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      He was supposed to be a better witness.\u00a0 He was supposed to say what everyone wanted to hear.\u00a0 He was supposed to say whatever he was told to say.<\/p>\n

                                                      But say, what if he was just a public civil servant trying to do his job and being pressured to LIE?\u00a0 Did anyone even consider that?<\/p>\n

                                                      Look first at what Mootoo was expected<\/em><\/strong> to say at the Guyana coroner\u2019s inquest.\u00a0 Understand that the Guyana coroner\u2019s inquest transcripts are a very rough read whatever the specific details.\u00a0 Of course they are.\u00a0 But they are also straightforward; and that being so, and the subject so gruesome as is, why would anyone want to LIE about the findings.\u00a0 Though they did:<\/p>\n

                                                      The New York Times article of December 12, 1978:<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, that \u201cAt least 70 members<\/strong> of the Peoples Temple, most of them adults, were given injections of cyanide at Jonestown\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Then the grieving survivor who was told that \u201cMootoo visually examined over 200 bodies at Jonestown.\u00a0 He later told a Guyana coroner\u2019s jury that he saw needle marks on at least 70<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      So that was the coin of the realm.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Mootoo was SUPPOSED to tell the Guyana coroner\u2019s jury, already relayed as \u201cfact\u201d by the New York Times on December 12, 1978, a day PRIOR TO the proceeding on December 13.\u00a0 Indeed, that\u2019s what survivors were thereafter told that Mootoo did<\/strong> say.<\/p>\n

                                                      Except that he didn\u2019t<\/strong>.\u00a0 Instead, he just acted like a coroner doing his job instead of an agency puppet following orders.\u00a0 He said he saw dead bodies, randomly tested 25 bodies and found acute cyanide poisoning in all 25.\u00a0 He spoke of a scene \u201clittered with plastic cups.\u201d\u00a0 HE DID NOT MENTION INJECTIONS AT ALL. <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Well, maybe Mr. Mootoo had just misunderstood what he had been told to say.\u00a0 Maybe it had \u201cnot been made clear enough to him\u201d what he was required to do.\u00a0 Or look:\u00a0 Maybe he was just a coroner doing an honest day\u2019s work for an honest day\u2019s pay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      But that all began to shift by the New York Times article of December 19, 1978, just six days later, in which \u201cDr. Mootoo also said [well, or is said to have said <\/em>— no quote marks], just that \u201che told reporters that\u2026 he found evidence of needle injections in the bodies of some cultists, indicating that they had been murder, not suicide, victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      Except that that was never his testimony as an under-oath coroner at inquest.\u00a0 It was just whatever induced him to shift AFTER he failed to deliver on the instructions of the nameless-faceless ones quoted in the Times on December 12.<\/p>\n

                                                      The most blatant evidence, of course, that Mootoo was \u201chandled\u201d and told what to say, was his interview in \u201cFreedom Magazine\u201d which is a publication of Scientology:<\/p>\n

                                                      The Scientologists had a keen interest in Jonestown.\u00a0 Partly because it got everyone calling THEM \u201ca cult\u201d; partly in that they were so at loggerheads with the Cult Awareness Network; partly that the Scientologist believed themselves <\/em><\/strong>to be targeted by the intelligence agencies and the last thing the intelligence agencies would have wanted was for Jonestown to in any way give \u201cbait\u2019 for them to investigate further.\u00a0 Those people don\u2019t have a great reputation for giving up.\u00a0 They usually don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

                                                      Thus the Scientologists were given \u201cthe royal treatment\u201d — now not just 70<\/strong> people injected at all, rather \u201c187<\/strong> bodies in the stifling heat,\u201d at which point \u201cthey had to give up.\u201d\u00a0 A fiction to begin with, then hyped to super-proportions for the Scientologists\u2019 benefit to be sure they were kept off<\/em><\/strong> the tail of the CIA.<\/p>\n

                                                      What Mootoo told the Scientologists was apparently the result of being handled.\u00a0 It was not what he witnessed at all.<\/p>\n

                                                      What If There Were NO<\/em> Injections of Fleeing Cultists?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Come to think of\u00a0 it, there is no evidence of injections of fleeing cultists anywhere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      Does that makes Jim Jones a good guy because look, all these people were cooperating in their own deaths?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t said that and I won\u2019t.\u00a0 Jim Jones was psychotic and it was tragic that he was not stopped, even though that would have had to have been done a long time before that night.<\/p>\n

                                                      I am just saying that these were frightened people; and that yes, SOME of their fear was of Jones, who had clearly gone psychotic; but they were also legitimately frightened by circumstances which were now all too real.\u00a0 \u201cThey won\u2019t let us get away with this!\u201d — as not only Jim Jones, but also everyone else believed that the community bore the guilt of a Congressional assassination.<\/p>\n

                                                      Combined with a pretty unified adamant refusal to return to the States, which according to MANY<\/strong> of the substantially poor black residents at Jonestown, had given them a very raw deal.\u00a0 Most would have probably even told you that aside from the pressures, fears and uncertainties of a leader deteriorating before their eyes (an ongoing ordeal, hardly just that night), that Jonestown for them was a GOOD life.<\/p>\n

                                                      And maybe, at that, having been trapped in a bad life Stateside and wanting a better life there, should actually count for something.\u00a0 Or whatever the tragedy of their deaths, these people\u2019s very LIVES counted for nothing.<\/p>\n

                                                      Maybe someone should finally consider that.<\/p>\n

                                                      Why Is This a Key Point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Good question.\u00a0 People had died.\u00a0 It was tragic however it happened — whether voluntarily or by injection.\u00a0 (And OF COURSE I quantify \u201cvoluntarily.\u201d\u00a0 The pressures had to have been immense and terrifying.)<\/p>\n

                                                      But here is the difference:\u00a0 People brutal enough to attack even each other with deadly hypodermics while they were kicking and screaming and fleeing, would surely be of the same brutal character to have\u2026\u2026.. KILLED THE CONGRESSMAN.\u00a0 <\/strong>These sections have not been entitled \u201cThe Anatomy of a Frame\u201d for nothing.<\/p>\n

                                                      The catch-phrase of the day was \u201cbizarre murder-suicide ritual.\u201d\u00a0 Any purported brutality at Jonestown forged that linkage between \u201cmurder\u201d (i.e., of THE CONGRESSMAN) and \u201csuicide\u201d (of their own.)\u00a0 Thus was it an extra insurance of making the frame stick and precluding any investigation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

                                                      It might also be helpful for the reader to grasp that HAD there ever been any hearing or investigation, the claims of forcible injections would have been tossed out as NOT testified to at the time of inquest, as well as possibly coerced thereafter.\u00a0 And with the grief, loss, shock at fever pitch as is, why would that gratuitous slice of cruelty be foisted onto the world at all?\u00a0 That no one should even remember their loved ones as gentle, constructive or caring, just as brutes who violently did this and brutes who violently did that?<\/p>\n

                                                      The Great Hit Squad Myth:\u00a0 Can Dead People Pick Up Phones? [5]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Install the \u201cHit Squad\u201d Myth Quickly <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Peoples Temple had been turned into \u201cthe only bad guys in sight.\u201c\u00a0 The public was so focused on the terrible Peoples Temple, to boot, the press having already skewered them for a year-and-a-half earlier, cultists expatriated, unable to even launch a defense — that it was never revisited what had led up to the disaster not just in Guyana, but Stateside.<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, the killing of the Congressman was hardly just a black ops from out of nowhere with nothing suspicious happening in the lead-up.\u00a0 There were all kinds of \u201cdirty tricks\u201d leading up to the disaster.\u00a0 Actions blamed on Peoples Temple but incredibly UN-likely to have been them.\u00a0 If only because it always seemed to work to their detriment!<\/p>\n

                                                      Like whenever someone was genuinely interested in visiting Jonestown who might help the community\u2019s image on the public terrain (i.e., well-connected people like reporters, or well-publicized people like \u201cConcerned Relatives\u201d), somehow they started getting harassing anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night or were even physically attacked.\u00a0 Case-in-point, Kathy Hunter:<\/p>\n

                                                      Kathy Hunter:\u00a0 Turning a Potential Ally Into An Enemy — \u201cAnonymously\u201d!<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Take Kathy Hunter for a backdrop example of dirty tricks.\u00a0 She was the wife of the editor of The Ukiah Daily Journal <\/em>and a journalist herself.\u00a0 That newspaper was historically favorable to the Temple in its long-time residence in Redwood Valley.\u00a0 It\u2019s editor, George Hunter, had even written of Jim Jones as \u201ca fiery archangel.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      And the Temple might have invited her to Jonestown at some point had she even suggested that she was interested.\u00a0 But that was dicey:\u00a0 Timothy Stoen had already publicly courted her over his child custody suit and we had no idea where that was going.\u00a0 \u201cGreek Tragedy Played on Worldwide Stage,\u201c trumpeted the Santa Rosa press.\u00a0 Nor had anyone at the San Francisco Temple heard a word from Mrs. Hunter directly.<\/p>\n

                                                      Instead, she arrived in Georgetown one day unannounced, claiming that the invitation had come from the Prime Minister!\u00a0\u00a0 (Which even she later conceded \u201cwas probably a hoax.\u201d)<\/p>\n

                                                      Accordingly to then-PR director for the Temple, Mike Prokes, she was mostly drunk when the Temple met with her.\u00a0 She refused to attend a reception at the Temple headquarters in Georgetown (there was a cultural program scheduled at that time), but instead demanded to be brought directly to Jim Jones in Jonestown \u201cor\u201d she would go back and ruin the church in the States.\u00a0 (As if that had not already been done\u2026)<\/p>\n

                                                      Meanwhile, she claimed a series of harassing phone calls (all of them \u201canonymous,\u201d of course!) which she blamed squarely on the Temple, while the hotel she was in had five false fire alarms while she was there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Note, she had been met upon arrival by one Pat Small, a woman suspected by the Guyanese to be CIA, who remained glued to her as her escort.\u00a0 Hunter wound up being expelled from Guyana when she and Small went directly to Parliament to create a scene.<\/p>\n

                                                      The press upon Mrs. Hunter\u2019s return to the States was horrendous, of course.\u00a0 \u201cWriter\u2019s Nightmare Journey to Peoples Temple Mission,\u201c wrote the San Francisco Examiner<\/em>.\u00a0 Hunter\u2019s home town paper, The Ukiah Daily Journal,<\/em> filled in yet more lurid alleged details:<\/p>\n

                                                      \u201c[Hunter was]. . interrogated at great length by one of Jones\u2019 \u2018goon squads\u2019 .<\/em><\/strong> . . . The Temple\u2019s propaganda machine paints an idyllic picture. . . then why did Jones fear a visit<\/em><\/strong>. . . and what does he have to hide<\/em><\/strong>? . . . The Guyanese National Police had no illusion about the potential for violence<\/em><\/strong>. . . They quickly posted a guard<\/em><\/strong> outside her hotel door.\u00a0 She was to leave Guyana today and the plan called for a police escort<\/em><\/strong>. . . . which would indicate that the authorities believed that Jones\u2019 followers were not above additional harassment or even violence<\/em><\/strong>. . .<\/p>\n

                                                      It even got further embellished.\u00a0 Hunter claimed that upon return to the States, she received anonymous calls in the middle of the night muttering curses and threats, and that some black men (\u201canonymous\u201d black men, naturally) had broken into her home and forced alcohol down her throat.<\/p>\n

                                                      And the Temple (even were it so inclined — this was NOT the practice and besides, this woman had a big \u201cStay away!\u201d sign across her chest) would have done all these terrible things to Kathy Hunter WHY?\u00a0 Well, it wouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 But it took a lot of money, resources and personnel to perpetuate this complex hoax, and across continents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      And what did this lay the groundwork for?\u00a0 That this historically NON-violent group was now morphed into the kind of people who would\u2026\u2026 KILL A CONGRESSMAN? <\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Not Just Home, But the Foreign Press Planted With Smears<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      There was honestly always \u201cfunny stuff\u201d around the attacks on the church.\u00a0 But something that came to the Temple\u2019s attention by chance (through a clipping service) was two identically-worded smears about \u201cprophet with profits\u201d which appeared simultaneously in a USSR publication and one in Toronto.\u00a0 Within the same month.<\/p>\n

                                                      Namely, locales that the press smearers wished to turn against the far-left wing group whose leader had visited Castro\u2019s Cuba to rave reviews and now had planted itself in Guyana.\u00a0 The USSR the church was obviously courting; and by the end, was making a desperate attempt for a re-relocation there.<\/p>\n

                                                      Toronto was simply the home of a large number of Guyanese immigrants.\u00a0 In other words, if one wanted to reach Guyanese outsides the confines of Guyana, head for Toronto.<\/p>\n

                                                      So those plants in the press were tell-tale CIA dirty tricks in any case.<\/p>\n

                                                      See<\/em> panel [5]<\/a><\/strong>, which speaks for itself.\u00a0 Who would have even have had the resources and contacts<\/em><\/strong> to simultaneously place identical smears at select international locales thousands of miles apart?<\/p>\n

                                                      Much less who would then play dirty tricks on dead<\/em><\/strong> people?\u00a0 Well, now it\u2019s the very night of the tragedy.\u00a0 And no one in the Bay Area even knew what was happening in Guyana except for what was coming through on public newscasts.<\/p>\n

                                                      But somehow, instead of having ears glued to the radio in terror, worry and grief, the Temple was supposed to have been doing the following:<\/p>\n

                                                      Can Dead People Really Pick Up Phones? (Panel [5]<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      O.k.\u00a0 It\u2019s the very night of the tragedy and everyone from Peoples Temple in the States is cowering in grief and fear.\u00a0 There was no living person from Peoples Temple who could have done the following or who even knew who the recipient of the phone call at issue WAS!<\/p>\n

                                                      But say, SOMEONE managed to place an anonymous phoned death threat to an aide to the Congressman in the Bay Area!\u00a0 An aide whom no one in Peoples Temple even knew existed!<\/p>\n

                                                      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Except that that aide just happened to be the son (though also on the Ryan payroll) of chief<\/em> Ryan aide,<\/em> Joseph Holsinger.\u00a0 Who also just happened<\/em> to be the one then targeted for a nefarious long-range disinformation campaign ongoing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      And the anonymous phone threat itself?\u00a0 It was patently nuts to blame that on the Temple.\u00a0 The San Francisco Temple was pulverized and reeling from the early news reports.\u00a0 Nor was there ANY<\/em><\/strong> communication from Jonestown that night.\u00a0 There was just fear, terror, grief, and the horror of suddenly being set adrift into a frightening, hostile, sorrow-drenched world.<\/p>\n

                                                      Ah, but it had<\/em><\/strong> to be blamed on Peoples Temple and the media all complied.\u00a0 Thus was born the mythical \u201chit squad.\u201d\u00a0 Be afraid,\u00a0 Be very afraid.\u00a0 You know, they must have committed the assassination<\/em><\/strong>, or why would they \u201cstill\u201d be behaving this way?<\/p>\n

                                                      By Way of Background, the Story About \u201cAn Armed Camp\u201d Was False in the First Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Note, by way of background, a news article confirming that the story of Jonestown being \u201can armed camp\u201d was fiction to begin with.\u00a0 Neither the Guyanese nor the American authorities found more than 39-40 small weapons in a community of 1200 — scarcely enough for hunting, much less for self-defense.\u00a0 A defector had been persuaded to swear out an affidavit that she had personally seen 200-300 weapons at Jonestown with her own eyes, but where they might have been allegedly stashed, no one knew, no one asked.\u00a0 Nor was that ever the purpose of saying<\/em><\/strong> it.\u00a0 The purpose of saying it was simply to have on record a claim which might be useful later on to confirm that \u201cthese were really violent brutes who killed a Congressman.\u201d<\/p>\n

                                                      (See<\/em> Panel [5]<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

                                                      Getting The Cover-Up Story Going As Early As Possible<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      The story about the alleged \u201cPeoples Temple hit squad\u201d also becomes a segue into the next section.\u00a0 The lie that would allegedly \u201dturn Peoples Temple into the CIA\u201d was undoubtedly already hatched, just not put out there very first thing.<\/p>\n

                                                      Took some weeks to install, then years to re-enforce.\u00a0 To get at least one public newspaper, one Chicago Defender<\/em><\/strong> on board to tend to the bothersome task of convincing the Ryan contingent, who knew that the CIA had it in for Ryan, that \u201cPeoples Temple was really the CIA.\u201d\u00a0 And what better way to do that than to target the death threat at the son of the key Ryan aide (namely, Joseph Holsinger) pre-selected for that disinformation campaign?<\/p>\n

                                                      See<\/em><\/strong> \u201cThe Long-Range DisInformation:\u00a0 Sealing Pandora\u2019s Box.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s quite a tall tale.<\/p>\n

                                                      It\u2019s BOTH<\/em> the Crime and the Cover-Up<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      Regarding this entire section of the \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201d project, namely \u201cThe Immediate Aftermath\u201c:\u00a0 As is often said, don\u2019t just look at the crime — look at the COVER-UP.\u00a0 People with nothing to hide play things straight up.\u00a0 People who are themselves guilty do a lot of freaky things that, when set aright, give a pretty good rundown of their own guilt.<\/p>\n

                                                      Oh, this story was \u201ctwisted\u201d for sure, both the airstrip scene and the mass deaths at Jonestown as well.\u00a0 And the purely human factors of grief, shock and loss can never be weeded out, nor should they be.\u00a0 A single look at the autopsy and inquest reports snaps them back in with force.<\/p>\n

                                                      The story of Jim Jones is \u201ctwisted\u201d as well — for sure.\u00a0 I believe that there was a progressively-stressed personal psychosis at the root of the apparently \u201cself-fulfilling prophecy,\u201d and have outlined that as such in another piece.\u00a0 That the man was \u201ca suicide waiting to happen\u201d out of personal<\/em><\/strong> history never even related as such; but that that psychological profile was foisted upon an isolated community under siege.\u00a0 They were indeed under heavy media attack by the time of the tragedy and seemingly helpless in their own defense.<\/p>\n

                                                      To boot, with a community largely derived from impoverished straits when in the States — Jonestown was their \u201cdream come true\u201d and in large measure successful as such. Even the thought of being forced back Stateside was unbearable to at least a large proportion of the flock.<\/p>\n

                                                      I just draw the line at there having been \u201cnothing to fear but fear itself.\u201d\u00a0 Namely, whatever the paranoia of the man Jim Jones, there was MUCH for that community to fear!:<\/p>\n

                                                      They had settled in a CIA-controlled land intent on keeping the country communist-free\u00a0 — namely, keeping Forbes Burnham in power and communist Cheddi Jagan sidelined.\u00a0 Then along comes Jim Jones, self-proclaimed communist, making friends with Castro\u2019s Cuba and intent on re-relocating his flock to the then USSR.<\/p>\n

                                                      Then he threatens to off the whole community if his own child is forcibly removed.\u00a0 (See<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame.\u201c<\/strong>)\u00a0 A crisis for sure, but \u201calmost nothing\u201d compared to the prospect of invasion to retaliate against the killing of a Congressman.<\/p>\n

                                                      The visiting Congressman was a prime target for the CIA as well — his legislation (the Hughes-RYAN<\/em><\/strong> Amendment to the Foreign Relations Act of 1974) took aim at wrecking the CIA\u2018s \u201cblack ops,\u201d so they \u201cblack-opted him.\u201d\u00a0 He was yes, lured to Jonestown to investigate \u201ccultish\u201d matters, but what country was he being lured to, by whom, and for what ulterior purpose?<\/p>\n

                                                      And for the CIA, this was apparently just too tempting:\u00a0 <\/strong>Off the hated Congressman and the hated cult leader in a \u201ckill two birds with one stone\u201d scenario.\u00a0 Then frame the killing of the Congressman on the cult and hope<\/em><\/strong> that the mad leader makes good on his threat, leaving \u201ca thousand dead patsies\u201c in the killing\u2018s wake.<\/p>\n

                                                      That got done, but then there was THE COVER-UP:\u00a0 <\/strong>A mass of disinformation and lies, switched stories and ploys, done all too \u201cprofessionally\u201d at the time, to boot — a comment, however, made far less in admiration than in horror.<\/p>\n

                                                      But now with the long lens of time and the multitude of recovered documents, we can see it for what it was:\u00a0 a cruel cover-up of epic proportions, fabrications about time delays, body counts, alleged injections, agency-run autopsies, alleged hit squads, a corrupted press and all..<\/p>\n

                                                      Next in \u201cThe Long-Range Disinformation:\u00a0 Sealing Pandora\u2019s Box,\u201d<\/strong> we will reveal what was supposed to make the frame stick PERMANENTLY, namely the whole-cloth fabrication by the CIA that Jim Jones, not they themselves, \u201cwas the CIA.\u201d\u00a0 Impossible to believe?\u00a0 Actually, yes.\u00a0 Quite impossible to believe.\u00a0 But unfortunately, that would not prevent it from taking hold.<\/p>\n

                                                      Summary of Panels for \u201cThe Immediate Aftermath:\u00a0 It\u2019s Not Just the Crime, It\u2019s the Cover-Up\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                      [1]<\/a>: The Great Timeline Travesty: A Tale of TWENTY HOURS<\/em>
                                                      \n                                                      [2]<\/a>: The Great Body Count Snafu: The Public Did NOT<\/em> Need to Know?
                                                      \n                                                      [3]<\/a>: The Great Autopsy Disaster: BOTH<\/em> Poisoned and Shot?
                                                      \n                                                      [4-1]<\/a>: The Great Injections Fiasco: A CIA-Created Fiction
                                                      \n                                                      [4-2]<\/a>: The Great Injections Fiasco: A CIA-Created Fiction
                                                      \n                                                      [5]<\/a>: The Great Hit Squad Myth: Can Dead People Pick Up Phones?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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