{"id":33291,"date":"2013-07-25T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33291"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:19:35","slug":"efreinfinal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33291","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTHE LONG RANGE COVER-UP: Sealing Pandora’s Box\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

They Had \u201cA Problem\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually they had several problems, but this one was paramount.\u00a0 Namely, enmity between the C.I.A. and Congressman Leo Ryan was well-known, notably through the Hughes-RYAN<\/em><\/strong> Amendment to the Foreign Relations Act of 1974, all but banning CIA black ops.\u00a0 (Well, understand, unless they opted for the now-legally-mandated alternative:\u00a0 reporting to eight Congressional committees!\u00a0 See<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame,\u201d panel [1]<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

The CIA was also suspected of being entrenched in Guyana at that time.\u00a0 It was still classified, but by now DE-classified, as even a cursory look through Wikipedia reveals:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \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 By 1978 in Guyana, CIA dominance in Guyana had become \u201cthe status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading the Ryan Contingent Down the Garden Path<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ryan contingent knew full well the enmity between Congressman Ryan and the CIA, thus the fear that the Ryan camp (aides and family) would rush to presume that somehow it was the CIA who had killed the Congressman, \u201ccult crazies\u201d or not.<\/p>\n

Thus the CIA did something quite devious, even if predictable in a long lens back view:<\/p>\n

Suddenly, It was Peoples Temple Who Was (Allegedly) the CIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather than denying CIA involvement in the assassination, they did a jiu-jitsu:\u00a0 They pushed that yes, of course the CIA killed the Congressman!\u00a0 But understand, not \u201cthe real CIA.\u201d\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It was to be \u201cthe Peoples Temple CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somehow, Jim Jones wasn\u2019t really the one who visited exiled Black Panther leader Huey Newton in Castro\u2019s Cuba or was vying to get his group re-relocated to the then-dreaded USSR.\u00a0 (See<\/em> \u201cPre-Planning the Frame,\u201d panel [1]<\/a><\/strong>.)\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t the one who had courted every left-wing activist in the United States at Peoples Temple San Francisco.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t the same one who railed against corporatism before it even had coinage in the culture.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t self-proclaimed communist Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

Indeed, no one had clued the Ryan people into ANY of that.\u00a0 (Jones\u2019 far left wing stance was NEVER in the public eye past the exodus to Guyana.\u00a0 Just one initial smear in Murdoch\u2018s fledging U.S. magazine, \u201cNew West\u201d about \u201cliberal, leftist\u201d and they were done with it.)\u00a0 It was all just about \u201ccult, cult, cult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ah, but now \u201cthe [alleged] secret\u201d:\u00a0 Jim Jones (allegedly) wasn\u2019t just a cult leader at all.\u00a0 He was also a CIA operative in the most clever disguise.\u00a0 His group was infiltrated with agents and the assassination of Leo Ryan was done by them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And the real<\/em><\/strong> CIA in Guyana?\u00a0 For eleven years by then, to prop up their puppet Forbes Burnham against incursion by communist Cheddi Jagan?\u00a0 Oh, suddenly they did not even exist!\u00a0\u00a0 It was all about an alleged secret Jim Jones CIA front.<\/p>\n

Who Would They Pick for the Honors and Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite despicably of course, they chose a mild-manned young man, Philip Blakey, one of the first settlers on the farm, for \u201cthe CIA agent in Jonestown.\u201d\u00a0 It was patently ludicrous, but they needed to pick someone who went back to at least 1975, not 1978.<\/p>\n

And the reason <\/em><\/strong>they had to pick someone who went back to at least 1975?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 The alleged cred for the one they picked is that he was supposedly involved in a CIA foreign operation that Ryan<\/em><\/strong> had targeted back then, namely the CIA meddling in Angola.\u00a0 Blakey was now said to be \u201ca recruiter of mercenaries for the CIA in Angola in 1975.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that Blakey was ever anywhere near Angola, much less in the CIA at all.\u00a0 Nor did anyone ever even attempt to prove<\/strong> that lie.\u00a0 Just say that it was so, and it would be so inflammatory to the Ryan contingent that they would jump to the bait.<\/p>\n

Indeed, everything Ryan was known to oppose or had investigated, was fair game.\u00a0 Now Peoples Temple was suddenly \u201can MK Ultra experiment\u201d too, because Ryan had tried to expose the CIA\u2019s role in MK Ultra.\u00a0 The notorious \u201cbrainwashing.\u201d\u00a0 That Jim-Jones-CIA-agent must have \u201cbrainwashed everyone in an MK Ultra experiment.\u201c<\/p>\n

Say, if Ryan had been investigating the CIA\u2019s role in people standing on their heads, everyone in Peoples Temple would have been portrayed as turned upside-down\u2026.<\/p>\n

Who In the Ryan Contingent Was Targeted For Disinformation and How?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, easy.\u00a0 They picked Ryan\u2019s senior aide, one Joseph Holsinger.\u00a0 We have already seen in the previous section, \u201cThe Immediate Aftermath:\u00a0 It\u2019s Not Just the Crime, It\u2019s the Cover-Up,\u201d that Holsinger\u2019s own son was targeted for an anonymous (well, it was always \u201canonymous\u201d — naturally) death threat the very night of the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Soon after (\u201clo and behold\u201d), there is an article in a (apparently black-run) paper, The Chicago Defender<\/em>,<\/strong> alleging \u201cthe truth about Jim Jones and the CIA.\u201d\u00a0 With the author of that article (if that was revealed at the time, it was not mentioned later) immediately tagging Holsinger for the whole crock of disinformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Information and Belief\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the upshot?\u00a0 The ludicrous (were it not so tragic — by which I mean the deliberate misleading of a grieving family<\/em><\/strong>) lawsuit filed by the Ryan family suing the federal government for \u201cthe Jim Jones CIA\u201d who murdered their father.<\/p>\n

For those familiar with legal proceedings, the term \u201con information and belief\u201d is a catch-all stand-in for rumor, hearsay, gossip or whatever-take-your-pick — namely, anything but PROOF!!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a way of saying that we believe it to be so but we cannot PROVE it.<\/p>\n

Well, the Ryan lawsuit is not only full of \u201con information and belief,\u201d but there is nothing BUT \u201con information and belief.\u201d\u00a0 See panel [1]<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Clauses XXVI. and XXVII. (= 26 and 27) start exactly that way, \u201cOn information and belief\u201d — as that is the template for the entire lawsuit!\u00a0 There is nothing different, nothing more solid to be found anywhere.<\/p>\n

Meaning that the lawsuit went nowhere but to \u201cthe round file.\u201d\u00a0 How does one prosecute anything with NO PROOF?<\/p>\n

Ah, but that was never the point.\u00a0 The point was to divert, to preclude any real<\/em><\/strong> investigation of (yes, folks) THE REAL CIA!!<\/p>\n

People Temple Was FOR<\/em> Forbes Burnham?\u00a0 Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last thing the bogus lawsuit presses is that somehow Peoples Temple was in the hip pocket of CIA-propped-up Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.\u00a0 To the point where the Temple was \u201cobviously enforcers to intimidate the opposition\u201d for Burnham.<\/p>\n

Based on what?\u00a0 Well, nothing.\u00a0 The OPPOSITE was what was true.\u00a0 The Temple would have way preferred communist Cheddi Jagan but was forced into lip support for Burnham since he was the host government.\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole of it.<\/p>\n

I was in the San Francisco Temple during the last election between Burnham and Jagan before the tragedy.\u00a0 Our instructions there were to write letters supporting Burnham even though we wanted Jagan, not Burnham, to run Guyana.<\/p>\n

Next, on to getting a whole other group of interested parties off track:\u00a0 the black and leftist communities of the United States.<\/p>\n

Who In the Black and Leftist Communities Were Targeted For Disinformation and How?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, both the black community and the leftist community were targeted for disinformation as Jim Jones had been known in the States as their champion.<\/p>\n

So lo and behold, the article in The Chicago Defender<\/em> <\/strong>is also picked up by the newspaper Worker\u2019s World!<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>Which the Black Panthers then cited as their \u201csource.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the CIA gave real authentic classified information to either<\/strong> the Black Panthers or the Communist Party??<\/p>\n

But look, here was the result:\u00a0 December 2, 1978, The Black Panther, <\/em><\/strong>the publication of the then-Black Panther Party was left as virtually the only group still offering redemptive assessments of Jonestown, their headline reading, \u201cJonestown:\u00a0 We Have Tasted Total Equality,\u201c referring to full racial and economic equality at Jonestown.<\/p>\n

No, not signaling their approval of anyone\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> deaths.\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 But suspicious, maybe up for an investigation.<\/p>\n

Well, just as they later threw Scientology off the trail of any real investigation into the all-too-real CIA (see<\/em> \u201cThe Immediate Aftermath,\u201c panel [4-1]<\/a><\/strong>), they used a somewhat different, yet equally effective m.o. to throw The Black Panthers off any investigative trail.<\/p>\n

Note that by December 30, 1978, all of four weeks after the \u201cJonestown:\u00a0 We Have Tasted Total Equality\u201d headliner, comes the disinformation headliner, \u201cJones Aide Worked as Mercenary in Angola.\u201d\u00a0 And their \u201ccredible source\u201d for that allegation?\u00a0 Worker\u2019s World!! <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0From an article dated December 15, 1978.\u00a0 \u201cQuick work,\u201d I would say.\u00a0 The tragedy had happened just the month before on November 18, 1978.\u00a0 In less than a month, the CIA had installed this as \u201cgospel\u201d with the communists; within two weeks after that, it had misdirected any possible investigation on the part of the American black left of the time.<\/p>\n

Disinforming the Media:\u00a0 David Brinkley, Thomas Smeeton and Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, there was NEVER any investigation into the killing of the Congressman at all .\u00a0 NEVER.<\/p>\n

But even I was appalled to see prominent newsman (at that time) David Brinkley, hosting the first anniversary special in 1979 on NBC, the network who had had several newsmen shot and\/or killed(!), announcing nearly smugly, that \u201cThere was never any investigation of the killings.\u00a0 Because all of the principals are dead.\u00a0 And besides, nobody liked <\/em>that particular Congressman.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Stomach-turning.\u00a0 People being allegedly \u201cliked\u201d or not (were it even so — that I doubt) should even factor into whether the killing of a Congressman was investigated?\u00a0 And when Brinkley\u2019s own network\u2019s newsmen were listed amongst the dead?<\/p>\n

Well, apparently Congressman Ryan was at least \u201cliked enough<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d that the Hughes-RYAN<\/em><\/strong> Amendment passed Congress. . . .\u00a0\u00a0 Which obviously the CIA<\/em><\/strong> could not have \u201cliked.\u201d\u00a0 Lest anyone reading this should miss the connection.<\/p>\n

As for the other comment about \u201cAll of the principals are dead\u201d:<\/p>\n

That was exact, verbatim, word-for-word the same as what Congressional aide Thomas Smeeton told me personally when I traveled to D.C. in January, 1980 to demand that the NBC film footage be blown up to prove that the assassins were not from Peoples Temple at all:\u00a0 \u201cWhy would we do that?\u00a0 All of the principals are dead.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, yeah, if they were the ones who actually did it\u2026.<\/p>\n

It just does seem a bit odd that somehow David Brinkley of NBC was mouthing the exact same six words told verbatim to me.<\/p>\n

(Of course I have exposed the footage of the assassins myself in this, the \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201d project.\u00a0 Their photo is right on the cover page of the project, taken directly from the NBC on-site film footage.\u00a0 With proofs that it was IMPOSSIBLE that it was the Peoples Temple accuseds, including, \u201cThere Was No Bob Kice,\u201d \u201cEyewitness Identifications:\u00a0 The FBI Report Versus the On-Site NBC Film Footage\u201d and \u201cThe Master Schematic:\u00a0 Tim Reiterman Versus NBC.\u201d\u00a0 I just did not have access to that footage until very recent years.)<\/p>\n

A newsperson who had worked at NBC at the time of the tragedy even told me personally back in 1980 that Smeeton was suspected to be \u201cthe CIA plant on the Congressional committee.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, as if that could not be figured out. . . .<\/p>\n

Covering Bases South of the Border and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that was pretty much \u201cit\u201d for the local (meaning the States) personnel.\u00a0 The planted story in The Chicago Defender <\/em><\/strong>did its work \u201cbut good,\u201d with both the Ryan contingent and the black\/leftist communities.\u00a0 The media (notably NBC, whose own newsmen were injured and\/or slain) was apparently handled more privately, hands-on, by the likes of Thomas Smeeton of the Congressional committee.<\/p>\n

But one base remained uncovered — namely, how did Jim Jones\u2019 alleged \u201ccareer with the CIA\u201d begin?\u00a0 If he was really \u201can international spy\u201d (as per the likes of the Angola fiction), how did this well-known figure on the far left suddenly supposedly emerge on the far right?<\/p>\n

Well, maybe it was just too tempting to go ahead and draw international connections anyway since Jones had in fact been in Brazil for missionary work in the early sixties.\u00a0 That certainly could opportunistically serve to create an alleged \u201cright-wing CIA connection\u201d that they hoped would stick.<\/p>\n

Even then, if one thinks that this might have been a gratuitous kind of \u201coverkill,\u201d when the whole world already knew that \u201cJones (allegedly) ordered the killing of the Congressman,\u201d bear in mind some key backdrops:<\/p>\n

First, as an overall comment, there was probably no such thing as \u201coverkill,\u201d since one really could not do \u201cenough\u201d to divert, disinform and cover-up guilt for a Congressional assassination.\u00a0 Moreover, ALL of the key disinformation campaigns (this is the FOURTH delineated herein) were launched within days of the tragedy, showing (since these were very freaky out-of-the-blue maneuvers!) advance planning<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In other words, there was no way to KNOW how this would come down publicly in advance of the event.\u00a0 So the plan was apparently to cut every possible ally, or prod for investigation, off at the pass.<\/p>\n

And they did have international concerns:\u00a0 Jim Jones had made a highly publicized trip to Cuba to visit exiled Black Panther leader Huey Newton.\u00a0 He had also met with Eric Gairy, then-Prime Minister of socialist Grenada.\u00a0 The Temple had hosted Laura Allende, sister of the slain Chilean President, Salvatore Allende, as well as Chilean refugees from the regime following the coup.\u00a0 (See<\/em> panel [1]<\/a> <\/strong>of \u201cBEFORE:\u00a0 Pre-Planning the Frame.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The church was also on close terms with the dreaded then-USSR and desperately trying to re-relocate there by the time of the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Jim Jones, in the CIA\u2019s eyes, had to have been a real \u201cRed Menace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Joseph Mazor (the same presumptive agent who came right into Jonestown to obtain photographs of the Jonestown vehicle for duplications to use in the look-alike frame; see<\/em> \u201cBEFORE:\u00a0 Pre-Planning the Frame\u201d) got on television within days of the tragedy (I saw that myself) to announce that \u201cIt was considered that Jim Jones would become a major political force in the Caribbean within five years.\u201d\u00a0 An international intelligence assessment<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Throwing the International Community Off the Trail<\/strong><\/p>\n

What better then (since Jones had in fact been in Brazil<\/em><\/strong>), than to claim that Jim Jones\u2019 (albeit fictional) CIA career started in Rio?\u00a0 Get in there right away, virtually as soon as the \u201chit\u201d came down, and claim that there was \u201ca whole history of international CIA involvement.\u201d\u00a0 That Jones\u2019 whole left-wing stance was just a pose.\u00a0 That this fellow had really been perilously on the right<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The list of alleged \u201cexpos\u00e9\u201d articles cited on panel [1]<\/a><\/strong> speak for themselves both by titles and dating: \u00a0The likes of \u201cTo Brazilians, Jim Jones Was a CIA Agent,\u201d and dated November 24, 1978, less than a week after the tragedy!!<\/p>\n

Well, did Brazilians know who Jim Jones was at all?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Ummm\u2026\u2026..\u00a0 probably not.\u00a0 But it sounds so authoritative, so accepted, so notorious.\u00a0 (And as we will see, so really really REALLY suspiciously \u201csourced\u201c\u2026.)\u00a0 Also so close upon the tragedy, designed to place a wedge, a bar, into the brain of anyone who might think that investigation of the killings (I mean of the Congressman and his party), much less defense of the cult, would be the way to go because after all, Jim Jones was a champion of the left,<\/em><\/strong> a natural opponent<\/em><\/strong> of the CIA.<\/p>\n

The Great \u201cFind\u201d of Smoke and Mirrors <\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus was Rio selected to dispense with the hatchet job.\u00a0 But understand, no attempt was even made to prove<\/em><\/strong> anything.\u00a0 Just make it seem like there were a lot<\/em><\/strong> of sources; meanwhile, the innuendoes were so notorious and extreme, as well as planted at such a volatile time, that who could proceed with any certainty against<\/em><\/strong> that?<\/p>\n

Well, what do we actually know about the disinformation coverage in Brazil?\u00a0 O.k.\u00a0 No one has actually printed the articles themselves, but I found a summary of their contents on the internet.\u00a0 And it goes like this:<\/p>\n

First we are told that Jim Jones was a long-time FBI\/CIA asset, including implementing the CIA\u2019s notorious MK-ULTRA mind control program.<\/p>\n

This, we are told, is why \u201cJones\u2019 201-file was purged by the CIA immediately after Jones\u2019 case officer, Dan Mitrione, was murdered in Montevideo, Uruguay.\u201d<\/p>\n

And we know that there ever even WAS a \u201cJim Jones CIA file,\u201d much less that Jones had Dan Mitrione as his \u201ccase officer\u201d how,<\/em><\/strong> exactly?<\/p>\n

Well, we don\u2019t know it.\u00a0 Actually NO ONE \u201cknew\u201d it.\u00a0 Not then, not now.<\/p>\n

Well, now it has the status of \u201can internet allegation,\u201d i.e., not supported by any traceable source.\u00a0 Then it had the status of appearing in a Brazilian newspaper — ALSO not supported by any traceable source!<\/p>\n

Curiously, however, it is in fact prefaced by \u201cThere is no smoking gun in the pages that follow.\u201d\u00a0 Well, gee, I might have wild-guessed that\u2026..<\/p>\n

We are, however, given a trail to follow:<\/p>\n

We are told that it all went back to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a Rio suburb where Jones briefly had a missionary project in the early sixties.\u00a0 The source of the allegations is cited as:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u2026the English language Brazil Herald<\/em>, a newspaper thought by many to have been owned, or secretly supported, by the CIA.\u201d!\u00a0 Even adding that, \u201cCuriously. . . . none of the articles originating in Rio quote identifiable sources.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get this straight:\u00a0 The CIA sets up an English language newspaper front in a Portuguese-speaking South American country in the 70\u2019s, to provide accurate classified information<\/em><\/strong> to the general public?\u00a0 What planet are we on that anyone would believe that?<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 The Brazil Herald.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, there are Portuguese papers cited too, but this is said to be the prime source.\u00a0 So from my perspective anyway, I would say that it\u2019s source #1 down the drain.<\/p>\n

Ah, but it gets worse:<\/p>\n

Next we are told that a firm called Invesco was the \u201cfront\u201d group for Jones in Brazil, by someone claiming Jones had worked there but \u201cdid not want his name used.\u201d\u00a0 He goes on to say that Jones never actually sold anything for Invesco (whose company was umm\u2026\u2026 sales!<\/em><\/strong>) , so there are no records anyway!<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Jones\u2019 alleged boss in the alleged front group Invesco.\u00a0 Source #2 down the drain.<\/p>\n

Also bear in mind that source #2\u2019s only claim to credibility was its inclusion in the Brazil Herald!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 As will be sources 3 & 4 (well, sources 5 & 6 for that matter, too\u2026)<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 What of source #3?\u00a0 Now it\u2019s someone who claimed to have been \u201cJim Jones\u2019 closest friend in Rio.\u201d<\/p>\n

And who was THAT person?\u00a0 Whoops.\u00a0 \u201cIn the article, she is only identified as Madame X.\u201d\u00a0 Who goes on to volunteer that source #4, \u201ca friend of the family\u201d was paying Jones\u2019 rent during periods of his absence.<\/p>\n

Except that, \u201cThe friend of the family, like Madame X and Jones\u2019 boss at Invesco, is never identified.\u201c<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Source #3 (\u201cfriend of the family\u201d) and source #4 (\u201cMadame X\u201d) down the drain.<\/p>\n

Did anyone even KNOW who \u201cMadame X\u201d and \u201ca friend of the family\u201d were supposed to be?\u00a0 Well, don\u2019t ask the very author of the so-called expos\u00e9!:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe author of the Brazil Herald article, Harold Emert <\/strong>[that\u2019s source #5 for anyone keeping track] doesn\u2019t know!!!<\/em><\/strong> [italics and exclamation points mine]. The reason he doesn\u2019t know is that he himself never spoke to her.\u00a0 Jim Bruce [source #6] did.\u00a0 Who, then, is Jim Bruce?\u00a0 According to Emert, Jim Bruce was at that time an American freelancer based in Brazil.\u00a0 It was he who inspired the Jim-Jones-in-Rio story and he who provided the sources: i.e., the Invesco executive and Madame X.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then comes the unbelievable punch line of, \u201cWhy Bruce failed to write the story himself is unclear.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Source #5 (Harold Emert) and source #6 (Jim Bruce) down the drain.\u00a0 And I am simply puzzled as to why ANY of this is \u201cunclear\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n

O.k.\u00a0 Here Are All the Ducks In a Row<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source #1: The Brazil Herald<\/em><\/strong>, purportedly run by the CIA.\u00a0 Source #2, the Invesco boss who had no records and would not so much as give his name.\u00a0 Source #3, some so-called \u201cMadame X\u201d of the no-name variety.\u00a0 Source #4: \u201ca friend of the family\u201d who no one knows who it is.\u00a0 Source #5:\u00a0 Harold Emert, the hapless author(!!) of the article in the CIA-front newspaper who knows nothing from no one, since the \u201coriginal source,\u201d source #6, Jim Bruce (or Tom Smith, or John Wilson, or \u201cwhoever\u201d) himself never wrote anything and is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

Are We Supposed To Actually Believe This?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, no.\u00a0 At least not me.\u00a0 But what is instructive here is that this is just about what you would expect a CIA disinformation campaign to look like<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It is exactly<\/em><\/strong> what it looks like.<\/p>\n

But why would the CIA even bother if they did not themselves have something to cover up?\u00a0 Like a Congressional assassination, maybe?\u00a0 (Lady Macbeth, anybody?)\u00a0 Because honestly, \u201ccrazy cult leader\u201d seemed to work just fine for the general public.\u00a0 The crazy cult leader who \u201cordered\u201d the killing of the Congressman.\u00a0 Cult, cult, cult.\u00a0 No one was even looking for anything else.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s also put this in context:\u00a0 It may be mindless to just swallow this as real authentic classified information.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t done mindlessly by the CIA disinformation purveyors, however.\u00a0 They actually did \u201chave a problem\u201d — the need to rule out the most obvious suspects –THEMSELVES!!– in their own known enmity for the Hughes-RYAN<\/em><\/strong>-Amendment Congressman.<\/p>\n

As well as the need to rule out any international support for a (now-dead) man, Jim ones, who was by then known to have an array of international left-wing supporters.<\/p>\n

Do We See a Pattern in the Press?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether American or international, yes, there were tell-tale patterns in the press.\u00a0 With Nicholas Horrock of The New York Times (see<\/em> \u201cThe Immediate Aftermath,\u201d panels [4-1]<\/a><\/strong> and [4-2]<\/a><\/strong>), all of the sources were \u201cshadowy\u201d as well.\u00a0 Note on panel [4-2] thirty-one<\/em><\/strong> nameless faceless \u201csources\u201d for a lengthy article!\u00a0 They are so-called \u201cgeneric\u201d sources, such as not even \u201can unnamed official,\u201d but rather \u201cthe government\u201d and \u201cthe authorities,\u201d and \u201cthey.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brazilian \u201csources\u201d are shadowy as well.\u00a0 There they are supposed to be specific people, except no one gives their name and they are untraceable to the point of \u201cgeneric\u201d as well.\u00a0 (\u201cMadame X,\u201d anyone?)<\/p>\n

Of course, no one asked<\/em><\/strong> who were Nicholas Horrock\u2019s sources, but the reality is that they were not just \u201cgeneric,\u201d but also generically suspicious<\/em><\/strong>, in that for this huge international story neither the Guyanese nor American government, either one, seemed to have any official spokesperson at all — just \u201cthey\u201d and \u201cthe government\u201d and \u201cthe authorities\u201d and (well) \u201cthe sources\u201d!<\/p>\n

While the Brazilian story, with a different style but the m.o. on a parallel track, gives a whole new meaning to the word \u201cunsourced\u201d:\u00a0 There the very author of the key article claims to have had no contact with his own sources at all!!<\/p>\n

But with the likes of internet allegations, we oftentimes have no recourse when a seeming something collapses into nothing.\u00a0 I was astonished to read that, \u201cIt is a fact that the CIA\u2019s Office of Security opened a file on Jones. . . .\u00a0 Why it did so is a mystery; the Agency won\u2019t say.\u201c<\/p>\n

Wait a minute.\u00a0 Was that the very same \u201cfile\u201d that was \u201cpurged,\u201d except that no one ever got to see the alleged contents in the interim?<\/p>\n

We could go on but it gets pointless.\u00a0 How about the shadowy \u201cMadame X,\u201d of whom no one seems to know who she was or if she existed at all?<\/p>\n

The Bottom Line Regarding Sourcing<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the bottom line:\u00a0 If there is any credible named first-hand source, we might at least have something to build on.\u00a0 But this is more like, what do you do once insects have gotten into the grain?\u00a0 If no one is named and the very author of the expose claims NO CONTACT WITH HIS OWN ALLEGED SOURCES, while meanwhile, the alleged contactee wrote nothing of his own and has fled without a trace, why would we even be inquiring, well what kind of an insect was it, or dissecting his legs, wings or stinger.<\/p>\n

I say that once insects have gotten in the grain, you have to dump the grain, not go dignifying their legs and wings and stingers.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Recognize Disinformation For What It Is<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why promote a mindless story which never made any sense, yet its MOTIVES were obvious.\u00a0 Why even do it?<\/p>\n

Just rest assured, there is no actual information there.\u00a0 Just DIS-information with transparent motives.\u00a0 One can call it \u201con information and belief\u201d if one likes.\u00a0 Just know that it\u2019s \u201ca story,\u201d nothing more.\u00a0 A story designed to cover the CIA\u2019s own genuine provable guilt.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s even more of a shame in that there are people left who actually care about the people who died and were never given any answers that made any sense.\u00a0 But unfortunately, unsourced fantastical stories from out of nowhere has never been the route to coherent answers.<\/p>\n

Versus TONS<\/em> of Smoking Guns<\/strong><\/p>\n

All I\u2019ve done in \u201cIn Plain Sight\u201d is to produce original, authentic \u201csmoking gun\u201d sources.\u00a0 I\u2019ve surely established the baseline of difference.\u00a0 Does one really want to speculate \u201cWho was Madame X?\u201d when we can look at the likes of actual on-site NBC film footage from the airstrip at the time of the killings?<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s sum this up:<\/p>\n

Divert<\/em><\/strong> [the Ryan contingent], Disinform<\/em><\/strong> [the american media],<\/strong> Flip<\/em><\/strong> [the black\/left community] and Scare Away <\/em>[the international left]<\/strong> [1]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a CIA m.o. which worked for everyone:\u00a0 diverting the Ryan contingent; disinforming the American media; divesting the black-leftist communities of any appetite for investigation; sending the international community off-track.<\/p>\n

The Black\/Leftist Community in the States<\/strong>:\u00a0 Those who might have been most sympathetic, most eager to investigate conspiracy, most vocal in demanding an investigation.\u00a0 It took all of four weeks to flip The Black Panther Party from (December 2, 1978) \u201cWe Have Tasted Total [racial and economic] Equality\u201d = Jim Jones, black-leftist hero; to (December 30, 1978) \u201cJones\u2019 Aide Worked as Mercenary in Angola\u201d = Jim Jones, CIA agent, scum of the earth.<\/p>\n

The Media<\/strong>:\u00a0 David Brinkley from NBC, the network who had been on site and wound up with slain and injured newsmen, now wild-goose-chased off of any further questions.\u00a0 Even so much as questioning why the U.S. government never investigated the assassination of their own Congressman.<\/p>\n

The Ryan Contingent<\/strong>:\u00a0 Fed disinformation leading nowhere to sidetrack any real line of inquiry into such an inane dead end, that it became impossible to pursue.<\/p>\n

The International Community<\/strong>:\u00a0 Make any prior international supporters on the left think that Jim Jones was really coming from the right so don\u2019t touch it.<\/p>\n

So There We Have It<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus was any entry into the \u201cPandora\u2019s Box\u201d of the assassination cut off at the pass.\u00a0 \u201cPandora\u2019s Box\u201d being the ACTUAL<\/em><\/strong> CIA guilt for the killing of the Congressman.\u00a0 NOT<\/em><\/strong> the \u201cNo one can prove it, not one shred of proof, but it must have been \u2018the Jim Jones faction of the CIA\u2019 who killed Leo Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how come no one has tackled it between then and now.\u00a0 (Well, me, I\u2019ve tackled it, but I did not have access to key source evidence <\/em><\/strong>until very recent years.)\u00a0 High-powered disinformation pervasively spread for years at a time.\u00a0 High-powered preclusion of ANY investigation.\u00a0 Combined with the natural preclusions of this<\/em><\/strong> subject anyway:\u00a0 Too scary.\u00a0 Dead kids.\u00a0 Deep dark jungle.\u00a0 The media never said different before.\u00a0 Can\u2019t we just make a few more bad kool-aid jokes then leave it alone?<\/p>\n

Why It Is Historically Important To Get This Right<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not right that quite evil forces overpower, disempower, and even frame innocents, HOWEVER crackers their leader may have been.\u00a0 It\u2019s not right to assassinate a United States Congressman with impunity.\u00a0 It\u2019s not right that there is no justice, with wickedly guilty parties having gone scot free. It wasn\u2019t right for John F. Kennedy (the original \u201csomething is rotten in Denmark\u201d) and it wasn\u2019t right for Leo J. Ryan.\u00a0 It\u2019s not right for America.<\/p>\n

Finally at least, there is one real-live assassination conspiracy in the checkered American landscape that can be PROVEN.\u00a0 And it is THIS.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done this project because it is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

God bless my friends.\u00a0 May they rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They Had \u201cA Problem\u201d Actually they had several problems, but this one was paramount.\u00a0 Namely, enmity between the C.I.A. and Congressman Leo Ryan was well-known, notably through the Hughes-RYAN Amendment to the Foreign Relations Act of 1974, all but banning CIA black ops.\u00a0 (Well, understand, unless they opted for the now-legally-mandated alternative:\u00a0 reporting to eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33311,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108038,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33291\/revisions\/108038"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}