{"id":66034,"date":"2016-02-11T23:10:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66034"},"modified":"2020-05-02T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:11:31","slug":"q292-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66034","title":{"rendered":"Q292 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification <\/strong>note: <\/strong>Labeled in part “9\/4\/78 News ”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 News items reflect date on tape note<\/p>\n

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em><\/p>\n

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nDwight Eisenhower, former president
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt, former president
\nJody Powell, White House press secretary
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nMalcolm Toon, U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union
\nMatthew Nimetz, American diplomat
\nRep. Charles Diggs (D-Michigan)
\nFather Charles Edward Coughlin, American bishop who supported Hitler (by reference)<\/p>\n

Pope John Paul<\/p>\n

Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary, Soviet Union
\nAndrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister
\nNikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union
\nComrade Suslov (phonetic), member of Soviet Politburo
\nHenry VIII, English king
\nAdolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nCharles de Gaulle, former President of France
\nJosip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia
\nSpyros Kyprianou, President of Cyprus (by reference)
\n\u00d3lafur J\u00f3hannesson, Prime Minister of Iceland (by reference)<\/p>\n

Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nKing Hussein of Jordan
\nElias Sarkis, President of Lebanon
\nJulius Nyerere, President of Tanzania
\nIan Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia<\/p>\n

Hua Kuo-fenj, chairman of Communist Party in People\u2019s Republic of China<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
\nJorge Rafael Videla, President of Argentina
\nAugusto Pinochet, President of Chile (by reference)
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nSimon Bolivar, liberator of South America<\/p>\n

John Van de Camp, L.A. District Attorney (by reference)
\nRichard Hongisto, San Francisco sheriff
\nOfficer Metzger, Oxnard, California police officer
\nAngela Davis, University professor, black activist
\nKilmer Myers, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California
\nRev. George Hunt, diocese executive officer
\nRandolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
\nElizabeth Taylor, American actress
\nMickey Spillane, American pulp writer
\nWilliam Shakespeare, British playwright
\nGeorge Meany, head of the AFL-CIO
\nDavis Fitzmorris\/David Morris, union rival to Meany
\nRandall Robinson, executive director to Trans-Africa lobby
\nFrancis Jay Crawford, International Harvester executive arrested and tried in Moscow
\nPareer Kinsauce (phonetic), Secretary General of World Federation of Trade Unions
\nJay Gillimut (phonetic), lawyer for WFTU
\nHabib Akur (phonetic), Secretary General of UGIT, unknown trade union<\/p><\/div>\n

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:<\/em><\/p>\n

Tim Stoen
\nLester Kinsolving, columnist, Peoples Temple antagonist
\n(various members of Kinsolving family)<\/div>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown:<\/em><\/p>\n

Vee Hollins
\nFlorida Johnson<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents:<\/em><\/p>\n

Garry Dartez Johnson, aka Poncho Johnson
\nIrra Johnson
\nJim McElvane
\nMary Rodgers
\nJohn Victor Stoen
\nChristine Cobb Young
\nRamona Young<\/div>\n

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

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

Jim Jones presents the news for September 4, 1978.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of longer pieces that Jones reads, such as news of their archenemy Lester Kinsolving, who was both defrocked as an Episcopal priest by the California diocese and stripped of his credentials by a press association in Washington, D.C. A second article, about an attack by a Communist group upon the Ku Klux Klan in Oxnard, California, also got a full reading. Both include periodic asides and comments.<\/p>\n

There are also a couple of occasions that Jones issues instructions and\/or warnings to Jonestown residents. The instructions are well known: people are to use their fly-swatters to kill both flies and mosquitoes; and people are to keep the community neat and tidy, since guests often pop in at any moment.<\/p>\n

Jones also demands the people turn in their tape recorders, as well as their tapes. Five of the recorders will be kept in the library, along with many of the tapes, \u201cso that people can check out music,\u201d but, he says, the rest of the recorders will be sold, ostensibly in Georgetown, where the Temple can raise 500 to 2000 dollars (Guyanese) apiece. This solution, Jones said, could not be more loving.<\/p>\n

The tape contains a more severe warning near its end, when Jones says he knows people are sending out codes in their letters. He suggests that those people confess to him, or else they will be brought up in People\u2019s Rally. \u201cWe know positively, you\u2019re trying to send out codes by the way you handle your letters,\u201d he says. \u201cWe know what you\u2019re up to, and we are good breakers of cryptic codes. So you better tell me now and explain why you did it. Because I know who did it. I have it right before my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But most of the tape is a rapid-fire reading of the news from around the world, as if he is reading from a teletype wire service, with short bulletins \u2013 many of them written as sentence fragments, often omitting nouns or verbs, and articles \u2013 and much repetition. Jones also uses the urgent voice of a war correspondent, with few inflections and few pauses between items. The result is a sometimes-disjointed presentation that is difficult to follow.<\/p>\n

It also means that some stories unfold more or less in real time, such as the report of a Rhodesian airliner that crashed, killing numerous people aboard. As the story develops, Jones informs the people of Jonestown that the plane may have been brought down by gunfire of black guerillas; by the end of the tape, he has reported that the guerillas have slain some, and possibly all, of the survivors. Moreover, Jones adds as the last news item of the day, the guerillas \u201cwould not give any apologies for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones does add his own commentary throughout the tape, however, including during his war correspondent mode, mostly in the form of adjectives \u2013 Israel is Zionist, American allies are fascist, American economic interests are monopoly capitalist \u2013 but the concern that he inserts throughout the tape is the reference to an impending nuclear war. Whether it\u2019s the stakes at Camp David, or in talks between high-ranking diplomats from the US and Soviet Union, or China\u2019s foreign policy, or West German apprehension of the Warsaw Pact, the default issue \u2013 often supplied by Jones himself \u2013 is the threat of thermonuclear holocaust.<\/p>\n

Most of the news which Jones reads comes from sources with a pro-Soviet tilt, including a substantial portion from Radio Moscow itself. Among the commentaries:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Chinese Communists are trying to impose their own brand of socialism \u201cfor the whole world\u201d;<\/li>\n
  • 97% of the Soviet people ratify a referendum supporting Moscow\u2019s basic foreign policy;<\/li>\n
  • The summit at Camp David will \u201cfrustrate a just settlement in the Middle East\u201d and result in the construction of a US military base in the Sinai;<\/li>\n
  • The strength of the Warsaw Pact encourages West Germany\u2019s desire to pull out of NATO, thus precluding war;<\/li>\n
  • Soviet missile platforms in space will be used for defensive purposes only;<\/li>\n
  • The US jams Radio Moscow broadcasts, fearing American embracing of Soviet ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Other items in the news:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • An American businessman goes on trial in the Soviet Union on currency violations;<\/li>\n
    • Carter wants to go slow on US-Soviet arms talks;<\/li>\n
    • The leader of Rhodesia\u2019s white minority government meets secretly with the opposition;<\/li>\n
    • Copper sales in Zambia drop;<\/li>\n
    • The Tanzanian government orders the ouster of a British-based mining company;<\/li>\n
    • The Israeli labor movement protests government support of South Africa;<\/li>\n
    • Syrians battle Israeli-backed militias in Beirut, Lebanon;<\/li>\n
    • An eight-month long general strike in Tunisia continues;<\/li>\n
    • The investiture of the new pope occurs with protests against Latin American dictators in attendance;<\/li>\n
    • Iceland creates a new coalition government;<\/li>\n
    • The 11-day strike of French flight controllers gains sympathy across Europe;<\/li>\n
    • American envoys try to relaunch peace talks in Cyprus;<\/li>\n
    • The number of political arrests grows in Nicaragua;<\/li>\n
    • George Meany faces challenges to his leadership of the AFL-CIO;<\/li>\n
    • Carter-backed legislation on natural gas deregulation faces opposition;<\/li>\n
    • Floods ravage India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

      Date of transcription: 6\/13\/79<\/p>\n

      In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

      On May 31, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-37. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

      Reverend JIM JONES\u2019 review of world news and current events.<\/p>\n

      This tape was reviewed and nothing was contained thereon which was considered to be of evidentiary nature or beneficial to the investigation of the murder of Congressman RYAN.<\/p>\n

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

      The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part “9\/4\/78 News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66034","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66034","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66034"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97701,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66034\/revisions\/97701"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}