{"id":66039,"date":"2016-02-11T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66039"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:14:50","slug":"q342-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66039","title":{"rendered":"Q342 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 note: <\/strong>Labeled in part “Wed News 9\/6\/78”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent with note<\/p>\n

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

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

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nRichard Nixon, former U.S. President
\nRep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Penn.)
\nRep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.)
\nBert Lance, Director of Office of Management and Budget
\nMalcolm Toom, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (by reference)<\/p>\n

Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of United Nations
\nJames Callaghan, Prime Minister of Great Britain
\nMargaret Thatcher, leader of Conservative Party in Great Britain
\nFeodor Timofeyev, Consular of Soviet Union embassy in Guyana (by reference)<\/p>\n

Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nKing Hussein of Jordan
\nKriangsak Chomanan, Prime Minister of Thailand (by reference)
\nSuharto, President of Indonesia
\nSukarno, former President of Indonesia (by reference)<\/p>\n

Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
\nForbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nPtolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Marie Haydee Ann Beltran Torres, leader of Puerto Rican FALN
\nCarlo Alberto Torres, leader of Puerto Rican FALN
\nOscar Lopez Rivera, leader of Puerto Rican FALN<\/p>\n

Francis Jay Crawford, International Harvester executive arrested and tried in Moscow
\nHuey Newton, leader of Black Panther Party
\nDaniel Ellsberg, Defense Department worker who leaked Pentagon Papers
\nPhilip Agee, former CIA agent, critic of agency
\nRichard Hammerschlag, doctor at University of Calif.
\nKathleen Sullivan Alioto, wife of Mayor Alioto, political candidate (by reference)
\nJoseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco<\/p>\n

Katy Butler, reporter for San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>
\nJoe Mazor, private detective hired by Concerned Relatives
\nCharles Garry, attorney for Peoples Temple (by reference)
\nMark Lane, attorney for Peoples Temple
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter<\/div>\n

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

Mike Cartmell<\/div>\n

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:<\/em><\/p>\n

Bruce (several, likely Oliver)
\nTom (numerous Tom and Thomas; likely Grubbs)<\/div>\n

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

Mary Baldwin
\nTeresa King (by reference)
\nJoyce Touchette<\/div>\n

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

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

Several sets of visitors are scheduled to come into Jonestown over the next few days \u2013 Guyana government officials, possibly as soon as the next day; a delegation from the Soviet Union; and Joe Mazor, the former conspirator who has switched sides and is now working in support of the Temple community \u2013 and Jim Jones wants to be sure people know what to say (and even more importantly, what not to say) to the various groups. These elaborate sets of instructions weave around each other as they highlight the last third of this tape which, up to that point, has been a straightforward news tape for September 6, 1978.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union has offered an opportunity to the people of Jonestown to emigrate to that Communist nation, because the Soviets have been impressed with the community as<\/em> a community. Jones characterizes the offer as an \u201cinvitation\u201d and as an \u201copen door\u201d that they can decide whether or not to accept, but \u201cit\u2019s good to know that that alternative exists.\u201d They serve as a model for how socialism can truly work, Jones says, and the Soviets see the advantage of letting them stay together. \u201cThey might well name it Jonestown.\u201d Still, it\u2019s important that they all show their willingness to make that commitment, so when the delegation arrives, the people are to smile, to use the Russian they\u2019ve learned \u2013 Jones gives them several phrases \u2013 and of course to keep Jonestown \u201cin apple pie order for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are also to keep the place picked up for the Guyana government representatives. In addition, they are to praise the political party of the prime minister, they are supposed to say they love it in Guyana, and they are to smile. If they end up leaving the country, they want to make their exit as graceful and respectful as possible. In the meantime, they are to say nothing about the Soviets.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Joe Mazor, whom Jones has not decided if he trusts completely, since he might be a double agent. \u201cWe want to be damn sure \u2013 damn sure \u2013 that we know what this man\u2019s up to, and we\u2019ll watch him like a hawk.\u201d Again, they are to smile; again, they are to say nothing about the possible move to the USSR. In fact, they are to say nothing to him except hello, and to answer whatever questions Mazor puts to them in completely positive terms. Yes, they love Jonestown; no, they do not want to return to the US.<\/p>\n

Throughout the instructions, Jones warns them not to \u201cscrew it up, don\u2019t shit in your nest\u2026 [Y]ou better do what I\u2019m telling you, or all hell to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news portion of this tape is similar to others. He continually inserts unflattering characterizations of the United States, which, as he says at one point, is ruled by \u201cthe interests of the wealthy, bloodthirsty vultures of the ruling class of monopoly capitalism have been draining all of our brothers, sisters in the Third World nations.\u201d While some of the descriptors undoubtedly appear in the pro-Soviet news sources he uses most often for his news, many of them are ones he provides himself.<\/p>\n

This is most apparent when his reading of an item is interrupted, and he repeats it a moment later. In discussing the release of the Pentagon Papers, he initially says its \u201cexposure was possible only when a section of the ruling class itself opposed the war for its own reasons, that they were not making enough money from Southeast Asia.\u201d A moment later, the release has been transformed into \u201can exposure [which] was possible only when a section of the fascist ruling class of capitalism that is destroying USA, itself opposed the war for its own reasons, that the big military-industrial complex personnel and alliances did not have any more profit to be gained from Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tape opens with the reading of a lengthy article about the fiction of media objectivity and the U.S. government\u2019s \u201cnecessity of ideological control over the organs of information and persuasion that mold the political opinions of the masses.\u201d Other items in the news include:<\/p>\n