{"id":66827,"date":"2016-05-02T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66827"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:10:24","slug":"q317-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66827","title":{"rendered":"Q317 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>).
To return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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

Date cues on tape: <\/strong>Context of tape consistent with tape identification note<\/p>\n

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

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

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nVladimir Lenin, father of Russian Revolution
\nFidel Castro, leader of Cuba
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nAugusto Pinochet, military ruler of Chile<\/p>\n

Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.)
\nThomas Dawsey, electronics engineer from Mississippi
\nLeon Joly, electronics engineer from Mississippi
\nUnita Blackwell Wright, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nCheddi Jagan, leader of People\u2019s Progressive Party, Guyana opposition party (by reference)
\nJanet Jagan, wife of Cheddi Jagan<\/p>\n

David Conn, Elder in Disciples of Christ denomination, Jones critic
\nDon Freed, author and screenwriter
\nCharles Garry, Temple attorney
\nMark Lane, Temple attorney
\nJoe Mazor, private detective hired by Concerned Relatives (by reference)<\/p>\n

Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy
\nGabriele D\u2019Annunzio, Italian poet, associated with Fascists
\nAdolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nBretzler (first name unknown), early German Nazi leader
\nHanns Johst, German playwright (by reference)
\nFrederick Nietzsche, German philosopher
\nJoseph Arthur D. Gobineau, French writer who developed theory of Aryan master race
\nKarl Haushufer, German general who influenced Hitler
\nPaul von Hindenburg, President of Germany in 1920s
\nKaiser Wilhelm II, German leader in World War I
\nMarinus van der Lubbe, accused in setting Reichstag fire of 1933 (by reference)
\nErnst Thaelmann, leader of German Communist party
\nAlfonso XIII, King of Spain
\nJose Antonio Primo de Rivera, president of Spanish Falange movement
\nAntonio Goicoechea, Alfonsine monarchist during Second Spanish Republic
\nCalvo Sotelo, Spanish politician during Second Spanish Republic
\nJose Sanjurjo, General in Spanish Civil War
\nFrancisco Franco, Spanish dictator
\nPablo de la Torriente Brau, war correspondent in Spanish Civil War
\nAntonio Machado, Spanish poet
\nVictor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
\nGiacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist politician
\nPius XI, pope during 1920s and 1930s (by reference)
\nOscar Fragoso Cramona, President of Portugal (1926-1951)
\nOliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal
\nNeville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
\nOswald Mosley, English politician, leader of Fascists
\nAntanas Smetona, Lithuanian Fascist dictator
\nKarlis Ulmanis, Latvian Fascist dictator
\nKonstantin Pats, Estonian Fascist dictator
\nGeneral Ioannis Metaxas, Greek Fascist dictator
\nJozef Pilsudski, Polish Fascist dictator
\nMiklos Horthy, Hungarian Fascist dictator
\nFrancois de la Rocque, French Fascist leader
\nJacques Doriot, French collaborationist
\nEngelbert Dollfuss, Austrian leaders assassinated by Fascists
\nPlinio Salgado, Brazilian Fascist leader
\nEva Peron, Brazilian leader<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Jim Cobb
\nDeanna Mertle
\nTim Stoen<\/div>\n

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

Chris Lewis<\/div>\n

 
\nJonestown residents:<\/em><\/p>\n

Carolyn Layton
\nDon Sly<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited<\/strong>: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot here that wouldn\u2019t know the truth, and until you know the truth, you never can know how to become free.\u201d (John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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

Joseph Mazor<\/a> \u2013 the private investigator once hired by Concerned Relatives, and now supposedly an ally of Peoples Temple after his disenchantment with the oppositional group \u2013 is on his way to Jonestown. The man may be a double agent and\/or a provocateur, says Jim Jones, who still could be \u201cplaying both sides.\u201d Jones has previously given instructions on how the community is to receive him, but \u201cthe airplane [bringing Mazor] \u2026 is now in the air, for Guyana from New York,\u201d and Jones reiterates what he has said before. Residents are to smile and be polite, to express their love for the community, and to deny any desire to return to the U.S., but they are not to engage in serious conversation with the man, because they are liable to be taken in.<\/p>\n

Jones also insists that everyone work as hard as they can to beautify the place before their guest arrives. He is especially displeased by people just standing around. \u201cThere\u2019s \u2026 a lot of things that has to be finished, a lot of questions that have to be answered, and I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s no way for rest.\u201d He asks Jonestown administrators \u2013 the heads of various departments \u2013 to go around to the houses and cottages, and roust those who are idling, \u201cbecause this is ridiculous, they just walk along nonchalantly, \u2026 like they have nothing to do, when we\u2019ve got our people\u2019s lives to think about, getting them to freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The majority of the tape is devoted to a reading of a long article on the origins of fascism and its role in 20th century world history. There are a few editorial comments and asides which are familiar to everyone in the community \u2013 capitalists always betray capitalists; the use of taxpayer dollars to support rightwing regimes should cause everyone to feel guilt; the US itself is close to fascism, including its practice of gathering minority populations in concentration camps<\/a> \u2013 but there is only one reference to death.<\/p>\n

In describing the \u201cexaltation of war\u201d as part of the Fascist ideology, Jones notes that the cult of fascist heroism prepares people with \u201cthe readiness to die in wars of conquest.\u201d He then makes his own observation that, \u201cUnfortunately, some socialists that I know around here are not even prepared to die for liberation of other people.\u201d<\/p>\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 June 1, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-58. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

JAMES JONES tells people what to say when visitors arrive in Jonestown. (i. e. “\u2018I love it here. Don\u2019 t want to go back to USA.”)<\/p>\n

News of the day and commentary by JAMES JONES<\/p>\n

A speech by JAMES JONES on the origins and meaning of Fascism.<\/p>\n

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

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tape originally posted May 2016<\/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: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part “9\/9\/78 Sat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66827","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=66827"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111874,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66827\/revisions\/111874"}],"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=66827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}