{"id":66838,"date":"2016-05-02T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66838"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:09:49","slug":"q354-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66838","title":{"rendered":"Q354 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> Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part “Sept 11, 78 News”<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong> Part II of tape consistent with identification label<\/p>\n

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

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

Part I:<\/strong>
\nKarl Marx, German economist, father of communism
\nVladimir Ilich Lenin, father of Russian Revolution
\nMao Tse-tung, leader of People\u2019s Republic of ChinaM\u00e1rio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, prime minister of Portugal Luis Sisa [phonetic]. Portuguese Agriculture MinisterAnastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
\nJuan Pereda, military general and dictator of Bolivia
\nVictor Paz Estenssoro, former president of Bolivia
\nHernan Siles Zuazo, former president of Bolivia
\nAugusto Pinochet, military ruler of Chile
\nOrlando Letelier, assassinated Chilean ambassador to US
\nRonni Moffitt, assassinated aide to Orlando Letelier
\nGustavo Leigh, member of Chilean junta, forced from power
\nRaul Vergara, Chilean military officer, forced from powerAgostinho Neto, President of Angola
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Marcos, president of Philippines [by reference]
\nImelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand Marcos [by reference]<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, prime minister of Guyana [by reference]
\nPtolemy Reid, deputy prime minister of Guyana<\/p>\n

Charles Garry, Temple attorney<\/p>\n

Part II:<\/strong>
\nMartin Luther King, civil rights activist
\nCharles Garry, Temple attorney
\nCarlton Goodlett, San Francisco physician, newspaper publisher
\nJoe Mazor, private detective who left Concerned Relatives<\/p>\n

President Jimmy Carter
\nSenator John Stennis (D-Miss.)
\nUnita Blackwell Wright, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi [by reference]
\nThomas Dawsey, Air Force officer who allegedly spied on Temple [by reference]
\nLeon Joly, Air Force officer who allegedly spied on Temple [by reference]<\/p>\n

Vibert Mingo, Minister of Home Affairs of Guyana [by reference]
\nDr. Patrick Ng-a-Fook, Guyanese dentist [by reference]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Part II:<\/strong>
\nMarceline Jones [by reference]<\/div>\n

Bible verses cited:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n

Summary:
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\nThis tape consists of two distinct parts, with the second being of more significance (and also more closely matching the date on the Temple\u2019s own identification note).<\/p>\n

The second part was recorded as a series of messages to the Jonestown community during the final hours in early September 1978 before the arrival of Joe Mazor<\/a>, a private detective who had once been employed by the Concerned Relatives before he decided to throw his allegiance to the people of Jonestown. Because of this flip \u2013 and because of the man\u2019s shady background, including stints with covert operations \u2013 Jones is concerned that Mazor may not be who he says he is. He is coming to Jonestown ostensibly to reveal the details of the conspiracy against them, but \u201che easily could be a double agent.\u201d Jones doesn\u2019t trust the man, and neither \u2013 according to Jones \u2013 does the government of Guyana, which has spent time with him in the previous few days.<\/p>\n

Jones reiterates the messages of the past few weeks, ever since they knew of Mazor\u2019s impending arrival: be warm and friendly, but don\u2019t initiate conversations. Tell him how much you love Jonestown and the host country of Guyana, how you came of your own free will, and how you don\u2019t want to return to the US.<\/p>\n

There are new concerns that arise as the hour draws near. Mazor may be wearing a microphone \u2013 he might also be carrying drugs to plant, in an effort to discredit the community \u2013 and Jones ponders aloud whether they should search him. They have never done this before with any previous visitor, but surely, given Mazor\u2019s own admissions of working with the CIA, he would understand and accede to the request. In the next message, the concern has migrated from a hidden microphone to the contents of a satchel. Mazor has already turned down a request for permission to look in it \u2013 whether the request was by Guyana or by Temple headquarters in Georgetown is unknown \u00ac\u2013 but they have to decide what to do. In the next message, Jones has a compromise solution: ask Mazor to leave the unopened satchel in the possession of their attorney, Charles Garry, who has helped arrange for Mazor to come.<\/p>\n

Part I of the tape was likely made considerably earlier \u2013 perhaps days, more likely several weeks \u2013 than the second half. The news items include references to events that have been planned for early September, and his description of a three-week-old general strike in Nicaragua that began in mid-July would put the news portion of the tape in early August.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 voice deteriorates throughout this portion of the tape, becoming more slurred and disjointed, and towards the end, he reads the same words over and over, seemingly without awareness that he is repeating himself. He says early in the tape that he didn\u2019t sleep the night before and is \u201creally feeling it,\u201d but by the end of this portion, he says he has been up for several nights in a row, that he has a temperature of 103, and that he has a \u201claryngitic voice.\u201d At the beginning, he is able to strike a defiant tone along with his announcement of his fatigue \u2013 \u201cBut I\u2019ll come through, don\u2019t you worry\u201d \u2013 but by the end, he has admitted that, \u201cI am so tired, that I feel almost like going to sleep while giving the news.\u201d<\/p>\n

His tone of a disapproving father appears elsewhere in the tape as well, especially at the beginning. Following a news item about students in Chile demonstrating against the military junta, he remarks that he knows people in Jonestown are eager to fight in revolutions \u2013 and that revolutionary leaders in other nations are aware of the offer \u2013 but \u201c[i]n the meantime, if you can\u2019t do a few little chores right, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re ready for the kind of resistance that these brave young people showed in Chile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 preoccupation with nuclear war manifests itself once. A news item about the Laotian government declaring its support for Vietnam \u2013 and by extension, sympathizing with Vietnam\u2019s rivalry with its longtime foe of China \u2013 leads Jones to reflect on Chinese communism. It has a good domestic form of communism, Jones says, \u201cbut her foreign policy is based on an arbitrary position, that there is no way to avoid nuclear war, so you should get it [over] with so that places like this that have been called zones of peace will survive and socialism can rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other news items:<\/p>\n