{"id":90447,"date":"2019-06-26T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90447"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:27:21","slug":"q201-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90447","title":{"rendered":"Q201 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 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 \u201cAug 9, 1978\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

Public figures\/National and international names:<\/em>
\nJimmy Carter, U.S. President
\nCyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
\nWarren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State
\nAlfred Atherton, special envoy to Middle East
\nGeorge Wallace, former Alabama governor<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, German Fuhrer
\nCharles de Gaulle, former President of France
\nPope Paul VI, recently deceased pope
\nLord David Owen, foreign secretary of Britain [by reference]
\nMenachim Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
\nAnwar Sadat, President of Egypt
\nJoshua Nkomo, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nRobert Mugabe, leader of Zimbabwean Patriotic Front in Rhodesia
\nIan Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
\nBishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of Zimbabwe independence
\nMobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire
\nMohammed Siad Barre, President of Somalia
\nHafizullah Amin, Afghan politician<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Huang Hua, Chinese Foreign Minister
\nSunao Sonoda, Japanese Foreign Minister
\nTatsuo Murayama, Japanese Finance Minister [by reference]
\nKim Il-sung, President of North Korea
\nAhmed Sekou Toure, Guinean president [by reference]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana
\nVibert Mingo, Guyana minister of home affairs [by reference]
\nRoy Alexander Cush, Guyana reporter<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Natan Sharansky, convicted Soviet spy
\nYuri Orlov, Soviet dissident
\nAlexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident
\nDaniel Ellsberg, Defense Department worker who leaked Pentagon Papers
\nRudyard Kipling, poet<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Temple members not in Jonestown\/ not on survivors\u2019 or death lists:<\/em>
\nNorman [likely Ijames]<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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

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

Jim Jones reads the news for August 9, 1978.<\/p>\n

Jones opens with an urgent message for Jonestown residents to clean up the community. With the approaching nuclear war, he says, many more people will want to come to Jonestown, and he wishes to give socialism a good name. Both of the themes \u2013 the need to keep the community clean, and the approaching nuclear war \u2013 are raised several times.<\/p>\n

The reading is significantly more animated \u2013 sometimes playful, sometimes sardonic, sometimes presented as a performance \u2013 than other addresses from this period. At one point, for example, when discussing Carter\u2019s invitation to Mideast leaders for talks, he adds, \u201cI think we\u2019ve been given that before. They\u2019ll be meeting at the lovely estate outside of Washington, Camp David, where there\u2019s been more sellouts than I\u2019ve got fingers and toes and sperm in my testicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, in dissecting an interview which Voice of America conducted with Alabama governor George Wallace, Jones effects a fake Southern drawl to mimic the man he considers a racist and a fascist.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of pieces of news that directly affect the Jonestown community. In one, Jones reports that the Guyana government has granted him the right to travel \u2013 including the right to return to Jonestown \u2013 so that he may go someplace for an unspecified \u201coperation.\u201d That trip never took place.<\/p>\n

Jones also announces that the Jonestown school will not have to take anyone from the outside. \u201cThat was a breakthrough,\u201d he says. They do bring Guyanese people in, he adds, but they can\u2019t take any more \u201cuntil we got our [own] people to freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the profile on Wallace, Jones reads several other articles of some length, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A conference of non-aligned nations resists attempts to interject imperialist politics, and rebuffs efforts to attack or criticize Cuba;
\n\u2022 China builds communes to house and care for its senior citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shorter stories include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A peace treaty between Japan and China will not include an anti-hegemony clause;
\n\u2022 Chinese leaders on world tour seek to implement Doctrine of Three Worlds<\/a>;
\n\u2022 Border riots break out between Vietnam and China;
\n\u2022 Pope Paul VI will be buried within several days;
\n\u2022 Work slowdown at Paris airports impact US vacationers;
\n\u2022 Joshua Nkomo says only force of guns will wipe out racism in Africa;
\n\u2022 Zimbabweans are accused of enslaving youth into terrorist armies;
\n\u2022 Rhodesian judge imposes light sentence on black men for refusing military service;
\n\u2022 South African police decline to enforce some apartheid laws;
\n\u2022 South Africa opposes UN resolution on Namibia;
\n\u2022 Zaire and Angola plan to reopen the Benguela Railway between the two countries;
\n\u2022 Guinea vows to reduce dependency on foreign governments;
\n\u2022 Guadaloupe citizens bristle under second-class status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Date of transcription: 7\/25\/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 26, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B69-27. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Announcements by JIM JONES re miscellaneous items and news about topics such as:<\/p>\n

1. China \u2013 Great Britain Coal Mine Treaty
\n2. Egypt\/Israel Relations
\n3. Japan\/China Friendship Treaty
\n4. Japan\/USA Exchange Rate
\n5. Viet Nam\/China Border Conflict
\n6. Pope Paul VI
\n7. Governor WALLACE
\n8. Rhodesia
\n9. Voice of America
\n10. Guinea
\n11. OPEC
\n12. China \u2013 Libya Treaty
\n13. South Africa
\n14. Radio Moscow<\/p>\n

In additiona [addition], JONES also talks about GUINEA, Human Rights, and Chinese Peasants.<\/p>\n

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

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

Tape originally posted June 2019.<\/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,\u00a0Pt. 2). To return to the Tape Index, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled in part \u201cAug 9, 1978\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90447","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=90447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130912,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90447\/revisions\/130912"}],"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=90447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}