The following I am fowarding because it brings some things into light I didn't know before, and, I haven't seen much circulating about it. I have just come from verifying some of the references listed in the following document. Any other info concerning this please send it to me. Thanx, Danny ---- The following article is taken from New Dawn magazine - a magazine exposing consensus reality and publishing suppressed information. 6 issue subscription for US$30 can be obtained from: GPO Box 3126FF, Melbourne, 3001, AUSTRALIA. JONESTOWN, THE CIA AND MIND CONTROL "When 912 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide in Guyana 15 years ago, people said it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing and never could happen again, but it has happened in Waco," states Boston "cult expert" John Gillespie. Until the Waco tragedy, self-proclaimed "cult experts" and the media routinely mentioned the ominous name of "Jonestown" in just about every story on the latest "religious cult" or community. But despite all the references, the reality of Jonestown and the reasons behind the bizarre events remain a mystery. The details have faded from memory for most of us since November 18, 1978, but not the outlines. Think back a moment and youll remember... You Know the Official Version... A fanatic religious leader in California led a multiracial community into the jungles of remote Guyana to establish a socialist utopia. The Peoples Temple, his church, was in the heart of San Francisco and drew poor people, social activists, Black and Hispanics, young and old. The message was racial harmony and justice, and a criticism of the hypocrisy of the world around his followers. The Temple rose in a vacuum of leadership at the end of an era. The political confrontations of the 1960s were almost over, and alternative religious movements and "personal transformation" were on the rise. Those who had preached a similar message on the political soap box were gone, burnt out, discredited, or dead. The counterculture had apparently degenerated into drugs and violence. Charlie Manson was the only visible image of the period. Suddenly, religion seemed to offer a last hope. Even before they left for the Jonestown site, the Peoples Temple members were subjects of scandalous attacks in the media. A veritable persecution campaign had been launched in the United States against Rev. Jim Jones and other members of the organisation. Fleeing the U.S., over one thousand members emigrated to Guyana in South America. Establishing "Jonestown" as a successful and prosperous community, these American families defied poverty and lack of rights that were their lot back home. This act of political protest, of a kind never known in the United States before, angered certain powerful elements in the U.S. Establishment. But accusations continued to be made about Jones, and these soon came to the attention of Congressional members like Leo Ryan. Ryan decided to go the Guyana and investigate the situation for himself. The nightmare began. Isolated on the tiny airstrip at Fort Kaituma, Ryan and several reporters in his group were murdered. Then came the almost unbelievable "White Night," a mass suicide pact of the Jonestown camp. A community made up mostly of Blacks and women drank cyanide from paper cups of Kool Aid, adults and children alike died and fell around the main pavilion. Jones himself was shot in the head, an apparent suicide. For days, the body count mounted, from 400 to nearly 1,000. The bodies were flown to the United States and later cremated or buried in mass graves. Pete Hammill called the corpses "all the loose change of the sixties." The effect was electric. Any alternative to the current system was seen as futile, if not deadly. Protest only led to police riots and political assassination. Alternative life styles led to drugs, "creepy crawly" communes and violent murders. And religious experiments led to cults and suicide. Social utopias were dreams that turned into nightmares. The television urged us to go back to "The Happy Days" of the apolitical 50s. The message was, get a job, and go back to the local church your grandparents attended. The unyielding nuclear threat generated only nihilism and hopelessness. There was no answer but death, no exit from the grisly future. The new ethic was personal success, aerobics, material consumption, a return to "American values"; and the "moral majority"; White, Christian world. The official message was clear. Suppose It Didnt Happen That Way... The headlines of the day of the massacre read, "CULT DIES IN SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE: 400 Die in Mass Suicide, 700 Flee into Jungle." By all accounts in the press, as well as Peoples Temple statements, there were at least 1,100 people at Jonestown. There were 809 adult passports found there, and reports of 300 children (276 found among the dead, and 210 never identified). The headline figures from the first day add to the same number, 1, 100. The original body count done by the Guyanese was 408. The final count, given almost a week later by American military authorities was 913. A total of 16 survivors were reported to have returned to the U.S. Where were the others? At their first press conference, the Americans claimed that the Guyanese "could not count". These local people had carried out the gruesome job of counting the bodies, and later assisted American troops in the process of poking holes in the flesh lest they explode from the gasses of decay. Then the Americans propose d another theory - they had missed seeing a pile of bodies at the back of the pavilion. The structure was the size of a small house, and they had been at the scene for days. Finally, we were given the official reason for the discrepancy - bodies had fallen on top of other bodies, adults covering children. It was a simple, if morbid arithmetic that led to the first suspicions. The 408 bodies discovered at first count would have to be able to cover 505 bodies for a total of 913. In addition, those who first worked on the bodies would have been unlikely to miss bodies lying beneath each other since each body had to be punctured. Eighty-two of the bodies first found were those of children, reducing the number that could have been hidden below others. A search of nearly 150 photographs, aerial and closeup, fails to show even one body lying under another, much less 500. It seemed the first reports were true, 400 had died, and 700 had fled to the jungle. The American authorities claimed to have searched for people who had escaped, but found no evidence of any in the surrounding area. At least a hundred Guyanese troops were among the first to arrive, and they were ordered to search the jungle for survivors. In the area, at the same time, British Black Watch troops were on "training exercises", nearly 600 of their best-trained commandos. Soon, American Green Berets were on site as well. The presence of these soldiers, specially trained in covert killing operations, may explain the increasing numbers of bodies that appeared. Most of the photographs show the bodies in neat rows, face down. There are few exceptions. Close shots indicate drag marks, as though the bodies were positioned by someone after death. Is it possible that the 700 who fled were rounded up by these troops, brought back to Jonestown and added to the body count? If so, the bodies would indicate the cause of death. A new word was coined by the media, "suicide-murder". But which was it? Autopsies and forensic science are a developing art. The detectives of death use a variety of scientific methods and clues to determine how people die, when they expire, and the specific cause of death. Dr. Mootoo, the top Guyanese pathologist, was at Jonestown within hours after the massacre. Refused the assistance of U.S. pathologists, he accompanied the teams that counted the dead, examined the bodies, and worked to identify the deceased. While the American press screamed about the "Kool-Aid Suicides", Dr. Mootoo was reaching a much different opinion. There are certain signs that show the types of poisons that lead to the end of life. Cyanide blocks the central nervous system. Even the "involuntary" function like breathing and heartbeat get mixed neural signals. It is a painful death, breath coming in spurts. The other muscles spasm, limbs twist and contort. The facial muscles draw back into a deadly grin, called "cyanide rictus". All these telling signs were absent in the Jonestown dead. Limbs were limp and relaxed, and the few visible faces showed no sign of distortion. Instead, Dr. Mootoo found fresh needle marks at the back of the left shoulder blades of 70-80% of the victims. Others had been shot or strangled. One survivor reported that those who resisted were forced by armed guards. The gun that reportedly shot Jim Jones was lying nearly 200 feet from his body, not a likely suicide weapon. As Chief Medical Examiner, his testimony to the Guyanese grand jury investigating Jonestown led to their conclusion that all but three of the people were murdered by "persons unknown". Only two had committed suicide they said. Several pictures show the gunshot wounds on the bodies as well. The U.S. Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Schuler, said, "No autopsies are needed. The cause of death is not an issue here." The forensic doctors who later did autopsies at Dover, Delaware, were never made aware of Dr. Mootoos findings. There are other indications that the Guyanese government participated with American authorities in a cover-up of the real story, despite their own findings. One good example was Guyanese Police Chief Lloyd Barker, who interfered with investigations, helped "recover" $2.5 million for the Guyanese government, and was often the first to officially announce the cover stories relating to suicide, body counts and survivors. Among the first to the scene were the wife of Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and his Deputy Prime Minister, Ptolemy Reid. They returned from the massacre site with nearly one million dollars in cash, gold and jewellery taken from the buildings and from the dead. Inexplicably, one of Burnhams political party secretaries had visited the site of the massacre only hours before it occurred. When Shirley Field Ridley, Guyanese Minister of Information announced the change in the body count to the shocked Guyanese parliament, she refused to answer any further q uestions. Other representatives began to point a finger of shame at Ridley and the Burnham government, and the local press dubbed the scandal "Templegate", and accused them of taking a ghoulish payoff. Perhaps, more significantly, the Americans brought in 16 huge C- 131 cargo planes, but claimed they could only carry 36 caskets in each one. These aircraft can carry tanks, trucks, troops, and ammunition all in one load. At the scene, bodies were stripped of identification, including the medical wrist tags visible in many early photos. Dust off operations during Vietnam clearly demonstrated that the military is capable of moving hundreds of bodies in a short period. Instead, they took nearly a week to bring back the Jonestown dead, bringing in the majority at the end of the period. The corpses, rotting in the heat, made autopsy impossible. At one point, the remains of 183 people arrived in 83 caskets. Although the Guyanese had identified 174 bodies at the site, only 17 (later 46) were tentatively identified at the massive military mortuary in Dover, Delaware. Isolated there, hundreds of miles from their families who might have visited the bodies at a similar mortuary in Oakland that was used during Vietnam, many of the dead were eventually cremated. Press was excluded, and even family members had difficulty getting access to the remains. Officials in New Jersey began to complain that state coroners were excluded, and that the military coroners appointed were illegally performing cremations. One of the top forensic body identification experts was denied repeated requests to assist. In December, the President of the National Association of Medical Examiners complained in an open letter to the U.S. military that they "badly botched" procedures. As noted, these military doctors were unaware of Dr. Mootoos conclusions. Several civilian pathology experts said they "shuddered at the ineptness", of the military, and that their autopsy method was "doing it backwards". But in official statements, the U.S. attempted to discredit the Guyanese grand jury findings, saying they had uncovered "few facts". Guyanese troops and police, who had arrived with American Embassy official Richard Dwyer, also failed to defend Congressman Leo Ryan and others who came to Guyana with him when they were shot down in cold blood at the Port Kaituma airstrip, even though the troops were nearby with machine guns at the ready. Although Temple member Larry Layton was charged with the murders of Congressman Ryan, Temple defector Patricia Parks, and press reporters Greg Robinson, Don Harris and Bob Brown, he was not in position to shoot them. Blocked from boarding Ryans twin engine Otter, he had entered another plane nearby. Once inside, he pulled out a gun and wounded two Temple followers, before being disarmed. [Later, Laytons own father called him "a robot" and relatives described how he was in a "posthypnotic trance".] The others were clearly killed by armed men who descended from a tractor trailer at the scene, after opening fire. Witnesses described them as "zombies," walking mechanically, without emotion, and "looking through you, not at you" as they murdered. Only certain people, like Ryans aide Jackie Speier, were not harmed further, but the killers made sure that Ryan and the newsmen were dead. In some cases they shot people, already wounded, directly in the head. At the Jonestown site, survivors described how a siren began to scream. The men rushed to the storeroom where they had hunting rifles and cross-bows. Meanwhile bursts of submachine-gun fire could be heard from the edge of Jonestown as "mercenaries" shot defenceless people. Agent provocateurs who had been infiltrated into Jonestown created panic in order to allow the trained and programmed killers, like the "zombies" who killed Ryan, to go about their murderous business. A special squad broke through to Jim Jones and killed him. After that the mass extermination of people began. When the last shots were fired, there were still several hundred left alive in the compound, mostly women, children and the elderly. They were assembled near the central pavilion so as to receive a "sedative". The "cocktail" took effect instantly as the first victims began to collapse and die. Now everybody understood the nature of the brew offered by the murderers. Some people began to resist taking the poison. They were shot at point blank range. Others had poison poured down their throat by force. The murderers also used ampule injectors. People were forced to lie on the ground with their faces down, and were then injected into their upper arms right through their clothes, an unlikely spot for a suicide shot. Most of those who had fled into the jungle were rounded up and killed. One survivor clearly heard a group of people cheering, 45 minutes after the massacre. Back in California, Peoples Temple members openly admitted that they feared they were targeted by a intelligence agency "hit squad", and the Temple was surrounded for some time by local police forces. Survivors included Mark Lane and Charles Garry, lawyers for Peoples Temple who managed to escape the massacre. In addition to the 16 who officially returned with the Ryan party, others managed to reach Georgetown and come back home. However, many of these people were later murdered. Jeannie and Al Mills, who intended to write a book about Jonestown, were murdered at home, bound and shot. Evidence indicates a connection between the Jonestown operation and the murders of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk by police agent Dan White. Moscone, a friend of Rev. Jones, was killed in his office a few days after the Guyana tragedy, thus preventing him from realising his plan to make a press statement on the true reasons behind the destruction of Jim Jones and his community. Another Jonestown survivor was shot near his home in Detroit by unidentified killers. Yet another was involved in a mass murder of school children in Los Angeles. Who Was Jim Jones? In order to understand the strange events surrounding Jonestown, we must begin with a history of the people involved. The official story of a "suicide cult" led by a religious fanatic adored by his idealistic followers, doesnt make sense in light of the evidence of murders, armed killers and autopsy cover-ups. If it happened the way we were told, there should be no reason to try to hide the facts from the public, and full investigation into the deaths at Jonestown, and the murder of Leo Ryan would have been welcomed. What did happen is something else instead. Jim Jones grew up in the grinding poverty of the Great Depression in the rural town of Lynn, southern Indiana. His friends found him a little strange as he was interested in preaching the Bible and in social justice issues. In the early 1950s, Jones graduated from Butler University and was ordained by a Christian denomination in Indianapolis. It was during this period that he met and married his lifelong mate, Marceline. He also had a small business to support his Christian ministry, selling monkeys, purchased from the research department at Indiana State University in Bloomington. A Charismatic evangelist and faith healer, Pastor Jones held revival tent meetings in Indiana. With his wife, Marceline, he adopted many children of different races. Because of his strong convictions and social activism, he and his family were the targets of intense harassment and racially-motivated violence. Seeking an atmosphere that would perhaps be more receptive to his outspoken work, Jim Jones moved to California and established the first Peoples Temple in Ukiah in 1965. There, despite continued harassment, Peoples Temple flourished and grew to thousands of members. Branches of the organisation were opened in several cities, and the work of rehabilitating drug addicts, finding jobs, and homes for destitute people, providing services for youth and the elderly went on in each area. Despite all this, Jones kept up a gruelling schedule of evangelistic rallies, speaking five or six times a week to thousands of people, mostly urban ghetto-dwellers, all across the state. Periodically he would journey across the United States holding revival meetings in a number of cities. Not a meeting went by that Rev. Jones did not integrate his Charismatic, revival gospel with a comprehensive expose of the smug corruption, blatant hypocrisy, and contradictions of the American system. He was scathing in his denunciation of the military-industrial complex, corporate greed, profiteering, the politics of neglect and genocide, and a host of other abuses both within the U.S. and around the world. He established a hard- hitting newspaper Peoples Forum that exposed U.S. corruption within, and U.S. imperialism without - and distributed each issue free to over half a million people. The foundation scripture of his ministry was Christs admonition recorded in "Matthew" chapter 25, verses 35-40. The Peoples Temple newspaper Peoples Forum revealed Pastor Jones perspective as well as some of his powerful enemies. An October, 1977 column titled "For the Ambitious, Curious, and Concerned" provides commentary on some of the topics the Establishment press prefers to pass over in silence. Among the questions raised here are the following: "The Rockefeller brothers: How they got their fortunes and increase them daily. Their influence over U.S. policy. How does Henry Kissinger, e.g. hop right over from being Secretary of State to become a Board member of the Chase Manhattan Bank." "The multinational corporations: By what network do they influence governmental decisions? Is it possible for any major decisions to be made independently of the corporate structure?" Many questions are related to the deteriorating conditions at home: "Schools: Why do they cost more and more and teach less and less? Why are colleges in deep financial trouble? What kind of job market are students facing and why?" "Prisons: Whats behind the push to build more of them? What is the extent of medical experimentation on prisoners? Psychosurgery?" "Medical care:....Is there any way to reverse the gigantic machinery which cuts anyone but the wealthy off from extended medical care? Who controls the nursing home circuits?" "Environmental controls: How widespread is: pollution? Lack of safety standards? Poisonous chemicals in food and other products?" Thus, it was by no means a "sect of religious fanatics advocating the cult of suicide" who published the newspaper Peoples Forum. There can be no doubt that the newspaper served as a vehicle for radical Christianity, as a mouthpiece of those who fought against the dictatorship of the monopolies and for freedom. As one letter to the Editor frankly stated, "The only crime Jim Jones is guilty of is bringing the poor together from various religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds." Early Converts Many professional people from stable family backgrounds were converted to Joness dynamic vision. During this time Timothy Stoen, a Stanford graduate and member of the city D.As office, the Layton family, Terri Buford and other important members joined the Temple. Bufords father was a Commander at the Philadelphia Navy Base for years. Larry Schact, later to become Jonestown medical superintendent, stated Jim Jones got him off drugs and into medical school during this period. George Blakey was from a wealthy, British family. He donated $60,000 to pay the lease on the 27,000-acre Guyana site in 1974. Lisa Phillips Layton had come to the U.S. from a rich Hamburg banking family in Germany. Many of the top lieutenants around Jones were from wealthy, educated backgrounds. For a number of years Stoen worked in close cooperation with Jones whom he followed to Guyana as the communitys legal adviser. It subsequently turned out that since his years at college Stoen had been a CIA agent and spent some time in West Germany on a CIA mission. In 1977, Stoens link to the CIA was exposed and he was expelled from the Jonestown community. Under instructions from the CIA, the agent provocateur set up and headed the so-called "Concerned Relatives" organisation. It demanded the liquidation of Jonestown. Jonestown survivor, JFK researcher and attorney, Mark Lane, writes in The Strongest Poison: "I believe Tim Stoen was a CIA operative, if not from the beginning, then certainly long before the end. Where was the money coming from to keep him on the Temples case full time with an office, to hire a private detective (Mazor), and a prominent San Francisco public relations firm (Lowery, Russom & Leeper) [a legal firm that fabricated suits and charges against the Peoples Temple] to work against the Temple. Where was the money coming from to send relatives and attorneys to Guyana and put them up in the best hotels while they did their dirty work? There was too much money behind Tim Stoen...Stoens announced goal was the destruction of Jim Jones and the Temple..." This period of rapid growth of the Peoples Temple also marked the end of an important political decade. Nixons election had ushered in a domestic intelligence war against the movements for peace, civil rights and social justice. Names like COINTELPRO, CHAOS, and OPERATION GARDEN PLOT or the HOUSTON PLAN made the news following in the wake of Watergate revelations. Senator Ervin called the White House plans against dissenters "fascistic." These operations involved the highest levels of military and civilian intelligence and all levels of police agencies in a full-scale attempt to discredit, disrupt and destroy the movements that sprang up in the 1960s. There are indications that these plans, or the mood they created, led to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, as unacceptable "Black Messiahs." One of the architects under then-Governor Reagan in California was the former Attorney General Edwin Meese. He coordinated OPERATION GARDEN PLOT for military intelligence and all police operations and intelligence in a period that was plagued with violations of civil and constitutional rights. Perhaps you can recall the police attacks on Peoples Park, the murder of many Black Panthers and activists, the infiltration of the Free Speech Movement and anti-war activity, and the experimentation on prisoners at Vacaville, or the shooting of George Jackson. Meese later bragged that this activity had damaged or destroyed the people he called "revolutionaries." This was also the period in which the CIA and its allies began to infiltrate the Peoples Temple. Michael Prokes was approached by a government agent and promised two-hundred dollars a week payment if he would join the full time staff of the Temple and spy on Jim Jones. Prokes joined the Temple in October 1972. Mark Lane relates how, during a visit to Jonestown on November 17, 1978, only days before the massacre, Mike Prokes confided to him that, "it would be a mistake for me to underestimate the duplicity and cleverness of the American intelligence agents. He said, on the eve of the destruction: 'I wouldnt be surprised if they have agents infiltrated in here and in San Francisco [Peoples Temple U.S. head office]'." (The Strongest Poison) Four months later, on March 13, 1979, Prokes called a press conference in a California hotel. To the assembled reporters he made available a forty-two-page statement and then silently rose, entering the bathroom behind him. He closed the door and shot himself. He was pronounced dead at a Modesto Hospital three hours later. "In both his oral and written statements to the press, he asserted: 'The truth about Jonestown is being covered up because our government agencies were involved in its destruction up to their necks. I am convinced of this because among many other reasons, I was an informant when I first joined the Peoples Temple.' "Prokes attached to that statement a four-page document in which he detailed his role as a government agent... All of this information was available to the reporters at the press conference... Among those Mike mailed his final statement to were: The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time. They, however, did not print a word from the statement. Not a single national daily in the United States, not a single magazine, radio or television company, not a single news agency made public what Mike Prokes had written in the last minutes of his life." (The Strongest Poison) Shortly before Jonestowns tragic end, the Peoples Temples leaders launched an open challenge against the U.S. authorities. On October 4, 1978, The San Francisco Examiner, and the next day The Sun Reporter announced that the Peoples Temple based in Guyana were going to file a multi-million-dollar suit against U.S. federal agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, Treasury Department, Post Office, and the Internal Revenue Service, within 90 days. The suit would charge, the newspaper said, the agencies of being involved in a government-inspired plot to destroy Jonestown. The suit potentially threatened to cause great embarrassment to the White House, the State Department and the U. S. intelligence community. When, 45 days after the publication of the news of the forthcoming suit, the majority of Jonestowns residents were murdered, the question of the law suit was removed from the agenda. Under pressure from influential relatives of some of the members of the Peoples Temple and responding to the slanders of Rev. Jones in the press, Congressman Leo Ryan took a personal interest in Jonestown. Ryan had some years previous fallen out with the U.S. intelligence community. The CIA was displeased with him because in 1974 he and Senator Hughes had moved an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act which was to limit the CIAs operations outside the United States. Later CIA operative Tim Stoen would complain to Ryan about custody of his step son, who was living with Jones, and urge him to visit the commune. Against advice of friends and staff members, Ryan decided to take a team of journalists to Guyana and seek the truth of the situation. Some feel that Ryans journey there was planned and expected, and used as a convenient excuse to set up his murder. The CIA and MK-ULTRA Significantly, the press and other evidence did indicate the presence of a senior CIA agent on the scene at the time of the massacre. This man, Richard Dwyer, was working as Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Guyana. Identified in Whos Who in the CIA, he has been involved with the agency since 1959. Present at Jonestown and the airport strip, his accounts were used by the State Department to confirm the death of Leo Ryan. Other Embassy personnel, who knew the situation at Jonestown well, were also connected to intelligence work. U.S. Ambassador John Burke, who served in the CIA with Dwyer in Thailand, was an Embassy official described by Philip Agee as working for the CIA since 1963. Burke tried to stop Ryans investigation. Also at the Embassy was Chief Consular officer Richard McCoy, who worked for military intelligence and was "on loan" from the Defense Department at the time of the massacre. According to a standard source, "The Embassy in Georgetown housed the Georgetown CIA station. It now appears that the majority and perhaps all of the Embassy officials were CIA officers operating under State Department covers..." Dan Webber, who was sent to the site of the massacre the day after, was also named as CIA. The direct orders to cover up the cause of death came from the top levels of the American government. Zbigniew Brzezinski delegated to Robert Pastor, and he in turn ordered Lt. Col. Gordon Sumner to strip the bodies of identity. Pastor was Deputy Director of the CIA under Reagan. One can only wonder how many others tied to the Jonestown massacre were similarly promoted. Almost everywhere you look at Jonestown, U.S. intelligence rears its ugly head. "(The) possibility is that Jonestown was a mass mind-control experiment by the CIA as part of its MK-ULTRA program," declared Ryans friend and aid, Joseph Holsinger, in response to reports of the involvement of senior CIA agents in the tragedy. A close study of Senator Ervins 1974 intelligence report, "Individual Rights and the Governments Role in Behaviour Modification", shows that the CIA and military intelligence had certain "target populations" in mind, for both individual and mass control. Blacks, women, prisoners, the elderly, the young, and inmates of psychiatric wards were selected as "potentially violent". There were plans in California at the time for a "Centre for the Study and Reduction of Violence", expanding on the horrific work of Dr. Jose Delgado, Drs. Mark and Ervin, and Dr. Louis Jolyn West, experts in implantation, psychosurgery and tranquillizers. The history of MK-ULTRA and its sister programs (ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, etc.) records a combination of drugs, drug mixtures, electro-shock and torture as methods for control. The desired results ranged from temporary and permanent amnesia, uninhabited confessions, and creation of second personalities, to programmed assassins and pre-conditioned suicidal urges. One goal was the ability to control mass populations especially for cheap labor. Dr. Delgado told Congress that he hoped for a future where a technology would control workers in the field and troops at war with electronic remote signals. He found it hard to understand why people would complain about electrodes implanted in their brains to make them "both happy and productive". Along with the notorious MK-ULTRA-linked psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, Rabbi Maurice Davis is involved in an advisory capacity with the Cult Awareness Network. The Rabbi worked closely with Dr. Harris Isbell in the Lexington, Kentucky federal prison. This MK-ULTRA program included the intentional administering of LSD to federal prisoners to evaluate the drugs use in mind control and modification. It may be more than a strange coincidence that Rabbi Davis arranged for Jim Jones to use an empty synagogue in Indianapolis for his early activities. In a further cruel irony, Louis Jolyon West received the Cult Awareness Networks 1990 "Leo J. Ryan Award", in recognition of his work against "religious cults". Joyce Shaw, who spent six years in the Temple but left before the move to Guyana, wondered if the reported "mass suicide" story was a cover for "some kind of horrible government experiments, or some sort of sick, racist thing..." Were the residents of Jonestown the victims of an elaborate U.S. government plot, as their leaders publicly claimed only weeks before their murder? Was the CIA, through its agents within the Peoples Temple, actively involved in subverting the community in a bizarre MK-ULTRA mind control experiment? On the evening of November 18, the Soviet Consul in Guyana was approached by two extremely agitated members of the Peoples Temple. One of them told him she had received news from Jonestown, "Something terrible is going on there. I dont yet know the details, but the life of all commune members is in danger. The settlement is surrounded by armed men. Something has happened to Ryan. He was attacked by some unknown men when he was returning to Georgetown." The Consul relates in the book The Jonestown Carnage, how returning home that evening his wife told him that Jim Joness assistant, Sharon Amos, had called from the Temple office in Georgetown. "Sharon was weeping and said that Jonestown had been surrounded by armed men. In spite of the poor reception she had received a radiogram which said that military helicopters were circling over the settlement. 'Help us!' she screamed. 'Jonestown is being destroyed! They wont spare anyone! Somebody is trying to get into my flat. Do something! Save us!' Then they were cut off. My wife immediately phoned the Guyanese police and was told that a reinforced police detachment had been sent to the Amos home. But it was too late. Amos and her three children were dead. They were slaughtered by Blakey who was also a CIA agent infiltrated into the Jones organisation. Later he was declared insane, and then vanished from view. That terrible night of the 18th to the 19th of November was the scene of a monstrous massacre." On November 19 the Timehri airport in Guyana was unusually busy and crowded with American servicemen. Standing on the runway was a giant S-141 aircraft of the U.S. airforce out of which American troops were unloading disassembled helicopters, jeeps, and some small armaments. The bewildered Guyanese soldiers and officials stood by speechless. One airport employee said he did not know why a U.S. military plane was at a Guyanan civil airport. Nobody knew why it had landed. That was not the first plane to have arrived that day, the airport employee stated. The Aftermath Operations aimed at mass extermination of civilians in different countries have been widely practised by the CIA as a means of attaining political goals. Over the last 25 years alone the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has undertaken over 900 major secret operations and several thousand smaller-scale terrorist actions. One such operation, carried out in Vietnam under the code name Phoenix, took about 80,000 lives. What makes the carnage in Guyana so different from other CIA crimes is that its victims were not foreigners; they were Americans who had left their home country because they did not want to live under the U.S. socio-political system. To this day, the mass murder of hundreds of U.S. citizens in Jonestown has never been investigated by U.S. authorities and the perpetrators of the crime have been neither identified nor punished. Yet, Jonestown is deeply etched into the religious and social history of the modern world. The media routinely reminds us of the dangers of sinister Peoples Temple like "Armageddon cults" and "Bible-based suicide sects". Jim Jones is remembered as the sinister "Bible-thumper" and evil demagogue who led his brainwashed followers to a bizarre mass suicide. This is, of course, the Establishment view. The image that psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West and his friends in the Cult Awareness Network do not want us to forget. "Jonestown," wrote Jonathan Vankin, "bloomed in the moral and spiritual abyss of the 1970s...its members were said to be brainwashed - living proof that human beings were just so much wire and circuitry. Cult members were often kidnapped back by their families. The hired kidnappers were called 'deprogrammers'. They might better have been called 'reprogrammers'." (Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes) However, the Peoples Temple was not some strange, fringe-dwelling "cult" and Jim Jones was not a small time preacher and part time hustler. Back on March 31, 1977, journalist Bob Levering wrote the following in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, before most of the members moved to Guyana: "The biggest religion story these days is the phenomenon of Peoples Temple...that has been in San Francisco less than five years but has already become the largest single Protestant congregation in the state (more than 20,000 members), participating in activities as diverse as supporting the tenants at the International Hotel (more than 3000 church members turned out for a demonstration last January) and publishing...the monthly Peoples Forum (they distribute between 600,000 and 1,000, 000 copies to every neighbourhood in San Francisco)...The church. ..also has a free meals program...It conducts a massive human service program including...its own medical and legal clinics, a home for mentally disabled children and four nursing homes..." The propaganda cover-up for the massacre of Jonestown was provided by the U.S. intelligence agencies version of "the suicide of religious fanatics." The real tragedy of Jonestown is not only that it occurred, but that so few chose to ask themselves why or how, so few sought to find out the facts behind the bizarre tale used to explain away the deaths of more than 900 people, and that so many will continue to be blind to the grim reality of our intelligence agencies. In the long run, the truth will come out. Only our complicity in the deception continues to dishonour the dead. PSYOPS- HTTP://WWW.TELEPORT.COM/~WALTER