Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category

Decadent Worker #65 - 19Aug87

Decadent Worker 65“February, 1974: Mafia Hearst’s daughter Patty ‘kidnapped’ by Lipeet’s SLA in a fake terrorist action./Martin Luther King’s mother was murdered by a black student, a self declared ‘Israelite’ — ‘acting alone’ who was escorted to the church by somebody — and who had a list of other mothers as targets. Next day, the target, Shirley Chisholm, got the message and rushed to sign off on the DNC suit against CREEP naming Francis L. Dale, SHE HAD BEEN THE LAST HOLD OUT.” — Bruce Roberts, The Gemstone Files

“Another important figure in the murder of Martin Luther King was his mother, Alberta. A few weeks after the first public announcement by Coretta Scott King that she believed her husband’s murder was part of a conspiracy, Mrs. Alberta King was brutally shot to death in Atlanta, while attending church services. Anyone who had seen the physical wounds suffered by King might have been an adverse witness to the official version, since the wound angles did not match the ballistic direction of a shot from the rooming house. Her death also closely coincided with the reopening of the Tennessee state court review of Ray’s conviction based on a guilty plea…

“The man convicted of shooting King’s mother was Marcus Wayne Chenault. His emotional affect following the murder was unusual, grinning, he asked if he had hit anyone. He had reportedly been dropped off at the church by people he knew in Ohio. While at Ohio State University, he was part of a group known as ‘The Troop,’ run by a Black minister and gun collector who used the name Rabbi Emmanuel Israel. This man, described in the press as a ‘mentor’ for Chenault, left the area immediately after the shooting. In the same period, Rabbi Hill traveled from Ohio to Guyana and set up Hilltown, using similar aliases, and preaching the same message of a ‘Black Hebrew elite.’ Chenault confided to SCLA leaders that he was only one of many killers who were working to assassinate a long list of Black leadership. The names he said were on this list coincided with similar ‘death lists’ distributed by the KKK, and linked with the COINTELPRO operations in the ’60’s…

“Inside Guyana itself, approximately 25 miles to the south of Matthew’s Ridge, is a community called Hilltown, named after religious leader Rabbi Hill. Hill has also used the named Abraham Israel and Rabbi Emmanuel Washington. Hilltown, set up at about the same time as Jonestown, followed the departure of David Hill, as he was known in Cleveland, a fugitive of the U.S. courts. Hill rules with an ‘iron fist’ over some 8,000 Black people from Guyana and America who believe they are the Lost Tribe of Israel and the real Hebrews of Biblical prophecy. Used as strong arm troops, and ‘internal mercenaries’ to insure Burnham’s election, as were Jonestown members, the Hilltown people were allowed to clear the Jonestown site of shoes and unused weapons, both in short supply in Guyana. Hill says his followers would gladly kill themselves at his command, but he would survive since, unlike Jones, he is ‘in control.’

“Similar camps were reported at the time in the Philippines. Perhaps best known example is the fascist torture camp in Chile known as Colonia Dignidad. Also a religious cult built around a single individual, this one came from Germany…” (Copyright 1986 by Critique, a Journal of Conspiracies & Metaphysics. — John Judge.

WARNING: Most conspiracies recruit people they don’t like, for cannon fodder. Who would Nazis hate more than Blacks who wanted to be Jews? Also, kin of cult members are often extorted into service.

Decadent Worker #57 - 22Jul87

Decadent Worker 57THE MESSIAH FROM UKIAH

In order to understand the strange events surrounding Jonestown, we must begin with a history of the people involved. The official story of a religious fanatic and his idealist followers doesn’t make sense in light of the evidence of murders, armed killers and autopsy cover-ups…

Jim Jones grew up in Lynn, in southern Indiana. His father was an active member of the local Ku Klux Klan that infest that area. His friends found him a little strange, and he was interested in preaching the Bible and religious rituals. Perhaps more important was his boyhood friendship with Dan Mitrione, confirmed by local residents… Mitrione, his friend, worked as chief of police… Dan Mitrione… moved on to the CIA-financed International Police Academy, where police were trained in counter-insurgency and torture techniques from around the world. Jones, a poor, itinerant preacher, suddenly had money in 1961 for a trip to “minister” in Brazil… An American police advisor, working closely with the CIA at that point, Dan Mitrione was there as well. Mitrione had risen in the ranks quickly, and was busy training foreign police in torture and assassination methods. He was later kidnapped by Tupemaro guerillas in Uruguay, interrogated and murdered. Costa Gavras made a film about his death, titled State of Siege. Jones returned to the United States in 1963, with $10,000 in his pocket…

With his new wealth, Jones was able to travel to California and establish the first People’s Temple in Ukiah, California, in 1965. Guarded by dogs, electric fences and guard towers, he set up Happy Havens Rest Home. Despite a lack of trained personnel, or proper licensing, Jones drew in many at the camp. He had elderly, prisoners, people from psychiatric institutions, and 150 foster children, often transferred to care at Happy Havens by court orders. He was contacted there by Christian missionaries from World Vision, an international evangelist order that had done espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia. He met “influential” members of the community, and was befriended by Walter Healy, the head of the local chapter of the John Birch Society. He used members of his “church” to organize local voting drives for Richard Nixon’s election, and worked closely with the Republican Party. He was even appointed chairman of the county grand jury…

Jones changed his image to that of a liberal. He had spent time studying the preaching methods of Father Divine in Philadelphia, and attempted to use them in a manipulative way on the streets of Frisco… Jones was able to use his followers in an election once again, this time for Mayor Moscone. Moscone responded in 1976, putting Jones in charge of the city Housing Commission. In addition, many of his key followers got jobs with the city Welfare Department, and much of the recruitment to the Temple in San Francisco came from the ranks of these unemployed and dispossessed people. Jones was introduced to many influential liberal and radical people ranging from Roslyn Carter to Angela Davis.

The period when Jones began the Temple there marked the end of an important political decade. Nixon’s 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 the Watergate revelations… These operations involved… a full-scale attempt to discredit, disrupt and destroy the movements that sprang up in the 1960’s. (”Jonestown: CIA, Assassinations, Drugs and Mind Control” by John Judge, Critique #21/22