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Decadent Worker #66 - 21Aug87

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Decadent Worker 66The reprinted excerpts from the article, “Jonestown, CIA, Assassinations, Drugs and Mind Control,” by John Judge first appeared in Critique, A Journal of Conspiracies & Metaphysics, Spring/Summer 1986, #21/22, and is reprinted with permission. Copyright 1986 by Critique. A sample copy of Critque costs $6. Please send all inquiries to POB 11451, Santa Rosa, CA 95406.

The role of Mark Lane, who served as an attorney for Jim Jones, is even more clearly intertwined. Lane had co-authored a book with Dick Gregory, claiming FBI complicity in the King murder…

With help from officials in Tennessee Governer Blanton’s office, Lane managed to get legal custody of a woman who had been incarcerated in the Tennessee state psychiatric system for nearly eight years. This woman, Grace Walden Stephens, had been a witness in the King murder… Grace Walden Stephens took up residence in Memphis with Lane, her custodian, and Terri Buford, a key Temple member who had returned to the U.S. before the killings to live with Lane. While arranging for for her to testify before the Select Committee on Ray’s behalf, Lane and Buford were plotting another fate for Grace Stephens. Notes from Buford to Jones, found in the aftermath of the killings, discussed arrangements with Lane to move Grace Stephens to Jonestown… Whether Grace ever arrived at Jonestown is unclear.

Lane was forced to leave Ray in the midst of testimony to the Select Committee when he got word that Ryan was planning a visit. Lane had attempted to discourage the trip earlier in a vaguely threatening scene, he failed to warn Ryan and others, knowing that the sandwiches and other food might be drugged, but refrained from eating it himself. Later, claiming that he and Charles Garry would write the official history of the “revolutionary suicide,” Lane was allowed to leave the massacre alive. Lane says he and Garry wandered through the jungle, using torn pieces of underwear to mark their way back to Georgetown. If true, it seems an unlikely method if they were in any fear of pursuit. They had heard gunfire and screams back at the camp. Lane was reportedly well aware of the forced drugging and suicide drills at Jonestown before Ryan arrived. (pp. 57-9)

The meticulous daily notes and drug records kept by Larry Schacht disappeared, but other evidence did not. The history of MKULTRA and its sister programs (…ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, etc.) records a combination of drugs… electroshock and torture as methods for control… 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…

On the scene at Jonestown, Guyanese troops discovered a large cache of drugs, enough to drug the entire population of Georgetown, Guyana (well over 200,000) for more than a year. According to survivors, these were being used “to control” a population of only 1,100 people… Drugs used in the testing for MKULTRA were found in abundance… The actual description of life at Jonestown is that of a tightly run concentration camp, complete with medical and psychiatric experimentation… On the eve of the massacre, Forbes Burnham was reportedly converted to “born again” Christianity by members of the Full Gospel Christian Businessmen’s Association, including Lionel Luckhoo, a Temple lawyer in Guyana (pp. 52-3)

Decadent Worker #65 - 19Aug87

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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

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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

Decadent Worker #47 - 17Jun87

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Decadent Worker 47Excerpts from “Jonestown: CIA, Assassinations, Drugs and Mind Control” by John Judge, Critique (Box 11451, Santa Rosa, CA 95406) Spring/Summer 1986, #12/22:

“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…

“A new word was coined by the media, ’suicide-murder.’ But which was it? Autopsies and forensic science are a developing art… Dr. Mootoo, the top Guyanese pathologist, was at Jonestown within hours after the massacre… While the American press screamed about the ‘Kool-Aid Suicides,’ Dr. Mootoo was reaching a much different opinion.

“There are certain signs that show types of poisons that lead to the end of life. Cyanide blocks the central nervous system… 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 gunshot wounds on the bodies as well.

“At the Jonestown site, survivors described a special group of Jones’ followers who were allowed to carry weapons and money, and to come and go from the camp. These people were all white, mostly males. They ate better and worked less than the others, and they served as an armed guard to enforce discipline, control labor and restrict movement. Among them were Jones’ top lieutenants, including George Phillip Blakey… This special guard survived the massacre… The dead were 90% women, and 80% Blacks. It is unlikely that men armed with guns and modern crossbows would give up control and willingly be injected with poisons. It is much more likely that they forced nearly 400 people to die by injection, and then assisted in the murder of 500 more who attempted to escape. One survivor clearly heard people cheering, 45 minutes after the massacre. Despite government claims, they are not accounted for, nor is their location known.

“George Blakey, who married Debbie Layton, was from a wealthy British family. He donated $60,000 to pay the leas 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. Most of the top lieutenants around Jones were from wealthy, educated backgrounds, many with connections to the military or intelligence agencies.”

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It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn. — Louis L’Amour