Unlike most other figures deemed as cult leaders, Jones enjoyed public support and contact with some of the highest level politicians in the United States. For example, in the heat of the 1976 Presidential Campaign, Jones met with Vice Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane.

Likewise, First Lady Rosalynn Carter personally met Jones for a private dinner at the Stanford Court Hotel. Mrs. Carter later called Jones personally. At the 1976 grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters, Jones packed the audience with Temple members and garnered louder applause when he spoke than Mrs. Carter.

Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Govenor Mervyn Dymally and Assemblyman Willie Brown, among others, attended a large testimonial dinner in Jim Jones' honor in September of 1976. At that dinner, Willie Brown referred to Jone as "a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao." Both Assemblyman Willie Brown and Jesuit Trained Governor Jerry Brown attended Temple services.

"The coroner of Guyana, Dr. Mootoo, was on the scene quickly, and testified that almost all the dead had injection marks on their shoulder blades, or were shot or strangled. There was no evidence of mass suicide, but mass murder."

More CIA Connections:

Dan Mitrione was from the same town in Indiana that James Warren "Jim" Jones came from. Some good research from jimhougan.com Dan Mitrione - Wikipedia Page Dan Mitrione: Profesor de Tortura (Professor of Torture) More in depth research on Mitrione and his son (Who was FBI). "It is important to note that he had one special childhood friend named Dan Mitrione. This friend would later play an important role in Jim's future."

Dan Mitrione

Jack Anderson On September 27, 1980, a column by respected investigative reporter Jack Anderson was published under the title "CIA Involved In Jonestown Massacre." This was the first allegation of CIA involvement in the Jonestown incident. According to Anderson, both Richard Dwyer and Jim Jones had ties to the CIA, with Dwyer's ties dating to at least 1959; when quizzed directly about this alleged CIA involvement, Dwyer responded "no comment." At one point on the sound-recording made during the mass suicide, Jones' own voice commands, "Take Dwyer on down to the east house" and a short time later, Jones says "Get Dwyer out of here before something happens to him." This is considered by some to be evidence that Richard Dwyer, a U.S. embassy official, was really a CIA operative. Richard Dwyer Richard Dwyer was a known CIA agent who accompanied Ryan on his fact finding trip. He is seen [Above] in a film of Ryan's departure securing his boarding pass. Later [Above] he can be seen accompanying Ryan to the small plane before the murders of Ryan and other members of the team. He mysteriously separates away from the group just before the shooting begins. Just as mysteriously, he was not a target. It is believed that Dwyer was aware of the impending massacre and had a special relationship with Jones. A tape found at the camp recorded the voice of Jones telling his guards, "Get Dwyer out of here before something happens to him." Later, a radio transmission on a special CIA frequency reported the massacre -- a transmission believed made by Dwyer after he terminated Jones.

Other CIA connections with "Jonestown" include the allegations that:

• Richard Dwyer's name had appeared in the publication Who's Who In The CIA
• US Ambassador John Burke and another embassy official, Richard McCoy, had strong links with the CIA
• The Georgetown CIA station was situated in the US Embassy building
• Dan Webber, sent to Guyana immediately after the massacre, was with the CIA and
• Joseph Blatchford, the officially appointed attorney for the "Jonestown" survivors, was involved in a scandal involving CIA infiltration of the Peace Corps.

The involvement of Larry Layton in the ambush of Ryan and his party also provokes great interest from the CIA theorists because of his family background. Layton's father was Dr Laurence Laird Layton who had been the chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Division during the 1950's. It had also been Larry Layton's brother-in-law, the UNITA link, who had negotiated with the Guayana government, on behalf of Jones, for the establishment of "Jonestown."

Another point, which CIA theorists use to support their beliefs, is the fact that, despite the growing controversy surrounding the People's Temple, Jones's move to "Jonestown" was given full support from the American Embassy in Guyana.

Congressman Leo Ryan

Congressman Leo Ryan is an interesting aspect to this case. Everyone says that he was a victim. They believe the CIA set him up because he was working on an amendment that would restrict the operations of the CIA called Hughes-Ryan Act.

I think it's a possibility that he was in on the whole thing. (Just to clarify this, I think they may have faked his death and that he could have lived out the rest of his life under an assumed name in South America or somewhere else. I'm saying IT'S A POSSIBILITY!) Why do I think this?

1st. He was Jesuit trained. He graduated from Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1943. He then received V-12 officer training at Bates College and served with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a submariner. Ryan graduated from Nebraska's Creighton University with an B. A. in 1949 and an M. S. in 1951.

2nd. He was also an early critic of L. Ron Hubbard and his Scientology movement and of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. On November 3, 1977, Ryan read into the United States Congressional Record a testimony by John Gordon Clark about the health hazards connected with destructive cults.

Now many would think this is a good thing. But we have to understand what is going on here. The media and the government have usually stated that Jonestown was a result of "dangerous cults" and the danger of falling prey to "cult leaders" that use mind control techniques to take advantage of people.

They used the tragedy of Jonestown to demonize the people at Waco and smeared them through the media almost making the Branch Davidians to appear sub-human.

"..both Waco and Jonestown were CIA mass murders." ~Link (Also check out Anti-cult movement)

Believe it or not, Scientology have constantly been attacked the same way. And they have fought back vigorously. Making many enemies along the way. In researching this issue I have been very surprised at what I have found.

I know for a fact that they have used Jonestown and the theory of mind control against true Christian churches. What a perfect way to cause problems for churches. Label them cults like "Jonestown" and "Waco" and people will be scared to associate with them. Think of it as a sort of modern day "counter reformation." Heretic = Cult member

Margaret Singer spent a lot of time championing this theory of mind control. Her testimony regarding this subject was rejected by the Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology (BSERP) of the American Psychological Association. Check out some astounding information on Margaret Singer (CIA connections).

"Although she prides herself as an expert in "mind control or coercive persuasion" she was not allowed to testify as an expert witness in a 1990 federal court case. In his ruling rejecting Singer's expertise, U.S. Judge Lowell Jensen said, "The evidence before the court...shows that neither the APA (American Psychological Association) nor the ASA (American Sociological Association) has endorsed the views of Dr. Singer....Her proffered testimony in this case has been challenged by the scientific community on grounds of both scientific merit and methodological rigor." In 1992 she filed a RICO suit against these two organizations for refusing to sanction her work! AFF psychiatrists have also been interlinked to the FBI's behavioral sciences unit at Quantico, Va. AFF-linked operatives, Margaret Singer, Priscilla Coats and Rick Ross were intimately involved in orchestrating the FBI and ATF's siege and assault on the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Tx. in which more than 80 people died. ~Source

The Leo J. Ryan Award was established by the Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan; Prior to the establishment of the Foundation, Margaret Singer was given the "Leo J. Ryan Memorial Award" in 1978, for research on cults, from Citizens Freedom Foundation.

1994 - Patricia Ryan, daughter of Congressman Ryan, and former director of the Cult Awareness Network. (Interesting fact, Patricia's sister went on to join the Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh group in Oregon soon after her father's death.)   "After his death, Ryan's daughter Shannon Jo changed her name to Jasmine and joined Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a cult. While her sister Patricia became president of the (OLD) Cult Awareness Network. Ryan's daughter Erin worked for the C.I.A. before eventually becoming an aide to her father's former aide Jackie Speier, who had in 1998 been elected to the state Senate." 1996 - Cynthia Kisser, head of the Old Cult Awareness Network (A big enemy of Scientology).

Patricia Ryan Jackie Speier

The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was founded in the wake of the November 18, 1978 deaths of members of the new religious movement Peoples Temple and assassination of Congressman Leo J. Ryan in Jonestown, Guyana. ~More info on CAN.

So you have to be highly suspect of all these anti-cult movements since they are a result of covert CIA operations!

All this research I've done on this page really verifies to me the truth in Alberto Rivera's words when he said, "...the Vatican planned the infamous Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978. Jim Jones was a Jesuit under that secret oath with instructions from Rome to commit mass murder in order to discredit Christian camps. According to Alberto, "The cry went up that politicians should pass laws forbidding groups from setting up retreats. This way, Bible believers would have to hide when the great wave of persecution from Rome begins."

According to the New York Times, the first official on the scene, Guyanese Coroner Dr. Leslie C. Mootoo, determined that all but three of the people in Jonestown had been murdered: 80-90% had been injected with poison, while the remainder were shot or strangled. The coroners for the few autopsies of Jonestown victims conducted in Delaware were not informed of Dr. Mootoo’s findings The bodies were left to rot in the Guyanese jungle for up to a week before being flown to New Jersey. Relatives and New Jersey officials complained about being kept from the remains, and according to the New York Times Dr. Sturmer, President of the National Association of Medical Examiners, sent an open letter to the U.S. Army, complaining about the handling of remains, and the illegal cremations of most of the Jonestown victims. ~Source Link

The nearly 39,000 pages of documents released by the FBI to Freedom under the Freedom of Information Act document the Peoples Temple as a mainstream congregation and show it enjoyed wide support, as from Jane Fonda, who wrote: "I also recommit myself to your congregation as an active full participant — not only for myself, but because I want my two children to have the experience." ~Source

Mayor Mascone, Jim Jones meet with Walter Mondale (Left to Right)
Bob Wallach, head of the SF Bar Association and Jones.	Preacher Cecil Williams, Police Chief Charles Gain, and Jim Jones
Jesuit Trained Governer Jerry Brown and Jim Jones

Note: These [above] pictures on this page and the next appeared in the book Six Years with God The author, Jeannie Mills, her husband Al, and daughter Daphne were found murdered in their Berkeley home in 1980. They were ex members of PT.

Dear Brother Thomas,

Brief overview of Guyana:

Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India to work the sugar plantations. This ethnocultural divide has persisted and has led to turbulent politics. Guyana achieved independence from the UK in 1966, and since then it has been ruled mostly by socialist-oriented governments.