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"You have to put fear aside and do what you


think is right."
--Leo Ryan on the eve of his
visit to Jonestown.
And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall
make you free.
--John VIII : 32 . The
unofficial motto of the Central
Intelligence Agency.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As the author, I am solely responsible for this work
but it might never have been published had it not been for
the generous efforts of scores of fellow researchers,
reporters, librarians and friends who gathered source
material, constructively criticized early drafts of the
manuscript and proofread my atrocious spelling. I appreciate
your help and trust that you will understand that the
omission of your names from this acknowledgement is not
intended to downgrade your valuable contributions only to
spare you the pain of any possible reprisal from those
people who would suppress the truth about the Jonestown
experiment and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan.
1988

Michael Meiers June

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PROLOGUE
The Kristallnacht or Crystal Night was the name the
Nazis gave to the evening of November 9, 1938; the fifteenth
anniversary of Adolf Hitler's first attempt to overthrow the
German government. As in years past, the Nazi Party bosses
gathered to celebrate; among them was Heinrich Himmler
Reichsfurer of the SS, who had planned an event to mark the
anniversary. Following the beer hall celebrations, Himmler's
SS set out to assault the Jewish citizenry. Before the
evening was over, 119 synagogues were set on fire, 7,500
Jewish shops were looted or destroyed, 171 Jewish homes were
burned, and 20,000 Jews were arrested and sent to newlyconstructed labor camps. According to Nazi records, 36 Jews
were murdered that evening. Through-out Germany, Himmler's
troops inflicted over 25 million marks worth of damage -- 5
million in broken glass alone, hence the name, the Crystal
Night. In the weeks that followed, German Jews were not only
denied insurance claims, but were totally ousted from the
economy and fined one billion marks "for their abominable
crimes."

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German Jews had suffered persecution before, but only


at the hands of roving bands of "brown shirts" who acted out
of their personal prejudices under a government that turned
a blind eye to their crimes. The Crystal Night was the first
assault to be officially sanctioned by the German
government. It was the beginning of the Holocaust. In the
six and a half years that followed, over 12 million Jews and
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Combined with the casualties of World War II, the death toll
was a staggering 60 million.
Today, outside Munich, near Dachau, the first and most
infamous of the German Nazi death camps, there is a memorial
to those who died in the Holocaust. Inscribed on the
monument are the foreboding words of American philosopher
George Santayana, "Those who do not remember the past are
condemned to relive it."
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The White Night was the name the Reverend Jim Jones
gave to the evening of November 18, 1978 in which over 900
of his followers died in a mass suicide murder ritual in
Jonestown, Guyana; a community they had carved from the
jungles of South America. Sparked by their assassination of
U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, the predominantly Black American
cultists carried out the final performance of the bizarre
White Night they had rehearsed for years. Before the evening
was over, 913 former U.S. citizens were dead, most from
drinking a cyanide-laced concoction.
For years, Jim Jones had warned his congregation that
the Nazis had infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency
and other departments of the federal government to stage a
second holocaust; this

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time against the Blacks and Native Americans. He claimed


their only chance of survival was under his protection in
the safe haven of Jonestown. Jones' warnings were correct,
but he neglected to tell his congregation that it was he who
was helping to perpetrate the coming ethnic war in America.
Jonestown was a medical field test in mind control
designed to evaluate two auspicious behavior modification
drugs on a representative cross-section of Black and Native
American citizens. The unwitting human guinea pigs were
divided into three test groups. Three hundred received small
dosages of drug A on a regular basis, three hundred received
drug B and the remaining three hundred acted as the control
group and received no drugs at all. Jim Jones then staged
the only definitive test of his control; he asked his
followers to commit suicide. Those who did so voluntarily
were considered under control, those who refused were
murdered and the results so noted in the extensive medical
records that are still missing to this day.
Jones and several of his top aides were in the employ
of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the
experiment; making the White Night the first U.S. government
sanctioned persecution of a native minority in peacetime.
The 913 dead are important, but not as important as the yet
untold millions who will die if the results of the Jonestown
experiment are implemented in society. As the earth's
resources steadily deplete, a second holocaust becomes more
and more probable but, unlike the first, there will be no
goosestepping Nazis, swastikas, concentration camps or gas
ovens. People will just drop dead en masse or be reduced to
zombie-like slaves to serve a master race.
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All that remains of the ultimate experiment that made


this grim future possible are photographs of the carnage and
one in particular. Surrounded by a field of corpses, over
the simple, unadorned throne of Jim Jones hung the following
hand-painted wooden sign: "Those who do not remember the
past are condemned to repeat it."
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Some say the evil was born in Jim Jones, others say it
is inherent in the CIA, still others claim the true source
is the Nazis who infiltrated the CIA, and then there are
those few who believe it all began with some quasi-religious
group founded in the Dark Ages. One might as well say the
evil was born with time and will die with time. In order to
detail the story within the confines of a book, this work
will explore the forty years of ethnic weaponry between the
Crystal Night and the White Night.
Eight years have passed since the Jonestown "tragedy"
or "mass suicide" or "massacre" or "suicide murder" or "the
greatest crime of the century" - no one has really been able
to define the event. One author has suggested that it was so
unique as to be called "The Event." By now, almost all of
the first hand accounts have been published. They are
surprisingly consistent in the details of Who? What? When?
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Where?, but the critical answers to How? and Why? are either
misinterpreted, misrepresented or, more commonly, outright
omitted. Historic events, like Jonestown, are never
understood as they occur or even within a few years after
they occur. It takes time to verify and collate the various
eyewitness accounts into a comprehensive overview and to
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the course of history. To date, most reports about


Jonestown are autobiographies tainted by the author's
defense of his involvement with Jim Jones and the Peoples
Temple. Some are deliberate cover-ups, but most are just
subjective and extremely limited in scope. Assuming the
intentions of the eyewitness are honest, that he has not
been deceived or overly influenced by his emotions and has
100% recall, what he reports is reality, but an extremely
limited reality as he has no knowledge of anything that
occurred outside his field of vision. An eyewitness to
Jonestown can no more write an accurate history of the event
than a soldier in the trenches could write a history of
World War I. Such first hand accounts do provide valuable
source material, but the definitive history will be a
conglomeration of all such accounts; a second generation
book, and that is precisely the intention herein. Although
this work reaches entirely different conclusions, it agrees
with most of what has been published on the subject of
Jonestown.
The secret of the CIA's sponsorship of the Jonestown
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experiment is really no secret at all. The truth lies in


most well-stocked libraries and in the records of government
agencies for any other adventurer who is willing to dedicate
six years of intensive digging to discover. The first step
in this research work was to collect everything that has
been published on the subject. Newspaper articles from both
the East and West Coast press were laboriously photocopied
from microfilm. Every book about the Peoples Temple was
acquired. Many are out of print but obtainable from book
finding services, often at ten times the cover price. All
related movies, documentaries and video interviews were then
taped for reference. U.S.

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government reports (including what little the CIA has


released under the Freedom of Information Act) were acquired
from the Library of Congress and added to the mass of data.
The photo libraries of news agencies provided several
thousand photographs, and a wide variety of periodicals
provided reprints of articles on the subject. Much of the
information referred to other more obscure publications that
were purchased from a variety of sources to complete the
largest reference library on Jonestown in the world. All of
this information was then qualified with attention paid to
the author's motives and validity of his sources. Since the
Jonestown story crosses the path of many equally important
stories of the day, it was necessary to duplicate the above
research procedures for these sidestories that would become
subplots of the Jonestown history. Once all of this
information was gathered, it was collated minute by minute,
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day by day, year by year, until the sum total of all


verified facts had been placed in chronological order. This
work is intended for those who are not willing to make such
an expensive and painstaking commitment in search of the
truth.
Nearly everyone I have encountered in my research has
urged me not to offer this book for publication. Some say I
will be labeled a madman because the American people have
been so programmed as to automatically assume that anyone
who speaks of the CIA is paranoid and insane. I disagree.
Americans are intelligent and sufficiently aware to know
that our national security has been entrusted in part to a
very competent agency that is real, effective, achieves
noticeable results and often defends their secret activities
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also been warned that Americans do realize the CIA does


terrible things but they do not want to know the gory
details. Again, I disagree. We have not yet been totally
brainwashed into a complacent, dream-like state. We pay
taxes to support agencies like the CIA and deserve an
accurate accounting of their activities, no matter how
disturbing those activities might be. Finally, I have been
forewarned that the CIA will try to discredit or even kill
me for exposing one of their large scale crimes against
humanity. I agree that there may be some reprisal. The truth
hurts, and even though it is not my truth, only the truth, I
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may suffer some persecution for exposing it.


My motives are both selfless and selfish. Personally, I
am appalled that our democracy has deteriorated to the point
where a federal agency felt compelled to conduct such a
macabre medical experiment on innocent citizens. I feel a
sincere responsibility to accurately detail the story of
Jonestown and warn of what I see as the strong possibility
of a second holocaust. Secondly, I do expect to be
compensated for my seven years of work but, if money were my
only concern, I could profit far more by using the knowledge
I have gained, as opposed to just writing about it.
Though I consider myself to be an excellent researcher,
I am only an average writer. This book has been written in
plain English. Those fond of high intellectual pursuits will
be stimulated and taxed to the limits of their
comprehension, not by the pretentious use of flowery
language, but by the story itself. The combined genius of
Edgar Allan Poe, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Stephen
King could not have conjured up a more bizarre, intriguing
fiction, but what sets this work apart from theirs is that
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