(www.jonestown.com)
No one ever questioned who ordered the
assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan as he departed from the notorious
Jonestown. 밓im Jones ordered뀛 was all the public needed to hear. 밄izarre
cult� assassinates Congressman, then lurches into a macabre orgy of suicide and
murder at the command of their deranged leader, Jim Jones. Stop the
investigation! No need. We already got 뱓he story.�
Finally, after twenty years, one
brave soul steps forward with the truth. Her name is Laurie Efrein Kahalas, and
she is the survivor from Peoples Temple who rescued the entire archives from the
church headquarters in San Francisco following the tragedy. Her job had been to
counter the smear campaign by government-orchestrated reporters who had never
visited Jonestown yet refused to print glowing reviews. She and a tiny on-site
staff also had to counter the government plants who had left the group, their
highly-placed handlers, and the tiniest handful of 밶ggrieved ex-members� who
signed what they were told to sign, and said what they were told to say. It was
a nightmare of smears, persecution, harassment by government agencies, continual
threats to send in mercenaries and one actual mercenary attack.
Jonestown was lavishly praised by
visiting doctors, educators, Guyanese cabinet ministers, and relatives of
residents. It was 밶 dream come true� for most people there � no drugs, crime,
racism, unemployment, substandard housing, education or medical care that plague
the inner cities of the United States. The great majority were happy, and
fiercely loyal to their magnificent breakaway from conditions Stateside. All
they wanted was to build in peace.
Although it is many steps from a
smear campaign to the claim that Jim Jones was FRAMED for the murder of
Congressman Leo Ryan, all those steps are being filled in with documentary
evidence. Ryan was killed by a C.I.A. hit team, NOT connected with Jonestown in
any way. Ryan and the C.I.A. had an ongoing hatefest. The C.I.A. also had a war
with Jim Jones. At the time of the Jonestown Tragedy, the entire community of
Jonestown was actively planning to relocate to Russia during the Cold
War.
Congressman Ryan had been lined up
for this an entire year before it happened. Ex-member right wing zealot named
Timothy Stoen lined up C.I.A. nemesis Leo Ryan to 밿nvestigate� knowingly false
and volatile charges against the community. Stoen took the lies and smears of
two vain young women, Yulanda Crawford and Deborah Layton, as 뱎roof� that
Jonestown was a 밹oncentration camp,� and won over Leo Ryan with his knowingly
false and volatile claim of paternity to Jim Jones� own son.
Stoen repeatedly threatened to send
in mercenaries, even being recorded in newspaper editorials and State Department
logs. The community had sustained one previous mercenary attack a year before
the tragedy happened, which was also an assassination attempt against the
community뭩 leader, Jim Jones.
Kahalas in no way 밺efends mass
suicide.� She sees zealotry and fanaticism on all sides, but emphasizes that the
community뭩 attackers were intelligence agents, with political motivations:
Peoples Temple was a successful role model for racial and economic equality
under attack by the F.B.I., and building ties with the then-Soviet Union during
the C.I.A.뭩 Cold War. The community뭩 defenders, on the other hand, were brave
and committed people who risked everything to build their dream overseas and, by
all reports, were succeeding.
In the middle were a thousand
innocents trapped in a remote jungle, repeatedly smeared and threatened,
militarily defenseless, and without even a phone to call in help. Just weeks
before the tragedy, arch-enemy government agent Joseph Mazor came into the
community and announced that the mercenaries� plan had been 뱈ass
extermination,� only thwarted by the obvious contentment of the community. That
had been in broad daylight, with people just going about their daily business.
Now it was on the heels of an assassination, heading into the middle of the
night. How much greater the peril!
It is for these reasons that
Kahalas definitively sides with the community뭩 defenders, whatever their deadly
descent into traps and frames. The reality was that the people of Jonestown were
legitimately terrified for their lives from an impending military invasion when
they suicided out. Several sources have now confirmed that the Green Berets were
indeed into Jonestown clandestinely within five or six hours after the
assassination, and they kept everyone else out for over 24 hours, including the
MEDEVAC unit which came for the Congressman뭩 party just seven miles away. The
tragedy happened the night of Saturday, November 18th, and no one was let in
until Monday, November 20th.
There is documentary evidence that
the community went to its death relatively peacefully (i.e. no brutalization),
yet by the time the Guyanese coroner was brought in, he found 밾undreds of
bodies forcibly injected� and several, including Jim Jones, had their heads
blown off. The last person to leave Jonestown alive told the Matthews Ridge
coroner뭩 jury that the community had fallen completely silent for 30-45
minutes, and that then suddenly there was a chorus of cheers, and still later on
gunshots. Dead people obviously cannot cheer, nor can they shoot
themselves.
The bodies at Jonestown were
deliberately desecrated after death. The reason? To make Jim Jones look like a
brutal murderer, so no one would ever question that it was he who 뱋rdered the
assassination,� thus protect the frame. Yet it is clear from the final tape made
at Jonestown, again and again (and again and again and again) that Jim Jones did
not even know who fired the shots, and that he was anguished, panicked and
horrified at the killings.
The film taken of the assassination
by a journalist on site from NBC, reveals a sophisticated professional military
formation, executed perfectly, brutally, and in complete silence, and using
dum-dum bullets. This was all beyond the capabilities of anyone living at
Jonestown, which was in no way, shape, or form an 밶rmed camp.� Stoen and
defector Deborah Layton said there were 밾undreds of guns� at Jonestown, but
both Guyanese and American authorities later found all of thirty-nine small
weapons, mostly 22. caliber � barely enough to defend 1,200 people against the
natural hazards of the jungle.
NO ONE EVER INVESTIGATED THIS
ASSASSINATION. The reason given? That it was 뱋bvious� that as insane cult
leader was responsible for all the carnage. The public never learned that there
was NO PROOF.
It was 뱓he perfect frame�: Do away
with two C.I.A. nemeses in a single night, Leo Ryan and Jim Jones. Kill one of
them, then blame the killing on the other!!
The public was never told what Leo
Ryan or Jim Jones had in common: Leo Ryan was the most anti-C.I.A. Congressman
of his day, doing everything in his power to both investigate illegal C.I.A.
operations, and to force the C.I.A. to report their covert operations to
Congress (Hughes-Ryan amendment of 1974). Jim Jones was targeted by both the
F.B.I. and the C.I.A., as an (allegedly) dangerous black power revolutionary
with ties to the Soviet Union.
The reality was that Jonestown was
a peaceful agrarian commune, with seniors who were blessed with love,
acceptance, nutritious food and good health, children getting a first-class
education in an environment which fostered their every talent, and young people
taken from the rage of the city streets to the joy of a community that was built
and nurtured by their own hands.
www.jonestown.com, the website of Laurie and Dan Kahalas, is devoted to
exposing this story, based upon first-hand experience, exclusive documentation,
and investigative research. You can also order her riveting memoir, 밪NAKE
DANCE: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown� through the website, for those
who want a frank and heartfelt rendition on emotional and spiritual levels, as
well as a political expos�. No holds are barred!
The website has already received
over a quarter million hits and climbing. Many are undoubtedly curiosity
seekers, for even with its copious sourcing and logic, the story is 180 degrees
from what the public has been indoctrinated to hear. Shifting the public
consciousness is a formidable task, for a story that was accepted by the whole
world, SANS PROOF. But Kahalas is in for the long haul.
The purpose of this piece is to
alert the readers of FRAMED that there were never any legal proceedings, or
evidence, or hearings, for the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan. Evidence
was manufactured, manipulated, and covered-up, even accompanied by murders of
key people who could 뱒pill the beans.� This and more is included in the pieces
on the website.
Please visit www.jonestown.com. And
know that this is just the beginning. The aim is a new Congressional
investigation, but the pivot on which that may rest is public awareness. Its
authors are deeply appreciative for all support, feedback, and efforts on their
behalf.
A subsequent article on September
18, 1972, 뱫묱ealing� Prophet Hailed as God at S.F. Revival,� Kinsolving claims
a parishioner
