November 2, 1976, New York Times, C.I.A. Withholds Comment,
February 19, 1977, New York Times, More Heads of State Are Reported To Have Received C.I.A. Payments, by David Binder,
December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Agencies Held Powerless; Officials Believe U.S. Is Powerless to Move on Cult, by Warren Weaver Jr.,December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Embassy Also Defended; Statement Volunteered State Department Declares It Met Responsibility on Cult in Guyana, by Graham Hovey, [Text]
December 2, 1978, New York Times, page 23, Guyana, by Andrei Voznesensky,
January 9, 1979, New York Times, page A14, California Bars Church of God Leaders at Offices; Necessary to Halt 'Shredding', by Robert Lindsey,
January 18, 1979, New York Times, Grand Jury Is Asking How Papers of F.B.I. Made Way to Guyana,
February 14, 1979, New York Times, page A14, G.A.O. Checks Jones Cult Links to Welfare; Four Off Welfare Rolls Religion Problem Cited Lists of Possible Victims $20,000 a Month, by Wallace Turner,
February 17, 1979, New York Times, page A6, Senator Says 17 Foster Children May Be Among Jonestown Dead; Not Positive About Data, by Wallace Turner,
February 25, 1979, New York Times, page A26, 570 Who Died in Guyana to Be Buried on the Coast,
April 22, 1979, New York Times, Dispute Lingers on Cemetery for Jonestown Bodies; 'Responsibility to Take Bodies' Two Bodies Per Grave,
May 17, 1979, New York Times, page B2, About Dobbs Ferry; Bill Kalt and the World Conspiracy, by Francis X. Clines,
September 30, 1979, New York Times, F.C.C. Is Sued for Data On Sect in Guyana Killings,
December 9, 1979, New York Times, Half in Guyana Deaths Linked to Welfare Pay
November 25, 1980, New York Times, page A10 Suspect in Ryan Slaying Near People's Temple Pleads Not Guilty; Statutes Covering Officials No C.I.A. Involvement Seen, by Wallace Turner,
December 4, 1980, New York Times, House Committee Clears C.I.A. Of Role in People's Temple Cult,
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October 4, 1974, New York Times, Reynolds Challenges Legality of a Levy On Guyana Bauxite,
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November 2, 1976, New York Times, C.I.A. Withholds Comment,
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February 19, 1977, New York Times - AP, Additional Payment Reported,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)---Deleted sections from a book on the C.I.A. reportedly name President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana, former Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany and former President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam as being among foreign leaders who have received secret payments from the agency.
The names were in the manuscript of the book "The C.I.A. and the Cult of Intelligence," by Victor Marchetti and John D, Marks, according to sources who saw the deleted passages. They were cut by court order after the C.I.A. declared that publication would "result in grave and irreparable injury to the interests of the United States."
February 19, 1977, New York Times, More Heads of State Are Reported To Have Received C.I.A. Payments, by David Binder,
If $10,000 a year was "look-in money," for an African warlord in the 1970's, presumably for periodic chats with his white boss, mostly to settle private scores with tribal enemies and take a few marching orders, how much do you think it cost for the much higher level covert participation of an anglophile-socialist like Forbes Burnham in a socially engineered necrophiliac project like the Peoples Temple experiment? Not only did it damage Burnham's political popularity and standing, it nearly cost him his job, so a risk bonus was appropriate. The cost to Guyana's national economic development was incalculable, since the stigma lives on decades afterward. I'd say Burnham was entitled to $100,000 annually, as long as he continued to hold the secret and cooperate in other ways. But that must have felt expensive, so he died mysteriously in 1985.
"died mysteriously at the Georgetown Hospital... in controversial circumstances"
Joe Holsinger, Ryan's top aide who helped arrange the trip but remained in California, got a phone call from the White House on the day of Ryan's murder. The caller, Les Francis, of the congressional liaison office, reported accurately the number of persons killed, and according to Holsinger said his information was based on "a CIA report from the scene." Francis, now executive director of the Democratic National Committee and a Carter-Mondale campaign official, recalled the conversation, but said, "I think I said 'intelligence report' rather than 'CIA report.'
From the September 27, 1980, Jack Anderson column, published under various titles, including CIA Involved In Jonestown Massacre.
Yes, but Les Francis didn't deny he'd received a call, and transmitted the news of Ryan's murder, on the same day it happened, Saturday, Nov. 18, 1978. The various storytellers in all their permutations remain adamantly consistent about this one fact, however---that no one from the outside world entered the Peoples Temple compound until late Sunday morning, when the fact of the mass suicide could be verified.
Forbes Burnham lasted longer than the Minister of Information in his cabinet at the time of the Jonestown killings, Shirley Field-Ridley, who held the first press conference Monday morning to announce the news. When there's nothing to say about a cause of death, it's best not to say anything at all, and The Times makes that point. Interestingly, the obit says she "retired from active politics about three years ago," which would be spring or summer 1979, or not that long after the massacre, when she would have been 42 years old.
June 28, 1982, New York Times - AP, Shirley Field-Ridley, 45, Held Posts in the Guyana Cabinet
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 27—Shirley Field-Ridley, a former Cabinet minister and a leading activist in local and Caribbean women's organizations, died Saturday, family members said today. She was 45 years old.
Relatives said she complained of not feeling well early Saturday morning and was rushed to the Georgetown hospital, where she died. No cause of death has been reported.
She was the wife of Hamilton Green, one of Guyana's three Vice Presidents. Her first marriage was to P.J. Patterson, who later became a Cabinet minister in Jamaica.
A London-trained lawyer, Miss Field-Ridley held several Cabinet posts. She was Minister of Information when more than 900 American cultists died in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown in 1978. She retired from active politics about three years ago.
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August 7, 1985, New York Times, Guyana's Leader Dies; Successor is Sworn In, by Richard J. Meislin, diigo,
August 7, 1985, New York Times, Successor is Sworn In, by Richard J. Meislin, diigo,
August 7, 1985, Boston Globe - AP, page 3, Guyana's Leader, Forbes Burnham, Dies in Surgery, by Carl Blackman,
August 7, 1985, The Washington Post, page B6, Forbes Burnham, President Of Guyana, Dies at Age 62, by J.Y. Smith Washington Post Staff Writer,
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August 16, 1985, New York Times, Obituary, Shiva Naipaul is Dead at 40; Wrote Books on Third World, diigo,
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July 16, 1984, New York Times, Obituaries, Ernest R. Tidyman, Screen Writer, Dies at 56, diigo,
Mr. Tidyman authored ''The Guyana Tragedy - The Story of Jim Jones,'' died Saturday in Westminster Hospital in London of a perforated ulcer and complications. Sue Hyman, his agent, said he was admitted to the hospital Thursday and died in the intensive care unit.
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Agencies Held Powerless; Officials Believe U.S. Is Powerless to Move on Cult, by Warren Weaver Jr.,
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Embassy Also Defended; Statement Volunteered State Department Declares It Met Responsibility on Cult in Guyana, by Graham Hove,
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December 17, 1978, New York Times, page A42, Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds; Busloads of Voters, by John M. Crewdson,
Anyone involved in the illegal exercise of a 4,000-5,000 voter block is as guilty of felony fraud as the mastermind, and this would include everyone in the congregation, even if only passively allowing their address to be used for a wrongful registration---or were simply aware that an illicit power exchange was going down, with something in it for them. "Politicians friendly toward the Peoples Temple" is a trite euphemism for the same kind of corrupt quid pro quo as when something "falls off the truck" and it lands at your feet.
Who is ever "ardent" in supporting a Lieutenant Governor or district attorney candidate other than their mothers, or someone who stands to gain? Jim Jones' first appointed position soon after he arrived in Mendocino County, California was as a chairman of the Grand Jury, which in cahoots with a corrupted D.A.'s office surely occasions passing fat envelopes under the table.
This secret system for success is so pervasive, so tacitly accepted---and indeed, so inviolate, that a journalism career would fetch up sharply if a true accounting were ever offered the public. But sometimes hidden facts slip into view anyway, especially if pointedly off-topic, or as a casual aside:
It is a startling admission dangerously at odds with the official story to indicate that any of the perpetrators of the violence that killed over 900 people in an evening, had survived the group death experience and could turn up with the status of "unaccounted for." This would be a euphemism for "flew the coop," I believe, and if Sly is just one among some larger number of unaccounted-for communards, in a series of missing, or an escaped class, like the "family stone," this would constitute the most scintillating and relevant aspect to a story, which according to a Gallop poll, had already achieved the deepest and broadest penetration into mass consciousness of any news story recorded, that is, until it was eclipsed by a news story on September 11th, 2001.
So if John Crewdson had the facts of such a big scoop why wasn't it on page one with a banner headline instead of hiding on page forty-two? This could be the kind of big break a journalism career needs! He could wind up richer than Carl Bernstein---and twice as oleaginous! It's like having your finger on the button of a camera at the exact moment when a Ruby shoots an Oswald, or a Sirhan Sirhan shoots a Kennedy---I mean, well....I guess you'd just have to be there.
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page 23, Guyana, by Andrei Voznesensky,
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January 9, 1979, New York Times, page A14, California Bars Church of God Leaders at Offices; Necessary to Halt 'Shredding', by Robert Lindsey,
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January 18, 1979, New York Times, Grand Jury Is Asking How Papers of F.B.I. Made Way to Guyana,
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February 14, 1979, New York Times, page A14, G.A.O. Checks Jones Cult Links to Welfare; Four Off Welfare Rolls Religion Problem Cited Lists of Possible Victims $20,000 a Month, by Wallace Turner,
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February 17, 1979, New York Times, page A6, Senator Says 17 Foster Children May Be Among Jonestown Dead; Not Positive About Data, by Wallace Turner,
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February 25, 1979, New York Times, page A26, 570 Who Died in Guyana to Be Buried on the Coast,
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April 22, 1979, New York Times, Dispute Lingers on Cemetery for Jonestown Bodies; 'Responsibility to Take Bodies' Two Bodies Per Grave,
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May 17, 1979, New York Times, page B2, About Dobbs Ferry; Bill Kalt and the World Conspiracy, by Francis X. Clines,
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September 30, 1979, New York Times, F.C.C. Is Sued for Data On Sect in Guyana Killings,
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December 9, 1979, New York Times, Half in Guyana Deaths Linked to Welfare Pay
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November 25, 1980, New York Times, page A10 Suspect in Ryan Slaying Near People's Temple Pleads Not Guilty; Statutes Covering Officials No C.I.A. Involvement Seen, by Wallace Turner,
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December 4, 1980, New York Times, House Committee Clears C.I.A. Of Role in People's Temple Cult,
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Agencies Held Powerless; Officials Believe U.S. Is Powerless to Move on Cult, by Warren Weaver Jr.,
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page A1, Embassy Also Defended; Statement Volunteered State Department Declares It Met Responsibility on Cult in Guyana, by Graham Hove,
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December 17, 1978, New York Times, page A42, Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds; Busloads of Voters, by John M. Crewdson,
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16--Determined to help elect politicians friendly toward his People's Temple, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered what former temple members say was an organized campaign of fraudulent voting practices that included importing busloads of illegal voters to cast their ballots in this city's 1975 municipal elections.
Anyone involved in the illegal exercise of a 4,000-5,000 voter block is as guilty of felony fraud as the mastermind, and this would include everyone in the congregation, even if only passively allowing their address to be used for a wrongful registration---or were simply aware that an illicit power exchange was going down, with something in it for them. "Politicians friendly toward the Peoples Temple" is a trite euphemism for the same kind of corrupt quid pro quo as when something "falls off the truck" and it lands at your feet.
Who is ever "ardent" in supporting a Lieutenant Governor or district attorney candidate other than their mothers, or someone who stands to gain? Jim Jones' first appointed position soon after he arrived in Mendocino County, California was as a chairman of the Grand Jury, which in cahoots with a corrupted D.A.'s office surely occasions passing fat envelopes under the table.
This secret system for success is so pervasive, so tacitly accepted---and indeed, so inviolate, that a journalism career would fetch up sharply if a true accounting were ever offered the public. But sometimes hidden facts slip into view anyway, especially if pointedly off-topic, or as a casual aside:
Don Sly, the man identified as having held a knife to the throat of Representative Leo J. Ryan in the trouble at the temple's Guyana outpost a month ago, is among those unaccounted for in the aftermath of Mr. Ryan's murder and the murder and suicides of Mr. Jones and more than 900 of his followers.
It is a startling admission dangerously at odds with the official story to indicate that any of the perpetrators of the violence that killed over 900 people in an evening, had survived the group death experience and could turn up with the status of "unaccounted for." This would be a euphemism for "flew the coop," I believe, and if Sly is just one among some larger number of unaccounted-for communards, in a series of missing, or an escaped class, like the "family stone," this would constitute the most scintillating and relevant aspect to a story, which according to a Gallop poll, had already achieved the deepest and broadest penetration into mass consciousness of any news story recorded, that is, until it was eclipsed by a news story on September 11th, 2001.
So if John Crewdson had the facts of such a big scoop why wasn't it on page one with a banner headline instead of hiding on page forty-two? This could be the kind of big break a journalism career needs! He could wind up richer than Carl Bernstein---and twice as oleaginous! It's like having your finger on the button of a camera at the exact moment when a Ruby shoots an Oswald, or a Sirhan Sirhan shoots a Kennedy---I mean, well....I guess you'd just have to be there.
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December 2, 1978, New York Times, page 23, Guyana, by Andrei Voznesensky,
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January 9, 1979, New York Times, page A14, California Bars Church of God Leaders at Offices; Necessary to Halt 'Shredding', by Robert Lindsey,
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January 18, 1979, New York Times, Grand Jury Is Asking How Papers of F.B.I. Made Way to Guyana,
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February 14, 1979, New York Times, page A14, G.A.O. Checks Jones Cult Links to Welfare; Four Off Welfare Rolls Religion Problem Cited Lists of Possible Victims $20,000 a Month, by Wallace Turner,
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February 17, 1979, New York Times, page A6, Senator Says 17 Foster Children May Be Among Jonestown Dead; Not Positive About Data, by Wallace Turner,
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February 25, 1979, New York Times, page A26, 570 Who Died in Guyana to Be Buried on the Coast,
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April 22, 1979, New York Times, Dispute Lingers on Cemetery for Jonestown Bodies; 'Responsibility to Take Bodies' Two Bodies Per Grave,
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May 17, 1979, New York Times, page B2, About Dobbs Ferry; Bill Kalt and the World Conspiracy, by Francis X. Clines,
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September 30, 1979, New York Times, F.C.C. Is Sued for Data On Sect in Guyana Killings,
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December 9, 1979, New York Times, Half in Guyana Deaths Linked to Welfare Pay
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November 25, 1980, New York Times, page A10 Suspect in Ryan Slaying Near People's Temple Pleads Not Guilty; Statutes Covering Officials No C.I.A. Involvement Seen, by Wallace Turner,
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December 4, 1980, New York Times, House Committee Clears C.I.A. Of Role in People's Temple Cult,
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