Was the CIA Behind the Jonestown Massacre? | CovertAction Magazine. [This article continues CAM’s series on political assassinations and CAM’s inquiry into the CIA’s criminal history. —Editors] “I think the Jonestown incident was an extension of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate. I think those people were conditioned to act in certain ways and would have probably just moved from Montreal [where CIA mind control experiments were carried out under the direction of Dr.
Ewen Cameron] to Guyana, in this case. You look at Jim Jones’ background carefully, he had a lot of intelligence contact there for doing exactly what he did. When someone is duped into doing or believing something foolish, it has long been common to chide them for “drinking the Kool-Aid.” This phrase derives from the infamous Jonestown massacre deep in the jungles of Guyana when, on November 18, 1978, 913 men, women and children supposedly drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide poison from paper cups. Leo J. Ryan was the first and only U.S. congressman killed in the line of duty.
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