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Was the CIA Behind the Jonestown Massacre?
By Jeremy Kuzmarov on Nov 18, 2022 10:03 am
When someone is duped into doing or believing something foolish, it has long been common to chide them for “drinking the Kool-Aid.â€
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.
They had been instructed to do so by Jim Jones, a preacher with the People’s Temple, a left-wing religious cult which had established a settlement in Guyana that they were part of.
Deeper investigation, however, reveals something even more sinister: That Jones was a CIA agent involved in a mind control project coordinated by one of the U.S. Army’s top chemical warfare specialists, Dr. Laurence Layton.[2] Rather than a mass suicide, most of the parishioners were murdered—it appears in order to preserve the true purppose of Jonestown and Jones’s own connection to the CIA. […]
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