THE QUESTION OF JONESTOWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303420024-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 5, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By FRANK ROSSI
ha.auestion-
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It's a wonder John Ju'dge's bra4fr -
has not turned to oatmeal. Heis:in:-
his. mid-30sand already he hasspent-
half his life; readingr government
documents
John Judge-maybe the only- person
in.the world to have read the entire.
Warren- Commissiorn;-?.Report- 2h'
volumes, 26,000 pages: He has con-;
For subjecting:.theif minds to. an
incessant.. tangle- of bureaucratic,
prose, Judea and fiis =associate, Sandy.'
Meredith, are paid nothing, Indeed'
Judge worksas a draft counselor, for_"
which he is paid next to nothing, and:
'Meredith is a'iibrarian- and they'
spend most of their earnings looking,.
for government corruption:: -
Mostly; they go afterthe ClA They-
are like two,woodpe-ckers trying to-
sink a battleship, but they do it';any-
-
way. Maybe they figure they'li.'getlucky. -
The hair -- . '
John' Judge's boyish - face- is-coy-
vered by a beard-- His hair:hin' fied that 80 to 90 percent of theJones-.
the first few days, Judge says. ; ~ y' town victims did not c:>mmit suicide,
The questions - = =r.~ but-were murdered. Stanley Clayton,i
a Jonestown cult member. who es-
Judge and Meredith base-their CIA.
theory oft- circumstantial-evidence;
but its obvious-to -them' that there
still are too many= unanswered ques
tions abourJonesmwn
Right after theI deathsoccurred
Hoag Levins of the. Daily News re
ported ;chat the= Guyanese govern-
ment, with the help of the U.S. Em-
bassy, had kept reporters. out , of
Jonestown, lied about certain aspects.
of; the ,deaths,' and destroyed, docu
ments pertaining- to ? Jones. .Those
records, Levinsarticles say,-linked`
Jones. to-Guyauese Prime Minister..
Forbes Burnham in a couple of shady
deals.
"The first thing that tipped me,"
Judge says, "was the change in body
count. The original article said 408,
Then. they, said 712, Sandy -tracked',
down six: different explanations- for
the change in. the body count."The
final figure was 912. .
The dumbest explanation of all,:
.according to:Sandy --Meredith;,was
that bodieswere found underrteath-
other bodies. According to inquirer.-.
files, then -bodieson-top-of-bodies
statement was made by US. Air Force
Capt. John Moscatelli.' The, question
Judge and Meredith.ask is bow 400?.,
bodies 106 of which were children
could.covei' 512 other bodies.
taped the carnage, told- the Chicago .!
Tribune- the same thing in a copy 1J
righted Nov. 24,1978, article.
That Laurence L Layton' the'
father of Jim Jones' gun-toting lieu-
tenant: Larry Layton, had worked
with various government.
?. intelli-
gence agencies on chemical-warfare
projects and possibly worked direct- -
ly . with the CIA on mind-control-
experiments.
-All of which shows.
Judge and
Meredith say, that the full story of
Jonestown has not 'yet been told. It
does not prove, however, that Jones-
town town was a CIA mind-control expert
nient. Judge and Meredith persevere,
nevertheless, always searching for
theone link that will put it all togeth- ?
er. If their claims are accurate, their
work is nearly` impossible. Wood-'.1
peckers never Sink battleships.
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