Peoples Temple organization
also: cult, Jim Jones thing, People's Temple, People Temple, Temple, the colony, the cult, the people's cult, the people's temple, the temple, this church, Wings of Deliverance
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Claims (17)
Peoples Temple moved_to
Guyana documented
“Yeah, that's a good point because Kamala Harris hung around with Willie Brown. I'll be willing to bet she's got Jim Jones stink on her. That didn't come off right, but you know what I mean. In 1978, critical media expose exposes, however, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 44:03
Jim Jones founded
Peoples Temple documented
“In 1955, Jones set up the Wings of Deliverance, which was a Pentecostal church in Indianapolis that became the people's temple. He focused on interracial miracle healings. According to Myers, Jones preached an anti-communist doctrine, which…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 34:44
Peoples Temple acquired
Jonestown documented
“So he already has bought, we talked about it. So he's already bought that property down in Guyana. They've owned that for a long time as part of his $1 billion portfolio, right? Because it's already a terrorist training camp. So that's a lo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 45:02
Deborah Layton laundered_money_for
Peoples Temple host_asserted
“the most comprehensive collection of left-wing literature in the U.S., Lisa's job was to pass information to the CIA about people's borrowing habits. So when foreigners or even well-off students came, she reported what they were using the l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:38:42
Phil Blakely member_of
Peoples Temple host_asserted
“transported mercenary recruits to the Brazilian coast where Phil Blankley would pick them up in the Temple ship, ship them off to Jonestown. Blakely was one of Jones's top lieutenants. Apparently managed the whole program like a business. U…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:19:30
Patty Carmichael member_of
Peoples Temple documented
“for future blackmail purposes to make sure that they didn't ever leave. Additionally, his personal aides had to sign blank papers that he could write the crime in. Those people were never leaving. One of Jones' top aides, Patty Cartmell, C-…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 47:24
Leo Ryan investigated
Peoples Temple documented
“A People's Temple attorney who had been arrested in Berlin in the 1960s for espionage charges, Layton prepared a dossier for Ryan and the Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, making accusations against Jones. She in turn contacted and met with …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:46:54
Jim Jones member_of
Peoples Temple documented
“laced with cyanide poisoning from paper cups. A lot of details there, right? So did that in fact happen? We're going to look into that. Supposedly they were instructed to do that by Jim Jones. He was a preacher of a thing called People's Te…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 7:59
MKUltra continued_in
Peoples Temple speculative
“Operation MK Ultra, a CIA program originated in the early 50s that tested drugs on unwitting human guinea pigs in an attempt to develop mind control and behavioral modification techniques, was terminated in 74. It is believed, however, that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:22:39
Peoples Temple infiltrated
Mendocino State Psychiatric Hospital host_asserted
“was used for behavior modification and to figure out how to manipulate people, all of which was interesting to the CIA. When Jones moved his temple to California, the group immediately infiltrated the Mendocino State Psychiatric Hospital, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:25:04
Deborah Layton defected_from
Peoples Temple host_asserted
“husband, had served as Joan's financial advisor and aide. She joined the temple after she had been shipped off to a boarding school in Lake England and met him. Conveniently, Deborah defected a few months before the mass suicide, almost lik…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:32:06
Peoples Temple funded
Forbes Burnham documented
“Specifically, the People's Temple provided funds to the Burnham Group and acted as a terrorist organization to intimidate opponents of the Burnham regime. James Jones himself was seen as throwing tear gas into anti-Burnham demonstrations in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:07:01
Bob Houston member_of
Peoples Temple documented
“was part of the People's Temple Band. After having a falling out with Jones, he was crushed by a train in a railroad yard that he worked as a switchman. They knew he was murdered because his gloves had been taken off when the man, when he g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:44:33
Jim Jones founded
Peoples Temple guest_asserted
“In my research, we came across Jim Jones, who we all think of as the Kool-Aid drinker. His church that was started, as you probably know, in Richmond, Indiana. There's something about Indiana. I don't know what it is. The Eucharist conventi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:30:49
Jim Jones reassigned
Peoples Temple guest_asserted
“Two billion dollars worth of assets in this church because he is blackmailing all of the politicians in California for God knows what. And he's vote running both in Southern California and L.A. and in San Francisco for all of the Democrat f…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:31:46
CIA funded
Peoples Temple host_asserted
“In the course of his investigation into MKUltra, he uncovered the CIA had sponsored several cults that practice mind control on their members. These included the Unification Church, whose leader was Reverend Moon in Korea, the Symbionese Li…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 1:43:31
Peoples Temple front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And now, again, now that you know that and you know the timing, you start reading back over that and you're like, what was that guy doing? And yeah, so with the Jim Jones thing and the Moonies with the Unification Church, you realize that a…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Janet from Another Planet @ 1:09:24
Mentions (4)
▶ 1:30:49
In my research, we came across Jim Jones, who we all think of as the Kool-Aid drinker. His church that was started, as you probably know, in Richmond, Indiana. There's something about Indiana. I don't know what it is. The Eucharist conventi…
▶ 1:31:17
out to San Francisco at the height of the CIA MKUltra experiments. And he is designated by the state of California as a foster home. And so he has all of these children that is exposed to all of these different psychological operations. Whe…
▶ 1:31:46
Two billion dollars worth of assets in this church because he is blackmailing all of the politicians in California for God knows what. And he's vote running both in Southern California and L.A. and in San Francisco for all of the Democrat f…
▶ 1:32:13
Prior to that church moving there, you find out that that installation they plopped that church down on to continue their NK Altra experiments was a Gladio training base that they were mounting paramilitary operations from Guyana into Venez…