- Barclays Canada gives the People's Temple a $400k bank draft
- Bank of Montreal in Los Angeles holds accounts for and donates to the People's Temple
- Jim Jones stashes money in Bank of Nova Scotia's Panama facilities
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People's Temple assets between $26 million and $2 billion (??)
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A Chart of Financial Holdings
Weren't these assets willed to the USSR after the mass death incident? Who here knew that Jonestown received regular visits from Soviet embassy staff? And that a precipitating event for the deaths was the fact that an airlift of Jonestown residents to Soviet territory wasn't going to happen? https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35388
I was listening to the death tape one night, as you do, when my ears perked up when one of the residents mentioned an airlift to "Russia". That sent me down a three-day rabbit hole. When I emerged I had learned a lot and was surprised there were such links between Jonestown and the Soviets. Memo: S/M – The U.S.S.R. – Possible Settlement Locations, Geography and Climate
Some theories indicate Jones was likely being controlled by Feds stemming from dirt related to being a sex addict. Perhaps the temple was playing off both sides of the Cold War to some degree as well.
When you add in the whole Operation CHAOS stuff that was going on at the time, it surely would fit the mold quite well.
Jonestown was an experiment in Utopian socialism, so it's not far fetched that they they had contacts with the USSR. Before their move to Guyana and the tragedy, Jones was pretty mainstream, like a typical church that did plenty of charity work with the impoverished black community. The quick and sudden downward spiral to murdering a US official and mass suicide is very bizarre.
It's amazing how many people don't know this. I thought Jonestown was just a crazy Christian cult. But Jones got an award from the city of San Francisco!
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/