I know we all hate the feds here, but the atf didn’t start the Waco fires. Denying reality to own the cops isn’t something that we should be doing. This and killdozer are like 2 of the things that pisses me off with the left trying to co-opt libertarian folk heros because pig bad
Highly recommend reading the book (pdf actually, the book is impossible to find) Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment. I'm kind of obsessed with this story rn.
A few interesting points off the top of my head:
The Layton family were all up in the leadership of the people's temple. The patriarch of this family was a cia scientist who came to the US via operation paperclip. The author of the book thinks that Layton was running the whole Jonestown thing. One of his daughters was the accountant for the PT and involved in laundering money and keeping it in offshore accounts.
Jones was doing some real suspect "missionary work" in south america pre Jonestown.
Before Jones and the PT took it over the site of Jonestown was used to train mercenaries who were going to angola.
Jones had an old friend named Dan Mitrione who became a cia torture expert, and trained contra groups. He was kidnapped and killed by a revolutionary group.
This is just scratching the surface