FIRE FROM THE SKY

by "One Who Knows"

PART 19:

THE BATTLE OF THANKSGIVING DAY 1978

Close aides of the late Congressman Leo Ryan have reported publicly that
his ill-fated decision to go to Guyana was triggered by a State Department
report to him that he found totally unsatisfactory. This reaction of Ryan's
had been correctly predicted and, in fact, deliberately encouraged. With
elections coming up, Congressman Ryan decided to schedule the trip after
the election during the Congressional recess.

This was a quite natural decision, and had also been anticipated by the
planners behind the scenes. No politician would miss the opportunity to
campaign right up to election day.

As the time approached for his trip, the false issue of the Cuban MIG-23
crisis erupted. The Carter Administration had learned nearly a year prior
that the Russians were going to send the MIG-23s to Cuba and decided that
it would be a perfect pretext for a fake crisis. The MIG-23 can carry
certain types of nuclear weapons as claimed; but even this role it is a
tactical weapon best suited for support of ground or naval forces.

The MIG-23 in and of itself did not threaten America in the same way that
the 1962 Cuban missiles did, and so when the United States began playing up
the MIG-23s, it was very obvious to the Kremlin that this was a deliberate
effort to stir up public tension over Cuba.

The questions were: Exactly what was the United States up to? Would the
Carter Administration be so crazy as to invade Cuba? Such a thing sounded
irrational, but America's Unseen Rulers were behaving more and more
irrationally.

This, too, was partially deliberate and was intended to keep the chess
players in the Kremlin off balance, but it was also partly a result of the
increasing degree of control over America by those Satanic schizophrenics,
the Bolsheviks.

Cuba was, after all, very important to Russia, for Russia was looking ahead
to world domination after Nuclear War I; and for that, Cuba is Russia's
main beach-head in the Western Hemisphere. Even more urgently, Cuba was the
unadmitted home of Russia's Caribbean Submarine Fleet, and that fleet had
repeatedly moved into attack positions in the Gulf of Mexico over the prior
two years and more during periods of tension.

As if that were not enough, there were concentrations of nuclear weapons in
at least four land locations in Cuba. One was near the north coast roughly
10 miles inland southeast of Cardenas. This location is 150 miles due south
of Cape Sable, Florida. A second site was about 150 miles to the
east-southeast of that and about 10 miles inland from the north coast. One
hundred twenty five miles farther to the southeast was a third
concentration 15 miles northeast of Marti, well inland. A fourth nuclear
site was near the eastern tip of Cuba, 18 miles north-northwest of the
United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.

With all this at stake, American publicity over the MIG-23s caused worry in
the Kremlin. And in early November the tension increased when the United
States began sending SR-71 reconnaissance flights over Cuba - shades of
1962 and the U-2.

In response, massive formations from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Caribbean
Submarine Fleets of the Russian Navy began fanning out along America's
east, west, and gulf coasts on November 6. They did not deploy into attack
formations but their sheer numbers signaled a clear warning to Washington.
At that moment they were still on station, many with neutron weaponry.

Then during the week immediately preceding the tragedies in Guyana the
MIG-23 pseudo crisis built to a climax. Beginning on Tuesday, November 14,
a huge combined American and British naval Task Force began heading toward
Cuba. By midweek, Cuban defense forces were on full alert, and on Thursday,
November 16, a group of twelve United States Senators in Moscow -
supposedly to discuss the SALT talks - met with Russia's Kosygin.

There they pressed the alleged issue of the Cuban MIG-23 argument, calling
it a "false issue." As a former test pilot and America's first astronaut in
orbit, Senator John Glenn knew what he was talking about, but Kosygin's
anger over the other comments about the MIGs provided the United States
intelligence community with valuable proof that the decoy action toward
Cuba was working. The next day, November 17, Russia publicly admitted
sending MIG-23s to Cuba, calling them strictly defensive weapons.

The same day an editorial in the *Washington Post* typified the crescendo
of media attention to the Cuban MIG-23s. It was titled: "A New Cuban
Missile Crisis?" The very next day, Saturday, November 18, Congressman Leo
Ryan, three newsmen and a woman seeking to escape from Jonestown were
slaughtered at the Port Kaituma Airport. At least a dozen other people were
also wounded, but there was no effort to destroy the airplane filled with
terrified escapees from Jonestown. Instead, many witnesses were left alive,
and a smaller plane managed to take off right after the airport massacre
and report the attack in the capital, Georgetown.

Immediately world attention was focused on Guyana, and meanwhile the mass
murder at Jonestown - wrongly called a mass suicide - was underway.

At this point, the elaborate decoy action toward Cuba was no longer needed,
so the Pentagon announced that a routine naval exercise was in progress
which would approach no closer to Cuba than 50 miles. Cuban defense forces
relaxed, but the real action was only beginning in Guyana. The methodical
executions of Congressman Ryan and three prominent newsmen had guaranteed
that Jonestown would shortly be in the glare of publicity. Having
guaranteed this publicity, Jim Jones then ordered the mass executions at
the Jonestown kibbutz.

DETAILS OF MASSACRE

The complete details of the Jonestown disaster may never be known publicly.
It is certain, however, that very few if any of those who died there
willingly took their own lives. Some were tricked, not realizing that the
death rites were real. Many more resisted, but they were weak, helpless,
and confronted with armed execution squads. So by various means, several
hundred people were poisoned with potassium cyanide, many by being forcibly
injected. Many more fled into the jungle, where U.S. Army Green Berets and
British SAS special forces troops tracked them down and killed them with a
shot to the temple.

Finally, when the mass murder was completed, the executioners performed
their final task of stage-managing the horrible death scene. In order to
achieve the surprise needed in attacking the Russian missile base, it was
critically important that the first reports from Jonestown described the
scene as a mass suicide. Only in this way could its actual military
significance be hidden long enough to fool the Russians.

Therefore, all the bodies free of gunshot wounds were carefully arranged in
neat rows and other groupings, suggesting at first sight that everyone died
willingly and deliberately. This was the scene that greeted Guyanese troops
late the following day, Sunday, November 19. It was more than 24 hours
after the kibbutz victims died and the executioners, including the real Jim
Jones, were long gone. Jim Jones did not die at Jonestown.

COUNTERS AFRAID OF DISEASE

The Guyanese troops were afraid of possible disease but counted the bodies
as accurately as possible without close handling or moving the bodies. The
total they reported was 409 on that Sunday night. The initial impression of
a mass suicide was seized upon by the controlled major media of the United
States. Without waiting for an investigation, the media drummed away at the
suicide image of Jonestown as if it were a proven fact. After a few days a
few people did begin to raise questions, but by then the initial image of
suicide had served its purpose of opening Guyana's doors to the United
States.

For example, on Tuesday, November 21, Jim Jones' surviving son, Steven,
said in a Georgetown press conference, "There's no way it could have been
mass suicide." And that same day, according to the *Washington Star,* a
Guyanese source pointed out a serious medical discrepancy in the Jonestown
kibbutz death scene. He said, "If you die of cyanide, which seems to have
been the poison, your body goes into spasm and contortion death, but at
Jonestown everyone looked totally relaxed."

The reason for this discrepancy was that by the time the Guyanese troops
arrived, all the bodies had been rearranged. They were also placed face
down for the most part. This was so that the widely publicized news photos
would not ruin the desired impression of calm by letting you see the
victims' final expression of agony.

THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUED

To continue the nightmare charade to fool the Russians, the United States
at first publicly urged Guyana to collect and bury the hundreds of bodies.
As arranged, Guyana replied in effect that it was America's problem and
that America should take the bodies back to the United States - just as
planned. To facilitate this huge and hideous task, Guyana obligingly agreed
to waive the usual Guyanese law that requires any body to be autopsied
before removal from the country. With this arrangement, the United States
achieved the carte blanche military access to Guyana that was needed.

Russian intelligence realized what was afoot by early Monday, November 20,
but it was already too late to stop it. Russia could hardly announce to the
world that, "We have a secret nuclear missile base in Guyana and the United
States is getting ready to destroy it." That would have rallied world
opinion behind America; and, although Russian Cosmoshperes quickly
converged over Guyana, they, too, were useless in the covert conditions of
battle there.

Their Charged Particle Beam Weapons could have made short work of the
commando-style forces, but in the process they would have wiped out the
Russian base itself. The Guyana missiles had become only a minor factor in
Russia's military power since the Battle of the Harvest Moon the year
prior. They were not valuable enough to Russia to declare open war on their
account. And so under these conditions, Russia was powerless to act once
the Jonestown tragedy had been staged.

As Thanksgiving Day approached, huge American transports, helicopters,
troops, and medical teams swarmed into Guyana. In a remote corner of the
huge Temehri Airfield a command post was established for the twin
operations of Jonestown and the Russian missile base.

As some of the troops began the nauseating task of cleaning up the
Jonestown kibbutz, other joint attack forces were taking up positions
around the missile base in preparations for the surprise raid. Meanwhile,
day after day the death count reported at Jonestown remained unchanged at
409.

Then on Thanksgiving Day itself, the Battle of Guyana took place. Crack
military forces experienced in jungle and surprise warfare moved in on the
Russian complex, striking all the dispersed sites simultaneously. Like the
Entebbe raid, the battle itself did not last long. It had to be over
quickly to be successful.

First the small crews on site near each missile were overwhelmed, and then
killed. The missiles themselves were quickly disabled. Next the military
forces converged on the Missile Command and Control Center, where a bloody
pitched battle took place.

When the smoke cleared, every single person manning the missile base had
been killed, including the Russian commanders.

When the battle was over, American helicopters from Temehri Airfield began
landing within the ruined missile complex and flying out the wounded. Then
the remaining attackers were left with two more jobs before they could
retire from the area. First, they were under strict orders to leave no
bodies in the attacking forces on Guyanese soil, and so the entire area was
scoured until every single member of the attacking force had been accounted
for. Their bodies, like those of the victims at Jonestown, were sealed in
Vietnam-type body bags and collected in clearings where helicopters could
land to pick them up.

Finally, the combined forces were under orders to remove the nuclear
warheads from the missiles and take them back to Georgetown for airlift to
the United States. Specially trained members of the attacking force had set
to work on this task immediately after the initial attacks on the missile
crews.

By early Friday, November 24, all the warheads had been removed. They, too,
were placed in body bags, one per bag, with some jungle foliage stuffed in
to give the bag a reasonable appearance.

Of course none of this war was apparent to the reporters at Temehri
Airfield, whose access to the American Command Post there was carefully
controlled. When wounded members of the attacking force were flown back to
the Airfield, after the Battle of Guyana on Thanksgiving afternoon, they
were kept out of sight of the reporters. Otherwise, when reporters
occasionally saw body bags being moved from place to place they just
naturally assumed that all contained victims from Jonestown. They had no
way of knowing that some contained slain Commandoes and that others
contained Russian nuclear warheads. The continual cargo of death from the
Jonestown kibbutz made the perfect cover for the aftermath of the Battle of
Guyana.

WHERE COULD THEY TAKE ALL THOSE BODIES?

Many reporters were totally puzzled at the choice of Dover Air Force Base
in Delaware for the Guyana airlift. Most of the Jonestown victims were from
California, and there is a mortuary facility, similar to the Dover
facility, at Oakland Air Force Base in California. Dover was chosen to
facilitate transfer of the Russian nuclear warheads to the nearby Aberdeen
Proving Ground and Arsenal. This was done by means of shallow flights from
Dover to Phillips Air Force Base.

Originally the Guyanese count of 409 had been accepted as firm by United
States officials in Guyana. That had raised questions as to where the rest
of the one thousand or so residents reported to be in Jonestown had gone.
Finally, on Thanksgiving Day, with the body clean-up operation well under
way, a military spokesman told reporters, "The evaluation that we have made
is simply that there were not many more people in Jonestown at the time of
the suicide." But even as he spoke, the Battle of Guyana was raging at the
Russian missile base. By midday on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, 485
body bags had already arrived at the Temehri Airfield. The "bodies" of
warheads from the Russian missile base were destined to raise the total far
beyond the total of 409 bodies originally counted by the Guyanese at the
kibbutz. It was a bad mistake, the kind of thing that happens in the heat
of battle. Something had to be done, and quickly.

So, on that Friday after Thanksgiving, a breathless and nervous Pentagon
spokesman at the Temehri Airfield made a stunning announcement over CBS
television [some of us call it CIABS Television, don't we, Dan Rather?]:
"The original count of persons found dead at the Jonestown site has been
found to be seriously in error. It now appears there may be as many as 780
bodies, total, found at the site. They were found simply buried under other
bodies. There were larger adults that were grouped together, and under
their bodies were found bodies, and under their bodies were found the
bodies of smaller adults and children."

Rather a curious mass suicide, I would say.

Badgered by incredulous reporters, the Government embellished the cover
story later on. The *Washington Star* quoted the same spokesman as saying
Friday night: "Near the center of the pile of bodies, near the assembly
hall, they were three deep in some areas. They were in layers with blankets
between them." Wasn't it just nice of all those people to fall over in well
orchestrated and neat rows?

The story was so unbelievable that within two days the United States
Government dismissed its own story about the blankets as a "rumor." Still
the basic idea of bodies on top of bodies had to be maintained, so on
Saturday, November 25, another Air Force spokesman tried to make it all
sound plausible in the following words:

"From what I observed, the people, when they committed suicide, would line
up in nice neat little circles, children in front of them, and as they died
they folded into the interior of the circle."

Even though the story kept getting curiouser and curiouser, nearly
everybody accepted it hook, line, sinker and fish!

The Guyana cover-up was world-wide in its dimensions - it had to be. In
Guyana, Deputy Prime Minister Reid made the first public announcement to
the Guyanese people about Jonestown on Friday afternoon, November 24, in
parliament. Then he refused to answer questions, and rushed out to cries of
"Shame, Shame" and "Cover-up" from parliament members.

And in the United States on Thanksgiving Day, FBI Director William Webster
said that the: "FBI disaster squad had positively identified the body of
James Warren Jones through fingerprint identification records." This was a
lie, and at that moment Jim Jones was making good his preplanned escape
from Guyana.

HOW DID JIM JONES GET OUT?

The plans for removal of Jones were laid well in advance. An ocean-going
boat, well stocked with supplies and money, was waiting for him near the
river town of Bartica, 35 miles southwest of Georgetown. In order to make
his way to Bartica from Jonestown, Jones had a Safe Conduct Pass.

In the early morning of Thanksgiving Day, as the Battle of Guyana was
beginning, Jones headed downstream toward Georgetown. Shortly after noon
Guyana time his boat left the mouth of the Essequibo River into the
Atlantic Ocean.

From there Jones followed a complicated itinerary which was designed to
prevent his being followed; but in spite of that, he was followed. From
Guyana Jones headed due east for about 330 miles and then turned south,
landing near La Mere, French Guyana, at about 5:30 A.M. local time,
November 27. From there he traveled by land to the capital of Cayenne, and
took an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean to Freetown, Sierra Bissau
Airport, arriving there approximately 7:00 P.M. local time, November 28.

There, less than two hours later, he boarded a DC-3 and took off. His route
took him eastward to Tambacounda, (Senegal); from there onward into Mali
with stops at Segou, Mopti, and Gao; then onward to Agadez (Niger), and
Largeau (Chad). From there his plane continued to Atbaqra (Sudan), and then
a short final hop to Port Sudan where he arrived shortly after 4:00 A.M.,
November 30, local time.

When he arrived at Port Sudan, Jones found a Turboprop Executive Transport
waiting for him which was owned and operated by Israeli Intelligence.
Within 20 minutes the plane took off with Jones and headed up the middle of
the Red Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba. At 6:30 A.M. local time on November
30, Jones' plane landed briefly at Elath, the back door to Israel; then on
to a private airport outside of Jerusalem, arriving at 7:20 A.M. local
time. From there he headed to a nearby location for an intelligence
briefing.

I have information that Jones was in Israel for about 7 or 8 years then was
killed by his "keepers" as being too dangerous to have around. However, I
have other information that conflicts with this, so I do not know his
current status.

I have heard preachers giving sermons making a point by telling about Jim
Jones and Jonestown. They are really just snorting in the wind; they have
no notion of truth and are merely reinforcing the brainwashing that has
been laid upon them.