Jonestown

:For other uses, see Jonestown (disambiguation)

Conspiracy theories

Various conspiracy theories exist that offer alternative explanations as to what actually happened at Jonestown. One popular one suggests that Jones himself was a CIA agent and that Jonestown was a mind control experiment gone wrong. Drugs found at the premises, such as Quaaludes, Valium, morphine, Demerol, and chloral hydrate, have been offered as evidence for this theory.

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Conspiracy theories - CIA - Mind control - Quaaludes - Valium - Morphine - Demerol - Chloral hydrate

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Another conspiracy theory suggests that the CIA used this opportunity to assassinate Leo Ryan, as he was a harsh critic of the CIA and had authored the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which if passed would have required the CIA to report its planned covert missions to Congress for approval. Under this theory, the murder of the Jonestown members was to cover up the real reason for Leo Ryan's murder. Some claim it is too far-fetched to believe that the CIA would want to go through all the trouble of killing almost a thousand people just to cover up a single person's assassination. A theory that combines the mind control theory with this one has also been suggested by some, as sort of a "killing two birds with one stone" version.

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In 1980, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigated the Jonestown mass suicide and announced that there was no evidence of CIA involvement at Jonestown. The fact that all government documents relating to Jonestown remain classified has helped keep conspiracy theories and rumours about Jonestown alive http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Articles/richardson.htm.

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