Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence

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A work of investigative journalism that presents the theory that the Central Intelligence Agency employed the Reverend Jim Jones to administer a pharmaceutical field test in mind control and ethnic weaponry to a large test group, namely the membership of the Peoples Temple. The text proposes that Dr. Laurence Layton (former Chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical and Biological Warfare Division) cultured the AIDS virus to be tested and deployed in a CIA-backed experiment in Jonestown, Guyana. Chapter Page Acknowledgement Prologue I Heil Hitler! 1 Deep Cover 25 From the Cradle to the Company 103 Three Countries, Three Commissions 127 A California Concentration Camp 167 The 'H' File Homicides 195 Moscone, Milk and Murder 277 Publicity, Provocateuring and Political Power 333 Of Dogs and Monkeys 351 It's a Jungle Out There 363 The Experiment 385 One Cookie 407 The White Night 415 Various Villains and Victims 459 The Phantom Preacher 519 Renegade Faction 539 Epilogue 551 Footnotes 553 Selected Bibliography 563 Index 569