The Jonestown Massacre Essay

Don’t drink the kool-aid. A common quote for don't follow blindly has a little darker meaning than most know. It comes from a tragic event where more than 900 people died a third of them being children. On November 18th 1978, in Jonestown Guyana there was a mass suicide of more than 900 cult members. This event was orchestrated by Jim Jones who through the trust he was given he led them astray. The mystery behind the Jonestown massacre can be summed up in two theories a CIA mind control experiment or good people being influenced by a bad man. While Jonestown is known as one of the greatest tragedies in American history it still puzzles those who wonder about how this could have happened. “Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001,

When Jones originally created the church his friend Daniel Martin helped him make it, he later became an agent in the the CIA (“Conspiracies”) Although, conspiracy theorists don't agree on what government played a role in it the Russians and the a part of the Russian government or the CIA (Newton). This is actually a plausible theory some say since because just five years prior to the disaster the CIA allegedly discontinued its MKULTRA mind control program. Additionally, people say it was set in Guyana a venue that would not be seen by anyone which was true until Leo Ryan (“Conspiracies”). With him seeing this and discovering what was happening was the reason possibly why the mass suicide happened. To demonstrate, one such person is Joseph Holsinger an aid to Congressman Ryan says, “I believe that it is possible that Jonestown may have been a mind-control experiment, that Leo Ryan’s congressional visit pierced that veil and would have resulted in its exposure, and that our government or its agents at the CIA deemed it necessary to wipe out more than 900 American citizens to protect the secrecy of the operation (“Conspiracies”). So to cover their tracks the CIA killed over 900 people so that their mission would not be found