10 Things You Didn’t Know About American Cult, Jonestown

Some were forced to drink at gunpoint. And some researchers believe this was an MKULTRA CIA experiment gone awry, or exactly as planned.

Either way the CIA is the biggest group of criminals since cave man times. Hopefully someday we can cut them open and see why they are the way they are.

I lived in Guyana for two years - moved there only two months after it happened so I've always been interested in that cult. The Raven - written by the journalist who survived the attack on Leo Ryan is well worth a read.

One thing missing from the article is one of the reasons they relocated to Guyana. Jim Jones told his congregation that it would be one of the few places where people would be able to survive nuclear armageddon. They were a true doomsday cult in that regard.

The other bit is that when the 'cult' first formed, it was one of the first truly integrated congregations, and Jim Jones at the time suckered a lot of people in who shared the same values he pretended to have - of racial and social equality.