The Tentacles of Jonestown
I hand-wrote a thread months ago using notes from a bunch of my “lockdown reads”.
Jonestown tentacles everywhere, even current events.
I take LOTS of photos. I carry a real camera everywhere. I spend lots of time repeatedly looking at my own photos and (often) historical photos. I skimmed through Jonestown Getty archives one night [1] and two photos in particularly just captured me.
This first one is a sign that was hung on the Jonestown stage/altar. (I blurred it out of respect for the dead, and you, the reader)
The second photo that captured me was this one: (I again blurred it but i encourage you to look at the full photos [1] )
During “lockdown”, this photo “John Wick”ed me into furious weeks of Jonestown research.
I’d read long ago that when people didnt drink the poison “koolaid” at Jonestown, they started injecting the hesitant, including the children.
Even if that were the case…why’d these f*****s jab the dogs too?
Are we really expected to believe that the people who administered the final shots were all among the dead? Also, why were most of these folks black? Did someone use my people yet again? [1]
Turns out, a good chunk of these people came from inner city. Specifically San Francisco. The People’s Temple. It is marked here on this map. We’ll start with this marker, but add more markers as we explore the other neighbors of the People’s Temple.
I wont go much into Jim Jones and how the People’s Temple got to Guyana (the Marxist Cheddi Jagan, and Prime Minister Burnham who Jim Jones [1] was really close to)
Charles Manson
The Patty Hearst debacle (Symbionese Liberation ARmy) features prominently in Haight Ashbury Excellent thread on that here [1].
What else was in the hood?
Eldridge Cleaver, the founder of the Black Panthers, and the original Black Panther Headquarters HQ
What else? Anton LeVey. Founder of Church of Satan. But also connected to the Manson family (through a woman named Susan Atkins who worked for him that eventually joined the Manson family).
Also nearby the People’s Temple was “Process Church of the Final Judgement”, an odd group with a….uh…“strange” logo.
Robert and Mary Ann DeGrimston founded it in London (it had chapters all over) but moved to and opened a chapter in Haight-Ashbury. Charlie Manson lived two blocks from the Grimstons and reportedly joined their Church that was on the same block he lived.
The Process Church had as members the “serial killer” Sam Berkowitz known as the “Son of Sam” and Sirhan Sirhan (RFK’s supposed assassin) was also associated.
I put “serial killer” in quotes above because…well….
L. Ron Hubbard founder of Scientology was friends with founder of the Process Church.
Side Note: Frank Malina, Jack Parson’s JPL colleague later worked under Julian Huxley at UNESCO and has a son married to the sister of Ghislaine Maxwell. (small world)
Many Jonestown parishioners were recruited out of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic.
John Money and Alfred Kinsey also both worked out of the Haight clinics.
John Money (the psychologist that helped contribute to “sex and gender studies” coining the terms “gender role” and “gender identity”) did horrible experiments on children.
Alfred Kinsey also documented horrific experiments on children [1]. He was responsible for the infamous and incredibly disturbing “Table 34” (which until recently was right there on Wikipedia [2] ) and lesser known “Table 31”
[2]
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626110958/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale 
It’s worth noting here that years after the 60’s in 1986 news of the Presidio Child Abuse Case broke. express.co.uk/news/weird/722…
Here is that base relative to Haight Ashbury. This story (like many of these) can tentacle in many different directions, but it is noteworthy that a Colonel who I have mentioned before [1] ( author of “The Satanic Bible”) was implicated in articles about it.
Jolly West is another character that frequented the area. He is featured in the book “CHAOS” above. He worked with Manson Family, also did eval of Timothy McVeigh, testified at Patty Hearst trial, and much more “sus” stuff. odd figure.
Jolly West established the “Hippie Crash Pad” in a Victorian House on Frederick Street. In reality which it was an indirect government-funded laboratory for West’s studies on the human mind.
Jolly West’s “Crash Pad” was in an ideal place to “observe” (or perhaps be more proactive and perform tests).
theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia…
Given Jolly West’s interests, it is also important to remember where LSD came from in the first place.
It wasnt just Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and all those quirky characters. It came from earlier than that.
Also noteworthy:
Richard Helms’ so-called “LSD Sex-House” from Operation Midnight Climax was crosstown in Telegraph hill at 225 Chestnut St. but folks from there frequented Haight-Ashbury.
There’s more on all of this in the Sidney Gottlieb book also
Kenneth Anger the occultist/filmmaker was also in Haight-Ashbury. He was in a house nicknamed “The Russian Embassy” (1198 Fulton St). He filmed “Lucifer Rising” there and in the area.
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_R…
He is associated with many odd types. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
So, all of the pivotal cultural things that came to define the 60s, 70s, and partially the 80s and are seemingly disconnected were in-fact all ACTUALLY incubated within like a 10 block radius.
What common thread runs through all these groups, events and music? They feature some “leader” convincing a groups of people to “do stuff” w/ some form of dissociation or hypnosis (music, drugs, trauma, etc)
Maybe Stanley Kubrick was an “accidental documentarian” trying to allegorically hint at something?
Side note: Patty Heart’s hideout was on “Masonic Street” that runs thru Haight-Ashbury.
It is almost as if Haight-Ashbury was actually not an organic “hippie free love” movement after all..
…but instead a more astroturfed “open air” research laboratory
with lots of “operations” incubating what would become the next 50+ years of “pop culture”.
Remember Harvey Milk, the assassinated Mayor of San Fran?
Well Harvey Milk refused to condemn the events at Jonestown for some VERY ODD reason.
He made crude jokes and veiled statements.
This is an odd thing to say
isnt it?
What exactly “didnt work” according to Harvey Milk?
Well maybe we can get a hint from congressman Leo Ryan who had a penchant for doing investigative journalism.
And why’s he buried at Arlinton Cemetery?
There’s a great podcast by @JimmyFalunGong on Jonestown, Leo Ryan, Holsinger, et al. So you should check his work out on that if you want details, he does a much better job than I could, and I’d just be repeating his research.
I cant remember if I heard it in his podcast or read it somewhere, but I think it also tentacles out to the Thelemites and Theosophists via Timothy Leary. [1]
https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/1658903772079292416
Fun Fact: Not only did Blavatsky found the Theosophy [1] cult all our fav 20th century people [2] were members of (from Lewis Carol to Ghandi). But..
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) May 17, 2023
SHE is the one who supposedly found the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
[1] https://t.co/1HYAaT1OiA
[2] https://t.co/YRhl3gvaqV https://t.co/JHzIIasjEd pic.twitter.com/NnaSfMMChu
To summarize though, Leo Ryan was going deep undercover (getting himself arrested or admitted to mental hospitals, and joining cults) because he had a hunch that there was a massive covert “mind control” program going on nationwide archive.org/details/the-pe…
prescient?
foreboding for sure.
And guess what?
He died in the shootout on the tarmac in Jonestown as survivors were trying to escape.
Here’s another San Fran oddity:
The now-recalled DA of San Fran is Chesa Boudin. He’s associated with the infamous Open-Societies Foundation. Boudin had to be raised by other people because his parents were serving prison terms.
His mom Kathy Boudin and Susan Rosenberg robbed a Brinks Truck vault.fbi.gov/Weather%20Unde…
They also made bombs
A communist activist by the name of Assata Shakur…the mother of Tupac Shakur.
theguardian.com/books/2014/jul…
Other members of the group also fled to communist Cuba in the 70s and stayed there safely to this day.
Obama later opened up Cuba for tourism. In a way this is “FULL CIRCLE”.
Why?
Well:
Odd.
Not extradited?
Why?
It was interesting to rediscover (in my reading) that it was actually the Hillary Clinton campaign that revealed these Obama links back during the 2008 campaign season.
Anyway William “Bill” Ayers acted as a kinda “ringleader” for many of these folks, which is why he features so prominently in the FBI vault screenshots from above
Also, on his way out of office, Clinton pardoned Susan Rosenberg.
She went on to sit on the board of Black Lives Matter Worldwide and helped fundraise for them. (see this video [1] for more on the BLM/Eric Mann connection)
It also made vague her subsequent pardoning by Bill clinton.
(I collaged it in the days directly following it )
Aside: the username with the authority to make and lock those exclusive edits should not be lost on us.
Jackie Speier was elected well after events at Jonestown, and went on to serve 7 terms.
Another Jonestown “survivor” was one of the Nation’s first indescriminant school shooters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s…
Tyrone Mitchell was his name. the story and details of how he survived (like many of the others) are fuzzy or disputed.
speaking of survivors:
Every year the survivors of Jonestown and family members of victims meet at a Cemetary near Oakland. (in Jackie Speier’s district ;-)
At Evergreen Cemetery. Dunno if this is “the same” Evergreen. Great museum tho. I used to visit it frequently (to see the SR71) on my way to the Oregon Coast from Portland when I lived there.
The cemetery has been a privately held corporation since 1902 but starting in 2007 they stopped accepting new burials (still operating their crematorium though).
HOWEVER, 2014 five more victims were added to the Jonestown mass grave at Evergreen (despite the 2007 “closure”)
Remember I mentioned Eldridge Cleaver lived in Oakland?
And I mentioned that the original Black Panther HQ was in Haight?
Well guess who else is buried at Evergreen Cemetary?
Huey P Newton, Founder and leader of the Black Panther Party!
Fun Fact:
Eldridge Cleaver was married to this black “Black Power” Movement Founder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Cleaver
I’ll bookend this thread w/ the photo we started with.
For me, the most sobering thought is that the architects of Jonestown may still be among us.
What was learned there about psychology perhaps became institutional knowledge somewhere.
Maybe one day they’ll come clean with us.