Jeremy Maddux’s Reviews > Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence > Status Update

'Perhaps  the  operation  was  too  complex  for  him to control  or  maybe  it  was  because  the  Brazilian  city-  dwellers  were  far  more  sophisticated  than  the  Guianese natives  he  had  last  worked  with,  but  in  any  event, Jones  made  an  awful  mistake  and  was  exposed  in  print  as a  CIA  operative.'

'They  needed  a man  with  no  prior  history  with  the agency,  one  with  not  only  a  cover  to  explain  his presence  in  Cuba  but  his  recruitment  of  Cubans  to return  to  the  United  States.  Above  all,  he  must  be  a  master  of persuasion.  The  chosen  candidate  for  the  task was  Jim  Jones.'

The quotes from the San
Francisco Chronicle are interesting as Dr. Layton was
neither sensitive nor religious; he was a hardened,
godless man who earned his living inventing new
techniques to kill people en masse. His reference to
Patty Hearst is significant when one considers evidence presented elsewhere in this work that strongly
indicates that Jim Jones was instrumental in her
kidnapping

"All the government’s efforts and the public’s attention were directed to this one case, as if it held the definitive answer to the assassination, but Layton was not on trial for assassinating Ryan, only “conspiring” to do so. "