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Jonestown — Part 2
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SD «1212 two terms. He stated
that in f Traitor" was used instead of the term
“defector."' A traitor was a PT member that left the temple.
This was the t that JONES labeled those persons that did in
fact leave. so many people were afraid to
leave the temple for fear of their lives. JONIS said that if
anyone were to leave the organization, the "traitors" would be
killed. (U
not have a large amount of information
regarding @ ban Francis3co based PT. He advised this because
he really did not know mich about the workings of the San
Francisco Church. He never was involved much in San Francisco
to the extent of his involvement in the Jonestown, Guyana camp.
the following names of people that he knew
o be currently in charge of the San Francisco PT: TOM ADAMS,
JEAN BROWN, PHILLIS HOUSTON and JIM RANDOLPH, (&
few hundre 5 in the San Francisco PT. (u)
he was accompanied to Guyana by
a: Jonestown Camp of the PT was
established 1 proximately December of 1973. JIM JONES was
not permanently living in Jonestown at this time, but he would
frequently visit to see how it was being maintained and structured.
The purpose for the establishment of the PT in Jonestown was
because all PT members were to eventually go and live there.
The reason behind the establishment was with the idea that
JONES wanted to build the "perfect society."' That was JONES'
main goal ey: JONES! interpretation of a
perfect society was that their would be no hunger, no poor people,
no rich people, no one vould be looked down upon, there would
be little work, and a let of play, and everyone would be treated
equally. In terms of prnishment if someone did something: wrong,
they would be punished by beatings which were inflicted by other
members of the PT who volunteered. Anyone JONES chose to inflict
the beatings would either use their hands, fist, or rubber hoses.
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