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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- KPFA's "Sunday Salon" Guest was Jim Jones Accomplice By Alex ConstantineOn the November 16, 2003 broadcast of "Sunday Salon," KPFA's Larry Bensky welcomed Reverend Hugh Fortsyn, formerly an assistant to Jim Jones at the genocidal Peoples Temple, with open arms. Bensky was highly sympathetic to Rev. Fortsyn's claim that the CIA had no role in Jonestown apart from infiltration and harassment of the church -- an insupportable claim first made by Jones himself to obscure the true sponsor of the Temple, distance himself from the Agency and con progressives into supporting his front activities. Most listeners, of course, have never heard of Hugh Fortsyn, and had no way to gauge the disinformation spooned up on Bensky's "Sunday Salon." THE CULT THAT DIED, a book on Jonestown penned by George Klineman, Sherman Butler and David Conn (G.P. Putnam, 1980), offers some insight into the "good" reverend. We find that Fortsyn participated in a murder, for example. The victim was Chris Lewis, an ex-con, heroin addict and a Jones bodyguard who trained agents of the Temple in breaking, entering and fencing stolen goods. (The break-ins were conducted around the Bay area, largely for the purpose of gathering information useful to Jim Jones, although personal belongings were also stolen to disguise the true nature of the crimes.) Chris Lewis was gunned down by two assailants outside a Peoples Temple thrift shop on December 10, 1977. The murder was used to frighten and control Temple parishioners who refused to cooperate with Jones. Wade and Mabel Medloc, for instance. Two weeks after Lewis was shot and killed, Marcelline Jones, another assistant to Jim Jones, ordered the Medlocks to move to Jonestown in French Guyana. The Medlocks refused. "What happened to Chris Lewis will happen to you," Marcelline told her. Rev. Fortsyn repeated the death threat a few days later. "You know what happened to Chris Lewis?" Fortsyn threatened. "You better watch it." The Medlocks responded by suing the Temple, accusing Jones, Fortsyn and others of attempting to extort $135,000 in real estate from them. In the lawsuit, two members of the Peoples Temple, Jim Crokes and Jim McElvane, were identified as the killers of Chris Lewis. Police never questioned these two, known to Temple insiders as participants in the Temple death squad, the "Angels of Death." Rev. Fortsyn is an accomplice in the murder, legally speaking, since he obviously had knowledge of it that he has not shared with police. The threats made against the Medlocks in a failed effort to exort their wealth would suggest that he knows much more than he admits, that he was, in fact, involved in the deep corruption at Jonestown. � This article was posted on 3.3.04 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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