And now we see the lying morons who inhabit "State"-----"State Department had been "lax."... paint a far more damning portrait of the government's efforts before the tragedy...

Roll Call - Covering Capitol Hill Since 1955
"Jim Jones and his U.S.-founded cult is remembered for the horrific events of November 1978, when more than 900 of his mostly American followers died of murder or suicide in northwestern Guyana; also killed was investigating U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan of California, slain on Jones's orders.
A congressional investigation concluded in 1979 that the State Department had been "lax."
But this Roll Call series and podcast take a fresh look at the 30,000-page record of that investigation - some of it only recently declassified - to paint a far more damning portrait of the government's efforts before the tragedy. 
Among Roll Call's findings:

• Family concerns were dismissed: Cables show that relatives of at least 48 members of Jones's Peoples Temple reached out to the State Department over more than a year, worried about loved ones' well-being and asking for help. The cases included credible examples of the temple restricting members' communications with outsiders and preventing them from leaving the Jonestown settlementy. The records detail the extent to which diplomats minimized and sometimes dismissed these concerns.
• Temple defectors were also largely ignored...

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