https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Most-Peoples-Temple-Documents-Still-Sealed-2979424.php
For nearly 20 years there have been rumors that the Rev. Jim Jones was either under surveillance by the CIA and the FBI or that he was working for the CIA.
There was even a rumor that he had taken his followers to Jonestown as part of the MK-ULTRA mind control program – a CIA effort that tried, among other things, to duplicate Soviet and Chinese brainwashing techniques to force recalcitrant spies to reveal sensitive secrets. The government said MK-ULTRA was ended in 1973.
https://www.sott.net/article/244751-CIA-Cults-and-the-Global-Brainwashing-Experiment-The-Untold-Story-of-the-Jonestown-Massacre
The ultimate victims of mind control at Jonestown are the American people. If we fail to look beyond the constructed images given us by the television and the press, then our consciousness is manipulated, just as well as the Jonestown victims' was. Facing nuclear annihilation, may see the current militarism of the Reagan policies, and military training itself, as the real "mass suicide cult." If the discrepancy between the truth of Jonestown and the official version can be so great, what other lies have we been told about major events?
History is precious. In a democracy, knowledge must be accessible for informed consent to function. Hiding or distorting history behind "national security" leaves the public as the final enemy of the government. Democratic process cannot operate on "need to know." Otherwise we live in the 1984 envisioned by Orwell's projections and we must heed his warning that those who control the past control the future.