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than his old CIA buddy, Jim Jones, who arranged to lease a
3,852 acre tract in the disputed territory, thirteen miles
from the Venezuelan border. The Peoples Temple occupied the
site in December of 1973 but the five year lease, which
expired one month after the massacre, was not signed until
1976. There was talk of an additional 20,000 acres but this
was only rhetoric to impress the Venezuelans.
The project's contribution to the security of Guyana's
interior is best described by Laurence Mann, Guyana's
ambassador to the United States, in a letter he wrote to his
Foreign Minister in 1977,
We have not, of course, told the press that the
peopling of the North West region of the country
near the Venezuelan front by American citizens
is a consideration not to be dismissed lightly,
since the death of American citizens in a border
war cannot be a matter of indifference to the
Department of State. Nor have we told the press
that Bishop Jones's en-
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Thus was the nature of Jones' last published work for Prime
Minister Burnham. The two men had been friends since the
early 1960's when the CIA put both in their respective
positions. And now, fifteen years later, they closed their
last business deal. The Jonestown Agricultural and Medical
Mission was a tremendous success but, despite the obvious
advantages to Burnham, he wanted more in exchange for
hosting the atrocity. In the last year of Jonestown, U.S.
aid to Guyana went from $500,000 to $31.5 million; an
increase of 6,300%. Burnham profited handsomely from his
relationship with the U.S. State Department which had taken
him from obscurity and made him one of the ten richest Black
men in the world. He was sufficiently confident in his
knowledge of the true nature of the Jonestown experiment
that, amid all rumors of a Temple hit squad and hundreds of
missing, he sent his wife Viola to tour the carnage.
Escorted by Guyanese soldiers, the first lady was the first
outsider on the scene. Most accounts imply that she was
there to confiscate anything of value, but moreover, her
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