num_pages: 575
description: A work of investigative journalism that presents the theory that the Central Intelligence Agency employed the Reverend Jim Jones to administer a pharmaceutical field test in mind control and ethnic weaponry to a large test group, namely the membership of the Peoples Temple. Proposes that Dr. Laurence Layton (Former Chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical and Biological Warfare Division) cultured the AIDS virus to be tested and deployed in a CIA-backed experiment in Jonestown, Guyana.
language: English
title: Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence
titlecomplete: Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence
genres: Conspiracy Theories
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr