09-03-2015, 12:24 PM
I've also read this book (or 90% of it - a good portion of it is a condensation of his earlier volume, expanded and extended in the new volume into some eye-opening and startling areas, and as I'd just re-read the earlier work I jumped through a couple of chapters). Taken with the first volume, it's an important book - Meiers notes at the outset that he spoke to William Colby the day before Colby went missing, and suspects Colby's death was related to the AIDS / Jonestown research that Meiers had raised with the former CIA director. Flipping through the pages right now, the bold type mentioned by Connie is certainly there, but it's perhaps not as prevalent as some might worry - half of the instances of it are to bold phrases like 'MK-ULTRA" and "THE NEW YORK TIMES". It does pop up though in the manner Connie mentioned, and the book would have been smoother without it.
Meiers' earlier volume is heavily footnoted - the new one has an 8-page bibliography at the back, but no footnotes. Connie has summed up my feelings about the book - in light of his earlier publication, I'm inclined to trust his assertions in the new one. Each ties into the other and elements (such as the alphabet homicides) that are alluded to in the new book, receive a much more detailed overview in the earlier volume. Jonestown is essentially viewed as a CIA testing ground for various programs, and AIDS was just one element of those. It was created prior to the White Night, tested on the residents over an extended period leading up to the massacre, then let loose on the public after the Jonestown deaths eliminated the evidence of the test.
The frustrating thing about these works is that they have to be read jointly and in their entirety for Meiers' assertions to really take hold, and for the logical steps of his argument to cohere in the reader's mind. Jim Jones is shown (across hundreds of pages in the earlier work) to be a sadistic, murderous and hideously brilliant overseer of some particularly nasty CIA black operations, and it's only in light of the many observations about Jones and his work that you can follow Meiers down some of his more loosely documented arguments later in that book, and throughout some of the new one. Again, though, having absorbed both books, I'm inclined to believe what he writes.
An online scan of the earlier book is now floating around, as is a partially completed transcription of that scan into Word doc format. I'd suggest forum members who are keen to read the first book be patient for the moment, as I suspect at some point the text will become more widely available.
The background of the AIDS virus and its probable creation by members of the Pentagon and right-wing national security nuts like Kissenger is covered in Donald Scott's THE EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE SKULL VALLEY INCIDENT, linked below.
http://www.amazon.com/Extremely-Unfortun...1553695542
Meiers' earlier volume is heavily footnoted - the new one has an 8-page bibliography at the back, but no footnotes. Connie has summed up my feelings about the book - in light of his earlier publication, I'm inclined to trust his assertions in the new one. Each ties into the other and elements (such as the alphabet homicides) that are alluded to in the new book, receive a much more detailed overview in the earlier volume. Jonestown is essentially viewed as a CIA testing ground for various programs, and AIDS was just one element of those. It was created prior to the White Night, tested on the residents over an extended period leading up to the massacre, then let loose on the public after the Jonestown deaths eliminated the evidence of the test.
The frustrating thing about these works is that they have to be read jointly and in their entirety for Meiers' assertions to really take hold, and for the logical steps of his argument to cohere in the reader's mind. Jim Jones is shown (across hundreds of pages in the earlier work) to be a sadistic, murderous and hideously brilliant overseer of some particularly nasty CIA black operations, and it's only in light of the many observations about Jones and his work that you can follow Meiers down some of his more loosely documented arguments later in that book, and throughout some of the new one. Again, though, having absorbed both books, I'm inclined to believe what he writes.
An online scan of the earlier book is now floating around, as is a partially completed transcription of that scan into Word doc format. I'd suggest forum members who are keen to read the first book be patient for the moment, as I suspect at some point the text will become more widely available.
The background of the AIDS virus and its probable creation by members of the Pentagon and right-wing national security nuts like Kissenger is covered in Donald Scott's THE EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE SKULL VALLEY INCIDENT, linked below.
http://www.amazon.com/Extremely-Unfortun...1553695542