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The Story of a Black Cuban Recruiter
Jim Jones traveled to cuba under false pretences, telling everyone back home it's just a vacation. He was supposed to be looking to recruit forty families, forty black cuban families, to work on communal farms in indiana. But as writerman himself notes, the church did not have anywhere near the resource s to find to finance something like that. It seems unlikely that he would hide this from every one, including his closest advisers and assistant pastors. In later years, jones would brag to his congregation about every humanitarian project or idea he had, whether or not they ever came to fruition. The whole story is preposterous,. especially considering you to wonder what actually happened