[Spooks] Jonestown Code

[Liz Cameron]

Hi everyone--

I am reading an interesting book by a defector
from the Jonestown commune in Guyana. It's called
Seductive Poison by Debbie Layton.

She describes how Jim Jones and a few trusted
associates, herself among them, would keep in
contact with the remaing members of the People's
Temple in San Francisco via ham radio. They would
talk in code. For example, tea party meant
blackmail and Rex meant USA, etc.

I am not a cryptographer by any means but two
things occured to me. 1) The code should have
been easy to break since it didn't seem very
mathematical and 2) Jones was insane enough to
probably not put much logic into a code anyway.
At least this is my thinking.

So, did anyone every break this code? Did any
hams or DXers ever get a whiff of what was going
on? 

This may be slightly OT, but it does involve a
code. My apologies if OT.

73/Liz

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