Jim Jones was a CIA mind-controller:
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Was-Jonestown-a-CIA-Medical-Experiment.pdf
The interesting question is whether the politicians knew about it...
A decoy. The Jim Jones conspiracy-conspiracies exist for the same reason the Kennedy ones do: to throw people off the trail. Jim Jones was simply a Christianity-hating communist. His cult wasn’t even a religion; it was an anti-religion commune.