From WIkipedia:
Before forming a church, Jim Jones had become enamoured by communism and frustrated by the harassment communists received in the U.S.[2] This, among other things, provided a seminal inspiration for Jones; as he himself described in a biographical recording,[2][3]
“I decided, how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church. So I consciously made a decision to look into that prospect.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
Thanks; as I had not known of this.
There is a lady in our church who went to Jones’ church in the early days and said his preaching and teaching didn’t seem unorthodox, early on.