Jones also decided to start staging rehearsals of his eventual mass suicide plan. "These drills, called 'white nights' began with sirens going off in the middle of the night and none of the members of Jonestown would know if it was real or not" (Maaga 14). In these situations, Jones' deputies would arm themselves with rifles, moving from cabin to cabin to make sure that all members were responding. A mass meeting would then begin. According to an anonymous, surviving member of the People's Temple:
             Frequently during these crises, we would be told the jungle was swarming with mercenaries and that death could be expected at any minute [. . .] we were given a small glass of red liquid to drink. We were told that the liquid contain
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