[Editor’s notes: This page was transcribed by Alexandra Prince, a professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College. The editors are grateful for their invaluable work.
[While the pages below are undated, it is likely that the codes were created during the last three weeks of Jonestown’s existence, in that items 40 and 41 refer to Teri Buford and reflect the community’s uncertainty of her status. Buford left Guyana at the end of October 1978 in the company of Mark Lane, and at the time of the deaths in Jonestown, both her whereabouts and her intentions remained unknown.
[The second page of codes are of the names of the Temple’s biggest enemies.]
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Financial – CL [Carolyn Layton]
Entry Number | Translated Code | Code Entry |
Bank | Mrs. Paisley | |
Banker | Frank; Mr. Wagner | |
Cannot get money out in cash | They do not have the proper size tractor tires | |
wiring funds | Send a birthday gifts to my mom | |
interests | no % oxygen refills | |
safety deposit boxes | defibrulator [defibrillator] | |
Boat corporation | Joseph | |
Banco Union | Ralph | |
Swiss Union Bank | Merrill | |
Swiss Banking Corporation | ||
Corporation | tennis club | |
Carolyn [Layton] | Anna, Serge | |
Teri [Buford] | Gertrude, Ellis | |
Maria [Katsaris] | Elsie; Miller | |
Jim [Jones] | Albert; Katherine | |
Sarah [Harriet Tropp] | Becky | |
cash | surgical supplies | |
check | respirator | |
fixed time deposits | electro-cardiograms | |
customs | Johns Hopkins hospital | |
a loan | angiogram | |
Esther | Stella | |
Mary | Ella | |
Panama | New York | |
San Francisco | Reno | |
Venezuela | St. Louis | |
Switzerland | Washington D.C. | |
USSR | Sacramento | |
a pro-Soviet country | Seattle | |
Cuba | Chicago | |
Attorney Alfaro | Mr. McHenry | |
Attorney Tapia | Mr. Edgar Snow | |
IRS | Elaine | |
Treasury department | Louise | |
Treason | Betty | |
private numbered account | X-ray | |
Teri has not tampered as far as we can tell with the money | I haven’t been able to order the Quinidine | |
Teri has returned to the group | the patient did not have a brain tumor | |
airport | Medical Arts Center | |
Moscow | Houston | |
London | Detroit | |
by mail | by upper and lower GI tests | |
transaction | medical testing | |
Jim’s health is very bad | Evans is very ill | |
Airlines: | ||
TWA | Melissa | |
PAN AM | Sherrie | |
BWIA | Kay | |
British Airways | Robbie | |
Come home at once | Alfreda should take Vitamin C | |
We cannot get a loan on the big-account | no heart surgeon was available | |
Amt. of money moved: | ||
Between one and two million | ||
Between 2 and 3 million | ||
Between 3 and 4 | ||
Soviets | Melbourne |
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C-11-e-10b
Jamison is the last name meaning “off.” The first name says who. Say “I like _______ Jamison and _______ Jamson and _______ Jamison, because they practice what they preach.”
Name in front of Jamison tells who:
Sally Jamison | TOS [Tim Stoen] |
Mike Jamison | Grace [Stoen] |
Allan Jamison | Deanna [Mertle, aka Jeannie Mills] |
Martha Jamison | Mert [Elmer Mertle, aka Al Mills] |
Richard Jamison | Liz [Forman] |
Ron Jamison | Linda Swaney |
Renee Jamison | Mickey Touchette |
Jerry Jamison | [George] Klineman |
Phyllis Jamison | [David] Conn |