FBI Section 96 • P-1 • State Dept Contacts

Section P-1 — which comprises FBI Section 96 and which is labelled in the Guyana Index as “State Department Contacts” – consists of 116 pages. It was transcribed in its entirety by Heather Shannon, to whom the editors are most grateful.

The listing below is complete for this section of the FBI’s FOIA release. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is here.

The citation for these documents should open with the FBI’s official designation of these records, which is “RYMUR 89-4286.” Each individual page in these records has a unique number. Page 2 of this document, for example, is marked “P-1-A-1-a”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-P-1-A-1-a”.

Many of the documents in this folders consist Temple memoranda of meetings between members of Peoples Temple and U.S. Embassy Consul Richard McCoy in Georgetown, Guyana. They are listed in chronological order in the first table below.

PDF Pages numbers
# of pages
Citations of pages
Description

PDF

Text
2-3, 57-58
4
A-1-a – 1-b, C-10a – 10b
Meeting between McCoy & Laura Johnston, Sept 2, 1977

PDF

Text
79-80
2
C-19-a – 19-b
Carolyn Layton Meeting with McCoy, late 1977

PDF

Text
75, 77
2
C-18-a, 18-c
Temple Meeting with McCoy, mid-Jan 14, 1978
PDF
Text
73
1
C-17-a
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Jan 16, 1978

PDF

Text
37-40
4
C-1-a – 1-d
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Jan 19, 1978

PDF

Text
68
1
C-15-b
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Jan 21, 1978

PDF

Text
59-62, 5-8
8
C-11-a – 11-d, A-3-a – 3-d
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Feb 4/Apr 2, 1978

PDF

Text
69-72
4
C-16-a – 16-d
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Feb 20, 1978

PDF

Text
104-106
3
D-17-a – 17-c
Temple Meetings with Richard McCoy, Korean Embassy, Guyana Ministry of Info., April 5, 1978

PDF

Text
82-84, 107
4
D-1 – 2-b, D-18
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, April 13, 1978

PDF

Text
85-87, 101-103
6
D-3-a – 3-c, D-16-a – 16-c
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, April 23, 1978

PDF

Text
4, 88
2
A-2, D-4
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, May 1978

PDF

Text
43
1
C-3
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, May 6, 1978

PDF

Text
41-42
2
C-2-a – 2-b
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, May 7, 1978

PDF

Text
63
1
C-12
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, May 10, 1978

PDF

Text
64, 66
2
C-13, 14-b
Undated 1978 Temple meeting with Richard McCoy & John Blacken

PDF

Text
49, 51
2
C-7a, 7-c
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, June 14, 1978

PDF

Text
56
1
C-9
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, July 21, 1978

PDF

Text
44-48
5
C-4 – 6-b
Temple Meeting with Richard McCoy, Aug 3, 1978

PDF

Text

The second table comprises the remaining documents as they appear in the folder, without regard to date. The final entry is of blank pages, errant pages, and miscellaneous reverse sides of pages used in an effort to save paper. A few of these latter pages which consists of letters not found elsewhere in Temple files have been transcribed.

PDF Pages numbers
# of pages
Citations of pages
Description
PDF
Text
9-12
4
A-4-a – 4-b
Letter of 4/20/78 from State to unknown concerned citizen re: JVS

PDF

Text
13
1
A-5a
Guyana approval of application for permanent residence

PDF

Text
14-26
13
A-5-b – 5-n
Names of people ready to go to Guyana

PDF

None
27
1
A-6
Carolyn Looman telegram to State, 9/19/77

PDF

Text
30-32
3
B-1-a
Maria Katsaris letter to father

PDF

Text
33-35
3
B-2b – 2-d
Mary Lou Clancy letters, Aug/Sept 1977

PDF

Text
50
1
C-7-b
Temple Meeting with Soviets, June 13, 1978

PDF

Text
53-55
3
C-8-a – 8-c
Undated Richard Tropp description of Guyana

PDF

Text
89-94
6
D-5 – D-10
Undated letters to State seeking Guyanese citizenship

PDF

Text
96
1
D-12a
U.S. Embassy note of 6/24/75

PDF

Text
97-98
2
D-12b – D-13
Embassy letter to Paula Adams, 8/20/74

PDF

Text
99
1
D-14
Letter on equipment needed for Jonestown, 5/31/74

PDF

Text
100
1
D-15
Note to file re: John Blacken, 11/9/76

PDF

Text
108-110
3
D-19-a – 19-b
Letter to Paula Adams from Guyana Embassy in US, 6/10/76

PDF

Text
111
1
D-20
Letter to Mike Prokes from US Embassy in Guyana, 5/22/75

PDF

Text
112-114
3
D-21-a – 21-b
Notes of Letters to Rep. Don Clausen, Mayor Joseph Alioto

PDF

Text
115-116
2
D-22
List to US Embassy of people in Jonestown, 7/30/74

PDF

Text
 
10
 
Miscellaneous pages

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Text