Section BB-2 — which is labelled in the Guyana Index as “Sharon Amos” –– consists of 219 pages.
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 109 of this document, for example, is marked “BB-2-ww”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-BB-2-ww”.
This section comprises about 90 separate documents. With the exception of three or four by Debbie Touchette or Teri Buford, they consist of minutes of meetings, reports of telephone conversations, press releases, memos and notes written by Sharon Amos. Insofar as possible, they have been arranged in chronological order.
In addition to Sharon Amos, other Temple members who regularly participated in these meetings include Debbie Touchette, Mike Prokes, Tim Carter – who also appears under the code name Tony Walker – and Terri Carter Jones. Numerous others attended on occasion, and their names are spelled out in the documents below.
This section principally relates to Temple contacts – through Sharon Amos – with ministers and officials of the Guyana government or business establishment. They include Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Vice Prime Minister Ptolemy Reid, Foreign Minister Fred Wills (later succeeded by Rashleigh Jackson), Minister of Home Affairs Vibert Mingo, and Minister of Development Demond Hoyte, as well as Chief Justice Harold Bollers and Guyana Ambassador to the U.S. Laurence Mann. Other contacts are with American embassy officials, and Guyanese lawyers and members of the media. All documents originated in Georgetown.
The dates on the documents follow the Guyanese and European notations. April 15, 1978, then, would be listed as 15/4/78.
This section was transcribed by Heather Shannon. The editors are immensely grateful for her careful and detailed attention to detail. It should be noted that the spellings from the original documents have been retained, with corrections made only where clarity is needed.
PDF page numbers | Number of pages | Citations of pages | Description | Text | |
152-153 | 2 | lll-1 – lll-2 | Notes of ministerial meeting 17/10/77 | Text | |
99-103 | 5 | ss-1 – ss-5 | Letter to Forbes Burnham on conspiracy, 4/1/78 | Text | |
107-108 | 2 | vv-1 – vv-2 | Letter to Ptolemy Reid, 25/1/78 | Text | |
109 | 1 | ww | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 2/2/78 | Text | |
136-138 | 3 | iii-1 – iii-3 | Letter to Forbes Burnham on Tim Stoen, 3/2/78 | Text | |
204-213 | 10 | gggg-1 – gggg-10 | Meeting with Wills, Feb 78 | Text | |
139-140 | 2 | jjj-1 – jjj-2 | Letter to Viola Burnham, 10/2/78 | Text | |
141-151 | 11 | kkk-1 – kkk-11 | Draft of letter to Forbes Burnham, undated | Text | |
118-119 | 2 | bbb-1 – bbb-2 | Summaries of letters, 28/2/78 | Text | |
120-123 | 4 | ccc-1 – ccc-4 | Report on visit by Minister Fitz Carmichael, undated | Text | |
10 | 1 | h | Meeting with Vibert Mingo, 3/78 | Text | |
154-162 | 9 | mmm-1 – mmm-7 | Conversations with Fred Wills, Skip Roberts, 1/3/78 | Text | |
110-113 | 4 | xx-1 – xx-4 | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 3/3/78 | Text | |
114 | 1 | yy | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 3/3/78 | Text | |
115 | 1 | zz | Letter to Ptolemy Reid, 3/3/78 | Text | |
116-117 | 2 | aaa-1 – aaa-2 | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 5/3/78 | Text | |
196-199, 202 | 5 | bbbb-1 – bbbb-4, eeee | Meetings with Guyana officials, 7/3/78 | Text | |
25-28 | 4 | j-1 – j-4 | Meeting with Guyana, U.S. officials, March 1978 | Text | |
163-164 | 2 | nnn-1 – nnn-2 | Meeting with Ron Van Dyke, 9/3/78 | Text | |
34 | 1 | l | Meeting with J. Butlers, Coop Bank, 23/3/78 | Text | |
186-192 | 7 | zzz-1 – zzz-7 | Meeting with Fred Wills, 23/3/78 | Text | |
193 | 1 | (unnumbered) | Handwritten Notes | Text | |
31-32 | 2 | k-3 – k-4 | Meeting with Fred Wills, 4/78 | Text | |
76-77 | 2 | jj – kk-1 | Notes and summaries, 4/78 | Text | |
165-166 | 2 | ooo-1 – ooo-2 | Meeting with Ron Van Dyke, 3/4/78 | Text | |
63, 167 | 2 | bb, ppp | Meeting with Ron Van Dyke, 5/4/78 | Text | |
62 | 1 | aa | Visit to hospital 5/4/78 | Text | |
19-24 | 6 | i-7 – i-12 | Meetings of 5/4/78, by D. Touchette | Text | |
15-16, 13-14 | 4 | i-3 – i-4, i-1 – i-2 | Meetings with Mingo, Van Dyke, 6/4/78 | Text | |
64-65 | 2 | cc-1 – cc-2 | Meetings with PNC, 7/4/78 | Text | |
75 | 1 | ii | Phone call to Fred Wills, 9/4/78 | Text | |
33 | 1 | k-5 | Meeting with Fred Wills, 9/4/78 | Text | |
61 | 1 | z | Meeting with Peter Fernanz, 9/4/78 | Text | |
74 | 1 | hh | Mobilization, 10/4/78 | Text | |
68-73 | 6 | ee – gg-3 | Meetings with Guyanese officials, 12/4/78 | Text | |
66-67 | 2 | dd-1 – dd-2 | Meeting with attorney Lionel Luckhoo, 13/4/78 | Text | |
29-30 | 2 | k-1 – k-2 | Meeting with Fred Wills, 13/4/78 | Text | |
96-98 | 3 | rr-1 – rr-3 | Letter to Ptolemy Reid, 18/4/78 | Text | |
182-183 | 2 | vvv – www | Meeting with Rashleigh Jackson, 22/4/78 | Text | |
59 | 1 | x | Meeting at Georgetown church, 23/4/78 | Text | |
48 | 1 | u | Meeting with J.T. Clarke, 5/5/78 | Text | |
58 | 1 | w | Meeting with Phyllis and Adrian Thompson, 6/5/78 | Text | |
9 | 1 | g | Call to W.D. Wyatt, 7/5/78 | Text | |
47 | 1 | t | Meeting with Cubans, 7/5/78 | Text | |
214-215 | 2 | hhhh-1 – hhhh-2 | Meeting with John Palmer, 10/5/78 | Text | |
60 | 1 | y-1 – y-2 | Letter from James Patterson, 16/5/78 | Text | |
184 | 1 | xxx | Meeting with Vibert Mingo, 26/5/78 | Text | |
2-3 | 2 | BB-2-a-1 – 2 | Meeting, phone call with Vibert Mingo, 8/6/78 | Text | |
7 | 1 | e | Meeting with Margaret Ackman, 13/6/78 | Text | |
8 | 1 | f | Meeting with Rampersaud Tiwari, 13/6/78 | Text | |
124-129 | 6 | ddd-1 – ddd-6 | Letter to Ptolemy Reid, 13/6/78 | Text | |
4 | 1 | b | Meeting with Carrie Ramsaroop, 14/6/78 | Text | |
5 | 1 | c | Meeting with Eric Clarke, 14/6/78 | Text | |
6 | 1 | d | Meeting with J.T. Clarke, 14/6/78 | Text | |
90 | 1 | oo | Call to Wesley Kirton, 15/7/78 | Text | |
44 | 1 | q | Meeting with Bone couple, 16/7/78 | Text | |
185 | 1 | yyy | Meeting with Eric Clarke, 18/7/78 | Text | |
87-88 | 2 | mm-1 – mm-2 | Meeting with Carl Blackmon, 19/7/78 | Text | |
45 | 1 | r | Call to Jean Maitland Singh, 22/7/78 | Text | |
46 | 1 | s | Meeting with Electrical engineer Terry Fletcher, undated | Text | |
43 | 1 | p | Meeting with Adrian Thompson, 24/7/78 | Text | |
91 | 1 | pp | Meeting with Pat Cameron, 25/7/78 | Text | |
181 | 1 | uuu | Meeting with Balwant Singh, 27/7/78 | Text | |
216-219 | 4 | iiii-1 – iiii-4 | Meeting with Herbert Harper, 28/7/78 | Text | |
50-57 | 8 | v-1 – v-8 | Conference, Amos notes of Guyana Trade Union Congress, August 78 | Text | |
134 | 1 | ggg | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 3/8/78 | Text | |
135 | 1 | hhh | Letter to Vibert Mingo, 3/8/78 | Text | |
35-36 | 2 | m-1 – m-2 | Meeting with Nigerians, 4/8/78 | Text | |
89 | 1 | nn | Calls to Pressmen, 8/8/78 | Text | |
92-95 | 4 | qq-1 – qq-4 | Meeting with Mohamed Hamaludin, 10/8/78 | Text | |
37 | 1 | n | Meeting with Ng A Fook, 11/8/78 | Text | |
39-42 | 4 | o-1 – o-4 | Meeting with Birdie London, 12/8/78 | Text | |
130-132 | 3 | eee-1 – eee-3 | Press packet, 13/8/78 | Text | |
133 | 1 | fff | Letter to Forbes Burnham, 17/8/78 | Text | |
194-195 | 2 | aaaa-1 – aaaa-2 | Report by Teri Buford, 19/9/78 | Text | |
83-86 | 4 | ll-5 – ll-8 | Analysis of Marilyn Pursley, 10/78 | Text | |
172-174 | 3 | qqq-5 – qqq-6 | Instructions for meeting with Harold Bollers, 13/10/78 | Text | |
168-171 | 4 | qqq-1 – qqq-4 | Meeting with Harold Bollers, 14/10/78 | Text | |
175-177 | 3 | rrr-1 – rrr-3 | Meeting with K.W. Barnwell, 18/10/78 | Text | |
179-180 | 2 | ttt-1 – ttt-2 | Meeting with Vibert Mingo, 25/10/78 | Text | |
104-106 | 3 | tt-1 – uu | Meeting with Laurence Mann, 27/10/78 | Text | |
178 | 1 | sss | Meeting with Harold Bollers, 27/10/78 | Text | |
79-82 | 4 | ll-1 – ll-4 | Miscellaneous, 31/10/78 | Text |