FBI Section 112 • BB-4 • Philip Blakey

Section BB-4 — which is labelled in the Guyana Index as “Philip Blakey” –– consists of 16 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 5 of this document, for example, is marked “BB-4-c-1”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-BB-4-c-1”.

Most of the pages of this short section comprise immigration documents – passport applications, letters of reference, and visa applications – for Blakey, a British citizen who married Deborah Layton and immigrated to the United States before traveling to Guyana to become one of the pioneers on the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Jonestown.

Only one document – a two-page application to immigrate into Guyana at pages BB-4-e-1 – e-2 – offers any biographical details on Blakey’s life. The text of that application is here.