[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 87 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978STATE296908_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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STATE 296908
ORIGIN ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SS-15 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 SSO-00 INRE-00 SYE-00 DODE-00 /054 R
DRAFTED BY ARA/RPP:RZIMMERMANN
APPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL
FBI:ANICHOLAS
S/S-O: TGMARTIN
SCS:RDAVIS
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O 232212Z NOV 78 ZFF4
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN NIACT IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE
INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
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BRIDGETOWN FOR AMB. FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: FY, TD, ASEC, CASC
SUBJECT: MEMBERS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE IN PORT OF SPAIN
REFERENCE: PORT OF SPAIN 3373
1. FBI not prepared to finance trip by any of the Peoples Temple members currently in Port of Spain, but we are still very interested in receiving GOTT [Government of Trinidad and Tobago] agreement for FBI to go to Trinidad and Tobago to interview them.
2. If the three Americans are destitute embassy may wish
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to consider repatrication [repatriation].
Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
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