[Editor’s note: This is a State Department cable that was included in the FBI’s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department’s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency’s designations.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978PORTO03397_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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PORT O 03397 261516Z
ACTION ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SS-15 SSO-00 SY-05 SYE-00 JUSE-00 L-03 /039 W
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O 261512Z NOV 78
FM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
TO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE
INFO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3286
C O N F I D E N T I A L PORT OF SPAIN 03397
E. O. 11652: GDS.
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), TD
SUBJECT: PEOPLES’ TEMPLE MOVEMENT.
REFERENCE: PORT OF SPAIN 3396
1. If Government of Barbados approves of the visit, FBI agents Claudio Gonzalez and Angelo F. Class [names originally withheld by FBI] will be carrying one S&W model 60 revolver serial R-102-039 and one Colt 38 revolver Detective Special serial 664533.
2. Please arrange entry.
Fox [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]
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