[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 426 of the FBI’s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld two names from this cable. They are denoted in red type.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978PORTO03399_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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ACTION ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 JUSE-00 L-03 SY-05 SYE-00 DODE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 SSO-00 INRE-00 SS-15 H-01 CG-00 DOTE-00 HA-05 PPT-01 /063 W
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O 271320Z NOV 78
FM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 3288
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE
DIRECTOR FBI NIACT IMMEDIATE
INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
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E. O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), TD
SUBJECT: PEOPLES’ TEMPLE MOVEMENT.
REFERENCES: (A) BRIDGETOWN 3455; (B) PORT OF SPAIN 3396
1. As Government of Barbados has agreed to proposed visit (reftel a), agents [Claudio] Gonzalez and [Angelo F.] Class plan to stop in Bridgetown enroute to San Juan unless advised to the contrary by FBI headquarters. Please advise by NIACT immediate.
2. For Bridgetown: As you indicated vessel had not arrived Sunday evening, agents will defer travel until Tuesday. ETA November 28 at 1045 hours on BWIA 602. Please arrange hotel accommodations for Tuesday evening and onward reservations to San Juan for Wednesday morning.
Fox [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]
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