FBI Section 57 • A-31 • Financial

Section A-31 consists of 376 pages. It is one of a series of 20 FBI Sections, ranging from 43 through 62, labelled in the Guyana Index with the “Financial” designation. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is here.

The FBI placed many of the Peoples Temple corporate papers recovered from Jonestown into this folder, A-31. The documents range from the Temple’s Articles of Incorporation in California in 1965 through the Articles of Association in Guyana in 1975. Each document is duplicated several times in this section.

The following items are listed in chronological order. Each description is linked to the page where it appears as a Primary Source.

The folder does include other financial documents, which appear immediately following.

Description
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Articles of Incorporation (1965)
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By-Laws (1970)
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1974 Amendments to Peoples Temple Articles of Incorporation
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1976 Amendments to Peoples Temple Articles of Incorporation
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1974-75 Guyana Legislation to Incorporate Peoples Temple
1976 Guyana Land Lease
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1978 Guyana Memorandum and Articles of Association
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The remaining pages from this pdf are described below. The citation for these documents should open with the FBI’s official designation of these records, which is “RYMUR 89-4286-A-31.” Most of the pages in these records have a unique number. Page 273 of this section, for example, is marked “A-31-e-1a”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-A-31-e-1a”.

PDF page numbers
Number of pages
Citations of pages
Description
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105-107, 29-33
7
a-19b – 19d, a-6a – 8b
Miscellaneous Financial Certificates and Resolutions
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170-199
30
b-1
Internal Temple Financial Notes, 978
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Text
200-209, 226-229, 232-235, 240-268
46
c-1 – c-6c, d-1 – d-3, d-4 – 8q
Peoples Temple and Grenadine banks
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Text
273-279
7
e-1a – e-3
San Francisco Expense Report, July 1978
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Text
280-300
21
F-1
Marceline Jones bankbook and invoices
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[None]
301-309
9
G-1
Documents related to safety deposit bank in Panama
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Text