FBI Section 88 • G-1 • Communist Contacts, USSR – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

FBI Section 88 was divided into two sections with the “G” designation and both labelled in the Guyana Index as “Communist Contacts.” This, the first of the two sections, is further designated “USSR” and consists of 241 pages.

The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is here. Most of the pages from this section comprise notes of meetings between Temple members and officials of the Soviet Embassy, which have been organized into a separate page. The remaining documents of this section appear below.

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 82 of this document, for example, is marked “G-1-c-1”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-G-1-c-1”.

Documents from the second section, G-2, on “Communist contacts, Korea, Cuba,” is here. It should also be noted that the FBI release includes additional documents concerning the Temple’s relationship with the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, at Section 139 GG-1 – GG-3.

PDF page numbers	Number of pages	Citations of pages	Description	PDF	Text
Peoples Temple Meetings with the Soviet Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana, 1978
1-11, 25-26	13	G-1-a-1 – G-1-a-1j, G-1-a-7a – G-1-a-7b	Photographs and notes of Tass correspondent in Jonestown	PDF	None
12-13	2	G-1-a-2a – G-1-a-2b	Letter to Charles Garry	PDF	Text
22-24	3	G-1-a-5 – G-1-a-7	Letter from New Times (Moscow) & Tass business card	PDF	None
27	1	G-1-a-8	Cover sheet for meeting notes	PDF	None
40-43	4	G-1-a-10a – G-1-a-11b	Temple Leaders Meetings with Guyana Officials, September 25, 1978	PDF	Text
44-45	2	G-1-a-10a – G-1-a-11b	Temple Leaders Meet with Guyana’s Chief Justice, September 26, 1978	PDF	Text
82-92	11	G-1-c-1 – G-1-c-10a	Petition to Move to the Soviet Union	PDF	None
93-103	11	G-1-d-1a – G-1-d-2f	Notes on the Soviet Contitution	PDF	Text
147-148, 234-235	4	G-1-g-8f – G-1-g-8g, G-1-h-17a – G-1-h-17b	Russian script	PDF	None
188-189	2	G-1-g-31a – G-1-g-31b	Form letter of acknowledgment to Jones from PNC	PDF	None
200-201	2	G-1-g-33a – G-1-g-33b	Beauties of Guyana	PDF	Text
226-227	2	G-1-h-13a – G-1-h-13b	List of Soviet films	PDF	Text

Originally posted on April 12th, 2019.

Last modified on November 21st, 2023.