FBI Sections 114-115 • BB-8 – BB-16

The FBI combined nine folders of Temple documents – BB-8 through BB-16 – into two sections in its listings, Sections 114-115. The resulting document is 366 pages and labelled in the Guyana Index with the names of ten important figures in Peoples Temple’s history: Tim Carter; Mike Cartmell; Eugene Chaikin; Jim Cobb; Leona Collier; Hue Fortson; Norman Ijames; Richard and Claire Janaro; and Jim Jones, Jr.

The listing below is complete for this section of the FBI’s FOIA release. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is here.

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 268 of this document, for example, is marked “BB-28-d-1”. The complete citation for that page, then, would be “RYMUR 89-4286-BB-28-d-1”.

These reports were transcribed and annotated by Aliah Mohmand. The editors are grateful for her invaluable assistance and considerable eye to detail.

PDF Page Numbers Number of Pages Citations of Pages Description PDF Text

BB-8: Tim Carter

3-4, 14-15, 17-30, 39-51, 57-60 35 BB-8-a-1 – 2, e-1 – 2, g-1 – i-6, l-1 – m-5, q-1 – q-4 Tim Carter letters to Guyanese officials PDF Text
5-13, 16 10 BB-8-b-1 – d-1, f-1 Correspondence with Guyanese citizens PDF Text
31-33 3 BB-8-j-1 – 3 Sharon Amos letter to Forbes Burnham, April 18 PDF Text
34-38 5 BB-8-k-1 – 5 Mike Prokes letter to Forbes Burnham, April 9 PDF Text
52-54 3 BB-8-o-1 – 3 Notes of May 1978 meeting with Roy Van Dyke PDF Text
55-56 2 BB-8-p-1 – 2 Jim Jones letter to Tim Stoen, early 70s PDF Text
61-62 2 BB-8-n-1 – 2 Tim Carter meeting notes with Carlton Goodlett PDF Text
63-64 2 BB-8-s-1 – 2 Tony Walker meeting notes with North Korean Embassy, September 1978 PDF Text

BB-9: Mike Cartmell

81 1 BB-9-i-1 Carol Stahl letter to Mike Cartmell, August 1977 PDF Text
79-80 2 BB-9-h-1, BB-9-g Buford/Tom Adams correspondence with Mike Cartmell, March 1978 PDF Text
66-78 4 BB-9-a-1 – f-4 Mike Cartmell correspondence with family, Spring 1978 PDF Text

BB-10: Eugene Chaikin

83-87 5 BB-10-a-1 – b Guardianship of Vincent Lopez, June 1978 PDF Text
182 1 BB-10-w Judy and Norman Ijames’ guardianship of Ronald Campbell, March 1976 PDF Text
88-89 2 BB-10-c-1 – 2 Chaikin registration in Tax Preparers Program PDF Text
135-136 2 BB-10-e-1 – 2 Legal correspondence re: Estate of Morris Norwood, September 1975 PDF Text
138-139 2 BB-10-g-1 – 2 Chaikin letter to Kinsolving, September 1972 PDF Text
140 1 BB-10-h Chaikin letter to Amb. Mann on aircraft proposal, August 1976 PDF Text
145-149 5 BB-10-l-1 –5 Eugene Chaikin letters on negative press coverage, February 1978 PDF Text
168 1 BB-10-t Eugene Chaikin on citizenship status of Phillip Blakey, July 1976 PDF Text
141-143, 183 4 BB-10-i-1 – 10-j, 10-x Chaikin letters of dissent to Jim Jones PDF Text
144, 167 2 BB-10-k, 10-s Eugene Chaikin self analyses and criticism PDF Text
185 1 BB-10-y Eugene Chaikin memo on re: photography department, November 1978 PDF Text
97-134 35 BB-10-d-1 – 35 Chaikin letter to Phyllis on his health, October 1978 PDF Text
164-166, 169-176 11 BB-10-n-1 – 6, u-1 – 8 Chaikin family letters PDF Text
155-163 9 BB-10-o-1 – p Eugene Chaikin’s identification cards and miscellaneous notes PDF None
90 1 BB-10-c-3 Undated chart of Los Angeles properties in escrow PDF Text
177-181 5 BB-10-v-1 – 6 Notes on Los Angeles properties, January 1973 PDF Text
91 1 BB-10-c-4 State Department letter to Guy Young on Tim Stoen, April 1978 PDF Text
95-96 2 BB-10-c-8 – 9 Guy Young meeting with Louis Highman, April 1978 PDF Text
92-94 3 BB-10-c-5 – 7 Correspondence on Lynetta Jones check, April 1978 PDF Text
137 1 BB-10-f Holmes Letter to Amb. Burke on Olivers, October 1977 PDF Text
150-151 2 BB-10-l-6 – 7 Richard Tropp on concerns of Tim Stoen, February 1978 PDF Text
152 1 BB-10-m Richard Tropp undated note to Chaikin PDF Text
153-154, 184 3 BB-10-o-1 – 2; BB-10-p, x-2 Misc. Contacts, receipts, notes PDF None

BB-11: Jim Cobb v. Jim Jones, et al.

BB-12: Leona Collier

304-307 4 BB-12-a-1 – b-2 Letters of Leona Collier PDF Text

BB-13: Hue Fortson

309-311 3 BB-13-a-1 – a-3 Notes of Hue Fortson, Summer 1978 PDF Text

BB-14: Norman Ijames

313 1 BB-14-a Norman Ijames on purchase of Temple aircraft PDF Text
314-319 6 BB-14-b-1 – b-6 Norman Ijames resumé PDF None

BB-15: Janaro

321-326 6 BB-15-a-1 – a-6 Prokes letter to Burnham Dec 77 PDF Text
327 1 BB-15-a-7 Undated clipping on Tim Stoen PDF None
328 1 BB-15-b Anonymous letter to Jim Jones PDF Text
329 1 BB-15-c Richard Janaro “Dear Comrade” letter PDF Text
330-335 6 BB-15-d-1 – d-6 Claire Janaro phone call with mother PDF Text

BB-16: Jim Jones Jr.

337 1 BB-16-a Jim Jones Jr. postcard to mother PDF Text
338-365 28 BB-16-b-1 – i-3 Jim Jones Jr. childhood miscellany PDF None
366 1 BB-16-j Aug 78 Statement of Account with Matarkai Authority PDF Text