{"id":100418,"date":"2020-07-24T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100418"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:16:38","slug":"serial-1448","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100418","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1448"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97170\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100418\">Serial 1448<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.<\/p>\n<p>[Several of the subjects whose names are deleted in this serial are known to the editor. Those notations have been indicated by red type. The text that was subsequently released by the State Department is indicated by blue type.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 918<\/p>\n<p>[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n<p>0 272010Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3456<br \/>\nUNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 03697<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC<br \/>\nSUBJ: TRAVEL OF MEMBERS OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE<\/p>\n<p>1. People&#8217;s Temple member [name deleted] [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charles Touchette<\/span>] has returned to Trinidad from Barbados on board the &#8220;Albatross III&#8221;. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charles Touchette<\/span>] indicates he plans to continue [words deleted] until contrary instructions are received from PT attorneys in San Francisco. Present plans are to remain in Trinidad for 2-3 weeks <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">as he claims the vessel requires dry dock repairs<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charles Touchette<\/span>] further stated that he has been in telephone contact with his son [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Michael Touchette<\/span>] in Georgetown. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Michael Touchette<\/span>] purportedly had been given permission by Guyanese authorities to travel to Trinidad to visit his father was reportedly stopped from boarding an Air France flight on December 26 because he allegedly did not have a visa for Trinidad and Tobago. As visas are not required for US citizens to enter Trinidad, [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charles Touchette<\/span>] would appreciate any clarification Embassy might be able to provide as to whether his son has, in fact, been given permission to leave Guyana. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Michael Touchette<\/span>] was reportedly going to travel with PT member [name deleted] would also been residing at Lamaha Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Mahony  [Joseph O\u2019Mahony, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Port of Spain]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 PORT O 03697 272010Z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1448 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [Several of the subjects whose names are deleted in this serial are known to the editor. Those notations have been indicated by red type. The text that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87666,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116831,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100418\/revisions\/116831"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}