{"id":100557,"date":"2020-07-25T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100557"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:38:33","slug":"serial-1512","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100557","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1512"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1512<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. At the request of the State Department, the RYMUR release made a single deletion in this serial. It is denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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R 112051Z DEC 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
\nTO AMEMBASSY CARACAS
\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
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E.O. 12065: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC TD OREP GY
\nSUBJ: PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE (PT) INVESTIGATION
\nREF : A. CARACAS 11496 (NOTAL); B. CARACAS 11530 (NOTAL)<\/p>\n

1. Embassy has been advised that bank records in Trinidad and Tobago are not repeat not public records and can only be obtained by court order.<\/p>\n

2. Members of People\u2019s Temple who arrived in Trinidad on “Albatross III” on purchasing trip prior to Jonestown incident recently informed embassy that an account for approximately $60,000 (TT [Trinidad and Tobago]) had been opened at Barclays bank, Port of Spain. Purpose of account was allegedly to cover purchases and expenses related to the “Albatross III” and authorized signatory was Helen Swinney, one of four members of PT who arrived on board the vessel. They claimed that the account was closed on December 8 and they professed to have no knowledge of any other accounts in Trinidad.<\/p>\n

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3. For Georgetown: According to Richard Janaro, purchasing agent for PT on board the “Albatross III,” Paula Adams and Deborah Touchette [name initially withheld by State]<\/span> handled all external accounts for the PT. They purportedly opened the account here through a transfer with Barclays in Georgetown.<\/p>\n

Fox [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]<\/p>\n

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