Bank of Guyana Treasury Bill #148 in amount of $G 1,000,000 in name of PT. Automatically reinvested every 3 months.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n[Page 5]
\n3. Cash from Dennis Street, Port Kaituma and Russian Embassy:
\na. Guyana currency
\nNotes: $G 87,619.00
\n72.45
\n72.45
\n87,691.45 (G) 33,727<\/p>\n
b. U.S. currency
\nNotes: $15,022 15,022<\/p>\n
Subtotal U.S. $1,037,647
\n(G $2,650,566)<\/p>\n
4. *Indorsed US Government checks in the names of PT members and found at or near Jonestown
\n$330,501<\/p>\n
5. Guyana National Cooperative Bank (Three accounts) ($G 343,816.97)
\n$132,237<\/p>\n
6. Barclays Bank (Two accounts.) ($G 1,956,305)
\n$752,425<\/p>\n
7. Bank of Guyana ($G 1 million; Treasury bills)
\n$394,615<\/p>\n
Sub Total U.S. $1,607,778
\nGrand Total U.S. $2,645,425<\/p>\n
* = $200,000 of these checks are now in custody of the AmEmb, Georgetown; the remaining checks are still in the custody of the Guyanese police, but will presumably be released to the AmEmb in the near future. We have taken action to have State return these checks to Washington forthwith pending a final decision as to their proper disposition.<\/p>\n
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Guyana<\/p>\n
1. Cash confiscated from Michael Carter by Guyanese authorities on 11\/20\/78<\/p>\n
$U.S. Dollars
\na. **Guyana currency
\nNotes: $137,604.00
\nCoins: 57.69
\n$137,661.69 (G) 52,947<\/p>\n
b. U.S. currency
\nNotes: $634,501.00
\n366.47 334,867<\/p>\n
c. Trinidad & Tobago currency
\nNotes: $2.00
\n18.92 8
\n20.98 ($G20.01)<\/p>\n
2. Cash confiscated by Guyanese authorities from Port Kaituma residents between 12\/1\/78 and 12\/3\/78: **<\/p>\n
a. **Guyana currency
\nNotes: $11,898 4576<\/p>\n
b. U.S. currency
\nNotes: $US 296,500 296,500<\/p>\n
* = Rounded off to nearest dollar.
\n** = As of December 4, 1978, the official exchange rate was approximately
\nUS $1 = $G 2.6
\nG $1 = US 38.46 (cents)
\n*** = According to Asst. Police Commissioner Cecil A. Roberts, Port Kaituma residents may have succeeded in secreting additional sums, beyond those listed; however, it is unlikely, as a practical matter, that any such sums will ever be recovered.<\/p>\n
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Tab A<\/p>\n
Updated as of 3\/6\/79
\nCountry<\/u>: Guyana<\/p>\n
Estimated PT Assets<\/u>: $2,645,425 (Plus small amounts of jewelry, and real and personal property and undetermined amount.)<\/p>\n
Actions Taken by USG<\/u>: Repatriation of bodies of deceased PT members; repatriation of survivors; AmEmb retained local counsel for legal advice; 12\/20\/78 msg. to AmEmb re: protection of USG vis-\u00e0-vis PT assets in Guyana and request for inventory of same; 12\/22\/78 AmEmb letters to all Guyanese banks in which PT allegedly had deposits; obtained copies of articles of incorporation for three (3) Guyanese PT corporations; studying whether USG should join GOG in lawsuit filed by GOG in Supreme Court of Guyana on 12\/9\/79. Visit to Guyana 2\/27-3\/3, 1979. For details and results, see separate trip report.<\/p>\n
Attitude of Foreign Government:<\/u> Difficult to determine at this time. Polite, but generally noncommittal. It is entirely possible that the GOG claim will eat up all PT assets in Guyana, leaving nothing for USG or other claimmants. Clearly, however, the GOG plans to forfeit all of the US Currency seized by GOG authorities.<\/p>\n
Local Counsel<\/u>l: An early date, AmEmb retained solicitor Gordon Gillette for legal advice.<\/p>\n
Location Initiated<\/u>: 9 February 1979 GOG (AG) and Guyana Airways Corp. filed suit against PT and several individuals in Supreme Court of Guyana. We have not yet decided whether to sue the PT in Guyana.<\/p>\n
Recovery Prospects<\/u>: Uncertain, at best. The situation is complex and fraught with political and legal difficulties. See separate trip report for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Airtel 3\/8\/79 To: SAC, San Francisco From: Director, FBI RYMUR Enclosed for San Francisco is one copy of a Departmental memorandum regarding People\u2019s Temple\u2019s assets. Enclosure submitted for your information. [Page 2] March 7, 1979 Irene A. Ristau Director, Office of Foreign Litigation Civil Division Peoples Temple Assets Abroad See distribution Further to our memorandum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87603,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101609","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=101609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101612,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101609\/revisions\/101612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}