{"id":102991,"date":"2020-10-19T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102991"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:14:23","slug":"jan-10-1979-1945-bridgeport-georgetown-0097","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102991","title":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 1979 \u2022 1945 \u2022 Bridgeport-Georgetown \u2022 0097"},"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 1615<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are 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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\nPAGE 01
\nBRIDGE 00097 102005Z ACTION
\nARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 SY-05 FBIE-00 USSS-00 L-03 H-02 \/033 W
\n——————126003 102009Z \/46<\/p>\n

O R 101945Z JAN 79
\nFM AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN
\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 7124
\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
\nUNCLAS BRIDGETOWN 097
\nE.O. 12065: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLES’ TEMPLE)
\nSUBJ: TRAVEL PEOPLES’ TEMPLE SURVIVORS
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0120<\/p>\n

IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES AT GRANTLEY ADAMS AIRPORT INFORMED THE EMBASSY THAT MICHAEL TOUCHETTE AND CARL BARNETT<\/span> ARRIVED ABOARD CUBANA 455 AT 1410 LOCAL TIME TODAY<\/span> AND WERE MET BY MICHAEL’S FATHER, CHARLES<\/span>. THE TWO NEWCOMERS ARE SCHEDULED TO JOIN THE ALBATROSS III AS CREW MEMBERS.<\/p>\n

ACCORDING TO LOCAL AGENTS, ALBATROSS III IS EXPECTED TO COMPLETE LOADING TOMORROW AND TO SAIL IN LATE AFTERNOON FOR PORT OF SPAIN.<\/p>\n

CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> CALLED AT CONSULAR SECTION JANUARY 8. UNLESS GEORGETOWN OR DEPARTMENT REQUESTS IT, NO FURTHER ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO CONTACT HIM OR OTHERS BEFORE SAILING TIME JANUARY 11.<\/p>\n

ORTIZ [Frank Ortiz, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados]<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1615 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102991","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102991","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102991"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136895,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102991\/revisions\/136895"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}