{"id":103029,"date":"2020-10-19T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103029"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:53:28","slug":"jan-15-1979-2133-port-of-spain-georgetown-0161","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103029","title":{"rendered":"Jan 15, 1979 \u2022 2133 \u2022 Port of Spain-Georgetown \u2022 0161"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103029\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79089\">Serial 1663<\/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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979PORTO00161_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422185226\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979PORTO00161_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE FBB 264<br \/>\nPAGE 01 PORT O 00161 152136Z<br \/>\nACTION OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 FBIE-00 DODE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 MCT-02 CA-01 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-01 EB-08 SS-15 SSO-00 INRE-00 NSCE-00 JUSE-00 ICAE-00 L-03 HA-05 PPT-01 FAA-00 DOTE-00 \/070 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;059016 152141Z \/44<\/p>\n<p>O 152133Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3547<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE PORT OF SPAIN 00161<br \/>\nE.O. 11265: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC TD (PEOPLES&#8217; TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: TRAVEL OF PEOPLES&#8217; TEMPLE SURVIVORS<br \/>\nREF : A. BRIDGETOWN 097 AND PREVIOUS; &#8211; B. STATE 7379;<\/p>\n<p>1. TRINIDADIAN IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES HAVE ADVISED EMBASSY THAT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE AND CARL [Karl] BARNETT<\/span> HAVE BEEN DENIED PERMISSION TO REMAIN IN PORT OF SPAIN WITH THE ALBATROSS III AND WILL BE DEPORTED THIS EVENING. AS THEY HAVE VALID VISAS FOR GUYANA AND HAVE INDICATED A PREFERENCE TO RETURN TO GEORGETOWN, AUTHORITIES HAVE AGREED TO DEPORT THEM ON PANAM 227, ETA GEORGETOWN JANUARY 15 AT 2330 HOURS. SKY MARSHALLS [MARSHALS] ON BOARD FLIGHT (REF.B) WILL BE ADVISED.<\/p>\n<p>2. AUTHORITIES HAVE INDICATED THAT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> MAY ALSO BE DEPORTED AS AN UNDESIRABLE ALIEN BUT WILL NOT TRAVEL BEFORE JANUARY 16. WILL ADVISE OF<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 PORT O 00161 152136Z<\/p>\n<p>TRAVEL PLANS WHEN KNOWN.<\/p>\n<p>FOX [RICHARD J. FOX, JR., AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO TRINIDAD]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/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 1663 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103029","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=103029"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136922,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103029\/revisions\/136922"}],"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=103029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}