{"id":112410,"date":"2021-12-09T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112410"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:03:39","slug":"soviet-embassy-outlines-issues-that-temple-migration-proposal-will-need-april-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=112410","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Embassy Outlines Issues that Temple Migration Proposal Will Need, April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor’s notes<\/strong>: The transcript of this document retains its original spellings.<\/em><\/p>\n

[This document was duplicated at G-1-h-20a \u2013 20c.]<\/em><\/p>\n

G-1-g-13d<\/p>\n

DEBORAH TOUCHETTE
\nAPRIL 12, 1978<\/p>\n

CDE. TIMOFEYEV [Comrade Feodor\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Timofeyev, Soviet Embassy official<\/span>] (USSR)
\nAPPT. W\/ SHARON AMOS
\nDEBORAH TOUCHETTE
\nMIKE PROKES
\nTIM CARTER<\/p>\n

\u2013 Timofeyev said he sent the letter to the USSR, but he felt we should have been more specific in our request. He knows they will have a lot of questions.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Should specify-type of people we want to talk to, subjects, how many kids? what sort of money? delegation? how many? purpose? ect.<\/p>\n

\u2013 We told him of the situation with Larry [Schacht] and that we would not yield on this, told him things were mounting, this wasn’t the only situation, we may be forced to (ref. to the letter)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Timofeyev suggested we try to live with the obstacles<\/p>\n

\u2013 look at these facts:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. we have water, food, med. care, and were appealling to high govt. officials who do without.<\/li>\n
  2. we should be quite [quiet] of these things now when people are terribly oppressed<\/li>\n
  3. we need to think more, plan around obsticles, compromise,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u2013 He said he hoped Jim had planned ahead, “I’m sure he planned ahead”. He must hav thought of all the possibilities. We’re just one of the possibilities I’m sure.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 said the USSR whould have many questions<\/p>\n

    \u2013 in fact Ambassador asked one hundred questions because it was too vauge\u2026 be prepared to answer questions.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He wanted to be sure that all people who came are favorable to the USSR.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Tim Carter asked if he ahd any idea as to what the USSR might do, would they accept us?<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Timofeyev said he couldn’t answer that, before he could at leat give his own opinion, but now that he has officially turned our letter in, he is not allowed to give his personal opinions to a question we\u2019ve asked the USSR because if the USSR makes one decision and he has preimpted them in saying another he is responsible to make up for that misinformation on behalf of the USSR.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 I told him we were very concerned about our children, we had at least three hundred under the age of ten, another two hundred \u2013 two hundred & fifty in their teens, and approx.. the same in their early twenties, and we did not want them to grow up as little fasciest, but socialist. (we were ref. to the state of the country, to return to right or left)<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He said not until now did they have any idea how many children we had<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He said he had alot of questions he wanted answered, but would not elaborate when we asked him to<\/p>\n

    \u2013 he said ther was time, we would meet and talk again.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He said we shouldn’t be ready to move\u2026 “I’m not so sure that the idea of moving is so good, you\u2019re an example here”.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 I told him of the contradictions of being a socialist community in a country that proclaims to be on the road to socialism\u2026 prohibiting Larry\u2019s lic.\/ prohibiting free food\u2026<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Timofeyev said it was the type of community, mentality, that were dealing with. eg\u2026<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    G-1-g-13e<\/p>\n

    -2-<\/p>\n

    \u2013 They offered Guyana one-hundred thousand (100,000.00) polio vaccination preventatives free for children, and Guyana refused, but they bought the same amount from the United States<\/p>\n

    \u2013 The USSR could never understand this.<\/p>\n

    said he would like to talk to Jim<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He would send \u2013 possible ask his precious friend to to [go] up, he is independent of the Embassy.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He said we could talk to him about everything because he was a rep. or [of] the USSR, answerable to the USSR only.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 He said he didn’t know what committee to put us onto should a delegation go over\u2026 the refugees committe, the political committe\u2026 he had contacted the church there, but they seemed vague about answering.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 said he would cause tomorrow night and let us know if his friend the reporter would go to Jonestown on our boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [Editor’s notes: The transcript of this document retains its original spellings. [This document was duplicated at G-1-h-20a \u2013 20c.] G-1-g-13d DEBORAH TOUCHETTE APRIL 12, 1978 CDE. TIMOFEYEV [Comrade Feodor\u00a0Timofeyev, Soviet Embassy official] (USSR) APPT. W\/ SHARON AMOS DEBORAH TOUCHETTE MIKE PROKES TIM CARTER \u2013 Timofeyev said he sent the letter to the USSR, but he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":112381,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112410","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=112410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132166,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112410\/revisions\/132166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}