{"id":79876,"date":"2018-05-17T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79876"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:46:58","slug":"serial-87","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79876","title":{"rendered":"Serial 87"},"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 87<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/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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\nSTATE 296908
\nORIGIN ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SS-15 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 SSO-00 INRE-00 SYE-00 DODE-00 \/054 R
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O 232212Z NOV 78 ZFF4
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN NIACT IMMEDIATE
\nAMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE
\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
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\nBRIDGETOWN FOR AMB. FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: FY, TD, ASEC, CASC
\nSUBJECT: MEMBERS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE IN PORT OF SPAIN
\nREFERENCE: PORT OF SPAIN 3373<\/p>\n

1. FBI not prepared to finance trip by any of the Peoples Temple members currently in Port of Spain, but we are still very interested in receiving GOTT [Government of Trinidad and Tobago] agreement for FBI to go to Trinidad and Tobago to interview them.<\/p>\n

2. If the three Americans are destitute embassy may wish<\/p>\n

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to consider repatrication [repatriation]. <\/p>\n

Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 87 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 STATE 296908 ORIGIN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79876","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=79876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137404,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79876\/revisions\/137404"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}