{"id":84927,"date":"2018-12-04T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84927"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:37:57","slug":"serial-288","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84927","title":{"rendered":"Serial 288"},"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=95795\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84927\">Serial 288<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978PORTO03380_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260412232147\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978PORTO03380_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nPORT O 03380 242026Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 FBIE-00<br \/>\nCIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00 L-03 \/034 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;059274 242031Z \/41<\/p>\n<p>O 241944Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 3279<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE PORT OF SPAIN 03380<br \/>\nBRIDGETOWN FOR AMBASSADOR FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]<br \/>\nE. O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), TD<br \/>\nSUBJECT: MEMBERS OF PEOPLES&#8217; TEMPLE IN PORT OF SPAIN.<br \/>\nREFERENCE: PORT OF SPAIN 3371<\/p>\n<p>1. GOTT [Government of Tobago\/Trinidad], after considerable dithering around, has finally given its approval to visit of two FBI agents to interview those members of the Peoples&#8217; Temple movement who are in Trinidad.<\/p>\n<p>2. We have agreed to inform the commissioner of police of the agents&#8217; ETA. Please advise by NIACT immediate.<\/p>\n<p>3. As of few hours ago group had not settled upon next moves. Expectation was that [Phil] Blakey and one as-of-then undecided-upon American would sail for Barbados this weekend. We softly questioned the rationale for continuing the voyage, but the group felt it has some kind of obligation to do so. In any event, plan remained for the other two members to remain here for the time being. We will inform<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02<\/p>\n<p>PORT O 03380 242026Z<\/p>\n<p>you if they revise these still highly tentative plans.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Mahony [Joseph O\u2019Mahony, Deputy Chief of Mission]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/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 288 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 PORT O 03380 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":84739,"menu_order":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84927","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=84927"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137104,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84927\/revisions\/137104"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}