{"id":88165,"date":"2019-04-11T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88165"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:13:48","slug":"fbi-section-126-ee-1-letters-to-dad-a-f","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88165","title":{"rendered":"FBI Section 126 \u2022 EE-1 \u2022 Letters to Dad (A-F)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folder labelled in the Guyana Index<\/em><\/a> as “EE-Letters to Dad” was big enough that the FBI broke it down into four sections, from 126-129. This section \u2013 letters from people whose last name started from A through F \u2013 consists of 524 pages. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The contents of this page were transcribed almost entirely by Cole Waterman. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.<\/p>\n

The citation for these documents should open with the FBI\u2019s official designation of these records, which is “RYMUR 89-4286.” Each individual page in these records has a unique number. Page 186 of this document<\/a>, for example, is marked \u201cEE-1-C-12\u201d. The complete citation for that page, then, would be \u201cRYMUR 89-4286-EE-1-C-12\u201d.<\/p>\n

Note<\/span>: This site features many primary source documents from Peoples Temple, including letters and other writings by members of the Temple and residents of Jonestown. Many of these writings were solicited by the Temple leadership to include confessions of misdeeds and crimes which the members may \u2013 or more often, may not \u2013 have committed. These confessions were tests of the members\u2019 loyalty, but they were collected as a means of leverage to prevent them from speaking out against the Temple in the event of their departure.<\/p>\n

Alphabetical listings of the letters appear immediately below. Following those letter listings is listing of people whose writings are significant enough to warrant their own page. The chart underneath catalogues other significant documents located in this section.<\/p>\n

Letters to Dad (A-B)<\/a><\/strong>
\nLetters to Dad (C)<\/a><\/strong>
\nLetters to Dad (D)<\/a><\/strong>
\nLetters to Dad (E)<\/a><\/strong>
\nLetters to Dad (F)<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The following residents of Jonestown had multiple entries on this page. These pages have been pulled from the letter listings above; in other words, the writings of Jack Barron appear below but not on the page of Letters to Dad (A-B)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Writings of Jack Barron<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Writings of Jeff Carey<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Writings of Eugene Chaikin<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Writings of Chris Cordell<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Writings of Harold Cordell<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Writings of Hue Fortson<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The following is a chart of other significant documents located in this section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
PDF page numbers<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Number of pages<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Citations of pages<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Description<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
PDF<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Text<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
140-160<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
21<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-C-5a \u2013 5u<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Minutes of Bay Area Callers Meeting<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n
\n
172-182<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
11<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-C-10<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
\n
186, 249<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
2<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-C-12, EE-1-C-35<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
\n
232-235<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
4<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
EE-1-C-28b \u2013 EE-1-C-28e<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n\n\n
Text<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folder labelled in the Guyana Index as “EE-Letters to Dad” was big enough that the FBI broke it down into four sections, from 126-129. This section \u2013 letters from people whose last name started from A through F \u2013 consists of 524 pages. The complete PDF for this section as released by the FBI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13761,"menu_order":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88165","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=88165"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131646,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88165\/revisions\/131646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}