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[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 831<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI release withheld the names of its agents from this cable, but they were released in 2015, are denoted in red type.<\/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

CONFIDENTIAL
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\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 L-03 SY-05 DODE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 SSO-00 \/042 W
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R 292011Z NOV 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN
\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 6830
\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
\nC O N F I D E N T I A L BRIDGETOWN 3507
\nE.O. 11652: GDS
\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), TD, BB
\nSUBJ: PEOPLES’ TEMPLE MOVEMENT
\nREF: BRIDGETOWN 3455<\/p>\n

1. [Claudio] Gonzalez and [Angelo F.] Class [names withheld by FBI]<\/span> completed interviews with Peoples’ Temple members [Charles] Touchette and [Philip] Blakey afternoon of November 28 and departed for San Juan morning of November 29 aboard ea975 (11:04) after having photographed Albatross III at berth in Bridgetown.<\/p>\n

2. Touchette plans to remain with ship during offloading in Bridgetown which will take at least week because of port congestion; he will return to Port of Spain with vessel when it sails. Blakey’s plans are not definite but his parents have been in touch with him and have offered to buy him ticket home to the U.K. if he wishes to return there.<\/p>\n

Ortiz [Frank Ortiz, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados]<\/p>\n

CONFIDENTIAL
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NOTE BY OC\/T: TELEGRAM DELAYED IN TRANSMISSION.<\/p>\n

CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 831 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI release withheld the names of its agents from this cable, but they were released in 2015, are denoted in red type. [The text for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87656,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89760","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=89760"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137252,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89760\/revisions\/137252"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}