{"id":95646,"date":"2020-03-02T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95646"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:13:58","slug":"nov-22-78-%e2%80%a2-2101-%e2%80%a2-state-port-of-spain-%e2%80%a2-295989","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95646","title":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 78 \u2022 2101 \u2022 State-Port of Spain \u2022 295989"},"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=95646\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84950\">Serial 297<\/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\/1978STATE295989_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260410221303\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE295989_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 295989<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 CIAE-00<br \/>\nINR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 SSO-00 INRE-00 \/039 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:RWZIMMERMANN:JE<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JABUSHNELL<br \/>\nFBI:ANICHOLAS<br \/>\nS\/S-O:SVALERGA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;021692 222123Z \/61<\/p>\n<p>O 222101Z NOV 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 295989<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: MEMBERS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE IN PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nREF: PORT OF SPAIN 03343<\/p>\n<p>1. Provided GOTT [Government of Trinidad and Tobago] has no objection, FBI wishes send ASAP to Port of Spain two agents out of San Juan to interview members of Peoples Temple now in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>2. Request you seek GOTT approval soonest and reply NIACT immediate. <\/p>\n<p>Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 297 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 295989 ORIGIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95646","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=95646"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136077,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95646\/revisions\/136077"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}