{"id":95669,"date":"2020-03-02T14:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95669"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:36:17","slug":"nov-22-78-%e2%80%a2-2229-%e2%80%a2-port-of-spain-state-%e2%80%a2-3371","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95669","title":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 78 \u2022 2229 \u2022 Port of Spain-State \u2022 3371"},"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=95669\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84948\">Serial 296<\/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\/1978PORTO03371_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230131203944\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978PORTO03371_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nPORT O 03371 222230Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 SSO-00 INRE-00 \/039 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;024262 222244Z \/13 <\/p>\n<p>O 222229Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 3273<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE PORT OF SPAIN 03371<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: (A) PORT OF SPAIN 3343; (B) STATE 295989 <\/p>\n<p>1. MEMBERS OF PEOPLES&#8217; TEMPLE DID NOT RPT NOT RETURN TO EMBASSY TODAY, AND WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO DETERMINE IF THEY ARE STILL IN TRINIDAD. <\/p>\n<p>2. BECAUSE OF LATE ARRIVAL OF REFTEL B, WE HAD TO CONTACT MEA OFFICIAL AT HOME ASKING THAT REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF FBI VISIT BE BROUGHT TO FM DONALDSON&#8217;S ATTENTION FIRST THING IN MORNING. THERE IS GOOD POSSIBILITY THAT DONALDSON WILL ELECT TO TAKE THIS REQUEST TO CABINET WHICH DOES NOT MEET UNTIL FIRDAY MORNING. <\/p>\n<p>FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/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 296 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 03371 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95669","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=95669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136096,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95669\/revisions\/136096"}],"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=95669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}