{"id":95741,"date":"2020-03-02T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95741"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:48:29","slug":"nov-23-78-2212-state-port-of-spain-296908","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95741","title":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 78 \u2022 2212 \u2022 State-Port of Spain \u2022 296908"},"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=95741\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79876\">Serial 87<\/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\/1978STATE296908_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260411234536\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE296908_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 296908<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SS-15 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01<br \/>\nCIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 SSO-00<br \/>\nINRE-00 SYE-00 DODE-00 \/054 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/RPP:RZIMMERMANN<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nFBI:ANICHOLAS<br \/>\nS\/S-O: TGMARTIN<br \/>\nSCS:RDAVIS<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;044304 232225Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 232212Z NOV 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 296908<br \/>\nBRIDGETOWN FOR AMB. FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: FY, TD, ASEC, CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: MEMBERS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE IN PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nREFERENCE: PORT OF SPAIN 3373<\/p>\n<p>1. FBI NOT PREPARED TO FINANCE TRIP BY ANY OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS CURRENTLY IN PORT OF SPAIN, BUT WE ARE STILL VERY INTERESTED IN RECEIVING GOTT [GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO] AGREEMENT FOR FBI TO GO TO TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TO INTERVIEW THEM.<\/p>\n<p>2. IF THE THREE AMERICANS ARE DESTITUTE EMBASSY MAY WISH<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 296908<\/p>\n<p>TO CONSIDER REPATRICATION [REPATRIATION]. <\/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 87 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 296908 ORIGIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95741","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=95741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136164,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95741\/revisions\/136164"}],"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=95741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}