{"id":96345,"date":"2020-03-16T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96345"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:34:14","slug":"nov-28-78-0019-state-port-of-spain-300468","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96345","title":{"rendered":"Nov 28, 78 \u2022 0019 \u2022 State-Port of Spain \u2022 300468"},"content":{"rendered":"

[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 461<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names and identifying information of people associated with Peoples Temple. The FBI withheld only the name of Richard Janaro’s cousin, Anthony La Vardera. All are denoted in red type in their respective cables.<\/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

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\nSTATE 300468
\nORIGIN CA-01
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O 280019Z NOV 78
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE
\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 300468
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC, OREP, TY – (JANARO, RICHARD<\/span>)
\nSUBJECT: PRESENCE IN PORT OF SPAIN OF MEMBERS OF PEOPLE TEMPLE MOVEMENT
\nREF: PORT OF SPAIN 03395<\/p>\n

1. DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED REQUEST FROM ANTHONY LA VARDERA, FIRST COUSIN OF RICHARD JANARO<\/span>. HE REQUESTS MR. JANARO CONTACT HIM AT 516-221-6530<\/span> FOR ANY AID AND ASSISTANCE. MR. LA VARDERA<\/span> STATES HE REPRESENTS EAST COAST BRANCH OF MR. JANARO’S<\/span> RELATIVES.<\/p>\n

VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 461 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names and identifying information of people associated with Peoples Temple. The FBI withheld only the name of Richard Janaro’s cousin, Anthony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96345","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=96345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136394,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96345\/revisions\/136394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}