{"id":96961,"date":"2020-03-24T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96961"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:00:21","slug":"dec-11-78-2051-port-of-spain-caracas-3542","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96961","title":{"rendered":"Dec 11, 78 \u2022 2051 \u2022 Port of Spain-Caracas \u2022 3542"},"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=96961\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100557\">Serial 1512<\/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\/1978PORTO03542_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260419235938\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978PORTO03542_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nPORT O 03542 120753Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 FBIE-00 JUSE-00<br \/>\n\/026 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;102332 122132Z \/12<\/p>\n<p>R 112051Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 3362<br \/>\nUNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 03542<br \/>\nFOR LEGATT<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC TD OREP GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE (PT) INVESTIGATION<br \/>\nREF : A. CARACAS 11496 (NOTAL); B. CARACAS 11530 (NOTAL)<\/p>\n<p>1. EMBASSY HAS BEEN ADVISED THAT BANK RECORDS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ARE NOT REPEAT NOT PUBLIC RECORDS AND CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED BY COURT ORDER.<\/p>\n<p>2. MEMBERS OF PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE WHO ARRIVED IN TRINIDAD ON &#8220;ALBATROSS III&#8221; ON PURCHASING TRIP PRIOR TO JONESTOWN INCIDENT RECENTLY INFORMED EMBASSY THAT AN ACCOUNT FOR APPROXIMATELY $60,000 (TT [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]) HAD BEEN OPENED AT BARCLAYS BANK, PORT OF SPAIN. PURPOSE OF ACCOUNT WAS ALLEGEDLY TO COVER PURCHASES AND EXPENSES RELATED TO THE &#8220;ALBATROSS III&#8221; AND AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY WAS HELEN SWINNEY, ONE OF FOUR MEMBERS OF PT WHO ARRIVED ON BOARD THE VESSEL. THEY CLAIMED THAT THE ACCOUNT WAS CLOSED ON DECEMBER 8 AND THEY PROFESSED TO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY OTHER ACCOUNTS IN TRINIDAD.<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nPORT O 03542 120753Z<\/p>\n<p>3. FOR GEORGETOWN: ACCORDING TO RICHARD JANARO, PURCHASING AGENT FOR PT ON BOARD THE &#8220;ALBATROSS III,&#8221; PAULA ADAMS AND DEBORAH TOUCHETTE HANDLED ALL EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE PT. THEY PURPORTEDLY OPENED THE ACCOUNT HERE THROUGH A TRANSFER WITH BARCLAYS IN GEORGETOWN. <\/p>\n<p>FOX [Richard J. Fox, Jr., American Ambassador to Trinidad]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/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 1512 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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 PORT O 03542 120753Z ACTION [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96961","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=96961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136672,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96961\/revisions\/136672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}