{"id":96963,"date":"2020-03-24T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96963"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:39:06","slug":"dec-11-78-%e2%80%a2-2101-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-bridgetown-%e2%80%a2-4217","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96963","title":{"rendered":"Dec 11, 78 \u2022 2101 \u2022 Georgetown-Bridgetown \u2022 4217"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96963\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91260\">Serial 1150<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.<\/p>\n<p>[The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted in red type.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>112101Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO RUEHWN\/ AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN PRIORITY 2229<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN PRIORITY<br \/>\nINFORUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC 8413<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4217<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE) (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TOUCHETTE, MICHAEL<\/span>)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W: PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MEMBER <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span><br \/>\nREF: BRIDGETOWN 3557<\/p>\n<p>1. PLEASE INFORM <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MR. CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> THAT HIS SON, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span>, IS PRESENTLY AT THE LAMAHA GARDENS HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE. ALTHOUGH HIS MOVEMENTS WITHIN GEORGETOWN ARE UNRESTRICTED, HE IS NOT PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, PENDING FURTHER HEARINGS IN THE AMOS MURDER CASE.<\/p>\n<p>2. THE PHONE AT THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE HQ IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE, BUT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MR. TOUCHETTE<\/span> MAY WISH TO TRY TO CONTACT HIS SON DIRECTLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THE NUMBERS THERE ARE 68787 AND 71924.<\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span> HAS ASKED ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF HIS FATHER, AND HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT HE IS IN BRIDGETOWN ABOARD THE ALBATROSS III.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 1150 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted in red type.] 112101Z DEC 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96963","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=96963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116307,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96963\/revisions\/116307"}],"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=96963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}