{"id":97170,"date":"2020-03-25T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97170"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:16:14","slug":"dec-27-78-%e2%80%a2-2010-%e2%80%a2-port-of-spain-state-%e2%80%a2-3456","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97170","title":{"rendered":"Dec 27, 78 \u2022 2010 \u2022 Port of Spain-State \u2022 3456"},"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=97170\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100418\">Serial 1448<\/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. The ones that are known to the editor are denoted below in red type.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>0 272010Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3456<br \/>\nUNCLAS PORT OF SPAIN 03697<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC<br \/>\nSUBJ: TRAVEL OF MEMBERS OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE<\/p>\n<p>1. PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MEMBER <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> HAS RETURNED TO TRINIDAD FROM BARBADOS ON BOARD THE &#8220;ALBATROSS III&#8221;. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> INDICATES HE PLANS TO CONTINUE [WORDS DELETED] UNTIL CONTRARY INSTRUCTIONS ARE RECEIVED FROM PT ATTORNEYS IN SAN FRANCISCO. PRESENT PLANS ARE TO REMAIN IN TRINIDAD FOR 2-3 WEEKS AS HE CLAIMS THE VESSEL REQUIRES DRY DOCK REPAIRS.<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAS BEEN IN TELEPHONE CONTACT WITH HIS SON <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span> IN GEORGETOWN. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span> PURPORTEDLY HAD BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION BY GUYANESE AUTHORITIES TO TRAVEL TO TRINIDAD TO VISIT HIS FATHER WAS REPORTEDLY STOPPED FROM BOARDING AN AIR FRANCE FLIGHT ON DECEMBER 26 BECAUSE HE ALLEGEDLY DID NOT HAVE A VISA FOR TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. AS VISAS ARE NOT REQUIRED FOR US CITIZENS TO ENTER TRINIDAD, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHARLES TOUCHETTE<\/span> WOULD APPRECIATE ANY CLARIFICATION EMBASSY MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE AS TO WHETHER HIS SON HAS, IN FACT, BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO LEAVE GUYANA. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MICHAEL TOUCHETTE<\/span> WAS REPORTEDLY GOING TO TRAVEL WITH PT MEMBER [NAME DELETED] WOULD ALSO BEEN RESIDING AT LAMAHA GARDENS.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019MAHONY [Joseph O\u2019Mahony, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Port of Spain]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 PORT O 03697 272010Z<\/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 1448 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. The ones that are known to the editor are denoted below in red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97170","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=97170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116830,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97170\/revisions\/116830"}],"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=97170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}