As early as June 13, 1974 the US Embassy here was reporting to Washington that the People’s Temple Agricultural Mission in the north west appeared well organised and had a leasing arrangement with the Guyana Government.
The People’s Temple would later be described as the Jim Jones-led cult which engineered the mass suicide in November, 1978 of over 900 mostly Americans at its Jonestown site, Port Kaituma.
In a cable from the US Embassy here to the US State Department, US Ambassador Max V Krebs in response to Washington’s interest and that of the Caracas mission, stated that the multi-racial People’s Temple mission comprised nine Americans operating an agricultural