.and jewelry were in the custody of soning at the remote agricultural com-
..ones' followers died of cyanide poi- reluctant to provide information last month, police officials here were mune. about where the valuables were being
38 pieces of gold jewelry found in the and Guyanese currency — as well as political opponents to suggest pri- vately that the money would be con- kept, which led some of Burnhani's ported, that almost $700,000 in U.S. for use by the prime minister. verted to campaign or private funds
Jonestown complex — were trans- ported from Port Kaituma to George- Viola Burnham, the wife of Guyana's town aboard a plane that also carried two Guyanese police officials also prime minister, and Ptolemy Reid, the country's deputy prime minister.
At the time the article was written
Nascimento said it was true, as re- Ire than 900 Of the late Rev. Jim
But Nascimento said that the money
during the first few days after stown to Georgetown last Novem-
urs after it was brought from
led in the national bank within
im,
ce of Prime Minister L. Forbes
ascimento. minister of state in
)ing in the Bank of Guyana.
money has been deposited for
pporting evidence to show
,duced bank records and
said most of the money was
ging to the Peoples Temple,
if more than $1 million in
.sed questions about the
tide in The Washington
3 government, angered
i Post Foreign Service
WN, Guyana, Jan. 23—
southeast of the Port Kaituma area said was the only means then avail- Guyana's capital city, about 200 miles aboard the plane, which Nascimento Burnham's government denied yesterday that Jones' cult fund was mishandled. any money had been found there. able to transport the money quickly to where Jonestown lies.
to inspect Jonestown last Nov. 20 that Mrs. Burnham knew before they left
Nascimento said neither Reid nor
FORBES BURNHAM