Editing Jonestown (section)

=== Exploring another potential exodus ===
Following the "Six Day Siege," despite Reid's assurances, Jones no longer believed the Guyanese could be trusted.<ref name="raven371">{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=371}}</ref> He directed Temple members to write to over a dozen foreign governments inquiring about immigration policies relevant to another exodus by the Temple.<ref name="raven371"/> He also wrote to the State Department, inquiring about North Korea and [[Socialist People's Republic of Albania|Albania]], then enduring the [[Sino-Albanian split]].<ref name="raven371"/> In Georgetown, the Temple conducted frequent meetings with the embassies of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref name="moore165"/> Negotiations with the Soviet embassy included extensive discussions of possible resettlement there. The Temple produced memoranda discussing potential places within the Soviet Union in which they might settle.<ref name="moore165">{{Harvnb|Moore|1985|p=165}}</ref>

Sharon Amos, Michael Prokes, Matthew Blunt, Timothy Regan<ref>{{citation|last=Ryans|first=Larry|title=Jonestown History}}</ref> and other Temple members took active roles in the "Guyana-Korea Friendship Society," which sponsored two seminars on the revolutionary concepts of Kim Il-sung.<ref>{{Harvnb|Reiterman|Jacobs|1982|p=416}}</ref> In April 1978, a high-ranking correspondent of the Soviet news agency [[TASS]] and his wife visited Jones.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Moore|first=Rebecca|date=2013|title=Rhetoric, Revolution and Resistance in Jonestown, Guyana|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jrv2013134|journal=Journal of Religion and Violence|volume=1|issue=3|pages=303–321|doi=10.5840/jrv2013134|issn=2159-6808|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Q759 Transcript – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27581|access-date=2021-08-23|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Edith Roller Journals: April 1978 – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35695|access-date=2021-10-23|language=en-US}}</ref> On 2 October 1978, Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet [[Consul (representative)|consul]] in Georgetown, visited Jonestown for two days and gave a speech.<ref name="q352">Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 352."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094827/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428|date=March 4, 2016}} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jones stated before the speech, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland."<ref name="q352"/> Timofeyev opened the speech stating that the Soviet Union would like to send "our deepest and the most sincere greetings to the people of this first socialist and communist community of the United States of America, in Guyana and in the world".<ref name="q352"/> Both speeches were met by cheers and applause from the crowd in Jonestown.<ref name="q352"/>

Following the visit, Temple members met almost weekly with Timofeyev to discuss a potential Soviet exodus.<ref name="moore165"/> However, Jones eventually had a change of heart, stating that he preferred to stay within the Guyanese borders because of the [[sovereignty]] it afforded them.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Poster |first1=Alexander |title=Jonestown:An International Story of Diplomacy, Detente, And Neglect, 1973–1978|journal=Diplomatic History|date=2019|volume=43|issue=2|pages=305–331|doi=10.1093/dh/dhy072}}</ref>