NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released documents show the FBI helped facilitate interviews in the Philippines carried out by California authorities investigating Michael Jackson for the sexual abuse of young boys.

The files, released Tuesday, show an investigator from the Los Angeles Police Department and another from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office arrived in Manila in September 1993 to speak to two former Neverland employees who claimed they saw Jackson fondle young boys.

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Their arrival in the Philippines came after the LAPD had asked the FBI if it wanted to work a possible case against Jackson for transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes. The FBI checked with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which declined.

The files say an FBI agent accompanied the California officials to the first interview to make sure there were no problems.