[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld Paula Adams’ name from this cable. It is denoted below in red type.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979GEORGE00389_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 00389 251932Z
ACTION OCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 HA-05 SSO-00 /027 W
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O 251930Z JAN 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8829
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0389
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE) (ADAMS, PAULA)
SUBJ: POSSIBLE TRAVEL TO US OF PEOPLES TEMPLE SURVIVOR, PAULA ADAMS
1. EMBASSY CALLED LAMAHA GARDENS HEADQUARTERS THIS AFTERNOON TO SPEAK WITH PAULA ADAMS. CONSULAR OFFICER WAS INFORMED THAT MRS. ADAMS WAS “OUT OF TOWN FOR A FEW WEEKS”. SPEAKER WAS UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO GIVE US HER WHEREABOUTS OR HER ESTIMATED DATE OF RETURN.
2. EMBASSY ATTEMPTING TO DETERMINE WHEREABOUTS. AND WILL NOTIFY DEPARTMENT OF RESULTS OF OUR QUERIES.
3. IF APPROPRIATE, PLEASE NOTIFY CONCERNED FEDERAL AGENCIES.
DWYER [Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer]
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