[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are 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/1979GEORGE00652_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 00652 121731Z
ACTION OCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 FSE-00 /022 W
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R 121608Z FEB 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8968
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0652
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CASC, (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE),(GODSHALK, RAYMOND D.) (SATTERWHITE, ALVARAY)
SUBJ: REPATRIATION LOANS
REF: STATE 031827
1. GODSHALK OWES USG $59.09.
2. SATTERWHITE OWES USG $59.09.
3. PAPERWORK POUCHED IN LAST WEEK. NOTE GODSHALK’S PROMISSORY NOTE ERRONEOUSLY LISTED DEBT AS DOLLARS 50.09. EXCHANGE RATE IS ONE U.S. DOLLAR EQUALS 2.5453 GUYANA DOLLARS.
4. PLEASE GET AN ADDRESS FOR SATTERWHITE SO THE EMBASSY CAN MAIL HER SOME RECOVERED ID CARDS, SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS, ETC.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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