[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 51 of the FBI’s RYMUR release. Several lines that were cut off in the RYMUR release are designated 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/1978STATE294822_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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STATE 294822
ORIGIN CA-01
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SSO-00 SCS-06 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PA-02 TRSE-00 MCT-02 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-02 AID-05 SS-15 NSCE-00 CCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 L-03 A-02 MED-05 OPR-02 PER-05 PPTE-00 /087 R
DRAFTED BY CA/OCS/EKIRINCICH/GHP
APPROVED BY ARA/JBUSNELL
S/S-O THOMAS G. MARTIN
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O 212016Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 294822
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC CDES (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
SUBJECT: DEPT ASSUMPTION OF DEATH AND W/W NOTIFICATION RESPONSIBILITIES
REF: GEORGETOWN 3820
Department concurs with info Reftel re: notifying NOK [Next of Kin] of both deceased and surviving Peoples Temple members. Also concurs that future callers from U.S. should be told to contact Department.
Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
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