[Editor’s notes: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 71 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[It should be noted that the information in the cable/FBI serial was not correct. Sharon Amos was not the child of Jack and Rheaviana Beam. The Beams did have a daughter, Eleanor, who also died in Jonestown. The information was corrected at 78GEORGE3890 and FBI Serial 219.]
UNCLASSIFIED
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 222050Z NOV 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8159
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3879
E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: CDES, GY (AMOS, LINDA SHARON)
SUBJ: FURTHER DATA ON “AMOS, SHARON”
REF: GEORGETOWN 3818
Further data just received from Guyanese immigration; PPT [passport] number F016301 issued San Francisco Feb. 1 75.
Mother’s name: Rhevenia Bean [Rheaviana Beam]
Father’s name: Jack Bean [Beam]
His address given as P.O. Box 15156, San Francisco, California
Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]