[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of a relative of a Temple member 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/1978GEORGE00165_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 00165 131955Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CCO-00 PASO-00 /021 W
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R 121828Z JAN 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 6013
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0165
DEPT. FOR SCS & ARA/CAR – TUMMINIA
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAG: CASC: (GURVICH, JANN ELIZABETH)
SUBJECT: W/W JANN ELIZABETH GURVICH
REF: (A) 77 STATE 234710 (B) 77 GEORGETOWN 2425
TO: MR. LOUIS GURVICH
1102 LYKES CENTER
300 PAYDRAS
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
1. OUR CONSUL MET WITH YOUR DAUGHTER ON JAN. 11, 1978 DURING HIS VISIT TO THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY. HE TALKED WITH HER FOR SEVERAL MINUTES ABOUT HER ACTIVITIES AT THE FARM. MS. GURVICH APPEARED WELL AND HAPPY AND ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HER TEACHING DUTIES. YOUR DAUGHTER INDICATED SHE WILL BE IN CONTACT WITH YOU BY RADIO TELEPHONE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. AMERICAN EMBASSY GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
2. FOR DEPARTMENT: PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION GRANTED IN WRITING BY MS. GURVICH FOR RELAY INFORMATION.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
NOTE BY OC/T: PASSED ADDRESSEE.
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