[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1530 of the FBI’s RYMUR release. The FBI deleted several names from this serial which were later released by the State Department. The names are marked in red type below.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979GEORGE00005_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
UNCLASSIFIED FBB 283
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 021449Z JAN 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8623
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0005
DEPARTMENT PLEASE PASS: USSS
HEW, WASHDC
FBI, WASHDC
U.S. IMMIGRATION, NEW YORK
U.S. CUSTOMS, NEW YORK
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CARR, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
SUBJ: PEOPLE’S TEMPLE MEMBERS DEPARTURE FROM GUYANA
1. The following People’s Temple members departed Guyana on December 29, 1978 via Pan Am flight 228:
Timothy Carter
Michael Carter
Herbert Newell
Aurora Rodriguez
Henry Cannon
Diane Scheid
Mary Ann Cassanova [MaryAnne Casanova]
Eugene Smith
Dwyer [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown]
Note by OC/T: Passed to US Immigration and US Customs, New York
Unclassified