[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1532 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979GEORGE00018_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
UNCLASSIFIED FBB 338
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 031236Z JAN 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8630
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0018
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
SUBJ: GUYANESE DEATH CERTIFICATES
REF: GEORGETOWN 4514
Final group of Jonestown certificates not yet prepared by Registrar General. Embassy therefore unable to keep schedule posited para 2 reftel.
Dwyer [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown]