[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1777 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.]
UNCLASSIFIED FBB 928
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 231617Z JAN 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8800
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0338
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CARR, GY (JONES, STEPHAN) (BEIKMAN, CHARLES) (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
SUBJ: W/W ARRESTS: STEPHAN JONES, CHARLES BEIKMAN
REF: GEORGETOWN 0306
At January 23 session of preliminary inquiry into deaths of Linda Sharon Amos (a.k.a. Sharon Amos) et al., Superintendent [Eustace] Lam finished testifying in voir dire to determine admissibility of second Beikman statement as evidence. There were no other witnesses called. Inquiry is scheduled to resume Jan 24.
Dwyer [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown]