[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1822 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/1979NASSAU00210_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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NASSAU 00210 261008Z
ACTION L-03
INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 JUSE-00 FBIE-00 CA-01 SS-15 OCS-06 /037 W
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R 241410Z JAN 79
FM AMEMBASSY NASSAU
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2203
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E.O. 12065: N/A
TAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
SUBJECT: PROTECTION OF UNITED STATES INTERESTS VIS-A-VIS PEOPLES TEMPLE ASSETS IN NASSAU
REF STATE 16432
1. Note contained Reftel delivered Jan 23 to Ministry of External Affairs.
2. Permanent Secretary Oris Russell told charge that the Ministry would respond as soon as their legal advisors had an opportunity to review the note.
SHANKLE [Arthur P. Shankle, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Nassau]
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