[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]