[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of Temple survivor Stephan Jones. It is denoted below in red type.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979GEORGE00744_e.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 00744 161935Z
ACTION OCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 /023 W
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O 161937Z FEB 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9018
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0744
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CASC, (PEOPLE TEMPLE), (JONES, STEPHAN GHANDI [Gandhi])
SUBJ: TRAVEL OF PT MEMBERS
REF: A. STATE 040100 B. GEORGETOWN 0692
1. THE EMBASSY IS UNAWARE OF ANY PLANNED TRAVEL TO THE U.S. BY PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS OTHER THAN STEPHAN JONES (REF.B).
2. THE EMBASSY HAS CHECKED WITH THE GEORGETOWN PAN AM OFFICE AND THEY INDICATE THAT STEPHAN JONES IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES ON FEBRUARY 27.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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