[Editor’s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979GEORGE03494_e.html.]
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GEORGE 03494 071843Z
ACTION OCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ADS-00 L-03 JUSE-00 CA-01 LOC-01 /027 W
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P 071817Z AUG 79
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0258
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3494
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE)
SUBJ: JONESTOWN MATERIAL AT WAREHOUSE
REF: A) GEORGETOWN 3303 B) STATE 185986 C) GEORGETOWN 3027 D) GEORGETOWN 2018
1. EMBASSY STILL AWAITING DECISION BY DEPARTMENT ON DISPOSITION OF A) SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS AND B) PERSONAL EFFECTS CONTAINED IN CRATES CONSIGNED TO PEOPLE’S TEMPLE THAT ARE STORED AT VARIOUS W WAREHOUSE IN GEORGETOWN.
2. PLEASE REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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