[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of a man who wrote embassy official Richard McCoy. The information 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/1979GEORGE04073_e.html.]
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INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ADS-00 /015 W
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FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0565
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PASS L/ARA FORTUNE AND ARA/CAR MCCOY
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TAG: CGEN, GY
SUBJ: JONESTOWN DOCUMENTS
REF: L/ARA FORTUNE/DWYER TELCON AUGUST 7
SOURCE OF MATERIAL MENTIONED IN DCM’S JULY 19 OFFICIAL/ INFORMAL LETTER TO ARA/CAR RICHARD MCCOY WAS MR. GREGORY ROSE. EMBASSY DOES NOT HAVE A CURRENT ADDRESS FOR MR. ROSE, BUT BELIEVE HE IS LIVING TEMPORARILY IN BERKELY, CA.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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