[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 2424 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The FBI withheld two names in this serial. The deleted information was later released by the State Department, and is indicated below by red type.]
UNCLASSIFIED FBB 192
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
201808Z MAR 80
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1986
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1252
E. CARR, GY, (PEOPLES TEMPLE) (LAYTON, LARRY)
SUBJ: LAYTON TRIAL
REF: HALE/DWYER TELECON 3/13/80
1. Director of Public Prosecutions has indicated that there is no need for the presence here in Guyana of [Dale Parks] as a witness at the Layton trial – which is scheduled to begin April 1.
2. Please pass above to Justice and to FBI, San Francisco, attention: [Don Hale].
Roberts [George B. Roberts, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]