(Editor’s note: This is a cable from the files of the State Department that was included in the FBI’s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department’s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency’s designations.)
UNCLASSIFIED FBB 359
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
P 091255Z OCT 80
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
UNCLAS STATE 269870
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CARR, GY (LAYTON, LARRY)
SUBJ: EXPULSION OF US CITIZEN LAWRENCE [Laurence] LAYTON
REF: GEORGETOWN 4840
1. This telegram confirms contents of light-cella phonecon of October 8 which was made in response to Paragraph 3 of reftel.
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
PAGE 02 STATE 269870
2. You are now authorized to issue a card of identity limited for direct return to the US to Layton. The document need not contain a photograph. It is to remain in possession of FBI agents who accompany him to US and is to be turned over into Immigration officials at POE [port of entry].
Muskie [Edmund Muskie, US Secretary of State]