(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 272
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 P 081610Z OCT 80
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE
INFO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3758
AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 702
AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY
AMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO PRIORITY
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4871
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CARR, GY, TD (LAYTON, LAURENCE)
SUBJ: EXPULSION OF US CITIZEN LAURENCE LAYTON
REF: PORT OF SPAIN 3054
1. Layton scheduled to depart Guyana on PAA [Pan-American Airlines] 228 on October 10. He will be accompanied by two FBI agents.
2. FBI agents would appreciate the support and assistance of GOTT [Government of Trinidad and Tobago] officials in preventing Layton from disembarking aircraft at Piarco.
Roberts [George B. Roberts, Jr., American ambassador to Guyana]