Feb 04, 1980 • 1400 • Georgetown-State • 0490

[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 2381 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.]

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0 041400 FEB 80
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1621
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0490
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CARR, GY (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE) (BEIKMAN, CHARLES)
SUBJ: ANNOUNCEMENT OF BEIKMAN’S TRIAL INCORRECT
REF: GEORGETOWN 434

Director of Public Prosecutions informed Embassy that Chronicle story reported reftel was not repeat not correct. No date has been set for trial.

Roberts [George B. Roberts, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]