BB-22-j-1
[Editor’s note: This is the first page of an undated, handwritten letter from Maria Katsaris to her father, Steven A. Katsaris. The full text may be found at RYMUR-4286-P-1-B-1a – 1b.]
P.O. Box 893
Georgetown, Guyana
Dear Pop,
I was glad we talked the other night by phone patch because I hoped it would relieve some of your concern for me. I hope you can understand that from my perspective (being that I am 24 years old), it seemed somewhat unfair for you to be making all kinds of demands, which seemed to me threats, especially when I told you the first time we talked that I already had plans to be in Venezuela with my fiancee at the time you said you were going to come to Georgetown. I guess I didn’t explain myself that well, but over the airways, I was a little embarrased to go into a detailed explanation when you insisted on coming to see me in Venezuela where I would be with my boyfriend. I trust that now you see that I wanted to be alone with him — not that I didn’t want to see you. As I told you the other night, if you want to come to Georgetown in a few weeks, fine, I’ll see you.
However, there is one thing that really bothers me and I think its best to say it now to kind of clear the air. I heard you came to the church in San Francisco after I called you the other night. and some of the things you said there, don’t correspond to what you told me on the phone patch. You mentioned that while in Washington, you had gone to see several congresspeople about me, and this is the opposite of what you told me on the phone patch when I asked you. Also — and what really bothers me, is that you said you had contracted that guy, [Joseph] Mazor, a man who is part of the conspiracy against the church. He has a criminal
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[j-2 is copy of envelope of letter marked “personal” to Steven Katsaris. There is no stamp or cancellation mark.]