[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 81 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.]
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0 230057Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 296181
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CARR
SUBJECT: JONESTOWN SURVIVORS
1. Jonestown survivors who arrive [at] Georgetown will be considered under temporary detention by Guyana authorities and would qualify for financial assistance under Emdap per A-0272 of January 27, 1978.
2. Therefore subsistence previously authorized by phone (McKenzie – Ward) under repatriation program will not repeat not be applicable and subsistence expenditures should not repeat not be changed to allotment 9K4024-1 appropriation 1990522.
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3. Embassy authorized herewith to extend necessary funds under short-term full diet element of Emdap. Change expenditures to appropriation 1990113; allotment 2023; obligation 9999901; object 3320; amount 5,000 dollars if additional funds required advice.
Vance [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]