[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 336 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The State Department release withheld the entirety of the text of this cable, and there are significant deletions in the RYMUR release. The text below is from RYMUR.]
UNCLASSIFIED
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[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 251003Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 298754
E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: CASC
SUBJECT: W/W [Whereabouts/welfare] PEOPLE’S TEMPLE MEMBERS
Department has received inquiries on the following persons who may have been among those People’s Temple members in Guyana.
[Information on balance of page withheld]
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[5 lines of information withheld]
7. Delaney, Edith, approx. age 70,
NOK [next of kin] [name withheld] tel. [number withheld]
[5-6 lines of information withheld]
10. Jones, Brenda, approx. age 30
NOK [name withheld] Houston, Texas
tel. [number withheld]
[Information on balance of page withheld]
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14. Newell, Jennifer, no age,
NOK, [name withheld]
Los Angeles, Calif., tel. [number withheld]
[3 lines of information withheld]
16. Newell, Christopher, no age,
NOK [name withheld]
Los Angeles, Calif., tel. [number withheld]
17. Owens, Jane, approx. age 58,
NOK [name withheld] (friend), [information withheld]
Detroit, Michigan, tel. [number withheld]
[5-6 lines of information withheld]
20. Parks, Jay Warren, DOB 09/02/72,
NOK [name withheld] tel. [number withheld]
21. Polite, Glinda, DOB 07/31/56,
NOK [name withheld]
San Francisco, Cal. tel. [number withheld]
[3 lines of information withheld]
Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
Unclassified