[Editor’s note: This is a State Department cable 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.]
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[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 252050Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 299092
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.
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5. Johnson, Earl Joseph, approx. 58, NOK [next-of-kin]: [withheld]
[address withheld] Compton, CA., [balance of entry withheld]
6. Mertle, Deanna, No age, NOK: [withheld] tel: [withheld]
7. Mertle, Elmer, No age, NOK: [withheld] tel: [withheld]
[Three entries withheld]
11. Reese, Bertha, approx. 68, NOK: [withheld] tel: [withheld]
12. Robinson, Leeose aka Robinson, Lee aka Robertson, Lee, DOB: 511/1919, NOK: [withheld] [address withheld] Nacogdoches, Tex., tel: [withheld]
13. Talley, Vera, DOB: 2/3/1903, NOK: [withheld]
[address withheld], Los Angeles, California, tel: [withheld]
[entry withheld]
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