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FM SAN FRANCISCO (89-250) (P)
TO DIRECTOR (89-4286) IMMEDIATE
LOS ANGELES IMMEDIATE (89-436) (LA VIA FBIHQ)
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UNCLAS
ATTENTION CID COMMAND POST
RYMUR, 00: SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco Daily Summary
Individuals identified by Susan [Suzanne] Cartmell as being on hit list when she was an active member have been notified of same or where they reside in other division, telephonically set out to make such notifications.
PT attorney Charles Garry advised this date that he had filed in California State Court a petition for court decree to dissolve the People’s Temple Disciple [Disciples] of Christ Corporation. The petition requests instruction from the court on how to handle the dissolvement and held the dispursement [disbursement] of assets.
Mark Lane contacted USA NDC [United States Attorney, Northern District of California] to make arrangements to make
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Terri Buford available for interview by him in Denver. USA NDC is returning the Lane call suggesting a meeting next Wednesday in San Francisco.
Information from San Francisco media person indicates a Los Angeles media person has written an article in today’s Los Angeles “Times” re PT and that he had the identities of nine persons on the hit list. Leads set.
Stephen [Steven] Katsaris agreed to the autopsy of his daughter, Maria, this date.
A conference was held with San Francisco District Attorney’s investigators and information exchanged. To this point, neither San Francisco FBI or San Francisco District Attorney has any solid evidence of a crime being committed by members of the PT other than RYMUR.
Armed and dangerous. Suicidal tendencies.
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