[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 941 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978GEORGE04149_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 04149 071717Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SSO-00 CA-01 FBIE-00 HEW-06
USSS-00 INSE-00 CCO-00 PASO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10
NSAE-00 INRE-00 /039 W
——————052310 071753Z /41
O 071700Z DEC 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8368
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4149
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO: FBI, WASHDC
HEW
USSS
JFK IMMIGRATION & CUSTOMS
E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: CASC, GY, (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE)
SUBJ: SEVENTEEN PEOPLE’S TEMPLE SURVIVORS DEPART GUYANA
REF: GEORGETOWN 4112
All those People’s Temple members listed reftel departed Georgetown on Pan American Airways Flight 228 to New York at about 1400 hrs. (L [Local]), December 6, 1978
Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]
/ Replaces CHAR(S) on senders keyed unavail on yours
[State version of cable adds following:] Note by OC/T: Georgetown 4149 passed INS, JFK, New York, NY.
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