[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1202 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/1978GEORGE04226_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 04226 121403Z
ACTION ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 USSS-00 SY-05 SYE-00 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00 FBIE-00 H-02 HA-05 L-03 SCS-06 CA-01 /053 W
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P 121220Z DEC 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8421
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4226
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY
SUBJ: ASSASSINATION THREAT AGAINST PRES/VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
REF: USSS CO-2-78, 978.
Please inform USSS [U.S. Secret Service] that GOG [Government of Guyana] cabinet-level committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday, December 12 to review request that Secret Service be permitted to interview certain Peoples Temple survivors in Georgetown.
Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]
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