[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1235 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/1978BRIDGE03682_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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BRIDGE 03682 150651Z
ACTION ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 SCS-06 ISO-00 CA-01 H-02 L-03 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 DODE-00 USSS-00 SS-15 CG-00 DOTE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SY-05 /058 W
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R 122025Z DEC 78
FM AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 6950
AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN
INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
UNCLAS BRIDGETOWN 3682
E.O 12065: N/A
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY , GG
SUBJECT: WHEREABOUTS OF ALBATROSS III
REF: BIDGETOWN 3616
1. Albatross III has begun loading limestone at Bridgetown and agents estimate she will sail for Port of Spain on December 15. Charles Touchette plans to return to Port of Spain with the ship.
Ortiz [Francis Vincent Ortiz, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Barbados]
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