[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 made several deletions in this cable. They are denoted below in red type.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978GEORGE00936_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 00936 291822Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 CCO-00 PASO-00 /022 W
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P 291740Z MAR 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6454
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0936
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC (CHAVIS, LORETTA)
SUBJECT: W/W LORETTA CHAVIS 4-1-55, CALIFORNIA
REF: STATE 061228
TO MRS. LULA MAE SMITH
1047 EXPOSITION
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90037
EMBASSY HAS BEEN UNABLE TO DIRECTLY CONTACT YOUR DAUGHTER AS YOU REQUESTED DUE TO THE LACK OF DIRECT TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN GEORGETOWN AND THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY. OUR CONSUL DID RELAY YOUR MESSAGE TO PEOPLE’S TEMPLE REPRESENTATIVES IN GEORGETOWN AND REQUESTED THEY INFORM YOUR DAUGHTER TO CONTACT YOU DIRECTLY THROUGH THE RADIO TELEPHONE FACILITIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE AT THE COMMUNITY. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM YOUR DAUGHTER. PLEASE ACCEPT MY BEST WISHES.
AMERICAN EMBASSY
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
NOTE BY OC/T: GEORGETOWN 936 PASSED ABOVE ADDRESSEE.
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