[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld several names from 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/1978STATE092661_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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STATE 092661
ORIGIN SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 H-02 ISO-00 /009 R
DRAFTED BY CA:SCS:EHO’KANE/MRER
APPROVED BY CA:SCS:SADOBRENCHUK
CA/SCS/EAPOWERS
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P 111934Z APR 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
UNCLAS STATE 092661
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC: (THRASH, HYACINTH)
SUBJECT: W/W HYACINTH THRASH 3/27/1900 ALABAMA
1. CONGRESSMAN JACOBS INTERESTED.
2. FAMILY CONCERNED WITH W/W OF MS. THRASH, A MEMBER OF THE PEOPLES’ TEMPLE..
3. PLEASE CONTACTR MS. THRASH ON NEXT VISIT TO JONESTOWN AND PROVIDE W/W REPORT TO HER NIECE MRS- AILEEN TOWERS 443 HARVARD PLACE, INDIANAPPOLIS, INDIANA 46208 VIA OFFICIAL DIRECT RELAY CABLE.
4. ASSISTANCE APPRECIATED.
5. PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED IN CASES WHERE INFORMATION IS TO BE RELAYED TO INQUIRER BY DEPARTMENT OR POST. AUTHORIZATION SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS A SEPARATE ITEM IN ANY REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT.
VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]
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