[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/1978GEORGE01190_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 01190 181640Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 H-02 /023 W
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P 181607Z APR 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6590
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1190
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC: (THRASH, HYACINTH)
SUBJECT: W/W HYACINTH THRASH; MARCH 27, 1900, ALABAMA
REF: STATE 092661
1. CONGRESSMAN JACOBS INTERESTED.
2. POST HAS CONFIRMED APRIL 17 WITH GUYANESE MMIGRATION SERVICE THAT MS. THRASH IS CURRENTLY IN GUYANA RESIDING AT PEOPLE’S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL MISSION IN THE NORTHWEST DISTRICT.
3. A CONSULAR OFFICER WILL CONTACT MR. [MS.] THRASH DURING OUR NEXT SCHEDULED VISIT TO SITE WITHIN NEXT TWO MONTHS.
4. DEPARTMENT MAY WISH TO PASS ON TO CONGRESSMAN AND RELATIVES OUR INTEREST IN MATTER AND PASS ON ASSURANCES THAT THEY WILL BE INFORMED OF OUR VISIT.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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