[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/1978GEORGE01318_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 01318 261232Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 H-02 CCO-00 PASO-00 /023 W
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P 261220Z APR 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6651
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1318
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC, (DEAN, BURGER LEE)
SUBJECT: W/W BURGER LEE DEAN – 11/14/16, ARKANSAS OR LOUISIANA
REF: STATE 100748
TO SSGT JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH
QUARTERS 5321
FT. LEWIS, WASHINGTON 98433
OUR CONSUL HAS PASSED YOUR MESSAGE TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE. THEY HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO PROVIDE YOUR NEW ADDRESS TO YOUR MOTHER AND TO INFORM HER OF YOUR DESIRE THAT SHE CONTACT YOU. A CONSULAR OFFICER PLANS TO VISIT THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS AND WILL PERSONALLY CONTACT MRS. DEAN. YOU WILL BE INFORMED OF THE RESULTS OF THE VISIT.
BEST REGARDS.
AMERICAN EMBASSY
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
NOTE BY OC/T: PASSED ABOVE ADDRESSEE.
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