[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/1978GEORGE01510_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 CCO-00 PASO-00 /022 W
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R 111512Z MAY 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 6759
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1510
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAG: CASC: (CHAVIS, LORETTA)
SUBJECT: W/W LORETTA CHAVIS, LORETTA)
REF: A. GEORGETOWN 0936, B. STATE 061228
TO: MRS. LULA MAE SMITH
1047 EXPOSITION
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90037
CONSUL MET WITH YOUR DAUGHTER, LORETTA, ON MAY 10. HE INFORMED HER OF YOUR DESIRE TO HAVE HER TELEPHONE YOU. LORETTA PROMISED TO CALL YOU THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE. LORETTA APPEARED WELL. SHE TOLD THE CONSUL THAT SHE WAS ENJOYING HER PRESENT DUTIES IN THE MISSION NURSERY. SHE INDICATED THAT SHE PLANNED TO REMAIN AT THE MISSION INDEFINITELY. I TRUST YOU WILL BE HEARING FROM YOUR DAUGHTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
AMERICAN EMBASSY
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION GRANTED BY LORETTA CHAVIS FOR TRANSMITTAL OF INFORMATION.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
NOTE BY OC/T: PASSED ABOVE ADDRESSEE.
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