[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/1978GEORGE01511_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 01511 111549Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 H-02 ISO-00 /009 W
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R 111513Z MAY 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 6760
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1511
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC: (THRASH, HYACINTH)
SUBJECT: W/W HYACINTH THRASH: MARCH 27, 1900, ALABAMA
REF: A. STATE 092661, B. GEORGETOWN 1190
1. CONGRESSMAN JACOBS INTERESTED.
2. SCS PLEASE INFORM MRS. AILEEN TOWERS, 443 HARVARD PLACE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, THAT CONSUL MET WITH HER AUNT ON MAY 10. MRS. THRASH INFORMED CONSUL SHE HAD RECEIVED A LETTER FROM HER NIECE LAST MONTH AND HAD REPLIED TO IT. SHE TOLD CONSUL THAT SHE WAS ENJOYING HER STAY AT THE COMMUNITY. CONSUL, ON BASIS OF CONVERSATION WITH MRS. THRASH, BELIEVES SHE IS CONTENT WITH HER PRESENT LIFE. SHE APPEARED TO BE WELL.
3. ORAL PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION GRANTED.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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