[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/1978GEORGE01682_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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GEORGE 01682 261837Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 /007 W
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P 261810Z MAY 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6869
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1682
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC: FIELDS, DONALD, SHIRLEY, LORI AND MARK
SUBJECT: W/W DONALD FIELDS AND FAMILY
REF: STATE 128347
1. DEPARTMENT SHOULD INFORM MRS. MAE FIELDS THAT SINCE OFFICER VISITED PEOPLE’S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY ON MAY 10 IN ALL PROBABILITY NEXT VISIT WILL NOT BE UNTIL AUGUST.
2. DEPARTMENT MAY ASSURE MRS. FIELDS THAT CONSULAR OFFICER WILL ASCERTAIN WELL BEING OF FIELDS FAMILY DURING NEXT VISIT.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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