[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/1978STATE168133_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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STATE 168133
ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 /007 R
DRAFTED BY CA/SCS/EHO’KANE/LAG
APPROVED BY CA/SCS/SADOBRENCHUK
CA/SCS/RLRIVERA
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P 031628Z JUL 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
UNCLAS STATE 168133
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC (FARRIS, MARSHALL)
SUBJECT: W/W MARSHALL FARRIS 8/5/07, USC
1. EUNICE COOPER CONCERNED W/W OF BROTHER, MARSHALL FARRIS, A MEMBER OF THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE. MR. FARRIS HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN VISITED BY CONOFF AND MS. COOPER RECEIVED CABLE FROM EMBASSY AFTER VISIT. SHE REQUESTS THAT ON NEXT VISIT TO JONESTOWN PHOTOS BE TAKEN OF HER BROTHER AND FORWARDED TO HER TO ASSURE HERSELF THAT HE IS WELL.
2. PLS TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION ON ABOVE REQUEST. MS. COOPER’S ADDRESS: 3302 DAUPHINE DRIVE, FALLS CHURCH, VA. 22042. TELEPHONE 703-698-8903. IF UNABLE TO OBTAIN PHOTOS PLEASE INFORM MS. COOPER VIA DIRECT RELAY.
3. EFFORTS APPRECIATED.
4. PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED IN CASES WHERE INFORMATION IS TO BE RELAYED TO INQUIRER BY DEPT. OR POST. AUTHORIZATION SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS A SEPARATE
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VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]
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