[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 11 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978GEORGE03780_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8067
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E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY
SUBJ: CODEL RYAN: SECURITY OF “CONCERNED RELATIVES” AT PEGASUS HOTEL
REF: AMB/ASST SEC VAKY TELECON NOV. 19
1. SINCE REFTELCON CONSUL HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ASST. CRIME CHIEF [C.A. “Skip”] ROBERTS WHO IS DIRECTLY IN CHARGE OF SECURITY OF THE “CONCERNED RELATIVES” AT THE PEGASUS HOTEL. THE PROPOSITION WAS PUT TO ROBERTS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT MIGHT BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO MOVE THE GROUP, REPRESENTED BY TIM STOEN, TO THE CONSULATE BUILDING. ROBERTS COUNSELED AGAINST THIS MOVE SAYING THAT HE HAD ASSIGED AS MUCH SECURITY AS POSSIBLE TOTHE [TO THE] PEGASUS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THESE PEOPLE.
2. WE WILL BE IN CONTINUING TOUCH WITH STOEN AND THE OTHERS IN AN EFFORT TO ASSURAGE THEIR CONCERNS.
BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]
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