[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 36 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/1978GEORGE03813_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8096
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3813
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CDES, CASC, GY (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE)
SUBJECT: ASSEMBLING NOK [Next of Kin] DATA AT GEORGETOWN
REF: GEORGETOWN 3788
EMBASSY NOT RECEIVING AS MANY CALLS FROM RELATIVES OF PEOPLE’S TEMPLE MEMBERS AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED. SUGGEST YOU CONSIDER POSSIBILITY OF PUBLIC STATEMENT REQUESTING PEOPLE WITH RELATIVES AT JONESTOWN TO CALL SOME WASHINGTON NUMBER WHERE DATA WILL BE COMPILED AND TRANSMITTED TO US.
BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]
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