[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of Mickey Touchette from this cable.
T[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978STATE295234_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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ORIGIN SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CA-01 H-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 JUSE-00 SSO-00 INRE-00 /030 R
DRAFTED BY CA/OCS:JARINI:SAL
APPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL S/S-O: JTHYDEN
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O P 220157Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE
INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN
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E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC, OREP, GY
SUBJECT: PRESENCE IN PORT OF SPAIN OF MEMBERS OF PEOPLE”‘ TEMPLE MOVEMENT
REF: PORT OF SPAIN 3343
ONLY INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE INDIVIDUALS NAMED IN REFTEL IS AS FOLLOWS: MICKEY TOUCHETTE (POSSIBLY MICHAEL) ARRIVED IN SAN JUAN ON 11/20/78 ON MILITARY AIRCRAFT FROM GEORGETOWN 0600 HOURS.
CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
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