[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld two names from 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/1978STATE296505_d.html.]
UNCLASSIFIED
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STATE 296505
ORIGIN SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 ARA-15 CA-01 SSO-00 /023 R
DRAFTED BY CA/SCS:MACELLA:BB
APPROVED BY ARA:SRGIBSON
S/S-O:JTHYDEN
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O 230655Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 296505
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC, (CASANOVA, DANNY)
SUBJECT: W/W: DANNY CASANOVA
1. MRS. DIANE HAWTHORNE AUNT OF SUBJECT, SAYS SHE HAS AUTHORITY FROM SUBJECT’S MOTHER, MARY ANN CASANOVA WHO IS IN GUYANA TO ARRANGE FOR DISPOSITION OF SUBJECT’S REMAINS.
2. PLEASE ASCERTAIN IF MRS. CASANOVA HAS AUTHORIZED MRS. HAWTHORNE TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUBJECT’S BURIAL. IF SO, PLEASE HAVE MRS. CASANOVA GIVE A WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THIS EFFECT.
VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]
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