[Editor’s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978STATE297280_d.html.]
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ORIGIN SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 CA-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 SY-05 SYE-00 /028 R
DRAFTED BY CA/OSC/TDHOBGOOD/GHP
APPROVED BY ARA/SRGIBSON CA/OSC:MCELLA
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O 240851Z NOV 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 297280
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC
SUBJECT: PEOPLE’S TEMPLE MEMBERS REPORTED IN GEORGETOWN
THE NAME OF PAT “CRONETTE”, AGE 45, WAS INCLUDED IN GEORGETOWN 3846/123 AS PERSON IDENTIFIED DEAD. RELATIVE OF PAT CRONETTE ALLEGES THAT THE PAT CRONETTE IDENTIFIED IN YOUR CABLE AND PAT “GRUNNET”, BORN IN CALIFORNIA ON NOVEMBER 25, 1941 ARE ONE AND THE SAME PERSON. PLEASE CONFIRM CORRECT SPELLING UTILIZING AVAILABLE RESOURCES SO THAT NOK CAN BE INFORMED.
CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
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