[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 made several deletions in 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/1978GEORGE03931_d.html.]
UNCLASSIFIED
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GEORGE 03931 260312Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 L-03 SSO-00 /026 W
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R 250400Z NOV 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8201
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3931
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC (CASANOVA, DONALD)
SUBJECT: W/W DONALD CASANOVA
REF STATE 296505
TEXT OF MRS MARYANNE CASANOVA’S SIGNED STATEMENT IS:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I HEREBY AUTHORIZE MY SISTER DIANE HAWTHORNE TO EXERCISE WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO CLAIM AND BURY THE REMAINS OF MY SON DONALD SCHEID CASANOVA, AND ALSO MY TWO DAUGHTERS ANGELIQUE SCHEID CASANOVA AND SOPHIA CASANOVA WHEN AND IF THEIR REMAINS ARE LOCATED.
(SIGNED) MARYANN SCHEID CASANOVA (MOTHER)
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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