[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 829 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/1978STATE305018_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
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STATE 305018
ORIGIN ARA-15
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-02 L-03 FBIE-00
JUSE-00 DODE-00 USSS-00 SS-15 CG-00 DOTE-00
CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SY-05 /058 R
DRAFTED BY ARA:RWZIMMERMANN :LB
APPROVED BY ARA:JABUSHNELL
S/S-O:TMARTIN
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P 020131Z DEC 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN PRIORITY
INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN PRIORITY
UNCLAS STATE 305018
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY
SUBJECT: PEOPLES’ TEMPLE: WHEREABOUTS OF ABBATROSS [ALBATROSS] AND CREW.
WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY HAVE ON WHEREABOUTS P.T. OWNED ABBATROSS [ALBATROSS] AND ITS CREW.
VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]
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