[Editor’s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978GEORGE04119_d.html.]
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O 061338Z DEC 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8347
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4119
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SUBJ: HELICOPTER PARTS.
REF: DIKEOS/ZIMMERMANN TELCON REFERS.
MINISTER HAMILTON GREEN, IN A TELEPHONE CALL THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 6, INFORMED THE AMBASSADOR THAT GOG CONTINUES TO HAVE AN URGENT NEED FOR HELICOPTER PARTS AND WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATIVE OF EVEN A PARTIAL SHIPMENT OF THOSE ITEMS WHICH HAD EARLIER BEEN REQUESTED.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
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