[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted in red type.
[The text for this document was released in 2014 by the now-defunct Wikileaks website at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978STATE310118_d.html.]
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STATE 310118
ORIGIN SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 /007 R
DRAFTED BY CA/SCS: MCELLA/SD
APPROVED BY CA/SCS: SDOBRENCHUK
CA/SCS:RMCKENZIE
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P 082103Z DEC 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY
UNCLAS STATE 310118
E.O.112065N/A
TAGS: CASC (CASANOVA, MARY ANN AND YATES, NEDRA)
SUBJECT: W/W MARY ANN CASANOVA AND NEDRA YATES
DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO KNOW IF EMBASSY IS PAYING SUBSISTANCE UNDER EMDA OR REGULAR REPATRIATION SUBSISTANCE TO EITHER MARY ANN CASANOVA OR NEDRA YATES. IF EMBASSY IS, IT SHOULD CEASE PROMPTLY, AS THEY DID NOT WISH TO DEPART WHEN OFFERED THE OPPORTUNITY. PLEASE ADVISE.
CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]
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