[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 968 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/1978STATE310389_d.html.]
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STATE 310389
ORIGIN L-03
INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 JUSE-00 PA-02 CA-01 SCS-06
H-02 FBIE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 /030 R
DRAFTED BY L/ARA:M.KOZAK:JV
APPROVED BY L/ARA:M.KOZAK
L – L. MARKS (SUBS)
ARA/PPC – K. MARSHALL (PHONE)
ARA – J. BUSHNELL (PHONE)
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O 090006Z DEC 78
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 310389
E.O. 12065 12065: N/A
TAGS: CASC, CGEN, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY
SUBJECT: TAPES
1. IN RESPONDING TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY RECEIVE ON THIS SUBJECT, YOU MAY ANSWER THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT HAS A TAPE THAT IS BELIEVED TO BE A TAPE OF THE LAST HOURS IN JONESTOWN. SINCE THE TAPE MAY BE PERTINENT TO AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND/OR OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA IT WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE TO COMMENT FURTHER. WE ARE REFERRING ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND YOU SHOULD DO LIKEWISE.
NEWSOM [David D. Newsom, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs]
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