[Editor’s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from 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/1978GEORGE04204_d.html. This URL may be available through the Wayback Machine.]
UNCLASSIFIED
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GEORGE 04204 111900Z
ACTION SCS-06
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CA-01 /008 W
——————096130 112043Z /14
P 111735Z DEC 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8405
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4204
E.O. 12065: NA
TAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE) (CASSANOVA, MARY ANN) [Casanova, MaryAnne], (YATES, JOHNNY MAE AKA NEDRA)
SUBJ: W/W: CASSANOVA AND YATES
REF: STATE 310118
NEITHER CASSANOVA NOR YATES HAVE EVER BEEN ON SUBSISTANCE OR EMDA.
BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]
UNCLASSIFIED
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