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[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1774<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI withheld most of the names in this serial. They are designated in red type below.<\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 OCS-06 VOE-00 CIAE-00 FBIE-00 INSE-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 CA-01 ICAE-00 \/023 W
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O 251955Z JAN 79
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8830
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0390
\nE.O. 12065: NA
\nTAGS: OVIP, CASC, OREP
\nSUBJ: MINISTER OF INFORMATION TO ATTEND SAN FRANCISCO MEETING ON PEOPLES TEMPLE
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 08566<\/p>\n

1. Minister of Labor and Jonestown Committee Coordinator Hamilton Green<\/span> informed charge July 25 that Minister of Information and Culture Shirley Field-Ridley<\/span> had accepted an invitation (presumably from Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Dr. Joseph Lowery<\/span>) to attend the SCLC meeting in San Francisco in early February on the Jonestown tragedy. The SCLC president and his colleagues had called on Ms. Field-Ridley<\/span> during their late December visit to Guyana.<\/p>\n

2. Minister Green added<\/span> that Ms. Field-Ridley<\/span> may elect to pass through Washington on her triac.<\/p>\n

3. Further details will be transmitted as they become available.<\/p>\n

Dwyer [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown]<\/p>\n

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