{"id":103201,"date":"2020-10-22T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103201"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:49:35","slug":"feb-6-1979-%e2%80%a2-1652-%e2%80%a2-state-bern-%e2%80%a2-31525","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103201","title":{"rendered":"Feb 6, 1979 \u2022 1652 \u2022 State-Bern \u2022 31525"},"content":{"rendered":"

[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 1841<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/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

UNCLASSIFIED
\nPAGE 01
\nSTATE 031525
\nORIGIN EUR-12 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 L-03 JUSE-00 TRSE-00 SS-15 NSC-05 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 FBIE-00 PA-02 CA-01 \/049 R
\nDRAFTED BY EUR\/CE:RPORTER
\nAPPROVED BY EUR\/CE:WMWOESSNER
\nL\/EUR:JWILLIS (SUBS)
\nJUSTICE:LCHAMBLEE
\n——————080076 070018Z \/61 <\/p>\n

R 061652Z FEB 79
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO AMEMBASSY BERN
\nINFO AMCONSUL MUNICH
\nUNCLAS STATE 031525
\nE.O. 12065: N\/A
\nTAGS: EFIN CASC SZ
\nSUBJECT: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND
\nREF: BERN 386 <\/p>\n

1. THERE FOLLOWS TEXT OF CHAMBLEE-FREI LETTER OF JANUARY 23, RESPONDING TO FREI LETTER REFTEL. <\/p>\n

2. BEGIN TEXT <\/p>\n

DEAR DR. FREI: <\/p>\n

PERMIT ME TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY DIFFICULTY CAUSED YOU BY THE EVENTS DESCRIBED IN YOUR LETTER OF JANUARY 4, 1979. I ASSURE YOU THAT I HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF MR. CHARIG’S VISIT TO ZURICH UNTIL AFTER IT WAS COMPLETED. NATURALLY, I HAVE GIVEN A COPY OF YOUR LETTER TO MR. RISTAU FOR HIS FUTURE <\/p>\n

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\nPAGE 02 STATE 031525 <\/p>\n

GUIDANCE. LIKE YOU, I AM CONVINCED OF THE WISDOM OF THE PROVISION OF THE TREATY PROVIDING FOR A SINGLE LINE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OUR GOVERNMENTS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. IN THIS CASE I CAN ONLY SAY THAT I AM GLAD THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT THIS MATTER TO OUR ATTENTION AND EXTREMELY GRATEFUL THAT YOU ACTED SO PROMPTLY IN OUR BEHALF EVEN WHEN WE HAD NOT USED THE PROPER PROCEDURE. <\/p>\n

KINDEST PERSONAL REGARDS.
\nLAWRENCE W. CHAMBLEE, ATTORNEY
\nCRIMINAL DIVISION <\/p>\n

END TEXT <\/p>\n

3. JUSTICE HAS CONFIRMED THAT CHARIG WAS ACTING UNDER RISTAU’S INSTRUCTIONS AND NOT, REPEAT NOT, ON HIS OWN. DEPARTMENT APPRECIATES EMBASSY EFFORT TO CLEAR THE AIR ON THIS ONE. WE BELIEVE ALL PARTIES HAVE THEIR SIGNALS STRAIGHT. <\/p>\n

VANCE [U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n

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