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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 41<\/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
\nGEORGE 03820 211329Z
\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PA-02
\nTRSE-00 SCS-06 MCT-02 CA-01 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05
\nSYE-00 USSS-00 H-02 AID-05 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00
\nCCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 L-03 A-02
\nMED-05 OPR-02 PER-05 PPTE-00 \/087 W
\n——————118793 211338Z \/41<\/p>\n

O 210645Z NOV 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8109
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3820
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC CDES GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)
\nSUBJECT: DEPARTMENT ASSUMPTION OF DEATH AND W\/W NOTIFICATION
\nRESPONSIBILITIES
\nREF: ELLICE\/WARD TELECON 11\/20\/78<\/p>\n

1. Embassy agrees that department must assume responsibility for notifying relatives of both dead and surviving Peoples Temple members. Please confirm by telegram. Future callers from states will be told to call department. Most of telephones connections we have experienced within the lst few days have been unintelligible anyway.<\/p>\n

2. This cancels Georgetown 3813<\/a> [Serial 36<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n

UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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