{"id":95021,"date":"2020-02-11T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95021"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:25:21","slug":"jan-13-78-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0171","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95021","title":{"rendered":"Jan 13, 78 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0171"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of a relative of a Peoples Temple member from this cable. It is denoted below in red type.<\/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 00171 132049Z
\nACTION SCS-06
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CCO-00 PASO-00 \/007 W
\n——————010251 140430Z \/64<\/p>\n

R 131031Z JAN 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 6017
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0171
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC: (CHAIKIN, EUGENE)
\nSUBJECT: W\/W EUGENE CHAIKIN
\nREF: 77 GEORGETOWN 3048<\/a><\/p>\n

TO: MR. RAPHAEL CHAIKIN<\/span>
\n10530 BRIAR LANE<\/span>
\nSANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA<\/span>
\nTELEPHONE NO. 714-835-5223<\/span><\/p>\n

1. OUR CONSUL MET WITH YOUR BROTHER<\/span> EUGENE ON JAN. 11, 1978 DURING A VISIT TO THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY. EUGENE APPEARED WELL AND INTERESTED IN HIS ACTIVITIES INVOLVING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS. AMERICAN EMBASSY GEORGETOWN, GUYANA<\/p>\n

2. FOR DEPARTMENT: PRIVACY ACT AUTHORIZATION GRANTED ORALLY BY EUGENE CHAIKIN FOR RELEASE OF INFORMATION TO HIS BROTHER<\/span>.<\/p>\n

BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/p>\n

NOTE BY OC\/T: PASSED TO ABOVE ADDRESSEE.<\/p>\n

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