CABLE RE GUYANA EXPLOITS KGB TIE WITH JONESTOWN

Created: 2/1/1979

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TWO JONESTOWN EVENTS

: AND Cit INVOLVEMENT "INE ARAGRAPHS INSINUATE CIA MADEFORE STATE DEPARTMENT.

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1. WASHINGTON POST 1 FEBRUARY ARTICLEED, "GUYANA EXPLOITS KGB TIE TO JONESTOWN" PURPORTSCRIBE BOTH KGB

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"SO MANY STRANGE THINGS N GUYANA, LONGLAYING FIELD FOR THf WORLD'S TWO FORE^Cs/ INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THAT IT SEEMED ALMOST INEVITABLE TO .ANY INFORMED DIPLOMATS AND GUYANESE THAT THE KGB AND CIJTsOULD SOMEHOW BECOME INVOLVED IN THE JONESTOWN AFFAIR*

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BEST EVIDENCE JF CIA INVOLVEMENT AFTER THE NOV. NCIDENT. HAS TU DO NU /A MYSTERIOUS CABLE! SENT AT 9Mfl. THE NIGHT REP. LEO RYAN v' .3 KILLED. ACCORDING TOEPORTER WHO SAW THE CABLE/ IT TVIO OF THOSE WHO WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED AT PORT KAJTUMArvltt.SOR&TION THE STATE DEPARTMENT DID NOT.-HAVE UNTIL LATE lii^MTl MORNING.

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