[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 14 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.]
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[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 191759Z NOV 78 ZFF4
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS STATE 293763
E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: AFSP, GY
SUBJ: SPECIAL MILITARY AIRCRAFT
1. Special military aircraft will depart Panama 1330 hours Washington time today en route to Georgetown with emergency support team.
2. On board will be DCM [Deputy Chief of Mission]/Panama Victor Dikeos, Consular Officer Charles English, Administrative/SY Officer Richard May, and Communicator Anthony Montana.
3. Aircraft will stop at Caracas in mid-afternoon and pick up Consular Officer Richard Martin, Administrative Officer Douglas Davidson and Communicator Robert Hall.
4. We hope [to] have on board as well a four-man military
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communications team which will have its own independent communications gear and capability.
5. Aircraft ETA Georgetown approximately 2000 hours Washington time this evening.
6. Consular Officer John Adams from Port-of-Spain will also join you shortly and is making his arrangements to arrive by commercial means.
Vance [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]