[Editor’s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 5 of the FBI’s RYMUR release.]
UNCLASSIFIED
[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]
0 191700Z NOV 78
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8070
UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3783
E.O. 11652: NA
TAGS: AFSP, GY
SUBJ: SPECIAL MILTARY [MILITARY] AIRCRAFT
REF: STATE 293763
1. AMBASSADOR HAS OBTAINED FROM FOREIGN MINISTER RASHLEIGH JACKSON CLEARANCE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF SPECIAL MILITARY AIRCRAFT REPORTED IN REFTEL. CLEARANCE WAS PROVIDED BY THE FORMIN ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE AIRCRAFT WOULD DEPLANE ITS PASSENGERS AND LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. PERMISSION TO REFUEL THE NECESSARY WAS, HOWEVER, GRANTED.
2. EMBASSY IS MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO MEET, PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO GEORGETOWN AND ARRANGE LODGING FOR PERSONNEL ARRIVING ON SPECIAL C-130 FLIGHT.
BURKE [JOHN BURKE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]