{"id":101176,"date":"2020-08-03T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101176"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:48:40","slug":"serial-1771","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101176","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1771"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103152\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101176\">Serial 1771<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI withheld many names from this serial. They are designated below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00391_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422234739\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00391_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 00391 252015Z<br \/>\nACTION JUSE-00<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 L-03 OCS-06 CA-01 FBIE-00 SSO-00 \/022 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;073369<br \/>\n252032Z \/43 O 252010Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8831<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIA USE GEORGETOWN 0391<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO)<br \/>\nSUBJ: GUYANESE GOVERNMENT APPROVES LOAN OF EVIDENTIARY MATERIAL FROM JONESTOWN TRAGEDY<br \/>\nREF: STAE 12047<\/p>\n<p>1. Minister of Labor and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Jonestown Committee Chairman Hamilton Green<\/span> notified charge Jan 25 that the Guyanese Government (GOG) had approved temporary transfer of evidentiary material on Jonestown tragedy held by Guyanese authorities to Washington and tentatively approved plans made jointly by Legatt and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Assistant Superintendent of Police Cecil Roberts<\/span> to accompany <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Matzbual<\/span> to Washington via Pan American flight 228 on Tuesday, Jan 31.<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Green<\/span> said that he wished to consider possibility of coordinating Washington visit of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roberts<\/span> with that on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Minister of Information Shirley Field-Ridley (Septel)<\/span> and would be in touch with charge again promptly.<\/p>\n<p>3. Suggest question of seeking Guyanese approval to return enhanced copies of tapes rather [rather] than originals due to tape deterioration in uncontrolled temperature and humidity storage be discussed during <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roberts<\/span> visit.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00391 252015Z<\/p>\n<p>Dwyer [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1771 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI withheld many names from this serial. They are designated below in red type. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87669,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137056,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101176\/revisions\/137056"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}