{"id":101187,"date":"2020-08-03T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101187"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:21:09","slug":"serial-1776","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101187","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1776"},"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=103120\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101187\">Serial 1776<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979BERN00386_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422231955\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979BERN00386_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 BERN 00386 231018Z<br \/>\nACTION EUR-12<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 JUSE-00 L-03 TRSE-00 NSC-05 SS-15 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 FBIE-00 PA-01 \/047 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;038119 232309Z \/75 <\/p>\n<p>R 230840Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY BERN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 7604<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY BONN<br \/>\nAMCONSUL MUNICH <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE BERN 0386<br \/>\nEO 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: EFIN, CASC, SZ<br \/>\nSUBJ: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND<br \/>\nREF: STATE 8551 <\/p>\n<p>Embassy has received copy of letter dated Jan 4 to Lawrence W. Chamblee, Dept of Justice, from Dr. Frei, Swiss Dept Justice &#038; Police. Letter states Swiss view that Charig intervention was not appropriate, not in accordance Treaty on Mutual Assistance, and caused confusion rather than more expeditious handling. Letter asks that such requests be made through Embassy Bern or in case extreme urgency directly from US Dept of Justice to Swiss Sept Justice &#038; Police. It asks that Mr. Charig and Mr. Ristau be informed of letter. Embassy pouching copies Dept (Eur\/Ce Porter), Bonn and Munich. <\/p>\n<p>WARNER [Marvin L. Warner, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/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 1776 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 BERN 00386 231018Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87669,"menu_order":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101187","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=101187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137026,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101187\/revisions\/137026"}],"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=101187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}