{"id":101286,"date":"2020-08-04T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101286"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:49:57","slug":"serial-1841","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101286","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1841"},"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=103201\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101286\">Serial 1841<\/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\/1979STATE031525_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423224844\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE031525_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 906<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 031525<br \/>\nORIGIN EUR-12 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 L-03 JUSE-00 TRSE-00 SS-15 NSC-05 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 FBIE-00 PA-02 CA-01 \/049 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY EUR\/CE:RPORTER<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY EUR\/CE:WMWOESSNER<br \/>\nL\/EUR:JWILLIS (SUBS)<br \/>\nJUSTICE: LCHAMBLEE <\/p>\n<p>R 061652Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY BERN<br \/>\nINFO AMCONSUL MUNICH<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 031525<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: EFIN CASC SZ<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND<br \/>\nREF: BERN 386 <\/p>\n<p>1. There follows text of Chamblee-Frei letter of January 23, responding to Frei letter reftel. <\/p>\n<p>2. Begin text <\/p>\n<p>Dear Dr. Frei: <\/p>\n<p>Permit me to apologize for any difficulty caused you by the events described in your letter of January 4, 1979. I assure you that I had no knowledge of Mr. Charig&#8217;s visit to Zurich until after it was completed. Naturally, I have given a copy of your letter to Mr. Ristau for his future <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 031525 <\/p>\n<p>guidance. Like you, I am convinced of the wisdom of the provision of the treaty providing for a single line of communication between our governments in criminal matters. In this case I can only say that I am glad that you have brought this matter to our attention and extremely grateful that you acted so promptly in our behalf even when we had not used the proper procedure. <\/p>\n<p>Kindest personal regards.<br \/>\nLawrence W. Chamblee, Attorney<br \/>\nCriminal Division <\/p>\n<p>End text <\/p>\n<p>3. Justice has confirmed that Charig was acting under Ristau&#8217;s instructions and not, repeat not, on his own. Department appreciates Embassy effort to clear the air on this one. We believe all parties have their signals straight. <\/p>\n<p>Vance [U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 1841 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.] UNCLASSIFIED FBB 906 PAGE 01 STATE 031525 ORIGIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87599,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101286","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=101286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137165,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101286\/revisions\/137165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}