{"id":101550,"date":"2020-08-05T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101550"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:05:28","slug":"serial-1951","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101550","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103315\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101550\">Serial 1951<\/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\/1979GEORGE00916_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260424220414\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00916_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE FBB 480<\/p>\n<p>PAGE 01 GEORGE 00916 011750Z<br \/>\nACTION OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CA-01 JUSE-00 L-03 FBIE-00 SSO-00 \/022 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;098898 011757Z \/47<\/p>\n<p>O 011730Z MAR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9090<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 0916<br \/>\nPASS TO: LEGATT, CARACAS JUSTICE &#8211; M. ABBELL<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: AINF, CASC<br \/>\nSUBJ: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, PEOPLES TEMPLE <\/p>\n<p>1. Legatt at Caracas has requested that Embassy obtain various records and documents sought by Civil and Criminal Division, Department of Justice, in connection with continuing investigation of Peoples Temple. Embassy has deferred response to Legatt pending confirmation of status of this material under Privacy Act. <\/p>\n<p>2. Embassy is advised that Justice has formally advised Department of the initiation of an investigation of the Peoples Temple. Embassy believes that any documents or information requested by Justice in connection with this investigation would be exempt from prohibitions against disclosure contained in Privacy Act. Embassy requests Department confirmation of this view. Material requested by Legatt, Caracas will be requested from GOG [Government of Guyana] when confirmation received.<\/p>\n<p>3. Department is requested to pouch to Embassy copy of <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00916 011750Z <\/p>\n<p>Justice letter noting the initiation of the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>Note by oc\/t: Georgetown 0916 not passed Legatt, Caracas. <\/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 1951 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 FBB 480 PAGE 01 GEORGE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87601,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101550","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=101550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137325,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101550\/revisions\/137325"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}