{"id":101660,"date":"2020-08-06T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101660"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:19:57","slug":"serial-2002","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101660","title":{"rendered":"Serial 2002"},"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=103376\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101660\">Serial 2002<\/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\/1979GEORGE01213_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260424230642\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE01213_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 757<\/p>\n<p>[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n<p>0 191632Z MAR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9214<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 1213<br \/>\nFOR L:T FORTUNE<br \/>\nPASS DEPT JUSTICE FOR: J HERGEN<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO)<br \/>\nSUBJ: JONESTOWN TAPES<\/p>\n<p>We note from NY Times article of March 15 that a business enterprise in New York, International Home Video Club, Inc., intends to market tapes and cassettes of the \u201cfinal hours of Jonestown&#8221; during the week of March 19. Tape obviously was acquired through unauthorized means. Assuming that its commercialization cannot be prohibited on evidentiary grounds, it would seem only logical that any proceeds from this sale be sequestered as Temporal assets and may subject the disposition by the San Francisco court which has jurisdiction in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 2002 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 757 [Listing of agencies receiving informational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87603,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101660","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=101660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137386,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101660\/revisions\/137386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}