{"id":102940,"date":"2020-10-18T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102940"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:59:40","slug":"jan-4-1979-1101-georgetown-state-0030","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102940","title":{"rendered":"Jan 4, 1979 \u2022 1101 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0030"},"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=102940\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100744\">Serial 1535<\/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\/1979GEORGE00030_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260421225818\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00030_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00030 041237Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-05 H-02 INR-10 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-02 SP-02 SS-15 ICA-20 SMS-01 TRSE-00 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 \/093 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;069140 041256Z \/42 P <\/p>\n<p>R 041101Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8641<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY MOSCOW<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0030<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: SOPN, GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: MEDIA COVERAGE OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE DELIVERY OF CASH TO SOVIET EMBASSY<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 4524 (NOTAL) <\/p>\n<p>1. BOTH GOVERNMENT-OWNED DAILY NEWSPAPERS, THE EVENING &#8220;CITIZEN&#8221; AND THE MORNING &#8220;CHRONICLE,&#8221; CARRIED SHORT ARTICLES ON JAN 2 AND JAN 3, RESPECTIVELY, ON THE DELIVERY OF CASH, TAPES AND DOCUMENTS FROM THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE TO THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN GEORGETOWN. <\/p>\n<p>2. THE ARTICLES, QUOTING A &#8220;GUYANA GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL,&#8221; STATE THAT THE CASH CONSISTED OF G$87,000, AND TWO U.S. DOLLARS. THE CONTENTS OF THE DOCUMENTS AND TAPES WAS NOT FURTHER SPECIFIED. THE &#8220;CITIZEN&#8221; REPORTS THAT THE CASH AND OTHER MATERIAL WAS HANDED OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA (GOG) FOREIGN MINISTRY BY THE SOVIETS ON DEC 8 AND, ACCORDING TO THE SOVIET EMBASSY, HAD BEEN DELIVERED TO THE EMBASSY ON NOV 18 BY AN UNNAMED FEMALE MEMBER OF THE TEMPLE. <\/p>\n<p>3. THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED RADIO OF JAN 2 STATED THAT THE MATERIAL HAD BEEN DELIVERED TO THE FOREIGN MINISTRY ON <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00030 041237Z <\/p>\n<p>DEC 8 BY AN UNNAMED MEMBER OF THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE WHO IS STILL IN GUYANA. <\/p>\n<p>DWYER [Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Georgetown] <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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 1535 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 PAGE 01 GEORGE 00030 041237Z ACTION ARA-15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102940","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102940"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136862,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102940\/revisions\/136862"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}