{"id":102952,"date":"2020-10-18T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102952"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:10:33","slug":"jan-5-1979-2111-panama-state-0136","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102952","title":{"rendered":"Jan 5, 1979 \u2022 2111 \u2022 Panama-State \u2022 0136"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979PANAMA00136_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260421230935\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979PANAMA00136_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nPANAMA 00136 052143Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 JUSE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 L-03 TRSE-00 SSO-00 \/026 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;082305 052155Z \/61 <\/p>\n<p>O 052111Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY PANAMA<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0487<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L PANAMA 00136<br \/>\nPLEASE PASS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR HERGEN <\/p>\n<p>EO 12065: GDS, 01-05-85 (BLAKE, MELVILLE E.)<br \/>\nTAGS: EFIN PEOPLES TEMPLE, PN<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN PANAMA<br \/>\nREF: PANAMA 09462 <\/p>\n<p>1. EMBASSY HAS RECEIVED FROM MORGAN Y MORGAN COPIES OF LETTERS FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PANAMA TO THE UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND AND THE SWISS BANK CORPORATION ASKING THAT THEY FREEZE FUNDS IN THE NUMBERED ACCOUNTS INDICATED AND PROVIDE INFORMATION TO HIM ON THE OWNERS AND AMOUNTS INVOLVED IN THE ACCOUNTS. ALSO SUPPLIED IS A SECOND LETTER HE SENT TO THE UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND EXPLAINING THAT HIS REQUEST WAS BASED ON A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED AT THE REQUEST OF THE FBI. COMMENT: HE MAY BE COVERING HIS BASES WITH NOREIGA BY REFERRING TO THE FBI RATHER THAN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. END COMMEND. <\/p>\n<p>2. WE ALSO HAVE COPIES OF LETTERS HE SENT (A) TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RECORDS SEEKING INFORMATION FOR HIS INVESTIGATION ON THE BACKGROUND OF &#8220;ASOCIACION RELIGIOSA PRO SAN PEDRO, S.A.&#8221; AND (B) TO THE OFFICIAL INTERPRETER FOR THE PUBLIC MINISTRY ASKING <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 PANAMA 00136 052143Z <\/p>\n<p>FOR AN OFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF THE 29 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TO HIM BY HERGEN. <\/p>\n<p>3. GENERAL MANAGER OF THE SWISS BANK CORPORATION CALLED TO REPORT TO THE ECONOMIC-COMMERCIAL COUNSELOR THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL&#8217;S LETTER AND WERE PREPARING A REPLY WHICH WOULD PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION WE WANTED. <\/p>\n<p>4. COPIES OF THE LETTERS AND INFORMAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION ARE BEING POUCHED TO ARA\/PAN FOR TRANSMITTAL TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. <\/p>\n<p>MOSS [Ambler H. Moss, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Panama]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 PANAMA 00136 052143Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 JUSE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 L-03 TRSE-00 SSO-00 \/026 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;082305 052155Z \/61 O 052111Z JAN 79 FM AMEMBASSY PANAMA TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0487 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102952","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=102952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136868,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102952\/revisions\/136868"}],"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=102952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}