{"id":102985,"date":"2020-10-19T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102985"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:12:06","slug":"jan-10-1979-1701-georgetown-state-0121","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102985","title":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 1979 \u2022 1701 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0121"},"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=102985\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79373\">Serial 1627<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00121_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422181039\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00121_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 00121 101711Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 USSS-00 FBIE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 HEW-06 INSE-00 CTME-00 CCO-00 PASO-00 FSE-00 PPT-01 SSO-00 H-02 \/047 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;123085 101715Z \/50<\/p>\n<p>O 101701Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8686<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0121<br \/>\nDEPT PLEASE PASS TO: USSS, WASHDC<br \/>\nFBI, WASHDC<br \/>\nHEW, WASHDC<br \/>\nINS, NEW YORK<br \/>\nU.S. CUSTOMS, NEW YORK<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: REPATRIATION<br \/>\nREF: MCKENZIE\/MASON TELCON 1\/9\/79<\/p>\n<p>1. THE FOLLOWING THREE PEOPLE ARE SCHEDULED TO DEPART GEORGETOWN ABOARD PAN AM 228 ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1979: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JOAN PURSLEY, ROBIN TSCHETTER, AND STANLEY CLAYTON.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY PAN AM REP GEORGETOWN THAT THE 16TH IS THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE FLIGHT FOR THESE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MEMBERS BECAUSE OF FULL BOOKINGS ABOARD EARLIER FLIGHTS.<\/p>\n<p>3. ALL HAVE OWN TICKETS SO NO REPATRIATION FUNDS REQUIRED. THE TICKET PURCHASED EARLIER FOR <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STANLEY CLAYTON<\/span> WITH SCS\/ HAVEN FUNDS WILL BE RETURNED TO PAN AM.<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00121 101711Z<\/p>\n<p>4. WE WOULD LIKE TO REMIND HEW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS DO NOT HAVE WINTER CLOTHING.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE  [U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>NOTE BY OC\/T: PASSED TO INS NEW YORK AND US CUSTOMS NEW YORK.<\/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 1627 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102985","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=102985"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136891,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102985\/revisions\/136891"}],"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=102985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}