{"id":103018,"date":"2020-10-19T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103018"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:29:48","slug":"jan-15-1979-1149-georgetown-state-0192","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103018","title":{"rendered":"Jan 15, 1979 \u2022 1149 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0192"},"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\/1979GEORGE00192_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422182829\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00192_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>[This excerpt includes the single paragraph related to the Jonestown tragedy.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00192 01 OF 03 151648Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 SP-02 NSC-05 SIG-03 MMO-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 PM-05 L-03 A-02 PA-01 ICA-11 EB-08 TRSE-00 OMB-01 AID-05 HA-05 COME-00 IO-14 OES-09 LAB-04 SIL-01 CA-01 SNM-05 DEAE-00 ACDA-12 DOE-15 SOE-02 DOEE-00 NRC-05 \/161 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;055512 151813Z \/50 P <\/p>\n<p>R 151149Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8719<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY KINGSTON<br \/>\nCINCSOUTH<br \/>\nCINCLANT<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 1 OF 3 GEORGETOWN 0192<br \/>\nCINCSOUTH AND CINCLANT FOR POLAD <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: GDS 1\/25\/85 (BURKE, JOHN R.) OR-M<br \/>\nTAGS: AMGT, OGEN, PEPR, JM<br \/>\nSUBJ: U.S. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES IN GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: 78 STATE 207307<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 7. FINALLY, IT SHOULD BE NOTED AS AN INDICATION OF IMPROVED BILATERAL RELATIONS THAT BOTH GOVERNMENT HAVE COOPERATED WELL IN THE TRAUMATIC AFTEREFFECTS OF THE JONESTOWN TRAGEDY. THUS FAR THE GUYANESE GOVERNMENT&#8217;S COOPERATION HAS BEEN EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD, AND THE STRAIN ON THE BILATERAL RELATIONSSHIP HAS BEEN REMARKEDLY LIGHT. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026 BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/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.] [This excerpt includes the single paragraph related to the Jonestown tragedy.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 GEORGE 00192 01 OF 03 151648Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 SP-02 NSC-05 SIG-03 MMO-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103018","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103018","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=103018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136915,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103018\/revisions\/136915"}],"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=103018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}