{"id":103022,"date":"2020-10-19T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103022"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:19:07","slug":"jan-15-1979-%e2%80%a2-1638-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0198","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103022","title":{"rendered":"Jan 15, 1979 \u2022 1638 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0198"},"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=103022\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101133\">Serial 1749<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.<\/p>\n<p>[The State Department release deleted the California address from this cable. It is denoted below in red type.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 343<\/p>\n<p>[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n<p>0 151638Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 8724<\/p>\n<p>UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0198<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE), (BACON, MONIQUE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: MONIQUE BACON<\/p>\n<p>1. AMONG GUYANESE DEATH CERTIFICATES SENT TO DEPARTMENT BY EMBASSY ON DEC. 30, 1978 WAS ONE FOR INFANT MONIQUE BACON, DPOB: 4\/6\/76 IN CALIFORNIA. MONIQUE WAS IDENTIFIED VISUALLY BY ONE OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE SURVIVORS (SEE OUR TEL 3846 DATED 11\/21\/78). HER NAME HAS NOT SUBSEQUENTLY APPEARED ON ANY OF LISTS OF IDENTIFIED BODIES EMANATING FROM DOVER.<\/p>\n<p>2. OUR FILES CONTAIN COPY IDENTIFYING DATA IN PHOTOGRAPH PAGE OF US PASSPORT H801169 AND MONIQUE&#8217;S INTERNATIONAL VACCINATION CARD WHICH SHOWS HOME ADDRESS TO BE <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">261 DIVISADERO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA.<\/span>, EMBASSY RECORDS OF SURVIVORS AND DECEASED SHOW NO OTHER PERSON WITH SURNAME OF BACON. IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT MONIQUE WAS IN JONESTOWN WITH A RELATIVE OR GUARDIAN, LEGAL OR INFORMAL, AND THAT IN FACT SHE DIED DURING THE MASSACRE. THE EMBASSY, THEREFORE, PROPOSES TO CONTINUE TO HANDLE THIS AS A DEATH CASE AND WILL SIGN THE FS-192 WHEN RECEIVED FROM DEPARTMENT IF NO OBJECTION IS PERCEIVED.<\/p>\n<p>3. ANY DATA AVAILABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT REGARDING NEXT OF KIN WOULD BE VERY USEFUL TO EMBASSY.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [JOHN BURKE, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/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 1749 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The State Department release deleted the California address from this cable. It is denoted below in red type.] UNCLASSIFIED FBB 343 [Listing of agencies receiving informational copies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103022","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=103022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116704,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103022\/revisions\/116704"}],"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=103022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}