{"id":103209,"date":"2020-10-22T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103209"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:53:08","slug":"feb-7-1979-0558-state-georgetown-32545","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103209","title":{"rendered":"Feb 7, 1979 \u2022 0558 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 32545"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The reported death of Howard Hughes Jr. in Jonestown is in error. See follow-up cable <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103239\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE032545_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423225211\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE032545_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 032545<br \/>\nORIGIN OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FSE-00 \/007 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA:OCS:EMR:KHOLMES:KMC<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA:OCS:RAMCKENZIE<br \/>\nCA:OCS:EMR:RAMCKENZIE<br \/>\nBF\/OF\/AD\/SAC<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;087925 071228Z \/10<\/p>\n<p>P 070558Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 032545<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065 N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC: HUGHES, HOWARD R.<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W FUNDS: HOWARD R. HUGHES<\/p>\n<p>1. SCS\/TRUST DOLLARS 5 (FIVE) FOR HOWARD R. HUGHES HOWARD R. HUGHESSYMBOL 19X6875 ACCOUNT NO. 920608<\/p>\n<p>2. DEPOSITOR: KATHERINE JEFFRIES, COEURD&#8217;ALENE, IDAHO<\/p>\n<p>3. RECEIVED BY DEPARTMENT VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY ORDER.<\/p>\n<p>4. FOR POST INFORMATION: IF SUFFICIENT CASH NOT ON HAND FOR PAYMENT CASHIER SHOULD USE EMERGENCY REPLENISHMENT PROCEDURE TO OBTAIN FUNDS IMMEDIATELY THROUGH USDO.<\/p>\n<p>5. NOTIFY DEPARTMENT BF\/OF\/AD\/SAC WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER WHEN FINAL PAYMENT MADE.<\/p>\n<p>6. MESSAGE: REQUEST CERTIFIED COPY DEATH CERTIFICATE OF HOWARD ROBARD HUGHES, JR. DIED NOVEMBER 18, 1978<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 032545<\/p>\n<p>AT JONESTOWN, GUYANA FOR PROBATE.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The reported death of Howard Hughes Jr. in Jonestown is in error. See follow-up cable here. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 032545 ORIGIN OCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FSE-00 \/007 R DRAFTED BY CA:OCS:EMR:KHOLMES:KMC APPROVED BY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103209","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=103209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137168,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103209\/revisions\/137168"}],"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=103209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}