{"id":103211,"date":"2020-10-22T13:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103211"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:55:31","slug":"feb-7-1979-1217-georgetown-state-0585","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103211","title":{"rendered":"Feb 7, 1979 \u2022 1217 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0585"},"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\/1979GEORGE00585_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423225405\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00585_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00585 072231Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 PER-05 \/021 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;095406 081045Z \/11 <\/p>\n<p>R 071217Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 8926<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0585 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: AFSP, APER, CGEN BY<br \/>\nSUBJ: REQUEST FOR TDY OFFICER<br \/>\nREF: A. STATE 0259 78 GEORGETOWN 04073 <\/p>\n<p>1. RETIRED TDY CONSULAR OFFICER ARVID HOLM PRESENTLY SCHEDULED TO DEPART MARCH 1, 1979. REPLACEMENT WILL BE REQUIRED AND IS HEREBY REQUESTED. <\/p>\n<p>2. TWO EXAMPLES OF THE TIME-CONSUMING OPERATIONS WE ARE STILL PERFORMING: <\/p>\n<p>(A) ONE CONSULAR OFFICER IS PRESENT ON THE DOCKS, AS THE GUYANESE CUSTOMS SERVICE OPENS EACH OF THE MORE THAN 100 CRATES BELONGING TO THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE, IN ORDER TO TAKE NOTE OF AND PROTECT ANY PERSONAL PROPERTY OF DECEASED AMERICANS; <\/p>\n<p>(B) ONE CONSULAR OFFICER HAS ATTENDED EVERY SESSION OF THE TWO PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ASSASSINATION OF CONG. RYAN AND THE MURDERS\/SUICIDES AT THE PEOPLES TEMPLE GEORGETOWN RESIDENCE AND WILL CONTINUE TO ATTEND ALL TRIALS AS THE CASES MOVE FROM THE PI TO THE TRIAL STAGE. 3. MR. HOLM HAS INDICATED THAT HE WOULD BE WILLING TO STAY UNITL MARCH 15TH IF DEPARTMENT UNABLE TO REPLACE HIM MARCH 1. <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00585 072231Z <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 00585 072231Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 PER-05 \/021 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;095406 081045Z \/11 R 071217Z FEB 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8926 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0585 E.O. 12065: NA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103211","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=103211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137170,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103211\/revisions\/137170"}],"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=103211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}