{"id":103217,"date":"2020-10-22T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103217"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:59:42","slug":"feb-8-1979-0013-state-georgetown-32688","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103217","title":{"rendered":"Feb 8, 1979 \u2022 0013 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 32688"},"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\/1979STATE032688_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423225850\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE032688_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 032688<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-01 CA-01 \/018 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR:R MCCOY:KC<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA\/CAR:A HEWITT<br \/>\nARA\/L:T FORTUNE<br \/>\nARA:B GROVE<br \/>\nARA:J BUSHNELL<br \/>\nH\/ARA:E TAYLOR (SUBS)<br \/>\nCA:H HORAN (SUBS)<br \/>\nARA:V P VAKY<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;096029 072342Z \/70 <\/p>\n<p>O 080013Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 032688 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: GDS 2\/7\/85 (MCCOY, RICHARD A.)<br \/>\nTAGS: PINT, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: HIRC REQUEST TO INTERVIEW GUYANESE OFFICIALS <\/p>\n<p>1.(U) THE FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A LETTER DATED JAN. 31, 1979 SENT TO THE SECRETARY FROM CHAIRMAN ZAULOCKI [CLEMENT ZABLOCKI] OF THE HIRC. <\/p>\n<p>BEGIN TEXT: <\/p>\n<p>DEAR MR. SECRETARY, <\/p>\n<p>THE STAFF INVESTIGATION OF CONGRESSMAN RYAN&#8217;S MURDER IN GUYANA HAS REACHED THE POINT WHERE IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO INTERVIEW, BOTH HERE AND ABROAD, A NUMBER OF GUYANESE OFFICIALS. THIS EFFORT WILL REQUIRE THE COOPERATION OF <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 032688 <\/p>\n<p>THE DEPARTMENT. I WOULD, THEREFORE, APPRECIATE YOUR SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW BEST TO COORDINATE THIS STAGE OF THE INVESTIGATION WITH APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS. <\/p>\n<p>WITH BEST WISHES, <\/p>\n<p>I AM SINCERELY YOURS, <\/p>\n<p>CHAIRMAN <\/p>\n<p>END TEXT <\/p>\n<p>2. COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS THAT EMBASSY MAY HAVE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY COB FEBRUARY 9. <\/p>\n<p>3.(C)FYI: DEPARTMENT 3ELIEVES THAT IF IT AGREES TO HOUSE REQUEST TO APPROACH GUYANESE ON THIS ISSUE BEST PROCEDURE WOULD BE TO PASS REQUEST THROUGH GUYANESE EMBASSY HERE. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<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.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 STATE 032688 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-01 CA-01 \/018 R DRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR:R MCCOY:KC APPROVED BY ARA\/CAR:A HEWITT ARA\/L:T FORTUNE ARA:B GROVE ARA:J BUSHNELL H\/ARA:E TAYLOR (SUBS) CA:H HORAN (SUBS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103217","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=103217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137175,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103217\/revisions\/137175"}],"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=103217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}