{"id":103252,"date":"2020-10-22T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103252"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:25:28","slug":"feb-13-1979-%e2%80%a2-1940-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0692","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103252","title":{"rendered":"Feb 13, 1979 \u2022 1940 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0692"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s notes<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103252\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101327\">Serial 1861<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The State Department release withheld the name of Temple survivor Stephan Jones, but the FBI RYMUR release included it. It is denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00692_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423232435\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00692_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00692 131939Z<br \/>\nACTION OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SY-05 SYE-00 FBIE-00 SSO-00 PPT-01 INR-10 INRE-00 CIAE-00 \/039 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;024847 131942Z \/46<\/p>\n<p>0 131940Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8984<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0692<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR, GY, (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE), (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JONES, STEPHAN GHANDI [Gandhi]<\/span>)<br \/>\nSUBJ: RETURN TO U.S. OF <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEPHAN JONES<\/span>.<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0496<\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEPHAN JONES<\/span> WISHES TO RETURN TO THE U.S. AND HAS CONTACTED PAN AM TO RESERVE A SEAT ON ONE OF THEIR FLIGHTS (PA 228) TO NEW YORK. LOCAL PAN AM REP IS ABOUT TO TELEX PAN AM NEW YORK TO ARRANGE FOR SKY MARSHALS.<\/p>\n<p>2. PLEASE NOTIFY APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [JOHN BURKE, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s notes: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1861 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The State Department release withheld the name of Temple survivor Stephan Jones, but the FBI RYMUR release included it. It is denoted below in red type. [The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103252","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=103252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137201,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103252\/revisions\/137201"}],"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=103252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}