{"id":103272,"date":"2020-10-22T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103272"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:37:55","slug":"feb-16-1979-1937-georgetown-state-0744","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103272","title":{"rendered":"Feb 16, 1979 \u2022 1937 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0744"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of Temple survivor Stephan Jones. 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\/1979GEORGE00744_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423233646\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00744_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00744 161935Z<br \/>\nACTION OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 \/023 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;072701 161954Z \/42<\/p>\n<p>O 161937Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9018<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0744<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, (PEOPLE TEMPLE), (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JONES, STEPHAN GHANDI [Gandhi]<\/span>)<br \/>\nSUBJ: TRAVEL OF PT MEMBERS<br \/>\nREF: A. STATE 040100 B. GEORGETOWN 0692<\/p>\n<p>1. THE EMBASSY IS UNAWARE OF ANY PLANNED TRAVEL TO THE U.S. BY PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS OTHER THAN <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEPHAN JONES<\/span> (REF.B).<\/p>\n<p>2. THE EMBASSY HAS CHECKED WITH THE GEORGETOWN PAN AM OFFICE AND THEY INDICATE THAT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEPHAN JONES<\/span> IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES ON FEBRUARY 27.<\/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 State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld the name of Temple survivor Stephan Jones. It is denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 00744 161935Z ACTION OCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103272","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=103272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137217,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103272\/revisions\/137217"}],"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=103272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}