{"id":103296,"date":"2020-10-22T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103296"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:48:02","slug":"feb-23-1979-0547-state-port-of-spain-44562","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103296","title":{"rendered":"Feb 23, 1979 \u2022 0547 \u2022 State-Port of Spain \u2022 44562"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names of air marshals from this cable. They are 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\/1979STATE044562_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260423234716\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE044562_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 044562<br \/>\nORIGIN OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 FAA-00 DOTE-00 \/023 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA:OCS:EMR:MACELLA:ACM<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA:OCS:MACELLA<br \/>\nFAA\/ACS:ACASUCCI (PHONE)<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;013309 230612Z \/15<\/p>\n<p>P 230547Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 044562<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065 N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC:<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W: TRAVEL OF SKY MARSHALS<\/p>\n<p>1. FOR BOTH POSTS: FEDERAL AVIATION ADVISES THAT FOUR SKY MARSHALS WILL BE FLYING TO GEORGETOWN TO ESCORT PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MEMBERS BACK TO U.S. MARSHALS ARRIVING ON PAN AM 227 FEBRUARY 26 AND RETURNING TO U.S. FEBRUARY 28 ON PAN AM 228. PAN AM IS MAKING HOTEL RESERVATIONS.<\/p>\n<p>2. FOR PORT OF SPAIN: AIR MARSHALL DISEMBARKING AT PORT OF SPAIN IS <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CURTIS MOORE<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>3. FOR GEORGETOWN: AIR MARSHALS GOING ON TO GEORGETOWN ARE <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ALFRED PANARESE, FRED CLARIDGE AND WALTER KORSGAAUD<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names of air marshals from this cable. They are 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 STATE 044562 ORIGIN OCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103296","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=103296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137227,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103296\/revisions\/137227"}],"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=103296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}