{"id":103329,"date":"2020-10-22T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103329"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:22:32","slug":"march-2-1979-%e2%80%a2-1825-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0939","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103329","title":{"rendered":"March 2, 1979 \u2022 1825 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0939"},"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\/1979GEORGE00939_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260424222133\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE00939_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 00939 021828Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-10<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 H-04 NSCE-00 SSO-00 \/030 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;118369 021833Z \/41<\/p>\n<p>O 021825Z MAR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 9099<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 0939<br \/>\nFOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY GROVE, ARA.<\/p>\n<p>E.O.12065: GDS, 3\/2\/85 (BURKE, JOHN R.) OR-M<br \/>\nTAGS: OREP, PINS, GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: HFAC INVESTIGATION OF ASSASSINATION OF CONGRESSMAN RYAN<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 4655<\/p>\n<p>1. (C-ENTIRE TEXT)<\/p>\n<p>2. PRIME MINISTER IS OUT OF GEORGETOWN FOR THE WEEK-END. I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT 10:00 A.M. MARCH 3 WITH FOREIGN MINISTER RASHLEIGH JACKSON AT WHICH TIME I WILL DELIVER TO HIM TEXT OF ZABLOCKI LETTER FOR CONVEYANCE TO THE PRIME MINISTER. THE FOREIGN MINISTER IS LIKELY TO SEEK CERTAIN AMPLIFYING INFORMATION FROM ME DURING THAT INTERVIEW, AND I SHALL DRAW ON THE PERTINENT PORTIONS OF REFTEL. SHOULD THE QUESTION ARISE, I ASSUME THAT I AM AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE HIM WITH THE NAMES CONTAINED IN PARA 7 REFTEL.<\/p>\n<p>3. FYI. AMBASSADOR MANN IS STILL IN GEORGETOWN AND WILL NOT BE BACK IN WASHINGTON BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK OF MARCH 4. END FYI.<\/p>\n<p>4. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT OF THE AMERICAN OFFICIALS MENTIONED IN PARA 9 REFTEL MALCOLM JENSEN<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00939 021828Z<\/p>\n<p>HAS RETIRED AND IS LIVING IN URUGUAY; JAMES WARD AND RICHARD MARTIN, WHO WERE TDY GEORGETOWN FOR THE FORTNIGHT FOLLOWING NOV. 18, HAVE LONG SINCE RETURNED TO THEIR PERMANENT STATIONS.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/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 GEORGE 00939 021828Z ACTION ARA-10 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 H-04 NSCE-00 SSO-00 \/030 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;118369 021833Z \/41 O 021825Z MAR 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 9099 C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103329","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=103329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137338,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103329\/revisions\/137338"}],"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=103329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}