{"id":103358,"date":"2020-10-23T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103358"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:47:03","slug":"march-13-1979-1621-georgetown-state-1116","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103358","title":{"rendered":"March 13, 1979 \u2022 1621 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 1116"},"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\/1979GEORGE01116_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260424224559\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE01116_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 01116 142053Z<br \/>\nACTION OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 H-02 PA-02 \/026 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;030011 151939Z \/43 <\/p>\n<p>R 131621Z MAR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 9168<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1116 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES (PEOPLES TEMPLE), OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: FUNERARY EXPENSES<br \/>\nREF: A. STATE 025711 B. GEORGETOWN 0330 C. 78 GEORGETOWN 4181 <\/p>\n<p>1. LOCAL MORTICIAN WHO PREPARED REMAINS OF CONGRESSMAN LEO RYAN AND THREE SLAIN AMERICAN NEWSMEN HAS BEEN VERY PATIENT BUT IS UNDERSTANDABLY CONCERNED OVER COMPLETE LACK OF ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHEN HIS BILL WILL BE SETTLED. <\/p>\n<p>2. EMBASSY HOPES THAT SETTLEMENT CAN BE MADE PROMPTLY PARTICULARLY FOR THAT PORTION OF THE STATEMENT PERTAINING TO CONGRESSMAN. IF FUNERAL EXPENSES FOR NEWSMEN SHOULD BE BILLED DIRECTLY TO NBC AND SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, PLEASE ADVISE ADDRESSES THEY SHOULD BE SENT TO. <\/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 text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 01116 142053Z ACTION OCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 H-02 PA-02 \/026 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;030011 151939Z \/43 R 131621Z MAR 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9168 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1116 E.O. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103358","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=103358"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137366,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103358\/revisions\/137366"}],"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=103358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}