{"id":103418,"date":"2020-10-23T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103418"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:48:38","slug":"april-5-1979-1555-georgetown-secret-service-1539","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103418","title":{"rendered":"April 5, 1979 \u2022 Georgetown-Secret Service \u2022 1539"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103418\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101849\">Serial 2095<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld a portion of this cable under the national security exemption. 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\/1979GEORGE01539_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425164710\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE01539_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 01539 051949Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ADS-00 SY-05 OCS-06 FBIE-00 H-02 CA-01 \/030 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;082733 052113Z \/43 P<\/p>\n<p>R 051555Z APR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO US SECRET SERVICE HQS PRIORITY<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 9363<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1539<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: OREP (RYAN, LEO)(PEOPLES TEMPLE), GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">REQUEST OF SECRET SERVICE AND FBI TO SEND AGENTS TO GUYANA<\/span><br \/>\nREF: SECRET SERVICE HQS WASHDC\/ID-ACB\/RG APRIL 4 RILE CO-2 &#8211; 78978<\/p>\n<p>1. PLEASE COORDINATE YOUR REQUEST THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF STATE. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">GOG [Government of Guyana] HAS NOT BEEN APPROACHED REGARDING OR CONCURRED IN VISIT BY FBI AGENT DURING WEEK OF APRIL 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN [Clement] ZABLOCKI HAS RECENTLY MADE TWO WRITTEN REQUESTS TO GUYANESE PRIME MINISTER [Forbes] BURNHAM TO PERMIT COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBERS TO INTERROGATE GUYANESE OFFICIALS REGARDING ASSASSINATION OF CONGRESSMAN LEO RYAN. GUYANESE GOVERNMENT DENIED BOTH REQUESTS AND COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBERS WERE LIMITED TO INTERROGATION OF US EMBASSY STAFF MEMBERS ONLY DURING THEIR VISIT TO GUYANA.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 2095 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld a portion of this cable under the national security exemption. It is denoted below in red type. [The text for this document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103418","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=103418"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137467,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103418\/revisions\/137467"}],"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=103418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}