{"id":103432,"date":"2020-10-23T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103432"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:02:39","slug":"april-12-1979-1101-georgetown-state-1696","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103432","title":{"rendered":"April 12, 1979 \u2022 1101 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 1696"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld one clause from 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\/1979GEORGE01696_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425170115\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE01696_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 01696 121405Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ADS-00 OCS-06 JUSE-00 H-02 INR-10 CA-01 \/038 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;045854 121537Z \/43<\/p>\n<p>R 121101Z APR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9440<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1696<br \/>\nPASS L\/ARA FOR PORTUNE<br \/>\nPASS DEPT JUSTINCE FOR JIM HERGEN<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES (PEOPLES TEMPLE), GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: US TENTATIVE DECISION NOT TO INSTITUTE LITIGATION AGAINST PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE IN GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: JUSTINCE\/HERGEN APRIL 7 LETTER TO GEORGETOWN\/DWYER<\/p>\n<p>1. PER REFERENCE, CHARGE CONVEYED TO GUYANESE COLICITOR GENERAL SABOLA ON APRIL 11 DECISION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THAT US NOT INSTITUTE LITIGATION IN GUYANA BASED ON RECEIVER&#8217;S ASSURANCES THAT HE WILL TAKE ALL POSSIBLE ACTION THROUGH LOCAL ATTORNEY. SABOLA, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WHO SEEMED PLEASED WITH TENTATIVE DECISION<\/span>, ASKED THAT IT BE CONVEYED TO HIM IN WRITING.<\/p>\n<p>2. ACTION REQUESTED: REQUEST APPROVAL FOR FOLLOWING SUBSTUIAIVE LANGUAGE TO BE USED IN LETTER FROM CHARGE TO SOLICITOR GENERAL: BEGIN TEXT: THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS TENTATIVELY DETERMINED NOT TO INITIATE LITIGATION IN GUYANA AGAINST THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME. THIS DECISION WAS BASED UPON THE CALIFORNIA PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE RECEIVER&#8217;S ASSURANCES THAT HE, THROUGH COUNSEL REMAINED IN GUYANA. WILL ACT<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 01696 121405Z<\/p>\n<p>VIGOROUSLY IN GUYANA TO ASSERT ALL AVAILABLE DEFENSES; PROTECT AVAILABLE TEMPLE ASSETS; AND TEST THE ACCURACY OF ALL DAMAGE CLAIMS. IN CONSEQUENCE, THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT NOW INTEND EITHER TO OPPOSE OR TO OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH THE RECEIVER&#8217;S-LITIGATION EFFORTS IN GUYANA. END TEXT.<\/p>\n<p>DWYER [Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld one clause from this cable under the national security exemption. 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 01696 121405Z ACTION L-03 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103432","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=103432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137480,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103432\/revisions\/137480"}],"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=103432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}