{"id":103436,"date":"2020-10-23T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103436"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:06:20","slug":"april-16-1979-%e2%80%a2-2054-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-95709","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103436","title":{"rendered":"April 16, 1979 \u2022 2054 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 95709"},"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=103436\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83955\">Serial 2152<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE095709_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200920203033\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE095709_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAGE 01 STATE 095709 <\/p>\n<p>ORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ADS-00 FBIE-00 L-03 JUSE-00 \/019 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR:R A MCCOY:KC<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA\/CAR:J GRIFFITH<br \/>\nFBI:A K NICHOLAS<br \/>\nDESIRED DISTRIBUTION<br \/>\nL\/ARA &#8211; T. FORTUNE; DOJ:J HERGEN; RA:J A BUSHNELL; L\/T:L BAUMANN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;086814 162116Z \/65 <\/p>\n<p>P R 162054Z APR 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 095709<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CGEN, OTRA, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: TRAVEL OF FBI PERSONNEL TO GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 1539 <\/p>\n<p>1. FBI DESIRES TO SEND LEGAL ATTACHE ROBERT J. OGLESBY, CARACAS, AND SPECIAL AGENT DONALD R. HALE OF ITS SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE TO GEORGETOWN FOR MEETINGS WITH EMBASSY OFFICIALS AND GUYANESE POLICE ON\/OR ABOUT APRIL 21 IN CONNECTION WITH THE RYAN MURDER CASE. FBI HAS STRESSED THAT NO ACTIVE INVESTIGATION IS CONTEMPLATED BUT THAT PURPOSE OF MEETINGS WILL BE FOR CONSULTATIONS AND REVIEW OF ENTIRE INVESTIGATION TO DATE. THOSE WITH WHOM FBI REPRESENTATIVES DESIRE TO MEET ARE CONSUL DOUGLAS ELLICE AND DCM RICHARD DWYER, AND GUYANESE OFFICIALS [GUYANA ASSISTANT POLICE COMMISSIONER CECIL] &#8220;SKIP&#8221; ROBERTS AND DOCTOR [LESLIE] MOOTOO. <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 095709 <\/p>\n<p>2. FBI HAS INDICATED LEGAT OGLESBY HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH EMBASSY REGARDING ABOVE, AND HAS INDICATED SPECIAL AGENT HALE WOULD LIKE TO TRAVEL TO PORT KAITUMA ACCOMPANIED BY DCM. COURTESY CALL WILL BE REQUESTED WITH AMBASSADOR. <\/p>\n<p>3. IF EMBASSY CONCURS WITH PROPOSED TRAVEL PLANS, EMBASSY IS REQUESTED TO OBTAIN APPROPRIATE APPROVAL OF GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher] <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED <\/p>\n<p>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 2152 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] PAGE 01 STATE 095709 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103436","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=103436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137484,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103436\/revisions\/137484"}],"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=103436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}