{"id":103513,"date":"2020-10-23T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T23:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103513"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:34:26","slug":"may-23-1979-%e2%80%a2-1650-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-2292","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103513","title":{"rendered":"May 23, 1979 \u2022 1650 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 2292"},"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\/1979GEORGE02292_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425183336\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE02292_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 02292 242123Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 OCS-06 ADS-00 FSE-00 ABF-01 \/023 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;040672 251300Z \/46 <\/p>\n<p>R 231650Z MAY 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 9718<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 2292 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065:NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES (PEOPLES TEMPLE), OREP (RYAN, LEO)<br \/>\nSUBJ: GEORGETOWN MORTUARY EXPENSES FOR ASSASSINATED NBC TV NEWSMEN.<br \/>\nREF: A. STATE 88624 B. GEORGETOWN 2098 <\/p>\n<p>FOR DEPARTMENT&#8217;S INFORMATION, AMERICAN CONSUL GEORGETOWN WROTE MR. LONNIE GUIDA, NBC NEWS NEW YORK, AS SUGGESTED REFTEL A ON APRI 10, 1979. GUIDA WAS INFORMED THAT HE COULD EITHER MAKE THE PAYMENT DIRECTLY TO THE MORTICIAN (WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS WERE PROVIDED) OR THROUGH THE CONSULATE. NO ANSWER HAS BEEN RECEIVED TO DATE. CONSULAR SECTION CHECKED WITH MORTICIAN MAY 22 WHO STATES THAT BILL IS STILL OUTSTANDING. <\/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 02292 242123Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 OCS-06 ADS-00 FSE-00 ABF-01 \/023 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;040672 251300Z \/46 R 231650Z MAY 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9718 UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 2292 E.O. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103513","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=103513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137566,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103513\/revisions\/137566"}],"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=103513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}