{"id":103529,"date":"2020-10-24T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103529"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:54:21","slug":"may-31-1979-1757-georgetown-state-2411","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103529","title":{"rendered":"May 31, 1979 \u2022 1757 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 2411"},"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\/1979GEORGE02411_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425185325\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE02411_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 02411 311901Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ADS-00 OC-06 CCO-00 \/021 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;121512 312055Z \/73 <\/p>\n<p>P R 311757Z MAY 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9768<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 2411<br \/>\nFOR [TERENCE FORTUNE] L\/ARA<br \/>\nCARACAS FOR LEGATT<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CGEN, OREP (RYAN, LEO)<br \/>\nSUBJ:  FBI REQUEST FOR EVIDENCE (TAPE)<br \/>\nREF: STATE 122160<\/p>\n<p>1. EMBASSY HAS RECEIVED CABLE FROM FBI HEADQUARTERS REQUESTING THAT THE ORGINIAL [ORIGINAL] REEL-TO-REEL TAPE OF THE &#8220;LAST HOUR OF JONESTOWN&#8221; BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE BUREAU FOR ANALYSIS AND REPRODUCTION. EMBASSY IS POUCHING TAPE THIS DATE (MAY 31) VIA COURIER POUCH (REGISTRY # 3586371) TO THE DEPARTMENT, ATTENTION L\/ARA TERENCE FORTUNE, FOR CONVEYANCE TO THE FBI. RECORD OF CUSTODY SINCE TAPE FIRST DISCOVERED AT JONESTOWN IS ENCLOSED. <\/p>\n<p>2. IT WOULD BE APPRECIATE[D] IF THE FBI COULD FURNISH THIS EMBASSY WITH A COPY OF THE TAPE FOR FILE PURPOSES. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [JOHN BURKE, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 02411 311901Z ACTION L-03 INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ADS-00 OC-06 CCO-00 \/021 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;121512 312055Z \/73 P R 311757Z MAY 79 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9768 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103529","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=103529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137583,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103529\/revisions\/137583"}],"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=103529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}