{"id":103571,"date":"2020-10-25T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103571"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:09:21","slug":"july-10-1979-%e2%80%a2-1417-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3027","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103571","title":{"rendered":"July 10, 1979 \u2022 1417 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld one paragraph from this cable. 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\/1979GEORGE03027_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425220742\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE03027_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03027 101718Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ADS-00 OCS-06 CA-01 \/022 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;122062 101752Z \/46<\/p>\n<p>P 101417Z JUL 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHD CPRIORITY 0044<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3027<br \/>\nFOR: L\/ARA: FORTUNE<br \/>\nCA\/COS\/CCS: REED CLARK<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY, (PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: PERSONAL EFFECTS OF JONESTOWN DECEDENTS<br \/>\nREF: A. GEORGETOWN 2018 B. STATE 091863 C. GEORGETOWN 1585 D. 78 STATE 299110<\/p>\n<p>1. NO REPLY YET RECEIVED TO REF A. REF B INDICATED THAT REF C WAS UNDER STUDY, BUT NO DECISION WAS EVER ANNOUNCED.<\/p>\n<p>2. EMBASSY HAS RECIEVED [RECEIVED] ONLY ONE OR TWO LETTERS FROM NOK INQUIRING ABOUT PROPERTY.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. IT HAS BEEN MENTIONED THAT DECISION TO TREAT EFFECTS AS CORPORATE PROPERTY (DUE GENERALLY TO THE COMMUNAL NATURE OF THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE AGRICULTURAL MISSION AND, SPECIFICALLY, IN LIGHT OF APPARENT ASSIGNEMENT OF ALL ASSETS BY MEMBERS TO COMMUNE) MIGHT NOT BE DESIRABLE BECAUSE NOK WOULD THEN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PAGE 02 GEORGE 03027 101718Z<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LOSE CLAIMS TO SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS RECOVERED AT SITE. IS IT NOT SO THAT A SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENT MAY NOT ASSIGN HIS OR HER ANNUITY TO ANOTHER? A FINDING THAT PTAM RESIDENTS (NOT U.S. PT MEMBERS) ASSIGNED THEIR ASSETS TO THE MISSION THEREFORE WOULD NOT JEPORDIZE CHECKS BECAUSE MEMBERS COULD NOT TRANSFER ANNUITY RIGHTS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. PLEASE REPSOND ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>DWYER [Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld one paragraph from this cable. 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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 03027 101718Z ACTION L-03 INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ADS-00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103571","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=103571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137618,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103571\/revisions\/137618"}],"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=103571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}