{"id":103581,"date":"2020-10-25T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103581"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:20:56","slug":"july-18-1979-%e2%80%a2-1935-%e2%80%a2-state-london-%e2%80%a2-185625","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103581","title":{"rendered":"July 18, 1979 \u2022 1935 \u2022 State-London \u2022 185625"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld two names purportedly associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are 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\/1979STATE185625_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425222003\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE185625_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 185625<br \/>\nORIGIN OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-00 ADS-00 \/006 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/EUR:RCLARK:YPW<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/EUR:CADI PLACIDO<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;089778 182017Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>P 181935Z JUL 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 185625<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: POSSIBLE DEATH IN JONESTOWN, GUYANA<br \/>\nREF:<\/p>\n<p>DEPT HAS RECEIVED A LETTER FROM <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MRS. WENDY KYNASTON, 14 ORCHARD CLOSE, THE RUTTS, BUSHEY HEATH, HERTFORSHIRE, ENGLAND<\/span> REQUESTING VERIFICATION THAT HER BROTHER HAD OR HAD NOT DIED IN GUYANA ON NOV. 18, 1978. PLEASE INFORM HER THAT THERE IS NO RECORD THAT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHRISTOPHER JOHN SLATTER (SLATER)<\/span> WAS EVER IN GUYANA. THE DEPT HAS SEARCHED BOTH THE GROUP OF PPTS [PASSPORTS] FOUND THERE AND THE GUYANESE IMMIGRATION RECORDS.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld two names purportedly associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are 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 STATE 185625 ORIGIN OCS-06 INFO OCT-00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103581","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103581","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=103581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137629,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103581\/revisions\/137629"}],"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=103581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}