{"id":103583,"date":"2020-10-25T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103583"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:22:52","slug":"july-18-1979-%e2%80%a2-2217-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-185986","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103583","title":{"rendered":"July 18, 1979 \u2022 2217 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 185986"},"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\/1979STATE185986_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425222144\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE185986_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 185986<br \/>\nORIGIN OCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-00 ARA-11 ADS-00 L-03 LOC-01 JUSE-00 CA-01 \/022 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/ARA:JO&#8217;KANE:ACM<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/ARA:JARINI<br \/>\nL\/CA:RHENDERSON<br \/>\n\/ARA:TFORTUNE<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093677 190908Z \/23<\/p>\n<p>P 182217Z JUL 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 185986<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: EFFECTS OF JONESTOWN DECEDENTS<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3027<\/p>\n<p>1. DEPT STUDY OF STATUS OF CHECKS AWAITS REPORT OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STUDY OF APPLICABLE GUYANESE LAW. AFTER RECEIPT OF STUDY STATE, JUSTICE, AND GAO WILL CONFER UPON ULTIMATE DISPOSITION. RESULTS WILL BE FORWARDED TO EMBASSY ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>2. DURING THE INTERIM DEPT SUGGESTS THAT EMBASSY RESPOND TO ANY SPECIFIC REPEAT SPECIFIC REQUEST FOR CHECKS IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER:<\/p>\n<p>3. BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL MULTIPLE CLAIMS FOR THE FUNDS REPRESENTED BY U.S. TREASURY CHECKS ISSUED TO DECEASED<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 185986<\/p>\n<p>MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE THE U.S. G. AGENCIES ARE EXAMING THE LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THIS QUESTION. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A CLAIM TO THIS MONEY, PLEASE DESCRIBE THE NATURE-OF YOUR CLAIM IN WRITING AND FORWARD IT TO GUYANA WORKING GROUP, CA\/OCS\/CCS\/ARA, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20520.<\/p>\n<p>4. DEPT WILL RESPOND TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OF REFTEL IN BODY OF REPORT ON CHECK DISPOSITION.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 STATE 185986 ORIGIN OCS-06 INFO OCT-00 ARA-11 ADS-00 L-03 LOC-01 JUSE-00 CA-01 \/022 R DRAFTED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/ARA:JO&#8217;KANE:ACM APPROVED BY CA\/OCS\/CCS\/ARA:JARINI L\/CA:RHENDERSON \/ARA:TFORTUNE &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093677 190908Z \/23 P 182217Z JUL 79 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103583","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=103583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137631,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103583\/revisions\/137631"}],"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=103583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}