{"id":103643,"date":"2020-10-25T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103643"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:32:09","slug":"nov-30-1979-%e2%80%a2-1950-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-303200","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103643","title":{"rendered":"Nov 30 1979 \u2022 1950 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 303200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names 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\/1978STATE303200_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260417013706\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE303200_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 303200<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 SY-05 SYE-00<br \/>\nFBIE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00<br \/>\n\/038 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:RCLARK:ACM<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nCA\/SCS:AGISE<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JETHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;033372 302003Z \/44<br \/>\nO 301950Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 303200<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS:CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: DISPOSITION OF REMAINS OF CAROL JOYCE TOUCHETTE<br \/>\nAND ALBERT TOUCHETTE<br \/>\nREF: PORT OF SPAINS&#8217;S 3395 PARA (3)<\/p>\n<p>1. DEPT. HAS INFORMED<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> JULIA KEELY, THE AUNT OF ALBERT TOUCHETTE<\/span> THAT CAROL JOYCE TOUCHETTE AND ALBERT TOUCHETTE HAVE BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AND WHAT DISPOSITION WOULD SHE LIKE TO MAKE OF THE REMAINS. SHE INFORMED US THAT, AFTER A CONFERENCE WITH ALL INTERESTED FAMILY MEMBERS, THEY DECIDED THAT IT WAS THE PROPER RESPONSIBILITY ONLY OF<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> SURVIVOR, CHARLES TOUCHETTE, THE HUSBAND AND FATHER RESPECTIVELY AND THEY DO NOT WISH TO BE FURTHER INVOLVED.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. IN VIEW OF THE STATEMENT SET FORTH IN PORT OF SPAIN&#8217;S 3395 (PARAGRAPH 3) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MR. TOUCHETTE<\/span> SHOULD INFORM DOVER BY<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nSTATE 303200<\/p>\n<p>CABLE THAT HE IS WITHOUT FUNDS BUT HE WOULD PREFER THAT REMAINS OF HIS RELATIVES BE CREMATED OR WHATEVER ELSE HE MAY WISH. WHAT<br \/>\nEVER IS STATED IN THE CABLE MUST BE COVERED BY A SIGNED STATEMENT BY HIM TO THE EMBASSY.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [CYRUS VANCE, SECRETARY OF STATE]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names 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 303200 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":102918,"menu_order":341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103643","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=103643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137685,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103643\/revisions\/137685"}],"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=103643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}