{"id":109299,"date":"2021-03-29T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=109299"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:12:09","slug":"state-department-responses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=109299","title":{"rendered":"State Department Situation Reports (SITREPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within hours of the reports of the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan at the Port Kaituma airstrip and the rumors of mass deaths in Jonestown, the State Department set up a Working Group to monitor developments as the tragedy unfolded. The group issued 28 Situation Reports and two supplemental documents in two weeks \u2013 its numbering system \u00a0skipped #21 \u2013 before shutting down on December 4. 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