{"id":79118,"date":"2018-05-03T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79118"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:08:06","slug":"serial-1676","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79118","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1676"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103037\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79118\">Serial 1676<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. Material initially withheld by the FBI is designated in red type below.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE012084_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260422210634\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979STATE012084_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE FBB 368<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 012084<br \/>\nORIGIN L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 JUSE-00 OCS-06 CA-01 FBIE-00 \/022 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY L\/ARA:TJFORTUNE:RTG<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY L\/ARA:FAARMSTRONG<br \/>\nARA &#8211; J. BUSHNELL<br \/>\nJUSTICE &#8211; M. ABBELL<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;090244 162318Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 162135Z JAN 79<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 012084<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: REMOVAL FROM GUYANA OF MATERIAL TAKEN BY CONSULAR OFFICERS FROM JONESTOWN<br \/>\nREFS: (A) STATE 319334; (B) STATE 304925<\/p>\n<p>1. Embassy is requested to release for transportation to the U.S. remaining documentary material taken from Jonestown and now in consular custody. Authority for the release of this material is discussed Reftel A, Para 1, and Reftel B.<\/p>\n<p>2. Embassy is requested to coordinate transportation of this material to U.S. with Legatt <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Robert] Oglesby<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Vance [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>Limited official use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1676 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. Material initially withheld by the FBI is designated in red type below. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":78999,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79118","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136930,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79118\/revisions\/136930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}