{"id":79556,"date":"2018-05-15T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79556"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:18:12","slug":"serial-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79556","title":{"rendered":"Serial 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 8<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nGEORGE 03782 191719Z
\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 CCO-00 FBIE-00 CIAE-00
\nINR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00 PA-01 ICAE-00
\nTRSE-00 SCS-06 MCT-02 CA-01 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00
\nH-01 AID-05 SS-15 NSCE-00 SVC-00 \/062 W
\n——————093246 191722Z \/41<\/p>\n

Z 191720Z NOV 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8069
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\nE.O. 11652: NA
\nTAGS: CASC, OREP(RYAN, LEO) GY
\nSUBJ: CODEL RYAN: SECURITY OF “CONCERNED RELATIVES” AT PEGASUS HOTEL.
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3780.<\/p>\n

1. Since reftel consul has visited the group of “Concerned Relatives” at the Pegasus hotel.<\/p>\n

2. Consul reported to them the security arrangements that were in effect and relayed Assistant Commissioner of Police [C.A. \u201cSkip\u201d] Roberts’ feeling (refported reftel. He also offered them immediate passage out of the country on today’s PanAm flight wich [which] they declined. He then offered them alternative passage on later flights but allmembers of the group indicated that they wanted to remain here to await further developments.<\/p>\n

3. Consul’s appearance obviously relieved much of the tension and, while they are still concerned for their own safety, each has elected to remain at Pegasus where at least six armed policemen are protecting them.<\/p>\n

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GEORGE 03782 191719Z<\/p>\n

Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 8 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 03782 191719Z […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79556","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=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137304,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79556\/revisions\/137304"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}