{"id":79567,"date":"2018-05-15T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79567"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:28:40","slug":"serial-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79567","title":{"rendered":"Serial 13"},"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=95401\">State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79567\">Serial 13<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03778_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407001818\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03778_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03778 191057Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-01 SS-15 SY-05 INR-10 CA-01<br \/>\nMCT-02 SCS-06 PA-01 AID-05 SYE-00 CCO-00 SSO-00<br \/>\nNSCE-00 USSS-00 INRE-00 TRSE-00 DODE-00 CIAE-00<br \/>\nFBIE-00 SVC-00 \/062 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;092409 191059Z \/21<br \/>\nZ 191105Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8065<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3778<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: CODEL RYAN: FIRST REPORTS FROM PORT KAITUMA<br \/>\nREF: 3774<\/p>\n<p>1. Police Commissioner Lloyd Barker on instructions from the prime minister called ambassador 0715 local time (0520 EST) to inform him that police units had gotten to the airstrip at Port Kituma [Kaituma].<\/p>\n<p>2. According to commissioner GOG [Government of Guyana] police on the scene confirmed the deaths of Congressman Leo Ryan; Mr. Robert Brown, NBC; Mr. Don Harris, NBC; plus one as yet unidentified photographer. Thre are also six wounded at the airstrip including DCM Dwyer [Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer]; Song [Steve Sung], NBC; Miss Jackie Speier (legal counsel to codel); plus two others as yet unidentified.<\/p>\n<p>3. Commissioner Barker was informed that Medivac C-141 is due at Timehri Airport 1000 hours local (0800 EST). He was urged to provide information as soon as possible when wounded could be evacuated from<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02<\/p>\n<p>GEORGE 03778 191057Z<\/p>\n<p>Port Kaituma to Timehri Airport, Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 13 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 03778 191057Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79567","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=79567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137321,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79567\/revisions\/137321"}],"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=79567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}