{"id":79741,"date":"2018-05-16T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79741"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:12:08","slug":"serial-29-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79741","title":{"rendered":"Serial 29"},"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=95453\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79741\">Serial 29<\/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\/1978STATE293789_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407215444\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293789_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 293789<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 H-02 SS-15 NSCE-00<br \/>\nSSO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 PA-02<br \/>\nFBIE-00 TRSE-00 MCT-02 INRE-00 SY-05 USSS-00<br \/>\nAID-05 SYE-00 PPT-01 \/065 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:RDBELT:BB<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA &#8211; JGRIFFITH<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TREYNDERS<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094046 200208Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 200200Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 293789<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY, (AMOS, LINDA SHARON), (HARRIS, LIANE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: MURDER\/SUICIDE AT PEOPLES TEMPLE GEORGETOWN RESIDENCE<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3789<\/p>\n<p>Dept unable locate NOK [Next of Kin] based on info contained Reftel. Embassy respectfully requested attempt get information re ppt nos [passport numbers], names and addresses of Sharon Amos and her three children in U.S. Perhaps Sherwin Harris could provide this info. <\/p>\n<p>Vance [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/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 29 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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 293789 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79741","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=79741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137256,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79741\/revisions\/137256"}],"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=79741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}