{"id":79745,"date":"2018-05-16T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79745"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:44:06","slug":"serial-34","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79745","title":{"rendered":"Serial 34"},"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=95487\">State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79745\">Serial 34<\/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\/1978GEORGE03812_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407223217\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03812_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03812 201836Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PA-01<br \/>\nTRSE-00 SCS-06 MCT-02 CA-01 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05<br \/>\nSYE-00 USSS-00 H-01 AID-05 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00<br \/>\nCCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 AS-02 L-03<br \/>\nHA-05 MED-05 OPR-02 PER-01 PPT-01 DOTE-00 FAA-00<br \/>\nEB-08 \/095 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;100017 201917Z \/44<\/p>\n<p>O 201755Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO CINCSOUTH IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nSECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8095<br \/>\nDOD WASHINGTON (PASS NMCC) IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3812<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC: OREP (RYAN)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ASSISTANCE<\/p>\n<p>1. Port Kaituma airfield has the capability to handled only small aircraft of the twin otter type. The air strip is approximately 900 ft. In length and has a loose, soft surface.<\/p>\n<p>2. Maj Godwin McPherson, Commander, GDF [Guyana Defense Force], Air Wing, source of this information recommends Matthew&#8217;s Ridge airfield as entry point for large evacuation type aircraft. This field is 4,500 feet in length, has a hard packed surface and can handle C-130 aircraft. Maj McPherson notes, however, that there are no landing lights at either airfield and daylight landings will be necessary, unless we are prepared to bring in portable lights for night landings. He would welcome the latter and is prepared to assign a senior pilot to assist U.S. pilots.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02<\/p>\n<p>GEORGE 03812 201836Z<\/p>\n<p>3. We are sending a qualified embassy officer to examine both fields and will update this message when info becomes available.<\/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 34 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 03812 201836Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79745","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=79745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137115,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79745\/revisions\/137115"}],"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=79745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}