{"id":79825,"date":"2018-05-16T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79825"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:20:55","slug":"serial-63","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79825","title":{"rendered":"Serial 63"},"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 63<\/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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\nSTATE 295410
\nORIGIN ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-01 SS-15 SY-05 INR-10 CA-01 MCT-02 SCS-06 PA-01 AID-05 SYE-00 CCO-00 OC-06 SSO-00 NSCE-00 USSS-00 INRE-00 TRSE-00 DOTE-00 CIAE-00 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 CG-00 L-03 \/071 R
\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/ECP:ODONNEL:MG
\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JABUSHNELL
\nS\/S-O:JTHYDEN
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O 220524Z NOV 78
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO JCS WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1675
\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
\nSECDEF WASHDC IMMEDIATE
\nCINCMAC SCOTT AFB IMMEDIATE
\nCINCSO QUARRY HIGHTS CZ IMMEDIATE
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\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: GY, CASC, OREP
\nSUBJECT: TRANSPORTATION OF JONESTOWN SURVIVORS
\nREF: (A) TELCON VAKY\/AARON, 11\/19\/78; (B) TELCON AARON
\nDEPSEC DEF DUNCAN, 11\/19\/78<\/p>\n

1. Telcons (ref A and B) authorized DOD to provide support as requested by Secstate [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State] to support operations associated with Jonestown disaster.<\/p>\n

2. This is to alert you of the possibility that US military aircraft will be needed to evacuate Jonestown<\/p>\n

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survivors from Georgetown to the United States.<\/p>\n

3. Further details will follow by most expedient means. <\/p>\n

Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 63 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 STATE 295410 ORIGIN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69686,"menu_order":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79825","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79825","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=79825"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137134,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79825\/revisions\/137134"}],"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=79825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}