{"id":83947,"date":"2018-11-04T15:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83947"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:56:30","slug":"serial-2062","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83947","title":{"rendered":"Serial 2062"},"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=103390\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=83947\">Serial 2062<\/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\/1979GEORGE01322_e.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260425002023\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1979GEORGE01322_e.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 326<\/p>\n<p>PAGE 01 GEORGE 01322 261816Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-02 OCS-06 CA-01 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 PA-02 ICA-20 SP-02 MED-05 \/064 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;079158 270734Z \/20 <\/p>\n<p>R 261730Z MAR 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 9272<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 1322<br \/>\nCARACAS FOR LEGATT<br \/>\nE.O. 12065:NA<br \/>\nTAGS: OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: PATHOLOGIST REPORT<br \/>\nREF: CARACAS 2441 <\/p>\n<p>1. Dr. Leslie Mootoo, GOG pathologist, believes there has been some misunderstanding as he had no formal report to present to FBI HGS and had intended to only make only an informal oral report. <\/p>\n<p>2. Mootoo states also that he did not make any toxicology studies of those assassinated at Port Kaituma airstrip as all victims died of gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n<p>3. Finally, with reference to press reports that he had given American Embassy Georgetown samples, Dr. Mootoo stated this this referred to vials of poisonous drink that he had given Asst Legatt Garrettson. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 2062 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 FBB 326 PAGE 01 GEORGE 01322 261816Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":83848,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83947","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=83947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137712,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83947\/revisions\/137712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}