{"id":85167,"date":"2018-12-09T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85167"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:23:21","slug":"serial-334","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85167","title":{"rendered":"Serial 334 <br>Nov 25, 78 \u2022 1718 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 298802"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This is a State Department cable that was included in the FBI\u2019s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department\u2019s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency\u2019s designations.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE298802_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260413182241\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE298802_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 298802<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SCS-06 CA-01 ISO-00 L-03 H-02 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SSO-00 INRE-00 PA-02 ICAE-00 \/040 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:JDIETRICH\/RZIMMERMANN<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nSCS:SDOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nSCS:RDAVIS<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TREYNDERS<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;079803 251840Z \/41<\/p>\n<p>O 251718Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCINCSOUTHCOM QUARRY HTS CZ IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCINCMAC SCOTT AFB IL IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSREDCOM\/RCJ2 MACDILL AFB FL IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSCINCARRED FT MCPHERSON GA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCDR 18TH AIRBORNE CRPS FT BRAGG NC IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nSECDEF WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2115<br \/>\nJCS WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1713<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 298802<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PRESS GUIDANCE FOR QUESTION ABOUT NON-U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN DEAD BEING TRANSPORTED TO U.S.<\/p>\n<p>1. In event questions are asked about non-U.S. citizen children dead transported to the U.S., you should use following guidance.<\/p>\n<p>2. Begin quote: We are in contact with Guyanese authori-<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 298802<\/p>\n<p>ties to determine if any of the dead children were in fact Guyanese citizens. Once identification is made in any case we shall be in touch with the next of kin, wherever in the world they may be. There would be no difficulty in releasing the remains to the family involved if that is what is desired. End quote.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This is a State Department cable that was included in the FBI\u2019s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department\u2019s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency\u2019s designations. [The text for this document was released in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":85120,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85167","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=85167"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136269,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85167\/revisions\/136269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}