{"id":86820,"date":"2019-03-24T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86820"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:17:37","slug":"serial-391","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86820","title":{"rendered":"Serial 391"},"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=96292\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86820\">Serial 391<\/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\/1978STATE299151_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414170504\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE299151_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 299151<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SS-15 PA-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 SY-05 SYE-00 ICAE-00 H-01 NSCE-00 SSO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 \/055 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:EO&#8217;DONNELL:SJP<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JABUSHNELL<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TREYNDERS<br \/>\nPA\/PRESS:MBADER<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;090271 261916Z \/42<\/p>\n<p>O 261858Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nSECDEF WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2128<br \/>\nJCS WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1727<br \/>\nFBI WASHDC IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nHEW WASHDC IMMEDIATE<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 299151<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: RELEASE OF JONESTOWN SURVIVORS AND RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES<\/p>\n<p>1. Media representatives are beginning to converge on Charleston, South Carolina as interest in arrival of Jonestown survivors mounts, despite state press spokesperson indicating no survivor flight will arrive prior Tuesday at earliest.<\/p>\n<p>2. Based on best information from Amembassy Georgetown, Jonestown survivors will not rpt not arrive Charleston<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nSTATE 299151<\/p>\n<p>prior rpt prior to Tuesday, Nov. 28. Even Tuesday arrival is indeterminable since Government of Guyana (GOG) authorities have not yet informed USG [U.S. Government] when survivors will be released, and arrival might slip several days. Moreover it may be the size of group will be much reduced and may not even justify special military flights.<\/p>\n<p>3. Embassy has been instructed to notify department as soon as they receive release information which we will forward to all addressees ASAP. Under no circumstance would survivors arrive in Charleston less than 24 hours from this notification.<\/p>\n<p>3. Request JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] advise appropriate commands of above information.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 391 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 299151 ORIGIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":86799,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86820","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=86820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137128,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86820\/revisions\/137128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}