[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.]<\/i> <\/p>\n
0 272235Z NOV 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO RUEHFB\/SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE
\nBT
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3970
\nFOR FBIHQ
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS:
\nSUBJECT: RYMUR
\nReference Bureau telcall November 27?\/1978<\/p>\n
1. Guyanese police in Georgetown have possession of physical evidence in this matter and are preserving it. Request is pending for report setting forth details of crime and amount of physical evidence in possession of police.<\/p>\n
2. Congressman Ryan\u2019s briefcase was given by DCM Dwyer [Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Dwyer] to James Schaldaert [Schollaert] of the House Internal [International] Relations Committee.<\/p>\n
3. Weapon used by Layton was given by DCM Dwyer to police at Port Kaituma and believed to be among 32 weapons held by police at Georgetown.<\/p>\n
4. 32 weapons brought from Jonestown to Georgetown and in possession of police. Details of these weapons previously furnished FBI HQ.<\/p>\n
5. Records and other physical evidence brought from Jonestown and in custody of U.S. Embassy and Georgetown.<\/p>\n
Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n
BT<\/p>\n
#3970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[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.] 0 272235Z NOV 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":86799,"menu_order":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87044","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=87044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115966,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87044\/revisions\/115966"}],"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=87044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}