{"id":88592,"date":"2019-04-14T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88592"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:24:15","slug":"serial-631","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88592","title":{"rendered":"Serial 631"},"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=96443\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=88592\">Serial 631<\/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\/1978GEORGE04016_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260416233115\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04016_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04016 301628Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 PA-01 ICAE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10<br \/>\nNSAE-00 INRE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 PPT-01 SY-05 SYE-00<br \/>\nFBIE-00 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00 L-03 H-01 \/059 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;030922 301632Z \/50<\/p>\n<p>O 301605Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8270<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 4016<br \/>\nFOR ARA\/CAR:RAMCCOY<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: POSSIBLE NATURALIZATION OF CERTAIN PEOPLES TEMPLE PERSONNEL<\/p>\n<p>1. In its issue of November 29, Georgetown&#8217;s evening daily, The Citizen (which is government-owned) carries a front page article reporting latest developments in the Jonestown tragedy. In the article there is reference to the fact that five representatives of the People&#8217;s Temple &#8220;were granted Guyanese citizenship earlier this year,&#8221; individuals are identified as: Paul Adams, Deborah Touchette, George Philip Blakey, Janice Wilsey and Thomas Johnson. Of these Blakey is known to be a British subject, but the others are\/were American citizens. Two of the four, Adams and Touchette, are still at the Peoples Temple office in Georgetown; the other two may be among the victims of Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p>2. Department will recall that earlier this year the embassy reported that public notice of intent to seek naturalization on behalf of these<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 04016 301628Z<\/p>\n<p>individuals had appeared in the local press. Subjsequently [Subsequently], the consul had warned Peoples Temple representatives that such a move could result in the loss of American citizenship. If Citizen article is accurate; it would appear that this warning was not heeded. We are attempting to confirm the report with GOG [Government of Guyana] officials.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/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 631 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 GEORGE 04016 301628Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87653,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88592","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=88592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137140,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88592\/revisions\/137140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}