{"id":89655,"date":"2019-05-03T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=89655"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:37:47","slug":"serial-781","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=89655","title":{"rendered":"Serial 781 <br>Nov 30, 78 \u2022 1950 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 303200"},"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\/1978STATE303200_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260417013706\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE303200_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 303200<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 SY-05 SYE-00 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00 \/038 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:RCLARK:ACM<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nCA\/SCS:AGISE<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JETHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;033372 302003Z \/44<\/p>\n<p>O 301950Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 303200<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS:CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: DISPOSITION OF REMAINS OF CAROL JOYCE TOUCHETTE AND ALBERT TOUCHETTE<br \/>\nREF: PORT OF SPAINS&#8217;S 3395 PARA (3)<\/p>\n<p>1. Dept. has informed Julia Keely, the aunt of Albert Touchette that Carol Joyce Touchette and Albert Touchette have been positively identified and what disposition would she like to make of the remains. She informed us that, after a conference with all interested family members, they decided that it was the proper responsibility only of survivor, Charles Touchette, the husband and father respectively and they do not wish to be further involved.<\/p>\n<p>2. In view of the statement set forth in Port of Spain&#8217;s 3395 (paragraph 3) Mr. Touchette should inform Dover by<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nSTATE 303200<\/p>\n<p>cable that he is without funds but he would prefer that remains of his relatives be cremated or whatever else he may wish. Whatever is stated in the cable must be covered by a signed statement by him to the embassy. <\/p>\n<p>Vance [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/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":87655,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89655","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=89655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136465,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89655\/revisions\/136465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}