{"id":90911,"date":"2019-08-09T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T00:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90911"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:59:06","slug":"serial-968","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=90911","title":{"rendered":"Serial 968"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 968<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

UNCLASSIFIED
\nPAGE 01
\nSTATE 310389
\nORIGIN L-03
\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 JUSE-00 PA-02 CA-01 SCS-06 H-02 FBIE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 \/030 R
\nDRAFTED BY L\/ARA:M.KOZAK:JV
\nAPPROVED BY L\/ARA:M.KOZAK
\nL – L. MARKS (SUBS)
\nARA\/PPC – K. MARSHALL (PHONE)
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O 090006Z DEC 78
\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC
\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE
\nUNCLAS STATE 310389
\nE.O. 12065 12065: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC, CGEN, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY
\nSUBJECT: TAPES<\/p>\n

1. In responding to any questions you may receive on this subject, you may answer that the Department of Justice has acknowledged that it has a tape that is believed to be a tape of the last hours in Jonestown. Since the tape may be pertinent to an investigation of the Department of Justice and\/or of the Government of Guyana it would not be appropriate to comment further. We are referring any further questions to the Department of Justice and you should do likewise. <\/p>\n

Newsom [David D. Newsom, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs]<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 968 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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 310389 ORIGIN L-03 INFO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87659,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90911","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=90911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137280,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90911\/revisions\/137280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}