{"id":95042,"date":"2020-02-12T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95042"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:19:25","slug":"jan-20-78-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-016766","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95042","title":{"rendered":"Jan 20, 78 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 016766"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE016766_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250420235436\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE016766_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 016766<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 H-02 HA-05 L-03 \/031 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/FLHENNEKE\/MRER<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nCA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS<br \/>\nDESIRED DISTRIBUTION<br \/>\nARA\/CAR-FTUMMINIA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;096880 210554Z \/223 <\/p>\n<p>P 202304Z JAN 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 016766<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MISSION<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0252 AND PREVIOUS <\/p>\n<p>1. DEPARTMENT WISHES COMMEND POST FOR EXCELLENT REPORTING CONTAINED REFTEL AND IN TELEGRAMS CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL CASES. INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE MOST USEFUL IN RESPONDING TO CONTINUED CONGRESSIONAL AND PUBLIC INQUIRIES. <\/p>\n<p>2. RE PARA NO.5, REFTEL, DEPARTMENT CONCURS IN QUARTERLY VISITS TO PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE PROVIDED THERE IS LEGITIMATE CONSULAR NEED FOR TRIP. DEPARTMENT DOES NOT WANT TO CREATE THE IMPRESSION THAT USG IS &#8220;CHECKING UP ON JONES OR THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE&#8221; AND VISITS FOR NO APPARENT PURPOSE WOULD ONLY SERVE TO REINFORCE SUSPICIONS JONES ALREADY HARBORS. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 016766 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 H-02 HA-05 L-03 \/031 R DRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/FLHENNEKE\/MRER APPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK CA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS DESIRED DISTRIBUTION ARA\/CAR-FTUMMINIA &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;096880 210554Z \/223 P 202304Z JAN 78 FM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94984,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95042","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95042","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=95042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131756,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95042\/revisions\/131756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}