{"id":95405,"date":"2020-03-01T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95405"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:10:48","slug":"nov-19-78-1252-state-london-293746","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95405","title":{"rendered":"Nov 19, 78 \u2022 1252 \u2022 State-London \u2022 293746"},"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\/1978STATE293746_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407210907\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293746_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 293746<br \/>\nORIGIN SS-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 EA-10 NEA-11 ISO-00 SSO-00 ARA-11 \/060 R<br \/>\n66011<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY:S\/S-O:DSUMMERS<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY:S\/S-O:DSUMMERS<br \/>\nS\/S-O:RCASTRODALE<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;092712 191307Z \/50 <\/p>\n<p>O 191252Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nINFO RUDTC\/AMEMBASSY LONDON IMMEDIATE 3869<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY ABU DHABI IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY KUWAIT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSLO PEKING IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 293746<br \/>\nFOLLOWING REPEAT GEORGETOWN 3778 SENT ACTION STATE NOV 19.<br \/>\nQUOTE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3778 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: CODEL RYAN: FIRST REPORTS FROM PORT KAITUMA<br \/>\nREF: 3774 <\/p>\n<p>1. POLICE COMMISSIONER LLOYD BARKER ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PRIME MINISTER CALLED AMBASSADOR 0715 LOCAL TIME (0520 EST) TO INFORM HIM THAT POLICE UNITS HAD GOTTEN TO THE AIRSTRIP AT PORT KITUMA. <\/p>\n<p>2. ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER GOG POLICE ON THE SCENE CONFIRMED THE DEATHS OF CONGRESSMAN LEO RYAN; MR. ROBERT <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 293746 <\/p>\n<p>BROWN, NBC; MR. DON HARRIS, NBC; PLUS ONE AS YET UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER. THRE ARE ALSO SIX WOUNDED AT THE AIRSTRIP INCLUDING DCM DWYER; SONG, NBC; MISS JACKIE SPEIER (LEGAL COUNSEL TO CODEL); PLUS TWO OTHERS AS YET UNIDENTIFIED. <\/p>\n<p>3. COMMISSIONER BARKER WAS INFORMED THAT MEDIVAC C-141 IS DUE AT TIMEHRI AIRPORT 1000 HOURS LOCAL (0800 EST). HE WAS URGED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHEN WOUNDED COULD BE EVACUATED FROM PORT KAITUMA TO TIMEHRI AIRPORT, GEORGETOWN. BURKE UNQUOTE <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 STATE 293746 ORIGIN SS-15 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 EA-10 NEA-11 ISO-00 SSO-00 ARA-11 \/060 R 66011 DRAFTED BY:S\/S-O:DSUMMERS APPROVED BY:S\/S-O:DSUMMERS S\/S-O:RCASTRODALE &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;092712 191307Z \/50 O 191252Z NOV 78 FM SECSTATE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95405","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=95405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135851,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95405\/revisions\/135851"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}