{"id":95413,"date":"2020-03-01T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95413"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:21:35","slug":"nov-19-78-1659-state-georgetown-293748","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95413","title":{"rendered":"Nov 19, 78 \u2022 1659 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 293748"},"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\/1978STATE293748_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407212003\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293748_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 293748<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 CCO-00 SS-15 SP-02 L-03 H-01 NSCE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00 SCS-06 SY-05 AID-05 PA-01 ICAE-00 TRSE-00 MCT-02 SVC-00 \/066 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA &#8211; VPVAKY<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JETHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093207 191707Z \/41 <\/p>\n<p>Z 191659Z NOV 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN FLASH<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 293748 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP,GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO GOG <\/p>\n<p>YOU SHOULD PROMPTLY CONTACT PRIME MINISTER OR OTHER APPROPRIATE OFFICIAL TO INFORM HIM THAT USG IS PREPARED PROVIDE ANY ASSISTANCE CONSIDERED NECESSARY AND USEFUL BY GOG IN CONTROLLING SITUATION IN THE PEOPLES TEMPLE AREA AND IN PREVENTING FURTHER LOSS OF LIFE. OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD REQUIRE NUMBER OF HOURS TO DEPLOY HELICOPTER EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT. AT THIS POINT WE DO NOT KNOW IF SPECIAL REACTION TEAMS WOULD BE DESIRABLE BUT SHOULD GOG WISH SUCH ASSISTANCE IT COULD BE PROVIDED. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE SOONER. WE OF COURSE APPRECIATE THE INTENSE EFFORTS ALREADY UNDERWAY BY GOG AND DO NOT WISH IMPLY THEY NOT HANDLING SITUATION AS WELL AS POSSIBLE. HOWEVER, GIVEN LARGE NUMBERS AMCITS <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 293748 <\/p>\n<p>INVOLVED WE CAN DO NO LESS THAN OFFER ANY POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE GOG MIGHT WISH. <\/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 293748 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 CCO-00 SS-15 SP-02 L-03 H-01 NSCE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 DODE-00 SCS-06 SY-05 AID-05 PA-01 ICAE-00 TRSE-00 MCT-02 SVC-00 \/066 R [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95413","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=95413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135859,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95413\/revisions\/135859"}],"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=95413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}