{"id":95421,"date":"2020-03-01T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95421"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:28:38","slug":"nov-19-78-1819-state-geneva-293764","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95421","title":{"rendered":"Nov 19, 78 \u2022 1819 \u2022 State-Geneva \u2022 293764"},"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\/1978STATE293764_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407212519\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293764_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 293764<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 IO-15 ISO-00 ARA-15 H-02 SSO-00 CA-01 \/052 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:JWARD:BB<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA\/JGRIFFITH<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JTHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093396 191842Z \/50 <\/p>\n<p>O 191819Z NOV 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO USMISSION GENEVA NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BERN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 293764 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CGEN, CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: URGENT MESSAGE FOR MIKE FINLEY, STAFF DIRECTOR HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE INTERNATIONALOPERATIONS, EUR ADMINISTRATOR&#8217;S CONFERENCE. <\/p>\n<p>CONGRESSMAN LEO RYAN KILLED IN GUYANA WHILE ON OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE. AMBUSHED AND SHOT WHILE BOARDING PLANE TO DEPART RURAL LOCATION. MEMBERS OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE ALLEGED TO BE PERPETRATORS. GUYANESE POLICE AND MILITARY ON SCENE. U.S. AIR FORCE C-141 MEDI-VAC PLANE IN GEORGETOWN. TOTAL 5 CONFIRMED DEAD INCLUDING TWO NBC NEWS PERSONNEL, ONE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE REPORTER. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 293764 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 IO-15 ISO-00 ARA-15 H-02 SSO-00 CA-01 \/052 R DRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:JWARD:BB APPROVED BY ARA\/JGRIFFITH S\/S-O:JTHYDEN &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093396 191842Z \/50 O 191819Z NOV 78 ZFF4 FM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95421","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=95421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135863,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95421\/revisions\/135863"}],"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=95421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}