{"id":95427,"date":"2020-03-01T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95427"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:34:13","slug":"nov-19-78-1930-georgetown-state-3784","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95427","title":{"rendered":"Nov 19, 78 \u2022 1930 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3784"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> This document was released both as a State Department <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95427\">cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79548\">Serial 4<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03784_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407213305\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03784_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 03784 191919Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 CCO-00 OC-06 SS-15 PM-05 NSCE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 L-03 H-01 SP-02 INRE-00 AID-05 SY-05 SYE-00 FBIE-00 MCT-02 SVC-00 \/070 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093463 191923Z \/41 <\/p>\n<p>Z 191930Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8071<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3784 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP, GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: STATE 293748 <\/p>\n<p>1. UPON RECEIPT REFTEL AMBASSADOR TELEPHONED THE PRIME MINISTER FORBES BURNHAM TO MAKE THE OFFIER OF ASSITANCE REFTEL. PRIME MINISTER LISTENED CAREFULLY, EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE OFFER AND SAID HE WOULD BE DISCUSSING IT WITH HIS PEOPLE. HE SAID THAT HE WOULD BE BACK IN TOUCH EITHER LATER TODAY OR TOMORROW. <\/p>\n<p>2. SINCE DICTATING PARA ONE FOREIGN MINISTER RASHLIEGH JACKSON CALLED ON BEHALF OF PRIME MINISTER TO SAY THAT GDF WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF TWO 112 HELICOPTERS COULD BE DEPLOYED IN THE COUNTRY. HE ALSO REQUESTED ON BEHALF OF THE GUYANA POLICE SLEEPING BAGS AND BLANKETS AS WELL AS COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. <\/p>\n<p>3. EMBASSY OFFICER IS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH POLICE AND GDF IN AN EFFORT TO SPECIFY THEIR NEEDS. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 4 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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 03784 191919Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95427","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95427","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=95427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135869,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95427\/revisions\/135869"}],"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=95427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}