{"id":95445,"date":"2020-03-01T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95445"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:34:34","slug":"nov-19-78-2120-georgetown-state-3789","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95445","title":{"rendered":"Nov 19, 78 \u2022 2120 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3789"},"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=95445\">State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79552\">Serial 6<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld a single name from this cable, which was included in the RYMUR release. It is denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03789_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407214421\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03789_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03789 192104Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 H-01 SS-15 NSCE-00 SSO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 PA-01 FBIE-00 TRSE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 MCT-02 INRE-00 SY-05 USSS-00 AID-05 SYE-00 CCO-00 SVC-00 \/062 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;093639 192109Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 192110Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8076<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3789<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES GY (AMOS, LINDA SHARON), (HARRIS, LIANE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: MURDER\/SUICIDE AT PEOPLES TEMPLE GEORGETOWN RESIDENCE.<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3776<\/p>\n<p>1. THE GUYANA POLICE HAVE REPORTED TO THE EMBASSY THAT A MEMBER OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE RESIDING AT THEIR GEORGETOWN OFFICE RESIDENCE KILLED HER THREE CHILDREN AND THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS NOVEMBER 18. (REFTEL)<\/p>\n<p>2. THE WOMAN, SHARON AMOS, HAD THREE CHILDREN. THE ELDEST, LIANE HARRIS, WAS ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OLD. THE OTHER TWO, ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 7 AND 5 YEARS OLD, WERE FROM A SECOND MARRIAGE AND THEIR NAMES ARE AS YET UNKNOWN. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SHERWIN HARRIS, LIANE&#8217;S FATHER<\/span>, IS IN GEORGETOWN, HAVING TRAVELED WITH THE GROUP OF CONCERNED RELATIVES THAT ARRIVED WITH CODEL RYAN.<\/p>\n<p>2. SHARON AMOS WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE GROUP AND WAS ACTIVE IN THE GEORGETOWN OPERATION. THE POLICE HAVE INDICATED THAT THE BODIES OF ALL FOUR DECEASED WILL BE HELD FOR A FEW DAYS PENDING INVESTIGATION.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 03789 192104Z<\/p>\n<p>BURKE<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 6 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld a single name from this cable, which was included in the RYMUR release. It is denoted below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95445","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=95445"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137148,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95445\/revisions\/137148"}],"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=95445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}