{"id":95453,"date":"2020-03-01T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95453"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:55:42","slug":"nov-20-78-0200-state-georgetown-293789","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95453","title":{"rendered":"Nov 20, 78 \u2022 0200 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 293789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95453\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79741\">Serial 29<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department withheld the name of Sherwin Harris, but it was released in RYMUR. It is indicated below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293789_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407215444\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293789_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 293789<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 H-02 SS-15 NSCE-00 SSO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 DODE-00 PA-02 FBIE-00 TRSE-00 MCT-02 INRE-00 SY-05 USSS-00 AID-05 SYE-00 PPT-01 \/065 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:RDBELT:BB<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA &#8211; JGRIFFITH<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TREYNDERS<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094046 200208Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 200200Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 293789<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY, (AMOS, LINDA SHARON), (HARRIS, LIANE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: MURDER\/SUICIDE AT PEOPLES TEMPLE GEORGETOWN RESIDENCE<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3789<\/p>\n<p>DEPT UNABLE LOCATE NOK BASED ON INFO CONTAINED REFTEL. EMBASSY RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED ATTEMPT GET INFORMATION RE PPT NOS, NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF SHARON AMOS AND HER THREE CHILDREN IN U.S. PERHAPS <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SHERWIN HARRIS<\/span> COULD PROVIDE THIS INFO.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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 29 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department withheld the name of Sherwin Harris, but it was released in RYMUR. It is indicated below in red type. [The text for this document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95453","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95453","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=95453"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135890,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95453\/revisions\/135890"}],"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=95453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}