{"id":95461,"date":"2020-03-01T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95461"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:02:12","slug":"nov-20-78-0355-georgetown-state-3792","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95461","title":{"rendered":"Nov 20, 78 \u2022 0355 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3792"},"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=95461\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79729\">Serial 31<\/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\/1978GEORGE03792_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407220054\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03792_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 03792 200427Z<br \/>\nACTION SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 NSAE-00 NSCE-00 SSO-00 ICAE-00 INRE-00 CA-01 FBIE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 MCT-02 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-01 AID-05 SS-15 CCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 \/054 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094173 200436Z \/64 <\/p>\n<p>Z 200355Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8079<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3792<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, ORP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: CODEL RYAN: FIRST CASULTY REPORT FROM JONESTOWN <\/p>\n<p>1. FORMIN JACKSON [Guyana Foreign Minister Rashleigh Jackson] INFORMED AMBASSADOR 0030 NOV 20 THAT INITIAL REPORT FROM GDF [Guyana Defense Force] FORCES ENTERING JONESTOWN IS THAT THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO TO THREE HUNDRED BODIES. NO FURTHER DETAILS AS YET. FORMIN ASKED THAT PRESS RELEASE BE WITHHELD UNTIL MORE SPECIFIC DETAILS KNOWN AND COORDINATED RELEASE CAN BE MAKE. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana] <\/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 31 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 03792 200427Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95461","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=95461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135896,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95461\/revisions\/135896"}],"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=95461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}