{"id":95477,"date":"2020-03-01T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95477"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:18:43","slug":"nov-20-78-1404-state-georgetown-293803","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95477","title":{"rendered":"SITREP VI <br>Nov 20, 78 \u2022 1404 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 293803"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s notes:<\/strong> This document appears as <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79594\">Serial 21<\/a> in the FBI RYMUR release and as <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95477\">State Department cable 293803<\/a> in the State Department release.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293803_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407221725\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE293803_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 293803<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 EA-10 NEA-11 ISO-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00<br \/>\nINRE-00 ICAE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01 SY-05 FBIE-00<br \/>\nSYE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 MCT-02 AID-05 OC-06 CCO-00<br \/>\nJUSE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 \/086 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:JGRIFFITH<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nS\/S-O:RCASTRODALE<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;097062 201458Z \/53<\/p>\n<p>O 201404Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PANAMA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY LONDON IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY KUWAIT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY ABU DHABI IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY TEHRAN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 293803<br \/>\nLONDON FOR MICHAEL FINLEY, TOKYO FOR SENATOR HAYAKAWA<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: SITUATION REPORT NO. VI<br \/>\nREFERENCE: STATE 293800 AND PREVIOUS<\/p>\n<p>THE GUYANESE GOVERNMENT HAS NOW GIVEN FINAL CLEARANCE FOR<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 293803<\/p>\n<p>THE TWO HELICOPTERS THAT ARE PART OF THE ASSISTANCE PACKAGE IT REQUESTED AND HAS ESTABLISHED A CABINET LEVEL CRISIS COMMITTEE TO HANDLE THE PEOPLES TEMPLE CALAMITY. THE COMMITTEE IS HEADED BY MINISTER OF HEALTH, HOUSING, AND LABOR HAMILTON GREEN AND INCLUDES THE MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AND HOME AFFAIRS. GREEN IS KNOWN AS A DYNAMIC, CAPABLE ADMINISTRATOR. AMBASSADOR [JOHN] BURKE IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE COMMITTEE WHICH IS NOW CONSIDERING OUR OFFER OF MEDICAL HELICOPTER EVACUATION AND GRAVES REGISTRATION UNITS, INCLUDING UP TO 12 HELICOPTERS. AN EARLY ANSWER IS EXPECTED, AND THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER IS PREPARING TO HAVE THE UNITS READY TO MOVE QUICKLY. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s notes: This document appears as Serial 21 in the FBI RYMUR release and as State Department cable 293803 in the State Department release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 STATE 293803 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 EA-10 NEA-11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95477","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95477","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=95477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135913,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95477\/revisions\/135913"}],"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=95477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}