{"id":95498,"date":"2020-03-01T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95498"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:46:41","slug":"nov-20-78-2058-state-georgetown-294162","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95498","title":{"rendered":"Nov 20, 78 \u2022 2058 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294162"},"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=95498\">State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79585\">Serial 18<\/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\/1978STATE294162_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407224344\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294162_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 294162<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 L-03 FBIE-00 SSO-00 CIAE-00 PA-01<br \/>\nTRSE-00 DODE-00 MCT-02 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00<br \/>\nUSSS-00 H-01 SS-15 NSCE-00 CCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00<br \/>\nNSAE-00 ICAE-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 SCS-06 CA-01 \/066 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA;SSLEGHT<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nL\/ARA:FORTUNE (DRAFT)<br \/>\nFBI:SHAFFER (PHONE)<br \/>\nGWG:RZIMMERMANN (DRAFT)<br \/>\nS\/S-O &#8211; TGMARTIN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;100797 202236Z \/14<\/p>\n<p>O 202058Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCINSOUTHCOM QUARRY HTS CZ<br \/>\nCINCMAC SCOTT AFB ILL<br \/>\nUS REDCOM\/RCJ2 MACDILL AFB FLA<br \/>\nUSCINCARRED FT MCPHERSON GA<br \/>\nCDR 18TH AIRBORNE CORPS FT BRAGG NC<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 294162<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANA SITUATION<\/p>\n<p>1. REPORTS AVAILABLE TO AMEMB GEORGETOWN SUGGEST POSSIBILITY THAT REVEREND JIM JONES AND\/OR OTHER PT LEADERS MIGHT<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 294162<\/p>\n<p>ATTEMPT TO LEAVE GUYANA BY BOAT.<\/p>\n<p>2. BELIEVE YOU SHOULD ADVISE LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF THIS AND ALERT THEM TO POSSIBILITY THEY MIGHT SEEK TO LAND IN OR TRANSIT LOCAL TERRITORY.<\/p>\n<p>3. FBI IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING TO SEE IF ANY VIOLATIONS OF US LAW HAVE OCCURRED. WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CONFIRM FROM GOG [GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA] WHETHER ARREST WARRANTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR JONES OR OTHERS, BUT FEEL SUCH ACTION IS PROBABLE. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<\/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 18 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.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 STATE 294162 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95498","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=95498"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137120,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95498\/revisions\/137120"}],"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=95498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}