{"id":95509,"date":"2020-03-01T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95509"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:33:20","slug":"nov-21-78-0052-state-georgetown-294466","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95509","title":{"rendered":"Nov 21, 78 \u2022 0052 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294466"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294466_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260409223227\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294466_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 294466<br \/>\nORIGIN CA-01<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 NSC-05 SS-15 PA-02 A-02 PER-05 H-02 ICA-20 \/074 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA:HHORAN:ST<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA:BMWATSON<br \/>\nARA:JBUSHNELL (INFO)<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;104546 211314Z \/40 <\/p>\n<p>R 210052Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 294466<br \/>\nFOR AMBASSADOR FROM ASST. SECRETARY WATSON <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: JONESTOWN SURVIVORS PRAISE DCM DWYER <\/p>\n<p>1. LAST NIGHT, WHEN I MET THE SURVIVORS OF THE JONESTOWN SHOOTING, THEY WERE ALL SPECIFIC&#8211;DESPITE SHOCK AND FATIGUE&#8211;IN PRAISING RICHARD DWYER. THEY SAID THAT AFTER THE KILLERS WITHDREW, DWYER TOOK COMMAND, ALTHOUGH HIMSELF WOUNDED. THEY THOUGHT THAT NOTHING LESS THAN HIS EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP, SENSE OF PURPOSE AND GOOD JUDGMENT COULD HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT THEM THROUGH THE MOST TERRIFYING AND LUGUBRIOUS NIGHT OF THEIR LIVES. <\/p>\n<p>2. THERE WILL BE TIME FOR MORE ASSESSMENT LATER. BUT I WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THE EMBASSY RESPONSE TO THE KILLINGS WAS ONE THAT THE SERVICE AND MR. DWYER SHOULD BE PROUD OF. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 294466 ORIGIN CA-01 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 NSC-05 SS-15 PA-02 A-02 PER-05 H-02 ICA-20 \/074 R DRAFTED BY CA:HHORAN:ST APPROVED BY CA:BMWATSON ARA:JBUSHNELL (INFO) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;104546 211314Z \/40 R 210052Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95509","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=95509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135961,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95509\/revisions\/135961"}],"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=95509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}