{"id":95548,"date":"2020-03-01T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95548"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:32:53","slug":"nov-21-78-2016-state-georgetown-294822","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95548","title":{"rendered":"Nov 21, 78 \u2022 2016 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294822"},"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=95548\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79795\">Serial 51<\/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\/1978STATE294822_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260409233207\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294822_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 294822<br \/>\nORIGIN CA-01<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SSO-00 SCS-06 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PA-02 TRSE-00 MCT-02 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-02 AID-05 SS-15 NSCE-00 CCO-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 L-03 A-02 MED-05 OPR-02 PER-05 PPTE-00 \/087 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/OCS\/EKIRINCICH\/GHP<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA\/JBUSNELL<br \/>\nS\/S-O THOMAS G. MARTIN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;127779 212058Z \/75 <\/p>\n<p>O 212016Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 294822<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC CDES (PEOPLES TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: DEPT ASSUMPTION OF DEATH AND W\/W NOTIFICATION RESPONSIBILITIES<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3820 <\/p>\n<p>DEPARTMENT CONCURS WITH INFO REFTEL RE: NOTIFYING NOK [Next of Kin] OF BOTH DECEASED AND SURVIVING PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS. ALSO CONCURS THAT FUTURE CALLERS FROM U.S. SHOULD BE TOLD TO CONTACT DEPARTMENT. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 51 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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 294822 ORIGIN CA-01 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95548","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95548","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=95548"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135995,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95548\/revisions\/135995"}],"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=95548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}