{"id":95552,"date":"2020-03-01T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95552"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:36:27","slug":"nov-21-78-2016-state-georgetown-294824","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95552","title":{"rendered":"Nov 21, 78 \u2022 2016 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294824"},"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=95552\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79771\">Serial 43<\/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\/1978STATE294824_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260409233542\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294824_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 294824<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SSO-00 ISO-00 SCS-06 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 PA-02<br \/>\nTRSE-00 MCT-02 CA-01 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00<br \/>\nUSSS-00 H-02 AID-05 SS-15 NSCE-00 CCO-00 OC-06<br \/>\nJUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 SVC-00 CG-00 L-03 DOTE-00<br \/>\n\/073 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:CDR SANTA MARIA<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JABUSHNELL<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TGMARTIN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;129596 212237Z \/75<\/p>\n<p>O 212016Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO JCS WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1665<br \/>\nSECDEF WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2054<br \/>\nUSCINCSO QUARRY HTS IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCINCMAC SCOTT AFB IL IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 294824<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: EQUIPMENT FOR GUYANA NATIONAL POLICE (GDF)<br \/>\nREF: (A) GEORGETOWN 3785, (B) GEORGETOWN 3790, (C) GEORGETOWN 3816<\/p>\n<p>1. REFTELS, INTER ALIA, CONTAIN ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT NEEDED BY GDF [Guyana Defense Force] FOR JONESTOWN OPERATION.<\/p>\n<p>2. EQUIPMENT REQUESTED BY REF A (MINUS 54 SLEEPING BAGS) IS PRESENTLY BEING SHIPPED FROM HOWARD AFB TO GEORGETOWN.<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nSTATE 294824<\/p>\n<p>EQUIPMENT IN REF C IS BEING IDENTIFIED AT PRESENT.<\/p>\n<p>3. IN VIEW OF LOGISTICS PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ASSEMBLY AND TRANSPORTATION OF EQUIPMENT TO GEORGETOWN, AND THE RECOGNIZED FLUID SITUATION THERE, REQUEST CLARIFICATION OF CURRENT EQUIPMENT NEEDS IN REF B TO SUPPORT GDF. IN PARTICULAR, REQUEST ANSWERS TO FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:<\/p>\n<p>(A) IS THIS REQUEST IN ALL RESPECTS ADDITIONAL TO OTHER REQUESTS? (B) WHAT ARE HIGHEST PRIORITY REQUIREMENTS? FYI, GIVEN LOCATION OF THIS EQUIPMENT IN VARIOUS POINTS US, AND TIME REQUIRED TO CENTRALIZE IT, ITEMS MAY NOT REACH GEORGETOWN UNTIL OPERATIONS ARE VIRTUALLY COMPLETED. END<\/p>\n<p>FYI. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/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 43 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 294824 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":84,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95552","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=95552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135999,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95552\/revisions\/135999"}],"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=95552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}