{"id":95560,"date":"2020-03-01T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95560"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:41:58","slug":"nov-21-78-2105-state-georgetown-294872","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95560","title":{"rendered":"Nov 21, 78 \u2022 2105 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294872"},"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=95560\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79815\">Serial 59<\/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\/1978STATE294872_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260409234110\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE294872_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 294872<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FBIE-00 SCS-06 CIAE-00 INR-10<br \/>\nNSAE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 MCT-02 CA-01 SY-05 SYE-00<br \/>\nUSSS-00 H-01 AID-05 SS-15 L-03 JUSE-00 CG-00<br \/>\nDOTE-00 OC-06 CCO-00 DODE-00 NSCE-00 SSO-00<br \/>\nICAE-00 INRE-00 AS-02 \/073 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/GWG:AKSLEGHT<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:GWG:JABUSHNELL<br \/>\nFBI: MR. NICHOLAS (DRAFT)<br \/>\nS\/S-O:TGMARTIN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;002071 220245Z \/73<\/p>\n<p>O 212105Z 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 CINCSOUTHCOM QUARRY HTS CZ IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCINCMAC SCOTT AFB ILL IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSREDCOM\/RCJ2 MACDILL AFB FLA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSCINCARRED FT MCPHERSON GA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nCDR 18TH AIRBORNE CORPS FT BRAGG NC IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSCINCEUR VAIHINGEN GE\/J-2 IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 294872<br \/>\nE.O. 11652:GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANA SITUATION<br \/>\nREF: STATE 294162<\/p>\n<p>1. AS POSTS NOW AWARE, REV. JIM JONES DIED WITH MANY OF HIS FOLLOWERS AT JONESTOWN. HOWEVER, POSSIBILITY STILL <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 294872<\/p>\n<p>EXISTS THAT OTHER PT MEMBERS WHO FLED FROM JONESTOWN MAY ATTEMPT TO LEAVE GUYANA BY SEA FOR NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. PLEASE KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AND REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF THIS WHICH MAY COME TO THEIR ATTENTION.<\/p>\n<p>2. INVESTIGATION AS TO POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF US LAW IN THIS CASE CONTINUES. TO DATE WE HAVE NO FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF ARREST WARRANTS BY GOG [GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA].<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 59 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 294872 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95560","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=95560"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136004,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95560\/revisions\/136004"}],"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=95560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}