{"id":95605,"date":"2020-03-02T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95605"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:17:34","slug":"nov-22-78-1415-georgetown-state-3861","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95605","title":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 78 \u2022 1415 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3861"},"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=95605\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=79820\">Serial 61<\/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\/1978GEORGE03861_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260410211644\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03861_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03861 221417Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 SP-02 NSCE-00 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 L-03 H-01 CA-01 INR-10 SSO-00 INRE-00 \/048 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;012209 221439Z \/44 S <\/p>\n<p>O 221415Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8135<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 3861<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: FBI PRESENCE IN GUYANA.<br \/>\nREF: A. GEORGETOWN 3850<br \/>\nB. STATE 295263 <\/p>\n<p>1. AT 0830 A.M. NOVEMBER 22 AMBASSADOR TOOK LEGAL ATTACHE OGLESBY TO CALL ON POLICE COMMISSIONER BARKER. BARKER WELCOMED OGLESBY&#8217;S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE IN THE INVESTIGATION IN THE JONESTOWN INCIDENT AS WELL AS THE ASSASSINATION OF CONGRESSMAN RYAN AND OTHERS AT PORT KAITUMA ON NOV 18. HE DID NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT IT WOULD BE POLITICALLY SENSITIVE FOR THE GOG WERE THE FBI TO LAUNCH A DIRECT INVESTIGATION INCOUNTRY. AFTER A BRIEF DISCUSSION BETWEEN COMMISSIONER BARKER, THE AMBASSADOR AND LEGATT, THE COMMISSIONER CALLED IN THREE OF HIS SENIOR AIDES TO JOIN WITH THE LEGATT IN A MORE DETAILED DISCUSSION OF THE PROBLEM. <\/p>\n<p>2. AMBASSADOR THEREUPON LEFT MR. OGLESBY WITH POLICE OFFICIALS AND RETURNED TO THE EMBASSY. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>NOTE BY OC\/T: DISTRIBUTION CO-ORDINATED WITH S\/S-O MR. RAPOPORT. <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<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 61 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 GEORGE 03861 221417Z ACTION ARA-15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95605","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=95605"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136048,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95605\/revisions\/136048"}],"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=95605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}