{"id":95659,"date":"2020-03-02T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95659"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:29:27","slug":"nov-22-78-2149-kingston-caracas-9380","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95659","title":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 78 \u2022 2149 \u2022 Kingston-Caracas \u2022 9380"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978KINGST09380_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260410222832\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978KINGST09380_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nKINGST 09380 222157Z<br \/>\nACTION SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 PC-05 SSO-00 PA-02 CA-01 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-02 SS-15 NSCE-00 \/062 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;023036 222238Z \/75<\/p>\n<p>O R 222149Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY KINGSTON<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 4547<br \/>\nUNCLAS KINGSTON 9380<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MURDERS<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR HERE, DON GALLOWAY<\/span>, AND <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HIS SON KEVIN<\/span> ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FATE OF <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">GALLOWAY&#8217;S EX-MOTHER-IN LAW AND KEVIN&#8217;S GRANDMOTHER. MRS. ESSIE MAE TOWNS. MRS. TOWNS<\/span> IS MEMBER OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE SECT AND RESIDED WITH OTHER SECT MEMBERS IN GUYANA. POSSIBLY SHE IS WITH GROUP THAT ESCAPED ON WAY TO VENEZUELAN BORDER. ANY INFORMATION EMBASSY CAN PROVIDE WILL BE APPRECIATED.<\/p>\n<p>HAVERKAMP [Roy T. Haverkamp, U.S. Ambassador]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable. They are denoted in red type. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 KINGST 09380 222157Z ACTION SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95659","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=95659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136089,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95659\/revisions\/136089"}],"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=95659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}