{"id":95689,"date":"2020-03-02T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95689"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:04:16","slug":"nov-23-78-0330-georgetown-state-3883","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95689","title":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 78 \u2022 0330 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3883"},"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=95689\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84783\">Serial 224<\/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\/1978GEORGE03883_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260411220320\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03883_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB375<\/p>\n<p>PAGE 01 GEORGE 03883 230417Z<br \/>\nACTION SCS-06<\/p>\n<p>[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n<p>0 230330Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8165<br \/>\nUNCLAS EFTO GEORGETOWN 3883<br \/>\nFOR FBI HQ<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS:<br \/>\nSUBJECT: RYMUR<br \/>\nREF: BUTEL NUMBER 093<\/p>\n<p>1. THEORETICALLY BEING HELD BY GUYANAN AUTHORITIES AS MATERIAL WITNESSES OR POTENTIAL ARRESTEES IN THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING ALLOW[ED] TO DEPART GUYANA ARE 84 AMERICAN CITIZENS. SEE GEORGETOWN MESSAGES 3821, 3846, 3847 AND 3853 FOR IDENTITIES.<\/p>\n<p>2. RETURN OF DECEASED TO US IS ANTICIPATED NOVEMBER 23, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>3. REPATRIATION OF SURVIVORS TO US HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED PENDING POLICE DECISION.<\/p>\n<p>4. STATUS OF INVESTIGATION IN GUYANA UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME OTHER THAN LARRY LAYTON, AGE ABOUT 25, CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THIS MATTER NOVEMBER 22, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>5. TODAY, THERE ARE 78 KNOWN SURVIVORS WHICH ARE THE SAME PERSONS BEING HELD BY GUYANAN AUTHORITIES.<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 03883 230417Z<\/p>\n<p>6) THERE ARE 300 TO 500 MEMBERS OF PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE NOT ACCOUNTED FOR BASED ON AN ESTIMATED 1200 MEMBERS BELIEVED TO HAVE RESIDED AT JONESTOWN.<\/p>\n<p>7. GEORGETOWN BY SEPARATE MESSAGE THIS DATE, FURNISHING NAMES AND BIRTH DATES OF 960 PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE MEMBERS WHICH MAY BE USED FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES BY FBI.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [JOHN BURKE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]<\/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 224 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 FBB375 PAGE 01 GEORGE 03883 230417Z ACTION [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95689","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=95689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136119,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95689\/revisions\/136119"}],"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=95689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}