{"id":95701,"date":"2020-03-02T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95701"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:20:31","slug":"nov-23-78-%e2%80%a2-0605-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3888","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95701","title":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 78 \u2022 0605 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3888"},"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=95701\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84777\">Serial 221<\/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\/1978GEORGE03888_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260411221826\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03888_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03888 230647Z<br \/>\nACTION SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CCO-00 FBIE-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 MCT-02 CA-01 INR-10 INRE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 USSS-00 H-01 AID-05 SS-15 L-03 SSO-00 NSCE-00 OC-06 JUSE-00 NSAE-00 ICAE-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 \/067 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;032789 230653Z \/23<br \/>\nZ 230605Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC FLASH 8169<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 3888<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC<br \/>\nSUBJECT: RETURN OF REMAINS; PEOPLES TEMPLE VICTIMS <\/p>\n<p>FOLLOWING SENT ACTION USCINCSO\/QUARRY HEITHS CZ, INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN 23 NOVEMBER FROM CDR\/JTF SOUTH\/GEORGETOWN GUYANA AHF2 REPEATED FOR YOUR ACTION: <\/p>\n<p>QUOTE:<br \/>\nDE RULPBFA 2551 3270128<br \/>\nZNY CCCCC<br \/>\nP 230120Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM CDR\/JTF SOUTH\/GEORGETOWN GUYANA AHF2<br \/>\nTO RULPALJ\/USCINCSO\/QUARRY HEIGHTS CZ<br \/>\nINFO RUESON\/AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN GY<br \/>\nBT<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nSUBJECT: SHIPMENT OF REMAINS <\/p>\n<p>A. UR MSG 221810Z NOV 78 (C) FOLLOWING HUMAN REMAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DEPART THIS LOCATION AT 230430Z NOV 78 OF MAC MISSION NUM 30-01. <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 GEORGE 03888 230647Z <\/p>\n<p>A. UNIDENTIFIED -39 CONTAINERS<br \/>\nB. IDENTIFIED -CONTAINER NUM 7-A. LOCAL POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED REMAINS AS JIMMY JONES (NEE STONE ADOPTED SON OF REV JAMES JONES. THEY HAVE ALSO IDENTIFIED TWO FEMALE BODIES. NAMES AND CONTAINER NUMBERS TO FOLLOW. UNQUOTE <\/p>\n<p>BURKE  [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 221 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 03888 230647Z ACTION SCS-06 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95701","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95701","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=95701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136129,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95701\/revisions\/136129"}],"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=95701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}