{"id":95708,"date":"2020-03-02T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95708"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:26:42","slug":"nov-23-78-%e2%80%a2-0655-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-296505","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95708","title":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 78 \u2022 0655 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 296505"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld two names from this cable. They are denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE296505_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260411222521\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE296505_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 296505<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 ARA-15 CA-01 SSO-00 \/023 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:MACELLA:BB<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:SRGIBSON<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JTHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;032943 230717Z \/10<\/p>\n<p>O 230655Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 296505<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, (CASANOVA, DANNY)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W: DANNY CASANOVA<\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MRS. DIANE HAWTHORNE AUNT OF<\/span> SUBJECT, SAYS SHE HAS AUTHORITY FROM SUBJECT&#8217;S <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MOTHER, MARY ANN CASANOVA<\/span> WHO IS IN GUYANA TO ARRANGE FOR DISPOSITION OF SUBJECT&#8217;S REMAINS.<\/p>\n<p>2. PLEASE ASCERTAIN IF <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MRS. CASANOVA<\/span> HAS AUTHORIZED <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MRS. HAWTHORNE<\/span> TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUBJECT&#8217;S BURIAL. IF SO, PLEASE HAVE <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MRS. CASANOVA<\/span> GIVE A WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THIS EFFECT.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld two names from this cable. They are denoted below 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 STATE 296505 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 ARA-15 CA-01 SSO-00 \/023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95708","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=95708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136134,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95708\/revisions\/136134"}],"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=95708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}