{"id":95793,"date":"2020-03-03T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95793"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:20:56","slug":"nov-24-78-%e2%80%a2-1927-%e2%80%a2-caracas-state-%e2%80%a2-11104","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95793","title":{"rendered":"Nov 24, 78 \u2022 1927 \u2022 Caracas-State \u2022 11104"},"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=95793\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=84973\">Serial 307<\/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\/1978CARACA11104_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260412232001\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978CARACA11104_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nCARACA 11104 242026Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 L-03<br \/>\nCIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 SY-05 MCT-02 H-01 SSO-00<br \/>\nINRE-00 NSCE-00 DODE-00 \/044 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;059280 242029Z \/64<br \/>\nO 241927Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4757<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L CARACAS 11104<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC OREP GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANA SITUATION: POSSIBLE ENTRY INTO VENEZUELA OF US CITIZENS<br \/>\nREF: CARACAS 11070<\/p>\n<p>1. ON NOVEMBER 24, POLCOUNS SPOKE TO BRIG. GENERAL JOHN KAVANAUGH WHO IS THE VENEZUELAN ARMY COMMANDER WITH RESPONSIBLITY [RESPONSIBILITY] FOR THE AREA BORDERING GUYANA. KAVANAUGH MOST INTERESTED IN POSSIBLE ENTRY INTO VENEZUELA OF US CITIZENS AND HAS ALERTED HIS TROOPS TO BE ON LOOKOUT. POLCOUNS GAVE GEN. KAVANAUGH A MAP AND ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, GEN. KAVANAUGH INTENDS TO MAKE EXTENSIVE HELICOPTER INSPECTION OF THE VENEZUELAN SIDE OF THE BORDER IN THE AREA CLOSEST TO JOHNESTOWN [JONESTOWN].<\/p>\n<p>LUERS [William Luers, American Ambassador to Venezuela]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<\/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 307 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 CARACA 11104 242026Z ACTION ARA-15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95793","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=95793"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136216,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95793\/revisions\/136216"}],"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=95793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}