{"id":95797,"date":"2020-03-03T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95797"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:24:15","slug":"nov-24-78-%e2%80%a2-1957-%e2%80%a2-caracas-state-%e2%80%a2-11112","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95797","title":{"rendered":"Nov 24, 78 \u2022 1957 \u2022 Caracas-State \u2022 11112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978CARACA11112_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260412232328\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978CARACA11112_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 CARACA 11112 290824Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 SSO-00 SCS-06 H-02 CA-01 DRC-01 \/041 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;126694 290828Z \/11\/64 <\/p>\n<p>O 241957Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY CARACAS<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4759<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE UNCLAS<br \/>\nCARACAS 11112<br \/>\nC O R R E C T E D C O P Y (MRN 11112 VICE 1112) <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY VE<br \/>\nSUBJECT: SMALL AIRCRAFT REQUIREMENT FOR GUYANA<br \/>\nREF: STATE 295945 <\/p>\n<p>1. VENEZUELAN AIR FORCE DOES NOT REPEAT NOT HAVE TWIN OTTERS IN ITS INVENTORY. FURTHER, IT DOES NOT HAVE SIMILAR AIRCRAFT AVAILABLE FOR LOAN OR LEASE. <\/p>\n<p>2. AERO POSTAL, A GOV-OWNED AIRLINE, DOES HAVE SKY VANS IN ITS INVENTORY. THIS IS AN AIRCRAFT SIMILAR TO THE TWIN OTTER. IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO WORK OUT AN ARRANGEMENT FOR THE USE OF ONE AND POSSIBLY TWO SKY VANS IN GUYANA. HOWEVER, VENEZUELANS WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS AT GREATER LENGTH DIRECTLY WITH GUYANESE OFFICIALS. THE VENEZUELAN OFFICIAL WHO SHOULD BE CONTACED IS AIR FORCE GENERAL OSCAR ALI ARAQUE ANGULO WHO HEADS AERO POSTAL (TEL NO. 71-98-01). <\/p>\n<p>3. EMBASSY HAS NOTED A CERTAIN RELUCTANCE ON THE PART OF VENEZUELANS BUT BELIEVES THAT, AFTER DISCUSSION AND FULL EXPLANATION BY GUYANESE OFFICIALS, SOMETHING MIGHT BE WORKED OUT. IN EMBASSY&#8217;S VIEW THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE A LEASE RATHER THAN A LOAN. AERO POSTAL, ALTHOUGH GOVERNMENT -OWNED, IS AN OPERATING AIRLINE THAT IS SUPPOSED <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 CARACA 11112 290824Z <\/p>\n<p>TO MAKE A PROFIT. <\/p>\n<p>4. EMBASSY WILL CONTINUE TO CONTACT OTHER CHARTER OPERATORS, AND HAS PASSED FOREGOING TO GUYANESE AMBASSADOR COLLINS. <\/p>\n<p>LUERS [William Luers, American Ambassador to Venezuela]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 CARACA 11112 290824Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SS-15 SSO-00 SCS-06 H-02 CA-01 DRC-01 \/041 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;126694 290828Z \/11\/64 O 241957Z NOV 78 FM AMEMBASSY CARACAS TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4759 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95797","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=95797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136220,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95797\/revisions\/136220"}],"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=95797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}