{"id":95841,"date":"2020-03-03T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95841"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:17:30","slug":"nov-25-78-%e2%80%a2-0415-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-298105","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95841","title":{"rendered":"Nov 25, 78 \u2022 0415 \u2022 State-Dover \u2022 298105"},"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\/1978STATE298105_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260413181620\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE298105_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 298105<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SSO-00 ISO-00 \/016 R 66011<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY:S\/S-O:JBARLOW<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY:S\/S-O:SVALERGA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;067130 250756Z \/20 <\/p>\n<p>O 250451Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nINFO 436 ABG\/SVM DOVER AFB DE IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 298105<br \/>\nFOLLOWING REPEAT GEORGETOWN 3897 SENT ACTION STATE NOV 23.<br \/>\nQUOTE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3897 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: FINDINGS IN PARTIAL AUTOPSY ON BODY OF BISHOP JIM JONES <\/p>\n<p>THE OFFICIAL PATHOLOGIST OF THE GOG, DR. LESLIE C. MOOTOO, HAS FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: QUOTE: DR. MOOTOO REPORTED THAT HE PERFORMED A PARTIAL AUTOPSY ON A BODY IDENTIFIED TO HIM AS BEING THAT OF BISHOP JIM JONES AT JONESTOWN ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1978. HE SAID THERE WAS A SMALL BULLET ENTRY WOUND ABOVE THE RIGHT EAR, WITH A LARGE, 4 CENTIMETER EXIT WOUND BEHIND THE LEFT EAR. THE WOUNDS APPEARED TO BE SELF-INFLICTED, USING A SMALL PISTOL WHICH WAS FOUND LYING ON THE VICTIM&#8217;S CHEST. DR. MOOTOO SAID HE ALSO TESTED FOR POISON AND THERE WAS NOT EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD TAKEN ANY. A COMPLETE AUTOPSY WAS NOT DONE AS THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS OBVIOUS. UNQUOTE. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE <\/p>\n<p>UNQUOTE <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 STATE 298105 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 SSO-00 ISO-00 \/016 R 66011 DRAFTED BY:S\/S-O:JBARLOW APPROVED BY:S\/S-O:SVALERGA &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;067130 250756Z \/20 O 250451Z NOV 78 FM SECSTATE WASHDC INFO 436 ABG\/SVM DOVER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":95378,"menu_order":226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95841","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95841","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=95841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136265,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95841\/revisions\/136265"}],"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=95841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}