{"id":96304,"date":"2020-03-16T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96304"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:17:25","slug":"nov-26-78-%e2%80%a2-2140-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3952","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96304","title":{"rendered":"Nov 26, 78 \u2022 2140 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3952"},"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=96304\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86858\">Serial 409<\/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\/1978GEORGE03952_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414171637\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03952_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 03952 262218Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 L-03 H-01 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 SY-05 USSS-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 PA-01 SP-02 NSCE-00 SSO-00 ICAE-00 INRE-00 \/045 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;090609 262223Z \/73 <\/p>\n<p>O 262140Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8222<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 3952<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: PRESS INQUIRIES ON PEOPLES TEMPLE<br \/>\nREF: STATE 299148 <\/p>\n<p>1. AMBASSADOR BURKE NEVER MET REVEREND JIM JONES EITHER OFFICIALLY OR SOCIALLY. AS FAR AS IS KNOWN, JONES WAS NEVER IN GEORGETOWN DURING THE PERIOD SINCE AMBASSADOR&#8217;S ARRIVAL IN SEPTEMBER 1977. AS INDICATED IN PARA ONE REFTEL, MRS [Marceline] JONES PAID A COURTESY CALL ON AMBASSADOR AT 3 PM MONDAY, JUNE 26. THIS WAS THEIR ONLY MEETING. <\/p>\n<p>2. EMBASSY HAS NO RECORD OF EVER HAVING RECEIVED THE BLAKEY AFFIDAVIT OF JUNE 15, 1978 FROM THE DEPARTMENT. EMBASSY DID, HOWEVER, RECEIVE A COPY OF THE AFFIDAVIT DIRECTLY FROM ONE OF THE &#8220;CONCERNED RELATIVES&#8221; GROUP IN A COMMUNICATION POSTMARKED AUGUST 11. SAME INDIVIDUAL IS ALSO KNOW TO HAVE ADDRESSED A LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER [Forbes Burnham] REGARDING CONDITIONS IN JONESTOWN. THE AFFIDAVIT WAS NOT DISCUSSED WITH THE GOG [Government of Guyana]. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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 409 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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 03952 262218Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96304","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=96304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136359,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96304\/revisions\/136359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}