{"id":96367,"date":"2020-03-16T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96367"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:46:36","slug":"nov-28-78-%e2%80%a2-2016-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3987","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96367","title":{"rendered":"Nov 28, 78 \u2022 2016 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3987"},"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=96367\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=87295\">Serial 536<\/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\/1978GEORGE03987_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260416224540\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03987_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 03987 282131Z<br \/>\nACTION SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 PPTE-00 SY-05 SYE-00 FSE-00 HA-05 H-02 INSE-00 OC-06 CCO-00 DODE-00 \/041 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;116724 282138Z \/64 <\/p>\n<p>O 282017Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8250<br \/>\nINFO FBI WASHDC<br \/>\nFBI 437 MAW\/CP CHARLESTON SC<br \/>\nHEW WASHDC<br \/>\nUSSS WASHDC<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 3987<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: REPATRIATION OF SEVEN JONESTOWN SURVIVORS<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3985 <\/p>\n<p>1. SEVEN AMCITS [American citizens] LISTED REFTEL, ACCOMPANIED BY STATE OFFICER JIM WARD, WILL DEPART GEORGETOWN AT 1300, STOP BRIEFLY AT PORT OF SPAIN, T&#038;T [Tobago &#038; Trinidad], DEPART PORT OF SPAIN AT 1300, ARRIVE JFKENNEDY APT [Airport] NEW YORK AT 1815. ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE LOCAL. <\/p>\n<p>2. REQUESTS HEW [Department of Health, Education and Welfare] RECEPTION ARRANGEMENTS AT JFK, ALSO INS &#038; CUSTOMS FACILITATION. SUGGEST WHEELCHAIR BE AVAILABLE FOR ONE PASSENGER, MRS. HYACINTH THRASH. IF OTHER AGENCIES PLAN TO MEET AT JFK AS OPPOSED TO FINAL DESTINATION, PLS ADVISE. WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE ANY INFO AVAILABLE WE CAN RELAY TO THESE AMCITS REGARDING OVERNIGHTING IN NEW YORK AND PLANS FOR ONWARD TRANSPORTATION TO CALIFORNIA. <\/p>\n<p>3. WARD WILL CONTINUE ON NATIONAL AIRLINES FLIGHT 491 LEAVING JFK AT 2015 AND ARRIVING WASHINGTON NATIONAL APT AT <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 03987 282131Z <\/p>\n<p>2111 NOV 29. HE WILL BE TRAVELING AS NON-PRO COURIER WITH DIP BAG. REQUESTS HE BE MET IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana] <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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 536 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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 03987 282131Z ACTION SCS-06 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96367","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96367","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=96367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136407,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96367\/revisions\/136407"}],"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=96367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}