{"id":96398,"date":"2020-03-16T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96398"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:11:20","slug":"nov-29-78-%e2%80%a2-2005-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-401","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96398","title":{"rendered":"Nov 29, 78 \u2022 2005 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 4001"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 692<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

LIMITED OFFICIAL USE
\nPAGE 01
\nGEORGE 04001 300401Z
\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 H-01 CA-01 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 FBIE-00 JUSE-00 \/034 W
\n——————016950 010146Z \/21<\/p>\n

R 292005Z NOV 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 8264
\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 4001
\nFOR ARA DEP. ASST. SEC. BUSHNELL
\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC, OREP(RYAN) GY
\nSUBJECT: LETTERS OF REFERENCE ON BEHALF OF REVEREND JIM JONES AND PEOPLE TEMPLE.<\/p>\n

DURING A MEETING MORNING 29TH WITH FORMIN [Foreign Minister] RASHLEIGH JACKSON I REFERRED TO THE LETTERS OF REFERENCE FROM PROMINENT AMERICANS WHICH MINISTER [of State Christopher] NASCIMENTO, IN HIS NEW YORK PRESS STATEMENT, CLAIMED HAD PROVIDED AT LEAST A PARTIAL BASIS FOR GOG’S [Government of Guyana] ORIGINAL DECISION TO PERMIT JONES AND THE PEOPLES TEMPLE TO LOCATE IN GUYANA. I ASKED THE FOREIGN MINISTER IF HE MIGHT MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE EMBASSY COPIES OF THESE LETTERS OF REFERENCE. JACKSON REPLIED THAT THE LETTERS WERE NOT IN THE FILES OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE; HOWEVER, HE WOULD REFER REQUEST TO THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND PROMISED THAT THE GOG WOULD MAKE COPIES AVAILABLE, ASSUMING THAT THEY COULD BE READILY LOCATED.<\/p>\n

BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n

LIMITED OFFICIAL USE
\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 692 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 04001 300401Z […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96398","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=96398"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136431,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96398\/revisions\/136431"}],"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=96398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}