{"id":96449,"date":"2020-03-16T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96449"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:37:00","slug":"nov-30-78-%e2%80%a2-1741-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-303080","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96449","title":{"rendered":"Nov 30, 78 \u2022 1741 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 303080"},"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\/1978STATE303080_d2.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260416233550\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE303080_d2.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 303080<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CA-01 SS-15 SSO-00 H-01 L-03 \/038 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:FHALL:MTW<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nCA\/SCS:AGISE<br \/>\n\/S-O:TMARTIN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;032464 301815Z \/50 <\/p>\n<p>O 301741Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 303080 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES, GY (PEOPLE TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANESE DEATH CERTIFICATES <\/p>\n<p>1. DELAWARE AUTHORITIES WILL NOT REPEAT NOT PERMIT BODIES TO TRANSIT DELAWARE WITHOUT A DEATH CERTIFICATE. ACCORDINGLY, WE WILL NEED THESE DOCUMENTS SOONEST IF WE ARE TO AUTHORIZE RELEASE OF REMAINS TO NEXT-OF-KIN AND IF WE ARE TO AVOID ANY ADVERSE CRITICISM. <\/p>\n<p>2. EMBASSY REQUESTED ADVISE SOONEST WHEN DEATH CERTIFICATES WILL BE OBTAINED FROM GOG ON FORTY-SIX IDENTIFIED AND HOW QUICKLY GUYANESE AUTHORITIES WILL OR CAN MOVE ON THIS MATTER. CAN POUCHES BE SENT DAILY OR AS NEEDED TO DEPARTMENT WITH CERTIFICATES. <\/p>\n<p>3. DEATH CERTIFICATES SHOULD BE SENT URGENTLY TO ATTENTION: ALAN A. GISE, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, SCS, <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 303080 <\/p>\n<p>ROOM 4800 NEW STATE. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 303080 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 CA-01 SS-15 SSO-00 H-01 L-03 \/038 R DRAFTED BY CA\/SCS:FHALL:MTW APPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL CA\/SCS:AGISE \/S-O:TMARTIN &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;032464 301815Z \/50 O 301741Z NOV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96449","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=96449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136461,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96449\/revisions\/136461"}],"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=96449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}