{"id":96476,"date":"2020-03-17T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96476"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:54:03","slug":"dec-1-78-%e2%80%a2-0035-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-303668","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96476","title":{"rendered":"Dec 1, 78 \u2022 0035 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 303668"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names from this cable. They are denoted in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE303668_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260417015315\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE303668_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 303668<br \/>\nORIGIN SS-25<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 \/026 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:SGIBSON<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:JBUSHNELL<br \/>\nS\/S-0:JTHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;036502 010059Z \/14<\/p>\n<p>O 310035Z NOV 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 303668 EXDIS<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE<br \/>\nREF: STATE 302465<\/p>\n<p>1. FOLLOWING IS MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION ON EXPERTISE OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL TEAM.<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EVAN E. HODGE. MR. HODGE<\/span> IS A BALLISTICS EXPERT WHOSE SPECIALTY IS SCIENTIFICALLY COMPARING FIRE ARMS PROJECTILES OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ORIGIN. THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES REQUESTING SUCH EXAMINATIONS.<\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JAMES E. KIEL. MR. KIEL<\/span> WORKS WITH SOUND RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND CONDUCTS EXPERT SCIENTIFIC FORENSIC EXAMINATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH RECORDINGS AND\/OR EQUIPMENT. HE HAS ACCESS TO SOPHISTICATED ACUSTICAL ANALYZING<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 303668<\/p>\n<p>EQUIPMENT.<\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BARRY L. MONES. MR. MONES<\/span> IS AN EXPERT IN PHOTOGRAPHY. HE CONDUCTS SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE AND HANDLES SPECIAL PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH DOCUMENT PHOTOGRAPHY.<\/p>\n<p>5. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EDWARD B. O&#8217;BRIEN. MR. O&#8217;BRIEN<\/span> HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE FBI TO OBTAIN EVIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names from this cable. They are denoted in red type. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 STATE 303668 ORIGIN SS-25 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 \/026 R DRAFTED BY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96476","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=96476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136483,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96476\/revisions\/136483"}],"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=96476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}