{"id":96560,"date":"2020-03-18T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96560"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:49:29","slug":"nov-27-78-%e2%80%a2-2140-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-300237","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96560","title":{"rendered":"Nov 27, 78 \u2022 2140 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 300237"},"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\/1978STATE300237_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414174822\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE300237_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 300237<br \/>\nORIGIN SS-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 L-03 SCS-06 HEW-06 INR-10 SSO-00 INRE-00 \/056 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY D:MEBARNES:MS<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY D:MARSHA E. BARNES<br \/>\nARA\/CAR:RMCCOY (SUBS)<br \/>\nL\/M:KEMALMBORG<br \/>\nSCS:SADOBRENCHUK (INFO)<br \/>\nS\/S-O: TRREYNDERS<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;099869 272220Z \/73 <\/p>\n<p>O 272140Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 300237 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: POSSIBLE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PEOPLES TEMPLE <\/p>\n<p>1. HEW SECRETARY CALIFANO CONTACTED DEPUTY SECRETARY CONCERNING LETTER HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE WRITTEN IN PRAISE OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE. A THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE SECRETARY&#8217;S FILES HAS FAILED TO REVEAL ANY SUCH LETTER. DEPARTMENT HAS COPY OF COMPENDIUM PREPARED BY PEOPLES TEMPLE, &#8220;STATEMENTS ABOUT REV. JIM JONES AND THE PEOPLES TEMPLE,&#8221; WHICH CONTAINS A STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO CALIFANO. <\/p>\n<p>2. ACTION REQUESTED. EMBASSY SHOULD DETERMINE WHETHER PEOPLES TEMPLE MADE AVAILABLE TO GOG ACTUAL LETTERS FROM SECRETARY CALIFANO AND OTHER PROMINENT AMERICANS OR MERELY THE COMPENDIUM. IF LETTERS MADE AVAILABLE, EMBASSY SHOULD SEEK TO OBTAIN COPIES OF ALLEGED CALIFANO LETTER AND OTHERS <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 300237 <\/p>\n<p>FROM GOG. RESULTS OF INQUIRY SHOULD BE FORWARDED ASAP. <\/p>\n<p>3. IF THE EMBASSY COMES ACROSS COPIES OF LAUDATORY LETTERS FROM PROMINENT AMERICANS IN TEMPLE PAPERS, COPIES SHOULD BE MADE AND POUCHED TO ARA\/CAR. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 300237 ORIGIN SS-15 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 L-03 SCS-06 HEW-06 INR-10 SSO-00 INRE-00 \/056 R DRAFTED BY D:MEBARNES:MS APPROVED BY D:MARSHA E. BARNES ARA\/CAR:RMCCOY (SUBS) L\/M:KEMALMBORG SCS:SADOBRENCHUK (INFO) S\/S-O: TRREYNDERS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96560","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=96560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136389,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96560\/revisions\/136389"}],"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=96560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}