{"id":96811,"date":"2020-03-23T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96811"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:53:20","slug":"dec-5-78-%e2%80%a2-2155-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-307012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96811","title":{"rendered":"Dec 5, 78 \u2022 2155 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 307012"},"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\/1978STATE307012_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260417215221\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE307012_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 307012<br \/>\nORIGIN L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-02 \/028 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY L\/ARA:F.ARMSTRONG:JV<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY L &#8211; M. B. FELDMAN<br \/>\nL\/ARA:M.KOZAK<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;022162 052214Z \/64 <\/p>\n<p>O 052155Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 307012 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: EMBASSY STAFFING <\/p>\n<p>WE APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT EVENTS IN JONESTOWN HAVE PLACED A PECULIAR BURDEN ON EMBASSY PERSONNEL REQUIRING THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ATTORNEY FROM THE LEGAL ADVISER&#8217;S OFFICE. L, HOWEVER, ALSO FINDS ITSELF SHORT-HANDED AT THE PRESENT TIME AND URGENTLY NEEDS ITS FULL COMPLEMENT OF LAWYERS IN L\/ARA. WOULD YOU PLEASE ADVISE US HOW MUCH LONGER IT WILL TAKE FOR TERRY FORTUNE TO COMPLETE THE PROJECTS HE HAS UNDERTAKEN WITH YOU. HE WILL OF COURSE CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE LEGAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE JONESTOWN TRAGEDY AFTER RETURNING TO WASHINGTON. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 307012 ORIGIN L-03 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 H-02 \/028 R DRAFTED BY L\/ARA:F.ARMSTRONG:JV APPROVED BY L &#8211; M. B. FELDMAN L\/ARA:M.KOZAK &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;022162 052214Z \/64 O 052155Z DEC 78 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96811","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=96811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136561,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96811\/revisions\/136561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}