{"id":96829,"date":"2020-03-23T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96829"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:05:18","slug":"dec-6-78-%e2%80%a2-0222-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-307336","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96829","title":{"rendered":"Dec 6, 78 \u2022 0222 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 307336"},"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\/1978STATE307336_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260417220440\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE307336_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 307336<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SIG-03 MMO-01 IO-14 AF-10 EA-10 EUR-12 NEA-06 \/072 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR:R MCCOY<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:V P VAKY<br \/>\nARA\/CAR: A HEWITT<br \/>\nARA:BRANDON GROVE<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;025266 060506Z \/15 <\/p>\n<p>P 060222Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS PRIORITY<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 307336<br \/>\nINFORM CONSULS <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: THE JONESTOWN TRAGEDY<br \/>\nREF: STATE 302585 <\/p>\n<p>FOLLOWING IS A CORRECTION TO QUESTION 5 PARAGRAPH 9 REFTEL: SECOND PART OF THE ANSWER IS INACCURATE, JONES WAS NOT OFTEN SEEN WITH HIGH GOG OFFICIALS. RESPONSE SHOULD BE THAT GOG GAVE PERMISSION TO JONES TO ESTABLISH SETTLEMENT IN GUYANA. PERIODIC VISITS WERE MADE TO THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY BY CABINET MINISTERS AND OTHER GOG OFFICIALS AND THE PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE OFFICE IN GEORGETOWN REPORTEDLY HAD CLOSE RELATIONS WITH THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 307336 <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE <\/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 307336 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SIG-03 MMO-01 IO-14 AF-10 EA-10 EUR-12 NEA-06 \/072 R DRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR:R MCCOY APPROVED BY ARA:V P VAKY ARA\/CAR: A HEWITT ARA:BRANDON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96829","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96829","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=96829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136575,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96829\/revisions\/136575"}],"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=96829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}