{"id":96849,"date":"2020-03-23T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96849"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:36:07","slug":"dec-7-78-%e2%80%a2-1200-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-usss-%e2%80%a2-4137","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96849","title":{"rendered":"Dec 7, 78 \u2022 1200 \u2022 Georgetown-USSS \u2022 4137"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96849\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91158\">Serial 1105<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04137_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260419223513\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04137_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04137 071300Z<br \/>\nACTION SY-05<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SYE-00 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00<br \/>\n\/036 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;049441 071303Z \/50<\/p>\n<p>O 071200Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO US SECRET SERVICE HQS (ID-FIB &#038; ACB) IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 8357<br \/>\nDIR FBI IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4137<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: ASEC<br \/>\nSUBJ: ASSASSINATION THREAT AGAINST PRESIDENT\/VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.<br \/>\nREF: USSS 1125<\/p>\n<p>AMBASSADOR [JOHN BURKE] WILL BE DISCUSSING WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS FBI DESIRE TO INTERVIEW PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS STILL IN GEORGETOWN. AT THE SAME TIME HE WILL RAISE REQUEST CONTAINED REFTEL.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1105 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 04137 071300Z ACTION SY-05 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96849","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96849","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=96849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136597,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96849\/revisions\/136597"}],"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=96849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}