{"id":96888,"date":"2020-03-24T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96888"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:55:52","slug":"dec-8-78-%e2%80%a2-0244-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-309310","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96888","title":{"rendered":"Dec 8, 78 \u2022 0244 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 309310"},"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\/1978STATE309310_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260419225507\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE309310_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 309310 ORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-05 H-01 INR-10 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-01 SP-02 SS-15 ICA-11 HA-05 \/074 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR: R MCCOY:KC<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA\/CAR:A HEWITT<br \/>\nARA:VPVAKY<br \/>\nARA:BRANDON<br \/>\nARA:J BUSHNELL<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;062181 081352Z \/45 <\/p>\n<p>R 080244Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 309310 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: PFOR, GY, US<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANESE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS RE. PEOPLES TEMPLE <\/p>\n<p>1. GUYANESE EMBASSY, DCM HALDER INFORMED DESK OFFICER TODAY (NOVEMBER 30) THAT GUYANESE AMBASSADOR MANN HAD CALLED ON THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, O&#8217;NEILL, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, ZABLOCKI, ON NOVEMBER 29 TO EXPRESS CONDOLENCES FOR THE TRAGIC DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN RYAN ON BEHALF OF GOG AND TO EXPLAIN GOG&#8217;S POSITION REGARDING ITS CONTACTS WITH THE PEOPLES TEMPLE. <\/p>\n<p>2. MANN TOLD O&#8217;NEILL AND ZABLOCKI THAT MANY VISITS WERE MADE TO JONESTOWN BY BOTH LOCAL AND GEORGETOWN<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 309310 <\/p>\n<p>BASED OFFICIALS OF VARIOUS MINISTRIES AND NO IRREGULARITIES WERE NOTED NOR DID ANY JONESTOWN INHABITANTS EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT CONDITIONS. HALDER MENTIONED THAT MANN MADE THE POINT TO BOTH CONGRESSMEN THAT THE EMBASSY AND GOG CONSULTED INFORMALLY ON QUESTION OF MISTREATMENT OF TEMPLE MEMBERS BUT NO CORROBORATING INFORMATION WAS EVER DEVELOPED TO WARRANT AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION BY GOG NOR DID EMBASSY REQUEST GOG TO INVESTIGATE. <\/p>\n<p>3. DESK OFFICER ESSENTIALLY AGREED WITH HALDER THAT &#8216;MANN&#8217;S ASSERTION WAS CORRECT WITH ONE CAVEAT THAT THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS IN GOG WHO WERE SUSPICIOUS OF JONES BUT UNFORTUNATELY, LACKED ANY SUBSTANTIATING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT ARGUMENTS THAT GOG CONDUCT OFFICIAL INQUIRY INTO TEMPLE ACTIVITIES. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 STATE 309310 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-05 H-01 INR-10 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-01 SP-02 SS-15 ICA-11 HA-05 \/074 R DRAFTED BY ARA\/CAR: R MCCOY:KC APPROVED BY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96888","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96888","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=96888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136620,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96888\/revisions\/136620"}],"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=96888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}