{"id":96926,"date":"2020-03-24T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96926"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:37:54","slug":"dec-9-78-1331-georgetown-port-of-spain-4189","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96926","title":{"rendered":"Dec 9, 78 \u2022 1331 \u2022 Georgetown-Port of Spain \u2022 4189"},"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=96926\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91266\">Serial 1153<\/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\/1978GEORGE04189_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260419233455\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04189_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04189 111315Z POSS DUPE<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 EUR-12 PPT-01 CA-01 SY-05 CIAE-00<br \/>\nFBIE-00 INSE-00 NSAE-00 \/035 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094474 120207Z \/75<\/p>\n<p>R 091331Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN<br \/>\nINFO SECSTATE WASHDC 8392<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4189<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CGEN, TD (PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE MOVEMENT<br \/>\nREF: PORT OF SPAIN 3518<\/p>\n<p>1. NONE OF THE OVER 800 PASSPORTS RECOVERED BY THE POLICE (AND PRESENTLY IN THE CUSTODY OF THE EMBASSY) IS GERMAN OR DUTCH.<\/p>\n<p>2. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT WE ARE DISCUSSING FORMER GERMAN OR DUTCH CITIZENS WHO WERE NATURALIZED. IN THAT CASE, WE WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATIONS IF WE HAVE SPECIFIC NAMES.<\/p>\n<p>3. IF WE CAN BE OF ANY FURTHER ASSISTANCE PLEASE INFORM US.<\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nNNN<\/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 1153 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 04189 111315Z POSS DUPE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96926","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96926","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=96926"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136648,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96926\/revisions\/136648"}],"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=96926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}