{"id":96941,"date":"2020-03-24T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96941"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:46:25","slug":"dec-9-78-%e2%80%a2-2342-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-311419","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96941","title":{"rendered":"Dec 9, 78 \u2022 2342 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 311419"},"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\/1978STATE311419_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260419234534\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE311419_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 311419<br \/>\nORIGIN CA-01<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 L-03 JUSE-00 SSO-00 \/026 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA:RCLARK:KMFC<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA: JABUSHNELL<br \/>\nSCS:AGISE<br \/>\nS\/S-O:JPHYDEN<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;081465 092359Z \/21 <\/p>\n<p>O 092342Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 311419<br \/>\nE.O. 12065:N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CDES,GY: (PEOPLES TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: GUYANESE DEATH CERTIFICATES <\/p>\n<p>EXTREMELY URGENT THAT DEPT HAS IN ITS POSSESSION THE ORIGINAL LETTER FROM THE SOLICITOR GENERAL AS QUOTED VERBATIM IN GEORGETOWN 4197. PLEASE FORWARD THIS LETTER TO THE DEPT ASAP ATT: R.P. CLARK CA. SCS: GUYANA WORKING GROUP ROOM 4817. IF PERCHANCE LETTER ALREADY SENT GIVE DETAILS REGARDING ADDRESSEE. DEPARTMENT WOULD APPRECIATE EMBASSY&#8217;S FORWARDING A COPY OF PERTINENT GUYANA LAWS: RE BURIAL AND CREMATION IN GUYANA, AT SAME TIME. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 311419 ORIGIN CA-01 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 SCS-06 L-03 JUSE-00 SSO-00 \/026 R DRAFTED BY CA:RCLARK:KMFC APPROVED BY ARA: JABUSHNELL SCS:AGISE S\/S-O:JPHYDEN &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;081465 092359Z \/21 O 092342Z DEC 78 FM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96941","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96941","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=96941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136658,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96941\/revisions\/136658"}],"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=96941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}