{"id":96974,"date":"2020-03-24T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96974"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:12:11","slug":"dec-12-78-1220-georgetown-state-4226","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96974","title":{"rendered":"Dec 12, 78 \u2022 1220 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 4226"},"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=96974\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=91386\">Serial 1202<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld the file number for this case. It is denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04226_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420001114\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04226_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04226 121403Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 USSS-00 SY-05 SYE-00 SS-15 SSO-00<br \/>\nNSCE-00 FBIE-00 H-02 HA-05 L-03 SCS-06 CA-01<br \/>\n\/053 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;106567 121413Z \/47 42<\/p>\n<p>P 121220Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8421<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4226<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: ASSASSINATION THREAT AGAINST PRES\/VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.<br \/>\nREF: USSS <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CO-2-78, 978<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE INFORM USSS [U.S. SECRET SERVICE] THAT GOG [GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA] CABINET-LEVEL COMMITTEE IS SCHEDULED TO MEET TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 TO REVIEW REQUEST THAT SECRET SERVICE BE PERMITTED TO INTERVIEW CERTAIN PEOPLES TEMPLE SURVIVORS IN GEORGETOWN.<\/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 1202 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld the file number for this case. It is denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was released in 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96974","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=96974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136681,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96974\/revisions\/136681"}],"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=96974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}