{"id":96978,"date":"2020-03-24T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96978"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:16:22","slug":"dec-12-78-1650-georgetown-state-4228","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96978","title":{"rendered":"Dec 12, 78 \u2022 1650 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 4228"},"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\/1978GEORGE04228_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420001514\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04228_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04228 121709Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-10<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SS-14 ISO-00 INR-05 INRE-00 CIAE-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 DODE-00 H-01 L-01 \/032 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;108677 121722Z \/45 <\/p>\n<p>O 121650Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8422<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY PANAMA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 4228<br \/>\nLIMDIS<br \/>\nPANAMA FOR DCM DIKEOS <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: GDS 1212\/84 (BURKE, JOHN R.) OR-M<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJ: POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF A PRIVATE DIARY OF JIM JONES IN PANAMA. <\/p>\n<p>1. USUALLY RELIABLE EMBASSY SOURCE (LOCAL JOURNALIST) HAS INFORMED US THAT TWO FOREIGN JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN GUYANA AND WHO LEFT DECEMBER 11, HAVE GONE TO PANAMA, ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEIR HOME OFFICE, TO NEGOTIATE PURCHASE OF WHAT IS ALLEGED TO BE THE DIARY OF REVEREND JIM JONES. ACCORDING TO SOURCE DIARY WAS ACQUIRED AT JONESTOWN BY AN AMERICAN SERVICEMAN INVOLVED IN THE EVACUATION OF THE BODIES FROM THAT SITE. SOURCE STATES THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING IDENTITY OF THE PERSON OR PERSONS HOLDING THE DIARY, BUT HIS INFORMATION RE TRAVEL OF THE TWO FOREIGN JOURNALISTS TRAVELING TO PANAMA FROM GUYANA WAS APPARENTLY RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM ONE OF THEM. <\/p>\n<p>2. SUCH A DIARY, IF IT DOES EXIST, WOULD OBVIOUSLY HAVE IMPORTANT EVIDENTIARY VALUE TO BOTH THE GUYANESE AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 04228 121709Z <\/p>\n<p>CONGRESSMAN RYAN AND THE OTHER AMERICANS AT PORT KAITUMA AS WELL AS THE MASS MURDERS\/SUICIDES AT JONESTOWN. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<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.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 GEORGE 04228 121709Z ACTION ARA-10 INFO OCT-01 SS-14 ISO-00 INR-05 INRE-00 CIAE-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 DODE-00 H-01 L-01 \/032 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;108677 121722Z \/45 O 121650Z DEC 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96978","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=96978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136685,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96978\/revisions\/136685"}],"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=96978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}