{"id":96992,"date":"2020-03-24T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96992"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:35:32","slug":"dec-12-78-2244-state-georgetown-313253","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96992","title":{"rendered":"Dec 12, 78 \u2022 2244 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 313253"},"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\/1978STATE313253_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420003437\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE313253_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 313253<br \/>\nORIGIN PA-02<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 \/018 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY PA\/TRESTON:MAD<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY PA\/TRESTON<br \/>\nDESIRED DISTRIBUTION<br \/>\nARA (MR. BUSHNELL); ARA\/CAR (MR. HEWITT)<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;112712 130338Z \/66 <\/p>\n<p>P 122244Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 313253 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: SOPN, GY (HORROCK, NICHOLAS)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT NICHOLAS HORROCK <\/p>\n<p>1. DEPARTMENT UNDERSTANDS NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT NICHOLAS HORROCK HAS REQUESTED SEAT ON ONE OF TWO HELICOPTERS DEPARTING GEORGETOWN FOR MATHEWS RIDGE CARRYING OFFICIAL GUYANESE INQUEST PERSONNEL. NEW YORK TIMES, BOTH FROM NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON BUREAUS, HAVE REQUESTED SPACE FOR HORROCK ON HELICOPTER FLIGHT SHOULD SPACE BE AVAILABLE. DEPARTMENT HAS NO PROBLEM WITH PROVIDING HORROCK A SEAT ON SUCH FLIGHT, BUT REQUESTS EMBASSY MAKE ITS JUDGMENT ON HOU BEST AVAILABLE SPACE, IF ANY, SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE. <\/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 313253 ORIGIN PA-02 INFO OCT-01 ARA-15 ISO-00 \/018 R DRAFTED BY PA\/TRESTON:MAD APPROVED BY PA\/TRESTON DESIRED DISTRIBUTION ARA (MR. BUSHNELL); ARA\/CAR (MR. HEWITT) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;112712 130338Z \/66 P 122244Z DEC 78 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96992","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=96992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136697,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96992\/revisions\/136697"}],"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=96992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}