{"id":97035,"date":"2020-03-25T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97035"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:35:44","slug":"dec-15-78-1310-bern-state-6149","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97035","title":{"rendered":"Dec 15, 78 \u2022 1310 \u2022 Bern-State \u2022 6149"},"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\/1978BERN06149_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420213439\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978BERN06149_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nBERN 06149 151357Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 IO-14 ISO-00 L-03 JUSE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 SSO-00 SS-15 NSCE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 \/071 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;016770 151359Z \/43 <\/p>\n<p>O 151310Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY BERN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7404<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSMISSION GENEVA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSICA WASHDC IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMCONSUL ZURICH POUCH<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE BERN 6149<br \/>\nDEPT PASS JUSTICE EO <\/p>\n<p>12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: EFIN, SZ<br \/>\nSUBJ: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND<br \/>\nREF: USICA 39401 <\/p>\n<p>1. EMBASSY PAO HAS ALSO RECEIVED CALLS FROM PRESS WITH REPORT ALONG LINES OF REFTEL. <\/p>\n<p>2. ON INSTRUCTION FROM JUSTICE, LEGATT HAS BEEN EXPLORING STATUS OF ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE IN SWISS BANKS, SEEKING FORMULA UNDER WHICH WE COULD GET SWISS TO FREEZE FUNDS. <\/p>\n<p>3. SWISS POLICE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF ALL INFORMATION ON ACCOUNTS AS WELL AS CONTENTS OF REFTEL. SWISS FEDERAL AUTHORITIES HAVE TOLD AMBASSADOR THEY HAVE ISSUED LOOKOUT TO POLICE ON REPORTED VISITORS AND INFORMED BANKS OF FACTS, INCLUDING POINTING OUT POSSIBLE <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 02<br \/>\nBERN 06149 151357Z<\/p>\n<p>DAMAGE TO BANKS&#8217; PUBLIC IMAGE IF FUNDS WERE RELEASED. <\/p>\n<p>4. WE HAVE NO INFORMATION AS YET AS TO PRESENCE OF TRIO IN SWITZERLAND, BUT WILL REPORT ANYTHING WE HEAR. <\/p>\n<p>5. WE NEED MOST URGENTLY OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FROM JUSTICE CONFIRMING THAT REQUEST WILL BE MADE UNDER JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE TREATY FOR FREEZING OF FUNDS. THERE IS PROBLEM OF CONNECTING RYAN ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE WITH FUNDS. <\/p>\n<p>6. WE URGE MOST RAPID ACTION ON THIS MATTER TO PREVENT ANYONE FROM SUCCESSFULLY WITHDRAWING THESE FUNDS. <\/p>\n<p>WARNER [Marvin L. Warner, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<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.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 BERN 06149 151357Z ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 IO-14 ISO-00 L-03 JUSE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 SSO-00 SS-15 NSCE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 \/071 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;016770 151359Z \/43 O 151310Z DEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97035","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97035","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=97035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136725,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97035\/revisions\/136725"}],"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=97035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}