{"id":97039,"date":"2020-03-25T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97039"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:40:11","slug":"dec-15-78-1700-bern-state-6185","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97039","title":{"rendered":"Dec 15, 78 \u2022 1700 \u2022 Bern-State \u2022 6185"},"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=97039\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100195\">Serial 1375<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978BERN06185_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420213927\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978BERN06185_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nBERN 06185 151715Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 EUR-12 IO-14 ISO-00 JUSE-00 L-03 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 INRE-00 SSO-00 SS-15 NSCE-00 PA-01 TRSE-00 FBIE-00 \/071 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;018523 151717Z \/43 <\/p>\n<p>O 151700Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY BERN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 7411<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY BONN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMCONSUL MUNICH IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSMISSION GENEVA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUSICA WASHDC IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE BERN 6185<br \/>\nDEPT PASS JUSTICE<br \/>\nEO 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: EFIN, SZ<br \/>\nSUBJ: PEOPLES TEMPLE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND<br \/>\nREF: BERN 6182 <\/p>\n<p>1. BASED ON ASSURANCES RECEIVED FROM CHARIG (OF WHICH NEITHER EMBASSY NOR LEGATT WERE AWARE) THAT US DEPT OF JUSTICW WOULD SUBMIT A FORMAL REQUEST PURSUANT TO US\/SWISS TREATY ON MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS, SWISS FEDERAL AUTHORITIES HAVE ISSUED ORDER TO FREEZE ACCOUNTS AT UNION BANK OF SWITZ. <\/p>\n<p>2. BLOCKING ACTION WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL JAN 15, 1979, BY WHICH TIME US DEPT OF JUSTICE IS OBLIGATED TO SUBMIT A FORMAL REQUEST. THE BANK HAS BEEN NOTIFIED AND HAS ADVISED SWISS AUTHORITIES THAT NO <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 BERN 06185 151715Z <\/p>\n<p>FUNDS HAVE YET BEEN REMOVED FROM THE ACCOUNTS. <\/p>\n<p>3. I MUST INSIST THAT IN THE FUTURE THE PROPERLY ESTABLISHED CHANNELS FOR COMMUNICATION OF THIS KIND OF THING BE USED. IF WE HAD HAD THE AUTHORITY TO GIVE ASSURANCES WHICH CHARIG APPARENTLY HAD, I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULT WHEN I CALLED AT THE JUSTICE MINISTRY TODAY. <\/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: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1375 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [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 06185 151715Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97039","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=97039"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136729,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97039\/revisions\/136729"}],"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=97039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}