{"id":97043,"date":"2020-03-25T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97043"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:43:27","slug":"dec-15-78-2301-state-georgetown-316509","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97043","title":{"rendered":"Dec 15, 78 \u2022 2301 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 316509"},"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\/1978STATE316509_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420214246\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE316509_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 316509<br \/>\nORIGIN ARA-15<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 L-03 H-02 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00 INR-10 INRE-00 PA-02 \/055 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY ARA:BGROVE:JD<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY ARA:BRANDON GROVE<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;022023 160158Z \/62 <\/p>\n<p>P 153201Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 316509 <\/p>\n<p>E.O.112065 N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY, (PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: CONSULAR OFFICER&#8217;S VISIT TO JONESTOWN NOVEMBER 7, 1978<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 4109 <\/p>\n<p>THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE HAS OBTAINED A COPY OF REFTEL. PLEASE ADVISE (A) WHAT REPORTING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THIS VISIT WAS DONE BEFORE THE PREPARATION OF REFTEL; (B) WHETHER CODEL RYAN AND OTHERS WITH HIM HAD BEEN INFORMED OF THE SUBSTANCE OF REFTEL, INCLUDING REV. JONES PHYSICAL STATE AT THE TIME. <\/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 316509 ORIGIN ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 L-03 H-02 SS-15 SSO-00 NSCE-00 INR-10 INRE-00 PA-02 \/055 R DRAFTED BY ARA:BGROVE:JD APPROVED BY ARA:BRANDON GROVE &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;022023 160158Z \/62 P 153201Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97043","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97043","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=97043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136733,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97043\/revisions\/136733"}],"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=97043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}