{"id":97085,"date":"2020-03-25T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97085"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:18:57","slug":"dec-20-78-1250-georgetown-state-4395","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97085","title":{"rendered":"Dec 20, 78 \u2022 1250 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 4395"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s notes<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1387<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable, but they were disclosed as part of an agency declassification in 2015. Those names are denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n

[The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

UNCLASSIFIED
\nPAGE 01
\nGEORGE 04395 201314Z
\nACTION ARA-15
\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-06 USSS-00 FBIE-00 HEW-06
\nCTME-00 INSE-00 CA-01 CCO-00 PASO-00 PPTE-00 L-03
\nSY-05 SYE-00 FSE-00 H-02 INRE-00 CIAE-00 INR-10
\nNSAE-00 SSO-00 \/049 W
\n——————074906 201319Z \/46<\/p>\n

O 201250Z DEC 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8517
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 4395
\nDEPT PLEASE PASS TO: USSS
\nFBI, WASHDC
\nHEW
\nUS CUSTOMS, NEW YORK
\nUS INS, NEW YORK
\nE.O. 12065:NA
\nTAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLE’S TEMPLE)
\nSUBJ: W\/W: REPATRIATION PEOPLE’S TEMPLE MEMBERS
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 4356 (NOTAL)<\/p>\n

1. WE HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED BY PAN AM REPRESENTATIVE THAT APPROVAL HAS BEEN GIVEN BY THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK TO MOVE DEPARTURE DATE FORWARD TO DECEMBER 21, 1978 FOR THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE:<\/p>\n

MONICA BAGBY<\/span>
\nEDITH BOGUE<\/span>
\nJIM BOGUE<\/span>
\nTEENA BOGUE<\/span>
\nTOM BOGUE<\/span>
\nSTANLEY CLATON [CLAYTON]<\/span>
\nHAROLD CORDELL<\/span>
\nCHRISTOPHER O’NEAL<\/span>
\nBRENDA PARKS<\/span>
\nDALE PARKS<\/span>
\nGERALD PARKS<\/span>
\nGERALD PARKS<\/span>
\nTRACEY [TRACY] PARKS<\/span><\/p>\n

2. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO GET GOG [GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA] PERMISSION FOR JUANITA BOGUE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, IN ORDER TO TRAVEL WITH HER FAMILY, AND ALSO FOR ODELL RHODES.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. FOR INS NEW YORK: MONICA BAGBY, HAROLD CORDELL, GERALD PARKS AND TRACEY PARKS WILL BE TRAVELLING WITHOUT PASSPORTS.<\/span><\/p>\n

BURKE [JOHN BURKE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GUYANA]<\/p>\n

NOTE BY OC\/T: PASSED US CUSTOMS, NEW YORK
\nPASSED INS NEW YORK<\/p>\n

UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s notes: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1387 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names associated with Peoples Temple from this cable, but they were disclosed as part of an agency declassification in 2015. Those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97085","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=97085"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136760,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97085\/revisions\/136760"}],"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=97085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}