{"id":97087,"date":"2020-03-25T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97087"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:20:33","slug":"dec-20-78-1541-state-georgetown-319834","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97087","title":{"rendered":"Dec 20, 78 \u2022 1541 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 319834"},"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=97087\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100007\">Serial 1321<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld the names of the air marshals from this cable. They are denoted below in red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE319834_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420221947\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE319834_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 319834<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 CA-01 FAA-00 FBIE-00 USSS-00 SY-05<br \/>\nARA-11 DOTE-00 SYE-00 INR-10 INRE-00 \/034 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS: MACELLA\/SD<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS: SADOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nCA\/SCS:RMCKENZIE<br \/>\nFAA\/ACS:ACASUCCI (PHONE)<br \/>\nDESIRED DISTRIBUTION<br \/>\nFBIE, USSS, ARA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;077285 201600Z \/46<\/p>\n<p>O 201541Z DEC 78 ZFF4<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN NIACT IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 319834<br \/>\nE.O.112065 N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY (PEOPLES TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W TRAVEL OF SKY MARSHALS<\/p>\n<p>1. FOR BOTH POSTS: FEDERAL AVIATION ADVISES THAT SEVEN SKY MARSHALS WILL BE FLYING TO GEORGETOWN TO ESCORT PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS BACK TO THE U.S. EMBASSIES ARE REQUESTED TO MEET GIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR STORAGE OF ARMS. THEY WILL BE DEPARTING NEW YORK ON PAN AM 227 DEC 20 AND RETURN TO THE U.S. ON PAN AM 228 ON DEC 21. PAN AM IS MAKING HOTEL RESERVATIONS.<\/p>\n<p>2. FOR PORT OF SPAIN: AIR MARSHALS DISEMBARKING AT PORT OF SPAIN ARE<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> BERT SEESARN AND FRANK WHITE<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 319834<\/p>\n<p>3. FOR GEORGETOWN: AIR MARSHALS GOING ON TO GEORGETOWN ARE <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DON BLAZER TEAM LEADER, JIM RAE, JESSIE AYALA, HOWARD MCGLOTHLIN AND GARTH WAKE<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/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 1321 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld the names of the air marshals from this cable. They are denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97087","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=97087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136762,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97087\/revisions\/136762"}],"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=97087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}