{"id":97099,"date":"2020-03-25T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97099"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:31:59","slug":"dec-20-78-2105-panama-state-9286","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97099","title":{"rendered":"Dec 20, 78 \u2022 2105 \u2022 Panama-State \u2022 9286"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1323<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/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

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\nACTION JUSE-00
\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 L-03 SCS-06 CA-01 H-01
\nSSO-00 FBIE-00 TRSE-00 SS-15 EUR-12 \/050 W
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O 202105Z DEC 78
\nFM AMEMBASSY PANAMA
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0293
\nINFO AMEMBASSY BERN
\nAMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
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\nDEPARTMENT PLEASE PASS TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, JIM HERGIN
\nEO 12065: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY, PN
\nSUBJECT: PEOPLES TEMPLE BANK ACCOUNTS
\nREF: STATE 319415<\/p>\n

1. LETTERS DELIVERED TO UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND AND SWISS BANK CORPORATION, PER REFTEL. SWISS BANK CORPORATION OFFICER NOTED THAT BANK “CANNOT OFFICIALLY CONFIRM ANYTHING” AND CANNOT ACCEPT INSTRUCTIONS FROM ANY PARTY NOT NAMED IN ACCOUNT.<\/p>\n

2. IF AVAILABLE, EMBASSY WOULD APPRECIATE CERTIFIED COPIES OF DEATH CERTIFICATES OF PERSONS NAMED AS HOLDERS OF PEOPLES TEMPLE ACCOUNTS IN SWISS BANKS IN PANAMA. IF CERTIFIED COPIES OF DEATH CERTIFICATES NOT OBTAINABLE, WOULD APPRECIATE BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE OF DEATH.<\/p>\n

3. EMBASSY IS DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS ON LOCAL<\/p>\n

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COUNSEL FOR REVIEW WITH [JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL JIM] HERGIN WHEN HE IS ABLE TO VISIT PANAMA. <\/p>\n

MOSS [Ambler H. Moss, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Panama]<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1323 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 PANAMA 09286 202110Z […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97099","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=97099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136774,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97099\/revisions\/136774"}],"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=97099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}