{"id":97115,"date":"2020-03-25T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97115"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:44:06","slug":"dec-21-78-1600-georgetown-state-4407","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97115","title":{"rendered":"Dec 21, 78 \u2022 1600 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 4407"},"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\/1978GEORGE04407_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420224324\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE04407_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 04407 211639Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-10<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 SS-14 ISO-00 INR-05 INRE-00 CIAE-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 DODE-00 H-01 L-01 SCS-01 CA-01 \/034 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;096087 211644Z \/40 <\/p>\n<p>O 211600Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8527<br \/>\nINFO AMEMBASSY PANAMA IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 4407<br \/>\nLIMDIS<br \/>\nPANAMA FOR DCM DIKEOS <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12065: GDS 12\/21\/84 (BURKE, JOHN R.) OR-M<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN, LEO), GY<br \/>\nSUBJ CPOSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF DIARY AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF JIM JONES IN PANAMA.<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 4228. <\/p>\n<p>RELIABLE LOCAL JOURNALIST SOURCE INFORMED EMBSSY DECEMBER 21 THAT TWO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS WHO HAD GONE TO PANAMA TO OBTAIN PEOPLES TEMPLE DOCUMENTS, PRESUMABLY FROM MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN EVACUATION OF BODIES, HAD RETURNED TO GEORGETOWN. THEY INFORMED HIM THAT THEY HAD HAD SOME SUCCESS AND HAD ACQUIRED APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-TWO DOCUMENTS; THE MORE IMPORTANT OF THESE THEY HAD ASKED AN ACQUAINTANCE, DESCRIBED AS A &#8220;STARLET,&#8221; TO TAKE DIRECTLY TO THE U.S. THEY OBSERVED TO OUR LOCAL SOURCE THAT THE U.S. MILITARY APPARENTLY HAD PUT A LID ON THEIR POTENTIAL CONTACTS AND THAT SEVERAL OTHER DOCUMENTS HAD APPARENTLY BEEN TURNED IN BY AMERICAN SERVICEMEN TO THEIR COMMANDS RATHER THAN RISK GIVING THEM TO THE <\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nCONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 04407 211639Z <\/p>\n<p>JOURNALISTS. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<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.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 GEORGE 04407 211639Z ACTION ARA-10 INFO OCT-01 SS-14 ISO-00 INR-05 INRE-00 CIAE-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 NSCE-00 DODE-00 H-01 L-01 SCS-01 CA-01 \/034 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;096087 211644Z \/40 O 211600Z DEC 78 FM AMEMBASSY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97115","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=97115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136786,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97115\/revisions\/136786"}],"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=97115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}