{"id":97174,"date":"2020-03-25T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97174"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:36:50","slug":"dec-27-78-2233-state-georgetown-325396","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=97174","title":{"rendered":"Dec 27, 78 \u2022 2233 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 325396"},"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=97174\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=100466\">Serial 1469<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names of sky 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\/1978STATE325396_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260420233554\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE325396_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nSTATE 325396<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 FAA-00 FBIE-00 USSS-00 ARA-11<br \/>\nDOTE-00 \/018 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA:SCS:RMCKENZIE\/SD<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA:SCS:SADOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nFAA\/ACS:ACASUCCI(PHONE)<br \/>\nDESIRED DISTRIBUTION<br \/>\nFBIE, USSS, ARA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;026025 280000Z \/70<\/p>\n<p>O 272233Z DEC 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nAMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 325396<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 SIX SKY MARSHALS WILL BE FLYING TO GEORGETOWN TO ESCORT PEOPLES TEMPLE MEMBERS BACK TO U.S. EMBASSIES ARE REQUESTED MEET GIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR STORAGE OF ARMS. THEY WILL BE DEPARTING NEW YORK ON PAN AM 227 DEC. 28 AND RETURN TO U.S. ON PAN AM 228 ON DEC. 29. PAN AM IS MAKING HOTEL RESERVATIONS.<\/p>\n<p>2. FOR PORT OF SPAIN: AIR MARSHAL DISEMBARKING AT PORT OF SPAIN IS <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JOSEPH JENKINS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02<br \/>\nSTATE 325396<\/p>\n<p>3. FOR GEORGETOWN: AIR MARSHALS GOING ON TO GEORGETOWN ARE <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HECTOR GONZALEZ TEAM LEADER, LARRY PEER, ODELL SHAW, VICTOR ECHEVARRIA AND ROGER COTTERILL<\/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 1469 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The State Department release withheld all names of sky marshals from this cable. They are denoted below in red type. [The text for this document was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96735,"menu_order":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97174","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=97174"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136824,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97174\/revisions\/136824"}],"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=97174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}