{"id":101267,"date":"2020-08-03T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101267"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:21:57","slug":"serial-1834","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101267","title":{"rendered":"Serial 1834"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=103193\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101267\">Serial 1834<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.<\/p>\n<p>[Two people in this serial whose names were deleted are Calvin Douglas and Karl Barnett. They were included in the State Department release of this document. The deleted information from the FBI version has been indicated by red type.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED FBB 581<\/p>\n<p>UNCLAS GEORGETOWN 04497 012253Z<\/p>\n<p>[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n<p>0 011256Z FEB 79<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8885<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0497<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: NA<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR (JONES, STEPHAN), (BEIKMAN, CHARLES), (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)<br \/>\nSUBJ: W\/W ARRESTS: STEPHAN JONES, CHARLES BEIKMAN<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0450<\/p>\n<p>1. Three new witnesses gave testimony at the January 29 session of the preliminary inquiry into the deaths of Linda Sharon Amos (a.k.a. Sharon Amos) et al. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Calvin Douglas and Karl Barnett<\/span>] related what they saw on the evening of the murders at the People&#8217;s Temple Georgetown Headquarters. Both were cross-examined by Senior Counsel Rex McKay. A police corporal who took a statement from [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Douglas<\/span>] on November 18, also testified.<\/p>\n<p>2. Magistrate Persaud did not give a decision on the admissibility of Beikman\u2019s second statement or on the competence of Stephanie Jones to testify, nor did he give a new date for his ruling.<\/p>\n<p>3M [3.] In response to a question from Defense Counsel [Jai Naraine] Singh, Prosecuting Counsel [Carlton] Weithers said in court that he plans to call four new<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00497, 012253Z<\/p>\n<p>witnesses and recall one witness before the state concludes its case.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiry is scheduled to resume January 30.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/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 1834 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [Two people in this serial whose names were deleted are Calvin Douglas and Karl Barnett. They were included in the State Department release of this document. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87599,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101267","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=101267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127795,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101267\/revisions\/127795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}