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[Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 1982<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.]<\/i><\/p>\n

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R 061939Z MAR 79
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 9129
\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0993
\nE.O. 12065: NA
\nTAGS: CARR, (LAYTON, LARRY) (PEOPLE\u2019S TEMPLE)
\nSUBJ: W\/W ARRESTS: LARRY LAYTON
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0909<\/p>\n

For Department\u2019s information, here are the six reasons, put forward in court on February 28, why, in the opinion of Senior Defense Counsel Rex McKay, Chief Justice Harold Bollers should have disqualified himself from hearing the Layton case:<\/p>\n

1)\tSharon Amos (who was in charge of the People’s Temple headquarters in Georgetown) was a close friend of the Chief Justice and his family;
\n2)\tAmos and her children often visited the home of the Chief Justice and he and his family also visited the Lamaha Gardens PT residence in Georgetown;
\n3)\tOn November 17 and 18, 1978, Amos and her children visited the Chief Justice’s home;
\n4)\tOn the night of November 18, 1978 Amos and her three children were allegedly murdered by two other Temple members, namely Stephan Jones and Charles Beikman;
\n5)\tJones was discharged of the murders at the inquiry;
\n6)\tBeikman was committed to stand trial at the April session of the High Court for the murders of Amos and <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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her children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Burke [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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