{"id":86894,"date":"2019-03-24T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86894"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:40:06","slug":"serial-425","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86894","title":{"rendered":"Serial 425"},"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=96306\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86894\">Serial 425<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03953_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414171815\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03953_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03953 262328Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 SSO-00 H-01 SS-15 JUSE-00 FBIE-00 \/038 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;090833 262331Z \/64<\/p>\n<p>O 262210Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8223<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 03953<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC OREP BY AFSP<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF LOCAL LEGAL COUNSEL TO ASSIST USG TO DISCHARGE RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONNECTION WITH JONESTOWN DISASTER AND ESTATES OF DECEASED AMERICANS.<br \/>\nREF: STATE 299133 AND PREVIOUS<\/p>\n<p>Have reflected at some length on implications referred to in para one reftel. Continue to feel, however, that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Lionel] Luckhoo [name withheld by FBI]<\/span> is the best qualified local attorney available who has excellent access to GOG [Government of Guyana] ministries and departments while at the same time being politically neutral vis-a-vis the [Forbes] Burnham government. Any other choice will be less qualified and\/or politically tainted.<\/p>\n<p>Burke [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<\/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 425 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.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 GEORGE 03953 262328Z ACTION L-03 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":86799,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86894","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=86894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137155,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86894\/revisions\/137155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}