{"id":86924,"date":"2019-03-24T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86924"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:19:45","slug":"serial-439","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86924","title":{"rendered":"Serial 439"},"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=96329\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86924\">Serial 439<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI withheld the name of Lloyd Luckhoo, a Guyana attorney. The deleted information was later released by the State Department, and is indicated below by red type.<\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03963_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414174046\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03963_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03963 271832Z<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;097314 271836Z \/44<\/p>\n<p>O 271835Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8234<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 3963<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF LOCAL LEGAL COUNSEL<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3953 AND PREVIOUS<\/p>\n<p>Attorney <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Lloyd Luckhoo<\/span> called ambassador at 1:00 p.m. Nov. 27 to inform him that his brother Sir Lionel Luckhoo had decided not repeat not to undertake the defense of Larry Layton. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Luckhoo<\/span> stated that his decision was unrelated to any possibility that he, Lloyd Luckhoo, might be engaged on behalf of the USG [U.S. Government].<\/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 439 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. The FBI withheld the name of Lloyd Luckhoo, a Guyana attorney. The deleted information was later released by the State Department, and is indicated below by red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":86799,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86924","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86924","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=86924"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137132,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86924\/revisions\/137132"}],"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=86924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}