{"id":94696,"date":"2020-02-05T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94696"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:51:13","slug":"state-cable-770922-gt-state","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94696","title":{"rendered":"Sept 22, 77 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 2316"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1977GEORGE02316_c.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250627184907\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1977GEORGE02316_c.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 02316 221059Z<br \/>\nACTION ARA-14<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-03 CA-01 L-03 DHA-05 H-01 PA-01<br \/>\nPRS-01 NSC-05 \/035 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;077030 230420Z \/21 <\/p>\n<p>R 221030Z SEP 77<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 5349<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 2316<br \/>\nDEPT. PASS ARA\/CAR TUMMINIA AND<br \/>\nCA FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY WATSON<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, PFOR, GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W CHILD CUSTODY CASE: JOHN V. STOEN<br \/>\nREF: <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94671\">GEORGETOWN 2269<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. FONMIN WILLS [Guyana Foreign Minister Fred Wills] INFORMED CHARGE ON SEPTEMBER 21 THAT IN RESPONSE TO OUR NOTE REPORTED REFTEL GOG HAS DECIDED TO ACT ON COURT ORDERS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 10. NEXT HEARING IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1977. INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN LOCAL ATTORNEY LIONEL LUCKHOO HAS BEEN RETAINED TO REPRESENT JIM JONES OF PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE. WILLS TOLD CHARGE THAT LUCKHOO PLANS TO CHALLENGE LEGALITY OF COURT SUMMONS REQUIRING JONES TO APPEAR AND SHOW CAUSE WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. LUCKHOO IS ALSO EXPECTED TO REQUEST WHETHER US ATTORNEY HAAS HAS PROPER CREDENTIALS TO ACT IN THIS MATTER. <\/p>\n<p>3. CONSUL PLANS TO ATTEND COURT HEARINGS. <\/p>\n<p>BLACKEN [John Blacken, Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] LIMITED OFFICIAL USE PAGE 01 GEORGE 02316 221059Z ACTION ARA-14 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SCS-03 CA-01 L-03 DHA-05 H-01 PA-01 PRS-01 NSC-05 \/035 W &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;077030 230420Z \/21 R 221030Z SEP 77 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94605,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94696","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=94696"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130879,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94696\/revisions\/130879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}