{"id":94728,"date":"2020-02-05T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94728"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:17:57","slug":"state-cable-771209-state-gt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94728","title":{"rendered":"Dec 09, 77 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 294454"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 294454<br \/>\n[listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF]<\/p>\n<p>P 092058Z DEC 77<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 294454<\/p>\n<p>E. O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC (EDWARDS, JAMES)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W JAMES EDWARDS: NOVEMBER, 1921; MISSISSIPPI<\/p>\n<p>1. Dept contacted by [deleted name] concerning [relationship] James Edwards and [deleted information] Irene Edwards. The Edwards went to Guyana in March as part of the People&#8217;s Temple. [Deleted name] learned from a person who recently left the People&#8217;s Temple that the Edwards are being held against their will by Mr. Jones, etc.<\/p>\n<p>2. Dept. understands post has previously been contacted by Mr. Edward\u2019s family concerning this case. Post is requested to attempt to contact the Edwards\u2019 and determine if they are being held against their will. Dept. understands next trip to Jonesboro [Jonestown] not scheduled until January, 1978. If unable to meet [deleted name] request prior to January, please provide interim report Dept. can pass [deleted name].<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 294454<\/p>\n<p>3. Notice: Privacy Act authorization required in cases where information relating to inquirer by post or Dept. Authorization should be included as a specific item in any report to the Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher [U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 294454 [listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF] P 092058Z DEC 77 FM SECSTATE WASHDC TO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY LIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 294454 E. O. 11652: N\/A TAGS: CASC (EDWARDS, JAMES) SUBJECT: W\/W JAMES EDWARDS: NOVEMBER, 1921; MISSISSIPPI 1. Dept contacted by [deleted name] concerning [relationship] James Edwards and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94605,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94728","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=94728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130909,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94728\/revisions\/130909"}],"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=94728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}