{"id":94734,"date":"2020-02-05T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94734"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:49:30","slug":"state-cable-771220-state-gt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94734","title":{"rendered":"Dec 20, 77 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 303126"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with the relatives of a minor Peoples Temple member from this cable. Several are known to the editor, and they are denoted below in red type.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 303126<br \/>\n[listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF]<\/p>\n<p>P 202233Z DEC 77<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 303126<\/p>\n<p>E. O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dana Griffith [Truss]<\/span>]<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dana Griffith [Truss]<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>1. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella [Truss] Griffith<\/span>] telephoned Department requesting assistance in [illegible word] return of her child [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dana Griffith [Truss]<\/span>] from Peoples Temple, Guyana. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella [Truss] Griffith<\/span>] states that she is divorced from husband, has sole custody of child, and that neither she nor her ex-husband applied for passport or gave permission for child to go to Guyana. She is sending copy of divorce\/custody decree to Department for forwarding. [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella [Truss] Griffith<\/span>] states daughter taken to Jonestown by grandmother [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mary Griffith<\/span>] (subject airtel) against parents wishes and without parental permission in June, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>2. Post requested take all appropriate action to bring the case to attention of local authorities and request<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 303126<\/p>\n<p>assistance in having child returned at once to US. Whether we be reached at [address and telephone number deleted].<\/p>\n<p>3. Keep Department informed of efforts\/results.<\/p>\n<p>Vance [U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 withheld all names associated with the relatives of a minor Peoples Temple member from this cable. Several are known to the editor, and they are denoted below in red type.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 303126 [listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF] P 202233Z DEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94605,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94734","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=94734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130921,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94734\/revisions\/130921"}],"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=94734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}