{"id":94746,"date":"2020-02-05T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94746"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:12:28","slug":"state-cable-771229-state-gt-griffith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94746","title":{"rendered":"Dec 29, 77 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 309694"},"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 309694<br \/>\n[listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF]<\/p>\n<p>P 292257Z DEC 77<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN PRIORITY<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED STATE 309694<\/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>]<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3322 AND PREVIOUS<\/p>\n<p>1. Department has not rpt not yet informed [deleted name] contents reftel. Please advise probability of [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella Truss<\/span>] being allowed to visit Jonestown if she traveled to Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>2. Department notes that if [half line deleted related to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella Truss<\/span>] were to obtain physical custody of child post would be authorized to issue passport to [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dana<\/span>] on presentation of evidence of [word deleted] citizenship, required fee and photograph in the absence of local court order assigning custody of [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dana<\/span>] to any other person. Alternatively should [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella Truss<\/span>] name a representative in Guyana to act in her behalf such<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 309694<\/p>\n<p>representative could expect same passport service on presentation of notarized power of attorney signed by [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carnella Truss<\/span>].<\/p>\n<p>3. Department unable to identify passport record for [name deleted]. Can post verify DPOB of [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Emmett Griffith<\/span>] from information provided for report of death. Also are [2 names deleted] registered at post and if so is passport information available there?<\/p>\n<p>4. Please slug reply attention CA\/SCS\/WW and PT\/LS.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/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 309694 [listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF] P 292257Z DEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94605,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94746","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=94746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130932,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94746\/revisions\/130932"}],"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=94746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}