{"id":94996,"date":"2020-02-11T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94996"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:40:04","slug":"jan-5-78-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-002640","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94996","title":{"rendered":"Jan 5, 78 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 002640"},"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\/1978STATE002640_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250628213609\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE002640_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 002640<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 HA-05 L-03 H-02 \/032 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS:RAM<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nCA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;078668 052222Z \/64 <\/p>\n<p>O 052210Z JAN 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 002640<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC (STOEN, JOHN)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W: JOHN STOEN <\/p>\n<p>1. CONGRESSMAN RYAN ON BEHALF OF STOEN FAMILY CONCERNED ABOUT IMPARTIALITY OF COURT IN CUSTODY TRIAL OF JOHN STOEN. REQUEST EMBASSY ATTEMPT TO HAVE OBSERVER PRESENT DURING TRIAL. <\/p>\n<p>2. DEPARTMENT UNDERSTANDS TRIAL SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 7, 1978. CAN EMBASSY CONFIRM TRIAL DATE. <\/p>\n<p>3. DEPARTMENT ALSO UNDERSTANDS MR. AND MRS. STOEN ARE PRESENTLY IN GUYANA AND ATTORNEY HAAS ENROUTE. EMBASSY REQUESTED OFFER ALL APPROPRIATE ASSISTANCE. <\/p>\n<p>4. EMBASSY REQUESTED TO INFORM DEPARTMENT (ATTENTION SCS) RESULTS OF TRIAL VIA MOST EXPEDITIOUS MANNER. <\/p>\n<p>5. CONGRESSMAN PHILLIP BURTON, DON EDWARD, ROBERT DUNCAN AND RON DELLUMS, SENATOR CRANSTON HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 002640 <\/p>\n<p>IN THIS CASE. <\/p>\n<p>CHRISTOPHER [Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<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.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 STATE 002640 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 HA-05 L-03 H-02 \/032 R DRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS:RAM APPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK CA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;078668 052222Z \/64 O 052210Z JAN 78 FM SECSTATE WASHDC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94984,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94996","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94996","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=94996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130938,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94996\/revisions\/130938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}