{"id":95018,"date":"2020-02-11T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95018"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:17:52","slug":"jan-12-78-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0170","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95018","title":{"rendered":"Jan 13, 78 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0170"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 made several deletions in this cable. The information was disclosed in earlier cables and is denoted below in red type.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 00170 132046Z<br \/>\n[Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF]<\/p>\n<p>R 131032Z JAN 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6016<br \/>\nUNCLAS GEORGETOWN 0170<br \/>\nDEPT PASS ARA\/CAR\/TUNMMINIA<\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, GY (EDWARDS, JAMES)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W JAMES EDWARDS DPOB: NOV. 1921, MISSISSIPPI<br \/>\nREF: (A) <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94728\">77 STATE 294454<\/a> (B) <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94732\">[77] GEORGETOWN 3223<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Consul had personal, private contact with Mr. and Mrs. Edwards on Jan. 11 1978 at People&#8217;s Temple agricultural community. Mr. Edwards emphatically denied that he is being held against his will at the community. He appeared puzzled by [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Calvin Johnson\u2019s<\/span>] assertion since he had written his relatives since his arrival in Guyana that he was happy and content.<\/p>\n<p>2. Mr. Edwards indicated he enjoyed his activities of gardening, fishing and carpentry. Mrs. Edwards stated she sewed and gardened. Consul considered the replies to his questions spontaneous and without fear. They look healthy and content.<\/p>\n<p>3. Edwards orally gave Privacy Act authorization to Consul to pass on the above information to [<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">his nephew Calvin Johnson<\/span>].<\/p>\n<p>Burke [U.S. Ambassador John Burke]<\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: The State Department FOIA release of 1981 made several deletions in this cable. The information was disclosed in earlier cables and is denoted below in red type.] UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 00170 132046Z [Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on PDF] R 131032Z JAN 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94984,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95018","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95018","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=95018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131046,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95018\/revisions\/131046"}],"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=95018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}