{"id":95052,"date":"2020-02-12T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95052"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:02:30","slug":"feb-4-78-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-029903","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95052","title":{"rendered":"Feb 4, 78 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 029903"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/FLHENNEKE\/MRER
\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK
\nCA\/SCS\/EAPOWERS CA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA
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\nE.O. 11652: N\/A
\nTAGS: CASC (STOEN, JOHN VICTOR)
\nSUBJECT: W\/W JOHN VICTOR STOEN
\nREF: GEORGETOWN 0406<\/a><\/p>\n

1. DEPARTMENT APPRECIATES ASSESSMENT CONTAINED REFTEL AND CONCURS IN EMBASSY’S BELIEF THAT APPROACH TO GOG RE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY DECISION ON CUSTODY OF JOHN VICTOR NOT APPROPRIATE, AT LEAST UNTIL CUSTODY IS AWARDED. TO ALLEGATIONS OF EITHER SIDE THAT EMBASSY AND DEPARTMENT ARE BIASED IN FAVOR OF OPPONENT, DEPARTMENT POINTS OUT EMBASSY’S MEETINGS WITH BOTH PARTIES AND STRICT NEUTRALITY AS TO THE MERITS OF THE CASE IN REFUTING SUCH CHARGES. <\/p>\n

2. QUESTION HAS BEEN RAISED AS TO JOHN VISTORS [VISITORS] AL’WHL [Unknown word]<\/p>\n

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PHYSICAL PRESENCE IN GUYANA. WITHOUT INVESTIGATION WHICH WOULD RAISE QUESTION OF BIAS, CAN EMBASSY PROVIDE ANY CONCRETE EVIDENCE THAT STOEN IS INDEED AT PEOPLE’S TEMPLE? <\/p>\n

VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/p>\n

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