{"id":95058,"date":"2020-02-12T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95058"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:03:12","slug":"feb-9-78-%e2%80%a2-state-georgetown-%e2%80%a2-034403","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95058","title":{"rendered":"Feb 9, 78 \u2022 State-Georgetown \u2022 034403"},"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\/1978STATE034403_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250905230217\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978STATE034403_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 01 STATE 034403<br \/>\nORIGIN SCS-06<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 H-02 L-03 \/027 R<br \/>\nDRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/FLHENNEKE\/EAPOWERS\/MRER<br \/>\nAPPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK<br \/>\nCA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA<br \/>\nARA\/MGT-GKRIEGER (SUBS)<br \/>\nCA-MTRUITT<br \/>\nARA\/CAR-JGRIFFITH (SUBS)<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094952 091736Z \/23 <\/p>\n<p>O 091722Z FEB 78<br \/>\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC<br \/>\nTO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN IMMEDIATE<br \/>\nUNCLAS STATE 034403<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTA CASC (STOEN, JOHN VICTOR)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: W\/W JOHN VICTOR STOEN<br \/>\nREF: STATE A-4386 <\/p>\n<p>1. AS POST AWARE, DEPARTMENT RECEIVING NUMEROUS INQUIRIES FROM CONGRESS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC CONCERNING CUSTODY CASE OF JOHN VICTOR STOEN. MOST OF THE INQUIRIES ARE EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT FOR STOENS OR PEOPLE&#8217;S TEMPLE WITHOUT REAL INTEREST IN ACTUAL PROCEEDINGS. HOWEVER, SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES IN PARTICULAR INVOLVE THE ACTUAL COURT PROCEEDINGS, I.E., WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT AND ARE THE COURTS ACTING IMPARTIALLY AND SPEEDILY TOWARD RESOLUTION. <\/p>\n<p>2. REFAIR OUTLINES CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH PRINCIPAL OFFICER MAY REQUEST AUTHORITY TO RETAIN LOCAL COUNSEL TO ADVISE CONSULAR OFFICER IN WAYS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES <\/p>\n<p>UNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nUNCLASSIFIED<br \/>\nPAGE 02 STATE 034403 <\/p>\n<p>(2 FAM 283). DEPARTMENT SHOULD FIND DETAILED ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED GUYANESE ATTORNEY MOST USEFUL IN DEALING WITH DOMESTIC INTEREST IN STOEN CASE. SUCH ADVICE WOULD ALSO PROVE INVALUABLE SHOULD THERE BE OTHER CUSTODY CASES IN THE FUTURE. <\/p>\n<p>3. IF POST BELIEVES 2 FAM 283 SHOULD BE USED TO RETAIN INDEPENDENT LOCAL COUNSEL, PLEASE PROVIDE PERTINENT INFORMATION AS SET OUT IN 2 FAM 283.4 ASAP. <\/p>\n<p>VANCE [Secretary of State Cyrus Vance]<\/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 034403 ORIGIN SCS-06 INFO OCT-01 ARA-14 ISO-00 CA-01 SSO-00 H-02 L-03 \/027 R DRAFTED BY CA\/SCS\/FLHENNEKE\/EAPOWERS\/MRER APPROVED BY CA\/SCS\/SADOBRENCHUK CA\/SCS\/RLRIVERA ARA\/MGT-GKRIEGER (SUBS) CA-MTRUITT ARA\/CAR-JGRIFFITH (SUBS) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;094952 091736Z \/23 O 091722Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94984,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95058","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=95058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131777,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95058\/revisions\/131777"}],"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=95058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}