{"id":96244,"date":"2020-03-13T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96244"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:28:47","slug":"march-14-78-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-0807","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96244","title":{"rendered":"March 14, 78 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 0807"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE <\/p>\n<p>[agencies receiving informational copy on PDF]<\/p>\n<p>141321ZMAR 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8373<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 0807 <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 11652: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CPAS (STOEN, JOHN VICTOR)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ISSUANCE OF PASSPORT<br \/>\nREF: (A) <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=95079\">STATE 063670<\/a>, (B) 77 STATE 26641<\/a>, (C) <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=94666\">77 GEORGETOWN 2236<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embassy is puzzled by instructions Ref A in view of the fact a court decision is pending regarding the custody of John Stoen, and the Department&#8217;s previous instructions contained in Para 4 of Ref B, i.e., \u201cConsular officer should require proof of custody if a person other than parent claims to have sole custody of minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Department will recall that, in addition to John Stoen\u2019s original passport which is in custody of his People&#8217;s Temple guardian, Embassy issued a temporary emergency passport (now [illegible word]) for John Stoen after Grace Stoen\u2019s presented California court order giving custody of John to his mother in an affidavit executed by her giving the attorney power in loco parentis specifically for passport purposes (Ref C). Since the custody case of John Stoen is still pending court decision in Guyana, Embassy believes that the <\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE<br \/>\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 00807 141321Z<\/p>\n<p>issuance of passport to \u201canyone\u201d having [illegible word] custody of John Stoen to facilitate his removal from the court\u2019s jurisdiction could be interpreted as [illegible word] complicity and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>[illegible word] Embassy would appreciate clarification of instructions contained in Ref A.<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE [agencies receiving informational copy on PDF] 141321ZMAR 78 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8373 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 0807 E.O. 11652: N\/A TAGS: CPAS (STOEN, JOHN VICTOR) SUBJECT: ISSUANCE OF PASSPORT REF: (A) STATE 063670, (B) 77 STATE 26641, (C) 77 GEORGETOWN 2236 Embassy is puzzled by instructions Ref A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":94984,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96244","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=96244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131806,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96244\/revisions\/131806"}],"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=96244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}