{"id":96306,"date":"2020-03-16T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96306"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:19:11","slug":"nov-26-78-%e2%80%a2-2210-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3953","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96306","title":{"rendered":"Nov 26, 78 \u2022 2210 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96306\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86894\">Serial 425<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. <\/p>\n<p>[The text for this document was released in 2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03953_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414171815\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03953_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01 GEORGE 03953 262328Z<br \/>\nACTION L-03<br \/>\nINFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 SCS-06 CA-01 SSO-00 H-01 SS-15 JUSE-00 FBIE-00 \/038 W<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;090833 262331Z \/64 <\/p>\n<p>O 262210Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8223<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 03953<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC OREP BY AFSP<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF LOCAL LEGAL COUNSEL TO ASSIST USG TO DISCHARGE RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONNECTION WITH JONESTOWN DISASTER AND ESTATES OF DECEASED AMERICANS.<br \/>\nREF: STATE 299133 AND PREVIOUS <\/p>\n<p>HAVE REFLECTED AT SOME LENGTH ON IMPLICATIONS REFERRED TO IN PARA ONE REFTEL. CONTINUE TO FEEL, HOWEVER, THAT LUCKHOO IS THE BEST QUALIFIED LOCAL ATTORNEY AVAILABLE WHO HAS EXCELLENT ACCESS TO GOG MINISTRIES AND DEPARTMENTS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEING POLITICALLY NEUTRAL VIS-A-VIS THE BURNHAM GOVERNMENT. ANY OTHER CHOICE WILL BE LESS QUALIFIED AND\/OR POLITICALLY TAINTED. <\/p>\n<p>BURKE [John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nNNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 425 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The text for this document was released in 2014 by Wikileaks. It is also available through the Internet Archive.] CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 GEORGE 03953 262328Z ACTION L-03 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96306","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=96306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136361,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96306\/revisions\/136361"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}