{"id":96329,"date":"2020-03-16T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96329"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:41:42","slug":"nov-27-78-%e2%80%a2-1835-%e2%80%a2-georgetown-state-%e2%80%a2-3963","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=96329","title":{"rendered":"Nov 27, 78 \u2022 1835 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 3963"},"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=96329\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86924\">Serial 439<\/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\/1978GEORGE03963_d.html\">Wikileaks<\/a>. It is also available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260414174046\/https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/1978GEORGE03963_d.html\">Internet Archive<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONFIDENTIAL<br \/>\nPAGE 01<br \/>\nGEORGE 03963 271832Z<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;097314 271836Z \/44 <\/p>\n<p>O 271835Z NOV 78<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 8234<br \/>\nC O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 3963<br \/>\nE.O. 11652: GDS<br \/>\nTAGS: CASC, OREP (RYAN) GY<br \/>\nSUBJECT: ENGAGEMENT OF LOCAL LEGAL COUNSEL<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 3953 AND PREVIOUS <\/p>\n<p>ATTORNEY LLOYD LUCKHOO CALLED AMBASSADOR AT 1:00 P.M. NOV. 27 TO INFORM HIM THAT HIS BROTHER SIR LIONEL LUCKHOO HAD DECIDED NOT REPEAT NOT TO UNDERTAKE THE DEFENSE OF LARRY LAYTON. LUCKHOO STATED THAT HIS DECISION WAS UNRELATED TO ANY POSSIBILITY THAT HE, LLOYD LUCKHOO, MIGHT BE ENGAGED ON BEHALF OF THE USG [U.S. Government]. <\/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 439 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 03963 271832Z ACTION L-03 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96250,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96329","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=96329"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136382,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96329\/revisions\/136382"}],"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=96329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}