Guinea, 1961 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
In November and December 1961 the teachers' union crisis, known as the teachers' plot, produced a major confrontation in Sekou Toure's Guinea. The Marxist leaning teachers' union, acting in Toure's telling in concert with officials of the Soviet embassy, precipitated a crisis with strikes and student unrest. Toure arrested the strike leaders, accused a Marxist-Leninist group of attempting to engineer a Marxist revolution in contact with an anti-party Guinean group in Dakar, Paris and Moscow, and expelled the Soviet ambassador, who departed on 16 December 1961.
On 13 December 1961 news agencies reported Toure's claim that communists had plotted a coup and linked them to the student riots of the previous month. At the ruling party congress on 25 December Toure denounced the Machiavellian attempt at a Marxist revolution. The affair marked Guinea's break from close alignment with the Soviet bloc and was the second of the nine plots Toure exposed between 1960 and 1976.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
43812111961
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Sekou Toure survived, jailed the accused teachers and expelled the Soviet ambassador; he ruled until his death in 1984.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Washington Post, Times Herald
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →