Guinea, 1965 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 9 November 1965, corresponding to the traders' plot, or complot des commercants, against President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea. Hostile to the state takeover of commerce reinforced by the November 1964 Loi-cadre, Guinean traders found a spokesman in Mamadou Toure, known as Petit Toure, a distant cousin of the president who had made a fortune in the Ivory Coast. In October 1965 Petit Toure sought to found an opposition party, the Party of National Unity of Guinea, and was arrested on the night of 12 to 13 October 1965 along with many traders and former ministers.
In November 1965 Sekou Toure publicly accused France, Senegal and the Ivory Coast of backing the conspiracy, naming Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny as a conspirator, and broke off diplomatic relations with France for the next decade. The affair fed the flight of Guinean exiles who in 1966 formed the National Liberation Front of Guinea (FLNG), based in neighbouring capitals.
Researched Details
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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
43811091965
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Sekou Toure survived and used the plot to crush opposition and break with France; Petit Toure died in detention at Camp Boiro.
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
CSP
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
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