Guinea, 1969 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 10 March 1969, corresponding to the alleged military plot known as the Labe plot or Kaman-Fodeba plot against President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea. Deeply shaken by the 1968 overthrow of Mali's Modibo Keita and long distrustful of the army, Sekou Toure had in early 1969 imposed political supervision of the officer corps by placing a party committee, often headed by a junior militant, in each barracks. On 23 February 1969 the state opened an investigation into a supposed conspiracy said to have begun with indiscreet talk by officers at a ball in Labe, in the Fula homeland, about seizing the president.
The alleged Fula-secession angle was later dropped and the accusations widened, with over 1,000 Guineans arrested. Sekou Toure publicly announced the plot in mid-March 1969, naming Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Kaman Diaby and Defense and Security Minister Fodeba Keita as principal instigators. On 14 May 1969 a revolutionary tribunal sentenced 13 accused to death; they were executed at Camp Boiro.
Researched Details
Researched
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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
43803101969
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 purge the army; Kaman Diaby, Fodeba Keita and others were executed 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
Afro-American
New York Times
Washington Post
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