SITUATION OF PORTUGUESE GUINEA INDEPENDENCE PARTY LEADER AMILCAR CABRAL

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06785062
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01470
• Publication Date: July 30, 1968

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PORTUGUESE GUINEA/FRANCE/PORT UGAL /SENEGAL
SITUATION OF PORTUGUESE GUINEA INDEPENDENCE
PARTY LEADER AIL CAR CABRAL
I. IN LATE J1.1 Y 1968, AMILCAR CABRAL, LEADER OF
THE AFRICAN PARTY FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF GUINEA AR) CAPE
VERDE (PART I AFR ICA IN POUR L' INDEPENDENCE DE LA GUINEE ET
DU CAP VERT - PA IGC) SAID� THAT MANY OF THE ARMS BEING USED
AGAINST THE PA ICC FORCES IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA WERE SOPFL IED
TO PORTUGAL BY FRANCE, RATHER THAN BY THE UNITED STATES, AS
IS COMMONL Y SUPPOSED. CABRAL NOTED T PAT HE VAS MAKE TO
CR IT IC IZE FRANCE PU IttY, HOYEVER, FOR 'FEAR THAT FRANCE
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SOLLD THEN RETALIATE BY INFLUENCING SENEGAL TO WITHHOLD
AID FROM THE PAIGC.
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2. CABRAL SAID HE WAS CERTAIN THAT HE WAS BEING
OPPOSED BY FRANCE, AND CITED AN INSTANCE IN WHICH HE WAS
REFUSED ENTRY INTO FRANCE AT A PAR IS AIRPORT, DESPITE THE
FACT THAT HE WAS CARRYING A MOROCCAN D 'FL OMAT IC PASSPCRT.
CABRAL SAID THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THIS FRENCH PERSECUTION,
HE HAD ASKED THE MORE IMPORTANT MEMBER'S OF THE A1GCTO
KEEP OUT OF FRANCE.
3. IN DISCUSSING THE ECONOMIC Flinn OF PORTUGUESE
GUINEA, CABRAL SAID THAT AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES HAD STARTED
TO INVEST IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA BEFORE THE START OF THE
REVOLUTION. NOTING THAT THE AMERICANS HAD SHOWN AN INTEREST
IN TALKING WITH THE PA IGC, CABRAL SAID THAT IT WOULD BE BAD
; POLITICS TO TALK OF NATIONALIZATION AT !HIS STAGE OF THE
REVOLUTION. CABRAL ADDED THAT THE GUINEAN FOREIGN INVESTMENT
; POLICY, WHICH ALLOWED FOR ACTIVE GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION, WAS
?- BEING STUDIED WITH GREAT INTEREST BY THE PR IGC.
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