AFRICA AND ACTS OF DISSENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001100200001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 14, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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L'y ~VILLIAl4c EiT'I"~~'OGD Some dissent from the present po]i-
. ?and JA?44Ii5 I. LOLI3 ties of i:he Government exists within
Guitiea. But the question ,that can-
~: WASHl1vGTON-~Ve were the only :corns us, and should concern afl those
two ambassadors Warned by President wllo have ari affection foi? Africa in?
Kennedy to represent him in the young ~ general and for Guinea in particular,
Republic of CTuinea in 1Vest Africa. ~Ve is: I~o~v is this dissent dealt with?
accepted these assignments in part We have, bcetl appalled to }Tear of
because of his keen interest in Guinea the continued executions that are tak-
and !his uersonal reiationshiv Wll:ll the ~ ink place in Guinea, and to learn of
country's President; Sekou TourcS. "auother round of executions" ex-
We went to Guinea to help the coon- petted momentarily. The brutality
try wl}ich, at that tir]]e, was the syn]- with which these executions have been.
bol of African inrlependeilce, especial- carried out, with public hang ings in
ly in West Africa. During our succes- Conakry and in the villages, only adds.
sive missions, covering a period from to our sense of shock.
early 196I through r.~ost ofi 1965, the Guinean Government ]cade.rs with
first of us initiated and the second w1TOm we worked and whore we knew
carried on a. substantial program of . as harvest patriots have been executed;
.economic assistance to Guinea, indeed others are still in jail but condemned
"one of the Iargest per capita aid pro-, to death; others, more fortunate, are in
grams this country had in all of Africa. exile but conden]ned to death in ab-
WhaC is especially noteworthy is sentia. It would appear that a whole
that at no time did the United States generation of the beat-trained Guin-
lay down auy political canditians for cans has been marked for extinction.
Recently those jailed have reciCed
our economic assistance despite the endless and fantastic confessions of
fact that President Tour@'s generally their "acts of treason" over the Gov- ?
Marxist ?political pronouncements ernment radio statirnl, and these con-
scemed hardly in accord with Amer- tessions have been printed in the only
ican thint:ing. But it should be added daily paper in Guinea, Horaya. We
that Mr. Tour's proclaimed neutralism are hardly encouraged to believe these
was usually genuine in practice, note- '