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97. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State

pted coup during Lovanium Parliament. Linner later told Gullion advisers around Mobutu unstable and cited as example Mobutu might make possible coup if bloc embassies reinstalled or if government swings left. SYG agreed our projected representations Balewa and Houphouet-Boigny (as per reference telegram). Telegram 305 stated that the United States was approaching Prime Minister Balewa and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny to urge their support for the Adoula government. Instructions to this effect were sent in telegram 253 to Laos, also sent to Abidjan, August 17. (Ibid., 770G.02/8–…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1961-08-17
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XX, Congo Crisis
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v20/d97
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v20/d97`

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97. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d97.