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Diplomats Accused Guinea of Running 'Narco-State'

U.S Embassy cables dispatched from Conakry in 2008 suggested that former President Lansana Conte's son was heavily involved the the drugs trade, and that after a cocaine shipment had been seized, corrupt government officials had staged a "farce that followed no one" in an attempt to convince foreign diplomats that it had been destroyed.

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