Qualla: Operation Green Sea https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/q/operation-green-sea-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Operation Green Sea https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea Operation Green Sea: Introduction https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea/ Photo credit João Carvalho, Public domain. In the dark before dawn on 22 November 1970, six unmarked ships slipped toward the harbor of Conakry. The men aboard wore uniforms cut to resemble those of the Guinean army, but their officers spoke Portuguese. What followed was one of the Cold War's stranger episodes in West Africa: a seaborne invasion of one country's capital, launched to settle a war being fought in another. By morning Guinea's president was still in power, the rebels' chief target had escaped, and the raid had set in motion a wave of executions that would dwarf the fighting itself.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/q/operation-green-sea-wp/e9wq-operation-green-sea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Operation Green Sea: A War Next Door https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea/ Photo credit João Carvalho, Public domain. To understand the raid, look across the border. After Guinea voted for independence in 1958, President Ahmed Sékou Touré opened his country to liberation movements still fighting colonial rule. Chief among them was the PAIGC, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and C...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/q/operation-green-sea-wp/e9wq-operation-green-sea-a-war-next-door.mp3 0:06 2 full Operation Green Sea: The Night of the Raid https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea/ Photo credit João Carvalho, Public domain. Roughly 220 Portuguese soldiers, both African and European, came ashore alongside some 200 Guinean exiles who hoped to overthrow Touré. They moved with several aims at once. One group destroyed PAIGC supply vessels in the harbor. Another landed near the president's summer house a...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/q/operation-green-sea-wp/e9wq-operation-green-sea-the-night-of-the-raid.mp3 0:06 3 full Operation Green Sea: The Plan Unravels https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea/ Photo credit João Carvalho, Public domain. With the prisoners freed, half the invading force withdrew to the waiting ships, leaving fewer than 150 men to accomplish the hardest task of all, toppling a government. They appear to have gambled on a popular uprising. None came. The functioning radio station rallied the city, ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/q/operation-green-sea-wp/e9wq-operation-green-sea-the-plan-unravels.mp3 0:06 4 full Operation Green Sea: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/operation-green-sea/ Photo credit João Carvalho, Public domain. What followed was harsher than the battle. Within a week Touré created a ten-member High Command that ruled by decree, ordering arrests, detentions without trial, and executions. After a five-day trial in January 1971, a Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal handed down 29 death sentenc...

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