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Viewing cable 08CONAKRY811, CNDD MEMBERSHIP - A FIRST LOOK

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08CONAKRY811 2008-12-30 17:25 2011-08-30 01:44 SECRET Embassy Conakry
VZCZCXRO7305
RR RUEHPA
DE RUEHRY #0811/01 3651725
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
R 301725Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY CONAKRY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3278
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHINGTON DC
RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 CONAKRY 000811 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/30/2018 
TAGS: PGOV PREL BIOS GV
SUBJECT: CNDD MEMBERSHIP - A FIRST LOOK 
 
Classified By: ECONOFF T. SCOTT BROWN FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D) 
 
1. (U) On December 23, the National Council for Democracy and 
Development (CNDD) released a list of its membership.  Of the 
32-member Council, only six were civilians not associated 
with the police, customs, or gendarmerie.    Preliminary 
information on CNDD members is provided in this cable. 
Additional information will be sent in as it becomes 
available. 
 
2. (U) Thus far, Embassy has identified the following 
breakdown by service branch and ethnicity: 11 army, 3 police 
officers, 3 gendarmes, and 2 customs officers.  Of these 19 
members, nine are Malinke, three are Forestier, three are 
Soussou, three are Puehl, and two are of undetermined 
ethnicity. 
 
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THE PRESIDENT 
------------- 
 
3. (S) Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was named President of the 
CNDD on December 23.  Allegedly, the upper-ranking members of 
the putschistes drew straws to determine who would get the 
top position, and Dadis won.  Dadis Camara is a 44-year-old 
Catholic army captain from a Forestier family of limited 
means.  After completing economic studies at the University 
of Conakry, he began universal military service with the 
so-called "90th Promotion," the last group of Guineans 
required to do obligatory military training.  Thereafter, he 
remained in the army, attending military training courses in 
Germany twice.  He has strong connections with CNDD-member 
LTC Mamadou Korka Diallo, who appointed Dadis to his last 
position in the army, a quartermaster in charge of fuel 
supply.  Along with Claude Pivi (aka Coplan), Dadis Camara 
was one of the leaders of the May 2008 mutiny.  Sensitive 
reporting indicates that Dadis Camara may have loose ties to 
narcotics trafficking through his association with Pivi. 
 
4. (C) Political observers note that Dadis displays a high 
level of political savvy and assertiveness.  For instance, 
after the coup, he was able to contact Senegalese President 
Abdoulaye Wade, whom he reportedly convinced over the 
telephone to support the CNDD.  In addition, he is regarded 
as very generous, a trait that has won him loyalty among the 
rank and file.  Dadis Camara reportedly often drinks to 
excess, and sources have told DATT that they have already 
seen him drunk on a few occasions since he became president. 
 
 
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THE VICE-PRESIDENTS 
------------------- 
 
5. (C) Brigadier General Mamadou "Toto" Camara is a 
controversial Soussou career army officer named as one of two 
CNDD vice presidents and provisional Minister of Security. 
During the Conte regime, he was jailed three times for 
allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.  While in the 
army, he served 14 years in the Soviet Union, four in 
Germany, four in France, and two in the United States as 
Defense Attache, a position he was supposedly given only to 
remove him from Guinean soil to stop his interference in 
Guinean politics.  Some Guineans view Toto Camara as part of 
the generation responsible for many of Guinea's economic 
woes.  Observers note that his style is gruff and 
no-nonsense.  Rumors that he is related to former first lady 
Henriette Conte are unconfirmed. According to one source, 
Toto Camara sought the presidency of the CNDD, but stepped 
aside when Claude Pivi (aka Coplan) imposed Dadis Camara on 
the council through physical intimidation. 
 
6. (S) Colonel Sekouba Konate is a career Malinke army 
officer, one of two CNDD vice presidents, and provisional 
Minister of Defense.  Konate was head of BATA, Guinea's 
airborne battalion, and served on multiple peacekeeping 
missions in the region. Sources say that Konate was 
unprepared for the coup, and began to assert himself with the 
core putschists when his supporters encouraged him to do so. 
Konate was reportedly not happy when he lost the presidency 
to Dadis Camara, but is nevertheless perceived as highly 
influential in the CNDD.  Observers believe that Dadis Camara 
will fall from power should Konate withdraw his support. 
Sensitive reporting indicates that he may have ties to 
narcotics trafficking. 
 
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THE PRIME MINISTER 
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CONAKRY 00000811  002 OF 003 
 
 
7. (U) Kabinet Komara is a Malinke from Kankan and was named 
Prime Minister on 29 December.  Currently in his fifties, he 
studied economics at the University of Conakry, France, the 
U.K., and the U.S. (unknown university), where he received 
his Ph.D.  Since 1992, he has been working as Administrative 
Director for Public Investment for the African Import/Export 
Bank in Cairo.  Before that, Komara was in charge of large 
projects at the Ministry of Finance under Kassory Fofana.  He 
also funded the Islamic Center of Kankan, a lycee in Kankan 
in Upper Guinea, and is considering a project to start an 
American-style university in Guinea.  Komara is married and 
has four (possibly five) children. 
 
8. (C) Tidiane Diallo, a former USAID employee and reliable 
source for Embassy described Kabinet as having a solid 
technical background and no known involvement in corruption. 
Diallo wondered if Komara would be a strong enough leader to 
resist military pressure to stock the government with 
cronies.  "If the military lets him do his work, he'll be a 
good guy," noted Diallo. 
 
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COUNCIL MEMBERS 
--------------- 
 
9. (S) Lieutenant Colonel Mathurin Bangoura is a Soussou 
gendarme from Maritime Guinea and the younger brother of 
former first lady Henriette Conte.  Before the coup, Bangoura 
served as chief of intelligence for the Guinea Armed Forces. 
Prior to that, he was deputy chief of intelligence for the 
gendarmerie.  Upper-middle class by Guinean standards, 
Bangoura served in peacekeeping in Sierra Leone where he 
"made his money" on U.N. per diem payments of $115 per day 
over a period of two years. (NOTE: A captain in the Guinean 
army earns a salary of roughly $200 per month.  END NOTE.) 
Over his career, he worked in the Presidency in the late 80s 
or early 90s, received four years of military training in 
Germany, and participated in an exchange program with Spain. 
Sensitive sources suspect his involvement in narcotics 
trafficking.  Bangoura is a devout Catholic, a teetotaler, 
and has loose ties to the 19th Promotion, the group of young, 
idealistic military officers who planned and carried out the 
early stages of the coup. 
 
10. (C) Lieutenant Colonel Aboubakar Sidiki "Idi Amin" Camara 
is a career Malinke gendarme from Faranah in Upper Guinea who 
earned his nickname from his imposing physical stature.  On 
the CNDD, he drafts and issues all communiques with the 
press.  Sources sometimes describe Camara as the best 
educated and one of the most intelligent officers in the 
Guinean military.  He received extensive military training in 
France and Morocco, and is the youngest recipient of Guinea's 
Ordre Nationale de Merit, Guinea's equivalent of the 
Congressional Medal of Honor.  In his last position, Camara 
occupied the third most important post in the Ministry of 
Defense.  Sources describe him as quiet and "tough to read." 
Camara has loose ties to the 19th Promotion. 
 
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LOWER-RANKING CNDD MEMBERS 
-------------------------- 
 
11. (C) Alpha Yaya Diallo is a Puehl inspector in Guinea's 
customs service, a member of the 90th Promotion, and a 
schoolmate of Dadis Camara.  Most recently, Diallo was the 
head of customs at Conakry's main fuel depot, a plum position 
for the customs service.  In this position, Diallo came to 
know and closely collaborate with Dadis Camara, his military 
counterpart.  Diallo is viewed as a trusted ally of the 
National Director of Customs, Olga Syradin, who appointed him 
to his position at the depot. He is also a longtime Embassy 
contact. 
 
12. (C) Lieutenant Colonel Mamadou Korka Diallo is a Puehl 
career military officer.  Before the coup, Diallo was the 
head of logistics, personnel and finance for the Guinean 
military, and assigned Moussa Dadis Camara as head of fuel 
provisioning for the army.  During the military mutiny of 
2008, mutineers saw him as responsible for fraud and 
mismanagement at the ministry and shot him in the arm as he 
was driving past the airport. 
 
13. (S) Second Lieutenant Claude Pivi (aka Coplan) was one of 
the leaders of the May 2008 military mutiny.  A Forestier, he 
is reportedly behind a recent incidence of torture (septel) 
of several Cameroonians, and the ringleader of a group of 
bandits in Conakry.  A strong believer in local animistic 
traditions, Pivi wears traditional "gris-gris" and a 
leopard-skin tunic that he believes makes him invincible.  He 
has a history of insubordination, erratic behavior, and drug 
 
CONAKRY 00000811  003 OF 003 
 
 
abuse.  Sensitive reporting has connected him to narcotics 
kingpin Ousmane Conte. 
 
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OTHER CNDD MEMBERS 
------------------ 
 
14. (U) Lieutenant Colonel Kandia Mara is a Malinke police 
officer from Faranah in Upper Guinea. 
 
15. (U) Colonel Sekou Mara is Malinke police officer from 
Faranah in Upper Guinea. 
 
16. (U) Morcire Camara is a Malinke customs officer from 
Mamou in Middle Guinea. 
 
17. (U) Lieutenant Colonel Fodeba Toure is a Malinke career 
army officer from Siguri in Upper Guinea.  He was a member of 
the 90th Promotion. 
 
18. (U) Major Cheick Tidiane Camara is a Soussou army officer 
from Maritime Guinea. 
 
19. (U) Aedor Bah is Assistant Commander at Camp Alpha Yaya 
and the assistant to Sekouba Konate. 
 
20. (U) Major Bamou Lama is a military trainer from the 
Forest Region. 
 
21. (S) Adjutant Chief Issa Camara is Malinke army sergeant 
major  and former of presidential security guard from Faranah 
in Upper Guinea.  Sensitive sources suspect that he is 
involved in illegal activities, such as kidnapping. 
 
22. (U) Major Amadou Doumbouya is a Malinke army officer and 
a member of the 90th Promotion. 
 
23. (U) Lieutenant Moussa Keroko Camara is a career gendarme. 
 A Malinke, Keroko Camara was recently assigned to the Army 
General Staff, where he served as secretary of operations. 
 
24. (U) Doctor Diakite Aboubakar Cherif is an army physician 
and a member of the 90th Promotion.  He is seen has having 
close ties with political leader Sidya Toure. 
 
25. (U) Lieutentant Colonel Kandia Mara is head of the police 
anti-riot division.  He was a member of the 90th Promotion. 
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