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The Conoco – So­ma­lia De­clas­si­fi­ca­tion Pro­ject # 4

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Ray­mond Marc­hand, Pres­i­dent of Conoco So­ma­lia 1. “Views of an Old Africa Hand.” Ca­ble from US Em­bassy in Mo­gadishu to State De­part­ment Head­quar­ters. 30 Sep­tem­ber 1990. Ca­ble Num­ber: Mo­gadishu 08487. Source: Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­lease (2006-01-288) to K... More »

The Conoco – So­ma­lia De­clas­si­fi­ca­tion Pro­ject # 3

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A Tem­po­rary With­drawal – Se­cu­rity Con­cerns 1. “Up­date of Threat As­sess­ment – So­ma­lia.” Ca­ble from US Em­bassy in Mo­gadishu to State De­part­ment Head­quar­ters. 7 Sep­tem­ber 1989. Ca­ble Num­ber: Mo­gadishu 09512. Source: Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­lease (2006-01-288... More »

The Conoco – So­ma­lia De­clas­si­fi­ca­tion Pro­ject # 2

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Pur­su­ing Black Gold in So­ma­lia The fol­low­ing ca­bles demon­strate how the oil com­pa­nies were pur­su­ing So­mali crude, and some of the dif­fi­cul­ties they en­coun­tered along the way. 1. “Chevron Drilling Site in North­ern So­ma­lia.” Ca­ble from US Em­bassy in Dji­bouti to ... More »

The Conoco – So­ma­lia De­clas­si­fi­ca­tion Pro­ject # 1

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In­tro­duc­tion: Michael Par­enti on So­ma­lia and Op­er­a­tion Re­store Hope “Just days be­fore he left of­fice in Jan­u­ary 1993, Pres­i­dent Bush sent troops to So­ma­lia sup­pos­edly to safe­guard food dis­tri­b­u­tion to its hun­gry peo­ple. Here seemed to be an­other wor­thy hu­manit... More »