The CIA predicts the 1987 bloody coup against Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in this 1986 report, and the three men to carry it out. Two of them were killed 2 years later by the third. The third, Blaise Compaoré, was chased out by the people—currently in exile in Côte d’Ivoire.

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