LIBERIAN PRESIDENT DOE'S CAPTURE BY INPFL REBEL LEADER JOHNSON

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769336
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-02018
• Publication Date: September 9, 1990

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Classified By: UNSPECIFIED
Classification Reason: UNSPECIFIED
Declass n: April 26, 2042
NF) SUBJ: LIBERIAN PRESIDENT DOE'S CAPTURE BY
INPFL REBEL LEADER JOHNSON
Identifiers:
Messaging System: 90 1143785
Document Number:
Ingestion ID: 34458459
GUIDE: guide://1012/1yf3m0
Dates:
Date Acquired: approximated undefined Sep-1990
Date Published: 09-Sep-1990 15:43:00
Date Received: 09-Sep-1990 16:42:22
Coverage:
CIA Country Code: LBR
Region: AFRICA, LIBERIA
Publisher:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Warnings: J,KNF) CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE
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(U) INFORMATION REPORT NOT FINALLY EVAL
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F) 1. AT APPROXIMATELY 1500 HOURS 9 SEPTEMBER 1990, 1?DEPENDENT
NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FRONT OF LIBERIA (INPFL) REBEL LEADER PRINCE ((JOHNSON))
CAPTURED LIBERIAN PRESIDENT SAMUEL K. ((DOE)) ON BUSHROD ISLAND (06-21N, 10-
47W) AS THE PRESIDENT WAS ENROUTE TO MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
ORGANIZATION OF WEST AFRICAN STATES CEASE FIRE MONITORING GROUP
(ECOMOG). JOHNSON ALLEGEDLY LEARNED FROM GUINEAN TROOPS OF THE
IMPENDING VISIT AND AMBUSHED THE PRESIDENT. SPECIAL ANTI-TERRORIST UNIT
(SATU) TROOPS GUARDING THE PRESIDENT REFUSED TO SURRENDER DOE. AFTER A
BRIEF FIREFIGHT, INPFL TROOPS CAPT PRESIDENT AND ESCORTED HIM TO
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JOHNSON'S HEADQUARTERS L CATED IN THE CALDWELL AREA (06-23N, 10-46W). THE
PRESIDENT WAS RIDING IN AN OFFICIAL VEHICLE (0-2 LICENSE PLATE).
COMMENT: AT 1700 HOURS, A SPOKESMAN FOR INPFL LEADER JOHNSON RADIOED THE
U.S. EMBASSY TO ANNOUNCE DOE'S CAPTURE AND INVITED AN EMBASSY OFFICIAL
AND THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS TO CONFIRM THE CAPTURE. THE EMBASSY WILL NOT
SEND A REPRESENTATIVE. OTHER REPORTS CLAIM DOE WAS INJURED DURING OR
SHORTLY AFTER HIS CAPTURE.)
Collection: CC
Creator:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Description: (U) None
Language: en
Precedence: 0
Subject: None
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