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The mere mention of Equatorial Guinea around the State Department usually is greeted with knowing nods, based mostly on an incident there years ago worthy of Agatha Christie.
On a steamy late August day in 1971, amid signs of a homosexual relationship gone sour, a U.S. diplomat plunged a pair of scissors into a colleague inside the Embassy compound, killing him.
George Gedda, ‘Heart of Darkness’ or a Challenge? : Africa: Equatorial Guinea has a wretched reputation around the State Department. ‘You will go to America as a corpse,’ the U.S. ambassador was warned., AP, October 10, 1993, Link. I found it because I read United States v. Erdos, 474 F.2d 157 (4th Cir. 1973).
Also, I’m way too proud of my “foreign affairs” tag for this post.
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