2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt the US of backing the plot, but the Pentagon denies supporting it. US officials say it was Greg Wales who made all the approaches to them. Greg Wales, a London-based property dealer, is alleged to have raised $500,000. Equatorial Guinea official sources claim that in November 2003 , when the plot was in its early stages, an Old Etonian mercenary, Simon Mann, paid Mr Wales about $8,000. Mr Wales denies any involvement in the coup. Theresa Whelan, a member of the Bush administration in charge of African affairs at the Pentagon, twice met a London-based businessman, Greg Wales, in Washington
Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea en la nieve" by Luz Gabás, as well as its 2015 film adaptation "Palm Trees in the Snow", are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial Spanish Guinea and 2000's Equatorial Guinea. Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea There are several works of fiction set in Equatorial Guinea. Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that