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London: The prospect of Sir Mark Thatcher being allowed to return to the U.S. to rejoin his wife and children in Dallas became more uncertain on Sunday, as new evidence emerged that his role in an African coup attempt may have been more central than has been admitted, and involved questionable activities in the U.S. A senior former State Department official in Washington, Joseph Sala, has disclosed he was hired by the plotters to gain U.S. support for the coup. Mr. Sala told a BBC TV programme on Monday night that he was offered $40,000 to promote the plotters' cause there. Records for Sir Mark's mobile phone show that he was among those placing calls to a London businessman accused of masterminding the plot. Eli Calil, a millionaire middleman in African oil deals and a friend of the British Labour politician, Peter Mandelson, was allegedly at the centre of a group of London businessmen and mercenaries trying to promote their own candidate to take over the tiny but oil-rich state of Equatorial Guinea.
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