The SDECE also launched a series of economic attacks against the country. One of these, which was part of a destabilisation programme known as 'Persil', was particularly perverse: it consisted of using the printing presses of the SDECE to create false Guinean banknotes, which were then poured en masse into the country. The result was the collapse of the Guinean economy.

Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa's Last Colonial Curr…, loc. 152