Editing Jeffrey Archer (section)

==Subsequent incidents==
In 2004, the government of [[Equatorial Guinea]] alleged that Archer was one of the financiers of the [[2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt|failed 2004 coup d'état attempt]] against it, citing bank details and telephone records as evidence.<ref name="NEWARCHER">{{Cite news|first=David|last=Pallister|title=New Archer link to coup plot alleged|date=13 October 2004|url=https://www.theguardian.com/equatorialguinea/story/0,,1326040,00.html|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 August 2007|location=London}}</ref> In 2009, Archer said: "I am completely relaxed about it. [[Simon Mann|Mr Mann]] [Simon Mann, the English mercenary leader of the coup] has made clear that it's nothing to do with me." In 2011, Mann, imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea for his role in leading the failed 2004 coup d'état but released on humanitarian grounds later, told ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' that his forthcoming book, ''Cry Havoc'', would reveal "the financial involvement of a controversial and internationally famous member of the British House of Lords in the plot, backed up by banking records." He claimed documents from the bank accounts in [[Guernsey]] of two companies Mann used as vehicles for organising the coup, showed a 'J H Archer' paying $135,000 into one of the firms.<ref>{{cite news|last=Eden|first=Richard|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8727318/Havoc-as-jailed-mercenary-Simon-Mann-provides-evidence-of-peers-role-in-failed-coup.html|title=Havoc as jailed mercenary Simon Mann provides "evidence" of peer's role in failed coup|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=28 August 2011|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831135811/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8727318/Havoc-as-jailed-mercenary-Simon-Mann-provides-evidence-of-peers-role-in-failed-coup.html|archive-date=31 August 2011}}</ref>