POSSIBILITY OF ATTACK ON HAITI BY THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2024
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• Case Number: F-2023-01847
• Publication Date: September 12, 1957

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
TO: N ONE,STSATE, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, JCS, SE CD EF, OCB .
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CLASSIFiCATION
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DATE DISTR.
12 SEPTEMBER 1957
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COUNTRY I PLACE ACQUIRED.
HAITI HAITI,
SUBJECT
POSSIBILITY OF ATTACK .ON HAITI BY THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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URCE (EVAL..IJATION DEFINITIVE:f
GUADET ,OITPE BUSINESSMAN
IN HAITI AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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WHO HAS KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICAL SITUATION
GENERALISSIMO RAFAEL LEONIDAS TRUJILLO OF THE NI AN REPUBLIC, ANTICIPATING
THAT FRANCOIS DUVALL IER WILL WIN THE ELECT I ON& IN HAITI,HAS AN ARMY OF 30,000 MEN
SUPPORTED BY LIGHT TANKS AND PLANES PREPARED TO ATTACK HAITI � (FIELD COMMENT IN
19 DUV WAS LISTED AS A MEMBER OF THE MOUVEMENT OUVRIER PAYSAN
LABOR ORGANIZATION FOUNDED BY DANIEL FIGNOLE.)V
( HEADQUARTERS COMMENT S AN EVALUATION IS REQUESTED FROM THE -fl
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OF STATE
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STATE, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, JCS, SECDEF, OCB
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HAITI
DATE DISTR.
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POSSIBLE PATTERN FOR DETER
DATE OF INFORMATION
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PLACE ACQUIRED
CEDENCE
ROUTINE
HAITI PORT-AU-PRINCE
AITIAN POLITICAL SITUATION
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RESIDENT OF PORT-AU-PRINCE
THE COMING FEW DAYS ARE TO E THE MOST CRITICAL PERIOD F RE E T
YEARS THE FACTORS OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE ARE THE FOLLOW NG:
POPULAR DISLIKE OF TI-E MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
DISSATISFACTION OF THE PROVINCES WITH THE POLITICIANS RUN-
NING THE COUNTRY FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE, AND THE TRADITIONAL
NORTH-SOUTH DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY.
THE HATRED OF THE BLACKS FOR T-E MULATTOS.
THE FACT THAT FIGNOLE IS STILL THE IDOL OF THE BLACK MASSES
IRRESPECTIVE OF AGREEMENTS REACHED BETWEEN THEIR SPOKESMEN
ND VARIOUS CANDIDATE
HE UNRELIABILITY OF SOLDIERS IN THE RANKS WHEN CALLED UPON
0 SUPPRESS LOWER CLASS BLACKS LIKE THEMSELVES.
THE DETERMINATION OF JUMELLISTS IN AND OUT OF THE ARMY TO
PREVENT THE ELECTIONS. THIS FACTION HAS THE ARMS AND THE
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MONEY; IT CAN USE THE ABSENCE OF DANIEL FIGNOLE AS THE
REASON FOR CALLING HIS FOLLOWERS TO ACTION.
A PLOT INVOLVING (FNU) FAREAU, (FNU)BEAUVOIR, GASTON
GEORGES, AND OTHERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TROUBLE FOR THE
PURPOSE OF OUSTING BRIG. GEN. ANTONIO KEBREAU AND UPSET
THE HOLDING OF ELECTIONS.
2. DISORDERS FOR THE WEEKEND OF 20 SEPTEMBER 11957 AND A DETERIOR-
ATION OF THE SITUATION ARE PROBABLE. THERE FOLLOWS A PROBABLE PATTERN
BASED ON KNOWN QUANTITIES RATHER THAN AUTHENTIC INFORMATION REGARDIZ
AN EXACT TIMETABLE OF EVENTS;
A. BY THE EVENING- OF 2i SEPTEMBER 1957 FIGNOLIST MOBS, INCITED
BY JUMELLISTS ARE LIKELY TO START RIOTING- AND ARSON IN THE
TY.
KEBREAU WILL BE FORCED TO BRING ORDER THROUGH RUTHLESS
RETALIATION.
MANY SOLDIERS ARE ALMOST CERTAIN TO DESERT FROM THE RANKS
THEN TURN ON THE OFFICERS.
D. FURTHER DETERIORATION OF THE ARMY'S EFFECTIVENESS WOULD THEN
BE LIKELY AS THE RESULT OF AN ATTEMPTED OUSTER OF KEBREAU BY
FAREAU AND IMAM HIS COLLEAGUES.
THE PROVINCES, LED OFF BY THE TOWNS OF ST. MARC AND AU CAYES
WILL THEN BE THE SCENE OF UNREST AND DISORDERS
BY 23 SEPTEMBER, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO
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HOLD ELECTIONS THE COUNfRY WILL BE IN CONFUSION AND
WITHOUT STRONG CENTRAL LEADERSHIP.
(SOURCE COMMENT: SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT SO MANY FORCES
HAVE BEEN LIABLE TO COME TO AN IMPACT, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHICH
IS TO BE THE PRIME MOVER,)
(FIELD COMMENT: IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE ABOVE PROGNOSTICATION IS NOT
INCONSISTENT WITH KNOWN FACTS AND PREVIOUS INFORMATION RECEIVED
THOU(H IT TENDS TOWARD THE ALARMIST SIDE)
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SUBJECT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE&
DATE ACQ.
Haiti/Dominican Republic
Decision of Daniel Fignole,
Prominent Haitian Emigre, Not
To Collaborate With Other
Haitian Emigres
Early June 1966
United States, Miami
( 6 June 1966)
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REFERENCES
FIELD REPORT NO.
June 1966
THIS is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS
ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE:
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Field Comment:
as of late May 1966 iDaril�no e, aTTth��isio
President of Haiti, had received proposals from certain Haitian
emigre leaders in the Dominican Republic regarding a possible
alliance for action against President Francois Duvalier. Accord-
ing to Fignole, Hector Aristy Pereyra, leader of the Constitu-
tionalist 24th of April Movement in the Dominican Republic, had
promised to cooperate by furnishing arms and ammunition for
Haitian revolutionaries after the Dominican elections of 1 June.
Early in June 1966 Daniel Fignole decided not to collaborate
with Haitian emigres in the Dominican Republic nor with Henri
Vixamar. Fignole asserted that aid from Hector Aristy Pereyra
would deprive him of the aid of more than 100 Cuban emigres,
who consider Aristy pro-Communist. With regard to Vixamar,
Fignole's followers in Miami as well as Haitian residents of
New York have expressed belief that Vixamar is an agent of the
United States Government (USG). Fignole considers that any
link with the USG would damage his potential strength inside
Haiti.
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According to Fignole, he will continue to count on his contacts
among followers of Duvalier in Haiti, on supporters among the
Haitian people, and on certain Cuban emigres. If another group
or groups should succeed in overthrowing Duvalier, Fignole's
strategy will be to refuse to participate in the government and
to encourage his followers to demand immediate elections.
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(Field Comment: According to Source, Fignole had been approached
in New York by unidentified persons who offered him a secret
agreement with Vixamar. Vixamar, who has been residing in
Canada since mid-April, has been involved for several months
Rolando Masferrer Pojas, former Cuban
action against uvalier's government. �Cf.
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