MANCHESTER GUARDIAN ARTICLE ENTITLED 'DISCREET U.S. MILITARY AID FOR HAITI'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200050010-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2004
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Uc'arItII of c'o9111>c'tit ion from
fiance. the United States has
owled its eight-year old embargo
oil nttiitary aid to the Duvalier chc-
t.ator'ship in Ilaili. and is training
and ccttulrpirng the llrtilian 'awned
forces under the cloak of a Florida
ba::ed then Which specialises ill
sorh work.
This becarttc evident when
Haiti's newly formed "anti-Cotn-
amnist., anti-su livers ion" guerrilla
oIce, (it(, LF'opartls, rgade their
lir.st tnrhtic ttt,itemlrtlnre nt the
;,ntm;rl Artily 1)a }' parade in Port
I'll? l'rinre - along will) their
Anu?rican htstr'uCtor~, a Marine
cm V -an of Vietnam and Korea,
cmptoyrd by the lirinof Acrotradc,
of Miami.
The new '-,defellder;s of the revo-
lut.ion",marched across the,lawlrs
MAC
of 1,))p 1,rvr,idcnliai p;me1 c, xatcitl'd
by= Prt'hideut .)cyan (.l:Inde Duvaiicr
and his chief civil acid tnili
tart' airy' all of ihcttt, iur?lnding
the President, Mitt d out. ill Ilse
alt,Arnctic,in catvoufi:lt;e tntiforul
of thr i,e?lrtrds, Also watching
1were lilt, Anx ricart Anibassadoi,
A'lr Clinton Knox, amid the vita,
presitlcnh t,f A,'rnfla,le, who bail
flown ill [(it. till, occw,:loll.
Neither the 4,overnnivn1 nut' rile
ITS 11n0hos4y 11(15 o,lnuited Hutt
Ow 11i11111m1 ' rid ('111 uff by I"t,rvt-
flew h:ototrd'v i I I 1[01;) at Ilw
height of the 1,1t!' I'rr,dident. h'ralt
c'ois '1'al1;a Doc" UItt alien's rci;!n
of telror, 1115 been resiotacd. )tut.
I'll' U.S posili011 it) Matti, esliociaiiy
with time relatively weak Govern
mciit which Papa Doe loll behind
lum, is 'such that no UIS firm would
be able to do business there if . French officials to supervise the sphere, to cut into the US military
Washington did not approve: much' reorganisation of the police' hnd sphere of influence,
less ? sell arms without official , trade unions.
sanction to a country only a few Ever Washington cannot easily
Y Y ver since the US Congress
dozen miles from Cuba, sell even 'this kind of materiel
banned the sale of new weaponry openly to Ilaiti at the moment
Aerotrade is already reported to to Latin America six years ago, a because 'the Duvalier family dic-
have supplied M-16 rifles, lorries, dismayed White House has tatorship, in the eyes of most Latin
and `jeeps-all' from US surplus 'watched France do a roaring trade Americans, still bears the terrible
stock-to Haiti's 5,000-man army, selling new tanks and'Mirage jets . stigma of Papa Doe's excesses.
and half a dozen instructors to to half a dozen South American Nevertheless, since the United
train pilots to fly and maintain the countries. States already has a' firm control
tiny 250-man Haitian air force's Mr Nixon is free to sell surplus over the armed forces of the neigh-
handful of doubtful Second World and used material, however. It is bouring, and equally strategic and
War vintage planes. " . expected that Presidential adviser
Re-
The resumed military aid has Mr Robert Fine]), and the public, it isfrag Pentagon logical Re-
been partly prompted by a desire Assistant Defence. Secretary for In- as b1 t its con manding influence in
to neutralise the French' Govern- ternational Security Affairs; Mr Ifaiti as best it can, in order to
ment's recent offer, which Haiti Warren Nutter-each now making secure the basic US defence peri-
has accepted, of making training. separate tours of Latin America" meter in the Caribbean to face the
scholarships for Haitian,. officers will try to push
ersales ofT rancethese in an
available ''n the -F'reiich armed effort to 'count So'this, th miase, position in good old
?.foreeec?~ There~?are also - lans .for 's bid; in in case; through good old
p Haiti ;as.~ elseWhcre 'in the 'hertti? American private, enterprise.
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