The Dominican Republic, of course, is the Siamese twin of Haiti. What we have here is the continuation of the CIA's structural historical pattern.The CIA was forced to officially admit its role in this affair after it was told that "60 Minutes" was planning to broadcast the results of its own investigation on CBS on 11/21/93. Attempting to control the damage, the CIA admitted, 11/19/93, that it had shipped one ton of pure cocaine from Venezuela in what it called "a most regrettable incident." The CIA’s revelations came out in The New York Times on 11/20. The spin the CIA gave the Times was that it was trying to sting Haiti’s National Intelligence Service (SIN) - which the CIA itself had created.
New York Times:11/14/93: "1980’s CIA Unit in Haiti Tied to Drug Trade - Political Terrorism committed against Aristide supporters: The Central Intelligence Agency created an intelligence service in Haiti in the mid-1980’s to fight the cocaine trade, but the unit evolved into an instrument of political terror whose officers sometimes engaged in drug trafficking, American and Haitian officials say. Senior members of the CIA unit committed acts of political terror against Aristide supporters, including interrogations and torture, and in 1992 threatened to kill the local chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. According to one American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, ‘it was an organization that distributed drugs in Haiti and never produced drug intelligence.’"
How shocking to the innocents at CIA, who certainly had expected Haiti’s policemen to be above venality. That is, the SIN dealers, led by Brig. Gen. Raoul Cedras and Michel Francois, who overthrew the legally elected populist Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September of 1991, were armed and trained by Bush’s CIA. In fact, Bush’s CIA Director, Casey’s assistant Robert Gates, was actually stupid enough to call Cedras one of the most promising "Haitian leaders to emerge since the Duvalier family dictatorship was overthrown in 1986."
15When the DEA’s Tony Greco tried to stop a massive cocaine shipment in May, 1991, four months before the coup, his family received death threats on their private number from "the boss of the man arrested." The only people in Haiti who had that number were the coup leaders, army commander Raoul Cedras and his partner, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, "the boss of the man arrested."
A 1993 U.S. GAO report insisted that Cedras and Francois were running one of the largest cocaine export rings in the world. In 1994, after this PR disaster, the U.S. militarily reinstalled Aristide. This was done on Clinton’s condition that Aristide relinquish power almost as soon as he got it.
Clinton insisted that Aristide’s three years in exile be counted as part of his 5-year term. The only American officer tried for "insubordination" during the reinstallation process was the one who insisted on looking into Cedras’ prisons. Within 4 months of Aristide’s 1994 reinstallation, U.S. troops turned Haiti over to the U.S.-trained National Police, recruited from Cedras’ SIN security structure, Tontons Macoutes in uniform.
Human Rights Watch/Americas reports that the National Police regularly murdered political activists as well as rival drug dealers. After the January, 1995 parliamentary elections, Senator Turneb Delpe, head of Aristide’s former coalition, the National Front for Change and Democracy, complained that "People may have voted freely, but then our political party observers were chased away, and ballot boxes confiscated. Is this democratic?"
16Aristide’s 1996 replacement as president, his pre-coup prime minister Ren� Pr�val, proved so powerless as to be unable to keep his own prime minister much of the time. The April 1997 parliamentary election was perceived as so corrupt that only 5% of the population voted.
17 Los Angeles Times, 3/8/97: "Lt. Col. Michel Francois, one of the CIA’s reported Haitian agents, a former Army officer and a key leader in the military regime that ran Haiti between 1991 and 1994, was indicted in Miami for smuggling 33 tons of cocaine into the USA." Added the livid Rep. Maxine Waters, who quoted this story on the floor of the House, 3/18/97, "Members of this House literally had wrapped their arms around drug dealers. Members of this House not only swore by them and protected them, while they were protecting them, Francois was building an airstrip where he could receive the drugs..."As of April, 1998, the U.S. government continues to refuse to return 160,000 pages of documents seized in 1994 from the Haitian military and its paramilitary arm, the Front pour l’Avancement et Progr�s d’Ha�ti, FRAPH. Founded with CIA assistance, FRAPH was Cedras’ death squad. The U.S. openly admits that it will return the documents only after it has finished excising the names of U.S. agents involved with the FRAPH.
Also being withheld from the Haitian Justice Ministry are documents and reports on the FRAPH’s two most famous massacres, the December 1993 massacre of at least thirty residents of Cit� Soleil and the 1994 massacre of at least fifteen people in Raboteau.
In August 1997, the State Department once again prevented the deportation of FRAPH leader Emmanuel Constant, who had received regular CIA payments throughout his tenure under Cedras. The Five Families that had financed Duvalier and Cedras are still in absolute control. But Haiti, the charmingly maudlin Clinton will tell you, is a democracy.
Both Cedras and Francois are graduates of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas. Both got their training during the Contra years in Haiti’s CIA-founded National Intelligence Service structure led by Noriega allies Lt.Cols. Jean Paul and Prosper Avril, both indicted dopers. Like Noriega, they helped Maj. Gen. John Singlaub finance the Contras. It is here, at the highest structural levels of U.S. military intelligence, at the level that is able to consciously subvert the political will of the State Department, that ‘Contra’ turns into ‘Iran-Contra.’
----- Original Message -----From: "Mike Ruppert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:19 PMSubject: RE: [CIA-DRUGS] congratulations on Dominican scoop> There will be a great many people deserving of kudos when this is over. We
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