PLOTTING BY HAITIAN EXILE LEADERS TO OVERTHROW THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06604922
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-02187
• Publication Date: February 13, 1976

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ORIGIN ARA-03
INFO OCT-01 SS-05 ISO-00 /009 R
DRAFTED BY ARA/CAR - MR. STRASSER:LEE
APPROVED BY ARA/CAR - MR. HEAVNER
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E.O. 11652: XGDS 2
TAGS: PINR, PINT, HA
SUBJECT: PLOTTING BY HAITIAN EXILE LEADERS TO OVERTHROW
THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT
FOLLOWING INTELLIGENCE REPORT REPORT
CLASS SECRET - WARNING NOTICE - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE
SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED - NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN
NATIONALS) ON ABOVE SUBJECT IS REPEATED FOR YOUR INFORMA-
TION.
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DOI
SOURCE
1. HAITIAN EXILE LEADERS INCLUDING ALPHONSE LAHENS, TA-
VERNIER (FNU), PAUL MAGLOIRE, AND ROUZIER (FNU) IN NEW
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YORK CITY AND DR. ROY (FNU) IN MONTREAL, CANADA, ARE PLOTT-
ING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER OF HAITI
AND HIS MOTHER, MADAME SIMONE DUVALIER, AND FORM A JOINT
CIVILIAN-MILITARY GOVERNMENT TO RULE PENDING FREE ELEC-
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TIONS. THE EXACT DATE OF THE PLANNED ASSASSINATION AND
COUP D'ETAT HAS NOT YET BEEN DECIDED. COMMENT: ROY
(FrIU) MAY BE IDENTICAL WITH DR. LOUIS ROY, A HAITIAN EXILE
LEADER IN MONTREAL. THE IDENTITIES OF THE OTHER PLOTTERS
HAVE NOT BEEN DETERMINED.)
2. THE PLOTTERS HAVE BEEN IN SECRET CONTACT WITH LIEU-
TENANT GENERAL JEAN-BAPTISTE HILAIRE, CHIEF OF STAFF OF
THE HAITIAN ARMY, WHO HAS ALLEGEDLY AGREED TO ASSUME POWER
AS TEMPORARY CHIEF OF STATE AFTER THE COUP. HILAIRE HAS
ALSO AGREED TO ARRANGE THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL GRACIA
JACQUES, COMMANDER OF THE PRESIDENTIAL GUARD, WHO THE
PLOTTERS BELIEVE WOULD PROBABLY OPPOSE THE COUP. A GROUP
OF 17 HAITIANS WHO SERVED WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMED
FORCES IN COMBAT IN SOUTH VIETNAM ARE TO COMPRISE THE
ASSASSINATION UNIT AND PLAN TO AMBUSH PRESIDENT DUVALIER
DURING ONE OF HIS DAILY MOTOR TRIPS IN THE ENVIRONS OF
PORT AU PRINCE. TWO OF THIS GROUP, GABRIELLE(FNU) AND
LEROY (FNU) RECENTLY LEFT PERU WHERE THEY WERE INSTRUCTORS
UNDER CONTRACT TO THE PERUVIAN ARMY. MOST OF THE 17-MAN
UNIT ENTERED HAITI BY COMMERCIAL AIR ON ABOUT 1 FEBRUARY.
AN UNIDENTIFIED NUMBER WHO ARE CONSIDERED POLITICAL EXILES
RE-ENTERED HAITI ILLEGALLY IN SMALL BOATS VIA THE BAHAMAS.
DURING THE LANDING IN ROUGH SEAS THEY LOST MOST OF THE
WEAPONS WHICH THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM BUT THEY EXPECT TO
RECEIVE MORE WEAPONS SOON FROM A SOURCE IN MARSEILLES,
FRANCE. GUY BOUCHEREAU, LEADER OF THE UNIT, IS TO SELECT
A SECURE LANDING SITE FOR ARMS AND MUNITIONS TO BE SMUG-
GLED IN BY SMALL BOAT ALSO VIA THE BAHAMAS. BOUCHEREAU
RETURNED TO HAITI ABOUT A YEAR AGO; HIS FATHER WAS KILLED
BY FORMER HAITIAN PRESIDENT FRANCOIS DUVALIER.
3. UNKNOWN TO MOST OF THE OTHER PLOTTERS ALPHONSE LAHENS
IS ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH CONTACT SECRETLY WITH GENERAL
JACQUES THROUGH A TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. THE INTERMEDIARY
IS TO TELL JACQUES ABOUT THE PLOT, INCLUDING HILAIRE'S
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PLAN TO HAVE HIM KILLED, AND OFFER JACQUES THE CHANCE TO
KILL HILAIRE FIRST. JACQUES WOULD THEN BECOME ACTING
PRESIDENT OF HAITI. LAHENS IS CONCOCTING THIS SUB-PLOT
BECAUSE HE FEARS THAT TAVERN IER IS COLLABORATING WITH
HILAIRE TO CUT LAHENS OUT OF THE LEADERSHIP AFTER THE
COUP HAS TAKEN PLACE.
4.
COMMENT:
-IAITIAN ARMED FORCES
WERE PLACED ON AN ALERT ON 6 FEBRUARY. IT IS NOT KNOWN
IF THE ALERT MAY HAVE HAD ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTION WITH
THE ABOVE REPORTED PLOTTING.)
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