U.S. CALLS IN ENVOY OVER HAITIAN ARMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700490023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: December 31, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW. t7'ORK TIMES
Approved For Release 2006/08/09: CIA-RI
DEC 3 1 196,1
U.S. aJJS J"Y i''~1?~ 'ed States. dovernment are in
P la 'vesti? atin Mr. Baboun and a
.~,. number of his Haitian 'and
Over Haiti'an Arms American associates in connec-,
tion with the T-28. The Ad-:
ministration, however, is not:
By TAD SZULO willing to produce a "mystery.
Special to The 'New York Tlmea witness" whose testimony. 1n;;
considered crucial if prosecution,
H'aiti's Ambassador to the Unit- Robert J. McCloskey, the!
ed States, Robert Thdard, was State Department's spokesman,.
summoned to the State Depart. refused today to say whether'
Ynent this ,gorging to explain such a witness existed.' He did
the purchase of firearms in the say, however, that if such a%
witness existed, he was trot an
United States by the Haitian official of the State Depart
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Andre Eli. Other qualified sources main
The Ambassador was sum- loaned that this witness was a
moned to tho department for former employe of the Central,
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Intelligence At, Agency and that
an ' interview with Kennedy the agency had successfully`
'Crockett, director of the Office sought to block his testimo y
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of Caribbean Affairs, after the SO its intelligence techniques
publication in The New Yorz would not. be revealed.
Times today of an article on ' Reporters to Be P rmorcr
Haitian arms purchases. The 1 witness to informants, this
article said the records- of the witness is an armorer who had
Miami . Police Department gone to Haiti to arm the two
showed that Mr. Eli had pur- T-28's, and Is thus in a position
to identify the aircraft as the
,chased at least 257 revolver
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same ones' purchased in Miami'
the last two years from Miami by persons believed to be Mr.
arms dealers: alone. I3aboun's associates. The air-
Accordlnto State Depart. craft are now in Port-au-Prince,
?Mr. Thdard ac-1 Haiti's capital,
,,lent officials
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I Officials said today that no '
knowledged that Mr. Eli had).decision had been made whether,
been buying -revolvers for five; any action . Wright be taken
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