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# CONTROLLED DISSEMC-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-LNO DISSEM ABROADCOUNTRY HaitiREPORT NO. 00- В 321/36801-68SUBJECT Clemard Charles Statement That He Will Attempt Davalier Overthrow Feb-Mar 69/ Charles Comment On No. 2 and 3 Men In Duvalier Regime; Confirmation by UK Consul General/Weak Condition of Banque Commerciale d'Haiti/Background On Various Personalities and Their Present LocationDATE DISTR. 2 3 DEC 1963NO. PAGES 2REFERENCES C-DC8-54950DATE OF INFO. Dec 68PLACE & DATE ACQ. Faiti/Dec 68THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATIONSOURCE US citizen; independent businessman who has visited in Haiti for extended periods during the past four years. He is currently attempting to promote private financial backing for installation of generating equipment at the Barrage de Peligre dam and for educational television in Haiti.[This report was developed and prepared by a US Army representative assigned to the office of preparation.]1. I recently spent approximately three days in Haiti (9-12 Dec 68) and while there had extended visits with Clemard Joseph Charles, President, Banque Commerciale d'Haiti, and also owner of a sisal plantation and will. Present during my visits with Charles was his personal assistant and con- fidant, Ludovich Celestines. Charles, a devout Catholic, personally told me that he intended to attempt to overthrow Duvalier. He has made specific plans for this overthrow in late February or early March 1969. He claims that he definitely has the Army and the Catholic Church with him, and that the overthrow will be without bloodshed.2. I had not intended to contact other officials or individuals in Haiti. However, on the last day of my stay I was invited to visit with Clovis M. Desinor, formerly Haiti's representative to the UN and currently Dr. Duvalier's Minister of Finance. He is said to be the No. 2 man in Haiti - next to Duvalier. Present at the meeting with Desinor was his assistant, Dr. Herve Boyer and reportedly the No. 3 man.BACKGROUND3. I first met the individuals mentioned above in 1965-66 while on an extended stay in Haiti for business purposes. I was introduced to Charles by Max Rowe, a driver assigned to me by the Haitian Government and whose wife, Raymonde, was the personal secretary for Charles. Rowe continued to drive for me on that first and subsequent visits to Haiti except on this latest visit when he was absent in the US.4. When I first met Charles he was President of the Banque Commerciale d'Haiti, owned the Sisal plantation and mill, also owned a tannery financed by West German interests, and was the President of the limiti se Chamber of Commerce and Haitian correspondent for the First National City Bank of New York. During the period approximately one year prior to June 1967, Charles put into effect a system of Social Security (Office of National Assurance) which was working well and liked by the Haitian![signature]NFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORTGROUPYESC-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-LYESThe dissemination of this document la limited to sivilian amployees and active duly military personnal within the intelligence sempenat the USIB membur agencies, and to thase thase senior officials of the member agensies who must ast upon the information. However, unless specifically contrelled in escordance with paragraph 8 of DCID 1/7; it may be releated to thatd. sumpahants at the departments and agencias of the U. S. Government directly pertherpeting in the production el National Intelligence. If SHALL NOT BE DISSEMINATED: TO CONTRACTORS. I shall not be distamirisind to organise flans er pereennel, including consultants, under e sentractual rolationship to the U. S. Government without the written permission of the originuter.