CURRENT STATUS OF THE SERVICE DUVALIER
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/14/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE: CURRENT STATUS OF THE SERVICE DUVALIER

DATE: 07/14/1970

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Haiti

Mid-July 1970

Current Status

of: the

Service Duvalier (SD)

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SOURCE

Haiti, Port au Prince (14 July 1970)

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A former Haitian government employee who hes che

confidence of many members of the luvaller government.

His reporting has been accurate since 1963

He received

the information from a Haltien military officer who 1s

opposed to Duvalier, who has access to the files of a

Haitian Intelligence Service, and who has furnished

reliable information. ?

1. As of mid-July 1970, the presidential Investigative

service, Service luveller, hed gone througa Mad trai

another of its

crensformations. Formerly headed by Eloia

and then Luc

Destr, it ie now liceded by four members

of approximately co-qual rank.

They are Col. Breton

Claude, Commander of the Desalines Battalion;

Arcelafe, Jacques

rour

*St. -Louls.

Chairman of the Chenher of Deputies. Luc Desir and Vermond

i ul In, hoth longtime membere of the SD, continue to hold

their Jobs, but their influence hes declined and neither

one han

men appears active at the present time.

The investigative

Malberteg.c 1

a i d 1

Mla

2.

rixcept

for the Investigation of che 24 April Coast

card revolt, which is lein, personally handled by Claude,

Cambronne, Fourcend and St. Louis, the SD has received no

Inveattrative asaignments in recent montha.

The SD offices,

st111 located in the National Palece, have been more or

less vecant in recent months as the focus ot its work has

shtfted to the Desalines Barracks.

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(Field Comment. The always amorphous structure

of the SD appears to have been further confused by the

appointment of investigatine commisgions to look into

the Coast Cuard revolt and the earlier errests of Col.

Kesner

Blain, Quartermaster of the Haitian Armed

Forces, Clemard Joseph Charles, President of the

Commercial Bank of Haiti; and others.

It seems 11kely

that the SD as formerly constituted has been allowed to

1le dormant with Claude, Cambronne, Fourcand and St. Louis

taking over the politically sensitive investigations

outside the framework of the SD.

4.

Field Dissent

State, Defatt, CINCSO.

santa Dontinon)

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