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...other thing Constant was: a U.S. intelligence source. Officials in Washington confirm that he was on the payroll of the American CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, apparently from some time shortly after the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 until last spring. So Constant was getting American money when he helped the Haitian army organize FRAPH in the summer of 1993, and also a year ago when FRAPH staged a fake riot that caused the U.S.S. Harlan County to turn back from Port-au-Prince without landing any of the U.S. military personnel aboard. That...
...three years later, but the CIA always viewed him as unstable. A CIA briefer once told Congressmen that Aristide had been treated for psychiatric problems in a Canadian hospital, though the hospital said he had never been admitted. Aristide's supporters have long suspected the CIA encouraged the 1991 coup that drove him into exile. Intelligence sources in Washington deny it, but concede that the CIA knew about the coup in advance and did nothing to stop it. By one account, though, it did indirectly save Aristide's life. On the night of the coup, a soldier pointed his rifle...
...said to have lectured on "liberation theology" -- Aristide's philosophy -- at a SIN school and might well have come to the agency's attention then. Most accounts agree, however, that he was one of the supporters of the military regime that the CIA turned to for information after the coup against Aristide. That he stayed on the payroll after helping organize FRAPH is more difficult to justify. Though Constant represented FRAPH to U.S. reporters as a kind of Salvation Army doing work among the poor, its own members tell a very different story. Pierre Audin, a FRAPH member...
...hardly be higher for the eight-year-old firm, which runs two private schools in Eagan, Minnesota, and Paradise Valley, Arizona, designed as laboratories to refine new teaching methods, as well as nine schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and one in South Florida. Landing an entire district represents an enormous coup: the Hartford deal will increase annual revenues six-fold, from $34 million for the past fiscal year to approximately $200 million...
...remain calm after enraged supporters killed one man and torched 15 buildings last night. The attack on Gonaives, 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, followed a false rumor that junta holdover Major General Jean-Claude Duperval -- the Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide by an American soldier during Operation Uphold Democracy, this one apparently the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...