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DATE: SUNDAY, December 19, 1993                   TAG: 9312190059
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-15   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Short

MEMO: CIA DISCOUNTED REPORTS OF HAITI TERROR

A CIA analyst discounted reports of terror in Haiti and praised one of the leaders of the coup that ousted the nation's first democratically elected president, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The analyst, Brian Latell, said he saw "no evidence of oppressive rule" or mass killings of civilians by Haiti's military rulers during a visit in July 1992, according to a secret CIA memo obtained by The Miami Herald.

Another report by Latell and CIA Director James Woolsey that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was treated for mental illness in Montreal in the 1980s has been discounted by several U.S. lawmakers.

Latell's findings clash starkly with reports from the State Department and human rights groups about widespread oppression and violence since Aristide was overthrown in September 1991. - Associated Press 


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