Military branches and institutions

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{"value"=>"1980-1985", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1980/1985"}
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{"value"=>"Military branches and institutions"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series includes reports from various military arms that either fell under the command of FAd'H or were associated with national security and intelligence. These reports touch on a number of concerns: the purchases of arms and equipment, list of monthly budgets and expenditures, forms requesting or authorizing military leave or for firearms permits, information on military tactics and formations, and a variety of forms related to the administrative functions of the FAd'H. The Military Academy folder includes lists of graduating cadets and examination results, while the Camp d'Application holds reports on military training including one describing the retraining of VSN/tonton makouts. This series also documents activities relating to the military and the Haitian population. The La Marine Haïtienne folder holds reports related to drug trafficking and Haitian migrant \"clandestine voyages\" to Miami. Also included in this series are reports of military ceremonies with a political agenda.</p> <p> The FAd'H Police folders hold police reports spanning the period 1981-1985 and were usually addressed to or were written by the Commission d'Enquête Permanente (Investigation Committee or Palace Intelligence Agency), located in the courtyard of the prison of Casernes Dessalines where many Haitian political prisoners were tortured or executed. The notorious chief of police Albert \"Tiboule\" Pierre usually signed or wrote these police reports suggesting their perceived importance to national security. Many of the reports detail acts of public violence involving the FAd'H and the VSN/tonton makout, effects of natural disaster on the economy, and incidents of popular unrest such as 1984 food riots in the central region of Hinche. Additionally, there is a high volume of reports describing the repatriation of migrants interdicted by U.S. Coast Guards on the high seas, and other reports of popular unrest, which were probably the antecedents to the dechoukaj.</p>"}
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1980
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1980
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1985
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1980
date_inclusive_end
1985

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  1. Fad'h-Camp d'application
  2. Cercle D'Airain Et De L'Intelligence
  3. Corps des Volontaires de La Securite Nationale (U.S.N.)
  4. Corps des Leopards [3/1]
  5. Haitian Air Force (Corps D'Aviation)
  6. Military documents [2/1]
  7. Presidential Guard
  8. Fad'H – Police [5/1]