A collection of Communiqués from The Washington Office on Haiti :

• Sans date.
• 1986 : 08.08, 07.10, sept. - nov., 02, 10.12.
• 1987 : 07.02, 20.03, 08.08, 11.09, 17.11, 29.11.
• 1988 : 18.01, avril, 21.06, 02.11.
• 1989 : 17.11, 30.12.
• 1990 : 10.01, 23.01 (juin 1989 - juin 1991).
• 1991 : 17.10, 28.10 + extrait du New Yok Times du 27.10.
• 1992 : 29.05
• Tract : Haïtian ressources : campaign to support Democracy and Human Rights.

Documents relating to St. Martial :

1. 06.01.14 Archbp./Superior : agreement regarding St. Martial.
2. 06.01.14 Contract between Archdiocese and Congregation St. Martial.
3. 11.05.17 Plea from Rome to Mgr. Le Roy not to withdraw from St. Martial.
4. 30.07.17 Archbishop/Nuncio : financial problems of Spiritans at St. Martial
5. 12.11.17 Le Roy/Vatican : comments on contents of no. 4.
6. 29.01.20 Considerations submitted to Archbishop of Port-au-Prince and Mgr. LEROY by the Association Amicales du Séminaire.
7. 09.02.56 Summary of the legal history of St. Martial.
8. 02.02.66 Le Gall : Report on legal and financial situation of St. Martial.
9. No date Prospectus of Junior Seminary of Saint Martial.
10. 04.09.69 St. Martial taken over by Government.
11. 04.09.69 Berthaud/French Consul : informs him of no. 10.
12. 13.09.69 Berthaud & Adrien : regarding spiritan property in Haiti.
13. 28.02.87 Plea from religious to Archbp. Ligondé to resolve problem of St. Martial
14. 29.04.87 Berthaud/Adrien sends information on Haiti, including minutes of District meeting with Lécuyer on 28.08.69, just before expulsion.
15. 13.07.87 Haas/Adrien : reply to letter of Adrien re St. Martial.
16. 01.09.87 Memorandum for GC re documents presented by Nuncio Romeo.
17. 05.10.87 Romeo/Haas : further propositions re St. Martial.
18. 10.10.87 Ligondé/Haas : sends report from jurist regarding St Martial.
19. 12.10.87 Romeo/Haas : sends 18 and 20.
20. No date Report from Jurist mentioned in 18.
21. 30.10.87 Haas/Ligondé : comment on 20. Adrien to represent Spiritans.
22. 17.11.87 Romeo/Haas ; further considerations re the St. Martial affair.
23. 17.11.87 Ligondé/Haas : Bp. Lafontant will represent the Archdiocese.
24. 10.12.87 Haas/Romeo : reply 22. Answers accusations.
25. 01.02.88 Opinion of Jurist representing Spiritans, totally supporting their stance.
26. 19.04.89 Nicolas/Ligondé : minutes of their meeting on 17.04.89.

A Dossier of Papers from SEDOS concerning Haiti /

• Haïti Group : solidarity (adresses), sans date.
• 1989 : 02.02, 02.05, 16.10.
• 1990 : 14.05 (+ copie de Washington Office on Haïti du 4 et 21 mars + extrait de l'Osservatore Romane "Jean-Paul II en Haïti en 1983), 31.10 + SOS Torture (mai).
• 1991 : Missionnaires OMI (letter du 06.01), Sedos 14.01, 08.04, Message du P. HANSSENS (19.10), 28.10 + 2 lettres collectives, 12.11, 09.12.
• 1992 : liste d'adresses (janv.), Sedos 25.01 + extraits de journaux, 30.03 (3), 26.05, invitation à une réunion Place St Pierre, lettre de la Congr. de Ste Croix.

A Dossier of Press Cuttings regarding Haiti /

• 1969 : Le Nouvelliste (03.09) nationalisation des biens de St Martial.
• 1970 : Le Nouvelliste (29.04) sympathies du clergé pour Duvalier.
• La Croix (25.07) "La Démocratie à petits pas".
• 1986 : Missionwilde (printemps) "The Boat People". Eglise en Guadeloupe (avril) "En Haïti". Eglise à la Réunion (mai) "Plus de 100 ans de travail de l'Eglise".
• 1987 : Le Monde (04.09) Une Eglise menacée d'éclatement. La Croix (22.08) J.B. Aristide : le prêtre-découqueur d'Haïti". Le Figaro (04-05.07) Le pouvoir fait marche arrière", (11-12.07) "Haïti, Panama, fièvre permanente", 13.07 "Ultimatum au gouvernement".
  The Haïti Beat (oct.) Haiti's Military...
• 1988 : National Catholic Reporter (30.09) "Haïtians decry U.S. State Department manipulation". The Tablet (01.10) "Turbulent Priest".
• 1989 : Catholica (07.03) reportage sur Haïti (italien).
• 1990 : Le Monde (24.01) "retour de la peur et de la méfiance". Reuter (janv.) Vives critiques du général Avril contre l'opposition. La Croix (23.01) Etat de siège, (26.01 La démocratie entre parenthèses. La répression s'accroît.
• 1991 : Le Monde (09.01), La Croix (09.01) Echec du putsch duvaliériste.
  Washington Post (23.10) après le coup d'Etat contre Aristide, (25.10) "If Aristide returns, he's a'Dead Duck", (26.10) actions contre les radios, (29.11). Haïti obtains Petroleum.." N. Y. Times (25.10) "The essential First Steep", (27.10) Restore the Road to Democracy". National Catholic Reporter (25.10) "Critics charge Aristide violated Haiti's Constitution"; Osservatore Romano (02-03.12) appel du pape.
• 1992 : Amnesty International (janv.). Washington Post (21.01) Proposal for Aristide's Return Stalls", (07, 10 et 11.02) renvoi de réfugiés, (11.02) "Specter of Famine", (25.02 "Supressing Haiti's Courageous Clergy". Divers contre la torture 13, 25, 27.01...), National Catholic Reporter (24.01) "An Outrageous Vatican appointment in Haïti". N.Y. Times (07, 11.02) réfugiés, N.R.C. (31.01) Vatican Oppointment in Haïti hurts Aristide".

Correspondence 02.10.80 - 10.06.84 :

1. 20.10.80 SG/Rooney : requests finance for Miami Haitian centre
2. 28.10.80 Hughes/SG : reply to 1
3. 11.11.80 SG/Adrien (Superior) : news of centres. Advice on life-style.
4. 11.11.80 SG/Sr.Theresa : thanks for generous donation.
5. 02.01.81 Headley/SG : sends report on meeting with Haitians and Brooklyn diocesan authorities
6. 04.01.81 Hornblow/Sec Gen : thanks for Trachtler's letter for President Reagan.
7. 03.02.81 Card. Rossi/SG : requests personnel Turks & Caicos islands
8. 13.01.81 Littner/Provs. : volunteers for above?
9. 05.03.81 Rooney/SG : re grant for Haitians. Grant for Angola.
10. 12.03.81 Dominique/SG : comments on Turks and Caicos. Report of visit.
11. 17.03.81 SG/Sup : contact Rooney re World Mercy grant.
12. 17.03.81 SG/Rooney : re grant.
13. 31.03.81 Rooney/Adrien : sends $30,000 for refugees.
14. 21.12.81 Request to Pope for support for Haitian refugees.
15. 21.12.81 Trachtler/President Reagan : plea for Haitian refugees.
16. 20.12.81 Adrien : request to Pope to intervene.
17. 22.02.82 Sup/SG: sends correspondence with Diocese of Brooklyn
    re their disputed status.
18. 13.04.82 SG/Sup : reply to 17. Pledges support.
19. 14.06.82 Urfié/SG : seeks money for Creole lectionary.
20. 31.08.82 Adrien/SG : appeal for funds. Forthcoming meeting with Bp.
21. 11.12.82 SG : appeal to Dutch agency for Haitians.
22. 22.04.83 SG/Adrien : re Turks and Caicos.
23. 29.03.84 Sup/SG : situation in Haiti and refugees elsewhere.
24. 08.06.84 SG/Sup : announces brief visit that month.
25. 10.06.84 Sup/Haas : Thanks for grant. Jean-Yves URFIE.
    Autres lettres :
    P. JACQUOT (26.02.1978, 22.12.1980), M. Roger MORTES (25.04.1980), P. Jean-Claude (28.10.1980).

Correspondence 20.07.84 - 24.04.85 :

1. 20.07.84 Urfié/SG : offers to work with Haitians in Guyane
2. 21.07.84 Sup/Haas : support for no.1 Problems arising.
3. 18.08.84 Urfié/SG: delays transfer to Guyane. Goes meanwhile to Bahamas.
4. 09.08.84 Sup/Rooney : appeal for help.
5. 15.08.84 Rooney/Sup : sends $13,000.
6. 13.09.84 SG/Urfié : reply to 1. Support transfer to Guyane
7. 13.09.84 SG/Sup : thanks and support.
8. 25.09.84 Urfié/SG : reply to 6.
9. 04.10.89 SG/Dominique : France will pay for his recyclage.
10. 09.10.84 Valero/SG : Contract with Spiritans in Brooklyn.
11. 16.10.84 SG/Sup : query re Haitian archives.
12. 17.10.84 Bevan/Valero : reply to 10.
13. 29.11.84 Valero/Sup : draft contact with Haitian spiritans
14. 06.12.84 Sup/Valero : seeks clarification re contract.
15. 18.12.84 Sup : report on meeting with Valero re contract.
16. 18.12.84 Valero/Sup : his report of meeting.
17. 18.12.84 Valero/SG : informing him of recent developments.
18. 19.12.84 Sup/SG : comments on proposed contract.
19. 31.12.84 Littner/Sup : acknowledges 17. SG away until March.
20. 05.01.85 Bevan/Valero : reply to 17. Wait until March.
21. 14.01.85 Verdieu/SG : re financial support for refugees.
22. 21.01.85 SG/Valero : reply to 17. Serious reservations about draft contract.
23. 21.01.85 SG/Sup : updates him on developments.
24. 28.02.85 Sup/SG : thanks for support. News of Haiti and refugees.
25. 24.03.85 Bevan/Sup : Jacques-Louis Montas.
26. 24.04.85 Smartz/SG : Adrien has had heart attack. News of the group.
27. 24.04.85 Jacquot/SG : further news of Adrien.

Correspondence 30.04.85 - 10.06.86 :

1. 30.04.85 Valero/SG : regrets delay in contact. Jean-Yves Urfié.
2. 04.06.85 Valero/SG : No contract will be signed.
3. 06.06.85 Jacquot/SG : Adrien is on convalescence.
4. 27.06.85 SG/Valero : reply to 2. Shock at decisions without discussion. Leaves many unsolved questions re Spiritan apostolate.
5. 27.06.85 SG/Sup : sends copy of 4.
6. 11.07.85 Smartz/SG : Thanks for 5. and support.
7. 30.07.85 Valero/SG : reply to 4. Document being drawn up to regulate relationship.
8. 13.08.85 SG/Valero : Acknowledgement of 7.
9. 13.08.85 SG/Sup : sends copy of 7.
10. 23.10.85 Bevan/Valero : Thanks for meeting. Hopes for better relations
11. 28.10.85 Valero/Bevan : Thanks for visit. Hopes for better communications.
12. 19.02.86 Sup/SG : Haiti re-opened. Recovery of property. Do not want to take back St. Martial.
13. 18.03.86 SG/Sup : Joy at the liberation. In favour of return of Spiritans. Invites Sup to Rome for discussions.
14. 28.04.86 SG/Kenol : thanks for looking after property in Haiti for 17 years.
15. 18.04.86 SG/Archbp. Ligondé : Spiritans want to return to Haiti. Requests the return of property.
16. 10.06.86 Ligondé/SG : happy to have Spiritans return. Problems of property can be sorted out.

Information 1980 - 1986 :

1. 01.05.81 Sup/SG : Spiritan project for Haitians exiles in Bahamas
2. 22.11.84 Urfié/SG : Paper on exiled Haitians, with a view to new apostolate in Guyane.
3. April 1986 Antoine Adrien : dossier on the return of Spiritans to Haiti.
4. April 1986 Report on conversations between SG and Antoine Adrien re return of Spiritans to Haiti.
5. 23.04.86 Report on meeting at Generalate with Mgr. Gayot, Bishop of Cap Haitian.
6. 27.05.86 Minutes of a meeting of the District of Haiti in Brooklyn.

Information 2 1980 - 1986 :

1. 1962 Projet de Centre Universitaire - St. Martial
2. 1969 Haiti and the Church
3. 1969 Les Biens de la Congregation du St-Esprit. History of St. Martial
4. April 1970 Support for Duvalier from Catholic and Protestant Church leaders
5. Nov. 1979 The Floridan : "What did the Haitians do ?"
6. Feb. 1980 The Sunday Star-Ledger "Toxic wastes..."
7. Aug 1980 Church World Service : Haitian Refugee Update.
8. Oct 1980 Haitian Refugee Centre, Miami.
9. Dec 1980 Miami Herald "Duvalier's Tyranny is confirmed".
10. 1980 Haitian Refugee Centre
11. no date M.Hooper : Reagan's Haitian Refugee Crisis
12. 1981 Memorandum (06.05) to Committee on Foreign Affairs. Letter from Fr ADRIEN + compte rendu financier de l'année 1980.
13. Nov 1981 Caribbean Contact "The hell thst's Haïti.
14. Fall 1981 Refugee and human Rights Newsletter
15. Nov 1981 Haitian Refugee Project, Washington
16. Nov 1981 Ditto
17. Nov. 1981 Miami Herald - Viewpoint "Looking for Haitian solutions".
18. Dec. 1981 The Washington Post (Refugees)
19. no date Support for Haitian Refugees
20. Dec. 1981 N. Y. Times "R. Gardia deplores life au a Refugee Center..."
21. 04.12.1981 Ditto "Suit by 6 Haitian Aliens Tests US Detention Policy.
22. 12.12.1981 Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights (Haïti)
23. 12.12.1981 The Nation : Refugee Gulags
24. Jan 1982 Tropic : Welcome to Camp Krome.
25. Jan 1982 Minority Rights Group : Haitian Refugees in US (21 p.)
26. 12.01.1982 Miami News "Treatment of Haitians breeds distrust".
27. 23.01.1982 Miami News "Pressure Duvalier to make Reforms".

Information 3 1982 - 1986 :

1. 13.01.1982 Miami News "Duvalier should answer for refugee plight".
2. 10.01.1982 Miami Herald "INS lawyer resigns over Haitian policy".
3. 17.02.1982 Update: Stave Forester (detention, litigation...)
4. 18.02.1982 Miami News Duvaliers put Haïti on the brink of destruction".
5. 13.01.1982 New York Times "Haitians as Hostages".
6. 08.04.1983 Letter from Diocesan Priests to Bishops of Haiti.
7. 18.02.1984 Radio message from Bp. Willie Romélus of Jeremie.
8. no date Collectif Paroles : Boat People (réfugees)
9. 01.03.1984 James Healey : letter to religious leaders
10. 13.07.1984 James Healey : Letter to confrères. Petition to Congress.
11. 15.06.1984 Tony Byrne : Haitian Corporate Campaign
12. 05.10.1984 Le Monde, Témoignageddes communautés chrétiennes...
13. Nov 1985 The Haiti Beat "US and Haïti : Alliance against a People"
14. 12.02.1986 James Healy : Letter to confrères on Liberation of Haiti.
15. Feb 1986 The Haiti Beat "Unwanted, Haitian Refugees in the U.S."