Byline: Knight-Ridder
At a time when human rights monitors charged the Haitian military was terrorizing its people last year, a senior CIA analyst visited the country and reported "there is no systematic or frequent" murder of civilians.
In a classified CIA memo obtained by the Miami Herald, the analyst said he saw "no evidence of oppressive rule" in Haiti 10 months after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a bloody coup.
Brian Latell, the national intelligence officer for Latin America, effusively praised military-backed Prime Minister Marc Bazin and military chief Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras in the memo, dated July 21, 1992.
"I …
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