351. Editorial Note
On May 21, General Leon Cantave, Haitian Army Chief of Staff, issued a proclamation dissolving the Executive Council and announcing that the Army had assumed control of the government. Daniel Fignole, a former Army Chief of Staff, was sworn in as Provisional President on May 26. At the 325th meeting of the National Security Council on May 27, Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles discussed the situation in Haiti. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records)
Fignole was forced into exile by an Army coup on June 14. A Military Council of Government, headed by the new Army Chief of [Page 955] Staff Antonio Kebreau, was formed. Documentation on these events is in Department of State, Central Files 738.00 and 738.02.