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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
10STATE13150	2010-02-14 20:30	2011-08-30 01:44	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	Secretary of State

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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 013150 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
SUBJECT: TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION 
REPORT NO. 69 
 
STATE 00013150  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES 
----------------------------------- 
 
¶1. (SBU) No evacuation flights departed February 13; 26 
American citizen evacuees manifested for the 2000 EST 
February 13 flight were delayed until February 14.  An 
additional 15 to 20 people at the airport February 13 were 
requested to return February 14 for processing.  A total of 
16,493 have been evacuated to date.  No potential American 
evacuees or family members are currently waiting at the 
Embassy.  (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mail, TF1/Consular 
Affairs Conference Call) 
 
¶2. (SBU)  Remains of the final missing Lynn University 
student and seven other American citizens arrived at Dover at 
0630 EST February 14.  No additional American citizen remains 
await transport from the Embassy's mortuary.  (TF1/Consular 
Affairs Conference Call) 
 
¶3. (SBU)  Embassy Port-au-Prince and the Consular Affairs 
Bureau are working on a revised travel warning for release 
when commercial air travel is scheduled to resume February 
¶19.  (TF1/Consular Affairs Conference Call) 
 
 
HUMANITARIAN UPDATE 
-------------------- 
 
¶4. (SBU)  Food distribution occurred at 15 of the 16 fixed 
sites on February 13; relief agencies distributed food 
benefitting 208,000 people in Port-au-Prince.  Agencies plan 
distribution for nearly 100,000 people at five sites 
February 14.  Food distribution will begin at Kenscoff on 
February 15 and Croix-des-Bouquets on February 16. 
(TF1/USAID SitRep #56) 
 
¶5. (U)  Media report foreign and Haitian officials plan to 
provide each of the 250,000 displaced families in Haiti a 
plastic tarp by May 1 for temporary shelter.  Following 
this, officials hope to construct transitional shelters with 
corrugated iron roofs and earthquake-resistant timber or 
steel frames to last for up to three years.  (AP) 
 
MEDICAL RESPONSE 
----------------- 
 
¶6. (SBU)  All HHS Disaster Medical Assistance Response Teams 
(DMATs) funded by USAID/OFDA are scheduled to demobilize 
February 14.  DMATs treated approximately 7,000 patients. 
(TF1/USAID SitRep #56) 
 
¶7. (SBU)  USNS Comfort has completed over 1,000 surgeries 
since its arrival January 20.  It closed the neo-natal ICU 
February 13.  The majority of admissions are now for routine 
surgical procedures rather than earthquake-related traumas. 
(TF1/USAID SitRep #56, TF1/SOUTHCOM SitRep) 
 
 
STATE 00013150  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
SECURITY/INFRASTRUCTURE 
----------------------- 
 
¶8. (SBU)  No significant security incidents occurred 
February 13.  Fifty thousand people gathered without 
incident at the National Palace for the second day of the 
three-day national mourning period.  (TF1/SOUTHCOM SitRep) 
 
¶9. (SBU)  USCGC Hamilton interdicted a sailboat 45 nautical 
miles northeast of Haiti with 88 Haitian migrants aboard. 
The Coast Guard will repatriate the migrants to Cap Haitien. 
(TF1/USCG e-mail) 
¶10. (U) Two Dominican soldiers on the Haiti-Dominican 
Republic border shot and killed two undocumented Haitians 
suspected of attempting to take a stolen motorbike back to 
Haiti.  (laht.com) 
 
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS 
---------------------- 
 
¶11. (SBU)  The Haitian government has resumed control of the 
Port-au-Prince airport during daylight hours.  (TF1/SOUTHCOM 
SitRep) 
 
¶12. (SBU)  Prime Minister Bellerive met with Embassy 
officials February 13 and agreed the Government of Haiti 
supports and authorizes USG efforts to excavate and recover 
American citizen remains at appropriate sites.  (TF1/Embassy 
Port-au-Prince e-mail) 
 
OTHER MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS 
------------------------ 
 
¶13. (U)  Media report U.S. troop levels have decreased from 
20,000 immediately after the earthquake to 13,000 as 
international aid and relief efforts improve.  (AFP) 
 
¶14. (SBU)  Canada will end its military deployment March 13. 
There are currently 1,979 Canadian troops in Haiti.  (Ottawa 
168) 
 
¶15. Additional updates are available through our classified 
Intellipedia portal at 
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Cris is_HAITI. 
 
¶16. (U) Minimize considered. 
CLINTON

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