[1] The unit, staffed by officers of the Armed Forces of Haiti, "engaged in drug trafficking and political violence".
[1] The CIA provided half a million to a million dollars per year to train SIN in counter-narcotics, but the group produced no intelligence and instead used their training against political opponents.
The 1987 Haitian general election was cancelled after troops led by SIN member Col Jean Claude Paul massacred 30 – 300 voters on election day.
[2] Jimmy Carter later wrote that "Citizens who lined up to vote were mowed down by fusillades of terrorists' bullets.
Military leaders, who had either orchestrated or condoned the murders, moved in to cancel the election and retain control of the Government.