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Viewing cable 06LIMA4566, NAS MONTHLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2006

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06LIMA4566 2006-12-04 20:25 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
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DE RUEHPE #4566/01 3382025
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 042025Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3193
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 4148
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7112
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ DEC QUITO 0863
RHMFIUU/DEPT OF STATE AIR WING PATRICK AFB FL
RHEHOND/DIRONDCP WASHDC
RHMFIUU/COGARD INTELCOORDCEN WASHINGTON DC
RULSJGA/COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC//G-CI/G-M/G-OLE//
RUCOWCA/COMLANTAREA COGARD PORTSMOUTH VA
RUWDQAA/COMPACAREA COGARD ALAMEDA CA
UNCLAS LIMA 004566 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INL/LP 
STATE FOR WHA/PPC 
ONDCP FOR LT COL RONALD GARNER 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
SUBJECT: NAS MONTHLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2006 
 
REF: LIMA 3995 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (U)  The key developments in November 2006: 
 
** As of November 30, CORAH surpasses annual goal by 
eradicating 10,006 hectares of coca leaf. 
 
** The GOP's 2007 Eradication Plan awaiting final 
approval--probably in December. 
 
** Institute for Tropical Crops (ICT) has five-year plan for 
self-sufficiency. 
 
** GOP's Minister of Interior visits Santa Lucia police base 
and sees eradication; speaks with police cadets and CORAH. 
 
** Second police "pre-academy" starts in Mazamari. 
 
** Narcotrafficking ignites economic boom in cities of 
Ayacucho and Huanta. 
 
** NAS Aviation coping with airlift gaps left by poor 
maintenance of GOP aircraft. 
 
** The last 4 of 23 UH-2s arrive in Peru. 
 
** The Minister of Justice declared her support for non-penal 
asset forfeiture law. 
 
END SUMMARY 
 
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YEARLY GOAL REACHED: 10,000 HECTARES ERADICATED 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
2. (U)  As of November 30, CORAH surpassed its annual goal by 
eradicating 10,006 hectares of coca leaf.  CORAH's success 
comes despite another delay in operations from November 14 to 
27 due to the GOP's need for police support for the regional 
and municipal elections on November 19.  CORAH resumed 
operations on November 28 with 120 eradicators and 62 police 
in the field.  The full police contingent has yet to return 
to Santa Lucia.  Reaching the 10,000-hectare goal is all the 
more notable because over the past year, CORAH has been 
delayed 4 times for over 2 weeks when the police have been 
taken away to support 3 national elections and a Presidential 
inauguration. 
 
3. (U)  The GOP's CY 2007 Eradication Plan was recently 
reviewed by NAS, USAID, and PAS.  It is expected to be 
approved in early December.  As in past years, DEVIDA has 
included a contingency plan to enter the Monzon if the GOP 
provides sufficient resources and exhibits the political 
will.  In addition, DEA and DEVIDA have approved for 
publication the results of the "Cocaine Production Averted" 
(CPA) formula, which makes a coca plant/cocaine-produced 
equivalent.  This will be reported along with hectares 
eradicated at the end of the year.  Although we will continue 
refining the CPA, its current 97-percent accuracy rate 
provides an acceptable set of data.  The Embassy's Public 
Affairs Section chairs a weekly communications meeting on CN 
and AD, attended by USAID, NAS, and POL.  The press 
secretaries for the Minister of Interior and DEVIDA and the 
 
SIPDIS 
CORAH Executive Director have been invited to participate in 
order to coordinate communications strategies such as the 
release of the new Eradication Plan. 
 
4. (U)  An eradication-alternative development conference is 
being planned in Lima on December 5-6.  Joint NAS-USAID 
delegations are coming from Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and 
Afghanistan as well as representatives of INL/LP, 
USAID-Washington, and ONDCP.  The conferees will discuss best 
practices in coordinating programmd eradication with 
alternative development efforts. 
 
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ICT PLANS FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY 
------------------------------- 
5. (U)  NAS has been working with the Institute for Tropical 
Crops (ICT) to prepare a five-year plan that includes the 
development of a cooperative to allow farmers to more 
effectively market their crops and attain self-sufficiency. 
Both the cooperative and marketing components will be part of 
ICT's FY 2007 budget. 
 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
MINISTER OF INTERIOR VIEWS ERADICATION OPERATIONS 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
6. (U)  After several attempts to get Minister of Interior 
Pilar Mazzetti to visit field operations, she finally went to 
Santa Lucia on November 8 with several generals and Vice 
Minister Dardo Lopez-Dolz.  The group did an overview of the 
eradication operations via a MI-17 helicopter, and Mazzetti 
gave inspirational speeches to the current class of 250 
police cadets, affirming the presence of 50 women and 
indigenous representatives, to the students in the 
pre-Academy that started in October, and to the CORAH workers 
in camp.  It was difficult to adhere to the schedule with the 
competing priorities of the generals.  The scheduled trip to 
Juanjui to visit AD sites, highlighting the successful nexus 
between eradication and AD, was postponed.  However, the 
Minister promised to return in the coming month to review AD 
programs in the company of several other Ministers--a promise 
she set about arranging as soon as she returned to Lima. 
 
--------------------------------------------- 
INTERDICTION OPS SLOWED; PRE-ACADEMIES START 
--------------------------------------------- 
7. (U)  In November, the DIRANDRO Special Operations Team 
destroyed 27 cocaine-base laboratories in the Apurimac/Ene 
River Valleys (VRAE) and in the Upper Huallaga.  Based on 
data from DIRANDRO, so far this year 698 cocaine-base 
laboratories, 11 cocaine-HCl laboratories, 2 metric tons of 
chemical precursors, and 1.39 metric tons of coca leaf were 
destroyed.  Also, according to DIRANDRO, it seized 4,469 kg 
of cocaine base and 14,340 kg of cocaine HCl.  DIRANDRO 
pulled the interdiction team from the field to provide 
security for the November 19 elections as they did with the 
police providing security for eradication. 
 
8. (U)  NAS and DIRANDRO started its second "pre-academy" in 
Mazamari.  The one in Santa Lucia started in October and the 
Ayacucho pre-academy is slated to open in December.  So far, 
the schools have attracted 600 applicants from the local 
area, of which 154 qualified for Mazamari and 167 for Santa 
Lucia (a total of 321 students).  The schooling lasts six 
months.  The goal of the pre-academy is to prepare local 
students, who have received substandard, secondary-school 
educations, to compete for placement in the police academies. 
 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
NARCO-ECONOMY, NARCO-CULTURE THRIVING IN AYACUCHO 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
9. (SBU)  During a pre-election visit to the Ayacucho region 
on Nov. 8-10, poloff interviewed a range of local people who 
claimed that narcotrafficking from the VRAE sustains the 
economies of the cities of Ayacucho and Huanta. 
Narcotrafficking and coca-growing in the VRAE was cited as a 
key source of jobs, particularly for area youth who migrate 
to the area during school vacations.  The extent of 
narco-penetration in Ayacucho is surprising, and suggests a 
tough fight ahead for licit alternatives.  To the person, 
contacts alleged that the drug trade is financing a 
mini-economic boom in the city and region.  This includes: 
new houses in Huanta, new businesses in Ayacucho (opened by 
people with no visible source of financing) and, above all, a 
surge in youth spending, in the form of packed discotheques 
on weekends, high levels of alcohol consumption, and abundant 
cell phones (see reftel). 
 
--------------------------------------------- -- 
NAS AVIATION SUPPORTS A VARIETY OF CN MISSIONS 
--------------------------------------------- -- 
10. (SBU)  NAS Aviation is continuing its support of CN 
operations east of the Andes using USG and Peruvian National 
Police (PNP) helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.  The PNP 
aviation support has not been dependable, mostly due to a 
lack of GOP financial support, resulting in delayed 
maintenance, lack of spare parts, and no fuel.  NAS does 
provide limited financial support for CN missions.  Since 
many of the aircraft in the Peruvian armed forces and the PNP 
are not in flyable condition, the aircraft supporting the CN 
mission are requested by the GOP on short notice to handle 
other missions, e.g., perceived CT threats, medevacs, and 
flights for GOP leaders.  The FAP Counternarcotics Joint C-26 
Air Squadron continued to support counternarcotics missions. 
The aircraft have verified the condition of 37 clandestine 
runways with 3 being detected active and discovered 3 new 
runways. 
 
--------------------------------------------- 
FINAL FOUR HUEY-2 HELICOPTERS ARRIVE IN PERU 
--------------------------------------------- 
11. (SBU)  On November 7, the Ambassador and the Peruvian 
Minister of Interior participated in a ceremony at the PNP 
airbase in Lima to mark the arrival of the last four UH-2 
helicopters to arrive in Peru.  NAS now has a fleet of 23 
UH-2s.  These four UH-2s are the culmination of a three-year 
plan and $60 million to replace 16 UH-1s with 24 UH-2 "Super 
Hueys".  (Per INL/A, the final UH-2 will not go to Peru, so 
we have 23 UH-2s.)  The additional airlift capability was 
needed to transport the increase in CN police east of the 
Andes from 200 to a force of 3,000 in 2008. 
 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
MOVING TOWARD NATIONALIZATION OF FLIGHT TRAINING 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
12. (SBU)  In Pucallpa, nine Peruvian air police pilots are 
completing the UH-2 qualification course in Pucallpa, which 
is the first one being jointly taught by HAI from Titusville, 
Florida and Peruvian Instructor Pilots (IP).  In January and 
February 2007, HAI will qualify additional Peruvian pilots as 
IPs, and the March qualification course will be conducted 
entirely by Peruvian IPs.  This is another step toward 
nationalization of the Air Police.  The program will be 
monitored by Air Wing standardization instructor pilots to 
ensure DOS requirements are met. 
 
--------------------------------------------- ----------------- 
PORT SEIZURES INCREASE AS TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING TAKE EFFECT 
--------------------------------------------- ----------------- 
13. (SBU)  In November, the Peruvian Customs/Police Manifest 
Review Unit (MRU) at the port of Callao sent out 16 domestic 
alerts and 3 international alerts, one of which proved 
positive so far.  The MRU received a DEA tip that a container 
destined for Spain contained cocaine HCL packed in asparagus. 
 An international alert was sent to DEA Bahamas where 318 kg 
were seized at the container's first transshipment point. 
 
14. (SBU)  From November 1-27, interdiction operations at 
Jorge International Airport (Lima) resulted in 52 arrests and 
the seizure of 178.64 kg of cocaine HCL.  Included in the 
total were 23 passengers ("mules") carrying drugs.  We expect 
an increase in seizures and arrests with the acquisition of a 
new body x-ray scanner, which will arrive by March 2007.  One 
trafficking trend noted this month is the use of the Internet 
for buying tickets that provide boarding passes (normally 
only for domestic flights) where the "mule" does not carry 
checked baggage and attempts to go straight to the gate, 
by-passing or slipping past security checkpoints.  On one 
occasion, six mules, attempted to take a flight to Tacna in 
southern Peru and transfer to a flight to Brazil.  In 
addition, the Peruvian Post Office (SERPOST) counter-drug 
program seized a total of 63 kg of cocaine HCL from 17 
packages. 
 
15. (SBU)  On November 27-30, over 300 Peruvian Airport 
Customs, Police, Immigration, and airline officials were 
trained to identify, report, and/or arrest individuals 
traveling with fraudulent documents (e.g., visas, passports, 
resident alien cards).  Two U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (USCBP) officers conducted the training.  On 
November 21-24, NAS Ports Program sponsored technician 
training on ion scanners for Peruvian Customs and Counterdrug 
Police at the Smith-Heiman Detection Systems training center 
in Toronto, Canada.  This course will ensure that the 
ion-scanners can be maintained by Peruvian technicians, which 
will greatly increase Peru's self sufficiency with 
ion-scanners.  The five Peruvian Customs/Police officials who 
received the training will also train others. 
 
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GOP MINISTER SUPPORTS NON-PENAL ASSET FORFEITURE LAW 
--------------------------------------------- -------- 
16. (SBU)  Money laundering issues are gaining a higher 
profile in Peru with the help of NAS programs.  The NAS 
Anti-Money Laundering Program joined efforts with the United 
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Peru to fund the work of 
a Colombian expert to work with the Peruvian Ministry of 
Justice to draft a non-penal asset forfeiture law that will 
strengthen Peru's anti-money laundering and asset forfeiture 
legal framework.  The Minister of Justice met with a Peruvian 
congressional group on December 1 and declared her intent to 
present this new law, which would enable the government to 
confiscate illicit assets through non-penal jurisdictional 
procedures to the Peruvian Congress in December.  The new law 
would be a very important tool in the war against organized 
crime and the laundering of illegal assets. 
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