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Viewing cable 07LIMA767, NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2007

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07LIMA767 2007-03-14 23:52 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
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DE RUEHPE #0767/01 0732352
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 142352Z MAR 07
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4388
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 4449RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7246
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ MAR QUITO 1081
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 000767 
 
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 FOR FEBRUARY 2007 
 
REF: A. A) LIMA 0552 
     B. B) LIMA 0658 C) LIMA 0683 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (U) The key developments in February 2007: 
Eradication operations resumed; new PNP high command visit 
NAS-supported schools/bases en masse; CODEL inspects 
deforestation in drug producing area; F, Director of Foreign 
Assistance, helicopters to the field to see the nexus between 
eradication and alternative development activities; 
interdiction activity in the VRAE and Upper Huallaga 
continues at strong pace; StaffDel briefed on 
counternarcotics, trends and challenges; Air Police get their 
own instructor pilots; NAS-sponsored Airports Program on 
track for record seizures of cocaine - canines score big in 
one bust. END SUMMARY 
 
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ERADICATION BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 9 IN SAN MARTIN 
--------------------------------------------- - 
2. (SBU) On February 9, the new Peruvian National Police 
command structure finally gave orders to begin interdiction 
and eradication operations after delays for various causes. 
Operations began in the San Martin Department, where USAID 
alternative development programs are offered following 
eradication.  As of February 27, CORAH had eradicated 385 
hectares and eliminated 3,414 square meters of seedbeds, many 
in areas where legal crops were growing.  This was a slow 
start for the program -- CORAH had planned to field two 
groups of 200 eradicators and 100 police on a three-day 
rotating schedule, but a low turnout of security police meant 
that only one group of eradicators/police went out, working 
four days and resting two. 
 
(U)  NAS meets regularly with AID, CORAH and CADA to 
coordinate programmed eradication and alternative development 
activities to avoid duplicating efforts in the field.  NAS is 
also discussing with the UNODC the possible links between 
reforestation and programmed eradication. 
 
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CODEL NELSON VISITS DEFORESTED AREA IN COCA-GROWING AREA 
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3. (U)  Senator Bill Nelson visited Peru's high jungle city 
of Tarapoto to view woodlands deforested by coca cultivation 
and traditional agricultural pressures.  CODEL Nelson also 
visited the sites of USG programs to provide alternatives to 
coca and slash-and-burn agriculture, i.e., a USAID-supported 
indigenous coffee cooperative and the NAS-supported Institute 
for Tropical Crops.  The Department of San Martin, of which 
Tarapoto is the principal economic center, has the highest 
deforestation rate in Peru.  In addition to being one of the 
largest producers of illicit coca, San Martin exports the 
most wood products.  Other human deforestation pressures 
include agriculture (60% of the economic activity) and 
livestock ranching.  Senator Nelson also visited Lima, where 
he met with President Garcia (Ref B). 
 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
Visit of Randall Tobias, Director of Foreign Assistance/USAID 
Administrator 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
 
4. (U)  On February 28, after visiting the PDA program in 
Tocache, Ambassador Tobias and his staff went by helicopter 
to a nearby coca field where eradication was taking place. 
Tobias was briefed by CORAH on manual eradication procedures 
and shown coca plants at various stages of growth and how 
coca can be hidden among licit crops like cacao.  The 
eradication team consisted of 110 CORAH eradicators and 55 
Peruvian Police.  Although these particular fields were free 
of improvised explosive devices, the eradicator demonstrated 
their protective gear, emphasizing the constant dangers 
present. 
 
(U)  Ambassador Tobias continued to the Santa Lucia police 
base to see both police program activities, particularly the 
NAS-sponsored Academy where 250 students were set to graduate 
on March 2.  He also witnessed eradication operations in a 
nearby plot of illicit coca.  The group saw the destruction 
of a rustic lab, its presence demonstrating the direct link 
between illicit coca cultivation and narcotrafficking. 
 
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STAFFDEL BRIEFED ON CN PROGRAMS 
-------------------------------- 
5. (SBU) A Staffdel led by Robin Roizman, Senior Staffer for 
the HFAC, and including HFAC Investigative Counsel John 
Mackey, visited Lima mid-month to discuss the overall 
direction of foreign assistance for Peru.  NAS briefed 
Roizman and Mackey on the counter-narcotics context, trends 
and challenges, as well as on the specifics of our programs 
(police academy graduations, nexus between eradication and 
alternative development, communications program, community 
anti-drug coalitions, and the aviation/UH-2 program).  Mackey 
was supportive of the programs, but expressed concerns about 
potential opium poppy cultivation in Peru, and the relatively 
little European support for counternarcotics efforts, 
considering that a substantial amount of Peruvian cocaine 
goes to Europe.  Mackey urged Peruvian officials to engage 
the EU on the shared responsibility consumer nations have for 
narcotrafficking. 
 
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INTERDICTION CONTINUES AND PNP TRAIN IN COLOMBIA 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
 
6. (U)  In February, DIRANDRO teams in the VRAE and Upper 
Huallaga areas destroyed 34 cocaine production laboratories, 
seized 1,650 kg of precursor chemicals, 580 kg of cocaine 
HCl, and 702 kg of cocaine base.  The price of the coca leaf 
has remained steady during the month at 70 Nuevo Soles per 
arroba in the VRAE and 120 in the Upper Huallaga.  (COMMENT: 
NAS will now use the term "cocaine production laboratory" to 
describe what we have previously referred to as "cocaine-base 
labs" or "rustic labs" or "pozo pits".  This change in 
terminology more accurately describes this first step in the 
cocaine production process and the sophistication of the 
operations currently being found.  END COMMENT.) 
 
(U) NAS Director and Director General of the Peruvian Police, 
the chief of DIRANDRO, and four other police generals, as 
well as NAS Police Advisors, visited Ayacucho and Mazamari to 
inspect the police training academies (ref c).  More than 700 
new police officers from NAS-supported academies will 
graduate on March 2, making room for the next class. 
 
(U)  On February 12, five PNP officers from the CN police 
bases in Mazamari and Santa Lucia traveled to Colombia to 
participate in a four-month jungle operations training.  To 
receive this training, the officers committed to serve a 
minimum of three years of CN duty in the VRAE and Upper 
Huallaga areas. 
 
(U)  On February 21, NAS inaugurated the new Canine Center at 
the PNP base in Santa Lucia and graduated eight dogs (and 
handlers).  The eight canines are specially trained in 
detecting explosives, IED identification, how to search open 
areas such as coca fields, and how to search in occupied and 
unoccupied buildings.  In addition, five PNP officers trained 
at the U.S. Customs training facility in Virginia have been 
assigned to the center.  Representatives from U.S. Customs 
International Division HQ-Washington participated in the 
events along with PNP officials. 
 
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PILOT AND AIRCREW TRAINING MOVING TOWARD NATIONALIZATION 
--------------------------------------------- -------- 
7. (U)  Training continued through the month at the base in 
Pucallpa for the four new Air Police instructor pilots (IP). 
The pilots successfully concluded the check rides given on 
February 21-22 by the NAS Aviation Operations Advisor.  On 
February 23, a graduation ceremony for the new IPs was held 
in Pucallpa and was presided over by NAS Director Susan 
Keogh; Air Police Director General Ricardo Benavides, and 
DynCorp representatives.  The four new IPs will conduct the 
next UH-2 transition training, scheduled for March 15, for 
the class of Air Police pilots that will be graduating from 
the Initial Rotary-Wing training course at Helicopter 
Adventures Inc., Titusville, FL.  This will be the first time 
that the UH-2 training will be conducted entirely by Peruvian 
Air Police instructor pilots and represents a significant 
step towards "nationalization" of the program. 
 
(U) In a further step toward nationalization,  the PNP agreed 
to have DynCorp assume increased responsibility for 
qualifying more pilots in the use of night-vision-goggles 
(NVG) and for training more crew chiefs (flying maintenance 
technicians).  DynCorp has also agreed to grant Air Police 
operations and maintenance managers access to AWIS, DynCorp's 
web-based aviation maintenance management program in order to 
ultimately transfer the responsibility for tracking the 
status of aircrew (such as up-to-date flight physicals) and 
maintenance requirements to Peruvians. 
 
(SBU)  General Ricardo Benavides, Aviation Police Director, 
ordered his maintenance personnel to restore his fleet of 
fixed-wing aircraft to airworthy condition or eliminate them 
from the inventory. An Aero-Commander twin turboprop aircraft 
was returned to flyable condition and DIRAVPOL is close to 
finishing repairs on the Beechcraft E-90 twin turboprop - 
this will provide the Air Police with increased executive and 
logistics transportation and thereby reducing the need to use 
UH-2 helicopters in logistics/administrative support roles. 
 
(U)  Work continues on the repair of the runway at FOL Santa 
Lucia - estimated July completion.  Concurrently, NAS 
commissioned an airfield lighting survey for Santa Lucia and 
Mazamari to determine the cost of being able to conduct night 
operations from these airfields. 
 
(SBU)  In preparation for a Maritime counter drug exercise 
"Operation All Inclusive 2007" to be conducted in March, the 
FAP deployed a C-26 to El Pato Airbase at Talara on the 
northern coast of Peru to conduct area and airport day and 
night familiarization.  In order to enhance the 
reconnaissance capability of the C-26, NAS is in the process 
of funding the acquisition of a digital imaging camera which 
can be slaved to the FLIR system to provide enhanced imaging 
of FLIR targets. 
(U) NAS Director and NAS Senior Aviation Advisor attended the 
INL/A Aviation Management Conference at Patrick Air Force 
Base, FL from February 26 to March 1. 
 
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PORTS AND MARITIME OPERATIONS 
--------------------------------------------- ----- 
8. (U) Between February 1-26, NAS-sponsored Peruvian Customs 
and Counterdrug Police at the international airport and 
SERPOST (Post Office) seized a total of 652.206 kgs of 
cocaine HCL. Specifically, the Peruvian Customs, Police, and 
Immigration, trained and advised by NAS Ports Program 
officer, seized 597.206 kgs of cocaine HCL and arrested 74 
traffickers. The largest seizure in February at the airport 
was assessed as 453 kgs of liquefied cocaine masked in &una 
de gata and maca8 (Peruvian natural vitamin and male 
enhancement supplements) that was identified by a canine and 
handler trained at the US Customs and Border Protection 
(USCBP)Academy.  Since the canines and handlers returned from 
three-and-a-half months training in the U.S., seizures have 
increased markedly at Peruvian sea/airports and post offices. 
In February, NAS-sponsored personnel seized 55 kgs of cocaine 
at the Peruvian main post office, prior to international 
shipment of packages. 
 
(U) NAS/USCBP Canine Advisor provided support to the 
four-month USCBP explosives field course conducted for 
Peruvian National Police at Front Royal, Virginia and at 
Santa Lucia, Huallaga Valley, Peru, ensuring the 
certification of the explosives canines that should provide 
protection to eradication and police personnel in illegal 
coca fields and act as a deterrent force. 
 
(SBU) NAS Ports Program is coordinating and providing support 
to the upcoming DEA Operation &All Inclusive8, March 28-31 
and April 10-14, along the Peruvian/Ecuador Border and 
Coastal areas.  NAS is coordinating with the Peruvian Navy 
and Coast Guard to provide support to the DEA-sponsored Joint 
Peruvian/Law Enforcement Task Force through two Sea Ark 
interdiction boats (donated by NAS) and Peruvian Navy 
Counterdrug operational elements.  The Command Center for the 
operation is a NAS facility near the Port of Paita. 
Additionally, NAS Ports and Aviation Programs are 
coordinating with the Peruvian Air Force for off-coast FLIR 
reconnaissance during this operation. No-notice mobile road 
blocks by Peruvian Customs will also occur along all major 
northern Peruvian road systems leading into Ecuador from Peru 
as well as reinforcing the two primary Peruvian Customs 
Stations along the Peruvian/Ecuadorian border. The NAS/DEA 
Manifest Review Unit will assist the operation through 
research, intelligence information, and analysis.  We are 
also coordinating with Peruvian Counterdrug Police (DIRANDRO) 
and DEA on security support to Peruvian Customs roadblocks in 
areas that have sparse law enforcement presence. 
 
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UPDATE ON PUSH FOR A NEW NON-PENAL ASSET FORFEITURE LAW 
--------------------------------------------- ----------- 
9. (U)  Last month (January 12), the Government of Alan 
Garcia introduced into Peru's Congress a proposed law that 
will permit the administrative seizure of illicitly gained 
assets.  The NAS money laundering project advisors, together 
with the local UN Office of Drug and Crime Control, are 
working closely with the Ministry of Justice to mount a 
campaign to sell the draft law to Peruvian lawmakers in the 
Congressional session that begins in March 2007. 
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