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Viewing cable 07LIMA2344, NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 2007

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07LIMA2344 2007-07-09 21:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 092131Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
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INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 4851
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7446
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ JUL QUITO 1329
RHMFIUU/DEPT OF STATE AIR WING PATRICK AFB FL
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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 002344 
 
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 JUNE 2007 
 
REF: LIMA 2107 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (SBU) The key developments in June 2007: 
 
** A total of 2,616 hectares of coca has now been eradicated 
and 15,465 square meters of seedbeds have been eliminated. 
 
** CORAH opened a second eradication front in Ucayali on June 
12 until the end of July. 
 
** An anti-drug prosecutor and 3 police were killed June 14 
in a Sendero Luminoso-type ambush near Tocache. 
 
** A senderista attack on the Santa Lucia base was narrowly 
averted June 17. 
 
** Ambassador Struble paid hommage to a fallen police officer 
in the presence of his family at Ayacucho 
 
** DIRANDRO destroys 29 cocaine-production laboratories; the 
Road Interdiction Group seizes 3.7 MT ofprecursor chemicals. 
 
** Police Program is recruiting for the pre-academies from 
three local indigenous groups. 
 
** Protests in Pucallpa led to closure of airport and 
suspension of flights 
 
** Security threats require helicopters to fly too many 
hours, leading to serious maintenance backlog. 
 
** SOPs and checklists used in Colombia are now being used by 
NAS-Lima to adapt to the increased activity of the SL. 
 
** The PNP find cocaine embedded in plastic sheets; air and 
seaport seizures already surpass last year's record. 
 
** Three thousand kids march on the Government Palace in 
support of anti-drug programs and meet President Garcia. 
END SUMMARY 
 
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ERADICATION CONTINUES DESPITE BOMBS AND OTHER THREATS 
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2. (U) As of June 30, CORAH had eradicated a total of 2,616 
hectares of illegal coca and eliminated 15,465 square meters 
of seedbeds.  Eradication in Yanajanca will be completed by 
early July.  On June 9, seven IEDs were discovered by canines 
and CORAH workers at the eradication site in Yanajanca.  Five 
were detonated, but two exploded, injuring five eradicators. 
On June 13, 100 dynamite cartridges with 5 kg of nails (as 
shrapnel) were found inside the eradication camp at Yanajanca 
wired to explode--about 100 feet away from the workers (Ref 
A). 
 
3. (U) CORAH opened a second eradication front in Ucayali on 
June 12 until the end of July.  The bulk of CORAH operations 
continue to focus on the Yanajanca area where 200 CORAH 
workers are going out in each rotation, in contrast to 
Ucayali where 60 workers are going out. 
 
4.  (SBU) Santa Lucia base of eradication operations narowly 
averted an attack in the evening of June 17 when an explosive 
device was detonated outside the perimeter fence, as a 
diversionary tactic, apparently to cause confusion and 
facilitate entry into the camp by Sendero Luminoso operatives 
on the opposite side of the base by the river, where the 
armory is situated.  A CORAH worker at the gate apprehended 
an entering suspect and DINOES and GOES reacted to repel the 
impending attack.  The apprehended suspect was questioned by 
the police in front of a fiscal (attorney), and he gave 
details about the planned attack. He remains in custody as a 
terrorist suspect. 
 
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NARCO-TERRORISTS KILL 3 POLICE AND A PROSECUTOR 
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5. (U) An anti-drug prosecutor and 3 police were killed June 
14 in a Sendero Luminoso-type ambush near Tocache (Ref A). 
Two other police were seriously wounded.  The police and 
prosecutor had been engaged in interdicting a truck carrying 
precursor chemicals for cocaine production.  The killings are 
the latest in a series of non-conventional attacks on police, 
eradicators, and others involved in fighting drugs in the 
zone.  Two other police were seriously injured in the ambush. 
 They are a further sign that Sendero Luminoso is fully 
integrated with narco-trafficking in the 
Tocache/Yanajanca/Monzon areas and is determined to fight to 
protect its base. 
 
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POLICE CONTINUE SEIZURES; INDIGENOUS POLICE CADETS RECRUITED 
--------------------------------------------- --------------- 
6. (U) As part of DIRANDRO's support for CORAH in Yanajanca, 
it destroyed 29 cocaine-production laboratories and 
neutralized over 2,700 kg of precursor chemicals.  DIRANDRO 
personnel based in Santa Lucia, along with the Peruvian Army, 
conducted several operations based on intelligence, netting 
seven laboratories in the Yanajanca area.  Police personnel 
from the Palma Pampa base in the VRAE destroyed 12 
cocaine-production base laboratories this month.  The 
Ayacucho Road Interdiction Group has seized 3.7 MT of 
precursor chemicals.  In the first six months of this year, 
10 MT of precursor chemicals have been seized by the 
road-interdiction group. 
 
7. (U) Data from DIRANDRO's official registry claims that to 
date 241 cocaine-production laboratories and five cocaine-HCl 
laboratories were destroyed, along with the seizure of 3.9 MT 
of precursor chemicals, 2,676 kg of cocaine base and 4,009 kg 
of cocaine HCl.  In the VRAE coca-leaf-price per arroba is 
the same as last month, 70 nuevo soles.  In the Upper 
Huallaga, the price per arroba is 80 nuevo soles, a slight 
uptick from last month. 
 
8. (U) An NGO, funded by the NAS Police Program, met with 35 
representatives from 3 indigenous groups: Ashaninka, 
Machiguenga, and Nomachiguenga.  The workshop provided 
information on the NAS-PNP pre-academies in Mazamari and 
Ayacucho.  The response of the participants was positive and 
many parents applied to send their children (ages 17-18) to 
the pre-academies.  A NAS priority is to reach out to the 
indigenous groups in the region to recruit new police 
officers.  Male and female officers drawn from the area are 
more likely to serve in their own communities or region 
rather than escaping to Lima or other cities.  Also, a better 
understanding by the PNP of the social and cultural mores of 
the region should improve its effectiveness. 
 
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AMBASSADOR VISITS NAS/PNP BASIC TRAINING ACADEMY 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
9.  (U)  During a June 22 visit to the Ayacucho region with 
Minister of Defense Alan Wagner and members of the Peruvian 
congressional Commission on Defense and Narcotics, Ambassador 
Struble reviewed and addressed the entering students at the 
Ayacucho Academy.  The Ambassador gave homage to PNP officer 
Rolando Cisneros, of the first graduating class of this 
Police Academy, who was assassinated by narcotraffickers on 
June 13 at Llochegua, Huanta.  Cisneros had been the star of 
his class: on ten different occasions, he was National Kick 
Boxing Champion and in 2005 he was the South American 
Kickboxing Champion.  Cisneros mother was present at the 
ceremony. 
 
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NAS AVIATION ASSETS ARE STRETCHED TO THEIR LIMIT 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
10. (SBU) The increasing threat posed by remnants of the 
Sendero Luminoso (SL) and cocaleros in the VRAE and the 
Yanajanca area has pushed NAS to increase the UH-2 flying 
hours, which has forced NAS aviation to operate at a level 
above our scheduled monthly flying hour program.  Therefore, 
unscheduled and scheduled phased maintenance on our fleet are 
at an all time high, making it difficult to sustain our CN 
operations tempo. NAS has contacted the INL Air Wing for 
assistance in coordinating with the contractor, DynCorp, to: 
1) send a special phase-maintenance team to Peru to help with 
the maintenance backlog, and 2) send four UH-2 replacement 
engines or send a team to repair those in Peru. 
 
11. (SBU) To compound the aviation maintenance problem, the 
PNP's MI-17s normally used for eradication have been diverted 
for transporting the Peruvian Army and CT police in their 
pursuit of the SL.  The lack of MI-17s has caused the UH-2s 
to have a much heavier work load.  One MI-17 can transport as 
many police and eradicators in one load as four UH-2s, i.e., 
approximately 35-40 flight hours to insert and extract 1,000 
eradicators and security police.  The DIRAVPOL commander has 
promised two MI-17s that have been recently overhauled by a 
Russian firm in July. 
 
12. (U) After a review of security measures at NAS Forward 
Operating Locations (FOL) for U.S. personnel and helicopters, 
the INL Air Wing noted the increase in the threat level in 
Peru.  As a result, the SOPs and checklists used in Colombia 
were sent to NAS Lima and will be used as applicable to adapt 
to the increased activity of the SL. 
 
13. (SBU) The Peruvian Air Force C-26 program, supported by 
NAS, continues to conduct reconnaissance and FLIR missions 
over the sites where the eradicators and security have been 
probed by SL.  NAS believes that the overflights have 
dissuaded several SL ambushes.  Additional flight hours have 
been funded for the C-26 program.  One C-26 is in the U.S. 
for modification to install a digital camera.  In addition, 
the FAP C-26s have become the aircraft of choice for 
transporting President Garcia throughout Peru. 
 
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REGIONAL STRIKE IN PUCALLPA PUTS FIXED WING FLIGHTS ON HOLD 
--------------------------------------------- --------------- 
14.  (SBU)  An 'indefinite' general strike began June 26 in 
the region of Pucallpa against the government decision 
requiring workers to paythe same 19% IGV taxes paid 
Peruvians west of the Andes.  Thousands of people protested 
in the streets and closed down all commercial activity, with 
violent confrontations between the protestors and riot 
police.  Fixed wing flights into the NAS base halted, with 
the exception of a NAS B1900 airlift of a wounded policeman. 
Helicopter operations continued in support of eradication 
operations, without incident.  Helicopters on the ground were 
moved off the ramp closer to the compound.  Protestors 
marched on the airport June 27 when they heard local workers 
employed by NAS were continuing to work: they were stopped by 
riot police before they could get to the NAS facilites.  On 
June 28, a large group of protestors again marched on the 
airport, broke through the police and entered the adjacent 
commercial airport where they burned tires on the runway and 
vandalized runway lights, causing the airport to close down 
and temporarily stranding 54 Amcits who were trying to leave. 
The response from the Peruvian police was good: 
NAS/DYNCORPS/PNP personnel, helicopters and facilities were 
protected by an additional 60 riot police. 
 
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MARITIME SEIZURES CLIMB WITH BETTER TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY 
--------------------------------------------- --------------- 
15. (SBU) During the month of June, units supported by the 
NAS Maritime Ports Program seized a total of 794 kg of 
cocaine HCL, and 22 kg of cocaine paste at the Lima 
International Airport, the Port of Callao, and along the 
Ucayali River system in eastern Peru. 
 
16. (SBU) Assisted by NAS and DEA, the PNP seized 500 kg of 
cocaine HCL embedded in sheets of plastic as it was being 
shipped from a laboratory in the working-class, San Juan de 
Lurigancho district of Lima to a company in Callao where is 
was to be placed in containers for shipment out of the Port 
of Callao.  Despite media reports that the "plasticized" 
cocaine was bound for Spain, the destination is still under 
investigation.  The traffickers, headed by a Peruvian-Chinese 
businessman, made a previous shipment to Hong Kong.  Six 
arrests have been made related to this case, including the 
heads of this trafficking group in Peru. 
 
17. (SBU) The Airport Interdiction Group (Peruvian Customs 
and National Police) seized 250 kg of cocaine HCL leading to 
49 arrests of people attempting to smuggle the drug in their 
luggage or by swallowing it.  Airport seizures are nearing 
three MT in the first six months of this year.  The body 
x-ray scanner will be operating in the Lima airport by 
mid-July, and we expect an increase in seizures and arrests 
of swallowers.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) 
will be sending an expert in behavioral analysis from the 
USCBP Passenger Analysis Unit (PAU) at the Miami 
International Airport in mid-September.  The expert will 
provide a three-day exchange of information on Tactics, 
Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) with Peruvian Customs to 
improve airport interdiction operations and to ensure 
effective use of the body x-ray scanner. 
 
18. (SBU) The interdiction program at the Peruvian Post 
Office (SERPOST) seized 24 kg of cocaine HCL this month. 
USCBP will also be sending two experts on Post Office 
Interdiction Operations in mid-September for a 3-day exchange 
of information on (TTP) with Peruvian Customs. 
 
19. (SBU) Joint Peruvian Navy and PNP boat patrols of ports 
along the Ucayali River system are increasing.  On June 10, a 
boat patrol in the vicinity of Contamana, intercepted a 
water-taxi and discovered 4 kg of cocaine paste.  On June 21, 
in the vicinity of Puerto Oriente, a boat was intercepted 
with 18 kg of cocaine paste hidden in luggage and another 11 
kg of cocaine HCL found in the boat, leading to six arrests. 
 
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ILEA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER 
----------------------------- 
20.  (U)  The ILEA regional training center in Lima hosted a 
two-week course on Trafficking in Persons with law 
enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges from Brazil, 
Peru, Argentina and Uraguay starting June 18.  ILEA has 
agreed to fund a new course coordinator position attached to 
NAS Lima. The positions's responsibilities will include 
organizing course administration and logistics and 
coordinating programs with the host government. 
 
---------------------- 
ANTI-CRIME LAW PACKAGE 
---------------------- 
21.  (U)  NAS met with the Vice Ministers of Interior and 
Justice to discuss the package of laws now being considered 
by the Garcia Administration.  Among the issues discussed 
were a stronger witness protection program, a non-penal asset 
forfeiture law, stronger anti-corruption laws and the 
inclusion of cash as a seizable asset.  The Peruvian Congress 
has authorized President Garcia to implement this crime 
package without further consultation with Congress.  We 
expect the organized crime package will be announced in late 
July. 
 
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YOUTH SPREAD MESSAGES ON UN DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE 
--------------------------------------------- ------- 
22. (U) On June 26, the GOP, drug prevention NGOs, and 
community anti-drug coalitions (CAC) marked the UN 
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 
with parades, fairs, and youth activities.  For example, 
 
  -- Under the banner of "Healthy Students, Free of Drugs" 
(Estudiantes Sanos, Libres de Drogas), 3,000 students marched 
to the Government Palace to meet with President Garcia, who 
gave an impassioned speech about youth, the future of Peru, 
and the dangers of drug abuse.  The parade was organized by 
CEDRO, Peru's oldest (21 years) and largest drug prevention 
NGO. 
  -- DEVIDA organized an event for students from schools 
around Lima.  The youth groups are part of a police program 
to keep kids from using drugs. 
 
  -- One CAC organized the neighborhood to stop the frequent 
all-night street parties fueled by booze and drugs by 
enlisting the help of the police and municipal officials. 
Another CAC organized a drug prevention fair where 64 schools 
presented dances, skits, and songs as well as haircutting and 
make-up lessons. 
STRUBLE