FOIA responses by country and subject

• Worldwide Drug Threat Assessment  A Joint Intelligence Report (DCI Crime and Narcotics Center, Defense Intelligence Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration, National Drug Intelligence Center, US Coast Guard, and US Customs Service).  April 2000

AMERICAS:

• CIA: Changing Drug Trade in the Americas.  Intelligence Report 02/23/98 

ANDEAN:

• CIA: Plan Colombia’s Potential Impact on the Andean Cocaine Trade: An Examination of Two Scenarios   CIA Intelligence Report DCI Crime and Narcotics Center, 19 September 2000  See El Tiempo article based on this FOIA. on-site
   
• 2002 FUNDING FOR INL AVIATION PROGRAMS IN BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, & PERU -- A wealth of information.

CENTRAL AMERICA:

• Military analysis by USCINCSO on Central America during March, 1989:  Journalists killed in El Salvador by US-backed military during elections, Guatemala guerrillas and coup threat, Nicaragua.

BOLIVIA:

• Getting in the way of democracy: USAID meddling in Bolivian affairs.  Just like during El Salvador again, USAID continues to inhibit democracy.
   

• Complimentary development vs. Alternative Development.  Rocha speaks.  This one is pretty amusing!
   

• Violence Breaks out in Chapare over Sacaba Coca Market -- a series of three FOIAs.  Sacaba 1  Sacaba2  Sacaba3  January, 2002
   

• Bolivian government suggests withdrawing military aid from the Chapare; 24 hours later, it changes its mind.  DoS FOIA response, Bolivia: August 13, 2002. Bolivian government was outgunned by Evo Morales arguments , and, as always, it was the US that ordered the Bolivian gov't to renege on its deal.
   
• BOLIVIA:  President Meets with Evo Morales.  Negotiations, Evo Morales, Industrialization of coca, coca tea to China?
   
• BOLIVIA:  Obstacles to Coca Crop Substitutions CIA International Narcotics - Staff Notes, February 2, 1977  Alternative Development's failure predicted a quarter of a century ago by CIA
   
• End Use Monitoring Report  -- the best compendium of US counternarcotics activities in Bolivia.  Includes hints of corruption amongst the Bolivian Armed Forces.
   
• DEA FOIA response -- Referral from DoS : Deaths of a Cocalero and a Soldier  October 6th, 2002 in the Chapare  In which DEA maintains that US-backed troops were fired upon by Cocaleros (without any evidence of injuries).
   
• US State Department admits to legitimate coca in the Chapare as early as 1994  Relevant because since then, they have often said that there was no legitimate coca in Bolivia's Chapare.
   
• Casimiro Huanca's death according to the DIA  Superb DIA report on the killing of a cocalero leader by US-financed government forces in Bolivia.
   
• Casimiro Huanca's death according to the State Department  Very poor and horribly biased report on the killing of a cocalero leader by US-financed government forces in Bolivia.
   
• DynCorp in Bolivia  Also mentions another spooky subcontractor: Maryland Air.
   
• US talking points (demands?) to Bolivian president Tuto Quiroga  In which the USG conspires to weaken Evo Morales.

COLOMBIA:

• US Air Force Mission in Colombia: Colombian Air Interdiction Vision - Inventory of requested planes and upgrades, radars, etc.
   
• US Air Force Mission in Colombia: Colombian Air Force Vision 1999-2003 (actually US Air Force vision of what it would like the client Air Force to look like).
   
• Will Plan Colombia work?  The answer is no. A very unsure and rather humorous State Department document, if you like black humor.  This document shows that State Department planners like Kerry's advisor Rand Beers knew that their policies would cause refugees, and they weren't upset about it.  After all, they had done the same in Vietnam, and they hadn't gotten into too much trouble.  Trouble only came to others...
   
• DynCorp smuggling heroin from Colombia?  Just like Vietnam?  I gave this one to top-notch writer, Jason Vest, who got the story out efficiently.
   
• DAS secret document on Israeli training of Colombian Paras (not obtained through the FOIA, but a gift from Paul Wolf)  The Israelis help set up another killing machine.
   
• DEA report:  Right-Wing Paramilitary Involvement In Drug Trafficking - 1993 "Intelligence indicates that some of Colombia's private paramilitary groups have been co-opted by cocaine trafficking organizations."
   
• DEA report: Insurgent Involvement in the Colombian Drug Trade - 1994 "This report deliberately avoids the term "narco-terrorism'.'"
   
• DEA report on Castaño's brother Fidel, aka "Rambo".  A few revealing lines and a possibly very important scribble indicating a DEA meeting with Castaño.
   
• Was the Colombian EPL infiltrated by the CIA as early as 1965?  It looks like it.
   
• Colombia's Insurgents: Assessment of Their Role in the Drug Trade [redacted]. (1996) "the Colombian armed forces' assertion that the guerrillas have become a 'third cartel'....is exaggerated."   TEXT
   
• COLOMBIA: NEW AREAS OF COCA CULTIVATION JULY 1998
  "Shifts in cultivation away from current primary coca growing areas would erode gains made by eradication program and further stretch eradication resources."
   
• Herbicide testing in Colombia: The narcos ripped off the results!
   
• "Accreditation" = "Immunity"???   circa 2000  in which Rand Beers asks that Dyncorp employees be granted immunity for any crimes committed by them while on the job in Colombia.
   
• 2002 FUNDING FOR INL AVIATION PROGRAMS IN BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, & PERU -- A wealth of information.   TEXT
   
• Herbicide testing in Colombia; Rhodamine with Glyphosate / GLYPHOSATE+RHODAMINE1  July, 1984

ECUADOR:

• Ecuador- Herbicide field testing against coca. US mechanics, landing permissions, Texaco at Lago Agrio.  Were field tests of chemical herbicides ever carried out in Ecuador?
   
• Acción Ecológica in a "drive-by" breifing of the US Embassy in Quito about the Colombia aerial eradication program  Important feedback and a lesson on how not to impress the Embassy.
   
• LETTER OF AGREEMENT ON NORTHERN BORDER DRUG INTERDICTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ECUADOR  In which the US and Colombia are allowed airport landing permissions and presumably overflight permission in Ecuador.  Was this signed?

NICARAGUA through URUGUAY:

• Did a Uruguayan ex-Tupamaro -later government informant- try to kill Contra leader Eden Pastora at La Penca?  Probably not. An unsolved who-dunnit.
   

• The FBI's investigation into the La Penca bombing  A superb surveillance of the wrong guy!

PANAMA:

• Fumigation in Panama    Reported on April 5, 1993  NEEDS INDEX....

PERU:

• DIA protects Peruvian military drug traffickers.  Finally a document that illustrates how the US government works with allies who are involved in the drug trade.  Good background for those looking at Colombia or Afghanistan.
   

• Vladimiro Montesinos (Bad Vlad) in a DoD Biographical Sketch "Montesinos: Rumors and Facts on a Powerful behind-the-scenes Player-- Not a pretty scene, but great quotes.  This is interesting in that is was sent from DoD in Washington to the US Embassy in Lima and to various US intelligence entities.  Some EXCELLENT quotes.
   

• Bad Vlad again.  1995: His intelligence operation in the US and in other countries ($3,500 to $7,000 per month to each intel officer).  Fujimori takes up residence in the Army HQ.  Hermoza barks.  Tortured retired generals...and more!  A fantastic response from DIA.
   

• Bad Vlad meets with Ambassador Hamilton and CIA Station Chief, September 1999.
  September, 1999: Bad Vlad debriefs to Ambassador Hamilton and CIA Station Chief on Ivcher case, BIT, electronic document sharing, HR violations ("it wasn't me," he says, but the badboys at SIE that did most of them!), planned dialog with the Coordinadora; McCaffrey, possible Presidential Pardons, Ivcher, a Washington PR firm to improve Peru's image, regional issues (Colombia, etc to the Station Chief: all redacted), Counternarcotics, Lori Berenson's next trial preplanned and its outcome set in cement, and Bad Vlad's desire for "respectable company".
   

• USSOUTHCOM: Toledo on Montesinos  Toledo stated ... about Montesinos... "I would like the US to take him away and let me do my job. After all he worked for them."
   

• The Full Monte: The first Vladivideo and McCaffrey's response.  McCaffrey feels used by Bad Vlad.
   
• USAID-funded Coordinadora Debriefs US Embassy on state of insurgency, 1993  In this FOIA response, the COORDINADORA comes off as a USG-funded intelligence-gathering organization. In a similar fashion, the USG went on to fund the "Truth Commission,"  which brings up various issues as the USG also was part of the war.
   
• Bad Vlad: JB's DEA FOIA exposé of Vladimiro Montesinos In which the DEA had Bad Vlad listed as a "Corrupt Official" in 1996.  Most of the documents of the DEA investigation were not released to me. Why was the DEA covering Montesinos by not releasing the documents?  Did the CIA have something to do with it? 
   
• EL CAMINO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN PERUANA  MRTA's best manifesto. Explains the razon d'etre of the MRTA. JB first read this document in 1992 and was very impressed by it.  It was obtained through a FOIA response from DIA
   
• CIA's take on MRTA-Japanese Ambassador's Hostage Crisis
   
• Notimex's take on same translated by FBIS (CIA)
   
• CIA's take on MRTA   More dangerous than Sendero Luminoso.
   
• DIA's take on SIN's operations outside Peru and other analyses
   
• DoS's take on the MRTA Canto Grande Escape
   
• USAF denial of documents on Montesinos 
   
• USSOUTHCOM: "No records" of Dyncorp in Peru"  Are we to believe that USSOUTHCOM has no records of DynCorp in Peru???

US:

• Cheney as Drug Warrior

VENEZUELA:

• CIA response on Súmate  Does the Company have something to hide?
   
• DoS on trying to get then-President Carlos Andrés Perez (CAP) to allow aerial fumigation with Glyphosate in 1988-89 in Venezuela.  Note that even he successfully rejected it.  And unlike Colombia: "THE VENEZUELAN GOVT'S OFFICIAL POSITION ON POSSIBLE USE OF GLYPHOSATE REMAINS UNCHANGED -- THAT IS, NO SPRAYING WILL BE DONE UNTIL THE ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTRY INVESTIGATES ANY POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS... AERIAL SPRAYING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION... AS GLYPHOSATE SPRAYING IS CONTROVERSIAL... THE PERIJA MOUNTAINS IS LARGELY A NATIONAL PARK WHERE BY LAW THE WELFARE OF FISH AND WILDLIFE TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER OTHER CONSIDERATIONS"
   
• FUMIGATION IN VENEZUELA? "AERIAL SPRAYING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION."

FOLs:

• DoS FOIA: Issues Surrounding the Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) -
  Info Memo Jan 25, 1999.  Lott and Hastert try to get Howard AFB in Panamá back.
   
• DoS FOIA: Info Memo: Finding the Third Forward Operating Location.  The decision-making process which made Comalapa, El Salvador  FOL Number Three.
   
• DoS FOIA: 2002QUITO01599: "Some Ecuadorians trying to make an issue of Dyncorp's presence at Manta"  In which Amembassy Quito reels from attacks on US Policy from ALDHU.
   
• DoS FOIA: 2002QUITO01682: "Hiding Manta mercenaries behind mops and brooms." In which Amembassy Quito records local press output on Otto Reich, Manta, etc.
   
• USSOUTHCOM FOIA: FOL implementation working group, Sept 17, 1999.  PowerPoint - Manta, Curaçao/Aruba
   
• USSOUTHCOM FOIA: FOL implementation working group, Sept 23, 1999.  PowerPoint - Manta, Curaçao/Aruba.  "Manta is single, day only"
   
• USSOUTHCOM FOIA: FOL implementation working group, 18 October, 1999
  Interesting handwritten notes:  "Dutch coming around."