Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Protects Peruvian Armed Forces Who Protect Drug Traffickers.

     This is a document released to me by the DIA  It was penned at a time when the US was providing limited funding for the Peruvian counterinsurgent war.  It clearly ties the Peruvian Army and Navy to narcotics trafficking.  But even worse, a whole paragraph about the Armed Forces/Narcotrafficking relationship has been redacted (blacked out), indicating that the DIA is still, after all of these years, trying to cover it up. 

    It is amazing that what is written fully excuses the Armed Forces for their  involvement with narcotrafficking, and this involvement is rationalized so easily: "The financially hard-pressed military is using some of the funds to purchase basic military necessities to fight the insurgency, not for personal gain." But isn't that what the insurgents were also doing?  There was certainly no personal gain among Shining Path and MRTA cadres. But at the time, all of the narcotrafficking was blamed on the insurgents and the fearful Peruvian press which knew better, and the gullible US press went along with the myth that the Armed Forces were clean.

    After the history of US counterinsurgency operations being involved in drug trafficking in other wars, such as supporting the opium-growing Hmong tribesmen against the Vietnamese, this document makes me wonder if the same thing isn't happening in both present-day Colombia and Afghanistan.

    There is another issue that needs to be considered, and that is how can the USG look the other way at multi-kilogram cocaine trafficking by its allies in Latin America and lock up tens of thousands of users here in the US who possess less than a few days' supply at a time.
 
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SUBJ:  FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE REPORT (U)
REF:    A.  [REDACTED] ARMY PROTECTS NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS/NAVY DEBATES SIMILAR STRATEGY.

            B.  [REDACTED]  SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY IN UCAYALI/GUZMAN REPORTED SEEN/ARMY LOSES OFFICERS TO NARCOS

ITEM 2: PERU- MILITARY COLLUSION. (U)
AS OF 2020Z 29 JUN 89
[REDACTED PARAGRAPH] THE VIEW THAT NARCOTICS IS LARGELY A US PROBLEM IS APPARENTLY STRONGLY HELD IN SOME SECTORS . SINCE THEN, LOCAL POLICE AND MILITARY PERSONNEL HAVE DEVISED A PLAN TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS, WHO ARE VIEWED AS INTERESTED IN MAXING MONEY AND NOT AS A THREAT TO THE NATION OR THE SECURITY FORCES, AND THE SENDERO LUMINOSO AND TUPAC AMARU INSURGENTS, WHO ARE A SERIOUS THREAT TO INTERNAL SECURITY. THE FINANCIALLY HARD-PRESSED MILITARY IS USING SOME OF THE FUNDS TO PURCHASE BASIC MILITARY NECESSITIES TO FIGHT THE INSURGENCY, NOT FOR PERSONAL GAIN.

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