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PROSECUTING THE DRUG WAR IN PERU |
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by Steven Aftergood
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22 May 2001
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"A plane was shot down. Americans were killed. It was a plane that was a civilian aircraft. Why is that classified? I don't understand that," said Rep. Dan Burton at a May 1 hearing on the downing of a plane carrying American missionaries over Peru on April 20. "This is not a national security issue. Why is that classified? Why is it you guys can't tell us that? Speak to me." |
See excerpts from the hearing transcript here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/05/hr050101.html
The policy of forceful interdiction of aircraft carrying suspected drug traffickers is explored in an important story by James Risen and Christopher Marquis in the New York Times today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/world/22DRUG-WORLD.html
The development of that policy during the 1990s is documented in a National Security Archive briefing book prepared by Michael L. Evans here:
http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB44/
The special 1994 legislation that provided legal immunity for U.S. agents involved in the destruction of aircraft suspected of illicit drug trafficking is posted here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1994_rpt/s2182-1012.html
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