US EMBASSY ASUNCION TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ASUNCION 000751

SIPDIS

E.O. 12358: N/A
TAGS: OTRA MASS PA
SUBJECT: US EMBASSY ASUNCION TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
CONCURRENCE FOR NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COUNTER NARCO-
TERRORIST (CNT) DEPLOYMENT TO PARAGUAY ON SPA 2005CNT071N

REF: COMSOCSOUTH, TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR NAVAL SPECIAL
WARFARE COUNTER NARCO-TERRORISM DEPLOYMENT TO PARAGUAY ON
MISSION SPA2005CNT071N, FY05-4 MSG
DTG 171417Z FEB 05


1. The Chief of Mission, John F. Keane, Chief
USODC, COL Carlos A. Calderon and General de
Ejrcito Jos Key Kanazawa, Commander in Chief
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of the Paraguayan Armed Forces, have
concurred/ approved with this deployment and
the TOR. The DEA Section Chief, Greg Beloney,
requests SOF support of this training.


2. Country Team concurs with dates of PDSS,
ADVON and Main Body and the training POI. The
Focus of the training will be on providing a
capability to Paraguayan units that conduct
tactical reconnaissance and surveillance of
clandestine airstrips that facilitate arms and
narcotics trafficking in Paraguay in support
of direct actions against those targets by
Paraguayan police and military components. The
COMIM will be the sponsoring unit because of
Navy to Navy coordination and training areas
requirements but the SENAD is the unit that
will drive the POI refinement.


3. The special operations elements of the
Comando Infantera de Marina (COMIM)[Marines
equivalent] (10 Pax),Secretaria Nacional Anti
Drogas (SENAD) [Military component of DEA
equivalent](20 Pax),Compaa Contraterrorista
de las Tropas Especiales del Ejrcito(TEE)
EE)
[SOF equivalent] (5 Pax),Regimiento Escolta
Presidencial (REP)[Military Secret Service
Equivalent] (5 Pax),Brigada Aerotransportada
[Airborne equivalent], Secretara de
Prevencin e Investigacin de Terrorismo
(SEPRINTE) and Fuerzas Operacionales
Policiales Especiales (FOPE) (5 Pax combined)
will participate. A total of 50 Pax will
train. Training locations will be Asuncion,
Puerto Rosario and Ciudad del Este if
locations are determined suitable during the
PDSS.


4. PA Units to be trained are authorized to
support law enforcement agencies in operations
involving CNT situations within Paraguay. The
SENAD, the Paraguayan DEA equivalent, includes a
joint military SOF component, and has direct
responsibility for counter narcotics operations,
specifically eradication of Marijuana but does
provide R & S in support of operations against
Cocaine traffickers as well. Due to operational
needs all military forces either have an explicit
charge or implicitly provide support to counter
er
narcotics/counter terrorism through this linkage
of CD and CT. Currently three units have a
presidential decree for CT: SEPRINTE, REP and the
CT Company in the TEE. Paraguay is working on
providing the CT company a joint capability,
hence the participation of the other services in
this CNT. The FOPE are the police force from
which selections are made to incorporate into the
SEPRINTE. If they participate it would be with
that intention in mind.
Keane

5. ODC Operations Officer will provide threat
update upon arrival. Deploying forces need to
conduct their own force protection threat
assessment and RDAs. Recommend this be a task of
the ADVON. ODC will support as necessary.


6. COL Carlos A. Calderon, CHODC Paraguay, is the
CDR USSOUTHCOM designated risk determination
authority and has TACON for force protection over
deployed forces. COL Carlos A. Calderon's
assessment is that contact with hostile elements
is unlikely and the area is secure and adequately
protected.


7. The general threat in the designated training
areas in and around Asuncin is LOW for domestic
terrorists and HIGH for crime and in Puerto
Rosario LOW for domestic terrorists and LOW for
crime. The general threat around Ciudad del Este
is HIGH for transnational terrorists and HIGH for
crime. Crime consists of larceny, robbery and
rarely at gunpoint. There appears to be no
direct targeting of U.S. personnel. Host nation
military will provide sufficient security on
military installations to deter threat to U.S.
personnel and equipment in transit.


8. Weapons and ammunition will be transported
IAW ODC and Army policies and regulations.
Chief of Mission, DCM, and CHODC are approval
authorities for any use of weapons outside of
training area or during transit of
weapons/ammunition for force protection.
Prior to deployment of weapons the following
information must be provided to ODC for
submission to RSO: Make, Model, Serial Number.


9. Maximize use of unclassified transmission.
For all classified messages use a tear line. All
information which is authorized for release to
the Paraguayan Armed forces in order to
coordinate the exercise mentioned in reference
above should be marked as: (U//FOUO//REL TO USA
and PRY) or (C//REL TO USA and PRY). Approval
authority for special markings is your Foreign
Disclosure Officer. Information that is
improperly marked will result in a delay or
cancellation of mission due to ODC's inability to
release information if improperly marked.


10. Deploying units should have a Public Affairs
plan. Elected politicians and cabinet level
officers of the government of Paraguay are
frequently invited to final exercise to aid in
transparency issues that will secure further
training opportunities. The Press is invited to
specific events such as the final exercise.


11. Dipnotes (officio) have been requested in
support of this deployment. As of the date of
this message there is no approved officio. The
dipnote though has cleared the hardest 90% of the
hurdles, to include Congressional approval. It
currently waits at the office of the Executive
for passing into law. We anticipate approval
within 2-3 weeks from the date of this message.
Once approved, the deployed element will have
protections equal to that of the Admin and
Technical personnel from the embassy. The format
for the officio is the same as the last JCET
deployment, which was approved by the
corresponding SJA at SOUTHCOM and SOCSO. Final
officio status will follow in weekly SITREP to
Combatant Commander.


12. POC/Major Tod C. Furtado, Operations
Officer/ODC PARAGUAY/TEL: COMM 595-21-208-
207; FAX 595-21-210-827; DSN 294-9000-59395 E-
MAIL: furtadot@asuncion.mg.southcom.mil
KEANE