REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING

UNCLAS PANAMA 001652 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CEN TOM PIERCE, WHA/PPC CLARK LYNN, DRL JEANETTE DAVIS AND INR JENNA BEN-YEHUDA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS SUBJECT: REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING ¶1. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to Embassy and U.S. Southern Command. National Police (PNP),Sub-Director General de Operaciones, Deputy Director General of Operations, Emanuel Landau Herrera, O-6, 29-MAY-1960, 8-211-2114. National Police (PNP),Unidad de Mantenimiento de Operaciones Fluviales (UMOF),Riverine Unit, Jaime Alexis Quintero, E-4, 28-AUG-1975, 4-290-34. National Police (PNP),Unidad de Mantenimiento de Operaciones Fluviales (UMOF),Riverine Unit, Armando Augusto Urena Molina, E-6, 29-APR-1968, 8-463-326. National Maritime Service (SMN),Direccin de Operaciones, Operations Directorate, Dolores Pinto Garcia, E-5, 19 AUG 1974, 6-85-119. National Maritime Service (SMN),Infanteria de Marina, Special Operations Group, Gabriel Alvarez Arjona, E-4, 30- SEP-1979, 4-716-1014. National Maritime Service (SMN),Infanteria de Marina, Special Operations Group, Ricardo Pitti Valdes, E-2, 22- DEC-1980, 4-720-905. National Air Service (SAN),Seccion de Armeria, Grupo Operaciones Especiales, Armorer, Special Operations Group, Leovigildo Castro, E-6, 15-SEP-1971, 7-111-817. National Air Service (SAN),Seccion de Armeria, Grupo Operaciones Especiales, Armorer, Special Operations Group, Eric Daniel Fernandez Aquilar, E-4, 05-OCT-1978, 2- 704-501. National Air Service (SAN),Mantenimiento de Helicpteros, Helicopter Maintenance Unit, Roberto Tomas Leaver Rowley, E-5, 18-MAR-1975, 8-776-399. National Air Service (SAN),Mantenimiento de Helicpteros, Helicopter Maintenance Unit, Agustn Franco Ramirez, E-4, 29-DEC-1977, 8-713-2264. National Air Service (SAN),Mantenimiento de Helicpteros, Helicopter Maintenance Unit, Gregorio Oriel Garcia Cedeo, E-4, 17-JAN-1976, 7-122-82. National Air Service (SAN),Mantenimiento de Helicpteros, Helicopter Maintenance Unit, Jaime Isaac Rodriguez Torres, E-4, 23-ABR-1981, 5-707-2012. ¶2. (U) Embassy is currently conducting its own review and has thus far found no credible information that the aforementioned person(s)/unit(s) has been involved in gross human rights violations. Embassy thanks the Department in advance for its timely consideration of and response to this matter. ARREAGA A