Just the Facts

Title	Cost
AVN [Aviation] Training (Office of the Secretary of Defense)	$20,000,000
Intel Programs (Office of the Secretary of Defense)	$15,314,000
ARL [Airborne Reconnaissance Low] (Army)	$5,618,000
Tactical Analysis Teams (TATs) (Army)	$963,000
SOF [Special Operations Forces] Coastal / Riverine (Special Operations Command)	$2,814,000
SOF [Special Operations Forces] Counterdrug Support (Special Operations Command)	$7,151,000
GBEGO [Ground-Based Endgame Operations] (Southcom) (Army)	$7,015,000
NIMA [National Imagery and Mapping Agency] Counterdrug Support (NIMA)	$4,422,000
Riverine Training Deployments (U.S. Marine Corps)	$1,500,000
Colombia Airborne Surveillance (Navy)	$14,545,000
Imagery Exploitation (NIMA)	$476,000
Total	$79,818,000

Title	Cost
Aerial Reconnaissance Low (ARL)	$5,126,000
Colombia Airborne Surveillance	$12,800,000
GBEGO-SOUTHCOM [Ground-Based End-Game Operations, U.S. Southern Command]	$20,678,000
Imagery Program(s)	$452,000
Intell Program(s)	$15,097,000
LEA [Law Enforcement Agency] Support	$1,225,000
NIMA [National Imagery and Mapping Agency] Counterdrug Support	$3,687,000
SOF [Special Operations Forces] Counterdrug Support	$7,496,000
SOF [Special Operations Forces] Riverine Support	$684,000
Tactical Analysis Teams (TATs)	$430,000
USMC [U.S. Marine Corps] Riverine Trng Deployments	$1,035,000
(Plan Colombia) Counter-narcotics battalion support	$21,200,000
(Plan Colombia) Counter-narcotics brigade headquarters	$1,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Army aviation infrastructure support	$13,200,000
(Plan Colombia) Military reform	$6,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Organic intelligence capability	$5,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Senior Scout	$5,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Tracker aircraft modifications	$10,000,000
(Plan Colombia) AC-47 aircraft modifications	$7,400,000
(Plan Colombia) Ground based radar	$13,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Radar command and control	$5,000,000
(Plan Colombia) Colombian ground interdiction	$5,000,000
Subtotal non-Plan Colombia:	$68,710,000
Subtotal Plan Colombia:	$91,800,000
Total	$160,510,000

Among other activities, Section 1004 funding in 1999 has helped the Colombian armed forces to create, equip and train a 950-man mobile counternarcotics battalion. The Colombian government first proposed the battalion during President Andrés Pastrana's state visit to Washington in October 1998. Training and provision of non-lethal equipment to the battalion began in April 1999 and was estimated to cost about $3-4 million in 1999 Section 1004 funds.³

The following table, taken from a May 20, 1999 Defense Department response to a congressional inquiry, breaks down 1998 and 1999 assistance to Colombia authorized by Section 1004.⁴

Authorization	1998 actual	1999 estimate
1. Maintenance of loaned Defense Department equipment	$0	$0
2. Maintenance of other equipment	$1,724,000	$140,000
3. Transportation	$511,000	$362,000
4. Establishing bases	$5,147,000	$8,757,000
5. Training	$3,135,000	$9,455,000
6. Detection and monitoring	$0	$0
7. Construction of roads and fences	$0	$0
8. C4 (command, control, coordination and computer) centers	$442,000	$870,000
9. Linguist / intelligence analysis	$483,000	$469,000
10. Reconnaissance	$0	$0
Total	$11,442,000*	$20,053,000*

* Other Defense Department documents, however, provide different figures. In one source, Section 1004-authorized aid to Colombia totaled $11,775,000 in 1998 and was estimated at $27,731,000 in 1999.⁵ Another later Defense Department source gives a total of $35,887,000 for 1999.⁶

^{Note:
the dollar amount here will not match the amount on the main "Section
1004" page. This is merely the total spent on training, while Section
1004 funds can be used for more than just training.}

Course Title	Cost	No. of Students
CDTS (CN9015)	$135,800.00	30
CDTS (CN9016)	$128,600.00	77
CDTS (CN9026)	$272,000.00	98
CDTS (CN9028)	$124,500.00	40
CDTS (CN9029)	$123,300.00	88
CDTS (CN9033)	$129,100.00	50
CDTS (CN9064)	$4,157,200.00	317
CDTS (CN9116)	$46,830.00	0
CDTS (CN9117)	$32,790.00	38
CDTS (CN9118)	$11,184.00	25
CDTS (CN9123)	$244,454.00	20
CDTS (CD9021)	$78,800.00	0
CDTS (CN 9053)	$78,400.00	40
CDTS (CN 9064)		650
CDTS (CN 9130)	$14,807.00	40
CDTS (CN 9131)	$383,063.00	35
Total	$5,960,828	1,548

¹ United States, Department of Defense, "DoD Andean Initiative FY02 - Colombia", Washington, Document obtained September 19, 2001.

² United States, Department of Defense, "Report on Department of Defense Expenditures To Support Foreign Counterdrug Activities", Washington, December 29, 2000.

³ Walter B. Slocombe, undersecretary of defense for policy, United States Department of Defense, letter in response to congressional inquiry, April 1, 1999.

⁴ Walter B. Slocombe, undersecretary of defense for policy, United States Department of Defense, letter in response to congressional inquiry, May 20, 1999.

⁵ Ana Maria Salazar, deputy assistant secretary of defense for drug enforcement policy and support, United States Department of Defense, letter in response to congressional inquiry, Mar. 19, 1999.

⁶ United States, Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support, correspondence with authors, September 21, 2000.

⁷ United States, Department of Defense, Department of State, Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest in Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000: A Report to Congress (Washington: March 2000) <http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/fmtrain/toc.html>.

8 United States, Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Report required by the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-398), (Washington: April 18, 2002).