FOIA 2022-0699-F contains materials from two National Security Council staff members, Richard L. Canas, director of Counterterrorism and Counternarcotics, and Virginia A. Lampley, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for legislative affairs. These materials include talking points for the President and Press Secretary on the arrest of Minister Arce-Gomez as well as the emergency authorization and furnishing of U.S....Read more
FOIA 2022-0699-F contains materials from two National Security Council staff members, Richard L. Canas, director of Counterterrorism and Counternarcotics, and Virginia A. Lampley, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for legislative affairs. These materials include talking points for the President and Press Secretary on the arrest of Minister Arce-Gomez as well as the emergency authorization and furnishing of U.S. military assistance to Colombian law enforcement agencies; copies from Elaine Shannon's Desperados: Latin American Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War American Can't Win; coversheets for Department of State telegrams and correspondence routing slips; and draft and final memoranda notifying Congress of the Presidential Determination 89-24. Read less