Operation Snowcap (1987–1995), launched in the spring of 1987, was a counter-narcotics operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), BORTAC (U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit) and military/police forces in nine Latin American countries. Operation Snowcap followed Operation Blast Furnace, a four month operation that started in July 1986, which deployed 160 Army personell and six Blackhawk helicopters to assist Bolivia in operations against cocaine laboratories in the Beni and Santa Cruz regions of Bolivia. At an annual cost to the DEA of $80 million, and involving approximately 140 agents at its onset, Snowcap was the largest counter-narcotics operation that had been launched in Latin America. The U.S. Department of Defense leased 6 UH-1 Huey helicopters, and provided fli
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| - Operation Snowcap (1987–1995), launched in the spring of 1987, was a counter-narcotics operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), BORTAC (U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit) and military/police forces in nine Latin American countries. Operation Snowcap followed Operation Blast Furnace, a four month operation that started in July 1986, which deployed 160 Army personell and six Blackhawk helicopters to assist Bolivia in operations against cocaine laboratories in the Beni and Santa Cruz regions of Bolivia. At an annual cost to the DEA of $80 million, and involving approximately 140 agents at its onset, Snowcap was the largest counter-narcotics operation that had been launched in Latin America. The U.S. Department of Defense leased 6 UH-1 Huey helicopters, and provided fli (en)
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casualties
| - six DEA Agents, five State Department contractors, and twelve Peruvians were killed in two plane crashes (en)
- hundreds of tons of cocaine siezed, thousands of suspected traffickers arrested, several hundred thousand gallons of precursor chemical seized, hundreds of precursor facilities destroyed, dozens of aircraft and vehicles siezed (en)
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| - Cali cartel
- Illicit cocaine manufacturers (en)
- Shining Path guerrillas (en)
- * DEA
* 7th Special Forces Group
* USBP BORTAC
* US Coast Guard DAIT
* Navy SEALs
* State Department ISM
* State Department Air Wing
* DOD
* UMOPAR
* Bolivian Navy
* Bolivian Air Force
* Civil Guard Police
* Peruvian National Police
* Colombian National Police (en)
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| - unknown (en)
- DEA SAS Frank White (en)
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| - Primarily Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador (en)
- Also Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico. (en)
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