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AMERICA'S LEGACY IN PANAMA

PANAMA CANAL TREATY TRANSITION

END OF AN ERA

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U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN PANAMA (1903-1999)

HISTORY

SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDS AND COMMANDERS

MAJOR SUBORDINATE COMMANDS

FORCES / UNITS

CHANGING MISSIONS AND STRATEGIES

MAJOR EVENTS

-- Panama Canal Treaty Implementation (1979-1999)

-- Operation Just Cause (Dec 20, 1989- Jan 12, 1990)

ã Operation Promote Liberty (Jan 12, 1990- mid 1994)

-- Operation Safe Haven (Sept 1994-Feb 1995)

EXERCISES / OPERATIONS

-- Engineering Exercises (Fuertes Caminos; New Horizons)

-- Other Exercises

MAJOR INSTITUTIONS

-- U.S. Army School of the Americas

-- Inter-American Air Forces Academy

-- Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS)

-- Army Jungle Operations Training Center

-- Army Tropic Test Center

-- Inter-American Geodetic Survey

MILITARY STEWARDSHIP OF ENVIRONMENT

VIGNETTES

KEY EVENTS -- SUMMARY

OPERATION PROMOTE LIBERTY

DATE	U.S. ACTIONS / EVENTS
1990/ Jan. 19	Military Support Group (MSG) was established for one year to assist the newly instituted democratic government of Panama and to provide continuity to the initial U.S. military effort in reconstruction started Dec. 21, 1989, and to coordinate a myriad of follow-on support and assistance projects under Operation Promote Liberty. It also provided central direction for all U.S. Department of Defense forces involved in Operation Promote Liberty, including liaison support to the new National Police, other agencies, coordination of previously programmed (but not used) Security Assistance funding, and coordination of a wide range of nation assistance/humanitarian assistance activities throughout Panama which started in April 1990. It was commanded by Army Colonel James Steele. It used Building 1 at Amador (the former Army headquarters until it transferred to Panama Oct. 1, 1979; later the PDF's Canal Security Command element Oct 1979 - Dec 20, 1989).

1990/ Jan. 25	President George H.W. Bush announced Partnership with Panama Action Plan to foster economic recovery to Panama.

1990/ Feb. 14	President George H.W. Bush signed into law "The Urgent Assistance for Democracy in Panama Act of 1990." It assigned responsibility for training the National Police to the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) under the direction of the U.S. Department of Justice.

1991/ Jan	MSG was terminated in January 1991 in view of the progress made by then and in accordance with an agreement between the United States and Panamanian Governments to gradually reduce U.S. military assistance as Panamanian institutions became functionally self-sufficient. The remaining MSG staff became a staff element of U.S. Army South.
Mid 1994	Operation Promote Liberty officially terminated.

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