The aid package includes 60 helicopters, training for military and police anti-drug units and intelligence.
"These groups foster violence and instability...in an attempt to advance their political agendas, and largely finance their operations through the illicit drug trade, " Rodney Benson, chief of intelligence for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said in congressional testimony last year.
As to whether the words will lead to practical co-operation, Mexican officials say they are getting more help with intelligence on the drug gangs from their American counterparts.
Neither is it clear whether the president, or his American backers, have much interest in doing so: after all, Mr Fujimori, and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and its drug-fighters were happy to rely on Mr Montesinos for a decade.
These efforts have inspired American help, especially in the form of passing on intelligence that has helped in drug seizures and in the arrest of leading traffickers.
Another political intelligence firm, Marwood Group, employs 130 people and was recently subpoenaed by the SEC after one of its clients used Marwood intelligence to short the market on a drug that failed to receive FDA approval.
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We're asking for very carefully controlled, court supervised intelligence gathering information, powers that we already have for drug traffickers, organized crime figures, and people who engage in fraud.
Information and intelligence will be gathered on possible trouble-spots and potential drink or drug drivers.
On the other hand, Mr. Tygart said his organization was helped greatly by the Drug Enforcement Agency's "Operation Raw Deal, " which led to new intelligence on doping by American athletes.
This methodology is more thorough than that used by America's Central Intelligence Agency, which provides the United States' government's estimates of drug production.
Dennis Blair, the new director of national intelligence, then told a Senate committee that the corruption and violence of the drug cartels was hindering the Mexican government from controlling part of its territory.
It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico that helps fuel the drug trade, senior administration officials said.
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