Joint Interagency Task Force South

Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) East was created as a result of Presidential Decision Directive 14 which ordered a review of the nation's command and control and intelligence centers involved in international counter narcotics operations.

Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) East was created as a result of Presidential Decision Directive 14 which ordered a review of the nation's command and control and intelligence centers involved in international counter narcotics operations. On 7 April 1994, Dr. Lee Brown, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, signed the National Interdiction Command and Control Plan which directed establishment of three national interagency task forces (JIATF East in Key West, Florida; JIATF South in Panama; and JIATF West in Alameda, California) and the Domestic Air Interdiction Coordination Center at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California.