; and (2) foreign persons, including government officials, who provide material, financial, or technological support to such traffickers, organizations, or networks. (b) Specific targets The activities described in subsection (a) shall specifically target foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations and networks, and the foreign persons, including government officials, who provide material, financial, or technological support to such traffickers, organizations, and networks that are present and operating in Central America. (c) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out subsection (a). 1724. Support for transnational anti-gang task forces for countering criminal gangs The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Director of Homeland Security Investigations, and the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall expand the use of transnational task forces that seek to address transnational crime perpetrated by gangs in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and any other identified country by— (1) expanding transnational criminal investigations focused on criminal gangs in identified countries, such as MS–13 and 18th Street; (2) expanding training and partnership efforts with law enforcement entities in identified countries to disrupt and dismantle criminal gangs, both internationally and in their respective countries; (3) establishing or expanding gang-related investigative units; (4) collecting and disseminating intelligence to support related United States-based investigations