CIA NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES HAVING DOMESTIC IMPLICATIONS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01430460
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 7, 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
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SUBJECT: CIA Narcotics Activities Having
Domestic Implications
1. This memorandum is in response to your request
for a review of activities and relationships that might
have domestic implications.
-2. We occasionally report on the activities of
American citizens involved in narcotics trafficking
abroad. This information is normally disseminated to
U.S. law enforcement agencies and other recipients of
our reports. We also occasionally request U.S. law
enforcement agencies for name traces on U.S. citizens
who are known or suspected to be involved in narcotics
trafficking abroad.
:S. We have occasionally received requests for
alias documentation for U.S. narcotics law enforcement
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officials working abroad on foreign narcotics investi-
gations. The present method of handling such requests
is for us to request the approval of the Deputy Director.
for Operations prior to asking the Technical Services
Division to comply. We insist on knowing the true
identity of the persons to use such documentation and
limit them to staff officers of the U.S. law enforcement
agencies. We also require that we know the purpose
and intended use of the documents. Finally, we require
receipts from the headquarters of the agency involved
and the individual, and also require these documents to
be returned to us for destruction after they have ful-
filled their use.. We have turned down requests from
BNDD for alias documentation for domestic use. There
are some indications in the files that there have been
requests from BNDD for domestic documentation in con-
nection with their domestic investigations. These
predate NARCOG, and we are unable to determine how these
requests were handled.
6. We periodically receive requests for technical
assistance in the form of photographic and audio devices
or guidance for use of such items by U.S. law enforcement
agencies in connection with their foreign investigations
of illicit narcotics activities. We require these
agencies to adhere to the same procedures we require
in our own operations. From time-to-time we have honored
these requests and have provided sterile equipment when
the requests have been properly presented and approved.
Our records show evidence that several such requests
were made prior to the existence of NARCOG in connection
with narcotics law enforcement investigations in the
United States. We are unable to determine whether the
requests were fulfilled.
eymour R. Bolteri
Chief, DDO
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