BIGGEST 'PUSHER' & other articles

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• Publication Date: December 13, 1971
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UNION-LEADER
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491,03,91 197t
Biggest 'Pusher'
To the Editors: Failure of the present admin-
istration (and previous ones) to deal with the
heart of the international drug problem is turning
into one of the most dangerous situations of our
times. Crash programs have been launched to
curb the illegal drug traffic from countries such
as France, Turkey and Iran, but nothing is being
. 'done to attack the flow of heroin from the world's
biggest producer ? you guessed it, Red China.
The CIA has been carefully studying a book )
dealing -*Mitt?' Nasser's talks with Premier Chou
j? En-lai in Cairo, in June, 1965. A highly respected
Egyptian publisher and confident of the late Pres.
Nasser, Mohammed Heikal, reveals in his book
?
,that Chou En-lai discussed the demoralization of
American troops in Vietnam by the use of drugs.
Chou reportedly said: "We are planting the best ,
kind of opium especially for American soldiers in '
Vietnam. The effect the demoralization is going to
have in the United States will be far greater than
anyone realizes."
Despite U.S. intelligence reports from Vietnam,
showing heroin being taken by our troops, there
has been a deliberate effort by the administration
to discount the fact of where the stuff is coming
from. 'Reports indicate further that the heroin is
'so pure in Vietnam, it had to come from main-
land China.
Perhaps the President had better forget that
"peaceful" trip to Peking. In spite of his obvious
sincerity, the feeling just does not appear mutual.
' Ah, those inscrutable orientals. ?
EILEEN TOEDTLI
1'1014 Ellis, Dallas, Oregon
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MICHIGAN
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CHRONICLE
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Nixon Is C
OBERLIN, Ohio, ?
Speaking at Oberlin college
recently, Kathleen Cleaver
compared President Nixon to
Adolph Hitler and accused the
federal government of being
"fascist."
In an afternoon speech in
the college's Finney chapel
before 700 students, faculty
members and townspeople,
the wife of self-exiled Black
Panther Eldridge Cleaver
said that both Hitler and
Nixon were elected on a law
and order campaign.
As Hitler used concentration
camps to kill the Jews, Nixon,
Is using drugs, she charged.
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mpared To Hitler
The rise of drug usage, she
says, "parallels the. Nixon
administration."
Mrs. Cleaver, who attended
Oberlin in 1963, said "The
..C.4j,lie Mafia, and the FBI
are waging a chemical war
against Black people in
America by the spread and
sale of hard drugs in the Black
community."
She added that the govern-
ment's methadone drug
program for heroin users is
not for rehabilitation but in-
stead is another step to control
the life and destiny of
American blacks.
"Where Black people were
once addicted to heroin," she
aid, "they are now addicted
to methadone? a government
controlled drug," she
declared.
In commenting on the Attica
(N.Y.) and other prison
revolts, Mrs. Cleaver said,
"The prisons ? the univer-
sities of the ghetto ? are
where the true leaders and
organizers are found. They.
are simply carrying on the
sturggle raised by the people
outside the prisons."
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By PETER HARVEY
Detailed evidence of complicity by individual French intelligence officials in
world-wide drug trafficking ? a business osting the United States economy prob-
ably $1,000 millions a year has been co mpiled by the American security services.
Some of this evidence may be made public unless the French 'authorities act
swiftly to crack down on the criminal syndicates operating in France andpurge
their intelligence service
of the men alleged to be
Involved in the trafficking.
The syndicates, working with
their protectors, are responsible
for about SO per cent of all the
opiates smuggled into North
America each year. During
1970-71, it is estimated, about
10,000 kilograms?worth retail
over L4,000 millions?was on
the US market. International
narcotics agencies and police
departments' believe that as
much as half that figure prob-
ably finds its way back to
criminal hands.
The syndicates 'controlling
much of the traffic. to NorEi
America are very powerful and
react savagely whenever any
action is taken against them.
During the course of an
Investigation across Western
Europe on behalf of the
Guardian. I was twice
threatened with beatings and
repeatedly warned to leave
areas where the syndicates
operate. While being taken to
a meeting with members of one
of the smuggling rings, I had to
lie on the floor of a car and
agree to be blindfolded.
List' of names
The information now believed
to be In the hands Of the
Americans includes not only
the names of some of the
criminal bosses and their prin-
cipal lieutenants hut also. the
names of some inionbera of iho
Service do Documentation
Extriettre et Contre-Espionnage
(SDECE), who Ilave ?been
Involved, It is alleged, In the
trafficking over the past six to
eight years, if not longer. ,
customs officers to civil servants
and politicians?Implicated in
the racket, particularly by,
shielding traffickers.
SDECE has also carried out
an investigation of its own into
American officials' involvement
In the drug trade within North
America, South-east Asia, and
parts of Europe. It claims to
have proof that some member
of the CIA have been working
for the Mafia by arranging the
transportation of gold to Pay
for drugs procured in Europe
and the Middle East and that a
number of CIA agents are
Involved in the supply of
narcotics to North America
from Asia.
But it must be stressed that
neither SDECE nor the CIA in
any way suspects that either
organisation has been
" officially " involved in any
aspect of trafficking. There is
a good top-level working
relationship between the two
Intelligence departments, and
both are equally concerned at
reports of criminal activity
within their ranks, and both are
determined to stamp It out.
? Upheaval
SDECE is currently passing
through' a period of internal
upheaval?a political house-
cleaning. Under General de
Gaulle, the service reportedly to h MCA ittalP.19Zaaj
devoted most of its consider- ?
able' human and financial
resources to Investigating US
affairs and CIA operations in
Europe. Shortly after M Porn-.
pidou came to power, he
replaced SDECE's director,
General Eugene Guibaud, with
Conte Alexandra de Marenches,
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Marenches was ordered to
cleanse the service of the hard-
line Gatfilists, and replace them
with men who would divert
SDECE's attention to work
against communism, coopera-
tion with Western Intelligence,
and ? most importantly ?who
supported Pempidou's brand of
The public charges against
members of SDECE and other
French officials of cOvering up'
top-level complicity in drug
running were first made by Mr
John Cusack, director of the
13ureat. of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs' operations in
Europe.
" Eour or five of the top men I
In international drugs traffick-
ing are in France. And they are
protected by the police,' he
said, a few weeks before ois
term of duty in Paris was
scheduled to end. (Cusack
returns to Washington this
week and will shortly become
director of the US Customs'
Narcotics Division.) He went on
to say that "people in very
high places indeed " were
shielding the smugglers.
Thern scandal broke publicly
when Roger Delouette, an
SDECE agent, was arrested in
New Jersey last April while
attempting to smuggle DO kilo-
grams of heroin?worth about
$36 . millions retail?into the,
United States. Ho. was the
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arrested on drugs charges in
the past 18 months.
Interpol and the Western nar-
cotics agencies believe that
Cusack's "five top men" are
based in Marseilles today,
although' two also have apart-
ments in Paris. All operate
under the cover of legitimate
business, one of them as a
freight agency, two as real
estate and house agents, while
the others own hotels and clubs.
' French police admit candidly
that they believe they know the
names of the leaders of the
syndicates and are aware of
.their work. But obtaining evi-
dence that could lead to arrest
and conviction is almost an
Impossible task?as has been
'shown, apart from anything
else, by the murders of police
and narcotics agents who were
attempting to infiltrate the
syndicates.
The US Narcotics Bureau
like the other international
enforcement ? agencies, also
acknowledges the overw:ielrning
difficulties placed in the path
of any reasonably accurate
attempt to gauge the amount
of money spent or earned by
'criminals involved in txafficking.
But the BNDD suspects that
at least $200 millions is sent
out of the United States each
year specifically for the pur.
chase of drugs.
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behind Viettninh lines to col-
lect the opium harvest. The-
' . oretically, the operation was
to deprive the enemy of art.--
? important source of financ-
ing but it remains unclear !
ci,en today what the French
autWoi'ities ? did with the .
l-14 opium. (Similarly, the
French press has accused .
the CIA of doing much the .,.
same . with Laotian and Cam-
hoclian
opimn.)
Inevitably, the. name of
Jacques Facart has been
mentioned again in this case
as it was in the Ben Barka
affair. Foceart is nominally
secretary general of the
French-African Community
organization which has
had no legal existence for,
these 11 years ? but his
real business is ensuring.'
that all goes relatively
snreothly in former French
birch African possossiorr,:
his organization reput-
edly employs many "bar-
,Lonzes."
More open to queistion are
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?.3.1.yr Jonathan C. Randal, . .
va.,11ingtor, Post Foreign :,!,6rvr.,e WaYWaM, .Gaffic ''!-: lames Despite- the barrage of de-;:
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Bonds is the knowledge that. tailed charges ? and count-.
S--Over the Yeal's the Pr enchf spy organization ereharges made public in the
Scandals have so regularly, has defeated all attempts at past, ty,.,0 weeks, SDECE it-
-lbesmirche.d the French serious -reform ever . since scif .? las hever ?E:con fit to
.counterespionZrZ,e organiza- its Free French be .-0.1.1 l.ings publish the; results of the
'lion: that the latest cause cc- in World War .II London. reform carried out at Gen.-.
'3ebre v,:;-,.if greeted by .a car- ..- More. than 13 years of .de Gaulle's orders after the
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thg.. machine was needed to aullist r ule' lutV e con trib- B en -Barka a 11 11
tocni sig,gesting t1141; 'a W'ilS11-
uted to an attrition of vigi- However, a Paris newsPa-'.
.handle the 'growing clltlm.? lance,.especially since. Gault- per reported ? that of the.
Of offi eial. dirty 'linen. ? '. ists have always had a weak- s,i?mming pool's 1,500 oper-
- InYolving a ? sometime ? ness for clandestine opera- atives 593 were than purged
Preach spy charged .with Lions and questionable oper- with 473 of them returning
,Sinuggling 96 pounds Of her.: zdives. ? ? -- to the armed forces-win-rice
,
bin in1O the United States The Service du'Documen- they 11?""il come.
last spring, the scandal has tation Exterieure ' et de An official National As??
been connected by the press' Gontre-Espionnage ? pron- sembly 'report on SDECE
with a whole series of unsa; ounced &leek?has suffered complained that low ' pay
*my real estate frauds in: through an American period, was discouraging recult-
cilvh;g the riding Gatillists followed by the traumas of ment,a failing Which .maY
The question of 'Whether the. Algerian sync, hostilitY? help to explain why so many
'the scandals involve a CIA to the United States and the "barbouzes" seera to get
'Maneuver to embarrass its end of once close links with into serious trouble.
-French counterpart or rival- -Israel, only to be told to Symptomatic of such ap-
-ries within the French or: .mend its American fences parpnt financial ,probl.e.ms .
Tanization is---and promises durlml, the past year or so. . were the cases of Boger
to renrain -- as murky as' The previous low:waier DeLouette, the conies' of the
?the plot of a cheap spy- mark in the.service's.history present.- scandal, and Andre'
.thriller. ? . ? 'occured in 1.965 when agents Labay, arrested hero earlier'
But what . is immediately of the "sl.vimminf; pool"--as in the fall for drug traffick-
. . ..
_Pt stake is the reputation had worked for
SDECE he.adquarters in ing. Both
Paris is called after a near. SDECE, . .
and political future of Pres1-1 . ?
dent Georges Pompidou and by sports center ---- were Quite apart from the '"wat
...,... ... . ?... .. . of the clans" within SDECE,
the Gaullist party, grown in- implicated in the mysterious
kidnaping and death of which is real enough, the or-
. .. .
Morocan politician in exile. ganization's real weakness is
in cutting the umbilical cord
Mehdi Ben Barka, a leftist
with its agents once they
.havo Ceased being useful.
There- have been some
eases to suggest that unem-
ployed "barbonzes" exercise
sufficient, leverage on their
former employers to afford
a ce.ain license in finding
othicr? means of support
. creasingly . nervous with
every new scandal. and the
- aPproach of the 1973 legisla-
tire elections. . .
. At . that - time no fewer
?
than rri separate police , What is also at stake? as ' ` . po-ee and
it has been for years
;11., intelligence organizations
. ,
' were identified, and the
:France ? Is the role of any
leciunterespionage and intcl- Fre.liell people became ae"
. !.ligerice operation in a West- quainted with the distin-.
; ern deinocracy. - '-: ? ' : - 'I guishing characteristics of
: Tieing 'odd ends of seem- the "barbouzes" ? or
Angly Unconnected cases into bearded ones as spies are
:one irrefutable pint 'has al- :.,alled in argot. i whichs are not always above
been art honored inter-. It was not entirely stir- board. ' ? ,
':lectual pastime in the land Prising to learn that among The three gangsters ili-
a ',Descartes whose citizens Ben Barka's abductors were volved in the Ben Barka
Jlrzie? a natural penchant for common law criminals who case for example, had run
;the conspiracy theory of his- during the wartime occupa-; houses of 'prostitution for a
-tOry.. . ' ? ? , ?,. -; .,, tion had worked for both' long time and were allowed
-:. But the current spectacle' the Germans and the Pcsist-' .16- dis-appewr ahre:ad with an
(.)1 official and Unofficial mice! . . ease ?the government found
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:spies .' calling . each other Earlier, during the closing embarrassing. .
31a1ites l'complete . ' with days of. the Algerian war, The. question ? ihas been
,?charget, of high treason. an- the Gaullists recruit :eel bar- raised of how SDE 'CE is fi-
wered by $200,000 slander- bonzes 'from like back- r,aneecl beyond its rather
. ;snits, smacks of doja vu. . grounds in their fight: stirOy budget appropria-
'-?
,...?13evond the morosARPFP-vettrotrike4ag4 p011,018/01(iniARD
tzutio'n - 0cea,J0...ned by such ganization 'error's s c .1- ? .17)1. inr7- 1.-0P49401?0Q1R00
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- mined to keep *. Algeria china .war, a French air
force plane r_egularly landed
.French.
such purely Gaullist unoffi-
cial organizations as the
Conimitteos of Republic De-
fense and the Civil 'Action
SerYiee which. anti-Gaullists
have charged involve former' ?
."harbouzes" .in all kinds of
skullcim!gery, including
ding trafficking.
TheoreUcally, they are a
kind ;of Gaullist internal 1)6-:
lice to piTvide protection
for Gaullist ? .noiitienns and
,worket's &tying el calor
campaigns.
.!".11'here is apparently Well.
founded speculation that
much *of the :French exploi-
tation of the 'scandals is
linked ? to the legislative
elections now on the hori-
-7on.
Many Trenehmen agreed
,
with Gen: Pierre Elliott?, a
former defense minister and
Gen. de Gaulle's, wartime
Chief of staff, who claimed
that SDECF, was "no longer
,in the republican order" and
called for its "dissolution." _
But his state omit was un-
dercut by,. the knowledge
that Billotte 'iced hoped 'to,
take over' as the boss. of:
SDECE and had been
turned down.
Nonetheless, his Words
!Struck a deeper cord than
those of Defense, Minister
Michel D'Are, who is -techni-.
cidly responsible for SDECE.
-16000310011(16whole DeLou-
ette affair was only worth
printing "on the -15th page
of a third-rate paper and
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.e? By ROBERT LINDSEY : ? equipped with special devices- creased aerial smuggling to batco IMO Mexico and Cen-
They fly low and slow,..I.) so they can take off and land the growing market for drugs tral and . South .. America .
and on short, improvised desert 'the light of the moon, in the United States, the without paying import duties.
.inaI;.e $50,000 a night. ,- atrips. . - huge profit potential, tight-
.- - "i3ut -?a lot of i them, are ened surveillance at - Some- ti)cai ?Ificials-Bilbe6 '
,They use some private starting to use bigger planes, ground. border crossing As far as the United States'
planes and old military trail's- ?DC-3's, surplus militarY, points and the relative ease is concerned, the flights are
ports' and land on deserted transports, 'turbo-prop exec of flying in contraband., .- legal as ion,'? as readily avail-
; air strips or sagebrusb-cov- utive planes, and -we have; "Sraug,gling, of narcotics by. able export permits are ob-
our eye on, one gropp that small planes is less risky for tained. South of the border,
'-aered 'desert. ,Their cargo is
e has a Constellation," the Jus- operators than by any other the contrabandistas _usually
.- marijuana, cocaine and her- t.
. . . ice Department official said means of transportation," bribe local officials and earn
., om. _ . ? - ' - ? a ._ ., ? The ConstellEltion can CZtrry said Neal soar-lett, an Assist- a solid profit by selling their
.Along the Sparsely settled 40,000 pounds of cargo. ' ant United States Attorney
? duty-free merchandise.
,l'rontier. ;The that divides the Unit- . e United States agents' in Miami, where he said- - - ?
Within recent months, lured
air- force consists of? 30 un- smuggling of heroin by air is by the promise of even
States and Mexico, air-
. marked helicopters and small growing rapidly, ' greater, profits in drug traf-
planes. ' 'borne drug-runners are doing ? Occasionall the The drugs come into Her- fic, an increasing number of
, a booming business, and agents are able . to pursue ida from France via islands contrabandistas have been
..,Federal agents say that they smugglers and 'arrest them . in the Caribbean and the Yu- flying to this country with,
do not know how to stop when they land. Increasing cat-an Peninsula in Mexico. drugs instead of returnina.
them. ... . use of the, planes over last .,
Economics Explained home with their planes empty.
year has 'dead
ef
. ,-- On most nights, the agents . fect. ? - ' ? had, an A Justice -Department ex- Although some- illegal
have.. pert explained the economics flights cross the border in
estimate, at least 10 planes - "
Singe July 1, they way:
: cross the ;border with marl- been ti,.led to mak of the industry this e 5'7 arrests ? - daylight, most cross- at night.
"In the interior ,
'Altana. and other drugs. On and seize 14 planes that were
. you can buy ?.weedof Mexico [maxi_ The planes usually fly a few
. rare occasions, the smugglers used in smuggling, according for as low as $2 a hundred feet above the
are caught by United States
to the Bureau of Customs': juana]
.
This is twice the rate of a brick' [a kilogram, or 2.2 ground to dodge what they.
'agents 'flying . their own
year pounds], but if you ? don't believe to be 'searching sic,-
planes. But usually they land - "But sic know we're only ynow your way around, you tals from Air Force or Fed-
getting a tiny fraction of probably will have. to pay oral' Aviation Administration
.unnoticed In Arizona, Cali7
,fornia, Texas, Florida or else- them," a Gastoms agent said.- closer to. $30.. It doesn't take radar antennas. -
a Very big plane to fly ,500 For the most part, such
4here and net at least, They are very clever peo- precautions are unnecessary.
plc, and if we put the heat bricks if you take out the What radar there is on the
$50,000 each trip.
. on in one area?like we did, seats and strip it down,
large-
'Any who Lao now. ,in Brownsville, Tex., recently. border, officials said, is "If he takes' the stuff to ly? ineffective below 0,000
.to 'fly Con get into the -bust- --they learn about it quickly Tucson, he can sell it for feet and at some points it is
[nesS.and make a lot of mon:, and just take another route.",
about $130 a brick, n?laebe useless below 18,000 feet,
ey in a .hurry if he gets Started 5' Years .A.1-4o .. -? .. ?'. ' All pilots who cross the
international frontier are re-
quired to file an official
flight plan with the F.A.A.
or the Mexican Government,'
depending where. the trip
originates. Many pilots ig-
nore this ride. But some fol-
low the procedure ? up to a
point; they take off and land
on the route indicated. in
their plan, but they take a'
detour over the border, drop
the drugs to confederates on
the ground or land briefly on'
the desert to get_ rid of the
contraband before landing at
an -airport where they might
be subject to a search. .
Asked how the smuggling
a , ?, a , oepe.nr Int,
;away with it," said Donald A. Drugs have been smuggled , on the market. We've. heard
- Quick, 'a Bureau of Customs into this country by air for they're getting as much as
?:agent based at the border at least We years. Initially, . $750 in Boston: But; 'say he
the 'smugglers tended, to be buys it for $30 and sells it
town of Nogales, Ariz.
of college age. They rented in the states for $130; that's
. "You get bush pilots, sol- a plane and flew into Mexico a profit' on 500 bricks of
? fliers Of fortune, crop dust- to buy a small amount of $50,000 for ,a night's work.",
-ers, ?guys who flew with Air marijuana and then sold it ? Although _ Mexican-grcr,vri-
America in Vietnam [an ai,-. for a comfortable profit, marijuana is byfar the?larg,
More . recently, officials est carg,o of -the aerial smug--
',line said to' be affiliated with
said, the' huge profits -that glers, they have ? been in-
/ the ? Central Intelligence.
can 1. ie. made have lured creasingly , tarrying ? heroin
.Agency], and a lot of 'em more and more older pilots and cocaine. It appears this
'can't get jobs. .
?? ' . : and other people into the is .partly clue to tightened
-- "Pilots are a dime a dozen ? - ? ? ? - ?
- - ' business . l surveillance of Surface ship-
Lieut Dennis Dierking of ment on the' I, ? Coast.
these days and they're will- Lieut. Dennis s- East Co-st.
_ . the Arizona State Depart- "A small plane -is perfect
ing, to do anything to fly,, ment of Public -Safely, who for brin ? ? *I ' "
ging in heroin," an
'Including smuggling." - l heads the narcotics detail in agent said "h ' 't doesn't
, -. could be halted, Mr. Quick,
1:
'They re ? developing their the southern part of the state, take much to make a sinall
. I said. fortune." Ten ounces . of the Custom's agent here, said:
Own'. air force, eancl it's get ? ?
? We know of approximate- heroin purchased in Mexico "People hear terms . like
.ting bigger and bigger," said 1 10 organized 0 ,,
, y different1 for $3,500 can be. sold in
- radar, jet and computer, and
...
think you can solve any .
an official of the Justice Do- orations in Tucson alone, Los Angeles for $140,000. . 1-,
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.partment's Bureau of Nara each involving six to eight . Another recent trend that problem. But this is a very:
coties and Dangerous Drugs; people, that are \flying in worries the authorities is the. ,complicated problem. That's-
group' of "on
recent diversificationto get lost in it, and when
of. ? a
a a long border, and it's easy
which is ?jointly responsible loads' weekly."
Customs agents recently y smug- von take it up .to 18,000, ?
with the Customs Bureau for"one-way" SUMP.-
arrested the City Attorney of glens called "contrahandis-
policing the smuggling. feet, that's a lot of air space'
Winslow, Ariz., a town of tem" . ? . ? - ' ?-
?'' , Most of the drug-runners 8,000, and accused him of Operating from small air-
use, c ,
liabt simle and twin- ? ? 0 helping :to .direct a large ports along the American
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? ' .-" - aerial. smuggling 'operation. side of the border, contraban- -
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lie is under indictment. for distas fly United States, meta,: a ..
flOD t, 440 Ct
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'..The French Connection -
Over the past fifteen years few es-
pionage organizations have suffered so
many damaging scandals as France's
Service de Documentation Exterieure ct
- de Contre Espionage?the French equiv-
alent of the CIA. Up until last year, the.
SDECE recruited ex-convicts and mem-
bers of the underworld as agents, and
brawn was valued over brains. This,
in-
evitably, led to all kinds of mishaps:
New Jersey named Herbert J. Stern.
- On Due. 15, 1970, Delouette told
Stern, Colonel Fournier asked him to
smuggle the heroin into the U.S. for
$60,000. As a former SDECE officer,
ilouette was N?'ell acquainted with Four-
nier, whose real name is Paul Ferrer?
and who directs the worldwide operation
.?of all SDECE agents. Several years ago
however, Delouctte was fired by Ferrer
for "unreliability." And as Delouette told
the story, when Ferrer got back in touch
with him last year, it was not to offer him
his old job?but a totally different kind'
of assignment.
Allegedly, Ferrer put Delouette . in
contact with other heroin smugglers. And
acting, so he said, on. Ferrer's instruc-
tions, Delouette flew to New York, where
he was to pick up the heroin and de-
liver it to a contact thought to be some-
SDECE agents were implicated ifl. the
sloppy public erasure of a prominent
Moroccan, Mehdi Ben Barka, in 1965,
and another SDECE agent recently got
fifteen years for slipping French secrets
to the Yugoslays. ? Last week, the
SDECE's tarnished reputation suffered
yet another blow. A U.S. Federal grand
jury in Newark, N.J., indicted an SDECE
officiaJ, who uses the now de guerre
."Col. Paul Fournier," as the leader of an
international heroin-smuggling organiza-
tion. The indictment set off a round of bit-
ter transatlantic accusations and shook the
French spy network to its foundations.
The first scent on the trail leading to
Fournier was picked up last April when
the freighter Atlantic Cognac clocked at
Port Elizabeth, N.J., and customs agent
Lynn Pelletier, 22, played a hunch and
?checked out a 1971 Volkswagen camper.
She found 90 pound's of raw heroin
(street value $12 million) stashed inside.
When Roger Delouette, 48, a French
citizen, showed up to ?claim the VW,
he was arrested and soon afterward
began recounting a startling story to a t
AP
Stern. with drug
haul (left) and ex-
agent Delouette
York Daily os
one in the. French Consulate. After De-
louette was indicted in May, Stern gave
him two lie-detector tests (he passed
both). Later, Stern contacted the French
Ministry of Justice and then flew off to
Paris to confer with .some French offi-
cials. Said Stern: "I was told 'Fournier'
was innocent, that he was a high-ranking
official and there was no reason for me to
meet with him." ? .
Last week., Fournier-Ferret came out
of hiding to give five hours of secret
testimony before a French magistrate. As
he emerged from the Palace of Justice in
Paris, a photographer snapped his pie-
lure--but Ferrer persuaded the police to
confiscate the film on the ground that
us identity was "a secret affecting na-
ional defense." Meanwhile, the French
Government brushed aside all charges
against Ferrer and refused to extradite
him for trial in the U.S. Safe in Paris,
j'errer challenged: "If I'm guilty, Mr.
tern, prove it and justice will follow its
ourse. ' From Newark, Stern -replied:
`If you're innocent, Mr. Fournier, come
o thus country and stand trial."
trial of sorts was already under way, for
at the end of the week, one Col. Roger
13arberot NVC11 t on Radio Luxembourg and
charged that narcotics smuggling had in-
deed been organized by French intelli-
gence agents. Barbcrot's motives, how-
ever, were open to question. A fanatic
Gaullist and anti-American, Barberot had
hired. Delouette immediately after Fel.-
- rer fired him from the SDECE. Further, .
Barberot is head of the Bureau for Ag-
ricultural Production Development, a
cover for intelligence operations over-.
seas,. and his accusations may simply re-
flect infighting between two French in-
telligence groups. In fact, there was
speculation that Barbera was incensed
over President Georges Pompidou's. ap-
proval of a purge against old-line GJI.J1-
ists within the SDECE and. was trying to
discredit the entire organization.
Nor did the speculation end there,
Characteristically, some sources ad-
vanced the hypothesis that the smuggling
ease had been masterminded by the CIA'. ,
As they saw it, the CIA had a simple mo-
tive for blackening Ferrer's reputation.
This past summer, the U.S. ambassador
to Malagasy was kicked out of that
country after charges against him had
been trumped up by the French (NEWS-
WF-EK, July 5). What's more, since Ferrer .
is also responsible for the French spy net-
work in the U.S., it was conceivable that ?
his agents had often stepped on the toes
of their American counterparts.. in the
U.S., there was speculation that, if Ferrer
was in fact involved in the heroin racket,
the motive was either to line his own
pockets or to finance French intelligence
operations in the U.S.
It was, of course, impossible to verify.
any of these theories. But those with in-
side information on the French dru,
-scene were convinced that if Stern's
charges against Paul Ferrer are in .fact
true, then the scene may well be set for
a scandal that could rock the French Gov-
ernment. For if it can be demonstrated
that a top official Of the Service de Doc-
umentation Extericure et de Contre Es-
pionage was, for any reason, involved in
the narcotics trade, even the total dis-
mantling of the organization may DOI be
enough to out France's allies at rest.
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By MARGOT LYON
PARIS ? "It's like a Shakespeare
play," said a leading Frenchman this
'week. "It's an infernal cauldron where
ambitions, grudges, big money and
.blackmail are all simmering an ex-
plosive mixture that will probably
spare nobody when it boils over, as it
must." ?
He was talking of the latest revela-
tions in the scandal that links French
counter-espionage services with the $12
million sale of heroin in the United
States.
The story began last April when
French agriculturist and one-time spy
Roger Delouette was arrested in New
Jersey as he went to claim a Volkswag-
en minibus in which 96 pounds of hero-
in were hidden. He told American au-
thorities that the man behind the smug-
gling attempt was a Colonel Fournier ?
later said to be Paul Ferrer ? a high-
ranking officer of the Service de Docu-
,
mentation Exterieure et Contre-Espio-
nage or SDECE, roughly the French
equivalent of the CIA.
Action Urged
New Jersey attorney Herbert Stern
has been demanding that Fournier-Fer-
rer come and defend himself against
the charges, but since last April nothing
has moved, except for a visit to Paris
from Mr. Stern himself earlier this
month, when he saw the director of
the cabinet of the Interior Minister,
Raymond Marcellin, in the presence
of U.S. Ambassador Watson and
"other officials. The ambassador
seemingly tried to smooth the rough
'edges of a somewhat stormy meeting,
,but as one of the participants said later,
-"Dr. Watson did not manage to soothe
iSherlock Holmes."
Last February Minister Marcellin
signed a cooperation pact on dope-hunt-
.Ing with Attorney General John Mitch-
ell and it looks as if Washington does
not wish to sacrifice the restored coop-
eration between the two for the skin of
a crook. But Attorney Stern is seen to
be in a hurry to build his own political
career, and is impatient with the slow
and exceedingly formalistic style of
French justice.
In turn the French criticize him for
keeping their official from contact with
Delouette. Mr. Stern says that De-
louette's lawyer will only allow him to
meet with them after Delouette himself
has been granted immunity ? a long
long way from French traditions of ju-
dicial procedure.
With little understanding of each oth-
er's methods; legally what is going on
is a dialogue of the deaf.
BUT THE FRENCH public sat up
and paid attention last weekend when
Colonel Roger Barberot, a gaullist for-
mer ambassador, a well known busi-
nessman, and very probably an ex-spy .
himself, revealed in a radio interview
that the entire affair had probably less
to do with international drug traffic
than with East-West spying.
Before De Gaulle returned to power,
he said, the French intelligence service
had virtually become a subsidiary of
the CIA. But after 1958 De Gaulle re-
stored its independence. Later in his
term of office he oriented it toward
counter-espionage against the United
States.
Two years ago when President Pom-
pidou took over, he ordered the service
changed back to its former task of
spying on Communist activities. By that
time it contained so many anti-Ameri-
can agents that according to Colonel
Barberot, when new broom Alexandre
de IVIarenches began his clean-up, he
found he had to fire all the top brass?
Since then SDECE (pronounced
Zdek) agents have used their inside
knowledee to settle scores with new-
rug Tangle
corners, old-timers and any other fac-
tion they disliked. The former head of
the Research Service of the Zdek, said
Barberot, was himself fired on suspi-
cion of -working closely with Com-
munist agents. ?
EARLY THIS WEEK the man in
question, a Colonel Beaumont alias Ber-
trand, while admitting the whole serv-
ice was infested with factional rivalries,
sued Barberot for one million francs for
slander. Said Barberot: "I didn't make
my statement lightly." However, both
colonels take the line that no serious
link exists between the Zdek and drugs,
but that rivals clumsily placed the hero-
in in the minibus knowing that De-
louette would implicate anybody to get
himself off the hook.
However, the staunchest defenders
of France have been pushing the line
that a link Indeed exists between spy-
ing and drugs?only it concerns the /
CIA and not French intelligence.
Everybody knows, say' these hard-
liners, that theJA? panipulates the .
selling of Laotian opiu?ri because it is ?V
more than a source of profit, it is a
tactical necessity. So the CIA has used
the existing networks to wipe out politi-
cal adversaries ? which in that part of
the world were French, France having
retained a good deal of her influence .
since Laos and the rest formed part of )
the French Empire.
A Hidden War
Since General de Gaulle's anti- ;
American speech at Phnom Penh in
1966, a hidden but merciless war has
gone on ? and the Delouette case is
only one aspect of a French-American
settlement. Nobody would know who
emerged the winner, say the gaullists,
If President Nixon had not recently de-
manded a reorganization of the CIA for
isleading him ? especially on Laotian 17
and Cambodian affairs.
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CAFFAIRE FOURNIER.
..ceux qui sortent de rombrel
Paris, mardi, 12 Ii 45. Yotu d'un
pardcssus gris anthracite, une echarpe
autour du cou, on homme d'une cin-
quantaine d'annees, d'unc bonne cor-
pulence, sort du cabinet du juge d'ins-
truction Rorfssel, au Palais de Justice.
.11 a un mouvement de recut en aper-
?.cevant on photographe de L'Express,
Philippe Morel, poste la avec un repor-
ter d'Europe 1, Pierre Douglas. Les
deux journalistes le suivent jusqu'a la
grille du Palais et l'aborclent des qu'il
franchit l'enceinte. L'homme leve on
sorircil broussailleux et dit d'une voix
grave,. tres pose : Jc nc suis pas celui
que vous croyez. Le photographe a
braque son apparel] ct prend des cli-
cli? Vous n'avez pas le droit... Don-
nez-moi votre pellicule. * L'homme
bele l'agent en faction, qui appelle on
pallier a salacle * et conduit le trio
au vicux Commissariat des Hans.
Comprenez-moi, dit l'homme, fc
fais de !Information, moi aussi, cornme
vous. Mais mes .fonctions, comme ma
personnalite, sont couvertes par le
secret de Defense nationale. Si j'avais
l'autorisation de paraItre ct de parler,
c'est avec plaisir que je le ferais, puis-
que je suis mis en cause par des decla-
rations abcrrantes. Mais je ne m'appar-
Cells pas. ?
?Stir one copie. La pellicule est sal-
sic par le Commissaire, a la demande
de la Cour de stirete de l'Etat. Elle a
impressionne le visage d'un homme
term a l'anonymat, mais dont le pseu-
dpnyme ct la profession clefraient la
.chronique mondiale depuis l'avant-
?veille : le c colonel Paul Fournier ),
(En couverture cette seniaine) ?
adjoint A la direction du . Service de
documentation exterieure et de contre-
espionnage (Sdece, prononcez Zclek).
Escamote du commissariat par one
mysterieuse ambulance immatriculee
1296 LV 75, ii vicnt de deposer, pres
de cinq heurcs clurant, (levant le juge
d'instruction Roussel, dans one affaire
de tr.afie de drogue dont la justice ame-
ricaine l'accuse d'otre l'organisateur.
Au metric moment, on de ses hono-
rabies corresponclants ?, M. Roger
Delouettc, comparait devant lc tribu-
nal federal de Newark (New Jersey).
Grand, elance, cheveux rioirs bien
rat-net-16s sur la nuque, nc paraissant
pas ses 48 ans, il a, en ?plus jeune; on
faux air de Ray Ivlilland clans Love
Story *. ll suit, 'sur une copic, la lec-
ture de l'acte d'accusation Lite par
le juge Frederick Lacey : ? Vous avez
plaic16 coupable d'avoir conspire avec
le colonel Fournier en vue de l'ache-
minement d'heroIne de France vers les
Etats - Unis. Connaissez - vous Paul
?Fournier, des services de contre-
espionnage frangais, Sdece?
- Eticz-vous
--
- Depuis quand ?
-- raj 61.6 recrut6 en .1968. J'ai
commence a operer en 1969..
? Avec qui deviez-vous vous mettre
en rapport aux Etats-Unis .
Jo devais avoir on contact au
consulat de France a New York.* (Ce
contact scrait M. Harold Mac Nab, chef
du poste .Sdece.)
Le juge donne ? alors
un agent du Sdece?
lecture des
? Un incorruptible
M. Herbert J. Stein, l'accusateur de
M. Paul Fournier, est on jeune procureur
de 35 nos qui s'est fait uric reputation
d'. incorruptible .. II a pass?a plus
grande peal? de sa vie dans to New
Jersey et a New York. Apres des etudes
h l'Ecole de droit de l'universito de Chi-
cago, grace a une bourse de la Fonda-
tion Ford, il est nornme en 1961 assis-
tant du procureur du cornto de New York.
En 1964 et en 1965, toujours darts co
memo comte, il est affecto au bureau des
homicides, oa II a eter charg?e l'ins-
; tructiort sur l'assassinat .du leader noir
Malcolm X. II obtient l'arrestation des trols
coupables.
A la fin de 1065, il est norrand au minis-
Ore de la Justice C la tete de la section
quo les Americains appellent lo crime
organise et le racket .. Sa reputation est
de clinger on . grand jury afin d'enqqa-
ter stir In corruption qui regne dans la
ville de Newark (New 'Jersey). Atipres du
procureur federal de cot Etat, [4.. Fre-
derick B. Lacey, qui est aujourd'hui devenu
juge, II entreprend, .en septembre 1969,
une enquete retentissante sur les activi-.
Os de la Mafia i Newark. II parvient
etablir quo ['organisation secrete a C son
service le make de Newark, trois des
neuf conseillers municipaux, quake
anciens conseillers municipaux, et d'in-
nombrables policiers. Dans cette ville,
proche do New York, qui est on majo-
rite noire, la Mafia controle tout. M. Stern
parvient C y faire condamner les coupa-
bles, y compris to make, M. Hugh Addo-
nizio. Aux elections suivantes, on Noir
est elu make.
Au debut de ['armee 1971, M. Stern
declarations faites par l'accuse clepuis
son arrestation, le 5 avril, par le ser-
vice des douanes du New Jersey. Ce
jour-la, une jeune inspectrice, miss
Lynn Pelletier, 22 ans, avait cu bien
du flair en proceclant a la fouille d'un
.minicar Volkswagen, debarque sur un
quai dc Port Elizabeth du cargo
t Atlantic Cognac en provenance
du Havre, et dont le proprietaire, ?
M. Delouette, 6tait arrive la vcillc
New York par lc vol 803 de la T.w.a.
Sous le plancher. Un petit qucl-
que chose tn'a mis la puce a l'oreille
dira plus tarcl la jeune .femme. En
demontant le reservoir d'eau en plas-
tique sous le lavabo de la caravanc,
elle a trouve quinzc sacs remplis de
poudre blanche, quatrc-vingt-six autrcs
sous le planchcr : au total, 43 kg 778
cl'hero:ine pure, estimee a 2,750 mil-
lions au prix coiltant et en valant 66
a la revc:,nte. clandestine au detail.
Le Francais est aussitot apprehende
sur le quai du port. et interroge par les
enqueteurs dos douanes. c Jo n'y com-
prencls non. Je ne sais pas cc quo
c'est quc ca. ? L'interrogatoire va
diner trentc }retires. Commence a la
douane do Port Elizabeth, il va Sc pottr-
suivre a l'hotcl Sheraton de New York,
oir one sooriciere est tenclue dans la
chambre quo M. Delouettc a reser-
vec. Jaloux de }urs prerogatives, les
douaniers se contentent de prevenir le
Narcotic Bureau de leur exploit. Les
.policiers alertcnt a Icor tour l'antenne
de l'Office franeais des stopefiants,
tenue par le commissaire Daniel hart-
wig et par l'officier de police Claude
Chaminadas. Lc protocole de coopera-
tion franco-americain no s'etend pas,
en effet, aux douanes. M. Chaminaclas
est, cepcnclant, autoris6 a assister a un
bout d'interrogatoirc. Sans interet.
Le lendemain matin, 6 avril, le tele-
phone sonne dans la charnbre o?
M. Delouette a passe la nuit avec un
douanicr. La communication, qui est
enregistree, vient dc Paris. Au bout du
fil, one voix de femme.
Il est arrive on pepin a la voi-
tore ?, dit M. Dclouette, qui raccroche ?
en soupirant. Le commissaire Hartwig
est invite a entendre l'enregistrement,
puis la suite de l'interrogatoire, qui
prcnd alors on ton nouveau. Apres le
coup de telephone, M. Delouette
commence a se confessor : Jc SUIS
du Sdece et j'ai agi sur ordre de mon
superieur. ? M. Hartwig assiste au
debut de la confession, qui no donnera
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FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
It. began as a trivial drug scandal.
And then the skeletons and dirty
linen started tumbling out of French
secret service closet. When M. Roger
Delouette was arrested in New Jersey
last April, charged with drug smug-
gling?heroin, some 90 pounds of it?
he claimed to belong to France's
Service 'de ;Documentation Exterieure
-et de .Contre-Espionnage (SDECE),
and to have been acting under the
instructiPns. of his superior, a certain
-Colonel Paul Fournier. French justice
was duly informed, and an ill-tempered
dialogue began between the New
'Jersey prosecutor, demanding that a
.case be brought against Colonel Four-
nier, and :the French juge d'ins,truction,
who wanted to question M. Delouette.
- _ 'In. the _middle of this month the
? full story started to spill out. The initial
?!` unofficial" French version had been
that the Americans, and the Central
?: " ;,;
Intelligence Agency in particular, were
trying to ernbarrass the SDECE. Last
week, a certain retired Colonel Barbe-
rot produced a quite different version
for Radio Luxembourg.- The affair,. he
suggested, was a fall-out from the 1970
purge of the organisation that followed
the appointment of its new director by
President Pompidou. He argued that
the drug smuggling operation had prob-
- ably been mounted by members of
the old regime, ? and that the new
regime had itself denounced M.
Iflelouette to the. Americans in order
to get rid of him. And who was really
behind M. Delouette ? The colonel
hinted that it wasn't Fournier (real
name Ferrer, he said) and vigorously
emphasised the links between M.
Delouette and yet another colonel, a
certain Colonel Beaumont, who had
been a director of research for the
SDECE before falling victim to the.
Fournier?or somebody?is staying under wraps
1970 purge. Colonel Barberot claimed
that he had been suspected of treason.
At this point the balloon .went up
and fog and dirty linen came down.
The judge concerned at once demanded
the tape of Colonel Barberot's radio
interview . and has been questioning
im and some former, agents ever
since. Colonel Beaumont in turn broke
cover on Monday, declaring that he
was the victim of a Plot, had never
met M. Delouettc although he knew
the latter had been considered for a
mission, and . That he would sue
Colonel Barberot for slander. .
Inevitably the affair has become
political, not least ? because ? the
"treason" hinted at is a reference to
the political basis of the SDECE. purge
?the removal, ?that is, of the numerous
agents ,,,./ho under General de Gaulle
had been busier spying on France's
allies than on its nominal enemies..
But who is gunning for whom ? Colonel
Barberot is a left-wing gaullist, and
presumably no lover of the new regime.
M. Michel Dcbr6., the defence minister
under whose wing the service operates,
has given the body his full backing.
Has Fournier-Ferrer been named
because the ' new regime wanted him
out of the way too or because victims
of the purge (which he survived) did,
or because he was actually drug.
smuggling, or merely because M.
Delouette hoped to save.. his skin by
naming a fictitious accomplice ?
And how is it that Colonel Barberot
knows so much about the SDECE ?
-His only visible connection with the
case is that he runs the Bureau for
the Promotion of Agricultural Pro-
duction which once employed M.
Delouette. This innocent-sounding
body supplies third-world countries
-with experts in agriculture.
The press is having a field day with
every combination pf answers to these
questions' the opposition papers accord-
ing to their lights, the pro-government
France-Soir gallantly soldiering on with
the theory that the whole tiling is a
CIA plot. For this theory it has found
all manner of supporting evidence?
attributed . to happily anonymous
sources in Switzerland.
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L AKKEE:
En accusant un colonel du S.d.e.c.e., Delouette,.
agronome, trafiquant d'heroIne, et agent special
relance la campagne americaine contre la filiefo
francaise de la drogue. Ma's qui est Delouette?
.1 condottiere tenebreux. Un
4 novembre. Hubert J. silhouette athletique cl'avent
Stern, procurebr general rier international a la presta
a la Cour de Newark, CO avantageuse, avec so
e sans visage, dont le nom pas
U - se-par-tout a. l'air d'un pseudo-
n- nyme de fonction. -
n Le 8 avril 1971, le cargo fran-
1 82 m il ressemble a un Jon-
. gais . Atlantic Cognac . vient
couve du regard son ac-
queres d'Oriola au teint plom- d'arriver a quai a Port Eliza-
cuse .favori, son poulain
be qui aurait delaisse depths both, dans le New Jersey. Une
Roger - Xavier - Leon De- longtemps les reunions hippi- jeune douaniere de 22 ans, ?
ibuette: Petit, maigre, le ques pour les condos de jeu. Lynn Pelletier, conternple un
visage emacie des justi- A cote de lui, son defenseur, minibus Volkswaben qui se ba-
dors incorruptibles, le Donald A. Robinson, un petit lance au bout d'un palan. Lynn
avocet brun qui a la mine Pelletier, qui a un flair de vieux
it douanier, decide de visiter mi-
e nutieusement ._,c; vehicule. Elle
procureur general, dans
son strict complet. gris
anthracite de fonctionnai-
re .integre, a l'allure tran-
chante des attorneys qui
ambitionned tine grande
carrier?. L'audience a lieu
devant le tribunal de
Newark, dans un local
qui ressemble, avec son
plafond aux caissons de
couleur, a une salle des
fetes Lin jour de distribu-
tion des prix.
- competent? d'un qui conna
les 358 artifices de procedur
permettant a iun ennerni public y decouvre les 44 kg d'heroine
federal de s'en tirer avec cent pure. Peu apres ?un Frangais
dollars d'amende. - elegant se pr6sente aux bu-
Tout en manipulant nerveuse- reaux do la douane. pour reti-
ment une paire de lunettes do- rer le minicar. On lui falicite les
rees, Roger-Xavier-Leon De- fermalites et on l'arrete. C'est
louette, plaide respectueuse- Delouette.
ment coupable d'avoir, . de- Son interrogatoire -est fruc-
puis ou aux environs du ler tueux : it se presente d'abord
decembre 1970, en pleine comme un agent itinerant du
conscience et de plein (Ire, et S.d.e.c.e. et revele que, vers le
contrairement a la loi (? against 15 decernbre 1970, il a ete
the law .) conspire pour im- pressenti par le colonel Paul
porter aux Etats-Unis 96 livres Fournier, haut fonctionnaire du
(43 778 grammes) d'heroine by- S.d.e.c.e., pour faire passer de
M. Stern se retourne tres sou- drochlaride .. - l'heroine aux Etats-Unis. Peu
vent vers le public, compose Ores, il rencontre au Caf?e
de ses futurs electeurs, comme Paris un personnage .myste-
pour souligner l'importance du LA JEUNE DOUANIERE rieux, dont II ignore le nom,
combat qu'il est en train d'en-DECOUVRE 44 kg D'HEROINE q'-' lui offre 1 200 dollars par
gager: il part en querre contre kilo d'heroine transportee -et
DANS LE MIN113,US
les services speciaux frangais -qui to charge d'acheter une
corrornpus. Insoucieux des Volkswagen - Camper ., d'ob-
complications diplomatiques, ?tenir un visa, et de s'occuper
insensible aux pressions, ii L'autre prevenu, celui que De- , ensuite de l'expedition. - De-
met en accusation le pays qui louette a designo commp son louette touche bientot une
introduit l'heroine aux Etats- chef et que la justice amen- avance sur commission de
Unis pour empoisonner la came a inculpe, est absent. 5 500 dollars et, sur l'ordre de
jeunesse americaine. C'est le colonel Fournier que Fournier, va prendre livraison
Roger Delouette lui donne la re_ l'accusation presente comma de la merchandise a quarante
plique d'une voiX sourde, in_ un officier . superviseur i. du kilometres de Paris, a Pont-
quiete, mais sans d,, .pflev,saliyovogrt avoRmataii60 Imo ion on oha-A4i_
Un long visage cheUlin de I nstant? encore, un homme
STATOTHR
rt ret
cams ecoutent cette confes-
sion avec dace, 94figlig`4100.r`)
diatement confiance a Delouet-
te. D'abord, cette capture sur-
vient dans un "climat d'irritabi-
lite et de suspicion. Depuis
longtemps, le Bureau ameri-
cain des narcotiques que les
trafiquants d'heroIne tiennent
en echec, accuse plus ou
moms ouvertement la police
francalse de proteger les gros
bonnets de la droque.?
Ensuitee le fait qu'un service
d'espionnage serve de couver-
ture au trafic de l'heroine pa-
reit tres vraisemblable aux en-
queteurs americains. us n'ont
qu'a observer ce qui se passe
chez eux. Chacun salt, aux
Etats-Unis, sans vouloir le dire,
; que les avions d'Air America,
la compagnie aerienne de la
C.i.a., font la collecte de
l'opium brut, cultive par les
montagnards Meos au Laos, au
sud de la plaine des Jarres, et
dans la region de Chiang-Mai,
en Thailande. Pour des raisons
oolitiques, mais aussi parce
qu'une centrale d'espionnage a
toujours tendance a vivre en
circuit ferme, a fonctionner
Dour elle-meme et a alimenter
ses caisses, quelle que soit
l'importance des credits qui Jul
sent attribues, par n'importe
auel moven.
Enfin, Roger-Xavier-Leon De-
louette donne sur son passe
des precisions troublantes. II
? apparait comme un agent ores-
que officiel du gouvernement
franca is.
IL ENTRE
DANS LA CARRIERE DE
L'OMBRE EN 1946
Delouette est un Ills spirituel
de Graham Green at de Domi-
:nique Ponchardier. II est ne
pour to renseignement,
pour l'existence paraliele. C'est
un personnage multiple et con-
tradictoire. Faux ingenieur agro-
nome, ii Jul est arrive d'etablir
de remarquables projets d'agri-
culture tropicale. Mythomane,
il a .pouriant ete parfois un in-
formateur apprecio. Escroc de
vocation, II a longtemps exerce
la profession d'homme de con-
fiance.
II est entre dans la carriere de
l'ombre, en 1916 comme
d ie
eux me c asseflierMe
a r
Grece.. en 1946. II est sous les
dres du_eolonel Barberot,
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elections grecques. Jusque-la,
ii s'est passionne pour les pro-
blemes agricoles et il a tente
aussi de se faire admettre,
sous l'Occupation, comma au-
diteur libre a l'Ecole nationale
d'agriculture de Grignon. On le
retrouve ensuite en Angola oil
ii participe a un plan de .cleve
loppement des Hauts Plateaux.
Malgre son absence de dip16-
me, ml se revele un specialiste
en metiers de riz et d'agrumes.
Son nom parvient jusqu'aux
oreilles du baron Guy de
Rothschild qui Jul confie la
qestion de son domaine . de
Ferrier-es.
ON DEMANDE AGRONOMES
POLYGLOTITS SACHANT
REGARDER
Delouette y fait merveille et se
rend particulierement indispen-
sable dans la cbmmercialisa-
tion des produits. II s'.est main-
tenant attribue le titre d'inge-
nieur agronome et part en Sier-
ra Leone oil ii apporte un plan
audacieux de' culture intensive
du riz. En 1968, Il vient frapper
a la porte du colonel Barberot,
son ancien chef, qui a pris la
direction du Bureau pour le
developpement de la produc-
tion agricole, societe d'econo-
mie mixte dont le moms qu'on
ouisse dire est qu'elle est a vo-
cations multiples. C'est u.n or-
ganisme para-officiel qui ?est
en fait une officine de rensei-
qnernents.
Le colonel Barberot ressemb-le
a Clark Gable. Heros de la
France libre, ecrivain, journa-
liste, cofondateur du meuve-
ment dit des gaullistes de gau-
che, le colonel Barbefot rayon-
no, par experts agricoles in-
terposes, a travers les pays de
la Cooperation, et merne a tra-
vers le tiers monde.
Au 202, rue de la Croix-Nivert,
siege du B.d.p.a., un immeuble
moderne aux larges bales vi-
trees, on demande agronomes
oolyglottes sachant recorder.
Delouette tombe bien. II parte
anglais, portugais et n'a pas
les yeux dans sa poche. Sa
uc- :ion ce riz
300 000 tonnes.
DELOUETTE
EST LICENCIE POUR
FAUTE GRAVE
Le colonel Barberot l'envoie
alors pour une mission de trois
M01.3 en Cote-d'Ivoire. Mais, a
son retour, Delouette disparaif
sans remettre son rapport. Par
une lettre recommandee datee
du 12 mai 1970 (reference 302
CP 2/1), le colonel Barberot le
lice icie . pour faute grave, sans
oreavis, ni indemnite Delouet-
te pergoit tout de memo le sol-
de de son compte, la somme
de I 308,06 F qui est viree a son
compte de la Banque Trans-
atlantique, boulevard Nauss-
mann. Pourquoi Delouette n'a-
t-il jamais remis ce rapport
qui no Jul aurait demande que
hui:: jours de travail? Peut-etre
est-II d? au service de son
?not, vel employeur : le S.d.e.c.e
Aux Etats-Unis, on aime les
sp6cialistes. Pour les `policiers
Delouette n'est pas
un escroc international. C'est
un agronome qui a plusieurs
realisations a son actif. Detail
qui no Oche rien, sa fille Caro-
line travaille 6 . Vogue... C'est
un personnage important. On
le chole. A l'issue de l'audien-
ce du 14. novembre, Delouette
est ramene 6 la prison de Som-
merville, une batisse blanche,
de quatre etages, en pleine
campagne, dans le comte de
Scmmerset, oCi il est detenu
depuis six mois. Avec beau-
co_ip d'egards comme un pre
so lnier de marque. Sommer-
ville est une prison familiale.
LE GARDiEN-CHEF
EST HER DE .
SON CUISINIER FRANcAIS
Son gardien-chef, Louis Bel-
lent, consider? ses Menus
co-rime des pensionnaires, et
mt-!me des amis. Le sejour, a
Sommerville, est agreable. II
y a la tele, In radio, un cinema,
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i:rfoed-L.
t.,ortent. un .uniforme seyant : Francais ant peur des revela- claquant la oorte et va porter
jeans et chemiseAgiibIliviNPFoitiRederits15) * mucherAhRinpwigg liNfL117P9191-As a-
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Maitre de maison corpulent et a couvrir Fournier. Paris ccnsi- deur des Etats-Unis.
Jovial, Louis Be!lent, un ancien dere que les Etats-Unis tien- 14 novembre. Reunion inter-
de la guerre de Coree, a pris nent a tout prix a etendre la ministerielle a l'hetel Matignon.
en affection Delouette II lui a loi arnericaine en France et A II y a le les directeurs de cabi-
contio les fonctions de chef impliquer, par tous les moyens, net de Debre (Defense natio-
cuisinier et dit souvent avec une haute personnalite fran- nale), MarcoIlin (Interieur), Pie-
Rene. : Nous avons un chef gaise dans une affaire de dro- yen (Justice) et un represen-
frangais. Lorsque Delouette gue. Le conflit entre dans sa tant du S.d.e.c.e. Le Daily
est revenu de l'audience de Ne- phase aigue au mois d'aoet : News vient de reveler qu'un
wark, Louis Bellent lui a sim- M. Cusack, chef du Bureau des haut fonctionnaire frangais est
olement demand& en lui tapant narcotiques on Europe, fait implique dans l'acheminement
sur l'epaule : Alors, gars, alors de fracassantes declara- de la drogue aux Etats-Unis.
qu'est-ce que tu nous fais cc tions affirrnant que de hautes Le Conseil interministeriel de-
soir ? Delouette repond sim- protections couvraient en Fran- cide de prendre les devants,
plement : J'ai pense a quel- ce la transformation et le trafic do publier un communique qui
que chose de leger : soupe au d'horoine. rappelle les differentes etapes
laced, cotelette de port et corn-
de l'affaire, et surtout de lais-
pote de pommes.
ser filtrer le nom de Fournier.
Des le 6 avril, l'antenne de la PHOTOGRAPHIg, 17 novembre. Au Palais de
police frangaise a New York
FOURNIER FAIT SAISIR justice, dans le couloir des ju-
constituee par le commissaire
'Hartwig et l'officier de police
LA PELLICULE ges d'instruction, un journa-
Chaminades informe Paris de
liste et un photographe atten-
l'arrestaiion d Delouette" et de dent. II est 13 heures. Un horn-
ses accusations contre un haut Septembre 1971. Le procureur me sort du cabinet du juge
fonctionnaire du S.d.e.c.e. Une gonoral Stern sort son arme Roussel et s'esquive a pas
longue et sournoise bataille secrete : le polygraph C'est presses : c'est Paul Fournier.
commence. Elle ne se clegena- le detecteur de mensonge, un C'est la premiere fois qu'on
rera en polemique ouverte que appareil qui ressemble a la fois volt son visage depuis le de-
le 14 novembra, date a laquelle . un magnetophone par son clenchement de l'affaire. Aussi-
un ?quotidien new-yorkais reve- format et ses cadrans a aiguille tet le photographe shoote
lera au public qu'un officier et a un instrument medical par Presque sans le voir. II remar-
superieur frangais est implique son fonctionnement. On passe que ses cheveux en brosse,
dans l'affaire Delouette. deux sangles aux poignets et son nez pointu, sa haute tail-
aux bras du sujet. Le' principe le... un air de paysan
_
est tondo sur le fait que la ten Fournier, hors de lui, appelle
sion nerveuse et arterielle du un agent. Je veux qu'on de-
patient monte quand II ment. truise cet appareil. II y a une
Le 13 septembre deux policiers photo de moi la-dedans.
frangais de ?haut rang se ren- L'agent suit a la lettre le re-
' dent aux Etats-Unis pour assis-
glement : l'incident dolt etre
A Paris, le dossier est confie
ter A un serninaire sur la dro_ regle, au commissariat dont de-
au juge Roussel, specialise au gue et renconttent le procureur Pend le Palais de justice :
parquet de la Seine dans les Stern. Ce dernier s'etonne de_ celui des Halles. C'est l?u'un
affaires de drogue. II lance
vent eux que le colonel four- photographe de la police judi-
une commission rogatoire le nier n'ait pas ete inculpe et
ciaire confisquera le rouleau
13 avril et charge dos policiers lour annonce que Delouette a de pellicule du photographe.
franca's d'aller entendre De- accepte de se soumettre au
Le juge Roussel avait convo-
que le colonel Fournier A 8
detecteur de rnensonge. C'est
louette aux Etats-Unis. Mais
Delouette- est bien Protege. alors que Fun des commis'saires heures du matin. II etait temps
Son avocet, Donald A. Robin_ demande a essayer Ic poly_ de le faire sortir de l'ombre.
:
son, declare quo son client ne graph et parvient mentir Sa fiche reste succincte Une
repondra devant la commission sur son Age sans faire osciller incertitude plane encore sur
,
rogatoire que si la justice fran_ la moindre aiguilk sur les ca7p0n nom : II s'appellerait For-
caise Jul accorde l'immunite. drans. rer...
Le procureur general Stern ap- Le 6 novembre, le procureur On salt qu'il a 52 ans, gull a
oUie cette reclamation. Le juge general Stern vient A Paris. II appartenu aux services de ren-
Roussel repond que l'immunite, se precipite chez le juge Rous-. seignements de la Resistance,
dans la loi francaise, no emit sol, exige l'inculpation de Four- qu'il a la croix de guerre puis
etre accordee que dans un cas nier et reclame de nouveau, qu'il est reste dans les ser-
trhs pr?s : le crime de fausse l'immunite pour Delouette. Le vices speciaux, qu'il en a fait,
monnaie (article 138 du code iune Roussel invoque r,iou- si l'on peut dire, son m?er.
Penal). C'est alors que les veau les dispositions de la loi On salt encore qu'il s'est long-
relations entre les autorites frangaise et err particulier temps occupe, au S.d.e.c.e
americaines et la justice fran- tide 138 du code _penal. Le
gals? se tendent. Approyjiml-fot5Retme mamoarmisoRypisk. MER)W r
6i6Soithrtee
len , q n a Jame's -e en
cams ont l'impression que les limites de l'insolence, part en poste aux Etats-Unis. au'il est
ON BUTE SUR
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tier (siege du S.d.e.c.e) attache
au service central en qualite
de chef d'etudes et qu'il est
assimile au grade de co.lonel.
LES QUATRE ?
HYPOTHESES QUE L'ON
PEUT ENVISAGER
On sait surtout qu'il est consi-
dere, de l'avis general, comme
au-dessus de tout soupcon,
experimente et serieux.
Alor8 qui est coupable ? Sur
cette trame serree d'hommes
et de faits, ?plusieurs dessins,
arnbigus, incertains, se dega-
gent.
Premiere hypothese : Delouet-
te est un simple trafiquant qui
utilise sa co-uverture
pour renvoyer sur Fournier
l'essentiel de sa culpabilite.
C'est la version officielle fran-
caise qui s'exprime partout, et
jusque . dans les services de
police ordinairement sans ten-
dresse pour leurs collegues du
Sd.e.c.e. Elle se heurte a la
conviction du procureur Stern ;
elle nedlige les vertus recon-
nues aux U.s.a au de.tecteur
do mensonge.
Deuxi? hypothese : Fournier
est de longue date connu et
surveille comme le sont tous
les responsables du contre-
espionnage de son rang. Son
dossier est solide.
Troisienre> hypothese : Les ser-
vices americains manipulent
Delouette pour compromettre
Fournier, victime d'un regle-
merit de comptes entre ser-
vices secrets. C'est la solution
la plus romanesque et la moms
vraisemblable.
Quatrieme hypothese : De-
Iduette no ment pas. ll a ete
dupe et manipule non par Four-
nier comme il le croit, mais par
un intermediaire qui connait
- la piscine - et qui a usurpe
la qualite et l'identite de Four-
nier. t'est l'hypothese qui se-
duit le plus les specialistes de
l'espionnage tant arnericains
que francais. Et dans ce cas
soul ce mysterieux personnage
connait la verite : ce n'est ni le
procureur Stern, ni .Delouette,
ni Fournier. Nous nous garde-
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' "IV143;b-0- WC should think alr.--yat. applying
',',s'on.10 at, the rules Of football to our Presi-:
.?:-?deidial election campaigns."
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-: PAMS-------The world has been having
., a- field day with the real-life thriller
-, story_ of plots, counterplots, drugs,
contraband and other James ? Bond
divertissements apparently - unfolding
as a consequence of the arrest in New
iJersey of a minor French espionage
Official charged with dope smuggling.
- The verbal fallout from this - event
has become absorbing reading matter
although much is without foundation.
Thus it is not apparently in any sense
i :true that there is a clash between
;the American C.I.A. and its French
- .counterpart, S.D.E.C.E., nor that
S.D.E.C.E. is being riven by. internal
.purges. ..
Dopo and espionage were certainly.
.involved in the arrest last April of a
.former S.D.E.C.E. agent named Roger
:Delouette. Delouette -was calling for
-an imported car loaded with 96 pounds
!of heroin. He claimed to be acting
under instructions from an S.D.E.C.E.
official..
' The case ballooned in importance.
'Drugs, of course, are a major pre-
occupation in the United States, and
. chauvinistic . steam was worked up
..'about the French -poisoning American
' youngsters.
.- For their part, the French have al-
.-ready been regaled with tales of how
-S.D.E.C.E. agents were involved in the
.murder of a Moroccan left-wing politi-.
'0.an mined Ben Barka, and of the so-
called "Topaz" case:. "Topaz," an
American novel, was based on charges
of an S.D.E.C.F.. agent in Washington
- that high French GovernMent officials
were leaking information to Russia.
i: .S.D.E.C.E. is a postwar organization
of mixed antecedents. 71-rese included
1
de .Gaulle's 6.migre intelligence organi-
zation ?
o in wartime London, a similar
structure in North Africa, parts of the
. ? old P6tainist Second Bureau and Re-
sistance groups inside occupiedFrance.a
o :From its start, Shortly after the war,
S.D.E.C.E. has been preoccupied with
crises. First. came Indochina, then the
? , cold war. Then there was the Algerian
- 'partisan conflict and finally the?strug-
gle with the GAS. (secret Arnry or-
ganization) conspiracy. .
- The Algerian guerrillas depended on-
foreign arms supplies, so S.D.E.C.E.
,got into the brutal business of fight-
AppcNeiffof ititiW`14',CICIVOT07
tons suc 1 as he rum ess ' \cc - an .
-Murder and kidnapping bkame ono '
aspeat of its Operation. S.D.E.C.E, took
?
FOREIGN A FFA IRS ?
?
and also another bunch of hard .nutS..
who had served as Gaullist bully boys
? during the general's .early years of ?
exile- and who were called S.A.C.
(Service of Civic Action). ?
As Francophone Africa. became in-
dependent, do Gaulle's Fifth Republic .
organized a special intelligence branch
under Jacques Foccart to keep the
new states on the road to survival
and also close to France. S.A.C. sur-
vivors. joined that special secretarLj.t.
When the Ben Barka case blew. in
1966 both Focca.rt's and S.D.E.C.F.'s
name, became tarnished by scandal.
De Gaulle decided to rein in S.Dat.C.E.1- '?
and put it under the Defense Miniatry,
replacinc, its boss with Gen..Euae.ne
Guibauct, a regular officer.
Guibaud put S.D.E.C.E. into its Proper
place in a civilian regime that had
terminated the threat of civil war.
He discharged unsavory thug elerK,nts.
He was asked to stay on an eNrra:
year and finally was replaced in 1970.
by Connt Alexandre de MarencheS.-
French eyes, Marenches, ri huge
man, Is the typical pro-"Anglo-Saxon."..
?His wife is British, his mother was
American, his-father served as liaIson
officer on General Pershing's staff. He
speaks perfect - English. Nevertheless,
there is every evidence - that he is a,
loyal French patriot of the same type'
as his predecessor, and there is no'
question of pro- or anti-Americanism.
involved..
Thus there is little truth in tales new,
circulating here about "settling olda
scores" between pro-Soviet- and pro-.,
American cliques- or doing away with -
-nefarious double agents. Such rumors
have been spread by persons at one or
another time associated with s.D.E.c.E.
who have got into a publicity contest,
and the French opposition is trying to,
embarrass the regime.
Nevertheless, since the student up-.
risings of. 1968, after which/ relations
with America' .perceptibly improved,.
Paris and Washington have had ex-,
oellent working . relations even on thei'
secret service, level. Furthermore; the
French.are -just as concerned with the
drug problem as Americans are. ?
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opium po . nce JusLic- las rt.;. n s
course, it will blow over. No deeper
political implications are involved de--
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By JOHN L HESS accused by Delouette as having The Swimming Pool, as the the far right that als.o supports
. - .
organized the heroin shipment
Special to The New York Tima agency's bleak headquarters in the Government. -
As for Colonel -Fournier, or
interception at New York 'and eastern Paris is called. Colonel
- PARIS, Nov. 20.---A narcotics indentified by Colonel Barberot Barberot, who indicated that Ferrer, newspapers here des-
case in New Jersey was load- as Paul Ferrer. It was reported he was not himself. an ,,,,,,,A, cacti him as. man of 52 who
'
ing today to a spreading scan- without confirmation today that said a number of . his "old had joined General de Gaulle s
dal in the French secret ser','- Colonel Fournier is the director comrades" had &Tie. to him secret service in 1940.
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ice. ? of research, or operating chief with complaints about the Colonel .F.ournier was credited'
'
Col. Roger Barberot, direc- --of all agencies?having suc- agency and he .had been :con. with having Arab cm-
bugged ?
tor of a Government foreign ceeded Colonel Bertrand in ducting "a little personal inyes-
hassles in
aid agency, declared in - radio that post. . tigation for three days."- ' Algerian war,
during the
and, according'
and newspaper interviews that At Strasbourg, where the Colonel , Barberot, to the right-wing newspaper.? 56 ?years.
'
a former operating chief of the ruling Gaullist party is holdng nid, was a naval ensign when Aur ore, with thwarting
,
L American efforts to spy ' on The
Service de Documentation Ex- its congress, Defense Minister he deserted the Vichy- regime
tdrieure et de Contre-Espion- Mchel Debi' d declared today in Arne, 1940, joined the B Concorde supersonic airliner.
rit-
' ?
nage had been dismissed last that the Government had full ish Eighth Arilly in North Af-
According to L Aurore, the
c ''
year On suspicion of high trea- confidence in the intelligence rica, then fought in olonel did not he.sitate to use a Marine .
son. agency and that its high quality command under General de information amiably communi-
The accused official was Col! made it inevitable that it. be Gaulle, ending the war as a cated to him by certain. services
Rend Bertrand, whose cover subjected to hostile campaigns, decorated captain. He returned of - eastern countries,"- and,
? name is Col. Jean Beaumont. "A former occasional em- to service with a colonel's rank "talked of drug routes, Of the
. This evening, he announced ploye of the service ?seerns to in Algeria in 1956,.but resigned collusion of C.1.A. members in
. that he had engaged the coun- me to have fallen -into de. two years later to denounce tlrese rackets, etc." : ' --;- "
? try's most prominent trial law- plorable operations in recent 'Army abuse-s, including torture. Newspaper ,accounts. her'
yer, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignan- months," Mr. Debre said. "To After serving as Ambassrelor said that at least three men
court, to sue Colonel, Barberot lighten the sentence that awaits to the Central African Republic arrested on drug-charges in re-
for libel. He said he would him, the accused has hurled and to Uruguay, the colonel cent years had worked for -the
ask one million francs ($180,- grave charges. That's in the became director of the bureau intelligence .agency.,..,..,,....,..,_,
,. 000) in damages. .
? '- nature of things, just as it's
e s , Et
for Development of APricultaral Colonel Barberet said lit ICs
( Colonel Barberot was closet in the natur of thing that production foreign aid .,
convineed that the 'pelou. ej.t..0'
ed for an hour and a half to- imaginations quickly buld up agency.
.da.y with Gabriel Roussel, the fictional serials." He said he hired Delouette, affair had been "inbuilt:ea!
Paris," that the heroin .stntigz:
;examining 'magistrate, who is However, the sparks thrown an experienced farm manager, gling was in amateur job and,
investigating the charges made by Delouette's testimony, con- in. 1968 and sent him on a long' that the tipolf came from other:
by Roger. Delouette m
, a former tinned to set off explosions. mission - to Cuba.; which lie intelligence- ' .agents, eposaibly
?agent indicted in Newais:':. on It is generally believed that handled satisfactorily. American. ,. e. :
. . ?. ?
a . charge of -conspiracy to the discord within -the agency Delouc.,,tte's next ?mission was,
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smuggle 96 pounds of heroin is .at least partly a reflection to Sierra Leone, Unaccountably,'
Into the United States, of the shifts in French foreign Colonel Flarberot - said, he di:5;
.' On emerging, Colonial Bar- policy since the war. Agents appeared and was finally dis-
berat said he had shed no new who were in the Free French missed.- The colonel indicated
light on. smuggling hut called forces, then active in the cold that it was arabout that time
for a thorough investigation war, in Indochina and ih the that Delouette was recruited by
and housecleaning of the Algerian repression, were sod- the intelligence agency.- T. . ??
agency. In radio and news- denly ordered to reverse them- It was widely noted here that
paper interviews, he had. . ex- selves and engage in intelli- Colonel Barberot is a leading
pressed the belief that some gence activity sometimes di- figure in that faction of left-
agents were involved in the reeled against former allies. wing Gaullists that continues to
. ,
drug traffic, and that the ar- t Pompidou Govern-
restts of Delouette might have
'Old Comrades' Complai supor the
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ment. Coincidentally, the law.-
been arranged as revenge by Successive Scandals, quickly yer who will handle the libel .
other agents. ::. - ? quenched, . and successive suit against .:him in behalf of,
-I- . There was no immediate purges left bitterness among Colonel Beaumont, Mr. Tixier-
cOmment by Col. Paul Fournier, present and former agents of Vig,nainc-ourt,' is. the leaden?of
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By Andrew Tully Now it would seem that Red '
China, by demanding With-
'. ? The Mctiaught Syndicate, Inc.
. WASHINGTON At first drawal of U. S. troops from'
glance there was something Indochina, .is willing to deprive'
financially self-defeating in the itself of the rich Southeast
.maiden United Nations speech Asian market. But there re-
of Red China's, Deputy Foreign mains the potentially much .
.Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, in richer market on the American-
! which - he demanded that the mainland, and cynics of my ilk
United States immediately with- are inclined to suspect that now
draw all its troops from Viet- the U. S. has admitted a Peking;
:nam, Laos and Cambodia. delegation to New York there
a Such a withdrawal would be will be a nice little boom
a severe blow to Peking's econ- American sales.
:
omy, which is supported in part For one thing, U. S. narcotics .
, by massive shipments of opiurd officials point out; that Red Chi-
and heroin to Indochina, and nese heroin has always been
which is largely responsible for famous for its purity. Most of
making drug addicts of thou- the Chinese stuff seized along
sands of American GI's in that the Pacific Coast runs about 70 .
area, particularly in Vietnam. , per cent pure, while that seized-
?A Central Intelligence Agency on the East Coast?from the
source has estimated that this /,liddle East via France and
?traffic in jimk has enriched the Italy---averages only 49 per cent
Mao regime by '`at least" $1- pure.
billion in the past five years. Logically. American dope ty-
' "We threw out another $500-
million in profits as only about
50 ? pei. cent verifiable," said
the CIA man.
In ? "Puritan" Communist
China, dope is a state monop-
oly ? for export only. Peking's
!Special Trade Bureau of the
e Ministry of Finance operates.
?a several opium and heroin proc-
essing plants, doing business
under such labels as "Red
Lion" and "Crown." The an-
nual production of opium, from
'which heroin is produced, has
been estimated by international
experts as well over 8,000 tons,
compared with production by
the rest of the world?for me-
dicinal purposes ? of between
6,000 and 6,000 tons a year.
At least 90 per cent of Pe-
king's production is exported.
Most of it is shipped through
coons seek out the purest heroin.
they can buy, because the pure'r
the heroin,. the more it can be a
cut for street sales. Moreover,
the Peking monopoly has held
fast. to the policy of offering
its higher quality junk at prices
no higher than that paid for the
,
inferior Middle Eastern stuff,
It makes. gleeful financial sense
for our illicit drug industry to
do business with 'Chinese sales-
men.. ? ?
' In any event, it seems more
than coincidental that the num-
ber of aliens from Communist
China sneaking into the United
States has been on the increase
for the past few years. Indeed,
?
an Associated Press dispatch
on the day Chiao spoke at the
UN quoted Justice Department
intelligence reports which .said
as many as 3,200 Red Chinese
aliens are - smuclgled into the
Burma and Thailand, and then U. S. every year.smuggled into South Vietnam The AP story said Justice re-
and Hong Kong. In South Viet- ported the aliens are shipped
nam the junk is sold to Ameri- to the U. S. to engage in both
can soldiers. From }long Kong, espionage and narcotics traf-
the stuff is smuggled into the fic. This figures, sincePeking's
United States, where, it is dis- dope business is part and par-
posed of at the retail level for eel of its official international
more than $100-million a year.. posture, and one of the espi-
As a Deputy Foreign Min- onage racket's ancient functions
ister, Chiao Kuan-hua can. be is to undermine the basic social
. described as a kind of vice - structure ---or the morals ?
-- president for dope sales. For ? of the target country.
_ the exportation of opium and : . Perhaps Barry Goldwater has ?
. heroin is an instrument of of- something in suggesting . that
: ficial Peking foreign. policy. ? the UN be transported en?masse-
The Finance Ministry's Special to- Geneva. - Such a move just ?
Trade Bureau is merely the might be the only way we can
outlet, taking orders from the escape becoming a nation Of
Foreig,n- Ministry. - diopheads.
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' The. pei'fect opportunity
came, Fournier ? claimed,
when de Louette fell into
-the hands of U. S. authori-
? ties on the heroin smuggl-
ing charge.
Fornier said. he thought
de Louette was approached
by CIA. men and told that
lit would do him a lot of
good if he were to incrimi-
nate Fournier in the drug
scandal.
Trtith Drugs '
At his own request, he
. said, he was given truth
.drugs, and' the U.S. detec-
tives were unable to.corrobo-
rate their version of his role
in the smuggling conspiracy.
Fournier has now told
French secret service in
Paris that he is 'ready to
testify again to Frenvh
tuthorities under the influ-
ence of the truth drugs.
The heroin shipment in-,
volved in the indictment was
discovered hidden under ? the
floor of a Volkswagen bus
on a .French freighter at
Port Elizabeth, N. 3., in
April. ?
Do Louette "it'as seized
when he arrived to claim the,
bus and has been jailed. in
$500,000 bail since. His A-
torney said he had been co-
operating "completely" with
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By JOHN ELLISON
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; PARIS?The high-ranking
French intelligence officer
Indicted on federal drug
smuggling charges in New-
ark has blamed the indict-
Ment on a long-running bat-
tle between the CIA and the
French intelligence network.
The officer, .Col. Paul Four-.
nier, 'charged that the -CIA
was frying to settle an old,
Score with him.
? Fournier and a former
, French agent, Roger Xavier,
Leon de Louette, were in-
dieted by a federal grand jury.
In Newark yesterday for al-
legedly conspiring to smuggle
$12 million worth of heroin
--into the U. S. this spring.
? Fournier was accused of be-
ing the mastermind, in the ,
_ alleged plot. ?
' De Louette, who has been:
Tin custody in Newark since
April, was due to be arraign-
today. Fournier remains in
France, and is still uncertain
how fully French officials,
? Will cooperate with the U. S.
investigation. -
'A Top. Agent
-According to the- sterj
:Fournier told his superiors,-
' he had been operating as a
top agent in the U. S. The
7CIA learned .of his activities,
;T-hosaid, and was eager to ex-
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PARIS ? A high-
-ranking French spy
who was indicted
with another French
official in Newark,
N.J., for dope smug-
gling, todaSr revealed
a power struggle be-
tween the CIA and its
French counterpart,
SDECE.
A federal.grand
'jury yesterday no-
cused Col. Paul Fail-
nier with master-
? minding, the $12-mil-
..lion dope-smuggling
j plot. ?
.
-Also charged was Roer Delcuette, Col.
,Fournier's subordinate, who has been under
arrest since April. 5 v;hen he tried. to take
delivery of an imported car with 06. pOuncis of
heroin secreted under the floorboards in Port
Elizabeth, N.J. . ? . .?
Last night, the French government Issued r.
statement in New York indicating it mig,ht not
deliver Co!. Fournier for a P.S. triel b-ecause
hp was being accused by a man trying to get
his own penalty reduced. .
It's believed that Col. Founder is under po-
lice surveillance but Yrench author:ties say
only that he issomewhere in France."
. .
,
- Only a few weeks n^o e-e
.,.tached in 'a low capacity On the periphery
SDECE's top agents operatin'7, in the U.S. at-
: of . the French Embassy in Washington.
He told his chiefs :n....:DFOT
:;1..CIA agents had tumbled onto his activities and
:::-were eager to settle an old score with him and
r.have him expelled from the U.S.
The perfect opportunity came when Mr. De-
louette fell into the hands of American author-
ties by bungling the heroin smuggling,.
".Col. Fournier believes that Mr. Delouette
...ns approached by CIA men en- l told that it
....would do him a lot of good if he were to.
,....Incilniinate Col. Fournier in the drug scandal. ?
Since then ? Coll Fournier said, he has been
H. De Louette
?
questioned about the affair by American detec-
tives investigating the case.
He said that at his own request he was given
truth drugs, but that the Americans were even
then unable to corroborate their version of his
'role.
But now he has told his bosses he is ready to
testify again to the French authorities under
the influence of truth drugs. "
-.The indictment charged Mr. Delouette was ?
promised $1,200 for every kilogram (about 2.2
pounds) of heroin he smuggled into America
and was given $5,500 to buy the car.
U.S. Atty. Herbert Stern, who made the in-
sdictment announcement, said it is now up to.
..the French authorities to either hand over Col.
Fournier or prosecute' him in France.
Mr. Stern, . who said another indictment is
pending, stressed that his office is cooperating
with French officials and allowed a French
investigator to Interview Mr. 'Delouette shortly.
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Peter Arnett has been covering
South EastlASia and the Vietnam
War for more than a decade. His
reporting 1,-,,as won such varied acco-
lades as,. The Pulitzer 1966) and
Sigma Delt-, Chi ex-
pulsion from Indonesia (1962), and
the government closinL:; of his week-1
ly paper based in Vientnc, Laos;
(1960).
,An Associated Press reporter,
since .1960, Arnett recently wrote a!
series of articles with l-iI?ernard.
Gav-zerl about the heroin traffic in;
South East Asia and the ways that;
heroin gets to US troops in Viet-i
nam. UR interviewed- him -shortlyi
after his return to New York, andi
asked him abot:t the nature of thel
drug traffic there.
?L-e=7A,eryone is against the use or heroin
or at least they.saY they are. Bat beyond
-the basic idea that people take heroin
because their life is a bummer, there are
.only a lot of charges and counter-
elmarges about who is letting/help-
ing,/pushing/or profiting from, the
heroin trade.
We think that the heroin ?trade is a
typical issue of our time. For exan:Iple,
how is it that heroin can be transported
-thottsands'of miles over all sorts of oh-
sta:eles to poison millions, while we
cannot possibly figure out how to get
food to starving people?
-- We hope to do a series of articles and
. or interviews about herein presenting a
variety of vi-ews and evidence. We have
started with South 1-1.-Ttst Asia because it
is the largest source of opium in the
worIcl, and also because the heroin.
usage by American seldiers in Vietnatm
has led to increased information on this
issue becoming available, such as the
confidential government documents
that we partially reprint here.
We do not iiik,41Acvat tFvoicimiiiifse
this by ourseIvA"-t7. we hope that any-
one who has information, documents,
or knowleth,e will heln n?:wii-
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U1:11: Has the CIA. been part or the draginey rartri crops, including opium, and
t.r. i,..ffie in Sdat,h East Asia? .they have a fairly well-developed cul-
At-r.?e;:: Time CIA has i2Cleer:t been in- tare based on 'silver ornaments and
volved, as has the US Government, for .home-ni,,,,de weapons. The CIA and thei;
years in the drug business,-but it's cs- .Arn.cricat Government consiclereo..-?
sentially for political reasons ---as-a them important because they were
political necessity. .., buffer between China and the rest of
Now, wllY is it a Political necessity? South East Asia. So it was in the inter-
At the beginning of?the?'60's, South
est of the .A.rm.:-riciin Government to win
East Asia was seen as greatly threat- their allegiance. The.,, were just another
cued by Communist China.?
There-was. arm of the American war effort.
great fear that revolutionary war by? licrever, in the early 60's the Corn-
people's armies would sweep across munists started pressing into Laos. Up
South Eat Asia, to Vietnam, Thailand, to that time these people had been
Formosa and ail the rest. So the Amen- growing opium and other little crops,
can officials out there 7? the CIA, the. but opium was their only cash crop.
American Military, and the Embassy The average family. could make $40 or
people -- figured that any approach $50 a year. from it, and that would be
would Pe acceptable if it was in order to enough to buy some silver ornaments
resist that great a threat. Eventually, of
.. and to pay for the pigs for the harvest
:course. it led ton commitment of half a celebrations.
million American troops in Vietnam. As the Commbnists started corning,
But even before Vietnam, any act to 1
tnrough they started to cut the old trails
prevent the Communists from :taking tat these people had been using to all-
over the area was considered accept- :ioad their onium. The 1\ileo were )
able, and this included the. drug busi- 'stranded in the mountains and the CIA)
ness. Here's an example of how ? it;
ftgared that the least they could do was
worked. . . ? ? ?. ! lto help them in harvesting and distrib-.
In Laos yo have this tribe, the ivleo. .uting their crop. So, on the nun-h-Aus
They came down from central China American airfields you had a liason
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Gen. Mri and Heroin
In testimony before the Rouse Foreign Af-
fairs'SubcoMmittee on 'July 7, 1971., I stated
that U.S. officials in Saigon were in.posses-
sion of hard intelligence naming South Viet-
namese General Ngo Urn, the commander.
:of II Corps, as a heroin trafficker.
. On July 8, Mr. john Vann, senior Ameri-
can adviser to General Dm, stated that
there was no information available to him
'That in any shape, manner or fashion"
would support my testimony. In a letter to
The Washington Post on Oct. 9, Mr. Vann
.expressed the view that my testimony was
based on "unSubstantPated rumors and alle-
gations which are available at .a clime a
'dozen against any major personality in Viet-
nam at any time." . . .
In view of Mr. Vann's statements, I wish
.to state for the record that my testimony
was 'based on information contained in a se-
'ries or. classified intelligence reports pre-
pared by the Criminal Investigation Division
Of the U.S. Army and the Public Safety Divi-
sion of USAl.D. These reports, the first of
which was dated Jan. G, 1911, contained in.
formation collected from agent sources who,
:according to the Source descriptions in the
reports, had provided reliable information
in the past. ?
-.The intelligence reports were brought to
my attention by highly qualified U.S. offi-
'obis in Saigon and Washington who ex-
pressed deep concern that the reports were
not being acted on because of General
?Dzu's rank and position. These officials are
unanimous in describing the reports as hard
intelligence because of. the nature of the
sources and the manner in which the infor-
mation was collecteed. .
can only assume that Mr. Vann is not
aware of these reports, since he is surely
aware that U.S. intelligence agencies take
'great care in describing their source's and do -
not,make a practice of publishing unsubstmr-
tiated rumors and _allegations without
clearly qualifying them as such.
?-..-To clarify the situation, I have formally
requested the Department of Defense and
the Department of State to provide me with
copies of all documents in 'their possession
pertaining. to chug trafficking by General
.Dzu, together with a full report on what ac-
tion has been taken to utilize Cie informa-
tion contained in each document.
. RODEPT II. STEELE,
Member of Congress.
'Washington.
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A shocking British government docu-
ment has come into this reporter's hands;
it is Great Britain's 1969 estimates of the
contribution Communist ? China makes
to the world's illicit production of opium.
According to the British, as of two years
ago the total illegal world production
of the drug from which heroin is derived
was "5,000 tons, 1,000 tons coming, from
? the Middle East and minor producers,"
the remaining "4,000 tons" emanating
from "Southeast Asia (including Burma,
Thailand and Laos)" and the "Chinese
Peoples Republic." Of this amount,
the official British estimates is "3,500
Ions" coming front Red China!
?
The confidential document goes on to
- point ? out that all opium grown in Red
China is illicit, that the average yield of
opium per hectare of poppy field is seven
kilos and that the total area under culti-
vation is estimated at a half-million hec-
tares or 200,000 acres. The poppy-grow-
ing provinces are listed as Yunnan--
where production IS. figured at 1,000 tons,
Szechwan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Hopei
and Florian. The annual revenue to Pe-
king is placed at a half-billion U.S.
dollars.
. In view of the Nixon Administra-
tion's large-scale efforts to curtail
illegal drug traffic at the sioarce
and the attitude of its experts with
. regard to Red China's part in this
trade, the British figure's are
astounding and require immediate
ftilswets in Washington and London,
.Congressional inquiry as well as press
.efforts to gain information on Peking's
role in the most vicious of all trades,
have been met at the U.S. ? Bureau of
Narcotics by inconclusive. and evasive
replies. "No intelligence on the matter,
no evidence. People on the spot- cannot.
verify, can only give an opinion."
?
Mr: Copp, a Washington-based free-lance writer
and has a particular expertise on the subject of ' es a-e mr --arge uantities of fic was declining.
reported that
large
that Chinese authori-
'and businessman, 15 an expert in national affairs is r
authored with Marshall 'e ay. I,
Chi". A er Pilc)t 05if?OiCtinf RPlet* PT( 97rctfrAPARaocalt601Roo1000070001-6
book dealing with bbcaiMudist Chinese affairs. His dC .
cover story for IUNIAN EVENTS on March 27, 1971 attempting, to remain out of the picture.
By Dc.NVITT S. COPP
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When this reporter approached the From the account given of raw opium?
seizures in Burma, it is quite evident
U.N. Narcotics Commission recently
to discuss a detailed article on Red
that very large quantities of raw opium
China's dope trade . published in the are smuggled into. that country from
March 1971 edition of the Taiwan pub- China." . ? .
lications ?Issues & Studies, the ,response ,' Earlier Great Britain had informed
? could only be described as scoffing,. The .the commission that Peking representa-
article had never been heard of and there tives had offered to sell 500 tons of opium
was simply no evidence whatever that to 'a British firm in Hong Kong. When
the Chinese Communists were any longer _this offer lad been declined an attempt
engaged in the production and sale of was made to sell 300 tons of opium to the
narcotics. . U.S. in exchange for cotton.
At an international drug conference
held inOttawa last month the delegate
from the Republic of China presented a
statement of his government's investi-
gation into Communist. China's drug
activities. So far as is known, the state-
ment WaS ignored.
The official attitude was best summed
up by a noted British drug authority
when he said: "We.do not have anyin-
formation that the Peoples' Republic
of China is involved in illegitimate nar-
cotics traffic, but we are not doing any
work in Red China. We are, of course,.
always interested in information about
any country." . .
? Because the subject' is so iMportant,
the contradiction so broad, and the need
for clarity so great, the following chro-
nological account of Red China's known
involvment in illicit narcotic -smuggling
is offered. ? From it, we believe, a con-
clusion can be reached: ?
At the time that the Chinese Commu-
nists conquered Mainland China in 1949
the production of opium had been out-
lawed by the. Nationalist Government of
Chiang Kai-shek since 1934..
? In 1950 the United States added an
annex to the U.N.'s Narcotics Com-
mission report giving an analysis by the
U.S.- of the illicit drug traffic through-
out the world during 1949 and the first
nine months of 1950. The analysis said
in part: -
During the Korean War much evi-
dence was amassed, to show that Peking
was intent upon injecting the drug habit
upon our GIs. Two examples will suffice.
In October 1950 U.N. forces in North
Korea .discovered 300 boxes of opium
which had originated in Red China
containing several tons of the drug. In
1952 another seizure was made amount-
tagto 6,000 pounds.
Dr. Harry Ansling,er, director of the
U.S. Narcotics Bureau for many years
and a member of the U.N. Commission,
stated in 1954 that Red China was
spreading narcotics addiction to obtain
funds for political purposes. Ile told the
commission that this was the practice of
the "entire regime"' and that the United
States .was' a key target of illicit traf-
fic from China. The Soviet representa-
tive, Mrs: V.V. Vasilyeva, objected and
said the accusation was. a "slander" .
cal-
culated to ruin Peking's reputation.
. ? Dr. Auslinger later declared: "As
pointed out in my reports to the
United Nations over the past several
years, trekking in narcotics for
monetary gain and to undermine and
demoralize free peoples has been
a policy of the Communists in China
from the beginning." ?
Nearly a decade later, in 1963, U.S.
Narcotics Commissioner Henry C3ior-
da10 charged that the Red Chinese were
extensively engaged in drug traffic and he
saw no reason to believe that this traf-
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? `.`The CIA_ is the largest dope
dealer and narcotics officers are
/ the biggest traffickers," Steven
"Cayotc" Fay,Tley, Gemini House'
staff head, said to about 30 persons
Thursday . at a McKinley Fenn-.
dation luncheon.
The new head of Gemini House
pciinted to the correlation.be.tween
the increase of heroin use by
Americans and the increase of U.S.
involve.ment in Southeast Asia.
"Contrary to what gbvernment
? officials would like us to believe, 80
per cent of the opium that conies to
? the U.S. is grown in Southeast Asia,
not Turkey," Fawley said.
CIA purchases
Fawley said he believes the CIA
is purchasing opium, a staple crop
- in Southeast Asia; from govern-
ments there to better U.S.
diplomatic relations with them.
The opium is then channelled into
? the U.S. under the CIA's auspices,
. be added.
: "They want dope to run wild; the
vested interests of this country are
contrary to stopping drug . use
because the users pose a threat to
. the U.S. power structure," Fawley
.said, referring to? youths and
? blacks as the users. -
...-
After saying drug use is .
inevitable among youths, Fawley
added, "I would like to 'see good
dope run bad dope off the.streets,
then we could deal with the drug
problem instead of a medical one."
lie said he was especially,.
distressed over the "increase of
heroin and barbituate use" in
Cha mpatgn-Urbana , which he
plans to'combat "without notifying
the police."
Since:the Gemini House staff has
contact with most of the drug
dealers in town, they could easily
confiscate the heroin from them,
without help from police, and
thereby solve the problem without.
causing any ? harm to .anyone,'
Fawley said.
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request for Ricord's extradition, where he would
face charges of being 'one of the top drug smug-
glers into the USA in the past 25 years'. He is also
wanted by the French police.
Stroessner ? for reasons best. known to himself
--vetoed the extradition request, and the opposi-
tion believe that Ricord will die in prison as he
knows far too much about the official, protectors
of the drug smuggling. The Liberal-Radical weekly
El Radical was closed for a number of weeks after
it tried to publish a list of the generals and politi-
cians who were implicated in the drug smuggling,
basing their information on a secret study under-
taken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). and
leaked to opposition journalists. by the United
States embassy. El Radical's editor, Dr Juan Carlos
Zaldivar, had his house raided by the police and
was threatened with death by the chief of police,
General Francisco Britez (one of the leading
characters in the CIA report), should he ever try to
publish such information again.
Among the consequences of the drug scandal
was the temporary arrest in July of Pastor Coronel,
the civilian chief of the police investigation depart-
ment. In fact some see a power struggle between
the 'traditional' smugglers, such as Generals
Rodriguez and Colman, Who see 'their empires
threatened, and the new -generation of hard drug
smugglers, who include Britez, Coronel and Candia.
rather dimmer view of heroin smuggling into-
United States (the cigarettes and whisky are
It is also widely believed in Paraguay that the
,
decision of the United Stated senate committee :to
destined principally for Brazil and Argentina).
Since President Nixon's speech in July asking all reverse the earlier recommendation of the house
friendly governments .to cooperate in a drive to committee to give Paraguay a sugar quota, should
keep hard drugs out of the USA, pressure has been be seen as a reprisal for Paraguay's failure to come
building up on the Paraguayan government to play ,to terMs with the drug smuggling. This is denied
its part. Stroessner's problem is that he is not corn- llbtlY but not entirely convincingly by the United
pletely master in his own house and has to reckon States embassy.
with the powerful vested interests of the generals President Stroessner has already been put for-
who profit from the drug smuggling trade. The ward as a candidate. fpr the 1973 presidential elec7
chief of his personal secret police, Erasmo Candia, tions by his militant supporters in the Colorado
is alleged to have been responsible for the deaths Party. However, what with the drug smuggling, the
of at least three Interpol narcotics agents over the open expression of anti-yanqui feelings as a result
past three years. of the threat to the virtually promised sugar quota,
In October 1970 five Paraguayans and a French. and relations with the Catholic Church at their
man were arrested in Miami airport with more lowest ebb ever (following the torturing of the
than 10 million dollars worth of heroin stowed in Uruguayan priest, Uberfil Monzon), Stroessner is
the tail of their light airplane. One of the five, biding his time before announcing his acceptance
Enio Varela, gave the rin enough information (in of the nomination.
return for his unconditional release) for the United
States to persuade the Paraguayan authorities to
arrest another Frenchman, Auguste Ricord (alias
Lucien Dargalles), whom Varela had fingered as
the Mafia's top man in Paraguay coordinating the
flow of heroin from Marseilles through Asuncion,
and on to the United States: Following Ricord's
arrest, the United States embassy presented a
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Paraguay: turning on
with General Stroessner
Normally cordial relations between the
United States and Paraguay have been
soured by President Stroessner's failure to
crack down on drug smugglers, who have
been using Asuncion as a convenient stag.
ing post for running heroin into North
America.
For years the United States government has
watched benevolently while President Alfredo
Stroessner and his generals turned Asuncion into
the smuggling capital of Latin America. The
staples of the trade were Scotch whisky and
cigarettes; in 1969. Paraguay overtook Kuwait
and Hong Kong to become the world's leading
importer of United States cigarettes. The com-
mander-in-chief of the armed forces, General
Andros Rodriguez, and the chief of the crack
counter-insurgency force (RI-14), General Patricio
Colman, and other top generals have become
millionaires several times oVer'on: the basis of this
lucrative traffic. Washington, howeyema takes . a
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In a. rare Statement is-
sued in Washington, a Cen.-
traL_Intelligence Agcy
spokesman yesterday .la-
beled as "errant nonsense" ,
a statement by an Indochi-
na war veteran that he had ?
purchased large cfu.antities
of opium in Laos using CIA
funds. .
Former Green Beret Sgt.
Paul Withers, 24, of Cam-
bridge had told an antiwar
veterans' panel Saturday
that one of his "main func-:
tions" while serving in
Laos in 1966 was. 'to buy
opium from Tao tribes-
men, using CIA funds."
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:..'1By Joe PikAti
Globe Staff
A. former Green Beret
? asserted yesterday that he
regularly purchased large
ci quantities of opium in Laos
:with funds provided by the
Central Intelligence Agen-
cy.? ? ?
? His testimony came dur-
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proce.ssed, the drugs are
flown into South Vietnam
?
' aboard both military and
civilian aircraft.
The congressmen's
re-
port also alleged that both
. the Laotian army corn-
tnander, Gen. Ouan Rathi-
koun, and South Vietnam-
- cse Premier Tran Thien
ing the final day of "Win- , Khicm are involved in the
ter Soldier Investigation corr upti on of customs
"- sponsored by Viet-pill-a agents and drug traffick-
? Veterans Against the War ? ,
(VVAW) at Boston's Fan-
r coil Hall.
.? Forinci:- Sgt. Paul With-
:ors, 24, a Springfield native
31.0W _living . in Cambridge,
, told 300. persons: "When I
was in Laos in 1966, one of
I my Main. functions. was to
i buy opium from Meo
i t r ib c s in en, using CIA
. funds."
- . -
-He said his orders to buy
- opium "came down from a
-contact man' from the CIA
;and were "only verbal,
never on. payer," Payment
to the Moo tribesmen was
made in "gold and silver,
- which -came in on an agen-
cy plane," he added.
Withers said iTium pick-
ups at a small base camp in
northern Labs, which he
. and two other Green Be
rets built, were made by
."Air America" planes. "It
- -?..vas. Americans who picked
up the opium" in its raw,
:unprocessed form, he said.
A report in july by.?two
.? 'House Foreign Al fairs
j
:Committee members, Reps.
'Robert Steele.. (D-Conn.)
'and. Morgan ? Murphy
(D-Ill.), alleged that "Air
America". aircraft, .? con-
tracted by the CIA, have
been used to transport.
`opium from northern Laos
into the capital city of
.yientiEme and that, once
. .. .
- Withers said that,, after
convicting basic training
at Fort Dix in the fall of
1965, he was sent to Nha
Trang, Souh Vietnam. Al-
though he was "ostensibly"
stationed there, he said he
was placed "on loan" to the
CIA in January 1966 with
orders -to help "train and
quip Moo tribesmen in
? counterinsurgency" against
Pathet Leo guerrillas.
? The traiinng was "in fact
the main part of my job" in
Laos, Withers asid, but
"there were never fewer .
than two opium pickups a
week" during the year he
served there.
?
?
Withers said that, after
? receiving language training
in various Southeast sian
? dialects while at Nha
Trang, he was "stripped of
my uniform and all Ameri-
? can credentials" before
going to Laos. ?
-awarded Inc Purple
Hearts, the Distinguished
Service Cross and Silver
and Bronze Stars...
He said he spoke.. about
his involvement in opium
trafficking to Sens. Mike.
Gravel (D-Alaska) ? and '
George .McGovcrn
(D-S.D.) and th aides of
Sess.. John ,S tennis
. _
(D-Miss.) and William -
Fulbr.ight (D-Ark.) in
June but was not aware, of
any subsequent action
? taken by the legislators.
He said FBI and Army
Criminal Investigation Di-
vision ? (CID) agents had
visited him "three or four
times, most recently about ?
a Month and a half ago in ,
Camridge," to question him I
about his allegztions. e said
-hsi mother in .Springfile
and his wife,now living in
South Hadley, had also
_been questioned. ?
Another participant in
yesterday's VVAW panels,
Charles Knight of the- /
Committee of .Concerned?
Asian Scholar s, called?
opium "the largest export'
commodity in the Laotian
economy" and commented:.
.."In this -sense, it is not at
all strange 'that the CIA
should aid and protect its
transport." ,
- Other testimony includ-
ed statements by Indochina:
veterans who said the"Y.:
were former or current
heroin addicts.
He said the CIA
"wouldn't even let me
write my own letters. Th..-!37
gave me blank sheets of
paper and told me to sign
at the bottom. Then the
agency typed out letters
sent.to my parents and my
girlfriend,"
Discharged last Deem-
her after post-Laos service
in Cambodia and South
. Withers
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Drug Arreot .
Agency (CIA) closed. a secret.-;
school for training Cambodian;
army guerrillas in Laos when.
police arrested a high ranking.
Cambodian officer at the school
on heroin smuggling charges,
military sources said.. ?
The Officer was a top aide of
Lt. Cot. Lou Non, brother of.
Primo Minister. Lon Nol, the..
sources said. ?
Since Ins arrest in June, the ?
aide has been released and,
dressed in civilian clothes, has.
1,resumed duties in Phnom Penh
at Lon Non's super secret
'special coordination committee,
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PHNOM PENII (UPI) ? The
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
closed a secret school for tenth-
lag Cambodian army guerrillas
in Laos when police arrested a
high-ranking. Cambodian officer
at . the school on heroin-
smuggling charges, military
sources said. '
The officer ,was a top aide of
:Lt. Col. ? Lou Non, brother of
- Prime Minister Lon No], the
'sources said.
Since ilis arrest in June, the
:aide has been released and;
dressed in civilian clothes, has
resumed duties in Phnom Penh
at Lou Non's super-secret Spe-
cial Coordination Cominittee.? .
The Cambodian army, in the
meantirne, has established a
nev,,- guerrilla training center in
. southern Laos, and the cm is
:once again considering provid-
ing American instructors and
.equipment, the officers said.
.The Lon Not aide was arrested
In' False, Laos, by local police
'when he attempted to board a
_Phnom Penh-hound Air America
plane with 22 pounds of heroin in
.a- soapflake box, the sources
said.
The heroin would be worth al-
;most $12,000 on the Vietnam
market.
? 'American officials were in-
formed, and concluded after itf-
yestigation. that the heroin was
bound for U.S. troops in South
Vietnam.
.The secret CIA camp, at Na-
?korn Sin in southern Laos, sub-
sequently 'orde-red out all Cam:
,bodian . officers and trainees
, from Lon Non's 15th Infantry
,-Prigade, the officers reported.
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Special to
? -Vientiane, Laos ? Last
wing, two Anlerican teen-. ?
aged dependents of, foreign aid ?
en;41'1.0yes were caught mailing ;
20 kilograms of purc;.
tiV,cnri?I the Army Post Office '
The drugs ware destined for
Saigon, to be picked tip by
other dependents for use or
g7rc",t!
. ?
e`Asta result, no one under 18
years of age is now 'allowed
? to,,,mail anything larger than
_ _
r letter through the Vientiane
/PO. Dependents over 13 can
be prosecuted if c'aught mail-
ing drugs.
Several days later, the son
of an embassy official ad-
. .Mitted confidentially that "I
was all ready to mail 10
pounds of ? heroin to ?the
States." '
"I had it all packed and a
buyer waitinff at the other.
end," he said: "But it is just
too risky now. The APO is
checking every package."
Heroin and other drugs arc
rot only deeply entrenched in
_
the American military, but in
nnic14 of the American civilian'
community in Southeast Asia.
Centered in Compound
? Among those who will prob-
? ably return to the United
States with a habit are Arnerl':
can teen-aged dependents of
civilian and military officials.
Many live at K-MG, a com-
? pound outside of Vientiane for
'American officials and their
families. At the K-MG high
schoob one ninth-grader .said:
"Almost everyone past the
sixth grade smokes grass
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lore. A-lot of the older Iiids
.
are using speed and heroin."
The hard drug problem in
!Laos has its roots in the? so-
celled "fertile triangle" which
borders Burma and Thailand.
:More than half the Nvorl d's
poppy crop is harvested there
each year.
PrOblem in '1 hallend
?
The poppies are harvested
primarily by Meo tribesmen.
Some of the opium is report-
ed to find its way to the se-
cret Central intelligence
Agency base at Long Cheng,"
where it is said to be trans-
ported via plime.s of the CIA-
subsidized Air Ainet`i.ca to
Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong,
and even San, Francisco.
Americans in Laos are not
the only ones hit with the.
spreading drug problem. In
Thailand, at lea'st one Ameri-
can 'student at the Bangkok
International School died from
.an o.N;erdose of narcotics (lur-
ing the past school year, and
14 others were expelled for
drug Osage.
, were only the con-
stant violators," explained one
student. "You know, the kids
who .go into the bathrooms
and shoot up between class-'
Cs.,,
The psychiatric ward at
Bangkok's 5th field hospital
has grown accustomed to
American dependents.
Little Girls; Too
"There's almost always .a
13- or 14-year-old kid in there
?
for smack," a medic said.
"They usually b,:ing them in
at night and give them a urine
test in the morning."
' A hospital psychologist sald;
("! o
1:(5)
"Jt hurts when t=,2-12- or 13\\?,
year-old girl is brought in with
an overdose. I've seer little
girls with needle marks' On
their' arms. Their parents
often cry and "want to know
w11." support their, habits, or
just to make money, some
kids sell drugs. They ration-
alize that "somebody will do
it, why not me?"
Shortly after last Christmas,:
he 17-year-old -son of a U. S.
foreign aid employe was shot
to dc.!ath in a Bangkok alley.
'He had not,'' according to
one of his former associates, ;
"paid his:".thai supplier the full ?
amount for the last shipment.
(of heroin) he received."
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Drumf ire .on China.
It is a topsy-turvy world when Premier Chou En-lai
rebukes James Reston' for haying said the President
lacks courage: "Deciding to come to China at this
Lime is. something which even the ? opposition party-
.s'ays others dare not do. So on this point Le has some
courage." How much -courage it will taU has yet to
?be fully determined. The new China policy was round-
ly rejected by Ole AFL-CIO executive council, 24 to .4
with two abstentions, while the American Legion has
given it grudging approval or the express condition
:that no conceions are made by our side.
Anyone - who rejects? political acts because of the
possible motives behind, them had better- avoid politics
altogether. No doubt the' President was fully aware of
ihe doinestic gains in his announcement, although we
can hardly believe, that he thought they could out-
weigh the gut .,issuc: 'the domestic economy. Moreato
the point is Chou's remark. Nobody thought the old
'China lobby amounted to much anymore. But the
White House needed no Geiger counter to- alert it to
hostile right-wing reaction. The Vice-.President's
celebrated midnight remarks last April against the first
flush of. "Ping-pong diplomacy" provided the
modern instant communications. counterpart to Paul
Revere's, ride. Immediately after the -trip- announce-
ment in July, twelve conservatives, hyaded by William
F. ? Buckley, announced suspension of ."support"
for Nix6n, and a few' weeks ago delegates representing
67,000 Young Americans for Freedom.yoted to dump
Nixon, in 'part because the trip will threaten "the
?riational sovereignty of the United States." Thern
antics of the Rev. Carl McIntyre with. his Taiwan
table tennis team raise little more than smiles from
sophisticated infighters. But in. Middlc; America con-
fusion and concern can become bitter hatred if proper-
ly' aroused.' Toward this ? end various reactionary
revivalists of the early 1950's witchhunt are once again
on the conspiracy trail. This time they can move
against the background Of an admitted' betrayer of
secrets, Daniel Ellsberg; as compared with the earlier
'accused but unproven "traitor," Alger Hiss.
. Recently a Detroit FM station' carried four hours of
.'-telephone interviews with a yening American scholar
on China. 'The moderator ?claimed no other program
had e' yoked so many responses. The, angry callers
"seemed .av'aakened, from a 20-years' sleep, so .obsessed
were .they by the McCarran hearings, the Institute of
Pecific Relations, and alleged Communist affiliatiOns
of such personages as Professor John K. l'airbank
-and Henry Kissinger. But these long-dormant memo-
ries .did not spontaneously spring to life; they are
cultivated. Visitors to San Clemente .heard first-hand
of the "hate Henry" campaign that is being waged
in many localities in 'an effort to embarrass the Presi-
dent's trip throui.;11 his emissary.
Mr. 'Nixon necAPPETWAlF(PARAleaW21101443107
Clete the ignorance and -car tat can expiotte
against aina. In this, egard he face'llalmuch tougher
fight than did Hesident"-Roosevelt in moving to recogl
nize the Soviet Union in 1933. American business had
built Russian factories. American journalists and
tourists had traveled throughout that country. A posi-
tive subliminal image of 'Russia had established aes-
thetic and humanistic tics through intimate. familiarity
with Tchaikowsky and Rachmaninoff, Dostoevsky
and Tolstoy. The savagery of civil war and foreign
intervention against, the new Soviet state had bern.
followed with the Iloover relief missions...
No such counterforce exists on the China question.
The bitter heritage of two .wars, Korea and Vietnam,
fuses in American perceptions as .the product of Chi-
nese Commianist ?aggression. Total isolation from the
mainland for 20 years combines with the most remote
and random newsreel images of the previous decades,
broken only by the familiar figures of . a sturdy little
generalissimo and his striking Wellesley-educated wife.
New verSions of old tales fuel opposition fires. On
the day Senator. Pro:mire's Joint Ecoilornic Commit-
tee heard three prominent profes'Ors attack secret sub-
version against the mainland conducted jointly by the
Chinese ,-Nationalists and the. CIA, S'enator Eastland
released a study by. r.ofessor Richard L. Walker which
estimated that between 34 and '60 million Chinese
died over the past 50 Years as. a result of Communist
activity. Walker included all the intermittent civil wars
of 1927-49 as vy'en' as wholly- unsubstantiated .and
unverifiable figures from every kincLof source, includ-
ing Radio Moscow. Another hate-China theme focuses
on drugs. A few days after. the Eastland report came
a headline-grabbing story from Saigon.. According to
an-. alleged "high-level 'clefeCtor" out of North
Vietnam, poppy fields in that country are so large it
rakes a harvesting tractor one whole day to cover _a
single planting. The produce is secretly processed in
China, he said, and smuggled out throughl-long Kong.
Interestingly the defector admitted he had .not revealed
this information when ,first interviewed a year ago,
claiming it had not seemed 'important then. Its im-
portance now was obvious since only the previous
week, two detailed accounts:- one by the Associated
Press Pulitizer prize winner, Peter Arnett, and another
in The New York -Times, liad traced the Asian drug
traffic to specific villages on the Burma-Thai border.
From there it moves over land and air routes to South
Vietnam, with the certain knowledge if not connivance
of Thai and :South Vietnamese officials. No matter
that the Ear Eastern Economic Review states unequivo-
cally that Hong Kong is not a conduit for drugs from
mainland. China, or' that the US Narcotics Bureau lays
no charge against the. People's Republic of China,
such as it does against Turkey, Iran and a host of
other countries.
? We see no evidence of an all-out US campaign at
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S ? 135 , B12.
SEN.
ABRAHAM RINCOF
seeking -answers
SEN. EDMUND MUSK1E
incredulous _
'
By LEE ILICKLING.
. The ThTiCS Bureau
WASHINGTONT h Ribicoff that the delay had
Defense Department has told been caused by "our efforts
two incredulous senators that to canvass the var io
po Ofle. at the Pentagon knows sources of , information to
enough abollt . the in- determine What pertinc.nt
ternational drug traffic to: facts are available."
testify , on how and from "Allegations of complicity
where narcotics get i. n t 0 on the part of some public of-
South Vietnam. ? ficials," Kleindionst went on,
And ' the Justice Depart- "have conic to our attention.
merit, contradicting a state-
At the same time, however,
meat Atty. Gen. John Mit- we do not have any specific
chell made two months ago, evidence which links any
Said it . has no evidence high official in the Southeast
Asian eountries with t h c
narcotics traffic them Thus,
we do not feel that it would
be appropriate to testify.
Further, cs-en .a closed-
session on the subject' could
fan unfounded rumors and
cause .possible international
repercussions." -
The Defense Department
had turned down the in-
vitation earlier, Itibicoff and
Muskie revealed yesterday.
In a letter July 23, an .assis-
tant replied for Secretary
Melvin Laird: "This is to ad-
VISV-Sfirirthat there are 3m6.
personnel in the Department
of !Defense qualified to testify
in .regard to the problem of
international drug traffic and
we Will, therefore, be unable
to .provide a witness as you,
have requested."
Ribicoff and Muskie are
chairmen of t w 6 sub-
committees of the senate
Gwernment Oparations Com-
mittee which have be'en
stu-
dying proposals to consolidate
the campaign against
narcotics in a White house
Office of Drug Control.
The administration wants
such an office to have nothing
to do with law enforcement
policy and the international
drug traffic, , feeling that the
linking "any high official in
the Southeast Asian countries'
. with the narcotics traffic
there."
_Sen. Abraham A,' Ribicoff
(D-Conn.) ' speaking for
himself and Sen. Edmund S.
? Muskie (D-Maine) in a Senate
speech prepared - for today
says that if this is.the case, the
White House had better find
out what the Defense and
Justice departments a r e
doing in the narcotics field. ,
1 Mitchell told Muskie, during
a hearing July 7, that "there
,has been involvement by
government officials in 'some
of these countries" i n
narcotics " 'traffic, and our
government had "identified
:some of them." But the .at-
torney general said he did not.
want to testify about the sub-
ject in an open hearing and
would do so in an executive.
session.
, Since then, Ribicoff, wit) is
chairman of the. Government'
Operations subcommittee that
held the hearing, and Muskie
have been trying to get
Mitchell to make good on his
promise, and bring along the
isecretaries of State a n d
Defense and the director of
the Central Intelligence Agen-
?
The two .senators said in a
joint statement that drugs are
OM of the major problems
facing the armed forces in
Southeast Asia, yet time Pen-
tagon apparently, :has nobody
who can tell the committee
where the drugs come from
and how they get into Viet-
nam.
wriiis is certainly the kind
_
or situation that a White
'House office should be able to
!look into," their statement
says.
The. attorney' general had
told the committee that there
was evidence that Southeast
Asian government officials
were involved in the narcotics
trade, and -then Deputy Atty.
Gen, Kleindienst said it had
pot, the two senators noted.
that is true, they said,
"The attorney general should
explain his earlier statements
to our subcommittee and the
.
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pionins o ger, an answer. On Defense Department a n d
Sept. .13, Deputy Atty. Gen. other agencies can handle
Richard G. Eleindienst wrote Ilmoe aspects better.
?
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zniuv6TATOTHK
? Cf. Curran, Barbara, Unavailability of law-
yer's' Services for Low Income Persons, 4
Val.U.T.,.R. 303 (Sp. '00).
33Jerome 3. Shestack, a practicing lawyer
In Philadelphia, is immediate past Chairman
of the American Bar Association Section' of
Individual Rights and Responsibilities, a
member of the National Advisory Committee
to the Legal Services Program of the Office
of Economic Opportunity, and, a member of
the Executive Committee of the National
Legal Aid and Defender Association.
, 3, Shestack, Jerome J., "The'Right to Legal
Services," The. Rights of Americans: What
They Are; What They Should Be (Doreen ed.,
Panspheon, 1971) at page 126.
" WHY ARE WE PAYING OUR FRIENDS
TO CONTINUE KILLING OUR CHIL-
DREN?
. . _
HON. CHARLES B. RANGp,
OF NEW YORN .
IN THE HOUSE013 REPRESENTATIVES
? Thursday, September 23, 1971 .
- Mr. RANGED. Mr. Speaker, the press
has recently reported that President.
. Nixon may exempt South Vietnam, Cam-
bodia, Laos, and Thailand from his an-
. nouneed 10-percent cut in economic aid.
Official figures reveal that between 5.7
and 14 percent of our servicemen return- land. .
?
lug from duty in Southeast Asia ar drug The largest slice IS to go to South vietnam
e
dependent.'
with $535-million, which is an increase of
? ? - ?
The United Nations Commission on about $160-million over economic aid given
Narcotic Drugs has reported that at least Saoignioscsialins-tuloietoparet:.;usinfias
enitlioYuclasering his new
80 percent of the wOrld's opium is pro- economic policy on Aug. 15, Mr. Nixon con-
duced in Southeast Asia. Two of those fined himself to tile statement that "I have
four countries?Laos and Thailand----arc' -ordered a 10 per cent cut in foreign economic'
part of the "fertile trianEde" which raises aid."
more than half of the poppy'plants grown. The Administration's requc,st to Congress
in the world.- . ? . for foreign assistance In fiscal 1972, prepared
The Criminal Investigation Division of before the new Nixon economic policy, was
$3.3-billion. But .the President ordered the
the U.S. Army has allegedly .compiled re- cut only in economic awl, which accounts. for
' ports linking top South Vietnamese lead- $2.03-billion of the total. The balance, $1.21-
ers to the heroin 4ade. Lt. Gen. Ngo Dzu, billion, is earmarked for military grants and
military.c,ommander of South Vietnam's foreign military credit sales.
central highlands, and other military Inasmuch as Mr. Nixon did not elaborate
and naval personnel and Government on how the economic aid reduction should be
officials are leading figures in the nar- ' administered, the Interpretation now being
.cetics. traffic that preys upon American placed on his order is that the cuts should
SerViCen101-1 in Southeast Asia be applied selectively, according to officials.
This means, they said, that the Adminis-
There have also been reports that the tration is free to cut aid for some countries
Central Intelligence Agency is supplying but not for others as long as the economic
arms, transportation, and funds to drug- assistance package is reduced 10 per cent.
producing hill tribes in Laos and north- Officials concerned with United Slates poi-
eastern Thailand. - . icy in 'Southeast Asia indicated in private
The governments of these four 001.111- conversations that economic assistance to the
tries have failed to take decisive action, four "critical" Southeast Asia countries could
to stop the production, processing, and noritl.be reduced whhatile the ;war goes on.
sey said t the White House took the
transport of illicit drugs for our GIs. View that cuts could undermine the econom-
While we continue to expend billions of ice in the four countries and hurt the eon-
dollar's and thousands of American lives .duct of the War. . .
to defend and support these friendly Therefore, officials- said, aid programs in
governments, they continue to kill our the region are proceeding on the assumP-
. servicemen. tion that no cuts will be. made unless
-Congress decides otherwise.
These are the governments that Frost- Foreign-aid legislation was approved by
dent Nixon nifty exempt from his cut in the House of Representatives last month and
economic assistance. These are the ac- is now before Senate committees. .
complices to murder whom the President r- Officials suggested that the Administration
may reward. - - preferred not to publicize the reported ex-
The adniinistration has even requested emptions to avoid protests from other DR-
President has not made a final decision
on whether or not to exclude these four
countries from the cut in foreign aid.
There is still time for Members -of Con-
gress to contact the President and urge
him not to further feed the already fatted
cows who haVe not cracked down on their
merchants of death.
It is about time we stop bringing gifts ?
to our allies when they are murdering .
American servicemen.
Four articles follow:.
[From the Now York Times, Sept. 12, 19711
Faun INDOCHINESE COUNTRIES ARE REPORTED
EXE1'.IPT FROM NIXON'S ORDER To CUT Foa-
l:ICU AID BY 10 PEI:CENT
-
(By Tad Szule)
WASNINGTON.?South Vietnam and three
other Southeast Asian countries are being
quietly exempted from the 10 per cent cut
In foreign economic aid ordered by President
Nixon last month, authoritative Administra-
tion officials said today.
The Administration has made no public
announcement that economic assistance
planned for Southeast Asia for the fiscal year
1972, which began July 1, is to remain intact
despite the cut in the foreign-aid program.
Official spokesmen have insisted. for the last
?four weeks that no decision has been made.
Total economic aid, designed to comple-
ment United States military assistance, has
been set for $;765.5-million this year for
South. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thai-
an increase in economic aid to South . tions. . ?
Vietnam of between ;1.50 to $160 roillion. Another reason may be concern over opin-
ion. here. President Nguyen Van Thien has
The Thieu governme'ut may get even come under considerable criticism for his
fatter if President Nixon has his way. decision to run unopposed in the Oct. 3 Pres-
'. My most recent inquiry to the Agency idential elections and there ha-s been talk in
for International Development' in the Congress of reviewing the American assist-
Department of State indicates that -the once to South Vietnam.
. '
The Admmistration believes, sowevti, that
increased economic aid to South Vietnam is
vital at a time when American forces are
withdrawing and last year's economic re-
forins are beginning, to produce results.
Testifying before a .Senate subcommittee.
on Wednesday. Secretary. of State William P.
Rogers asked for approval for the full $505-
million for South Vietnam is needed tS16 ATOTHR
set the economic impact of the reduction
United States military expenditures as our' _
troops are withdrawn."
Economic assistance to South Vietnam
ranges -from the financing Of essential ins- ?
ports to agricultural land reform to pro-
grams for education, and health. But it also
includes support for, the South Vietnamese
police in counterinsurgency and other activi- -
ties. ? STATOTHR
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, ?
[From the Washington Post, Sept. 9, 1971] ..
Hratont PaomprIoX
(By Jack Anderson)
WAsniNcToN.--At the same time that the
U.S. command Is striving mightily to stop
GI drug addiction in Vietnam, a top South
Vietnamese general has been using U.S. mili-
tary equipment to hustle heroin. This is
documented in a number of intelligence re-
ports, all highly classified, which have. now
reached Washington from Saigon. The reports
nail Lt. Geis. Ngo Dzu, military commander
of South Vietnam's 'central highlands, as one
of the chief heroin traffickers in Southeast
Asia. - ,
The Incriminating details, including dates
and places of heroin transactions, have been
reportedt by th.c,. Army's Criminal Ihvestiga-
tion Division, U.S. Public Safety Directorate,
and Rural Development Support Team in
South Vietnam. ?
Dan's accomplices are. also nained, includ-
ing a former South Vietnamese Senator, a
Chinese businessman h?ons Cholon, the South'
Vietmaincse provost marshal in Qui Nhon,
and -several South Vietnamese navy officers.
, Deal was first named a heroin cl5aler by
Rep. Rebart Steele (R-Conn.), in testimony
last July before a House Foreign Affairs sub-
commitce_ The Congressman told of his
fact-finding mission to Indochina where, he
said, v,dclespread corruption among officials
had blocked efforts to halt the heroin traffic.
The day after Steele's testimony, South
Vietnam's President Thieti went through the
motions of ordering a narcotics investigation.
It's doubtful, however, that Den will ever be
tried and convicted.
One of Deu's naceSt vigorous defenders was
his senior American advisor, John Paul Vann,
who assured the press: "There's no informa-
tion avail-able to me that in any shape, man-
ner, or fashion would substantiate the
charges Congressman Steele has made."
The incriminating intelligence reports
would indicate that Vann either was woe-
fully incompetent or, worse, was helping Dan
to cover up Isis dope-smuggling operations.
The first intelligence report linking Dzu to
the heroin trade was Meet on January 6,
1971, by the CID. Citing highly sensitive
sources, the CID charged that the narcotics
traffic in the Central Highlands had in-
creased tremendously, since lieu had taken
-command of the region in September, 1970.
The C1D's sources asserted that Deli not only
protected the key traffickers who kicked back
part of their profile to him but also took
a direct part in the smuggling, through his
father Ngo IChoung. At that time Ego Nhciung
was described RS an "important" heroin
dealer.
It was also alleged that Dzu often used
his personal plane--furnished, of course, by
the U.S--to smuggle heroin. A CID report
dated May 12, 1971, told how Den and his
father took. Ingenious advantage of the fu-
neral of a South Vietnamese general in Sai-
gon to. fly in heroin from the highlands. ?
Yet General Devi, a power in South Viet.
nam, is expected to he given a whitewash :In
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By Daniel Southerland
Staff correspondent of
? The Christian Science Monitor
'Saigon
A South Vietnamese investigation of Lt.
Gen. Ngo Dzu, has cleared him of drug traf-
ficking charges raised by a U.S. congress-
man, according to informed sources in
Saigon.
The sources disclosed that the investiga-
tion conducted y the South Vietnamese De-
fense Ministry was completed before Presi-
dent Thieu's recent promotion of General
Dzu from major general to lieutenant gen-
eral. The findings of the investigation have
yet to be made public.
The disclosure came in the wake of 'a
new allegation against General Dzu made
hy Washington. columnist Jack Anderson,
who wrote this week that the general had
been using "U.S. military equipment' to
V "hustle" herQin. U.S. Rep, Robert H. Steele
(R) of Connecticut had earlier named the
South Vietnamese general as "eni.' of the
chief ?traffickers in heroin in Southeast
Asia."
? Mr. Steele told a House foreign-affairs
subcommittee on July 7 that "U.S. military
authorities. have provided Ambassador
[Ellsworth] Hunker with hard intelligence
that one of the chief traffickers is Gen. Ngo
? Dzu, the commander of II Corps."
?A report prepared-earlier 'this year by the
provost marshal of the U.S. Military Corn-
' mand in Vietnam concluded, that "the de-
gree of sophistication which the trafficking
in drugs has achieved could not exist with-
out at least the tacit approval if not active
?suppyrt of senior members of the .govern-
ment of Vietnam."
? But U.S. officials here say they are un-
aware of any "hard intelligence which
would link General Dzu with the drug traffic.
They say that there were some unconfirmed
"low-level" reports which were passed on
tp.,the South Vietnamese in connection with
Tri?q.--i.; (ro'
the investigation of General Dzu, an investi-
gation which was prompted by Representa-
tive Steele's allegations.
"All the ? information we had was shared
with the South Vietnamese," said a U.S.
Embas'sy official in Saigon.
U.S. sources in Saigon say that Representa-
tive Steele has yet to produce any evidence
to substantiate his charges against. General
.Drit. The South Vietnamese general himself
has twice issued appeals to the U.S. con-
gressman asking him to "produce your
evidence so that I may disprove this allega-
tion."
Informed sources said . the 'Defense
Ministry investigation of General Dzu did
not deal with other corruption charges which
were leveled against- the general within
South Vietnam prior to the allegations con-
cerning drug trafficking. Those charges
were contained in letters written by a group
of South Vietnamese officers who accused
General Dzu of taking bribes and of profit-
ing from the looting cf two. former U.S.
bases in-South Vietna,,;?s central highlands.
The general has denied the charge'..
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By TED KNAP
? Scripps-Howard Stuff Writer
. While the flow of.illicit nar-
"Cotics out of Turkey has been
'curtailed sharply, it has in-
creased - substantially out of
the "golden triangle'. in Thai?
land, Laos and Burma.
While Iran and India have
begun- effective controls over
e their narcotics traffic, new
. sources of supply are develop-
ing in Afghanistan and Paki-
:Stan,- which have not.
Altho France has beefed up
its narcotics police force, the
gendarmes have not been able
? to knock' off any of the several
heroin processing laboratories
-known to be operating in se-
-..cret places aroand Marseilles.
;- These developments in nar-
cotics control efforts were cle-
'? scribed today by the executive
director of President Nixon's
newly established ?c abinet
-I Committee o n -International
Narcotics Control. The White
Rouse announced formation of
the committee yesterday.
-.Egli "Bud" Krogh, White
;House .4ide named to head..the
-471I t-iFi
LI
?
committee staff,. said in an in-
t er v le w that emergence of
Southeast Asia as an impor-
tant source of heroin is ? the
"most disturbing" -new devel-
opment in the effort to curb' -
the flow of hard drugs to
Athericans, both here and in
South Vietnam.
Mr. Krogh, just back from a.
t6ur of the area; said the in-
creased export of illicit nar-
cotics from Thailand, Laos
and eastern Burma has been
"substantial" in the past.year.
'CONSUMER MARKET'
"We are concerned" Mr.
Krogh said, "about the United
States becoming the consumer
market for the golden trian-
gle."
Turkey announced in June
that it would ban all growing
of opium poppies and, hi the
meantime, would purchase
more of the 1971 crop so as to
reduce its flow into illicit
channels. With U.S. aid, the
-Turkish g ov ernmenthas
bought up 140 tons of opium so
far this year compared with
63 tons all of last year.
? Mr. Krogh said the early,
but not yet conclusive, indica-
:tions are that Turkey is
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"drying up" as a source of opi-
um, which is processed into
morphine for medicaluse and
heroin for illicit use. Turkey
has been the main grower of
opium poppies.
The ., White House official
said intelligence sources re-
port that between three and
nine processing laboratories
are in operation in the Mars-
eilles area of southern France.
Secretary of State William
Rogers, who heads the cabinet
committee, said F r o.n c e is
cooperating, but so far all the
laboratories have escaped de-
tection. -
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Mr. Krogh said Iran, which
has executed 91 persons for
narcotics smuggling since it
passed a death penalty law in
1999, and India have instituted
effective monitoring of opium
fields in those countries. He
said similar controls will be
sought in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, either thrn.the Unit-
ed Nations or by separate.
agreements with the United
States.
In addition to Mr. Rogers,
the cabinet committee consists
e of ,. Atty. Gen, John Mitchell,
Defense Secretary Melvin
Laird, Treasury Secretary
-John Connally, Ambassador to
the United _Nations George
Bush and CIA Director Rich-
hard Helms,
While the cabinet committee
concentrates on curbing the
supply of narcotics, another
White. House group headed by
Dr., Jerome Jaffee focuses on
the demand side, including de-
tection and treatment of ad-
dicts. ?
Dr. Jaffee's office said to-
day it cannot claim that there
has been any reduction in the
rate of addiction among
American servicemen in South
Vietnam since Mr. Nixon or-
dered a "top prioritY: cam-
paign against ft-in June. The
program has detected that 5.3
per cent of the 70,000 home-
ward-bound GIs given urina-
lysis tests had beep recent
users of heroin. They are giv-
en some treatment before
being discharged.
With Americans'l caving
South Vietnam,' Mr. ? Krogh
said that the use of heroin is
spreading now among the Sai-
gon government troops and
Vietnamese students.. _
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The White House disclosed
yesterday the creation several
weeks ago of a Cabinet .com-
mittee on controlling the in-
ternational narcotics traffic.
'Secretary of State William
P. Rogers, the chairman, said
there have been three meet-
ings with pleasing results and
some Successes. ?
"In my opinion," the Secre-
tary fold reporters, "it is the
most important step that has
been taken. in the field of con-
trol. of drugs in the interim-
tional sphere."
In terms of initial successes,
Rogers mentioned control ef-
forts in Turkey?which has
been biggest source of opium
flowing into the United States
---T' all and, Laos, Burma a.nd
Mexico. And he said that the
U.S. ambassador to Cyprus,
David IL Popper, has gone to
more than 20 other nations to
round uf.) support.
Rogers briefed reporters at
the White House after press
secretary Ronald L. Ziegler
said President :Axon signed a
memorandum setting up the
Cabinet committee shortly
after leaving, Washington Aug.
17 for a speech-making trip
across the country and a so-
journ, at the Western White
House. There was no explana-
tion of the delay in announc-
ing the action.
On the committee with the
secretary are Attorney Gen,
cral John N. Mitchell, Secre-
tary of Defense Melvin R.
Laird, Secretary of the Treas-
ury John B. Connally,- United
Nations Ambassador George
Bush and Director RicluTd
Helms of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
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commanders who was accused by an American congressman of playing a nmjoz role in
the narcotics traffic, has been pronaoted to lieutenant general.
The government news Ftgooey "7.7.7.7..---:77:7.--7,--.77,7-7-,,,
Vietnam Press said today that
3)zu received his third star under
trdeove signed by President Ngu-
yen Van Thiel-L.3)7n is commander
of 3?1ilitary Region 11 which? in ::::. ' .' ,.:-'???-'-',. ,---;.',.., ...v
chides the strategic central high-
hinds.
Ti?zu was the Feventh South '...:....-.--: .
Vietnamese army officer to win ?-?.. ..: :. ..:- . ,
promotion to the three-star rank H:;.:- ...',..-.: ..'
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and 011Q naey officer won similar ' ' -, - - : ? - .'-'t:. ,',...,?-....:
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promotions.
The pi esidentill decree also
'withdrew the March 15, 1667, dis-
- ,.......;..- --. .: .
charge for disciplinary reasons of
Lt. Ctn. Ngu ,).Qn lluu Co, once . ; . .,.? ? - .:-- ' . . :
an acting prime minister and a
leader in the 1063 military coup :,:.: ,,.:::-.:
d'etat which overthrew the late ; ,...,' .,:l. .-.' .
President Ngo Dinh Diem. The
decree Will anOW Co to r e e i v e /' ..:
riiremerit pay.'
?Dzu was accused in July in a
speech on the floor of the U.S.
- }louse of Represent atitves ' of Lt. Gen, Nun Din
being a leader in the narcotics Wins a ?bird star
traffic m South Vietnam. The
cbarge, by Rep. Pobert Steele, vestigation of the narcotics 1..af-
(D-COn?.) was covered by con- fic into U.S. military bases. Mur-
gressional privilege, which pro- phy did not join in Steele's aeon-
teeth the accuser against suits sation against 1)2.u.
for defamation. Dzq denied the Steele, reached in Vernon,
accqsation. Results of a defense Conn., by the Associated l'ress,
? ministry investigation have not said he found Dzu's promotion
been made public. inconsistent with South Vietna-
. Steele last spring accompanied 21100. ill\ CStill2ti011S into Ms in-
Rep. Morgan Murphy Jr., (D-Ill.) volvement in narcotics.
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:The Christifin...5clence Monitor
- ?Fort Collins, Colo.
? The United States Central Intelligence
. Agency "equipped and directed" incursions
by mercenaries into Chinese territory from
. northern Laos, according to a former Green
Beret captain..
Lee Mond, now a student at Newark, N.J.,
State College and -a delegate to the National
? Student Association Congress here' says
i"no Amcn?icans have crossed the Cmnese
border." However, the CIA recruited ethnic
LaCS and Chinese for the crossings. In ad-
dition, .he maintains. the CIA "ciiiected re-
connaissance missions and .monitored oper-
ations along. the .Chinese border."
Emotional. speeds .
? Mr. Mond repeated in an interview with
the Monitor? charges he first aired at a'
forum on war .crimes sponsored by the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War as? part
of the congress last Saturday.
The tall, black veteran of seven -ycars,
Seven months service who left the Army in
June, 1970, after being wounded three times
?winner of the Silver Star and three Bronze
Stars -- struggled with his emotions as; .he
told the' cheering NSA delegates on Monday
that he had "made up my mind after a year
of deliberations to disclose this information
because these things were part of an on-
going philosophy of ... the executive branch
of this country." ?
, Mr. Mond said that about 3,000 Chinese
were in northern Laos when he was in
Thailand, from June, 1969, to June, 1970, and
that they then controlled the quarter of the
country north of the royal capital Luang
Prabang.
The majority were engineers, building a
north-south road from China to Luang Pra-
bang. He said "studies indicate" that they
hoped to push down to Vientiane, the pres-
ent provisional capital.
" Chinese infantry units were in Laos to
protect the road builders, he added, and
antiaircraft installations were built in Lacs
to protect them.
bteurskms descra,ea ?
? ?.
He said the incursions were made at Lai
Chau in the northern tip of Laos and 1`,Suong
Sing, also in northern Laos, and that the
'units moved about 50 to75 kilometers north
and northwest into a large open area touch-
ing on the town of Lent Sang in Yunarn
Province in ihc People's Republic of China.
Mr. Mond said his information was based
on studies he had read while serving as a
plans .ofilcer in Thailand on the U.S. Army
general staff and in conversations with mil-
itary personnel.
He also served with the 101st Airborne in
Vietnam.
Trio former captain cited as one main
reason for his disaffection with American
policies the massive flood of drugs pouring
out of Laos into Thailand and then into the
hands ol American troops.
sra2.1.2LF; ,g
Fie charged that the CIA "actively encour-
aged the growing of poppies, the flower fro'rn
which opium is made, by Montagnard tribes-
men (on-the. opium rich Plain of Jars) whom
the agency recruits as mercenaries.
He later qualified this statement by add-
ing, "perhaps they (CIA) don't always need
to encourage them (the Mantagnards) to
grow poppies because it is so lucrative." He
added, "But I am sure theydon't discourage
the-Tn. If they cut .off this source .of income,
they would have to ?support the tribesmen
far beyond what they are paying them now."
Mr. Mond also charged that the opium is
often flown illicitly to major populations in
Laos by Air America, a private airline said
to be controlled by the CIA. "Opium comes
out of the Plain of Jars catch as catch cane"
he said in an interview with the Monitor,
':12tit_from Moung alai, a major CIA base
which has an airstrip, . . . I am aware that
pilots would fly it down to Vientiane for
their own profit."
Passes .carry drugs
? He said he "knew" that Air America was
flying opium from Vientiane to.Udc,,n Thant
on the southern Lao border from where it
would be. transported to Bangkok and per-
haps on. to the United States. He said that
the base at.UdOn had one of the biggest drug
problems of any?U.S. base.
Mr. Mond said he could nOt say whether
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Chinese movements, acchtrwovAchforoFtel
added "it is inconceivable that this much
opium could be transported on American
aircraft without their superiors knowing, it."
Mr. Mond said he had never personally
witnessed such shipments. However, he
said, that- while he was in Bangkok doing
research for his study on Thailand "I talked
with several young Air America pilots. They
had been helicopter or fixed-wing pilots in
Vietnam--and they told me that the drug
trade from Vientiane to Bangkok was vast.
They indicated that it was being- flown in.
I took it for granted that since they were
relating this, they had firsthand knowledge."
While in Thailand Mri Mond's unhappi-
ness with the clrug problem led him to
write a letter in April, 19'10, to the com-
mander of U.S. Army Support Forces in
Thailand in .which he indicated that be-
tween 12 and 15 percent of the junior enlist-
ed rnen on his base used hard drugs daily.
He also- initiated a drug rehabilitation
.iprograrn on his base. -
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In the secret war against
narcotics, the United States
may rend Mission Impossible
operatives, possibly criminals,
to destroy opium laboratories
in foreign 32txts.
Or the *United States may
undercut tlr;a smugglers by
flooding the market with
harmless heran substitutes or
may simply outbid thorn in
.bribing high Pmeign officials
who protect the, drug trade.
These despar,ate measures
were .taken up at a secret
Strategy confewnee called by
the State Depfortment last
April in Bang"0-pk. Foreign
:service officers, military rep-
resentatives awl. nareotic.s
agents slipped in\to iiangkok
quietly from Hong Hon-
olulu, PhrDin Penh,
'R:xr-mon, Saigon and Vienti-
ane.
They agreed ths2,`'. "extra-
action" may be r;:eeded. to
combat the narcotics ,rnenace.
A' classified, 18-page istonmary
of their discussions. suggests:
mai-i:e ta with
harmless or aggravating her-
oin substitutes to (Testily the
trade's credibility with! abu-
sers; destruction of facci.ories
through use of criminal e7L,r at
least non-official elerntmtS;
payoffs of corrupt officials; as
all income substitute; and ),(10-
!foliation,
"Any extra-legal -action is; of
; course highly problematici,),"
!stresses the summary, "but tine
urgency of the problem.- sug-
gests that unusual steps
should not be rejected out of
hand. . Several of the pre-
ceding areas would depend on
Washington support or could
be better implememed with
Washington involvement.
The conferees also agreed at
Ilankok. that Asian narcotics
are reaching the U.S.. through
three "systems:"
"Okinawa System" -- GI's
and ex-GI's, allied with a few
local Okinawans," get heroin
Irons Barigkok.and transship it
to the United Slates.
0 "Thailand System"
tired U.S. servicemen" and
"camp followers," who operate
gambling rings and other rack-
ets in Thailand, have now
built up a thriving narcotics
business. GI's en active duty
help gang smuggle "large
quantitie3 of heroin- to the
United States."
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Mcos and other tribesmen
they belped line up to fight
the Commu?Ists. But the new
CIA mission would be to per-
suade or pay. the hill people
to stop growing opium. ?
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whether the government has
gotten its money's worth. He is
particularly suspicious over
the selection of President Ni%-,
on's fo:..mer law fh..na to handle
the legal formalities for the
$250 million postal bond. issue.
At the' customary 1 per cent
House 1o1d.Off ? Last lee, the Nixon firm (now
year, Congress enacted only Mudcre, Rose, Guthrie and Al-
half of the 1.4 basic appropria-
tions bills, by ? ,
the November exander) will wind up with a
elections, The new House lead- $2.5 million windfall. Inciden-
err started off this year deter-
mined to introduce more effi-
ciency to the House. Louis-
iana's Hale Boggs, the new
Democratic leader, broke all
precedents by calling for ses- the firm.
sins on Fridays. This upset Conscience of Senate
the Tuesday-to-Thursday Club, Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss),
which likes long weekends.
After only two Friday sessions
in June, Boggs gave up. House
members, now taking a recess
until Sept. 8, are talking about
c' "Philippines System" winding up their work in Oe-
Filipinos are recruited to tober. This time, they'll corn-
''body-pad;" nearly pure her- plete all the appropriations
oin from Hong Kong, to the hills. But they aren't likely to
United States, sometimes' by pass much vital legislation.
way of Europe. Nixon's Law FL:pt.?Rep.
Footnote: while the strate- Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.) paid
gists in Bainfkok were consid- a quiet visit to Wall Street
ering drastic means to curb "this week to snoop under the
the drug traffic, administra-
tion think-tank men in Wash-
i,ngton came up with another
unusual. proposal. They have
suggested using CIA agents?,.
now marking time because of
the cutbacks in Southeast
Asia, to circulate among the from the govermnent and
tally, bond work used to be
the specialty of Attorney Gem,
oral John Mitchell,: who was
one of Nixon's partners in
plush rugs of the bonding
firms. Bond underwriting has
become the special preserve of
A few attorneys and under-
wriLers with an inside track.
Udall is trying to find out how
big their rake-off has been
known as the Conscience of
the Senate, presides over the
Ethics Committee, which regu-
lates Senate conduct. Yet it
has been whispered that he
made off with furnishings
from the original Senate
chamber, including a grand
chandelier which once hung in
the historic old 100111. IVe in-
vestigated and found the whis-
pers %highly exaggerated. All
Stennis got were 'some bargain
antiques. He paid $35 for an
old table with three legs and
$10 apiece for ft couple of
chairs. It cost him a few more
dollars to get the table re-
stored. Last month, he packed
off his historic antiques to his
home in Mississippi. ?
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the narcotics pipeline run by al "But. then what we will end, up
. Saigon 0?A m er lc ans C- ?
mnese ring that buys the yaw with is rules, just rules," corn-
. ehm-ged with the task of Com- opium in 1.11-e hills and pays off mented a U.S. official in Vienti-
batting the heroin traffic in Viet- all down the line, from the time enc.- "Now who is going to cn-
? nam find themselves with few the black gmn is processed into force them?"
.real weapons for a Ii?ght.- that is Tier= to its being sold in tiny I American officials say that a
.only now beginning, plastic vials to GI's on the concerted police effort in Laos
"We didn't give a damn about streets of Saigon. could run to ground tire Chinese
the drug business as long as The huge profits of the racket operating the processing plants,
only Asians were using the have kept the narcotics pipeline and the (leak's. But this would
stuff," commented an American running for years. And the Unit-' be a massive task involving re-
investigator in Saigon. "Now ed States has even become in- training. the police and brenhing
that American GI's are hitting
volved in it temporarily for Po- up a century-old ?vay of life,
heroin we just don't have litteal reasons.
And in Bangkok, Americans
enough hard facts, to adequately "Why, in the mid-60's when say that the Thais just do not.
crack clown." ? I the war disrupted the traditional ?ave the ponce resources to
12,C93 To 37,00 Users 1 haulage routes, the CIA Orderedjdevte to a realistic drug-sup--
In the first three months of! Air America to assist the loyal tpression effort.
this year- United States military' ileo tribesmen by flying their 1 Thailand is the major drug
. authorities apprehended 1,031, opium crops to Lao collecting !transshipment point to Vietnam,
users, nearly the same number ; points," commented One Ameri- , Hong ICong and Singapore, but
as they had taken in the whole. can involved in drug suPPres? Thai police must give priority to
of 1970. The estimate of GI. sion in Vientiane, '"That fact can fighting Communist -insurgents
drug-users ranges from 12,030 tot be documented. The CIA. have in the countryside.
.' as many as 37,000 of the quer- ' since got out of ihe business." Ovc,slaying the whole suppres-
ter-inillion-man American force What the United States finds sion problem is the tolerance
in Vietnam. . I itself best able to do is first to among Asians toward drugs,
Americans in Thailand say ! warn GI's atainst drug usage, and the integral place the nor..
that Mil though the death Pen-! then Co treat those addicted, and colic's, business occupies in the
ally for opium processing has; forcefully prevail upon the Viet- traditional patterns of 'smng-
-.been in effect for 10 years, i narnese government to toughen gling in Southeast Asia.
drugs roll through that country': the weak narcotics suppression ''To effectively stamp out her- -
in Lou Jots past border check-Haws. . oin, we -would have to change
Points and roadblocks, and ulii-'1 1) ?es,' en - : , obliged l,..; me economic patterns of Asia.
? , 1
. ?lately to fishing traWlers Lam!' week with a Nil inslitutin the The governments of Laos, Thai_
move the shipments on to Viet-ii death penalty for importers and land and south Vietnam are 1,un
nam. II peddlers belOnging to organized by officials who are required to
And in Laos, a major growing,'Irincis. ? scoop out large doses of cash
collecting and processing area"i kocrican officials in Laos from - the system to buy idle-
for the Vietnam trade, Atm.-11-'1 have helped draw up a bill that glance and pay political fa-
cans 1 are shaking their heads )ii - 'finally outlaws opium growing . vocs," said a U.S. official with
perplexity over ways to I
-)11?11z_2'1, andsmokinc, and this is expect- long experience in Vietnam.
about the crackdown demanded! ,,,,,
1 -ed. to be? passed soon by the "Al this stage of the game,
by the While House.
I National Assembly.
. . with Americans getting out of
Senior Lao generals have been( Vietnam, we have JOSS leverage
named as .being incriminated in than ever before. Maybe the
only way to handle the problem
is to pay officials the cash they
would lose in cutting out the
drug traffic, and I doubt the
U.S. Congress would go along
with that,". he added?..,
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BANGKOK,-Thailand, Aug. 10 Among Anierican officials,
-.7-Formidable obstacles .con- whose information - gathering
capacity in Laos and Thailand
is believed to surpass that of
the national Governments by.
far, there was reluctance to dis-
front the United -States in its
efforts to halt the flow of
heroin to its troops in. Vietnam
and to prevent Southeast Asian
heroin from moving into the
American market to fill the gap
that may be left if the traffic
from the Middle East is
tamed.
American officials, aware of
the high priority President
Nixon attaches tothe program,
display determined hopefulness
that the flow can be significant-
ly reduced, at least while Amer-
ican troops remain in south
Vietnam. ? .
Asian officials, on the other
hand, are openly. doubtful of
the chances of even limited
success over a short term. They
express growing concern that
a problem that they had consid-
ered primarily American May
also be on the rise among their
own people. They see the;
search for .it solution--if indeed;
one can be found----as a process
that will take years.
, The Asians agree with Amer-
ican officials that with in-
creased :United States assistance,
they can. intercept a greater
shard 'of the traffic in opium
and its derivatives from the
'contiguous growing areas in the
-mountains of, northeastern
Burma-, northern Thailand and
northwestern Laos. But they
believe that both supply and de-
mand are so great and the prof-
its so .temptingly high that the
supply and the demand will re-
niain :more or less in. balance
until one or the other can be
controlled.
a month of - inquiry in
Thailand and Laos it was possi-
ble-to .get a reasonably full pic-
ture of how the sap of the
seeded pod of Papaver Somnif--
erum, the opium poppy, Moves
;from the maintain tribesmen
.who cultivate and harvest it, is
converted into heroin and
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COrl-
reaches the consumer. Much
vagueness was encountered,
,based both on secretivenessmilp
ion a lack of knowledge.
cuss pertinent information that
contrasts with the declared view
of officials in Washington that
exposure of the problem. is in
the national interest.
The principal factors behind
Asian skepticism over the out-
look for short-term success are
these:
ciThe main growing area,-
the Shan State in Burma---is in
open rebellion against the Gov-
ernment in Rangoon, which ex-
ercises little control in the re-
mote and inaccessible region.
(iThr.?' growing areas in Thai-
land and Laos are contested by
rebel and bandit groups that
make Government action ex-
trernelY difficult.
ciThe borders between the
three. countries, run through
densely jungled mountains and
effective control is not exer-
cised except at: certain crossing
points.
f:Opium is in roost cases the
growers' only cash crop and no
substitutes with comparable re-
turn are ava iible.
gThe trading networks are
so firmly established and their
links with Government and
military officials who provide
protection and tolerance so
close that the Burmese Govern-
ment is believed to be resigned
to its inability to act and the
Thai and Laotian Governments
at a loss on how to carry out
their new-found desire to act.
Yr.Zabit of Unpopular Minorities
The historical view of opium
and its use among Southeast
Asian officials has been that it
provides profits for them from
an admittedly bad habit that
has been largely limited to un-
popular minorities: the over-
seas Chinese, mainly coolies,
and mountain tribesmen. Both.
groups sought refuge from pov-
erty and hard Tabor and the
absence of other, medicines to
make them forget pain and ill-
ness.
About three-fourths of the
production is consumed in
Southeast Asia, in the growing
regions and in cities of- heavy
addiction such as Hong Kong
and Bangkok. But now, by
eziger sectctroolettx
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into Southeast Asia in the form
of the American sOldier in Viet-
nam, the trade picture is being
distorted.
"Over the last . year," a
knowledgeable intelligence of-
ficial in Washington. said, "the
production of heroin. in South-
east Asia. has risen out oftsight."
/ White heroin, refined to a.
purity of about 03 per cent,
is the roost luxurious opium
product and the only one with
appeal to American consumers,
at home and abroad. Asian
opium or heroin users are con-
tent, at the most expensive,
with cheaper purple heroin suit-
able only for smoking, not in-
jection..
More White I:;".eroin Produced
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Only since tIva discovery of
Their principal contact with.
the world, apart from the occa-?
sional patrols of Government or
anti-Government soldiers, are
Chinese traders, who sell them
arms, ammunition, patent medi-
cines, tools and other utensils;
Early in the year the traders
come to buy the opium that has
just beep harvested.
Many of the traders,' accord-
ing to the best available ac-
counts, are small operators.
After this stage in the chain
of distribution there is little
room for anything but. potent
organizations. The most. potent
I are the groups that have their
I origin in remnants of ? Chinese
:l'ationalist armies that sought
refuge just. across China's bar-
der with Burma after the Com-
the 4American market in Vict monist victory in 1949.
nam have Asian traders and According to the C.I.A.' the
processors begun to produc