JPRS ID: 9022 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/9022
7 April 1980
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS bRUGS -
CFOUO 15/80)
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JPRS L/9022
7 April 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT ~
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 15/80)
CONTENTS PAGE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
- Royal Commission Advised on Combating Drug Trade ~
(Various sources, 12 Feb 80) ...o~......o.......... 1
Fedr_ral-Stat~ Force Needed
Morr: on Inspr-ctor's Remarks, by Sa11y Frasc:r
Government Toughens Stand on Deportation of Drug Offenders
(Steph~~n M~.~lls; THE AGE, 1 Feb 80) 3
Briefs
Heroin Bust 4
HONG KONG
Briefs
Shipboard Drug Seizure 5
Heroin Trafficking Fine 5
INDONESIA
- Morphine Arrests Lead to Increased Marihuana Use
(HARIAN UMI1M AB, 26 Dec 79) 6
- Ctzlt:ivation, Transportation of Marihuana Described
(KOMPAS, 27 Dec 79~ .....oo..o........o............ 8
MALAYSIA
Briefs
Minister on Drug Problem l0
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CONTF�NTS (Continued) pe,ge
NEW ZEALAND
= Heroin Suppl.y Cut Drastically, Police Report
(THE FVN3VING POST, 21 FF~b g0) �o~ ]l
Drug I'ac~erts Confer on T,a,w Enforcement Efforts
(THE EVElV3NG POST, 19 Feb 80) .o 12 ~
Cannab:t~ Haul One of Largest Ever in Country
~THE EVEL~TI:NG POST, 3, 4 Mar 80) 13
Operation in Wanganui
Youths Face Charges
Brie PF
Heroin Supplier ~Convicted 15
C~,nnabis Importer Seiitencec~ 15
= Ca,nnabis Courier ~entenced 15
- Cannabis Plots Located 16
~ Big Cannabis Haul 16
Drug Abuse Pamphlet 16
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THAILAND
- Briefs
Australians' Trial Continues 17
LATIN AME'RICA ;
BRAZIL
Ring Memb~rs Dca.ling in Cocaine During Carnival Arrested
(0 GLOBO, 28 Feb 80) ......oo 18
'Among Purest Seen Recently~
_ Ten-Day :Investigation
Ton of Ma.rihuana Seized on Fa.raguayan-Bolivian Border ~
(CORREIO BRAZILIIIVSE, 16 Feb 80) 21
Briefs '
Cocaine Ring Leaders Uncovered 22
COLOMBIA
rlntidrugs Intelligence System Proposed i
(EL TIE~O, 16 Feb 80) .....o 23 ,
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Cc~MI'f~IMI'~~ (C~~~~I.ir~ur~ii) ih~~~,,
'Leb~l' Export oE C~caine, Marihuana Urged
( f!~nr.iqurr Ca,t~a] lero; EL ESPECTADOR, 2 N~ir F~O)........
Ilondurrln Cocainr Trafficker Arrested
(EL TIF~SPO, 5 Mar 80) 27
January Dru~ S~izkres Listed
(TsL TIEN~O, 10 Feb f30) ........................o.... 29
Cocaine Seized by Authorities in Pasto
(EL ESPECTADOR, 10 Feb 80) 30
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Briefs _
Police Burn Marihuana, Cocaine 31
~ Ml ;XICO
H~rc~in, C:ocaine Traffickers Arrested, Several Released
(TL FRONTERIZO, various dates) 32
Twelve Seiz~d With Drugs
Captives Make Statements
Traffickers Freed, Evidence 'I,acking~
MembErs of Pill Trafficking Ring Captured
(EL BRAVO, 27 Feb 80) o..o 36
Br.iefs -
Ant.idrug Campa.ign Results 3g
A9.r Traf.fic Control 3g
_ Heroin Seized in Monterrey ~ 3g
Marihuana 'Mulest Sentenced 39
Sentences for Drug Suppliers 39
Colombians Caught With Cocaine 39
Jail Drug Smuggling Probed 40
URUGUP,Y
Briefs
Drug Traffickers Arrested ~.l
WEST E[JROPE
. AU5TRTA
UN Commission Notes Sharp Increase in Hard Drug Use
(NELTE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG, 15 Feb 80) 42
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CONTFMr~ (Continued) ga,ge
BEI,G IUM ~
Ger~rlnr~m~: r ie H~li~hea Up Drug Affair�
(Rc~nr. Haquin; LE SOIR, f3 Feb ~30) 44 -
Dru~s, Passports Seized at BND
(Rene Haquin; LE SOIR, 10-11 Feb 80) ~+5 ~
FRANC~
ChangF~s in Drug Trafficking, Usage Discussed
(Christian Colombani; LE MONDE, various dates) 47 -
Briefs
OAS Veteran Arrested 61
- PORTUGAL
Hashish Traffickers Arrested ir~ Lisbon Area
(0 PRIMEIRO DE JANETRO, 8 Feb 80) 62
Pol:ice Confiscate High-Purity Cocaine
(0 PRIMEIftO DE JANEIRO, 8 Feb 80) ~3
Br.ie fs
Youths Arrested With Hashish 64
:>FAIN -
Eleven Traffi.ckers Arrested, Drugs Confiscated
(EL PAIS, 12 Feb 80).~.0 65
Briefs
Hashish Confiscation in Mala~a 66 ~
SWITZERLAND ;
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Authorities Register Sharp Increase in Drug Use
(NEUE ZUERCHF~t ZEITUNG, 16 Feb 80) 67 ~
UNIT~D KINGDOM
Brazilian Charged in London far~ Cocaine Trafficking -
(0 GLOBO, 28 Feb, 1 Mar 80) 6E3 -
Found in Cust oms Inspecti on, by Claudio Kuck ,
No Previous Criminal Record
Briefs
Her~in Sc~ized at Heathrow 70
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AUSTRALIA
ltOYAt~ COMMI~~ION ADVISED ON COMBATING DRUG TRADE
Federal-State Force Needed
~3r�.i:;hanc THE COURIER-MAIL in English 12 Feb 80 p 8
['I'ex l,] A cocnposi te federal-state force with access to computerised informa-
~~ior~ was r,ecessary to combat the north Queensland drug trade, a detective
c~econded Lo the F'ederal Commission of Inquiry into Ilrugs said yesterday.
I-te i.:; T~: t. Insp. Harold Francis McCosk, r, who told the commission, chaired by
Mr ~lu:_;t:ir,e Wi.lliams, that such a force should concentrate solely on drug matters.
It ahould have s safe, Thev were concerned
central, recording aystem, that their area was the
which would collate drug d~6 capitn~l" of Austrt~-
lniormation from all lia, he said.
sourcee and pass thls on They believed 1n some
to people in the field. instances thst law en-
He said aG present forcement bodies were, or
then wes no genersl pool might be, corrupt to
of lnfcrmatinn. some degree, he said.
8tatte and Federal po-
lice and Cuetoms ofticera ~ flt8 1'It
could all be working and
collectinq informatlon on He said he knew a
- the same ceae and not number ot plain clothes
. know it, he aaid. officers~in the north and ~
Inapector McCo~ker they all had the knowl-
told the comml~sion thst edRe, expertlee and in-
~lice steffing in north teari6y to lnvestiga~e any
Queensland was In- matter.
s u f f 1 c i e n t to s11ow He said public disqutet
1 e n q t h y plain clothea centred on the amount of
drug investigationa. drugs used locally, the
amount prodviced locally
Manpower and the quautity of hard
drugs pasaing from Asia
Drug surveillance and to the routh. ~
lnveatigations were big lhvg trading ~as rtlo~te ~
conaumera of manpower. obvious In north Queens-
It could take between aia land towns because they
months and two yeara of were emaller than Bris-
inveatigationa to estab- bane, the Gold Coaat er
lish a prima facie case Sydney, he aaid.
aqainst a drug dealer. It pes obvious th~t
C i t i z e n s in north ha~ dl'u8$ were being
Queensland were thus ~Ported through disused
diasettafled that police but accessible airstrlps
apparently failed to in- and deep bays,
vestigate drug informa- The inqulry continues
tton. tod8y.
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More on Inspector's Remarks
~::ini~~�r~i�;~ 'i'lII~; All;~'I'IfAI,IAN in [~;ri;;l i;:h 1;' I~'~rl, ft0
~_IS~~J~or�I, hy ;~,1_ly l~'raUer]
~'~'~=x f, J n rvn'f'IUNA1, forC~deal- more chance o[ tl~e persoii's
ing o?ily ia drug matlers, arid identity being kept secre~."
' He said the presence- of a
a se~~ure, tentral data bank prison otficer when a pot-
for drug-related information, iceman was Interviewing a
were t.he only ways~~to_con- prisoner about drugs oft,en-
lrc~l drug tTd[f1Ck111g; - the deterred the, prisovt[, irom
passing on information.
l~ ederal Roy:il Commission. ~~A leak by the prison officcr�
inlo ll1�ugs wds told yest@r- could ~eopardise the prisoner.'s
d~y. ~ life.'.
Inspector McCosker inter-
Detective-Inspector ..Harold viewed peopl~ iq,_ Nort,h
IvlcCosker, investigating alle- Queensland after the~T,abor
gn6ions made in tlie Queens- OPPo~!�tipn inade.~allegations
land Parliament last Novem- in State parliament linking
ber, told Mr Justice Wllliattas the National�Party: member
in Brisbane that drug infor- �for Barron River,.Mr'.Martin '
mation was fragmented be- Senni,.with ~rags: �
tween State, federal, narcotics ~spectoi'"~ McCosker� said
and Customs departments. hard drugs ~vere being impor-
T1~erc weren'L enougli ted through North~ Queens-
undercuver agents, essential land.
to bring police closer to ma,~or He also said climatic condi-
drug dealers. tions in North Queensland
Inspector McCosk�i~said� Permitted the growing of higt~ ,
"Pcoplc with information quality Indian hemp, but the `
about drugs are often loath to volume grown indicated over-
go into. their local police supply for the area.
stuLion in a small i;own: "Again, a large proportion is
- "But if there was an under- Brown for southern markets;'
cov~r .z~ent, there would be he said.
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AUS7'RA L!A
- ~~OVI~;ItNM1~;N'I' 'l'~~11~;IILN,3 ~'1'ANll ON l~POI~TATION 01~' 1)hUC Oh'F'ENllERS ~
Melt~ourne THE AGE in English 1 Feb $0 p 3
[Itcport from Stephen Mills]
[7'c,xt] Canbe.rra.--The Federal Government has released details of a tough de-
portation policy for drug offenders.
'['Fie policy will be used by the crown as evidence in the hearing of appeals -
afTainst; deportation by three men named in the NSW drug Royal Commission as
m~:mber~. of trafficking or~;anisations.
Under the provisions of the pol- ducera. and traffickers. "natutg and quanti ' Of the
1cy ths "interests of the Austra- Ita severity is illustrate~ by drugs involved in h~ d[enoe
U~n community (wilp almost thne exam les of considerations must be oon$~dered ,in deteemini~a
alwaya outweigh the compession� whick� mi~t "compel" the tri~ whether to depot~.
ate eonoiderat~ons which mtght buna~ to ecide against deporting But it arQues thar !t !s "desir~
dltetwfee have applied". a drug offender: able" to detrr peopk hom be-
_ The men - Saverio Barbaro. Thay are: i'f the oRender, or coming lnvolved in dtuQ com-
i~lne.enza Barbaro, and Vincenzo cotneone else af~ected by the de� merce, even Jft~y did not kno~w
Pieclonerl were named in the portation, (s gravely ill; or ander of any poesible link betweet~ their
Royal Commleqion report by Mr, a aenuine, serioua death Chreat; offences and thoe~ oi othet
Justic~ Woodward as members or is s rePugee. peo le.
ot the aecret Calabrian organisa� Other corapnasionate coasidera~ ~s ~ s~~
tion the "Honorable Soclety". tions such as whether the ference to tbe appeals o~ ~he
They were~ailed after a NSW otiender has a family or assets in three men.
oourt tound them guilty of sup~ Australis, o! would faoe "adv~se VVlien they were sentenoed in
p!ying Indian hemp, and deporta- conditions" in ths co~attry 1M or March, 1978, NSW District Court
tiot~ orders were made out for she was nturned - awat b~ ~ooa� Judge Thorley aaid they had -
them laat September. sidered. tailed to give intomution about
But the Administrative Appeals 'But (they) need t~oE bt 1+e- others lnvolved 3n xheir oRences.
Trlbunal, which began hearing the garded as compelling;' the ~ The men w~ere releaaed late laet -
men's appeels against deportation anent aaye. year.
in November, has asked the Ga "The weight given te dru~ The Government had the p~wet
vernment to produce mon details offences is such that'tfie con- to keep them In custody I;etvweea
on ita attitude to drug offenders, siderations In favor o! deportatton prison and depott~tkri but, be~
The result ls yesterday's docu� muat almost alwaya outvveigh the cause !t was Itkety their appeale
ment. virtunlly identical to earlier considenttiona ~gaieat depot#a� would " be lengthy, ~ey ~rero -
statements except for a special tion~" allowed to go fr sub ect tp
cateRory on dn~~ im~rters, pro- The policy concedes that f3~e reRular contnct wit~'h poliee.
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AU S7'RAI,IA
- BRIEFS
HEROIN BUST--Four men are due to appear in court in Melbourne on Friday
charged with importing heroin said to have a street value of $1 million.
The men were detained at Melbourne's airport on Saturday after arriving
on a flight from Singapore. [Text] [OW241357 Melbourne Overseas Service
in English 0500 GMT 24 Mar 80 OW]
CSO: 5300
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HONG KONG
BRIEFS
~ SHIPBOARD DRUG SEIZURE--Customs officers yesterday seized about $180,000 !
~ worth of cannabis resin during a routine search on board a Pakistani
~ freighter, the Warsak. Two kilograms of the drug were found in a venti-
! lation shaf t following a day-long search of the 9,739-ton vessel. It was
~i Packed in two blocks and was wrapped in a cloth bag. Officers said no one
! has been arrested in connection with the seizure. /Text/ /Hong Kong
~ SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English S Mar 8C p 1/
HEROIN TRAFFICKING FINE--A 23-year-old woman was fined $50,000 for pos- ~
sessing drugs for trafficking by Jud ge Penlington at Victoria District
Court yesterday. Ma Yik-ching was given one month to pay the fine or
serve one year in prison in default. Ma and her husband, Lee Shek-kuen,
stood trial two months ago for possessing 8.42 grams of heroin for traf-
ficking in premises in Causeway Centre on December 31. During the trial
the husband absconded. LExcerpt/ /Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST
~ in English 11 Mar 80 p 8/
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INDONESIA _
MORPHINE ARRESTS LEAD TO INCREASED MARIHUANA USE
Jakarta HARIAN lJMLTM AB in Indonesian 26 Dec 79 pp 1, 2
- [Article: "Police Expose Marihuana Network Between Medan, Jakarta, a:id
_ Bali"]
[Text] The research unit of the regional police command of inetropolitan
Jakarta has succeeded in exposing traffic in marihuana which was traded
between Meclan, Jakarta, and Bali. Tt~e narcotics network was exposed after
the arrest of HDS [Initials of an unidentified person] af Matraman Dalam,
East Jakarta, at the end of last week. Police seized cne and one-half
~il~grams of marihuana in the hands of HDS.
The Deputy Commander of the Research Unit of the regional police command
of inetropolitan Jakarta, Police Major Ismet I. W., in his statement to -
reporters in Jakarta on Monday [24 December], said that, according to the
confession of HDS, the marihuana was obtained from M, aliaa Mar, in Jakarta
city market in Tanjung Priok. It was believed that the marihuand entered
Jakarta from Medan by sea, transparted by a motorboat. However, up to the
time of this report, M is listed as still being sought by the police.
The police strongly susnect that M is a person who is invo~.ved in the
commercial traffic in marihuana between Medan and Jakarta, both by sea and
by land, including the u~e of the ferry. The network is also linked with
another network using air transport, that is, from Polonia airport (Medan)
to Kemayoran airport (Jakarta) to Juanda airport (Surabaya) to Balt,
Major Ismet says that the Research Unit and the Surabaya City Regional
- Command [Kowiltabes Surabaya) recently also arrested S, alias SMJ, which
involved the network of a woman who was caught in Kwini, Central Jakarta.
From this woman (AS), who was arrested last August, the police succeeded
in seizing 21 kilograms of marihuana.
Tn response to a reporter's question the Deputy Commander of the Research
Unit, who was accompanied by the Chief of the Information Section of the
Police Region of inetropolitan Jakarta, went on to say that the police have
brought under control the narcotics networks which ~perate through Jakarta.
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~ '['he people involved have also been identified, although it is rather
difflcult, because Chey generally do not have a permanent place of residence
- find al.ways ~nove from one address to another.
Uc HF?Lcf ihat the traCl'.ic ln mar~.hu~nu is ACiC11UWlCCIgC(~ nH bFinb greute~t l.n
Jakarta and that, according to the data, it reached a high poin~ a few
months ago. He did not provide figures or percentages of the increase in ,
the traffic in marihuana.
_ The increase in the traffic in marihuana, said Ismet, is caused by the
decline in the traffic in ather kinds of narcotics, such as morphine,
= which has recently appeared to be "quiet." The decline in the illegal
purchase and sale of morphine has occurred as a result of the arrest of
THS, Ym, and Gg [References to three unidentified names] by police of inetro-
- politan Jakarta. The case of THS ~nd Ym is already before the courts, while
Gg has already been before ~he courts and is currently being held in prison
in Nusakambangan. The three persons mentioned above were "big shots" in
the illicit traffic in morphine.
With the arrest of the "big shots" it app~ared that the sellers and users
of morphine had lost a source of supply and that a way of obtaining that ,
type of prohibited medicine had been closed off. .
Answering another question, Ismet stated that from the evidence obtained
by the police it appears that the number of users of marihuana is not
- going up, although indeed it is felt that the marihuana traffic itself
ia increasing in volume. "So those who are using marihuana are truly
~ [morphine users] also," he said. The police are presently continuing raids ~
against places which are believed to be locations for the illicit narcotics '
traffic.
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INDONESIA
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- CULTIVATION, TRANSPORTATION OF MARIHUA~~1A DESGRIBED
Jakarta KOMPAS in Indonesian 27 Dec 79 p 3
[Article: "Locations Where Marihuana Is Illegally Cultivated~Are Increasing"]
[Excerpts] Based on data from 1977 up to and including 1979, according to
the Community Development Office of Indonesian Police Headquarters [Pembina
Masyarakat Mabak Polri], the average size of locations illegally planted
. marihuana increased from 2.254 hectares to 4.71 hectares in Jan 79, spread
~ out in seven Police Regional Commands [Kodak]. Theae commands are Kodak I
Aceh (North Aceh-Blang~eneub and Southeast Aceh-Blangkejeren), Kodak II
North Sumatra (Tanah Karo, Simalungun, and South Tapanuli), Kodak III West
Sumatra (Payakumbuh), Kodak IV South Sumatra (Re~ang Lebong/Benkulu),
Kodak VIII West Java (Cian3ur, Sukabumi, and Tasikmalaya), Kodak IX Central
Java (Banyumas), and Kodak X East Java (Banyuwangi).
As far as is known, the marihuana which circulates in Indonesia comes from
three sources: natural wild marihuana, esp~cially in the mountainous
areas in Aceh and North Sumatra; marihuana deliberately planted in an
illegal way by the people, because they are stimulated by several factors,
including an economic factor reflecting increased demand for local consump-
tion, from other areas of Indonesia, and from overseas; and marihuana origi-
nating overseas and brought in by foreigners.
Indonesia is indeed included within the network for re-smuggling marihuana _
_ tn foreign countries, using Bali as a transit area.
With the increase in demand for marihuana by the people, tre pattern of
routes for the smuggling of marihuana in 1978 ref~.ects differences when
compared with prior years.
In 1977 the pattern was: Aceh/North Sumatra to Pakanbaru/Riau; Aceh/North
- Sumatra to Pelabuhan Panjang (South Sumatra) to Pelabuhan Merak (West Java)
- to Jakarta.
� In 1978 the pattern was: Re~ang Lebong/Bengkulu to Palembang to Pelabuhan
Panjang (South Sumatra) to Pelabuhan Merak (West Java) to Bandung and
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Jakarta. Apart from that was the pattern: Payakumbuh (West Sumatra) to
Pelabuhan Merak to Jakarta.
Pelabuhan Panj~ng and Pelabuhan Merak are diaturbed areas which recently ~
hnve been used frequently as an entry way for marihuana from Sumatra to
Java.
In the illicit narcotics traffic world it is usually a matter of channeling
the marihuana from its source towards areas which have many consumers or
to market areas where the price is high. Based on this factor the marihuana
is not only smuggled between areas of Indonesia but also overseas, including
Auatralia.
The type of transportation used in such smuggling include the railroads, ;
ferries, and airplanes.
The marihuana leaf used in such smuggling is later sold, through the medium
of certain retailers, to consumers in large cities in the form of units in
- packages or envelopes. Up to this point, it is not yet clearly known what
the average weight per package or envelope is. Nevertheless, based on j
reports from the various regions, the price of marihuana per kilogram in
Dec 78 in Aceh was Rp 5,000; in North Sumatra, Rp 25,000; in West Sumatra,
Rp 4,000; in Jakarta, Rp 55,000; and in Surabaya, Rp 90,000.
The ways of hiding marihuana to be smuggled are almo~t the same as those
used by international smugglers. '
According .*_o information whose reliability must still be checked, the
smuggling of marihuana or other narcotics involves using the following
practices: the marihuana is hidden in spare tires (used in smuggling
marihuana from Sumatra to Java); or, the narcotics are hidden in the spare
~ tire of a race car which lisually has more than one spare tire at the time
- of the automobile or motor race.
Fo"reignera who come to Indonesia as tourists or workers are also a factor ~
which can increase the potency of the marihuana, [through their smuggling ~
in] of marihuana oil, hashish, and "Buddha Sticks," which previously never ~
- circulated in Indonesia. ~
Foreigners are generally able to buy at a high price, so that they can
stimulate the traffic in marihuana. ;
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MALAYSIA
' BRIEF'S
~ MINISTER ON DRUG PROBLEM--Kuala Lumpur.--The drub problem has replaced commu-
nist guerilla activity as the main thxeat to Malaysia's security, the Home
Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie said today. He said guerilla activ-
~ ity had been curtailed drastically in the past five yeaxs. Now a rise in the
I drug problem was the number one threat to na,tional sect:rity, Tan Sri Ghazali
! said. He was speaking to reporters after meeting a three-member delegation
' from the Australian Sena,te committee for foreign affairs and defence, which
i has been here on a four-day visit. During tn~ir one-hour meeting the sena-~
' tors--John Sim, Gortlon Mc2ntosh and Cyril Frimmer--were briefed on the securi-
~ ty situation in Malaysia. ~Text] [Melbourne THE AGE in English 7 Feb 80 p 8]
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HI:KUI;V StIPPLY CUT DRASTICALLY, POLICE REPORT
W~11inE;ton TF~E EVENING POST in English 21 Feb 80 p 4 _
/Text/ Heroin supply within New Zeal:~nd has virtually dried up, a;,cord-
in~ t:~ t:he police.
' Md the po![ce and Cus- could atop any lar~
ge ~lsked if he was concerned
toma Deuartment ate oow syndlcate a~h as the "Mr about the possibllittea ot
concerne~ with trylng to Asla" one operating 1a New drug squadpolice becoming
stop tutuEe importa of th~ 7.ealand, Mr Churchea sa[d lnvolved In tde use of druga,
drug before the~y be~in the hs,~p~ld not "glve away, all Mr Churches said that
qe~d ot fbe PoliCe Na~ow? our dperation teehnlqnes"'.,, . �we've Rot to be conscious of
HeadqWetters cria~e dir- "But that's one of the t6is all We time."
ectonbl �(Detective Chief rbplei~t , v~~'re -~ctng. N~re do whatever is
Chu~'reda taidttoda ~l ~a~g 9~~~ humanly ~ossible to avoid
~ 9� oper
a at e mqnen~ ~at ~ituat~on. We're fortun-
Speakipg at tde ead ot a. Today, becoln i~ vlrtnally a~ ~lly because oi the
twadaq oonference of tde aot ~ availdble .!n New hi~k.ralibre and honeaty o
couritry'a Cuatoma and Zeaiand. What we're eoQ- ~r ~ naff. It's liko a lot "d~
police drog aquads, Mr . oeroed bo do la to atop futuce ~q~.~hing m aey organlea-
- Chnrchea sa3d the problem impoMs - it'~ a matter of
oi ~omeone "rlsing up" And ~ don :-M t~'; y~~�,,~~.,
attempting heroin im rb ~a ~0 op u'mO 6e~0m. conca~n.
Q� theq re! itarild " He ndded that he thought
to Nea Zealand, ~raa a' very ~k~ ~,~yt .6et~in usen~ a great intluencing factor in
~ ral one".
"3omeoae aho wants were dotng U~~'th0 drug w membera tiot getting ia-
moaey wUl try;' he wid not vailAbye, Mr Cput volved was tt~at they saw the
But 6e added t6ece wae no ~a~ ~0~~ ~0�~ end result - a~hat happened
big dcug eyaAfcate ~g other drngs. to people aho' became ad-
at " dicted or who used dru
P k ~ ~t Mr Churches aaid that
the
were a number of had tileli a decllne 1ti the two-day confereace had
poesiblUtiea. aumbed oI peo le atteadln covered virtuall all facets
He aaid the decllne in the treatment ~ca aad that of dru law enforc~ment,
lmporting ot heroin was due many ot the people ueing includln discussion on how
to a number of things, hetoin bad been oalq u~la It g
Cuatoms aad the llce
including enforcemenE pres- oceptlonaUy in conjuac, on Po
aure, medfa presaure and with other druga. � could support eac6 other, the
increaeed peaaltiea, and he "Bnt we d~+ aot knop tbe availablllty oi drugs on t6e
hoped that the pressure anmber ofpeople addlcted New Zealadd market, and -
could be malntained. to heroia or the aumber who ~e cultivatioa of caanabis
Asked how the police aill uae lt whea lt's avall- wltdin New Zealaad, whlch
able. Laat year we eatimated
Z000 - What the figure is jA6 p~blenf." ~
~oday, I aouldn't know." ~ ~ -
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_ Dltll(~ GXI'}:P,TS CpN1~F.R ON LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS
Wellin~,ton THE EVENING POST in English 19 Feb 80 p 4
- /Tex t / ~ ~ Topics on the ageada
~p~ b~~~ 4.Jp~~ ~s iaclude ~ improvements in
Wellla~ton toA~y ~o .~ficuet methode of as~eseid~ ths
dru~ 4w Nlipr�.et~ll~ ld t1N extent of drug addictioq
caeut~ tlec~~ � ways of findin large-acale i
The copfet~lAdt wiu dw to canaabla pian~tio~u~ and ~
et under w~ ~le mornln~. thoae respoaalble for their i
~t ~Iepoet alofbre~ toroed a cultivatlon, and the proo~ ~
del~? ~~,'.enW early thM of new drugs findin~ tl~eir
�tternoon. waq onto locat muketa. ~
Deteettve ChieE Superln- The police drug offlcers '
tendeat Mel Cbucchef, bead at the coaference wlll also
ot tde crime dlrectorat~ at atudy admiaistration met-
Pollee Nitlonal Ne~d- tera including tcaining, na. ~
qu~rter~, i~ preslding. ~ tional adminietrative
Betore the conierence syetems, the undercover
'tarted, Mr Cdurches seid progr~mme~ and wlll asseet -
that while the Pollce wera the effectiveness ot
re~soatblq satisfied witb inte ence. t1~r1~
their drug law enforcement ~ g~Y~
~itorh, !t was necessary to ~ Two men recently ap~
keep tAe preasnre on dealers pomted to 8pecIBIISt p0$1~ '
whkb had been applied tions, Detective Chief I~r ~
alnce late 1978. spector Allan Qalbraltd th~
"Even althoa~h we have dcug enWrcement ' co-
had a~ood daaf of, tu~eeess~ ordinator at Police National ~
p~rtlenlarly ..qheee' beroin Headquartera, and Detlctivs
haa heen iovoloed~ w~ caa't Inspector Lin Sintoq; ~ New
aiford to become Zealand police liaison oi� -
com~placeat. flcer in ~ustralfa, are botb
''T.ha ~ conterence w1U at the conference, as are
utflise the talents and eipee+~ membeta of the Polic~e and
ience of our top drug men ao Cuatotds depertments from
thAt everyone l~volved 'u ge Natlonal Drug Iatel- i
tuily informed op~ the lat~t lf ence Bureau.
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NEW ZEALAND
C~NNARI~ IiAITI. ONE OF LARGEST EVER IN COUNTRY
' Operation in Wanganui
W~~11 i i~~;t ~,n 'I'HE P:V~NiNG POST in English 3 Mar 80 p 1
/'I' ~ ~ x I: 7
A CANNABIS 6an1 said to be one of the biggest ever made in New.
Zealand with an estimated , stcee,t valae of aroond $b00,000 was made
by police dnring a massive drags operation in ~ VVanganui over t~e
weekend. ~ . ~
"Opetation Clean Up," plymouth - 6egaa t6e Wanga~i CIB~ said 25 se�~ found a oamber of emaII
tbe mott successful In~the operation at Sam on cests had been made on cannabie plantatioaa in the
diBttlct~ started at dawn SatdrdaY� - Saturday evea~fag and thtee gro
unds aE tde rear of an
on Satttrday and by Sun- Two We1lIagton-baaed ~r=' Y~~l. Wit6 oae Atamoho - 6oqae. pl~ate
- day night had alao cault- do~a and two from the ~o ~8 b9 Aaeting~s nnder cultivation aere aq
customs Departmeat in detectives at W~ipulcurau. over 220cm tall apd eome
� The discovery of sa Auckland were used 'm tde More arreats aere etpect- stood at three mettrs. ~
raids.
phinieated cannabis ed as , foUow-np iaqWrles A,so discovered aaa a
processing and paci~aging T~ ~0~~ ~O Tane p~, group of shab apparently
trained W dtvgs~eeekWg an~ used for d
Eacilities ln the aubucb of ~ledby Conetable A m TbO~ aT~'~~~ ~~~8 g ~d packag-
Mamoho, and Joqce~ and Yeamiae, traj ed two women, an a~ed i~om Fr~om cthr
i~a p~~, ert
� Tweaty-elght 8rreets to aearch ont exploaived ~tad 16 to tddr 40s. ~ poUce eeized, 6ot4 6rowing
on dcuga and ilreatt~ls 6mdled by Cooet~abh Petee The 3~ cha es lald uodet ~
'aad dried cannabie~ ceeding
charges. Smitd. , the Misuee of s Act ~nd two truckc to help
TNe operation cnLipinated Aa ae11,13 policx ve6iclsa the Arms Act ~llege the transport ;t'away. .
more tGan six months oE were uaed ln tbe : setlea.. of ~ltivatloa and paseession of ~~gy ~y~~s ~hmatioo, -
special iavestigatio~, both ralds, most~j on pr[vate ~nnabia f~ snpply and the '~e hanl would be considered
WltDin aad out~ide Wangaa- homes. Po~on of a.38 t~.wolvec oae . of the lergest .la the
ui, aad as it pro~ed and ammun[tldd. . countrq;' ~id Mr Butler.
even the police ofticers in- With tao large truckloads
volved ~vere aarprised at the Warrants Plantatio~s ~~p~A�~ ~d of
aiae ~nd acope ot t~e drog More t6an 30 pMvate ~ seeds yet b~ be weigbed and
acfivities uneovered. lames rwre eeat~che~ uader Among tdaee arreated at+e . tested b~ tbe DSIR, Mr
br eting~40 ~poUeeN~t wure�v a� S�tardaq. charged wt~tbp~�nlti~tin~g ~
p,~~~a~
mdtamed and CIB ataEt Tde o~ficer in' charg~ cannabia uod",Poma~ein8 it Those arrested Aere bo
icom W,angaaN, Tai6ape. Detective ~eaiar Serqeant tor wpply. . a_1 pear in the Waaganai
Pal~t~oa nocth ma New xob sutke~ i~e.a - nF tLe ~r Bntl~t ~~aid... Fol[ee l~~ietrate': Conrt today.'�
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Youths Face Charges
Wellington THE EVEIVING POST in English 4 Mar 80 p 17
LExcerpts7 Wanganui, March 3(PA)- A Magistrate expressed "tremendous �
disappointment" i.n Wanganui's youth today as a succession of young people
appeared before him on drug-related charges following police raids at the
weekend.
Twenty-six peonle--mostly in their teens and early 20s--faced a total of
33 charges relating to cannabis cultivation and use.
Charges included four of cultivating cannabis, three of possessing it for
supply, ~3 of possessing, three of offering to sell either cannabis leaf
or resin, three of selling, two of using, three of possessing instruments
_ for use with cannabis, two with unlawful possession of a pistol, and one
of unlawfully possessing anununition.
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NEW ZEALAND
BRIEFS
HEROIN SUPPLIER CON!IICTED- After a retirement of three hours, a Supreme
Court jury at Auckland yesterday found Patrick Norton-Bennett, a company
director, aged 31, guilty of conspiring to supply heroin. No date was
fixed for sentence. The charges arose out of an alleged attempt on Feb-
ruary 13 last year, by certain persons, of whom the accused was one, to
sell 100 rams of heroin to an undercover police agent for $18,000.
LExcerpts~ LChristchurch THE PRESS in English 9 Feb 80 p 4?
CANNABIS IMPORTER SENTENCED- Auckland (PA)- A$50,000 consignment of
cannabis, air-freighted to New Zealand nearly five years ago, has result-
ed in a man appearing in the Magistrate's Court at Otahuhu. Austin Nor-
man Holden, aged 28, was arrested late last year when he returned to New
Zealand. He pleaded guilty to importing 4000 cannabis sticks. The Court
heard that Holden left New Zealand for Singapore in 1975. He bought the
cannabis there and packed it into two stereo speaker cabinets. The cabi-
nets were taken to Zurich and then air-freighted to New Zealand. Holden's
brother was arrested when he went to collect the speakers at Auckland Air-
port in July, 1975. The Court was told that Holden had travelled the
w~rld and settled in the United States until he decided in 1979 to return
to New Zealand and give himself u.p. Holden was convicted and remanded on
bail to February 14 for sentence. LExcerpts/ LChristchurch THE PRESS in
English 7 Feb 80 p 47 Austin Norman Holden, of Rotorua, was sentenced in
- the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday to three years' imprisonment. Hol-
"den's brother had been sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment
in 1975 for his part in the same offence. LWellington THE EVEDTING POST
in English 23 Feb 80 p 2/
CANNABIS COURIER SENTENCED-~luckland, Feb 26 (PA)- A man who returned to
Auckland to see his dying father was somewhat like the prodiga]. son, Mr
Justice Barker was told today when the man appeared for sentence for im-
porting cannabis resin. Michael Anthony Stella, 26, was the "dupe in the
hands of evil people who ran the drug traffic," the Judge said. He told
Stella that people who acted as drug couriers played for high stakes.
Stella had pleaded guilty to importing hashish oil and block wit~ a
potential street value of $50,000. Stella's counsel, Mr G W Wells, said
Stella had been approached by a man in Asia and asked to carry the drug.
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Stella was sentenced to three years and nine months' imprisonment.
LText7 LWellington THE EVEIJING POST in English 29 Feb 80 p 4/
CANNABIS PLOTS LOCATED--Cannabis plants found on the banks of the Ashley
River near Rangiora on Wednesday will be sent to the D.S.I.R. fo;- destruc-
tion. Drug-squad detectives were told about the find of more than 100
plants by a family of picknickers. The plants, in two plots, were said to
be weli hidden by gorse and broom. The police later said that there could
be thousands of plants along the Ashley River alone. They appealed to
peop?e to be on the lookout. The plants will be ready for harvesting
soon. /Exc~*_~ptT LChristchurch THE PRESS in English 1 Feb 80 p 2/
BIG CANNABIS HAUL- Auckland (PA)--Deteetives have seized 1200 cannabis
plants, some more than 2m tall, from a Pukekawa farm. The plants, with
an alleged street value of about $50,000, comprised one of the biggest
hauls of cannabis plants in the Auckland police district. A squad of
detectives searched a farmhouse and several hectares of bush on the prop-
erty. More than 3kg of picked material was found in the house, and nine i
separ.ate plots of cannabis were found growing among gorse and manuka in
a gully. A man, aged 50, was to appear in the Magistrate's Court in
Otahuhu charged with cLltivating canna.bis. /Excerpts/ LChristchurch
THE PRESS in English 25 Feb 80 p 27
DRUG ABUSE PAMPHLET--Pupils in 175 secondary schools will be educated in
the dangers of drug abuse with the aid of a bi-lingual pamphlet. The
pamphlet, couched in Maori terms and distributed as a 12-page panui--
important announcement-~as prepared by the founders of the Maori rahui
(prohibition) against illegal drugs. Copies of the panui have also been
- distributed by the Maori Affairs Department to officers around the coun- '
try, accompanied by instractions to promote the campaign. LWellington
THE EVEDIING POST in English 20 Feb 80 p 157
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BRIEFS
; AUSTRALIANS' TRIAL CONTINUES--Baligkok (AAP-Reuter).--An Australian detective
said in court here yesterday that one of three Australians on trial on serious
drug chaxges told him he wa,s paid $60,000 in Sydney to buy heroin in Bangkok.
~ Sergt Barry Dunn said one of the accused, Warren Fellows, 27, a women's ha,ir-
dresser, told him: "Ned Smith gave me $60,000 in Sydney. The next day I flew
to Bangkok, saw Bill Sinclair and told him the drugs I wa,nted. La,ter I gave
the money to Noy." Sergt Dunn was being cross-examined at the trial of Fellowt
and two other Sydney men--'bar owner William ainclair, 66, arhd footballer Pau_1
Haywaxd, 26. A bangkok taxi dsiver, Kitti "Noy" Imsap, is the fo~th deferxi-
ant. All pleaded not guilty to attempting to smuggle 8.4kg of heroin to
: Australia. LExcerpt) [Brisbane THE COURIER-I~,AIL in English 1 Feb 80 p 6]
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BRAZIL
RING MEMBERS DEALING IN COCAINE DURING CARNIVAL ARRESTID
'Among Purest Seen Recently'
Rio de Janeiro 0 GTABO in Portuguese 28 Feb 80 p 15
[Text] Climaxing 10 days of investigation, narcotics police yesterday ar- _
rested a drug-trafficking ring responsible, according to police, for moat
of the cocaine entering the Southern Zone during Carnival. According to
Inspector Pedro Paulo Abreu, in charge of the arreat, 1 kilogram of cocaine
was found in possession of the four arrested traffickers. He said the co-
caine is "among the purest seen recently" and is worth about 700,000 cru-
zeiros.
The arrested traffickers are Valdeci Adelino de Lucena, Rovani Paulo da
Silva, Jose Carlos Lourenco de Souza and Rafael Fernando Diverio dos Passos.
According to the first three, Rafael, an unsalaried first lieutenant in the
Naval Reaerve (he served in the Reserve Officers Training School--EFORM), is
the gang's leader, but he denied the accusationa. Jose Carlos Lourenco ia
the same man arrested 17 January in Ladeira dos Tabajaras, Copacabana, in
the company of lawyer Lea Martins de Barros. At the time, 13 grams of co-
caine and 4 marihuana cigarettes were found in the glove compar.tment of the
lawyer's car, a Chevette with license plate WZ 0055.
On that date Jos~ Carlos claimed to be a self-employed mechanic who was con-
sulting the la-;yer about documentation needed to do business with the Army.
Later, howevei, he confessed to being an addict, a"victim of circumstances,"
who had purchased the drugs from strangers on Atlantica Avenue. A few hours
later both Jose Carlos and the lawyer were set free on bail.
The Arrests
Breaking up the cocaine ring began 17 February, when, pursuant to an anonymous
report, narcotics polic~ arrested addict Creusa Salerno, 36. Agents found
. 150 grams of cocaine in her Copacabana apartment on Barata Ribeiro Street.
Under police questioning at Praca Maua, Creusa gave the names of everyone
furnishing her drugs, including Rafael Fernando Diverio dos Passos, whom `
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she called "Lieutenant." Following Rafael's trail, police came upon two of
his accomplices, Valdeci Adelino de Lucena and Rovani Paulo da Silva, the
day before yeaterday.
Inside a sofa-bed in Rovani's apartment on Piaui Street, Penha, police found
cocaine packaged in two plastic baga (one thin and the other thicker), a
precision acale and the weights to go with it, and powdered boric acid,
used to dilute the drug to make its sale more profitable.
The Other Two
Within houra after the Penha operation, police put places habitually fre-
quented by Raf~e? under surveillance. He was arrested, at the entrance to
the building where he lives (on Barata Ribeiro Street) when he arrived in
a Passat with license plate SZ 2050, belonging to Valdeci Adelino de Lucena.
Jose Carlos Lourenco de Souza was with him. Police found about 200 grams
of cocaine under the car's seats.
In searching the Pasaat that Rafael and Jose Carlos were in, police found
a warrant for the release of Rafael and Vald eci signed by a judge in Porto
Velho, Rondonia. According to the document, No 4939/80-R0, they had been _
arrested there about a month ago for bringing in 4 kilograms of cocaine on
the Cuiaba-Porto Velho bus. They both confirmed this fact yesterday.
Previous ArresCs
According to information released by police, Valdeci, 37, was tried in Sao
Paulo for drug trafficking and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison,
which he aerved in the House of Detention. -
Ten-Day Investigation
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Feb 80 p 1
[Text] After a 10-day ~nveatigation, narcotics police yesterday arreated
four members of a cocaine-trafficking ring responsible for most of the co-
caine aold in the South Zone during Carnival. Police found 1 kilogram of
pure cocaine worth 700,000 cruzeiros in possession of the traffickers, Rafael _
Fernando Diverio dos Passos, Valdeci Adelino de Lucena, Jose Carlos Lourenco
de Souza and Rovani Paulo da Silva.
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BRAZIL
TON OF MARIHUANA,SEIZED ON PARAGUAYAN-BOLIVIAN BORDER -
Brasilia CORREIO i3RAZILIENSE in Portuguese 16 Feb 80 p 10
[Text] A ton of marihuana presumed to be intended for consumption during
the 4 days of Carnival was seized on the Paraguay-Bolivia border by revenue
agenta and ~ederal police partiaipating in "Operation Coffee" to combat
_ smuggling in southern Brazil.
The Revenue Secretariat note released yesterday makes no mention of where ,
the aeizure toolc place. It ia only known that the public safety secretariats
of Sao Paulo, Parana and Mato Grosso are carrying out intensive aearches for
that purpose.
The same note says that, in addition to marihuana, 46 cases of whiskey,
4,052 bags of coffee, 2 aircraft, 9 automobiles, $ trucks and 1 utility ve-
hicle, having a total value of about 50 million cruzeiros, have been seized,
mainly during January.
- Surveillance by revenue and police agents in combating smuggling may be in-
tensified during Carnival i.n clubs and barao :
Through the end of December, "Operation Coffee" seized 287 million cruzeiros i
worth of goods and levied taxes amounting to 100 million cruzeiros.
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~ BRIEFS
;
i COCAINE RING LEADERS UNCOVERID--With the arreat of trafficker Moises Cattan,
; alias "Mauricio," in Hotel Alianca, 110 Frei Caneca Street, Bela Vista dis-
trict, Sao Paulo police are about to break up an international cocaine-traf-
i ficking ring that has been operating in Brazil, mainly on the Sao Paulo-Rio
~ de :Ianeiro axis. Third Police District suthoritiea now have the names of
two of the ring leaders. They are American Darrel Paul Morril, 32, married,
electrical engineer, who has been staying in ^partment 62 at 715 Oacar Freire
Street aince 29 January, and a 30-year-old Chilean saleaman, married, who
- was living in Apartment 611 of Hote1 Alianca with a woman, poasibly his wife,
' and a child. Both managed to eacape before police arrived. [Text) [Bra-
eilia CORREIO BRAZILIEN~E in Portuguese 22 Feb 80 p 11) 8834
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COLOI~IA -
~1NTIDRUGS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM PROPO~ED
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 16 Feb 80 Sec A p 11
_ [Text] The minister of ~ustice, Hugo Escobar Sierra, announced that there
is a poseibility of the establishment of a modern intelligence syetem in I
Colombia for the battle against drugs. I
The high-ranking official, who is currently making a tour of the United 1
Statea,claimed that the Colombian Government was exploring the possibtlity
, of eetablishing a system similar to that in the North American country.
Escobar Sierra was interuiewed during a visit to the E1 Paso Intelligence _
Center (EPIC), where an advanced computer and special surveillance tech-
niques are used to probe the illegal drug traffic.
The aforementioned center was established 5 years ago on the border between
Mexico and the United States, where,last year,~1.25 million pounds of mari-
huana and 387 of cocaine were confiscated.
~scobar Sierra told the American newsmen that his election campaign for
Congreas had been based on the increasing need for enforcement of Colour _
bian laws against drug traffickers.
The minister of ~ustice also said that he had been encouraged by the prac- -
tical demonstrations of cooperation between the United States and Colom-
bia in the battle against druga; and noted that the col3.aboration between
the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), F-2 and the military forc-
es as a whole against the illegal drug traffic might be increased through
a Colombian version of the EPIC.
- Escobar Sierra remarked that the EP~C is playing a remarkable role, and
that there should be an agency such as this in other countries. He added .
that Colombia would "probably attempt" to develop at least a capacity for
rapid communication, based on daily cooperation with EPIC.
The minieter told the newsmen: "Wtnen I return to Bogota, I shall begin
diacussione with the advisers in our Justice D-~partment and the U.S. State -
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Department, to study the potential reaults of a link with the EPIC." He
also eaid: "A Colombian version of the EPIC would be similar to, but not
the eame aa the latter; and it would be eatablished to an extent commen-
eurate with our resourc~s."
Eecobar Sierra added: "I am convinced that cooperation between the United
Statea and Colombia ie eeaential; and we muet acknowledge the fact that it
hae been devised with mutual respect for our own authority and sovereignty,
with the understanding that we cannot stand by idly in the face of the
drug traffic."
The minister of ~ustice co~nented: "If our imagination allows, we must find
new ways of expanding this cooperation, not only between Colombia. and the
United States, b~~t also with other nearby countries, such as Boliva, Ecua.- ~
dor and Peru." ,
He declared: "Moat particularly, I have noted that the officials with whom ~
I have had an opportunity to speak, as well as the members of Congresa, are
very well informed on the problems of drug abuse and trafficking in both
_ countries." In discussing the recent regulations adopted by both countries
, to concentrate on the pursuit of those finaneing the illegal activitiea of
the drug traffic, he said: "The attack a~ainst the tremendous profite fron
the capital invested in druga might well prove more naeful in the long run
- than the preaent battle."
In this regard, he also pointed out that the new Colombian law on "illegal
amasament of wealth" has been aimed at ascertaining the methods which allow
certain individuals to "become rich overnight."
Escobar Sierra stated: "They will have to explain how they obtained their _
new wealth and, if the latter does not have a legitimate origin, its owners
will have problems with the judicial system."
In coma?enting on the strength of the cooperation between the United Statea
and Colombia againet illegal druga, the minister of ~ustice said that many -
areae woulti have to be ~~.proved, and that this might be one of the results
of his viait to the Unired States. ~
- He said: "I have ideas regarding many proposals," adding that President Ju- ;
lio Cesar Turbay Ayala is gxeatly coneerned with the battle, "and has given
me backing and cooperation from all the entities battling against the traf-
fic."
He also remarked that the present administration is seriously considering
additional offers of assistance from the DEA and the U.S. State Department.
Moreover, he disclosed that a plan is currently under way for the establish-
ment of a regional laboratory for the identification of drugs, and a"basic
crime l~boratory." -
The minister of ~u~tice concluded by saying: "The development of regional _
laboratories ir: ~ali, Barranquilla, Medellin and Bucaramanga would make the
modern technical efforts aimed against the clandestine drug trafficking or-
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COLOI~IA
'LEGAL~ EXPORT UF COCAINE, MARIHUANA URGED
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 2 Mar 80 Sec A p 4
[Article by Enrique Caballero: "Why Burn the Cocaine?"]
[Text] Without embarking on an intensive dis~ssaion~of the feasibility or
unfeasibility of legalizing the cultivation and marketing of hallucinogenic
herbs, I think that consideration might be given to treating the contraband
that ie seized in a less naive and uneconomical fashion than ia being em-
ployed at present. "
What I auggest is that (at least in dealing with the cocaine that ia confis-
cated, for the moment) a purchaser be sought for the seized drugs on inter-
= national marketa, after supplying the nation's hospitals; and that, even `
- violating the principle of the m4metary. unit, the price o~tained from their _
sale be allocated to intensify the campaign on behalf of neglected Colom-
bian children. Among other things so that it will be observed, by way of
contrast, that we are beginning to tire of protecting North American yo�ath
against addiction, at such a high price, since the consumers are not South
- Americana but rather North Americans.
- There is no reason to doubt the millions of dollars that could be accrued if
the government were to sell what, in addition to being a magic powder, is a
beneficial and highly esteemed drug. When the suthorities confiecate eme-
ralds or weapons, for example, I do not think that they destroy them. Then -
why burn the cocaine?
Theae outbursts of puritanism do not befit a country whose financial system
has traditiona~ly sought its strongeat support in vice. D~~ring the colo-
nial era, since the gold was not invested in the country, be.~t rather ex-
ported to Spain, the public treasury was supported almost e~?clusively by
the revenue from brandy. Hence, the Viceroy Solis went so far as to say
Chat, although the be~rerage conspired against the race and public order,
and was leading to the extermination of the indian tribea, the country
could not do without it, "because if the precious revenue from brandy were
= to end, the functions of the viceroyahip could not be supported." When the
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liberators held their firat congress in Cucuta, they gave up the initial -
attempt to reform the colony's tax atructure. With regard to tobacco, they
eaid: "Under the present circumetancea, it is impoesible to demonopolize
the revenue from tobacco without causing a serious reduction in public
revenues." And, 12 yeare later, the illustrioue Francisco Soto, ae Gene-
ral Santander's secretary of finance, han the brilliant idea of financing
public education with the product from the liquor monopoly. In his report
to Congresa in 1933, he stated: "There is not one parish, however wretched
it may be, which does not have in the brandy monopoly a communal income
which can be used to support the school." And, thereafter, the government
applied itself to etudiously intoxicating the citizens.
Then why so much sanctimonious affect~tion4 Our treasury has always been
supported by the exploitation of vice, involving alcohol and tobacco in
particular.
I must confess that I see nothing unfeasible about exporting the cocaine
which falls into the hands of the police, through orthodox and legitimate
channels, to the most esteemed laboratories in the world. I know of no
discriminatory regulation which orders its destruction, and that of mari-
huana, while the other items from confiacat~d contraband go for sale at ~
auction by a government bank. Until recently, the coca, a plant native to
America, waa aold freely; and I have aeen it in the marketplaces in Popayan, ;
sold mainly by the Indians, who have been using it for eenturies and mille-
nia to stifle hunger. Perhaps there is a hidden, ineomprehensible irony in
the fact that the marketing of the plant was free so l~ng as it affected
only the naCivea, but banned when it began to do some harm to the inhabi-
tants of the pawers.
In any event, it aeems to me that nothing would be Zoat b~* making a test.
The reaults could prove aurprising. The Year of the Child has ~ust ended,
during which nothing concrete was done on their behalf, except for a few
rad~o contributions smacking of dissatisfaction with the status of the ex-
ploited small-acale worker; exploited despite all kinds of prohibitions,
since the time when Felipe II, in one of his most categorical, Platonic .
_ warninga, castigated those who enslaved children in shops, mines and farms.
But the Colombian child, left to his mtsfortune, has nevertheless viewed
with hope the effort undertaken by Mrs Nydia de Turbay. The entire soci-
~ ety, regardless of whether government baekers, indifferent individuals or
~ anti-government elements are involved, is viewing the first lady with great
fondnesa and admirarion, discerning tenderness and active patrioCism in
her. Would that she were willing to ascertain whether this source of fi-
nancing would be feasible for the Family Welfare Institute headed by Dr
- Munoz Delgado, from which the child p~otection campaigns could be expanded.
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COLOMBIA _
HONDURAN COCAINE TRAFFICKER ARRESTED
Bogota EL TIEI~O in Spanish 5 Mar 80 Sec A p 3
[TextJ A few days ago, a Hondurr~n who was a member of the largest ring of
cocaine traffickera and procesaers to be discovered in Colombia wae captur-
ed by F-2.
There was a warrant for the arrest of the traffieker, who went by the name
of Ale~andro Hernandez (his real name is Emilio Oliva Chinctailla), issued
by the No 70 Court of Criminal Proceedings, whieh associated him with the
ahipment of S00 kilograms of cocaine seized on 10 September of last year.
EL TIE1~0 ascertained that Oliva Chinchilla was implicated in the death of
the Valle del Cauca manufacturer named Garrido, who was killed together
with attorney Castillo when the small plane in which they were traveling
from Miami to Bogata crashed into the sea.
The authoritiea who investigated the ~.ncident, which occurred in the middle
of last year, concluded tixat the failure of the aircraft was not accidental, `
but cause~ by certain individuals, including those presumably associated
with the Honduran citizen who was arreated by F-2 on 1 March.
Oliva ChinchilTa entered the country clandeatinely at the end of 1977, hav-
ing fled from Honduras after killing a notorious trafficker from that coun-
try named Ferrari. He continued hia connections with the international
drug mafias in Colombia, and claimed to be finance administrator for the
national "capos."
In September of last year, when the authorities dealt the heaviast blow to
the organized trafficking rings, Oliva Chinchilla manage to evade the action
of F-2 when his residence on 93d Street ad3oining Route 16 was searched.
The antisocial individual was born in San Marcos de Acatoteque (Honduras),
on 16 July 1951. He is a profeasional accountant and, before receiving that -
certification, he was engaged in ~ournalism in his country.
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COLOMBIA
JANUARY DRUG SEIZURES LISTED
Bogota EL TIEI~O in Spanish 10 Feb 80 Sac A p 2
_ [Text] During January, drugs worth over 50 million pesos were aeized by the
police in different parta of the country.
A report aubmitted by the institution statea that, in the course of special
operations conducted against the orgaaized ringe of drug traffickera, 25
individuale were captured, including two men who were identified as experts
, in shipping hallucinogenic subetancea.
The aeizurea took place in the departments of Cundinamarca, Cesar, Gua~ira
and Meta.
Among the druga confiscated were 27 kilograms of 100 percent pure cocaine,
in addition to 35,U11 kilograms of marihuana.
It was also reported that, during January, the police succeeded in confis-
_ cating 511 firearms of various calibers, and 2,300 cartridges.
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COLOI~IA
COCAINE SEI2ED BY AUTHORITIES IN PASTO
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 10 Feb 80 Sec A p 11
[Text] Paeto--The narcotics group of the Regional Public Prosecutor's Office,
headed by Dr Jose Procomio Mera Quintero, and the ~udicial police unit of
that entity, aeized 6 kilograma of cocaine from three individuals who were
carrying it from the town of Ipiales.
i
In a coordiriated action carried out by judicial police units, they captured
Liliana Piedad Burgues Bedoya, a native of the town of Ipiales, who was wear- I
ing belts around her body in which she was carrying a total of 6 kilograma
of pure cocaine. Accompanying the woman were Franeisco Javier Ospina Ba-
_ raya, a native of Bogota, and Rigoberto Bastidas Chamorro, from Ipialea.
In their attempt to smuggle the drugs at the Antonio Narino Airport, the ;
drug traffickers noticed the searches being made there, and returned to the _
city of Pasto to take lodging at the Rio Mayo residences, whexe they were
intercepted by agents from the Narino section of the narcotica group from
the Regional Public Prosecutor's Office.
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~ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
; BRIEFS
i
; POLICE BURN MARIHUANA, COCAINE-~Drugs valued at more than 2 million pesos
~ burned yesterday in the courtyard of the National Police Building. The
~ drugs, mostly marihuana and cocaine, were seized in different operations
carried out by the police last year. The district prosecutor, Dr Julio
; Ibarra Rios, and a Public Health representative joined with the police in -
; taking part in the incineration of the drugs. The authorities reported
that 66.513 grams, or 146 pounds, of marihuan~ were burned. A total of
3,489 grama, or 3.5 kg of cocaine were also burned, as were a large quan~ity
of pyschodelics. Col Manuel de Jesus Alberto Garcia, who directed the
incineration of the 3rugs, said that the cocaine was pure, and eatimated
that it was worth 1.5 million pesos. He explained that the marihuana was
valued at almost a million pesos. It was obtained through small-scale
purchase operations carried out by agents attached to the Police Department
of Investigations. It was also seized in operat3ons carried out in the
' ports of Santo Domingo and Haina. Another 2,303 grams of the substance
was seized in different locations in the country, mainly in Santiago,
San Pedro de Macoris, La Romana, San Francisco de Macoris and Puerto Plata.
Prosecutor Ibarra Rios, on ordering the incineration of the drugs, explained
~ that he was acting in accordance with the provieions of article 77 of law 168
~ relating to narcotic drugs. [Excerpt] [Santo Domingo LISTIN DIARIO in
' Spaniah 9 Feb 80 p 5] 8131
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MEXICO
- HEROIN, COCAINE TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, SEVERAL RELEASED
Z~,ielve Seized With Drugs
Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 7 Feb 80 p 9
[Text] The Federal Judicial Police seized over 3 million pesos worth of
hard drugs from three men at the airport in this town.
David Garcia Canales, the group chief for that force in this area, announc-
ed yesterday the results of a nationwide inveatigation whi~h ended in the
capture of 12 individuals from the Federal District, Durango and this bor-
der, as well as the confiscation of half a kilogram of coeaine and half a =
kilogram of heroin, the final destination of which was apparently Chicago,
Illinois.
Those under arrest, more or less in the order and degree of apparent liabi-
liCy, are: Froylan Villanueva Miranda, Armando Quintero Medina, Pablo Gar- _
cia Castaneda, Jesus Castro Ruiz, Joaquin Munoz Lobillo, Ma.rtin Castro Ru-
iz, Manuel Navarro Aceves, Luis Mi~ares Sanchez, Roberto Moreno Mi~ares,
Pino Manuel Sanchez Carranza, Jose Baltazar Torres and Reynaldo Quintero
Medina.
Upon learning that the Federal Judicial Police had discovered their hideout -
in a settlement on the outskirts of town, Joaquin Munoz Ma.rtin and Jesus
Castro, from Durango, fled to the "Abraham Gonzalez" International Airport,
in order to take the flight, but they were caught and arrested by agents
under orders from Commander Garcia Canales.
Wtzen they were searched, they were found to have several plastic baga at-
tached to their bodies, on the chest and waist. They contained equal
amounts of cocaine and heroin.
Thereupon, the Federal Judicial Police extended their dr~gnet to various
parL�s of the country, and succeeded in capturing the other individuals
who were closely associated with international drug trafficking.
_ "Contacts," "couriers," sellers, purehasers and middlemen are now giving,
with their statements, a clear picture of the entire scheme carried out .
in the purchase, sale and shipment of alkaloids derived from opium.
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The heroin apparently comes from the "Los Herrera" farm in Durango. The
cocaine originates in Mexico City. The purchase price of the former amount-
ed to 250,000 peaos; and the latter coat a similar aum. The middlemen
claim to have been earning from 10,000 to 20,000 pesos.
Leading figures in both transaetions are: Armando Quintero Medina, owner af ~
a farm known as "E1 Ja;uey," near Chinaeates, Durango; Joaquin Munoz Lo-
billo, Froylan Villanueva, Pino Manuel Sanchez, Reynaldo,Quintero Medina
and, of course, the three men from Durango who were arrested at the airport.
- The Federal Judicial Police reported the resulte of this inveatigation to
Gen Raul M~endiole~, chief of the Federal Judicial Police in the entire re-
public; and, yesterday afternvon, proceeded to put the case in the hands
of the agent of the Federal Public Ministry.
Captives Make Statements
Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 8 Feb 80 p 5
[Text] Yesterday, the 12 Mafia members captured by the Federal Judioial
Police and the kilogram of alkaloids derived from opium confiscated from
them at the local airport were turned over to the Federal Publ~c Minis try.
After 1500 hours, the prisoners' statements began to be heard by the fede-
ral proaecutor, J. Norberto Salinas Navarrete.
Theretore, the social representative will not be able to announce in detail
the contents of the statements made by each and every one of the presumed
drug traffickers until today.
While the latter were being held by the Federal Judicial Police the press
was not allowed to ask them any questions, "so as not to interfere with any
aspecta of the probe which still remain to be cleared up." -
Not all those in custody were placed at the disposal of the prosecutor
yesterday afternoon, but only seven of them; because the Federal Judicial -
Police had not yet taken statements from the remaining five.
This is one of the largest groups of presumed drug traffickers captured on
this border; so much so that, in order to eomplete the records, both the
- Federal Judicial Police and Public Ministry persc,nnel had to work o~ertime.
Those in custody are Froylan Villanueva, Armando Quintero Medina, Reinaldo _
Quintero Medina, Jose Baltazar Torres, Pino Manuel 5anchez Carranza, Joa-
quin Munoz Lobillo, M~rtin Castro Ruiz, Roberto Moreno Mi~arez, Pablo Gar- ~
cia Castaneda, Jesus Castro Ruiz, Luis Mijarez Sanchez and Manuel Navarro
Aceves. ~
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The first one anmmoned yesterday afternoon to make a~~atement to the prose-
cutor was Luis Mi~arez; and the next to appear was Roberto Moreno.
The drugs in�~olved consist of half a kilogram of heroia and half a kilogram
~ of cocaine, the black market value of which has been estimated at $125,000
or its equivalent, 3 million pesos.
Traffickers Freed, Evidence 'Lacking'
Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 20 Feb 80 p 10
[Text] Yesterday, the agent of the Federal Public Ministry released the 12
individuals whom the Federal Judicial Police captured the week before last
with a kilogram of heroin and coaaine valued at over 3 million pesos in
- their posa:ssion.
Arturo Sanchez Gaytan, deputy agent of the Federal Public Ministry, announc-
ed that there was no evidence with which to hold the alleged Mafia members
for trial on charges of crimes against health, because experts from the Of-
fice of the Attorney General of .:ustice of the Nation decided that the in- "
gredients which tYie Federal Judicial Police submitted as alkaloids derived
from opium were not drugs.
The social representative only found evidence for remanding foux of the 12
captives, as persons presumed guilty of the possession, collection and bear-
ing ef firearma.
They are Jose Beltran Torres Angulo, Armando Quintero Medina, Froylan Villa-
nueva and Manuel Aceves Navarro.
Included among the eight persons whom the prosecutor released insofar as
drug trafficking is concerned are Armando Quiatero and Froylan Villanueva,
the ringleaders of the international gang of traffickers in hard drugs.
Manuel Aceves was placed at the diaposal of the Health Center, because he is
a drug addict.
There is a record that, after the capture of the 12 individuals, members of
- the Federal Judicial Police made tests of the confiscated subs.tances, and the ~
application of the reagents showed positive results, indicating that they
were, in fact, heroin and cocaine.
Thie fact caused the prosecutor, in deciding the case, to order the release
of those in custody, but with legsl reservations.
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MEXICO
MEMBERS OF PILL TRAFFICKING RING CAPTURED -
H~ Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 27 Feb 80 p 10
[Text] Mexico City, 26 February--Today, the Office of the Attorney General
of the Republic apprehended eight drug traffickers (includin~ two women)
who were members of an international ring operating in several of the coun-
try'e states and in American border towna.
Thoae in custody were captured in a clandeatine laboratory where they were
. manufacCuring paychotropic pills. It was disguised as a perfume factory,
in order to conceal the illegal business.
At the time of their arrest, 18 million toxic pills with a value in exc.eas
of 430 million pesos on the black market were confiscated from them.
_ Those under arrest are: Jesus de la Pena Garcia, owner and manager of the
perfume factory or laboratory in which the toxic pills were being made;
Gloria de la Pena Garcia and Abel Garcia Hernandez, u~io were captured in
the Federal Dietrict; Roberto Ontiveros Sandoval and his brother, Armando,
Margarita Magana Cuevas, Manuel Lopez Wenegas and Gildardo Flores Lopez,
- who were captured in Guadala~ara, Jalisco.
According to the head of the Federal Judicial Police,R$ul Mendiolea Cere-
cero, withfn a few hours it is expected that arrests will be made of the
diatributors of the toxic pills in Los M~ochis, Laredo, Ti~uana, Mexicali
and Nogales, who have.~_already been identified.
The clandestine laboratory in which the psychofiropic pills were being made
is located at No 411 Laguna de Mayran, in the Anahuac development, under -
the name of Mar-Mig Industries.
According to statements made by Jesus de la Pena Garcia, in 8 months they
manufactured over 20 million toxic pills, which were sent to border towns
to be sold, so that the distributors, in turn, could send them to the Unit-
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The Federal Public Ministry, which ie completing the reapective investiga- ~
tion, reported that each pill is worth between $1.00 and $1.50.
According to the Federal Judicial Police, the machinery with which the pills
were being manufactured, as well as the raw material that was uaed, had
been smuggled into the country.
General M~endiolea Cerecero announeed that the probe began in Guadalajara
and Nuevo Laredo, whexe it was learned 2 years ago that pill trafficking '
was under way. On that occasion, three laboratories were diacovered, and
over 20 drug trafficlcers werg srrested.
Comdr Manuel Fspi.ndola and his ageata continued the investigation, and it
waa not until today that the laboratory was detected and the eight drug .
traffickers were apprehended. -
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MEXICO
_ BRIEFS
[~NTIDRUG CAI~AIGN RESULTS--Mexico City, 24 February--The capture of over 35
drug traffickers and the aeizure of 50 million pesos worth of drugs were
the reaulte of Che intensive campaign carried out during the past 15 days
by Federal Judicial Police agenta in 37 towns of the republic. The fore-
going announcement was made by a spokesman from the Office of the At~orney
General of the Regublic, who stated that, during the campaign, 916 poppy
plantations on which nearly 7 million plants about to blossom had been
sown were destroyed, as were 231 marihuana plantations containing half a
million ehrube up to 2 metera high. The apokeaman added that, during the
investigation made by the federal agents, several drug traffickera' hide-
outa had been discovered, containing acores of weapons of various calibers
which were used to keep the plantations under control. As for the vehicles
used to carry the drugs to different parts of the country, seizurea were
made of 15 automobiles, 10 amall trucks, three trailer trucks, two mobile
laboratories and seven motorcycles. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spa-
nish 25 Feb 80 p 5] 2909
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL--Mexico City, 27 February--The governments of Mexico,
the United States and Guatemala will operate in a coordinated fashion to
keep surveillance over all airports on the Mexican border and inside the
country, to curb the illegal activities of smugglers of drugs, imported
items, weapons and exploaives. Engineer Jorge Cende3as Quezada, head of
civil aeronautics, said that new measures would be implement~d whereby
- airplanes with fewer than 16 passengers would land at the first border
airport on their route; then they could fly over Mexican air spaee en-
route to their final destination point, having already met the require-
ments of international health, migration and customs. An exception is made
of ~eta, which may enter any of the international airports in our country,
with the stipulation that their crew members must report their position to
the air traffic control centers, and keep in constant communication until
their arrival in the international air terminal of destination. [Text]
[Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 28 Feb 80 p 5] 2909
HERQIN SEIZED IN MONTERREY--Mexico City, 25 February--Federal Judicial Po-
lice agents seized over 10 million pesos worth of pure heroin aboard a
passenger bus of the Monterrey-Saltillo line. The drugs (consisting.of a
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kilogram of heroin) were on a baggage rack ia bus 203 of the aforementioned _
line. The Federal Judicial Police agents were with a motor patrol unit on
the Monterrey-Saltillo highway, at the plant health station near Monterrey.
The Federal Publfc Minietry initiated the pertinent investigation to cap-
ture thoee presumed guilty of this drug trafficking, [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
EL MANANA in Spanieh 26 Feb 80 p 5] 2909
MARxHUANA 'MULES' SENTENCED--~tao shippers of marihuana, or "mules" for the
drug traffic, were given 7-year prison sentences and fines of 10,000 pesos.
In the aecond district court, Cayetano Hernande2 Valencia issued his final
decieion 3n trial 68-979, wherein action was taken against Francisco Perez
_ Maldonado and Santiago Gonzalez Panuelos for crimes against health in ;:he
degree of marihc~na shipment. Perez Maldonado and Gonzalez Panuelos we~~e
captured on 11 March of last year by Federal Judicial Police agents wh~ had
set up an inspection poat along the Reynosa-Monterrey highway, close to the
- border of Reynosa. The trial records show that Perez Maldonado and Gonza-
- lez Panuelos were arrested while carrying a shipment of marihuana bound for
Reynosa, from which it was to be sent subsequently to the United States.
The harmful shipment was heiag carried in a 1965 Ford car with state of 3a-
lieco licenae plates HUD-765, driven by Perez Maldonado, who was accompanied
by Santiago Gonzalez. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in i
Spaniah 3 M~r 80 Sec B p 6] 2909 -
SENTENCES FOR DRUG SUPPLIERS--T~ao individuals who were tried in proceedings ,
146-978 for crimes against health in the degree of marihuana possession re-
ceived prison aentencea from the second district ~udge, Cayetano Hernandez ~
Valencia. Teodoro Medrano Gutierrez and Elias Delgado Leza were each given
- a prison sentence of 5 years and 3 months and a fine of 5,000 pesos. Both
individuals were arrested on 21 October 1978 by the Federal Judicial Police,
after that entity received a tip that aomeone named Luciano Rodriguez San-
tillan was engaged in marihuana trafficking. Rodriguez Santillan was "spot- ,
ted" by the federal officers themselves, who arrested him at 2711 M~ontevi- -
. deo StreeC; and, upon being sub~ected to questioning, he confess~d that his
suppliere included an individual named Teodoro Medrano. [Text~ [Nuevo Lare-
do EL DIARIO DE NUEVO Lr?REDO in Spanieh 3 Mar 80 Sec B p 6] 2909 ~
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COLOMBIANS CAUGHT WITH COCAINE--M~xico City, 15 February--Federal Judicial !
Police agents seized a contraband shipment of pure cocaine worlth over 25
million pesos on the black market for drugs from five Colombians, who were
membere of an international drug traffickding ring an~i who arrived in this ~
capital from Bogota, Colombia, on Aeromexico flight 480. The arrest of
Amparo de Jesus Castano Roldan, Diana Lucia Cardona Velazquez, Fabio An- ~
tonio Gonzalez Restrepo, Jose Ivan Diaz Velez and ~ctavio Duque took place
in the customs inspection section, where they showed their baggage. How-
ever, they appeared nervous, and hence the federal agents sub3ected them to
a body search, and found several plastic bags containing the drugs attached
to their bodiea. [~axt] [Nogales DIAItIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 16 Feb 80
p 4] 2909 ~ -
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_ JAIL DRUG SMUGGLING PROBED--The chief of the seventh State Judicial Police
group in thie town, and police commander Victor M. Garcia, in can~unction
with warden Victoriano Rodriguez, informed EL DIARIO about the :tnCensive
investigation and antidrug campaign that are und~r w~y at the municipal
prieon and the preventive jail. The foregoing is due t~ the di~covery of
a letter containing LSD between the atamp~a~d,the envelop~. It has been
speculated that American inmatee and high-level drug addi~ta have been re-
ceiving druga in this way for some time, because the searches made of their
relatives have not resulted in the discovery of drugs concealed in the food
which they bring to their ~siled family members. The warden told EL DIARIO
that it was impoesible to make morbid searchers of relativea of inmates
when they enter the ~ail, becauae if a prisoner has not done anything wrong,
there would be a complaint that they were harasaing his relatives in an
"insane" attempt to find drugs for him or for others. For this reason it
is imposaible to make an intimate body search of them. Nor is it fitting
_ to inapect their shoes, breaking them, or doing something similar. Aecord-
ing to reliable sources, LSD is an hallucinogenic acid~ [TextJ [Piedras
Negrae EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 22 Feb 80 Sec C p 1] 2909
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URUGUAY
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Montevideo, 25 Mar (DPA)--The Uruguayan police
have broken up a ring of drug traffickers who operated in the Atlantida
beach reaort, 40 kilometers from Montevideo. Sixteen persons were arreated
and three sent to a hospital for recovery from drug addiction. The poliQe
aeized mari~uana, morphine and psychotropic drugs. [PY251900 Mnntevideo DPA in
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AUSTRIA
UN COIrIIriISSION NOTES SHARP INCREASE IN HARD DRUG USE
Zurich NEUE 2UERCHER ZEITUNG in German 15 Feb 80 p 7
[Article by gr: "Alarming Increase in Hard Drugs; Strategies in the
Struggle Against Abuse of Narcotics"]
[Text] Vieana, 13 February--At the UN center in Vienna the sixth apecial
seseion of the 30-member Drug Control Commission of the UN Economic and
Social Council--Switzerland ha~ been invited as an observer--aince
11 February hae been discusaing progress and failure in the international
atruggle against drug abuse. Presided over by the leader of the FRG
delegation, Schroeder, the commi~asion is to discuss and recommend among
- other thinga new strategies for future worldwide action against the
"scene," because the reports available to the com~ission show that, although
some auccesses can be recorded in the stru~gle against drug abuse, drug
consumption in the entire world nevertheless continues to increase alarm-
ingly. -
New Tendencies
According to the report of the secretary general of the commission, Ling,
two tendencies are particularly characteristic of the West European drug
ecene, but also for Southwest Aai.a, the Near East, North America and the
south Pacific area: the con~:inued rapid expansion of the abuse of so- -
called hard drugs, above all heroin, and a sharp increase in deaths from
drug abuse, moet of which are caused by overdoses of heroin. In Western
Europe and in the United States cocaine abuse is also increaeing atrongly.
A new dangerous form of drug consumption is the amoking of coca paste, a
very impure intermediate product in cocaine production. It has spread
from Boliv~a and Peru via South and North America.
Frightening Figures
The custom of taking several a~dictive drugs in combination and often ev~n
in connection with alcohol continues to spread. The stronger forms are
preferred over the wealcer drugs, and injection preferred c~;*er other ways
of taking them, which leads to overdoses and is therefore more dangerous
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than amoking, sniffing or chewing. There is no longer any Social stratum
and no age group which is not represented on the drug scene, but ~uvenile
residents of large cities down to the age of 10 years are in the greatest
danger. The abuse of addictive drugs has meanwhile penetrated into the
smaller cities and into the countryside, and among the addicts are also
increasingly more girls and women, in particular in the developed countries.
According to the Ling report, about 1,200 tons of opium are produced
annually for the illegal market alone, the same amount as for the legal
market. Several million people in South America chew coca leaves; the
production of hemp derivatives, mainly hashish, amounts to "several hundred
thousand tons a year." It is sold to "several tens of millions" of
consumers. In the United States in 1978 alone more than 32,000 people
were under the care of a doctor for abuse of tranquilizers and stimulants.
But how in~omplete the data on the total number of addicts must be can be
concluded from the fact that in India only 55,000 opium addicts were
registered with the authorities. In the FRG more than 34,000 persons
were regietered for drug abuse, for Switzerland the number of heroin addicts
(1978) is eatimated at 10,000. Only 300 were receiving treatment. There
were 80 drug deaths and, among others, fixst cases of phencyclidine abuse,
an artificial drug, which began to replace LSD in the United Statea,
occurred. .
Increasingly Shrewd Producers and Dealers
The drug auppliers try to counter the controls by national suthorities
over the drug trade by means of diversification and concentration. Heavily -
controlled trade routes are being abandoned and new ones opened up, so that
the illegal trade constantly apreads across larger areas. The national
diatribution syndicates of the producer, transit and consumer countriea
are teaming up to form veritable "multinational" organizations, which
attempt to locate the drug ~roduction as close as possible to the raw
material production in order to keep the risks of discovery at all levels
of the buaine~s to a minimiua. The drying up of sources and the supply
of natural narcotics are countered at all levels by the establishment of
aecret laboratories for the m~nufacture of artifieial drugs. At the
subsidiary consumer levels of the trade the method of mailing has recently
been chosen with increasing frequency. Furthermore, incidents of theft
_ and falsification of prescriptions have increased considerably.
Conaequently, the drug market was better supplied in 1978, the year on ~
which the reports to the Vienna conference are principally based, than ever
before, and there are no indica~ions that thia could have changed since
then, although in~tervention by the authorities has been more effective
_ than ever before. In 1978 more than 6.1 million kilograms of natural
addictive drugs were tracked dvwn and confiscated, nearly twice the amount
- of the year before. Hashish had by far the largest share with almost 5.9
kilograms; North America repres~nts the most "fertile" ground for each
individual drug.
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BELGIUM
GENDARMERIE HUSHES UP DRUG AFFAIR
Bruasels LE SOIR in French 8 Feb 80 pp 1, 4
(By Rene Haquin: "A Drug Affair 'Erased' by the Gendarmes"]
[Text] According to our information, data programmed into the gendarmerie's
computer and related to an inquiry carried out by Commander Francois's BND,
were "erased" by order of a senior officer only hours before the BND chief
was arrested.
The gendarmerie staff is obviously aware of this manipulation. In fact,
it was by staff orders that, in November 1977, an inquiry was opened con-
cerning a 31-year-old Brussels man, owner of a pleasure boat and an
American corporation established in the Alost region, a corporation with
which the aub3ect had close ties.
The French services struggling against drug trafficking had ~ust seized
_ 100 kg of hashish aboard a pleasure yacht flying the Swedish flag, the
"Laurin." In August 1977, this yacht had been towed from Sweden to
St Tropez, from where it was to reach Morocco by crossing the Mediterranean.
- It was believed that in Morocco the yacht would pick up a new load of nar-
cotics.
The truck which had towed it belonged to a Swedish company, and once it
left the "Laurin" at Hyeres, it had returned, in August, towing a Belgian
= yacht, the "Cartouche," belonging to a man from Brussels.
Thus, the name of this Brussels man and other information concerning him
remained in thA computer until last 18 January when the data was deleted,
as well as observations related to the Brussels man which could be in-
cluded in the handwritten documents of other services in Brussels and
in Alost. -
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BELGIUM
DRUGS, PASSPORTS SEIZED AT BND
Brussels LE SOIR in French 10 -11 Feb 80 pp 1, 4
[By Rene Haquin: "The Belgian Connection: 5uspicious Passports, Drugs
Seized at BND"]
[Text] The inquiry about the activities of the National Drug Bureau [BND], ~
also called the "Belgian connection," in reference to an "affair" shown in '
the film "French connection," is still going on, while the chief of this
bureau, Commander Francois, remains in prison, according to a decision
made Thureday afternoon by the prosecutor's office.
= New developmenta in the inquiry: a seizure of drugs at the BND building,
where logically there should not have been large amounts [of narcotics],
and a seizure of blank identity documents.
This inquiry led the examining magistrate~, Mr de Biseau d'Hauteville, to
conduct a hearing on Thursday with a brigadier general, formerly command-
ing officer of the gendarmerie, and a lieutenant general, presently a
high officer of the staff.
Friday, the examining magistrate also conducted a hearing with a colonel, I
commanding officer of a territorial group (the equivalent of a province). ~
Theae senior officers have been responsible for the activities of the BND
at one time or another during their careers.
According to our information, abnormally high amounts of narcotics were
seized from the BND safes, at any rate, an amount not corresponding to
the allowances for pedagogical samples which could be held by the organ-
ization. The BND was not entitled to stock on its premises narcotics
confiscated from seizures at the airport or elsewhere. But, it seems
that the quantities of drugs discovered in the safes could possibly have
come from these seizures.
In addition, still according to our information, the investigators dis-
covered a certain number of docim?ents--identity cards and pasaports--of .
auapicious origin. They could be stolen identity papers coming from
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inveatigations made by the gendarmerie, or they could be false documente.
This is being checked. The gendg~merie's computer has been used to de-
termine the origin of these documents.
Unbroken Seals `
Friday morning, gendarmes were sent to the BND to recover relevant
material, an event which has led some to believe that the seals had been
broken. In truth, it was only a matter of opening the safe, taking the
documents and replacing the seals. -
In addition, it has been confirmed that certain BND members presently
under arrest will certainly have to respond to charges brought against
~ them 5 years ago in relation to traffic in gold and ivory.
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FRANCE
CHANGES IN DRUG TRAFFICKING, USAGE DISCUSSED
Paris LE MONDE in French 6, 7~ 8 Feb $0
LThree part article by Christian Colombani: "The New Routes of Drug
Trafficking"
L~ Feb 80, pp l, 1~
[Text] Drug addi.ction evolves in changes steadily. In a few years,
_ in a few months, both the market and the traffic change. The drug -
~ddiccs themselves change. Al1 it took was for a leaflet distrlbuted
at the doors oE several secondary schools by militant unionized [eachers
ta make it a present danger and lead to the development of a new
polemic.
Beyond this diversity and attitudes frequently related to the psycho-
logical condition of the moment or the political desire to bring forth
the "scourge" of drugs for the sake of concealing other scourges, the
. advance of drug addiction has been indeniable in France as throughout
the worl.d. Considering the number of summons for the use of and
trafficki.ng in dr.ugs, issued by police and gendarmerie services in
France in 1979, we note that there wer~ 2,631 more arrests than in 1978.
~ Glossary:
Accro: hooked, dependent on a drug.
Baba: cool, hippy of the 1970's.
Cheval [horse], poudre blanche [white powder]: heroin
Cool (to be): to experience a feeling of well-being and calm.
Dealer: reseller of drugs to sustain personal use.
Defonce: drug abuse.
Flash: sensation Eelt after a shoot.
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Flipper: a feeling of anguish specifically caused by the lack of drugs.
Galerer [cruising]: looking for one's drug by "cruising" from one
ptnce [o anothcr.
Junky: "hard" drug addict.
Shit: hashish.
Shoot: drug in,jection and its effect.
Sniffer: sni.ffing.
- Speed: mainly LSD and all drugs with an exciting effect. -
Trip: an imaginary trip under the influence of the drug.
I. "It Has Turned Sad"
- The "good events" are becoming rare. Has the dr.ug-high, tne "baba cool" ~
o` the 1960's d~sappeared? Has he disappeared with his route, his
trips to Katmandou, his folklore, his gold-plated legend, his dangerous
adventures, health repatriations, detoxification cures, relapses, and
overdoses from which one pulls once or twice. and which, finally, ~
kill? _
"Cruising" throughout the city to find one's dose. Inevitably, be-
ccming a"dealer" fearing the lack of the drug, spending treasures of
- imagination to find the fabulous funds needed to buy the drug. A dog's
life for a ftash. Becoming insane. Finally, dying. The number .
of the possessed may not have declined. Yet, they are no longer alone.
- "It is evident that drug addicts today are of lesser interest," notes i
Andre Soteres, head of the narcotics brigade of the Paris Police Pre-
fecture. In a period of 1G years d~cugs have become commonplace. '
- "Glide, it is summer!," one could read on the posters of a travel: '
agency. Henceforth, to find drugs it is no langer necessary to mobilize
one's energy, to engage in a stubborn search. Consumption is current.
An ever larger number of "drug users" are gravitating around the nucleus
of the "real" drug addicts who live, together with their "stuff" a
fatal and exclusive history. For them the adventure is either else-
where or. nowhere. Drug consumption .s part of their itinerary
without being its essential part. "In the past," exptains Francois Le
Mouel, head of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug
Traffic (OCRTIS), "one became a delinquent because one was, first of
alt, a drug addict. One would break into a pharmacy to gain possession
of the medicines behind the 'B' panel; now one is a drug addict because
one is, first of all, a delinquent; drug addiction is part of their '
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_ panoply. Jean-Jacques has been taking drugs for over 15 years.
Once ~gsin, he finda himself a[ the Marmorts~n Hospir~~l for desintoxi-
Ctcarian trentment. "i wns herc !n 1973; clght year~ lnter, I nm titll.l -
here. Jean-Jacques mumbles, he has diction troubles. He "keeps
going" wtth Pelforth-Pi.con.
"I feel sad when I see them," Jean-Jacques says. "Today drugs means
vice on vice. Ten years ago heroin was n~t expensive, with 1,000 francs
you could shoot three days. Those who were hooked were the elite
of the affiuent guys. I had long hair and wore an earring. Today all -
rookies do zhat. They dress themselves up from boredom. When we came
to Marmcttan,, suffer.ing from withdrawal, we rolled on the ground. Now,
you see them come, the newly hooked, and two day~ later they are play-
ing ping-pong. They are playing at becoming unhoo:,ed. They are com-
fortable. This is like a hotel. I have nothing more to tell them.
Almost all of my true pals are dead. I resent them for this.
This veteran is right. "Once there was an ideologiaation. The drug
_ was a sign of protest against a certain.social order," notes Dr Hubert
Marmottan. "This is no longer as frequently the case today. Drugs
- YIAVE'. become proletarianized."
Whereas in the past it affected essentialty the favored strata, ev~n
though, eccasionally, there would be a drug addict coming from a modest
environment, who would be the exception to the rule, since about 1915
drugs have reached all social categories. The children of workers and _
farmers are drug users. Many cases tried "for the use o� and traffic
in narcotics," affected, last year, small towns such as Liverdun or La
. Fleche, and eve~ the countryside.
In the modest town of Chevalaret, in Paris (13th district), eight young
people died in 1979 from the consequences of drug abuse. Mrs S., who
lives there, has just learned that her son Robert was shooting heroin.
"We knew nothing. At least, if he had been taking "H." However, he .
immediately became hooked on the dust." Mr and Mrs B. are poor -
itinerant people. "The moment he learned about it, my husband left
with my son for the Club Mediterranee, to get him out of this. His
peddler, whose nickname was 'the flea' found him on the way her~a."
Mrs B. is looking at classified ads. "We must leave this apartment and
- the town. . . "
As it is more commonplace, drug addiction na longer makes it possible
- to delineate, as one could have attempted to do so, a type of parental
couple which would explain the child's behavior. The children of
repressive fathers and overprotective mothe.rs are no longer the only
ones to take drugs. "Today the par.ents are disptaying greater under-
standing. They are frequently between the ages of 30 and 40 and were _
aware of what happened in May, 1968. They are ready to request}on their
behavior," notes Bruno Lebret, an educator at the Didro Center.
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'14ctually, the parents are as confused as their kids," thinks Dr Croze-
Castet, presiden~ of the National Family Union for the Fight Against
Drug Addictions. "They must be made free from guilt. Any family
could have a drug usin~ child. ;
Rejection re~c~ions scill occur. According to a Judge, 65 percent of
the parents lose interest in their drug addicted children the moment
a jail sentence is passed. However, most fathers and mothers, better
_ informed than in the past, are discerning and know how bet,ter to avoid -
"the development of neuroticism in the family cell." There are ever
_ less �requent cases of panicky mothers running to specialists after
catching their son or daughter smoking marijuana.
Seasonal Gains
Could it be that, being more permissive, and more understanding, the
_ parents are pushing back the boundaries of. the forbidden': Hashish, the
bugaboo, might have been sufficient for an adolescent to assert his
- identity. Shoutd the transgression rise one more turn of the twist
today? "Once a drug would be used when one felt well, to feel better," ;
explains Dr Christian ~rule, from the association for hetp to drug -
addicts of Versailles. "It is a'plus,' gliding, taking a trip, taking
- off, words which expressed this action well. Currently one feels bad
and one seeks in drugs a calming down, a lesser anguish." The act of ~
drugging oneself was considered by the family as a revolt and a break.
Now it seems to have converted into a symptom o� confusion, and
_ depression in the face of which the parents are powerless, being 4
affected themselves. Dr Claude Orsel, from the Abbaye Center in Paris,
acknowledges that young drug addicts yearly reflect "a globat depres-
sion." "Ever tess frequently we ceme across personalities, as was the ,
_ case several years ago, who threw an entire institution into delirium,
who dragged into their p~ranoia parents, educators or therapists.
Everything is more fluid, less tangible. This could be compared to
seasonal gains: There are drugs in secondary schools but then the
. drugs vanish without any particular reason. It is like marbles or hop-
scotch. . . . "
This is to say that, having become a mass phenomenon, drugs can no
longer be defined in terms of the old criteria. One can no longer
enclose them within an excessively medicinal interpretation, like Dr5
Leon Hovnanian, secretary general of the Drug Information Committee,
who believes drug addiction to be an "endemic epidemic." On the con-
trary, the spreading of the phenomenon seems to emphasize its social
and political aspects. We shall not go so far as to accept the con-
clusions of a pamphlet issued by National Education Federation, pub- _
lished in February 1978, according to which it would suffice "to change '
_ the system in order to eliminate the problem."
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The increased number of drug addicts clearly shows the concern shown by _
the young faced with unemployment, the fear of a conflice, and the fear
of global destruction. It would be easy, as suggests the Information
Committee, to cite the breakdown of the old values. Hawever, how not
to cecognize that the increased use of drugs, like the increased number
_ oE adolescent suicides, is the most alarming sign o� a social malaise.
According to an educator, "I attended a drug party with young people
under 14. They had prepared a co.cktail o� about 10 drugs mixed in
alcohol. After drinking all this they fell into a precomatose state.
Nothing more violent, more radical could be conceived. Imagine parents
finding their children in such a state." One can understand why in the
case of recent drug addicts, without past history or without hope,
therapies developed for others are not always effective. Can "novices"
be treated like "junkies?" "Is drinking leaching water suicide or drug
addiction?" asks Jean Trocheris, a Paris investigative judge? Could
[he liberal policy of fighting drug addiction, instituted by Simone
Veil, when she was minister of health, continued in the report submitted
by Monique Pelletier, of January 1978, which calls for the establish-
ment of. a variety of reception centers, be effective for the thousands
of adolescents whose drug history is different? Yet, should we also,
as has been proposed in a recent draft bill submitted by Jean-Marie
Girault (PR), senator and mayor of Caen, set up a national institute
which would give the struggle "more coherence and cohesion?"
"I have the feeling that today," says Mrs Perne~le Petit in charge of
the postcure center of Rue des Haies, in Paris, "that drug addicts are
- star[ing all over again. For the past two years the number of drug
addicts from the suburbs and the provences has risen. They frequently
feel miserable. They take "speed," frequently they become very violent.
They have acute mental problems, "broken heads." They no longer
phantasize about the pro3uct. The impression they give is that they do -
not really get unhooked. AL1 they can think o� is the job, reinvolve-
ment with society, subway-job-drug, and the pleasure of shooting no
longer. exists. They would consume anything." "Drugs have turned sad,"
admits a former addict.
L7 Feb 80, p 1J
II. Good Users, Bad Use
Drug addicts are not longer exactly the same. They no longer use old
drugs the same way and they use new products. This polydrug addiction
or, rather, this indifferentiated druf; use complicates the understanding
of the phenomenon. Nevertheless, it emphasizes its psychological and
social nature. The time of the gourmets is past. During the "eco-
logical" period one knew how to appreciate "Colombian gold." One would
never mix it with poor grass. One could distinguish between the
"Lebanese" and the "Moroccan." Color. and freshness would be con- _
sidered. "A true heroin addict who shoots dust differentiates between -
brown sugar and white: He would never use flash with a placebo as is
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the case today," acknowledges Dr Ai.me Charles-Nicolas of the Marmottan
Center.
The attitude toward the product has changed. One shoots, sniffs,
swallows, uses drugs ever more frequently, but without too many require- -
ments. The "culture" of drug addic[s has become impoverished in the
course of a few years. "In the past they stuck to their favorite 'dope,'
even i� they may have engaged in minor experiments. In general, it was
heroin or speed but never both," says a young drug addict. Indifference
and scorn prevailed between heroin addicts who were looking for a padded
and protective world and the eaters of amphetamine or the "sniffers" of
coc~ine. To each his paradise. Today, however, the vulgerization of
drugs encourages the addicts to try anything. They seem no longer to
be looking for a specific pleasure as though tr.ey no longer expect the ;
same effect of the given drug. -
Unquestionably, the cocaine used by the people of the Andes to forget
their hunger or be able to scale the Cordilliere (in that area a
"cocada" is the distance covered by the ~ime a coca leaf has been
chewed) does not give them the same type of drugged sensation as it
_ does those in the European show business who sniff in drug parties.
The way, the spirit in which the drug is consumed condition, in the ~
final account, its effect. Do they still get as much pleasure out of ~
the so highly praised "flash," so frequently compared to an orgasm? ;
Ten years ago the drug addicts were in a state of revolt. In their way, '
they rejected society. The world in which they sought refuge ostensibly
had Co be better. They ascribed. powerful significance to the "flash:"
an inconceivable nirvana. Actually, they needed 10 to 20 days to
become "unhooked" physically. However, the psychological breakup was
uncertain, and the "cure" could take years and many among them never
healed. "The young who choot today are no longer as hooked," noted Dr
Tonnellier of the Marmottan Center. "Their flashes are not as strong.
- They have better control. They have no more than three or four fixes
per week," reports a drug addict of the "heroic" times. The high
school students in Liver~dun (Meuthe-et-Moselle) who manage to trip with '
hemp from which the THC has been extracted would have obtained the
same results by smoking straw. ~
Using drugs, like smoking tobacco, or driving a car, is becoming, more
and more, a reassuring act, useful in better entering society or avoid-
- ing problems by putting both senses and mind to sleep. It means as
many attempts at suicide followed by hopeless awakenings. More numerous
and younger, the drug addicts consume ~he mose incredible and harmful
products. Are they trying to frighten us? Are they also trying to make
us understand that "as the concrete rises so does the anguish?" and
that some~thing in their heads is no longer right?
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Any[hinq goes to this ef.�ect: breaking down the glass in a pharmacy
t~ut nl.so a cupb~.~rd c:ontaining detergents, glues, sol.vents, l.~cquers,
aero~;ols, glue. Last August, in Liverpool, a 14-year-ol.d boy died for
hr~vln~ r?11 roo frequently sniffed cigarette lighter gas. He had
developed foll~wers r~mong his schoalmates. In binck Africn suburbnn
young mix beer. with gasoline. Those with the richest imAginations
invent extemporaneous potions: On 14 October 1979 in Metz five
adolescents were hcspitalized after having consumed a"soup" consisting
of oriental tobacco, herb tea, and medicinal drugs. However, one could
drug himself also with kerosene, nail polish, scarlet water [eau
ecarlate], bl.eaching water. phenicyclidine (PCP) or, finally, any
general anesthetic used in veterinary medicine to tranquilize violent
animals.
Currently, European drug addicts are extensivety using medicinal drugs
without, nevertheless, reaching the level of American abuse. A recent
investigation conducted by the Stan�ord Research Institute revealed
that the medicine cupboards of 86 families of those surveyed contained
2,599 different typas of inedicines. Another study made in Washington,
in 1969, had revealed that 583 drugs legally sold were more dangerous
~ Chan LSD. Neverthetess, in 1978 there were 1,042 pharmacy breakins in _
France. Bruno Lebret, educator at the Didro Center, has numbered in
the currently authorized pharmacopoeia 284 drugs sold over the counter -
~or with prescription which could be used in addicting doses (an average
of tenfold the prescribed amount). Such products belong to various -
n~rcotic categories such as amphetamines, hallucinogenics, opiates,
solvents, and intoxicants, and extracts from cannabis and psychotropics.
"Physicians prescribe dangerous ~emedies quite freely. They seem to
ignore the fact that drug addicts could go to several physicians within
a single day and thus obtain doses exceeding normat amounts," charged
Mrs Pe.rnetle Pet.it, in charge of. the Center af the Rue des Haies in
Paris. All too frequently, in fact, the physicians are either poorly
informed or negligent. They are careless about prescripti.on blanks no[
in current use. Dr Jeannette Croze-Cast~at, who promoted the association
af parents of drug addicts, has pointed out the high number of sons of
physicians among [he addicts. Yet, all it takes is for the commission
on narcotics to classify a drug in the "B" range for its consumption to
drop. "The T was impossible," relates a former drug addict. "It is
like cocaine but, obviously, less natural, with a worse trip. I was
shooting four times daily and, to push the trip along, I would take a
downer. . . . "
Another drug from wrich the intoxicant has been removed is stitl, never-
theless, being purchased by the addicts: They have discovered a
secondary hallucinogenci effect. Mixing with atcohol is frequent. It
- may also happen that one avoids "spoiling" a rediscovered drug. Fre-
quently scotch whiskey would replace the hashish joint which, only
- recently, would have been smoked. Alcoholism is progressing among the
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young. The poorest among them hit the cheap wine while the youngest
who c~~nnot purch~se ~lcohol in stores without being noticed take up
glues and solvents. Strange mixes are made. Last summer boys in
Cangas, near Vigo, in Spain, added to their "joints" powdered human
bones drawn from skeletons kept at the municipal bone yard. Explosive
cocktails are tried: The "speedbalt" (heroin plus cocaine) is reputed
"superfantastic" . . .
Cocaine remains a luxury product. Even though for the past two years
it has reappeared in Europe, from where it had disappeared after the
war, ir. does not really reach [he young customers. "'Coke' is good but
very expensive. It must be taken frequently or the effect is lost."
"Sniffed" in circles where money is easy to come by and used by the
curtous who are afraid of becoming hooked on heroin and who are
generally well established in a professional job, cocaine is appreciated
f.or its stimulating effect. It gives its users the impression of owing
[heir success to their intelligence. Conversely, heroin, "the only
product which is not rising," notes Andre Soleres, head of the narcotics
brigade of the Paris Police Prefecture, "has democratized," it is the
dr.ug of the sidewalk. The "dealers" are waiting for unwary customers i
:~t St Michel Boulevard or Buci Square. This lack of knowledge of. the '
product--the act of drugging oneself being more important than the
substance used--is atso becoming in all likelihood one of the reasons
for the increased number of deaths due to overdose in France in 1979
(117) compared with 1978 with 102 victims.
The fluctuations of the market, the arrival of heroin from the Middle
East (75 to 80 percent pure), too strong to be withstood in the doses
usually injected, not to forget powders diluted with strychnine or even
detergent, must have triggered quite a number of tragedies during the ~
final months of 1979. "Today there is too much swindle," says Christian
on the sub,ject of desintoxication treatment. Other committed suicide ~
in 1979 after using trichloroethylene or other drugs.
Faced with this rush l.o hard drugs, hashish appears quite inoffensive ~
and the argument developing on the subject of cannabis derivates seems '
rather vain. The current mixed drug addictions also requestion the
notion of escalation and the idea according to which H would be the
initiating substance. "Parents who give sedatives to their babies
being unable, themselves, to withstand their an~ui.sh are perhaps pre-
p~ring them to become drug addicts later?" raised recently the question
Dr Stanislaw Tomkiewicz, director of research at the National Institute
of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Thus, after a period in which _
drug addiction occasionally assumed a positive and even creative aspect,
~~drug use" has become an ever more mediocre and vulgar occurrence.
Drugs have converted in a sort of psychoregutator," thinks Dr Brule.
They have been reduced to no longer being an attitude on the part of
the youth (virtually all drug addicts are between the ages of 15 and 25).
Assuming a normalizing aspect, it helps to rejoin the world of the
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adults who use and abuse self-medication with equal frequency. "If I
E~il to swallow a few amphetamines in the morning I find myself unable
to go to work," admitted an educator. How many people smoke or drink
c?nly fnr the sa3ke of continuing [o live despire rheir lanl.inesg. "You
sr.e," ti~ys Chri~tian, the guitar player who "goes on ~cid," ro be able
[o l.ook at his fingers drunkenly plucking the chords, "I was so much in
love and wanted to have a child and was no longer smoking even cigar-
_ ettes [o avoid drugging. She was too good for me and i flipped. With
speed I am as good as Wes Montgomery. No, this is not true, if I
take drugs it is to forget." -
Lg Feb 80, p 1~
III. Police and the Ants
The products have become diversified: They could be found as frequently
"over the counter" as on the illicit marketplace. Nevertheless, the
drug traffic is developing because of the ever growing number of young
people who, without being drug addicts, try the drugs they are offered.
'4t is a make or break." Carrying two cardboard suitcases stuffed with
hashish, a Togolese was stopped at customs. Cannabis fields are
blossoming in black Africa; the poppy raised in Turkey is converted in
heroin No 4 in laboratories deep inside Anatolian Turkey. Cocaine from
Colombia enters the country after a stop in the Antilles. Amsterdam
which was once the central market for brown sugar coming from southeast
Asia has been now replaced by the FRG where "beige" or "grey" heroin
coming from the Middle and Near East is being resold throughout Europe.
Bulgaria, on the Istanbul route, Yugoslavia, and even Lichtenstein have
become traf.fic relay posts.
Drugs cross all borders in false bottom suitcases, hollow heels, fake
canned goods, or fake toothpaste tubes. In November 1979 Turkish
peasant women pretending to be pregnant were stopped at the Greek
border. One month later Italian women tried to cross the Belgian
frontier carrying 150 grams of heroin. American policemen were recently
allowed to "search" the stomach of a man suspected of having swallowed
a package of "Thailand." The seizures which account for no more than
10 percent of the amounts of drugs marketed were substantial in 1979.
Since only October two tons of hemp were seized in Rotterdam, 300 kilo-
grams of cocaine in Peru, and one ton in Bogota, 107 kilograms of
hashish in Madrid, 464 kilograms in a tourist automobile at the Greek
border, and 1.5 tons of hashish in a cave in Ibiza (Balearic Islands);
~ 9.84 kilograms of ~heroin were seized in Sofia and 7 kilograms in Rome.
In 1979 the Italian customs confiscated 4,265 kilograms of cannabis -
derivates, 8 kilograms of heroin, and 14 kilograms of cocaine. In 1978
41 tons of cannabis derivates had been confiscated in Europe. In the
Moselle department alone, which borders Luxembourg and Germany, the
French customs dealt with 58 drug cases in the first 10 months of 1979.
In 1979 the national police had conducted nearly 8,000 interrogations.
A higher figure was reached in 1979.
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One Kilogram of Hemp for One Ton of Millet
Thase who attended the meeting of the Inter~overnment:~] Committee for
N~rcottcs Contro', which took plnce in Honolulu, in Dec~mber 1979,
noted their concern in the face of the "alarming increase in the volume
of discovered drugs throughout the wortd and the growing of seizures of
heroin coming from the Middle East." In November, in Stockholm, the
same w~s noted by the Pompidou group.8 "It is true," acknowledges
Andre Soleres, head o� the narcotics brigade of the Paris Police Pre-
_ fecture, "[hat young people currently stopped on public thoroughfares
are frequently found to be in possession of heroin." Frequently it is
a case of Thai heroin brought into France by small passers who have
made the tr:p from Bangkok and who, for the past two years, have been
competing with the Chinese in Amsterdam. These "ants" have currently
their twins in the smugglers of the Near and Middle East who have
organized better structured channels. International criminals, once
again interested in illicit drug traffic, are on the verge of re-
activating some networks.
Despite the financial ef�orts made by the United States, five years ago,
[o uproot poppy plants, its cultivation never stopped in Turkey where -
nothing which could yield a better income grows.
Benefiting from the political troubles of the past few years, these
fields have been expanded. In Iran the laboratories are in full swing.
The believers have asked that opium be declared "haram," i.e., be
banned. Nevertheless, in 1979 the country produced 600 tons of poppies.
In Lebanon, in the Beka'a Valley, hemp is legally grown along the route
to Baalbek. In 1979 Lebanon exported 700 tons of hemp worth 450 million
Lebanese pounds (apple exports brought no more than 80 million pounds).
In Pakistan, the biggest opium producer in the world, laboratories were
discovered in the Paki re~ion. Severe penalties--whipping, specif.i-
c~~lly--~re insufficient to turn away the traffickers who process
Pakistani opium and even some of the Afghan crop (about 300 tons per
year). In black Africa farmers are beginning to replace millet with
hemp. In Mali, where there are currently some 10 confiscations per ,
week, one kilo of cannabis is as profitable as one ton of millet (55,000
f rancs) . ~
Tons of raw morphine are currently waiting for eventual purchasers at
the Turkish border. There, chemists have organized the manufacturing
of "beige" or "grey" heroin, sold throughout Europe. The number of
Turkish traffickers detained in 1979 within the European economic
community seems to prove that the circle which, at the time of the
_ "French connection" was the main client, had not as yet retaken the
market. Recently, however, the experts have been asking questions.
"Conditions have been put together for the reactivation of the French
connection," thinks Le Mouel. "There is more money to be made and the
criminals and the chemists are not all dead. Some of them have done
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[heir time and all that is left is to put together the necessary funds
to buy the abundant raw morphine." The detention of several criminals
~~t [he toll booth of the Lancon-Provence Highway, on 22 December 1979,
in [he process of. delivering six kilograms of morphi.ne comin~ f.rom
Turkey ro ~ M~~rseilles trlfficker is thc first cle,~r ~;ign of "resump-
tfon."
The small passers, whether or not drug users themselves, go on on their
own. This is one more revenue, one smuggling activity like any other.
Last August the two Italian women arrested in Thionvi.lle were pushing
_ to earn money to purchase a store. At the same time a family of
truckers from Valence was "passing" two tons of hashish and 18 kilograms
of heroin in order not to come back "empty" from Iran. "Once the
traff.ic was organized," noted at the time of the case Robert Mesini, of
the SRPJ [Judiciary Police Regional Services] in Lyons. "A network
would be dismantled 'from the top,' and the traffickers would be listed
as ma,jor criminals. Today we must start with the small 'dealer,' and
one rarely succeeds in going up the line."
Hard and Soft
New practices have recently appeared. Clandestine laboratories making
amphetamines were destroyed in 1979 by the Swedish police. The previous
year a small LSD factory had been discovered in the Perigueux area.
Cannabis is willingly raised on balconies or in truck gardens. The crop
is diversified and the networks crisscross. "Cocaine dealers have
nothing to do with heroin dealers," explains John Morris, head of the
interpol narcotics subdivision. "They have settled in South America.
The pushers belong to the criminal element of these countries and find
in the European capitals compatriots ready to welcome them. Actuatly,
they deal with dif�erent customers."
This circle had never been interested in hashish trafficking. However,
rhe ;~mounts confiscated assume major investments, purchasin~ centers,
~nd scronK organiz~7tion. Nevertheles~, the needs of the customers
~re not always met by the resellers who rarely offer a broad range of -
goods. Sales locations vary. Hashish rnay be found in Belleville;
heroin, in the Latin Quarter; and cocaine in the South American bars in
_ P~ris. A street "dealer" is four.d less frequently; the "grocer.s" more
~illingly welcome customers in their own apartments.
This vaguely defined market is not easy to follow. Some phenomena re-
main unexplained. Why is it that the increased amounts of heroin have
not automatically lowered prices? Why a good supply does not reduce
the number of pharmacy breakins�^ In th~e face of such difficulties,
, the suppression of the traffic is organized according to frequently
conflicting concepts. Whereas the Paris judiciary police no longer
bothers simple hashish users, the gendarmes, in turn, apply a different ~
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met}iocl. This yc~r they h~ve hzd innumerablc dr~zgnets and summons issued
_ to young consumers or small "dealers." "Drugs are everywhere, all that
it takes is to look for them," explained the major commanding the Arrow
Brigade, following the investigation of a hashish case. Such interven-
tions on the part of the gendarmerie pleased Jacques Barrot, minister
of health and social security, in whose view "there should be no
distinc[ion made between soft and hard drugs." Charles V~il.le, Barrot's
- technical advisor, i.n charge of. drug addiction problems, thinks like-
wise: "I am among those who are convinced that it is through hashish
that one is led further on."
This phenomenon is rejected by world renowned researchers such as
Salomon S~i~ders who invented the specific morphine receptors, and is
[he author of the "marijuana book." Nor is it believed by Dr Claude
Ollevenstein and most French specialists who are in direct contact with
drug users. Others believe that the escalation is indeniabte and that
h,~shish users should be prosecuted. Dr Leon Hovnanian thinks that the
_judiciary activities "are paralyzed by a circular o� the keeper of the
scals, dated 17 M~~y 1978, ~ahich suggests that the user be merely warned
.1nd that possession of a small quantity of cannabis should be considered j
for pcrson~~l use only." ~
"Had escalation been a reality," explains Dr Oltevenstein, "since, 10
years ago, there were 800,000 heroin addicts and 40 million smokers in
American, today there should have been 40 million heroin addicts. Such
is not the case." "The amalgamation of soft and hard drugs is incon-
sistent with the reality," claims Dr Francis Curtet, medical director
of the Le Prait d'Union Association. "It could be only antipreventive
by dr~matizing the ~ensation it triggers as well as antitherapeutic by
eliminating all credibility from those who defend this viewpoint."
Do the active investigat~~ns conducted by the gendarmerie against grass
smokers really pertain to an age when any kind of substance could be
+~sed as a drug? The traffic m~y be even less stable merely because the
customers are more uncertain. The consumers f.requently go from one
substance to another without severe withdrawals, and without feeling
deprived oE a lost paradise. The "firmly" hooked addicts of the past
provided the criminals guarantees for the sellling of their stocks.
They have been replaced by more superficial and more whimsical addicts.
The shortage which turned drug addicts into delinquents is no longer so -
brutally felt: Medicinal drugs and household maintenance goods control
the seasonal tides.
In the final account, the traffickers are competing with the pharma-
ceutical industries for their depressed customers. Could i.t be that
drug addicts who may have been considered subversive individuals,
threatening the social order, be merely poor slobs who try to survive
with whatever drugs are available? This is the case even in jail, even
in a hospital, or in posttreatment centers. "Even when she was treated
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at Boere, Chantal never stopped using. Her eyes were popping out of
her head, she was stiff," says a former inmate of Patriarche. Would
repressive measures against users make sense if, as thinks Le Mouel, -
chief of: the Centr~~l Office for the Suppression of Illicit Traffic in
N~~rcottcs, "one mus[ first elimi.nate the demand."
Thc Travelers
The young people frequently go abroad to buy a product which would be ~
more accessible and less expensive. Others, on the way, come across
drugs with, sometimes, dramatic consequences. According to the finat
report of the European Public Health Committee, published in December,
1979, a considerable number of young people go abroad neither for
tourist nor professional reasons.
As early as 1976 the Centro per le malattie sociate, in Rome, had
established that 159 of 170 interrogated drug addicts had recently
traveled in Europe. The European Council estimaCes at about 30,000 the
number of users and small traffickers who travel every year to European
community coun[ries. On the other hand, the United Nations Social
Pro[ection Research Institute, has estimated that 28 percent of those
' jail.ed in Europe for violating narcotics laws came from foreign coun-
cries. Finally, the Bureau for Assistance to French people in trouble -
abroad, under the jurisdi.ction of the suboffice for people and goods of
thc Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has noted that the virtual totzlity of _
distress calls are caused by drug addiction. In 1979 the bureau -
repa[riated f.or health reasons 101 people from Katmandou, 76 from
Bangkok, 79 from Bombay, 31 from Kabul, and 22 from Islamabad.
Another study reported by the European Council specifies the character-
istics oE [raveling drug addicts: There are more boys than girls (64
percent as against 36 percent); most of them are over 21. Most of them
come from normal family surroundings (48 percent come from married
_ couples). Finally, most of them have jobs and their social status is
generally higher than that of "sedentary" drug addicts. Nevertheless,
the type of drugs used is the same (50 percent cannabis).
Motivations have changed since the 1970's, when traveling was a sort of
initiation test. Henceforth such trips are more utititarian. For
thousands of young peopte it has become an opportunity for bringing
home supplies--for their personal consumption and resale--or else for
going wild in countries of the mind where drugs are inexpensive and
available.
FOOTNOTES
1. Centre Dibro (documentation, information, drugs), 23 Rue de Ger~ovie,
75014 Paris. Telephone [phone].
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2. fimily Union for Struggle Agzinst Drug Addictions, 175 Rue d'Alesi~~,
75U14 P.~r t 5.
3. Associ~tion foc Assistance to Drug Addicts, ADATO, 31 Rue Edmee-
Fremy, 78000 Vers~illes. Telephone [phone].
4. Centre de 1'Abbaye, 7 Rue de 1'Abbaye, 75006 Paris.
Telephone [phone]. Open for treatment afternoons.
5. Nztion~l Committee for Drug Information, 22 Avenue Daniele-Casanova.
95220 Saint-Gratien.
6. 38 Rue des Haies, 75020 Paris. Telephone [phone].
. 7. Tetrahydrocannabinol, the active agent of cannabis.
8. The Pompidou group was established in 1971 on the initiative of the '
president of the French Republic, to promote exchanges among govern-
~rnts ~and consider acci~~n, to fight drug addiction among the members of
thr f~,um?~ecm ccxm~uniry. The last meeting of the group was hetd in
Stockh~im on 12 ancl 13 November. 1979.
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BRiEFS
- OAS VETERAN ARRESTED--(Claude Peintre), an OAS veteran, has been arrested
for drug- and arms-trafficking offenses. Police found 1 1/2 kg of heroin in
~ a Paris room to which he had the key. They also seized seven high-calibre
automatic weapons at his personal residence. [LD300209 Paris Domestic
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PORTUGAL
HASHISH TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED IN LISBON AREA
Porto 0 PRIMEIRO DE JANEIRO in Portuguese 8 Feb 80 p 15 �
[Text] The seizure of 1.2 kg of hashish and the imprisonment of five -
traffickers was the result of an operation conducted by special brigades
of the Judicial Police. They succeeded in breaking up one of the largest '
and most active networks of drug traffic in the Lisbon area.
From the traffickers--youths whose ages range from 18 to 28, known by the
. names of "Gorjao," "Jorge," "Chagas," "Santos" and "Monteiro"--the agents
"con�iscated" in addition to a considerable quantity of blunt weapons and
firearms, a veritable "arsenal" of presses, scales and tools which they
used to process the imported hashish (the drug was purchased in Spain in
powder f orm, and later sold in bricks.
The PJ [Judicial Police] investiga tl.ons were conducted in various areas
where the group operated--that is, in Queluz, Sintra, Algueirao and
' Amadora--and they succeeded only because they had detected the various
, residences in which "Santos" and Monteiro: lived successively. It was in
one of their homes that the brigade of the Judicial Police later discovered
Che headquarters of the network. According to the PJ, this was an espt�-
cially active group. They reported that for example, in one afternoon -
alone during which the house was under constant surveillance by the PSP
[Public Security Police] of Queluz, some 45 users entered and left this ~
veritable hashish store.
The youths, all of them under arrest without bail, did not have any other -
known means of support, and some of them already have criminal records.
The agents found in their possession material (calculators, headlights,
. car radios, ster~eophonic equipment) valued at hundreds of contos. T_~ is
~ believed that the articles came from burglaries of homes and stores. The
agents also found 70 con*os in cash (a product of the hashi,sh sales).
In the meantime, the Judicial Police reported that they have conducted
other operations in the Greater Lisbon area and other nearby areas. In
one of these operations they were able to arrest eight individuals and
seized considerab~e amounts of hashish and psychotropic drugs. In
another action they were able to seize 1,500 contos` worth of hashish.
Investigation continues in these latter cases and, as is natural, the
. police maintain some secrecy.
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i'ORTUGAL
POLICE CONFIS('.ATE HIGH-PURITY COCAINE
Porto 0 PRIMEIRO DE JANEIRO in Portuguese 8 Feb 80 p 1
[TextJ Af ter intense investigation conducted in various parts of the
countr~ from 22 January to 5 February, over 2 kg of cocaine valued at
over 30,000 contes were seized. This is the first seizure of this type--
- of a drug with st:ch a high degree of purity, which is very dangerous. ~
The Drug Control Investigation Center announced this fact in a communi-
que stating that the person in Portugal for whom this drug was intended
was arrested and taken before the criminal court. He is at present under
~ arrest. The communique adds that in due time and after the proceedings
now underway are completed other revelations are expected. ,
The success of this operation is attributed to the growing determination
of Portuguese police to combat the domestic drug mark~t as the result of _
- profeasional training of the agents which, in the last 2 yeara, haa re-
aulted in concentrated repr~.:ssion of drug traffic.
At the national level th:.s effort made i~ possible for the above-mentioned
center to concentrate especially on an3lysis of information concerni:; hard
drugs and investigation of networks whose organization and operating methods
are obv iously more perfected and sotihisticated.
Tne Drug ~ontrol Investigation Center on the other hand, concluded '
several investigations especially in the field of hard drugs and seized -
over 8 kg of heroin. T~?e Center continues watching the movements of the
international routes of these substances which use Portugal as the transit ;
territory and eventual transhipment point. -
It was during all these operations that the above-mentioned center, with
the participation of the Customs Inspector, the General Customs Board
an.d the PSP [Public Security Pol ice] and the cooperation, in the informa- .
tion field with other foreign agencies, was able to discover another ,
important line of cocaine traffic to Portug~l from Latin America, and -
seize the above-mentianed cocaine. -
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PORTUGAL _
BRIEFS
YOUTHS ARRESTED WITH HASHISH--The PSP [Public Security Police] last night
' arrested on Monte Street five youths who, calmly and on a public street, -
gave themsel~ves up to the pieasures of hashish. The smokers, ranging in
, age f rom 17 to 23, also had in their possession some narcotic pills. The
j PSP agents had to take three of the f ive yot~ths to the hospital because
they appeared depressed and disturbed from drug overdoses. It is be.'ieved
that the crisis was caused not by the hashiRh they were s~oking but ~~:~~;o
from some chemical substance they had taken before. Another of the hash-
ish smokers, this one aged 26, was also appr~ehended by the PSP agents on
the Alameda das Linhas de Torres. When questioned by the police, the youth
identif ied himself as a public off icial. [Text] [Porto 0 PRIMEIRO DE
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SPAIN
ELEVEN T~tAFFICKERS ARRESTED, DRUGS CONFISCATED
Madrid EL PAIS in Spanish 12 Feb 80 p 20
- [Text] A gang of drug traffickers was discovered, and 11 of its members
were arrested in a joint police operation carried out in Torrejon de Ardoz,
Zaragoza and Malaga. A quantity of drugs and items of soutd equipment,
_ valued at over 10 million pesetas, were seized from the persons arrested.
According to police reports, Oscar Carlos Urruti was the chief of the net-
- work. He had a saf ehouse in the Madrid locality of Meco, near Alcala de
Henares, where he deposited drugs as well as high fidelity sound equipment,
microscopes, television sets and other expensive electronic equipment, all
of it from U.S. bases in Zaragoza and Torre~on de Ardoz. Part of the
drugs was distributed on these bases.
In the same town of Meco the persons who apparently took care of passing
the druga to U.S. bases were also arrested. They are: Kirk Neal Aeyeher,
Gregory Martin Coulter and Lee Mar Marshall. When they were arrested Che
police seized from them electronic equipment and a certain amount of dollars
which they were to deliver to the first person arrested, in exchange for
narcotics. A little over 0.5 kg of heroin and cocaine and 1 kg of hashish
were part of the contraband seized.
Later the police also arrested Alberto Urruti, brother of the chief of
the network, who was guarding the house. Five other persons who proceeded
�7 to buy the drugs were arrested: Ale3ando Irigoyen, Santiago Vegue, Jose
Antonio Perez, Justino Lopez and Remii':e Maximo.
The llth arrest, tha t of Immaculada Robles, took place in Malaga. One
hundred grams of heroin, 20 grams of cocaine and a Ford Fiesta car,
belonging to Oscar, were seized from her. Inside the car a certain amount
of drugs was found. The car was used to transport the drugs to Costa del
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BRIEFS
HASHISH CONFISCATION IN MALAGA--Members of the 251st post of the Malaga
Civil Guard have arrested an individual and seized 203 kg of hashish
during a large-scale operation against drug trafficking in that province>
In the past few days the Civil Guard received conf idential infoYmation to
~ the effect that an important drug ahipment would pass through Malaga, and
therefore mounted a series of controls on national highway 340 in order
- to intercept the traffickers. [Excerpt] [Bilbao EL CORREO ESPANOL-EL
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! AUTHORITIES REGISTER SHARP INCREASE IN DRUG USE
; Zurich NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG in German 16 Feb 80 p 22
i [TextJ Bern, 14 February (sda)--Despite intenaive education, Switzerlai?d's
drug scene is becoming increasingly brutal. Last year 102 persons died of
heroin overdoses or of the results of drug addiction, i.e. 17 more than
during the previous year. T:~us the 100 mark was surpassed for the first
time. In 1974 there were only 13 drug-related fatalities, and in 1977 and
- 1978 there were already 84 and 85 respectively. The most common cause of
death is heroin, which at present is being traded quite intensively in Switzer-
land. The intensification of the drug problem can also be seen in other
preliminary drug statistics for 1979. For exa~ple the number of reports to
the police concerning violations of the controlled substances law rose from -
6,299 to 7,045, the number of convictions from 4,465 to 5,466. The following
quantities were confiscated: 22.977 (5.5) kg of heroin, 1,976.704 (360) kg
of hashish, 6.948 (11) kg of hashish oil, 16.617 (4.3) kg cocaine, 7.013 (4.8)
kg amphetamine and 4,791 (6,021) LSD pills. The number of break-ins in
� doctors' offices and pharmacies declined somewhat from 234 to 191.
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UfVITrD KINGDOM
BRAZILIAN CHARGED IN LONDON FOR COCAINE TRAFFICKING
Found in Customs Inspection
- Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portugueae 28 Feb 80 p 15
[Article by Claudio Kuck: "Brazilian Charged in London: Drug Trafficking"J
[Text] London--Brazilian Ciro Marcondes Filho Machado, 26, of Sao Paulo,
and Stephen Wallis, British, were charged in Crawley Court, London, yester-
day with being involved in cocaine traffic from South America to Great
Britain. The court ruled that he was to remain in police custody, with an-
other hearing scheduled for next week. Ciro lives in the Ealing neighborhood
of London.
He was arrested after customs officers at Gatwick Airport, in a routine in-
spection, found 2.5 kilograms of cocaine in an English passenger's baggage
en route from Rio de Janeiro. Based upon qu~stioning and addreases in the
trafficker's posaession, police arreated Ciro, two British citizens and a
Britieh woman in ~hree houses in the South and West ends of London. All
remain in cuatody.
The Gatwick customs office said yesterday that the group is probably part of
an international trafficking ring with connections in various countries of
South America, and not just in Brazil. Ciro would be one of the group's -
couriers and reaponsible for contacts in Brazil. Authorities believe the
persons arrested have made several previous trips between Rio de Janeiro
and London to carry cocaine. Investigation is continuing, under complete
secrecy.
Police expect to seize m~ich more cocaine from the group in the near future.
Only 21 kilograms of cocaine were confiscated during all of 1979, whereas
there were 2.5 kilograms on this one flight from Rio de Janeiro.
Federal Police in Rio Not Yet Informed ~
Federal police in Rio de Janeiro said they have not yet been informed of-
ficially of the~arrest in London of Brazilian Ciro Marcondes Filho Machado.
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A Federal Police Department source said police will conduct an investigation
in Rio only if they receive a request from Interpol or the Foreign Relations
Ministry.
The same source said that only the Narcotics Division of the Federal Police,
in Brasilia, can say whether a drug-traffic ring is operating between Rio de
Janeiro and London.
No Previous Criminal Record
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 1 Mar 80 p 9
[Text] Brasilia--Federa~ Police said yesterday that they are unaware of any
cocaine traffic between Brazil and Great Britain. They said the charge made
in London against Brazilian Ciro Marcondes Filho Machado for being involved
in cocaine traffic to Great Britain is "a matter for Itamaraty [Foreign Re-
lations Ministry]."
Itamaraty spokesman Bernardo Pericas said that in such cases the Brazilian
government, through its consulates, render.s necessary legal assistance to ~
the party concerned, assuring him the right to defense, but without any in- ;
terv~~~:ion in the police or legal affairs of the other counrcry.
In Sao Paulo, Criminal Investigations Department (DEIC) headquarters said
there ie nothing in ita files concerning the name of Ciro Marcondes Filho
Machado, arreated in London the day before yesterday for cocaine traffic.
Federal Police in Sao Paulo also said there is nothing in their fil~es ahow-
ing any criminal backgound of the young man.
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UNITED KII~GDOM
BRIFFS
HEROIN SEI~ED AT HEATHROW--Customs officers at Heathrow airport today
seized 1.5 million pounds' worth of heroin from a 32-year-old Iranian _
who arrived on a flight from Teheran at noon on his way to the United
States. He was found to have about 8 kilos of heroin concealed in his
luggage. Three other Iranians, two of them women, have also been arrested
in connection with the same offence. [Text] [LD310619 London PRESS
ASSOCIATION in English 2055 GMT 30 Mar 80 LD]
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SELECTIVE LIST OF JPRS SERIAL REPORTS
WORLDWIDE SERIAL REPORTS
W01tl,1)WIbG Itlii'C)RT: Environmental Quality ~
WOlt1,UW i 1)1? RI:I'ORT: Cpidemiology '
W~)Itl,l)WI Uh: RI:POR'f : I,aw of the Sea
W(tRl,t)W1DI: ItLPOEtT: Nuclear Development and Proliferation
W()ItI,DWIDi~; REPORT: Telecommunications Policy, Research and ~evelopment
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