JPRS ID: 9187 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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, 10 July 1980
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NARCOTICS AND DANGERO~US DRUGS
CFOUO 29/80)
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JPRS L/9187
10 July 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT `
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 29/80)
CONTENTS
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AUS TRAI.IA
Briefs
Drugs F'rom Lebanon 1
HON~~. KONG
Doctor Raps Closure of' Acupuncture Clinics for Addicts
(SOUTH (HIN~A I~ItT1ING P06T, 12 Jun 80) 2
Briefs
Airport Heroin flaul 3
Morphine Smuggler Sentenced 3
Heroin Raid Arrest ' ~ 3
JAPAN
Briefs ~
Amphetamine Smugglers Caught 4
NEW ZEALAND ~ ~
Government Establishes Drug Information Gmup
(THE EVEDTING POST, 2 Jun 80) 5
Dru~Related Deaths Continue Despite Heroin Shortage
(Various sources, various dates) 6
Abuse of Barbiturates
(heck on Doctors
Prescription Curb Urged
Call for Drug Probe
_ ' Careless' Prescribing
Possible Proaecutions
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Three Men ~arged With Conspiring To Import Heroin
(~iE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 7 Jun 80) 10
- Police Follawing Leads Provided by English Drug Hearing
(THE EVENING P06T, 5 Jun 80) 11
Cultivating Cannabis Earns Man 5 Years' Imprisonment
(TiiE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 5 Jun 80) 12
PAKISTAN
Qiaras Seized in lhatta: Canadian Held
(MORNING.NEWS, 19 Jim 80) 13 -
B rie fs
24 Kilo of QZaras Seized 15
SOUTH KOREA
Nationwide Detection of Hemp, Poppy Production and
Desling Undexway
(THE ROREA TIMES, 13 Jtai 8Q) 16
14iAILAND ~
Former Policeman Held With Heroin
(BANGKOK WORLD, 20 May 80).......' 17
Narcotics, Tribal Minorities, Border Problems Discussed -
(BAN MUANG, 24 Apr 80)...........~ 18
Italian Sentenced for Heroin Possession
(BAN MUANG, 24 Apr 80) 21
Foreigners Use False Visas To Enter Co~try:'for Drug
Smuggling ~
(DAO SIAM, 19 Apr 80) 22
Traffickers Sentenced to Life
(BANGKOK POST, 3 Jun 80) 24
Trafficker Seized While Smuggling From North
(BANG~OK POST, 8, 9 Jun 80) 25
Arrested at Hua Lam Phang
Bound fo r Singapore
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Police Sergeant, Tourist Arrested With Heroin
(BANGKOK P06T, 25 May 80) 28 _
Hong Kong Native Sentenced in Heroin Case
(BANQCOK POST, 31 May 8Q) 29
Italians Arrested With Heroin
(BANGKOK POST, 26 May 80) 30
Italian, Zhais Sentenced for Heroin Possession
(BANGKOK PO6T, 24 May 80) 31
Hong Kong Smuggler Arrested
(BANGR~ POST, 29 May 80) 33
Briefs
Sp.anish, French Tourists Arrested 34
Chaing Mai Heroin Arrest 34
Khon Kaen Marihuana 34
Chiang Rai Residents Arrested 35
Convi cte d Aus t ralians 35
. LATTt AMERIGA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Cocaine Distill~ry 36
Drug Traffickers Arrested 36
Columbian Traffickers Arrested 36
B RAZIL
Ma3or Trafficker Escapes Arrest in Leme
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 8 May 8U) 37 ~
Marihuana Traffickers Arrested With 100 Kilos
(0 GLOBO, 10 May 80) 42
Marihuana, Cocaine Traffickers Arreste d in Rio de Janeiro
(0 GLOBO, various dates) 44
' Marihuana, Cocaine in Copacabana
Cocaine So ld in Q oria
Cocaine, Marihuana in Niteroi
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Frenchmen Detaine d at Airport 46
Drug Traffickers Arrested 46
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COLOI~ IA
_ Defense Minister's Brother Inwlved in Drug Trafficking
(AFP, 17 Jun 80) 47
Traffickers Supply Arme to Guerrillas
(Bernardo Navas Talero; EL TIEMPO, 9 May 80) 48
Alleged Diplomat Seized With Cocaine
(EL TIEMPO, 5 May 80) 50
Cocaine Traffickers Arrested, Cocaine Seized
(EL TIEI~O, 25 Apr 80) 51
Cocaine Seized in San Benito Abad
(EL ESPECTADOR, 30 Apr 80)~ 52
Briefs
New Drug Shipment Method 53
Drug Plane Caught 53
Drug Arrest 53
Drug Discovery 53
Cocaine Arrests 53
Drug Plane Downed 54
PANAMA
Briefs
Cocaine Shipment 55
VENEZUELA
Cocaine Confiscated From Intemational Traffickers
(Francisco Gomez, Freddy Urbina; ULTIMAS NOTICIAS,
5 Jun 80) 56
Cocaine Laboratory Mscovered
(Freddy Urbina; ULTIMAS NOTI QAS, 29 May 80).......... 58
Cocaine Trafficking Gang Members Arrested
(EL NACIONAL, 17 May 80) 59
NEAR EAST AND NOIrPEi AFRICA
IRAN
~rther Measures Taken Against Addiction
(IC~YHAN, vario.us dates) 61
Discharge of Civil Service Addicts
Execution of Smugglers
Anti-Addiction Campaign
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KUWAIT
Three Iranians Arrested in Opium Case
(AI.rQABAS, 19 May 80) 69
Six Afghanis Arrested in Drug Case
(AL-QABAS, 2o May 80) 71
Briefs
Methaqualone Case 7z
WEST EUROPE
- AUST RIA
Police Discover Rise in Bromine-Amphetamine Use
(Hubert Marg1; DIE PRESSE, 29 May 80) 73
Special Police Group To Combat Drug Use
(NEUE ZUER(HER ZEITIA~TG, 31 May 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
FEDERAL REPi]BLIC OF GERMANY
Increasing Use, Social Status of Cocaine Examined
(Hermatin Suelberg; STERN, 22 May 80) 75
Border Controls Against Narcotics To Be Reinforced
(Eberhard Nitschke; DIE WELT, 8 May 80)..........~..., gl
Narcotics Dealer, Turkish Heroin Seized
(SUEDDEUTSQiE ZEITiJNG, 16 l~ay 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Drug Problem Seen Completely Out of Control
(D~:R SPIEGEL, 9 Jun 80) 84
Briefs
Heroin Smugglers Arrested 94
GREE CE
Ways To Combat NarCotics Use Proposed
(Or. Farakos; AKROPOLIS, 3 Jun 80) 95
NOIdJAY
- Vio len ce Grows in Os lo Drug World
(ARBEIDERBLADET, 6 Jtm 80) 97 -
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SWE DEN
_ Researcher Discusses Addiction Statistics, Trends
(Slim Allagui; LE SOIR, 10 Jun 80) 99
Police Gomment on Geographic Distrib ution of Drug Cases
( Q aes von Hofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 18 May 80).... 101
Trend Seen in 'Moving Up' From Hashish to Heroin
(Wil~.y Silberstein; SVENSKA DA(~LADET, 18 May 80) 104
Social Agency: Narcotics Deaths InGrease 10 Percent in
19 79
(SVENSKA L1A(~LADET, 19 May 80) . . . . . 107
Drugs Officer in the Hague Describes Antidrug Effort _
� (Willy Silberstein; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 19 May 80) . o.. 109
Govemment Agency Estimates Up to 14,000 Hard Drugs Users
(DAGENS NYHETER, 20 May 80) 111
Customs Service Seizes 25 Kilograms of Hashish fn Mail
(Claes wn Hofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 21 May 80).... 113
Police Uncover Gang Which Smuggled Heroin From Turkey
(Claes von Hofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 6 Jun 80)..... 115
Prosecutor Attacks Narcotics Traffickstng in Prisons
(Margareta Artsman; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 30 May 80).... 117
Briefs
Drugs Intelligence ~nter Needed 119
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AUSTRALIA
BR~'S
DRUGS FROM ?~BANON--Sydney.--An alert customs officer has discovered cannabis
and cannabis resin worth an estimated $800,000 in bread-rolling machinese im-
ported from Lebanon. Three men were arrested, and are to appear in the Spe-
cial Federal Court in Sydney. Federal police said the machinese were in two
crates from Lebanon l~~ed last week f~om the container ship "Austra,lian Ven- -
ture" after being transshipped tn Genoa, Ita,ly. A customs officer exatnining
the shipment noticed welds on the end of the machine rollers, ground the welds
off and saw "a suspicious substance". He contacted federal police, who kept .
wa.tch on the cra,tes and when it was picked up by a truck yesterday followed
the vehicle to Rossmore, near Bringelly, south-west of Sydn~y. When two men
began dismantling the bread-rolling machines, Federal and state police moved
in and arrested them and truck driver. The total ha,ul had not been calcu-
- lated yesterday, but Federal police estimated it amounted to about 15 kg of
cannabis oil and two kg of cannabis resin. A police spokesman said only that '
the drug was taortYi "mar~y thousands of dollax", but other sources placed its
value at more than $800,000. Two of the men arrested were charged with
possession of a prohibited import, and one with being knowingly concerned with
- the importation. [Text] [Brisbane TI~ COURIER-MAIL in Englist~~ 21 May 80 p 97
~ cso: 5300
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iiotvr KoNr.
DOCTOR RAPS CLOSURE OF ACUPUNCTURE CLINICS FOR ADDICTS
_ Hncig Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 12 Jun 80 p 11 .
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'fhe closure of acupunc- Dr Yang said that 10 per But a doctor who has close
ture clinics for drug addicts cent of the addicts who go connection with the former
has come under fire from a through the twawak treat- acupuncture eloctrostimula-
university physiologist. ment sbow no sign oF rolapse tian clinic said the Govern-
'The attack by Dr Mabel - while methadone can only ment has wasted 18 months.
Yang comes as the Govern- maintain the oondition. He said acupuncture suc-
ment is stili debating whether "Just because m e t h a- caded in "cleaning-up" out- -
to re-ope~rt the ciinics. done's being used in Canada patients, which other treat-
A decision is eapccted and Britain we hava to foll~w, ments never did before.
within six months. But the Government never And he said that if contin-
releases its cure rate. ued, the project may develop
eaperi entghaddcont nuedh't "It is ironic to think that to a stage where patients
would have shown a better our own local invention is could take the apparatus
suoxss rate. being abandoned because home for sslf-treatment.
She said that "unlike o~~ox doctors either have Dr Yang said that there is
methadone wldch is itself a no knowlodge about it or are~ not enough collaboration be-
drug substitute, ~acupunctun b~~ a~ut Chinese medical twan treatment and social
cures within one or two weeks ~0N'~~" and psychologica! rehabilita- -
with no other side effxt. The Action Committee tioa work.
"It is ood in the wa in e~~~t Narootics has called This means that relapses .
B Y for ar~other aix months of Fur- are frequent.'
which it relieves pain, _ and ther investigation into the ex- "After their treatment,
can be ueed for almaat any p~ry~eatal project using many former drug addicts re-
drug addict." . acu uncture. join old pala who are drug
Hy stimulating nenes with ~~gan in July 1977 and addicts and easily succumb to
acupuncture, impulse~ a re W8e ~mpleted in December the old vice."
sent to thepain centre in the 1978. She also said a woman
brain, which in turn blocks A report by t6e United doctor has been using a Chi-
out withdrawal symptams. States~ 1Vational institute on nese herb which makes opium
Reporta also show that Drug Abuse, which sponsored repulsive to an addict. �
natural morphine levels in the tbe projecc in 197~, described integrating this with
spinel tluid and the brain in- the results of the study as acupuncture therapy, 200 pa.
crease to a more normal rate ~~~nconclusive." tients who went through a
after treatment. two-week caurse recovered ~
and SO per cent did not re-
lapse after two yeafs.
CSO: 5320
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HONG KONG
BRIEFS
AIRPORT HEROIN HAUL- A man who had two bags of heroin base weighing about -
300 grams strappeci to his ankles was arrested at Kai Tak airport yester-
day. He will appear in San Po Kong Court tomorrow, charged with posses-
sion of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. LHong
Kong SOU"i'H CHINA MORNING POST in English 8 Jun 80 p 10/
MORPHINE SMUGGLER SENTENCED- A 61-year-old security guard was sentenced
in the High ~Court yesterday for smuggling $700,000 worth of dangerous
~ drugs from Bangkok. Chan Shiu-tong was said by his counsel to have been
forced inta becoming a drug courier by a loan shark. Chan ple3ded guilty
before Mr Justice Rhind to a charge of possessing 1, 319.6 grams of a mix-
ture containing 283.83 grams of salts of esters of morphine for the pur-
pose of unlawful trafficking. Chan returned from Bangkok on February 10
carrying a briefcase whi~h attracted the attention of a customs officer
because of its weight and the thickness of the lining. The officer in-
serted a spike into the lining and discovered dru~s hidden beneath the
top and b~ttom lid of the briefcase. LHong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST -
in English 11 Jun 80 p 147
HEROIN PAID ARREST--In a raid yesterday, police arrested a 38-year--old
_ mar_ in a flat on the 15th floor of 238 Nathan Road. Six packets of sus-
pected I3o 3 heroin weighing about 71 grams were found. LHong Kong SOUTH
~ CHINA MORIVING POST in English 6 Jun SQ p 15/
CSO: 5320 ~
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JAPAN
BRIEFS
AMPHETAMINE SMUGGLERS CAUGHT--Osaka June 17 KYODO--Police have arrested three -
South Koreans for allegedly smuggling in about 20 kilograms of amphetamine
with a street value of yen six billion. In what police called the largest
ever single drug smuggling in Japan Kim Du Gi, an engineer of the freighter
Kwangjin Ho, and two other crew members were seen Monday morning carrying
cloth wrappings out of which fell a 500-gram p3ece of the drug. They
were arrested later in the day while playing at a Pachinko parlor in
Kaizuka City near here, a police spokesman said. The Koreans denied they
were involved in the drug deal. [Text] [Tokyo KYODO in English (time not
given) 17 Jun 80 OW] Osaka June 19 KYODO--Police Thursday announced the
seizure of about 2.5 kilograms of stimulant drug at an idled lot of land
in Raizuica City which they suspected was smuggled from South Korea.
Chang Kil-nam, skipper of the South Korean freighter Kwang Jin, now under
police custody on a smuggling charge, admitted concealing the drug there
after disembarking from the vessel, officials said. An additional
500 grams of the drug had been seized last Monday when Chang was arrested
with two fellow crewmen, the officials said. [Text] [Tokyo KYODO in English
(time not given) 19 Jun 80 OW]
CSO: 5300
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IVEW "LEALAND
r,OVERNMF.NT ~STABLISHES DRUG INI'ORMATION GROUP ~
_ W~~llington THE EVEiVING POST in English 2 Jun 80 p 4
_ /Text/ The G~vernment has announced the establishment of a drug advisory
committ~P to cope with the problem of co-ordinating information about
drugs,
National Horowhenua MY the Budget coming up soon, paper
Mr Jett Thoms~n, tae chair- but also told them there was
man of the Gavernment's no indicatlon the Govern-
misuse of drugs caucus ment would relax its lav?s'on p po~icy paper on dru
committee, was addressing marijuana: abuse by Christchurch
the Young Nationals annual This at least, was the case young National Mr Alan
polfcy conference in Picton till some of the "tec6aical Sharr recommended t6at
yesterday. ' Froblems" such as being r~nt policy on drug deal-
He told a meeting of about able to te,at for ;marijuana ~d drug traificking be
50 New Zealand Young intoxicatbn ia drlvers - ~~~ade even mon harsh, to
- Nationals that the new had been: reeolved. et at people and make their
committee would be broadly Until we have got over ~~~g in drugs
based, and controlled from s~me of these technical unprofltable."
the privale rather than problems you A find there
public sector. won't be any relaxing," he Thls appeared to con-
It would co-ordidate the ~id� tradict the policy recom-
information the Government ~ mendation in another
wanted about treatment Ga in conferencepa per by Young
tacillties and expendtture of ~ ~ Nationals vtce-chairman Mr
money on drugs. Simon Upton. The recom-
Mr Thom'son said 'there
hew Zeal nd
that we haveia W~ a"~aplag. hole" ln the ` heavler~penalties have not -
~ area~ o confiscatlon of ever had a signifieant effect
s~,rious drug abuse problem, propetty of coavicted drug on crime."
and that it exists at all levels oifenders. � ~
of society." Mr Thomson Ff1a cotqa~ittee was mov- Young Nationals were
~~d� Idg to lug t6is hole so that afrald that, if penalties were
He had j~t returned from prope~y used in cdnnection ipcreased poltce protection
studying drug treatment in with the drug trade could be would not prove sufticient to
Australia and said that the ~~t~ ~~nviction. guard people with informa-
common factor in just about jt costs them everyth- ~on about drugs.
all cases of drug abuse was ,
alcohol -"far and awva " ~nB ~ey ve got, then they The Young 1Vationals
_ the most important drugy a~ going to think carefully decided that penalties were
I~Ir Thomson tipped the Whether drngs are worCh it,' stitf enou~ but that assets
he said.
Young Nationals off that acquired t rnugh drug deal-
there may be something The Young 1Vationals had ~ng should be confiscated.
r.oncernin~ milk subsidies in been spltt on~the drug abuse -
issue. i
CSO: i320
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NEW 'LEAI.~IND
UR1.TG-RELtaTED DEATE{S CONTINUE DESPITE HEROIN SHORTAGE
Abuse af Barbiturates
W~~ I t i n~;t ~,n TFiG EVENING POST in English 30 May 80 p 4
/Tc~x t. f Six ~~eo}~le have died drug-related deaths in Wellington in the past
six weeks, d~~spite a shortage of heroin.
The director ot the Na- "we are aware that ment of Health responses
tional Society on Alcoholism reporting Impedimenta and aiter beIng alerted to the
and Drug Dependonce (Mr biases do noE reveal that pro6lem have being out-
Roy Jo6aston) , aaid the rate ln oifictal figares. standingly negative,' Mr
deaths bad occucred in the Statiatlca ~n thls total area Johnston said.
$re~ter Wellingtoa area ~dffec because oE these "This misuse of barbi-
when th~re is virtually no 'under t~Me cerpet' and more turates and other prescri~
derotn abont - a~1tnaUon comfortable conveniea~es." 'tion drugs wili scale up
ahfc6 ~ 6as ~d ior~ the He aaM Polke and Cus- iWeas sottiiething positive is
past few mont6s." ~ to~ps~ officlele. bad vLtnallY done."
stified the avAilabill of p~~ aepect that need-
Mr Johnston said it waa ~
believed the ~ieatds were heroin t6tough e=cellent , attenttoe in the ublic
directly connected ~vit6 the ~odc.~.. . . , ;
inte~est was the methadone
current abuse qf barbitur- problem.
ates and central nervous Public,' s6ould,. aow: , be
de~naqdiag is, that fhei~e. be
system depreseants. ' ~ ~~Methadone was fo-
~ a~ equal.. atEeutiop and zeal troduced as a`cure a1P for
drug abuaers at the toanent p~I
d,,~ ~s t4~ere ~ae~ ~een to the heroin problcm. The
is strongly towards barbitur- 'het~eie,' to '11ny p~tiptio� heroin p~blem Is no longer
_ ate abuse," Mr Johnston drug supply that is irrespon- vvith us but methadone ls
said. sibte,~~ he sald. atiU being prescribed,,' he
safd. ~
are be n obWbed "Methadoae ls also being
the oondal p bing i~egat~~e s
reets,'~
he s~aidZealand city
channels." Approaches 6ad� been
~ He eald the incldenee ot � mad~ Qo the Health Depart.
drng-related deaths at ~ tAee ment to take actlon about
moment w~s aot any 61g1~� the,becbitutates ead aaother
or lower tdan betore. P~'~P~ ~E ~8 P~-
~~We. have repeated~Y and dled:.on the streets.~
for, some timepo
Inted out �in my view the Depart- .
drug,de8k6s at tbe rate of
one a week.
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cn~~~~k n~~~~i ~r~~.
~1~~~�Icl,~~~~1 'I'lil�; NI~;W /.I�:111d\NU III�:I{AI,IJ i ii f~;ii~~,l i:;li 31 M;i~ ~iU 1
/E:xcer. pt / The ttealt6 Department tone was no longer accept-
i, searching tl~rough 25 able.
mlllion prescription forms That, how�ecer, he said, did
in an eFtort to track dow�n not mean that other drugs
doctors �,~ho over-pre- : had been banned. ~
scribe bar, biturates.. ~ He added that in recent
"A nurnber of doctors a?�e years the total number of
easily conned into prescrib- barbittuate pi�escriptions had
- ing barbiturates," said the dropped markedly.
department's director o[ The department's decision.
~linical services, Dr J. S. ine said, had been made be-
Phillips. : Fore a claim bY the director
`~We H~ant to know who of the National Society ot
they are." Alcoholism and Dru~ De-
Not Banned Pendence, :VIr Roy Johnston,
that six drug-related death~ -
Dr Phillips said the de- in Wellington were directly
partment had also sent out a connected with the abuse of
letter to doctocs staEing that ~ barbiturates and central ner-
Ihe preseribing of barbitu- vous system depressants. ~
rates olher than phenobarbi-
Prescription Curb Urged
W?llington THE EVEIVING POST in English 3 Jun 80 p S
/Text/ Doctors throughout New Zealand have been asked by the Health De-
partment not to prescribe barbiturate drugs to anyone under the age of 30,
the director of clinical services (Dr John Phillips) said today.
"We've drawn to the al- Fo~ ~young people wilh Dr Phillips said that ul- ~~The trend among hard
tention ot doctors the danger genuine needs, there were : timately the dcugs couid be : drud abusers at the moment
of prescribing barbiturates atternative drugs to bar- banned �altogether, but he ~ is stroagly towards barbitur-
with aerofn virtually biturates available. was not expecting that to be ;.�8j;~ �abuee," he told the
removed from the $treets as ~nec'eseary. "Post" on Ftiday. ,
it were," Dr Phillips said. � . One has to. be eareful :
While it was clear that a Worr~ed :.that' the coif~par,atlvely r Mr Johnston said today
certain percentage af the ~~We've been v~rorried ~ S'mall number: of people who that cutting back the amount
legal drugs now available on abaut these drugs fer. some .mzs~~ ~~Rs do not . of drugs being prescribed
_ lhe streets came from time: Over the last I0 years ~il it for the'people wlth Would not necessarily lcad
break-ins on chemist~, a lot ~e .,number of barblturate: `~uine needs,". he s~1d: ~ to more break-ins.
of it was coming trom rescriptlons has : come ` . "The sensible thing to do
people who had ;~~n. Today it won~d only ' ~ '.1 with these people is to get '
prescriptions. , be about a quarter `of what. .,~eICOI~ed them off drugs altogethcr.
'We have indicated to the ~t aas In.~1989. Mr Roy Johpstoq, dlt+ectpr Anything that cuts back the
doctors that there is a high ~~~ye still �feel.tliaY 'it can �~'ot .t4e, . Natiotial Sqei~ty on a~ount of ~ drugs available
street value on barbiturates stlll be cut back further. ~ Alcoholiam and,Dru~ Deperi- obviously helps lo do
now," Dr Phillips said. We've given the doctors a dence, welcoitiEd tt~ aepart. this."
He declined to give exam-~ strong warning, or a mild f inent's move.:
ples of. the street `value, direction if you like. We_~`~'Last week 6e`pointed out
stating it was "not suitable ~ould expect' that siz people had died
to publish in a co-operation." drug-relat deaths in Wel-
newsuaner." lington in the past six
weeks.
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c,;i I I I~,r D ru~~, I'r~>I~~~
Wellin~;ton THG EVENING POST in English 6 Jun 80 p 4
/Text%
'I'he establishment of a � Examine and report on "Parliament cannot contin- Despite the fact that the
full�scale select commit- available information on the ue to ignore the serlousness flow of he:oin had almost
'ce to inveatigate the incidents and trenda ot the of the drug menace. ceased, drug addicts were
drug problem was called use and misuse of auch drugs "How many of our continuing to die from over-
for in Parliameat today ~ New Zealand. peop le must die before you doses at the rate of more
by Auckland Central .In uire into aad re rt Will aupport this much~ than one a week, Mr Prebble
Labour MP Mr Richurd on the adequacy of ~the ~9~ 1�to drugs. said.
~ he asked National Party Overseas Parliaments had
Prebble). control ot the manufacture, ~mbers. set up succesaful select '
In a notice oi motion to distrlbutiod, posse~ion and MPs .who had acotfed last co~mittees.
- the House, Mr Pre~ble ~ of such druge, and ihe year at t~s claim that f~here "Only in New Zealand
proposed that a nine- adequacy and appropriate- Way a major Kiwi drug have we refused to find out
member committee open to ness of � penalties for guch eyndicate suppl ing heroin what the real facts are with
the press be appoiated to, drug-reia~ed ofietices, the ,to New Zeala~ wete now regard to our drug -
among ~~iner i:~ings: - application of peaalties, aad having to eat thelr words, sltuatioa."
� Review and report on the distinction between F'n- Mr Prebble said. ' Mr Prebble has also
available current scientific alties for offence4 relatipg Horrlfylag evidence called on tho Goverpment to
information conceroing the to thelr use and penaltles tor ~gacdlng tbe activlttes of refuse permission for the
pharmacological, osycha oftences relating to their New Zeaiand drug dealers, transterral ovetseas of up te
~logical and social effects manufacture aad revealed in the Mr Asia drug ;200,OOO,to pay bail for New
dependence on drugs in ~stribution. case Ia England, had proved Zealander Miss Karen Soich,
common use in New Amplitying outslde the tQe need for such an who ls involved in the Mr
Zealand. House, Mr Prebble said: inqu~ry. Asia drug murder case. -
'Careless' Prescribing
W~l.lin~,ton THE EVENING POST in English 12 Jun 80 p 8
/Text/
SIX drug-related deaths in Wellington since Due to the successful etforts of police and Cus-
April have been llnked to abuse of drug prescriptlon toms officers, this could mean that the methadone
facilities by some doctors. treatment of heroin addicts could hopefully be re-
The allegat9on that the two were related was duced substantially and replaced by rehabilitative
made yesterdaq by the chairman of the Government rather than maintenance treatment, he said.
~caucus committee on the misuse of drugs, ~Ioro- The MP's comments followed a notice of motion ~
- whenua National MP Geoff Thompson: he moved yesterday in Parliament calltng for the
"There is evidence of doctors in certain places House to eote with alarm the sIx Wellington drug-
abusing their prescription facility~" Mr Thompaon rel~ted deafhs "connected eith the abuse of
said in an interview with the Post'. � barbiturates or central nervous system depress- ~
Some doctors are caretess in prescriptlon, 1~e ants." -
said, declining to provlde further lnformatlon. ~ .
Six drug-related deaths of youngpeople in the The notice calls for "responsibillty by the medi-
Wellington area since early April were "all cal professlon in the prescribing of barbiturates and~
barbiturate related" and all probably as a result of . other prescrlption drugs, and notes that the misuse
people turning to alternatives to heroin, Mr Thomp- of these drugs is a response to a continuing shortage
son said. of heroin because. of successful pollce and Custom
"The evidence at the moment is very much to office operations for~ which they are to be con-
the effect that heroin is in very, very short supply." , gratulated.''
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Fossible Prosecutions
~~uckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 16 Jun 80 p 2
/Text/ The Health Department port on some doctors aaa
will keep a continuai.watch y~ng 8~~ at present.
on pnacription. torms fol- ~'It is possible prasecution
lowing last month's search could follow against some
~ for doctors who over- d~~rs, but only if they
prescrlbe barta!!uratte.
' Department officers check W~e prescribing barbitu-
~ ed t~rourh 25 million for4ns ra~ ~8 addicts,"
~ in an effart to track dawn, ~ said.
~ these doctors. But Dr Phillips did not
Tbe director of the~ depart- think many dxtora were in-
ment'a clinical seMces, Dr vol~red.
J. S. Phillips, said a re- "Tfiis offence haa decreaa-
ed substantially in the past -
~ few yeare and we are now
onlq dealing with the tail-
end.
"But we wiU keep check-
ing," he said. "We are stitl
worried by the scnall number
~ still round."
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- NEW l.EAL!\Nf)
TFIP,EE r1EN CH~RGED WITN CONSPIRING TO IMPORT HEROIN
~tickland THE ~iEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 7 Jun 80 p 4
/R~~pc~rt: by staft reporter.7
/'1'~~xt./ Tauran~;a--~ New Caledonian policeman yesterday alleged that a
Mt htaun~;anui man told him heroin he had bought in Singapore for $1000 ,
r_oti].cl hK, sold in New Zealand for $54,000.
Ttie head.of public secucity They later returned with~ Resumption
for the New Caledonian Bradley , he said. ~~I had an idea he was
poiice. Jack lluftayet, said Bradley admitted he had Qin ta Sin a ore to et
the man, Anthony Bradle~, been caught at the au'~port ~ ~ g P 8
went on to say the heroin with a bag containin.; about some heroin to bring back
was for lris ~wn use. 190 grams of heroin, said Mri because, he was in financial
' Bradley, aged 32, a former DuHayet. .troubie," he said. ~
~food bar proprietar, and He (Bradleq) said he.had~ I offered to. help , him
, Grant Elliott Wills, 32, ~ bring it back but he sa~d he
; unemployed, of Tauranga, ~ b�ught it in Singapore with ~ ~d r~t know what I was
the hclp of a tax[ driver for talking abouC."
are appearin~ at a deposi- $1000," said the witness. 1 ~ Walsh said he had seen
~tions heanng in,the Tauranga ~~He seid he could sell it in Wills in Bradle~�'s hotel room
I District Court. New Zealand for $54,000 but ~ i in Auckland shortly before
They are jointly charged that it.was for his own use. he (Bradley) left for Sing-
~~sith Frederick Adrian Walsh He said he used about $1000) ,apore.
~of conspiring to import he- worth of heioin a month." + He 8id aot see Wills gi~~e; '
Eroin into New Zealand. A New Cale6oNan customs~ lanything to Bradley. i
~Valsh has atreaay pleaded officer, Etienne Bizeul, said' ~ A~strict Cow�t Judge D. B.!
j;uilty to the charge and ~s , he fourid a bag~ of heroin at- ~ 1~Vilson remanded the defen-
;serving a period of borstal tached to Bradley's stomach ~dants until June ]3 while a+
training. ~ when he searChed ~im at the! ~suitable resvmption date is!
Rtr Duffayet said that in! airport. . ' fauud.
February, 1979, he received In Bradley's suitcase he~ Walsh has yet to complete~
information from the New~ found two bottles oi tablets, his eviaence. Several police
Zealand police about Bradley two syringea and two~ yvi}aesses also remain to be
1t1CI 1M1 aI3I1. ~ needles. ' heard.
Stomach ' , Bradley had said he was on Mr A. J. Beech and Mr B.
his way to New Zealand. � ~ V. Wilso:~ are appearing for
The nezt day he sent a~ Walsh told the coart thaf ~gradle and Wills.
team of police to assist ~ he liad discussed importing ~ Y
custQms officers at New heroin , with Bradley at
Caledonia's international air-I Christmas.
purt..
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Nr:w rF:n~.n Nn
FOLLCE FOLLOWING LEADS PROVIDED BY ENGLISH DRUG HEAR?NG
WF~ilin~tc~n THE EVENING POST in English S Jun 80 p 26
/Text/
NEW Zealand police Mr Churches said New closely w~th law enfor-
are follow'i~ng drug leads Zealand police were aware cement agencies in lhe
provided by evidence at af the names of ,various United Kingdom and Aus-
the ust-completed "Mr Pei'S�~e who had been men- tralia, resulting in the ex-
Asia'~ murder hearing in tioned by prosecution wit- change of a great deal of
. ne.sses at Chorley. information," Mr Churches
l.harley, England. "The iaformation has been said.
The head of criminal furt6er investigated in New
im~estigations at police na- Zealand to see if sufficient The police had not yet
tional headquarters (Detec- evidence is available in decided whether to seek
tive Chief Superintendent Celatton to specffic offences
Mal Churches) said im~es- immunity from prosecution
tigations into possible drug or for cons
p.iracy in ~elation for any person con~ecled' -
offences in lYew Zealand had to drug otfences;' he said. with the Chorley case.
been mounted, although no To date,`the investiga-
prosecutions had as yet tions have not led directly to One witrtess a't the hear-
resulted. any prosecution in New ing, Miss Allison Dine, had
The Chorley Lower Caurt ~~flAd." been granted immunity
hea~ing on the death of New Investigatlons were . from prosecution in Aus-
Zealand drug syndicate 6oss continuing, he said. tralia. She gave evidence at
Martin 3ohnstone, 27, ended `'It shouW be remembered the Melbourne inquest into
on Tuesday with all 12 that the police have worked ~h~ murder of Doug and
accused being committed Isabel Wilson, two couriers ~
for trial. for'the drug ring.
_ Miss Dine, a former girl-
friend of Terry Clark,one of
. the people accused of mur-
dering Johnstone, gave
evidence at Chorley on
details of the drug ring's
operation.
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NEW ZEALAND
Ct~l.'I'f V/1'I'f NC f;ANNA13iS f:~RNS MAN i Y}?ARS' IMNRISONMEN'f
Ai.icicland THE NEW ZEAL.AND HERALD in English 5 Jun 80 p 4
/E x ce r. p t/ The cultivatioa of nearly His HQaonr said thai~, ~~hen
200A caanabis plants. des- police dlscovered the ven� .
- cHbed by t6e ~adge as a tnre, they found 965 female
"carefuUy ptaneed hortt- planta~.gro wittg and 900 male
_ cultural operation," led to a plants:a7ready;harvested.
man being sentenced in t6e M~ket Value
Higb Court at Aucklwd Evidence was given that
yeaterday t� Hve y~srs' the combined marketable
FmprIsonment. weight of the male and
The plants, which had been Eemale leaf, atter ~ beu?8
tound by po}ice on a farm strypped and dried~ was mor~e
property m Manukau, had Sp kilograms.
been u~ngated, fertilised and The judge said the dried
sprayed, and the male ~lants male leaf was valued at the
culled from the females, said trial at ~500 to ~700 a pound
Mr Justice Chilwell. and the female leaf at ~900 to
Michael John Fialayson, $200U a ~ound.
aged 29, a farm worker, bad The wttolesale market
been fowM guilty by a jury value of the cmp wss, on the
of one charge of c~ltivating tower figures, .about ;65;000,
cannabis and one charg! of ancl, on the higher fi~ures,
posse~ion of cannabis f~r ~170,000. The judge said he
supply, felt qUite ~ustified in -
The judge aentenced. hiro aentencing the prisoner on
to five years on each count, the ~asis of tfie lawer figure.
khe terms to tie concurreirt.
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PAKISTAN
= CHARAS SEYZED IN THATTA: CANADIAN HELD
Karachi MORNING NEF1S in English 19 Jun 80 p 5
- [Text) The Thatta Police arrested on Monday a Canadian national and eight
others who were trying to smuggle out about 4,580 kilograms of contraband
charas through sea route in Ghorabari area of Thatta District, police
sources said here yesterday.
The police recovered the charas from a truck and a Suzuki which were also
seized.
According to details, the charas was brought in a truck(g~G-7797) from
Darrah Adam Khail. The truck which left Darrah on June 10 was driven
by one Abdul Rashid Afridi, who was also its owner.
The truck reached Rarachi via Lahore and after a 24-hour stay in the city
it proceeded towards Thatta.
The truck driver was directed to follow a jeep (009-031) from Gharo. The
route followed by the truck and the ~eep was Ghara, Makli, Ghulamullah-
Bar, Semnali, but it later go~t stuck in sand in Deh Soomro.
An ASI of Ghorabari police stations who was on patrol duty became suspicious
about the truck and a search of the vehicle resulted in the recovery of
4,437 kg of charas.
Meanwhile, police got the information that a Suzuki (LEZ 2232) had also
become out of order nearby. The Suzuki. was also searched resulting in the
recovery of 142 kg of more charas.
The police also hauled a Yamaha motorcycle (KCU-4139) which was piloting
the Suzuki and arrested two persons including the Caaadian national iden-
tified as Hynmie Gitleman. The other persons was identified as Salim Butt,
who had recently purchased land in Deh Soomro for Rs. 3 lakh.
The Yalice are in search of another Canadian national, Mr Ray, who is said
to be closely connected with the smuggling racket.
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The persons arrested from the truck and the Suzuki were identified as
Abdul Raehid, Aftab, Shaukat Ali, Ghulam Aussain, Jameel, Zahid Hussain
and Haji Abdul Rehman.
The police have registered two c~ses under Sections 156 (89) of the Cus-
toms Act and 43/3 of the Abkari Act and are making further inquiries.--APP
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
24 KILO OF CHARA.S SEIZED--The Excise staff of East District an Saturday
raided the den of Ajab Khan, son of Mali Mian Khan, in his house situated
near Old Haji Camg, Ghas Ma.ndi, says an official handout. The staff
recovered 24 kilograms of exportable quality of cha.ras and arrested two
persons, namely Ayub I~an, son of Meer Sahib I~an and Ahmed Shahid, son ~
of Majid Khan. However, Gul A3ab Khan absconded seeing the Lxcise party.
Further investigation is in progress. IText~ IKarachi DAWN in English
16 Jun 80 p 8~
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SOUTH KOREA
NATIONWIDE DETECTION OF HII~tP, POPPY PRODUCTION AND DEALING UNDERWAY
Seoul THE KOREA TIMES in English 13 Jun 80 ~ 8
[Text] A nationwide detection oE il- aamdo, as large quantities of
legal hemp and PoPP3' Wo- ~mP and opium poppies are ,
ductian and dealing is uac~er lnwant to be Browing there.
way to uproot the uN~wful Lstensive search ~S being al- ~
drug business, it was learned so cartIed out in Cholla-puk-
- Y~~~eY� to's Muju, Chinan, Changsu .
The Health-Social Afiairs Clioagup, Imsil, Namwon,~'and
- Mlnistry started the largest Sunchang and in the cage of
scale detection of hemp Tuea- Cholla namdo~ Koksong, Sung-
day wIth six teams consisting ~ iu, Tarayang, Posong, Hwasun
_ of drug iavestigators to cover and Chang~ung are being ~
six provinces. The in~eatiga- checked.
tion will go on till June 19. In the-Kyongsang Provinces,
Mir~istry officials said that the inspection is fceused on
a large amo~t of hemp leav- ~doag~ Ponghwa, Ctiongdo
es grown by aqthorized farm- Uljin, Yongdok, Hadong, Nam-
ers, had been found to have hae, Sanchon, Chinyang, , Ui-
been mtsused for the roduo- rYong~ Sachon, Hapchong Ka _
P chang, and Kosong.
tion of drugs, after fibers were Mlnistry uf~icials said that
obtained from them. ' the teams would a16o make ef- -
Provinces which are cover- forts to get rid of wild hemp
ed by the ministry detectIon ' which grew in fields by it-
are Kangwon-do, Chungchong- ~~f,
namdo, Cholla-pukto Cholla- To curb illegal farming of
namdo, Kyongsang-pukto and hemp and, misase of hemp
Kyongsang-namdo. leaves for drng manufacture,
EHorts are being eoncetrtra~ enlightenment campaigns will ~
ed on Chongson, Samchok, be stcengt}~ned among farm- '
Pyongchang, and Hoengsong in ers by the. , ministry with the
Kangwon-do, and on Chong- help of Saemaul leade'rs in
Yang~ Yesaa, Hoagsang, Sosan, each village.
and Tangjin in Chungchong-
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THAI].AM~
FORMER POLICEMAN HELD WITH HEROIN
Bangkok BANGKaK WORLD in English 20 May 80 p 3
[ Text ] CHIANG MAI prov~nce, and Kriengeak
TWO peraona. one of ~aibutr (29), a former .
them e former border border patral policemen
paUol policem6n, were who wee euspended from
arreeted thie moming ~m~ ~ yeare ago,
and 1,200 grammee of pouce eaid.
No. 4 heroin eeized when
a police team raided a Acting on a tip-off, a
houee near 3enpakhoi police teaan headed by
merket in Muang Dietrict pol-Lt Arwuth 3ineuwan
here, police reported. went to e houee near the
The two arreeted market and found four
pereona were identified ae men inaide, including the -
Suwan (aliae Noi) two arreeted pereon~.
Thongkhamkun (36), a The two other pereone
native of Mae Sai ~~aged to escape, po>>ce
Dietrict of Chiang Rai eaid.
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TH1~IL~'~1VD
NARCOTICS, TRIBAL MINaRITIES, BORDER PROBLEMS DISCUSSED
Bangkok BAN MUANG in Thai 24 Apr 80 pp 1, 2
[Articles "Drugs and Tribal Minorities An Unsolvabl~
Probi e~M~ ]
[Tpxt] Concerning the problems alon~ the northern and
northeastern borders, it has been disciosed that drugs and
tribal minorities are still pr�oblems that are difficult to
soive. The minister of interior and the director-general of
the Poiice Departme~t went to see the living conditions and
situation of the border patroi police for them~elves. They
said they pitied these people and would find a way to improve
their liv~ and provide them with highly efficient weapons.
The Problems Along the Northern and Northeastern Borders
Surasak Kongkaeo, a re~porter for the newspaper BAN MUANG,
traveiled with Mr Pratuang Kiratibutra, the minister of
interior, and Police General Monchai Pankongchuen, the
director-general of the Police Department, when they went to ~
hoid a conference with the provincial governors, provin~iai
prosecutors and northern and northeastern police suppsintend-
ents concerning soivi.ng the probiem of order, suppressing -
crime and eliminating those criminai el~nents with power in ~
the rural areas. Between 17 and 20 Aprii, they made an
inspection to see how order was being ma3ntained along the
border and to check the suppression Af drug smuggling. He
reported that during the period the minister of interior and
the director-~eneral of the Police Department were making
_ their inspection along the border, they found many probiems
and difficuities in carrying out the work and promptly ordered
that the probiems be soived in all th~~ units and, in
particular, that crime and the peoplE~ who secre~tely produce
heroin along the border be suppressed. [They also ordered that]
- pre~parations be made to confront those armed forces from
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various groups that had entered Thailand. At the same time,
they ordered that the officials in a11 sectors make every
effort to help eradicate those powerful people who carry on
iilegai activities in the various p~ovinces.
Narcotics Are Stiil Champ
Concerning the problem of suppressing narcotics and inter-
cepting the armed minorities who live in Thailand and who use
Thailand as a piace to hide and carry on various activities,
the Thai-Burma border area is a cause of worry for the
authorities, especialiy the border patrol police, Our
reporter taiked with Ma jor General Wichai Wichaithanaphat, the
commander of the Region 3 Border Patrol Police, whose area
of responsibility is the entire northern border. He said that,
concerninq _the duties and tasks of the unit, at present the
Region 3 Border Patroi Police force is establishing a special
drug suppression unit and is arranging for it to work together
_ with the border defense people. Since 1975, much raw and
cooked opium and morphine has been seized.
_ The commander of the Region 3 Border Patrol Police stated
that tY~.ere are many problems in suppressing drugs in the north -
and that if no real effort is made to get to know the people,
[drug] suppression wiii achieve nothing. From the,.efforts of
~ the border patrol police, the inte~tion is to increase
development activities and involvement with the people by
having the border pa~rol police provide the villagers with
various types of help. It is thought that this will bring
rasults because, at the very least, the villagers wiil see
that by cooperating with the bnrder patrol police, they will
receive some benefits in re~turn. For these reasons, he
- stated that if suppression activities are carried on alone
and there is no involvement with the peopie, it wili be very
difficult to compiete the task. ~
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Production in Burma It can Be Seen But Nothing Can Be Done
About It
Police Ma jor General Wichai mentioned that there are piaces
in Thailand where heroin is produced but there are very few
such piaces. For the most part, they are located just 1 or 2
kilomet ers insid e the Burmes e border I am very ups et by
this. They produce heroin just 1 or 2 kilometers away; we
can see them but c~innot do anything about it. This is very
dist~rbing. I am referring here to the fact that everyone
blames Thailand. In pai~ticular, the United States has said
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that Thailand, especially the northern region, is a ma jor
source of heroin. I have told them that the heroin is produced
outside the country but no one believes me. If someone wants
me to destroy [the heroin factori~], they can give me the
order; I couid.,do this easily if ordered to do As for
keeping people from entering the country along this border,
border patroi police are stationed along the border at a11
times and it is difficuit for people to enter but you can see
that some peopie stili manage to enter the country and the
number is increasing."
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THAILAND
ITALIAN SENTENCID FOR HEROIN POSSESSION ~
Bangkok BAN I~UAN~ in~ Thai 24 Apr 80 pp 1, 2
[Articie: ~~Italian Woman Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison~~]
[Text] On 18 April 1980, the criminai court announced its
verdict in the case b~tween the officiais ar~d the defendent
Miss Kwilieana Fatnoli, an Italian age 25, who was accused of
having heroin in her posse~ssion in order to seil it and who
atte~mpted to take the heroin out of the Kingdom in vi~lation
of the law. The charge Was as foilows: _
At 210iJ hours on 12 November 1979, the accused was arrssted by
the authorities at Don Muang Airport. Also seized were nine
rubber contraceptives fiiled with Number 1 heroin weighing
195.65 grams and valued at 5,869.71 baht [sic]. The accused
intended to take this heroin to France but e~he ~ras arrested
before she could do so. The case took piace at the Bangkhen
market, Bangkhen district, Bangkok. In court, the accused
confessed to the charges. This criminai case was investigated
using the confession of the accused. She stated that on the
day mentioned, Mr Wisin Theppriyakun and Mr Ampon Mikhrua,
customs officiais, were on duty at the exit gate. They searched
her and found the heroin mentioned above in ri:ine rubber
_ contraceptiv~ that the accused had hidden in the lining of
- her ur~derwear. The court considered the case and conciuded that
the accused was guilty of possessing heroin in order to sell
it and of trying to take the heroin out the couritry for
distribution. She Was found guiityin accord with the Dangero~as
Drugs Act of 1979, P.O. Section 80, and Was given a sentence
of 50 years,in prison for each count, making a total of ?100
years in prison for the two counts. However, the sentence Was
reduced by haif because the accused had eonfessed, leaving ~
50 years. The heroin was eonfiscated. '
Furthermore, when the accused heard the sentence, she broke
down in tears.
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THAILAND
FOREIGNERS US E FALS E VISAS TO ENr ER COUNTRY FOiR DRUG SMUGGLING
Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 19 Apr 80 pp 1, 2
[Articles '~Three Foreigners Arr~ted; the Mari juana Gang Uses
_ Faise Visas"]
[T~ct] Three foreigners xho entered the country iilegaily
utsing faise visas ~ were arre~ted by imm.igration officiais
while they were smoking marijuana. During the investigation,
they admitted that they iiked Thailand bec:ause it was easy to
obtain marijuana. Forged visas for severai countries were
d iscover ed .
From the inv~tigations by Police Major General Anant
_ Dejrangsi, the commander of the InQnigration Division, it has
been learned that foreigners had~ entered the country using
false visas. Police Captain Kamphon Withayanon, deputy ~
inspector 1, Precinct 4, Metropolitan Police, toge~her w~ith ~
several other police officers, xas assigned the task of going
to 125/20 Soi Sunwichai, New Phetburi Road, Huai Khwang
communes Bangkapi district. When the imnigrat~ion officiais
arrived at this address, the door was ciosed and so they asked
a~foreigner to come out and~u;;ib;.k the~uoor. These officials
then entered and found two more foreigners asieep. They
searched the room and found. six stamps for stamping visas for
four countries Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Phillipines and
Thailand. They aiso found 15 sticks of marijuana and a
compi~te set of smoki.ng impiements. The officiais arrested
th~n and took thea to the Immigration Division. From the
investigation, it was learned that the names of the three -
are Mr~Winjams Arniea, an Australian age 35, Mr Barry William
, Mach, an Australian age 30 and Mr Cash L. Heron, a New
Zealander age 31.
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From the investigation it was learned that ail three used
' passports stamped with false visas and that they hac~ come to
Thailand once before. They had been arrested w~.th drugs in
their possession and deported from the country and were
persona non grata. But this group tried every way possible to
enter Thailand again because they liked Thailand very much and,
aiso important, they couid buy drugs easily and at lower
prices than abroad. When they could not get visas to enter
the country, they stamped faise visas in their passports and
e~tered th e country. Folioving this, the officials held them
in custody in order to deport them.
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THAILAND
TRAFrICF:F.RS SrNTENCED TO LIFE
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 3 Jun 80 p 1
[ Text ] g~ ~rsons, including three women, sentenced to 13 years and four months
were yeeterday found Quilty by the in jail. ,
Criminal, Couct of poasesaing druga His w[te Nipaporn, and Pengkui
with Intent to�sell and sentenced to Jail and his wi[e Muey wer4 sentenced to 20
terme ranging irom 13 yeara to Ilfe. years each while Prachuab and hls wife
They had been caught with 17 Wanida received life imprisonment.
kilo~rammes ot morphine blocks and 11 On March 19, police had first raided
kilos of Na. 4 heroin in their porsee- Prasert's house in Soi Klongton of
sion. ~ Sukhumvit and found the morphine
The slx, Praaert Choteaamithikul and blocks in the baot of his Toyota car.
his wite Nipaporn, Pengkul sae Lim and His wife. N[paporn, Pengkui and
his wife Muey and Prachuab Muey, who were in the house and at-
_ Chotesamithlkul and hls wife Wanida, tempted toescapeduringthepoliceraid
had been arrested fn a series of ratda in were arrested for aUeged involvement
Bangkok Metropolis by NareoUcs Sup~ with the dcugs seizure.
pression Police on March 19 last year. Prachuab and his wite Wanida were
1'he alleged deugs courier, Boonmee arrested later the same day in their
Promea�nga, of Mae Sai, Ch[ang Rai, hovse in Sof Charoer~jai oft Ekkamei
who was errested that aame day, wae with 11 kilogrammes of No.4 heroin and
acquitted by the court on g~ourtda ot in� ~ towel coated with heroin hidden in a
aufticient evidence. suitcase.
Prasert, the only defendant who Boonrrree was arrested in a rented
pleaded guilty to all charges iiled house in Soi Ruammltr off Chan Road
against him by police inveatlgators, was atter being� implicated as the courter. _
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THAILAND
TRAFFICKER SEIZED WHILE SMUGGLING FROM NORTH
Arrested at Hua Lam Phong
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in Engli~n 8 Jun 80 pp 1, 3
[Ter.t j NARGOTICS agents yesterd~ ~rt~ted a womaa and two men and
charged them with poweNio~ ot 10 Idlogeamme~ o! No. ~"btown
heroln" with intent to emnggle abroad. '
A ~oiat team of Crime ~
5uppression vivlaion po~ice safd. the owner. They said Mrs
(CSD) police and US Sai told them she had
Drug Enforcement Ad-' It was learned that Mrs p~~~ to travel by train
min~stretiunagentsmade SaI would leAVe Bangkok to Malaysia and
the arrests yesterday by a southern expreaa Singapore, and then go
afternoon at Hua Lam� t~'aia, and a CS'b pollce on to Hona Kong. A
pong railway station. teom led by Yol Co1 M.L. Sinaapore-Hong Kong
Police said the heroin, Term Sanitwong~e and ~ plane ticket waa found in
with a recail value of mil� Pol Lt~:ol Patro~ Thong� her possession, police
liona of baht, was about in wpa walt[na at Hua ~
t o b e s m u g g l e d t o Lampon~ atation at about .
Singapore by southern 4 p.m. yesterday wh~n Thawatchal and Prapat
express train, and trom the Uu'ee swpecta pulled denied any knowledge of
there would be taken to up in a white Holden the herotn, and said they
Nong Kong. aedae� were merely drivir~ Mre
Police identlfied the police immediately ~1 to the atation aa she
three suspects as Mrs Sai demAnded a search. Mre ~ a tatnily friend.
Jaidee, 40, a resident of ~i h~d three sultcatea The three have been
M a e 5 a i U i s t r i c t o f with her and police ~atd charged wlth poNeeelon of
C h i a n g R a i, P r a p a t they found 41 packa~es oi heroin with intent to sm-
Abhiwantrakoon and herofa hidden ln false u~le abroad forsale and
Thawatchai Chaisom� bottoms oi Ne caiee. are being detained by the
' boon. Police sald Mre Sat told Crime 5uppre~sion llivi-
Pol~ce sald Mrs 3ai kad them tl~e herofn was not eion for further questlon-
long been known to be in- hete, but refitaed to name ing.
volved ~n heroin traltick� '
ing, and her movementa
had been cloaely
monitvred.
AcUng on a tlp~ott that
a large amount oi heroin
was to be amuaaled
abroad irom the North,
the CSD's northern nar-
cotics unit, led by Pol
Capt Rasit'iCtaimuk fol�
lowed Mrs Sai from
Chiang Rai on Saturday,
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Bound for Singapore
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 9 Jun 80 p 1
[Text] pOLI(;~ con[lscated more drug~ - 10
~ilogremmes uf morphine blocke and 9.5
ilas of cWked opium - late Saturdoy nfaht
an connectiun with the selzure of 10 kilod of
~Vo.3 "brown sugar" heroln and the arreet of
;three suspects earlier in the atternoon,
ICr~me Suppression lnvislon (CSD) pollce
~reported.
; Pol MoJ Yracheksilp Suwanbhewi of the
)Centrel investigation Bureau handed the
~norphme and upium over to CSD police after
mding the drugs packed in sultcaees at hia
~ather-m-law's house. '
~ On Saturday a[ternoon, a Joint unit ot CSD
poliae and U~ llrug Entorcement Ad-
min~stratiun agents arrested three pereons
- Mrs Se~ Jaidee,'Phawatchai Chalwmboon
and Yrapat Abhiwantrakoon - in a white
Holden sed`an at Hua Lampong atadon.
Police sald they found 10 kilos of herofn in
three suitceses, hidden In falae bottoma.
Ma~ Yrachaksilp satd that the car belonQed
to h~s father�i~a�law, Mr Pakdf Nlvatwon~se,
and �that 1'hawatchal was Mr Pakdl's drfver.
However, he said that Thawatchal and
Prapat had nu connectfon wlth the drugr, but
were merely following hls motherdn~law'e in~
strucUons tu drive M~s Sai to the rallway ata-
tion.
Ma~ Yrachaksilp's mother�ln�law, Mrs
Chaluey, tuld police that ahe had known 11~te
Saf for s~?me time, but only aa a gem dealer.
She sald Mrs SuI was a trequent vlelta* to her
house.
Atter Irarning af Mrs Sai's arreet, Ma1
Prachaks?lp went to ,his mother�ld�law'a
house to see if anything had been left there.
ln the srrvanYs quarters he found two brief�
ceses and twu suitcases, allegedly belon~ing
to Mrs Sai, which he handed over to pollce.
lnside, p~lice tound 10 morphlne block~
each we?ghiry~ one kilogramme, and 3.5 idloa
of cooked npium. Mrs $si reportedly admlt-
- ted the cases belonged to her and that she
Aad told Mrs (:haluey she would pick them up
on her return from Singapore.
Ma,1 Prachaksilp said he reported the caee
to C18 (:ommissioner Pol Lt-Gen .Kittl
Seributr tu evoid being suapected ot involve~
ment In drug tratticking.
MeAnwhile, Mra Sai reportedly admitted
being in posaession of 10 kge ot Na9 heroin, '
but demed the drugs belonged to hbr.
Pol~ce aaid that M~s Sat wbs lon~ known to
be lnvolved ln heroln trafficklna. They eaid
ehe was arrested while about to boaM a
southern express train in an attempt to sm�
~ggle the drugs into S[ngapore and then on
to Hong hung by plane. 5he Fiad ~ SinaApore~
Hong Kong air dcket in her poseeeaton..
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that had misfired.
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group, who is "very dangerous," ac-
cording to hill dwellers. He s'oots
to kill, and doesn't care whom. Nana, Taica, Paulo Aguiar and Dunga are
being charged with responsibility for the death of Lafaiete Jose Medina,
71, on 23 April. The victim, who combated the bandits on Chapeu Mangueira
Hill and who collaborated with the Military Police in drug repression in
the area, was killed as he was climbing the hill with two shopping bags.
Five months ago the sane bandits killed a popcorn vendor on Ari Barroso
Ladeira when they tried to rob him.
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BRAZIL
MARIHUANA TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED WITH 100 KILOS
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 10 May 80 pp 1, 11
[Excerpts] rederal police yesterday presented~to the press two of the
three traffickers arrested last week on the Via Dutra Highway, The police
reported that the 100 kilograms of marihuana they were bringing in were to
be exchanged for cars stolen in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro that caould
be smuggled into Paraguay by way of Ponta Pora. According to police, traf-
fickers Gerson Palermo, Carlos Alberto Jacob3. Viana, Marcos de Sandy Val].e
and Fernando de Paula (the first two were presented to the press yesterday;
the last-named is now a fugitive) worked for Paraguayan Javier Perez Valdez,
one of the largest suppliers of druga to Rio de Janeiroo
Seized Marihuana Was to Be P.xchanged for Stolen Cars
Federal Police repor~ed yesterday that the 100 kilograms of marihuana that
were being hrought into Rio de Janeiro in a Passat intercepted on the Via ,
Dutra Highk~:,~ had come from Pedro Juan CabPllero in Paraguay and were to be
exchanged for cars stolen in the South Zone. The cars would later be smug-
gled into Paraguay through the town of Ponta Pora, Mato Grossoo
Federal police presented to the press yesterday two of the three traffick-
ers who were in the Passat and were arres~ed last Friday; the fourth mem-
ber of the group is at large. Besides the 100 kilograms of marihuana, they
had 200 grams of hashish in the car's baggage compartment, Also on exhibit
were the seized marihnana and the Passat, with its windows shattered arid
full of bullet holes--resulting from the shootout between the traffickers
and police.
According to federal police, the traffickers worked for Javier Perez Valdez,
owner of marihuana plantations in Paraguay and one of the most important
supp?iers of drugs to distributors in Rio de Janeiro. Javier is the brother
o= I~~ns~Que Perez Valdez, who is serving a 12-year term on Ilha Grande for ~
narcotics traffic. 'He was arrested in Pirai 1S September 1978 when federal
- police intercepted the station wagon in which he was traveling with Elsio
Goncalves Nunes, carrying 370 kilograms of marihuana that were also to have
been brought to Rio de Janeira and exchanged for stolen cars, preferably
Brasi~i.a~5 C~evettes and Passats.
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BRAZIL
MARIHUANA, COCAINE TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Marihuana, Cocaine in Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 14 May 80 p 16
[Text] The Narcotics Commission yesterday arrested, at different times but
on the same corner--Leopoldo Miguez and Xavier da Silveira streets, in ~
Copacabana--two drug traffickers exposed shortly before through telephones
223-9406 and 243-9406, made available to anyone having information to pro-
vide about narcotics traffic. One of tihese traffickers, minor L., 16, who ~
lives in Ilha do Governador, was selling marihuana.
The minor was arrested at 1600 hours with aix small packages of marihuana
and confessed that he was selling :.them for 200~ cruzeiros, of which he kept
half and delivered the other half to the trafficker known as D e Luis, who
lives on Goes Monteiro_Street 3.n Botafogo and is now missingo
Three hours later, on the same corner, police arrested Claudio Valerio de
Almeida, 2~;; of �Washington:Lutz Street downtown, Police found eight packets
of cocaine in a matchbox in one of his pockets.
Cocaine Sold in Gloria ,
- Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 10 May SO p 1
[Text] The Narcotics Commission yeaterday arrested, by means of informa-
tion given on telephones 223-9406 gnd 243-9406, trafficker Reinaldo de
Amorim, 28, who was selling cocaine in the Casa da Providencia bar and
grocery store at 20 Hermenegildo de Barros Street, G loriA; where he workso
Psychology and enginee~ing student Waldir de Carvalho Eapinola, 31, an ad-
dict who had just bought a small package from Reinaldo for 300 cruzeiros,
was also arrested.
Businessman Manoel Landeira, owner of the establishment, said he knew noth-
ing about the cocaine traffic; he will be given a hearing today by police.
The store manager, Francisco Ferreira Braga, heard as a witness, said:
"Reinaldo always had bulging and red eyes, and he broke a lot of bottles;
this had already caught the boss' attention."
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When the police arrived at the bar, the first to be arreated was Waldir,
a resident of Leme, who had just left the establiahment and was putting a _
packet of cocaine in his billfold. Se informed on Reinaldo (resident of
221 Santa Marta Street in Realengo), who, upon being searched, had two
packets in one of his pockets. The rest--15 small packages wrapped in
translucent tracing paper--were in a medicine chest behind a carton of
eggs on one of the shelves.
On being booked, the student said he had not sought out Reinaldo to buy the
drug, but that the latter brought it up while he was having a beer, Saying
that he is not an addict, Waldir explafned that he bought the packet "just
to try it out." Reinaldo said he has been selling drugs for about 15 days
and that he acquired the cocaine on Barros Hill.from a stranger who charged
200 cruzeiros per packet. Reinaldo has already served 3 years in prison
for robbery and was once charged with vagrancy.
The student was released on 2,000 cruzeiros bail and Reinaldo was taken to
jail. -
Cocaine, Marihuana in Niteroi
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 9 May 80 p 8
[Excerpt] Niteroi police yesterday seized 72 packets of cocaine and 40
packages of marihuana in a small store in the Sabao slum district located
near the approach to the Rio-Niteroi bridge. The brothers Pedro and Gabriel
dos Santos Moreira, 31 and 29 respectively, owners of the shop, were ar-
rested on the premises.
When booked at the Narcotics Station, Pedro and Gabriel said the drugs be-
, longed to a stranger who left them there for safekeeping. The police, how-
ever, ascertained that the brothers were selling drugs to addicts in Rio
de Janeiro.
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BRAZIL '
BRIEFS
FRENCHI~lAN AETAINED AT AIRPORT--Frenchman Xairer Errotabera, 32, was arrested
yeaterday at the Rio de Janeiro International Airport with 360 grams of co-
caine in a satin moneybelt fastened arouad his waist as he was preparing to
board Iberia flight number 998 bound for Madrid. He bought the drug in Bo-
livia and was goireg to sell it in France for $40,000 (about 2 million cru-
- zeiros). Xairer (who is of Latin American deacent) is being held in custody
of federal police until his involvement in cocaine traffic on the Bolivia- �
Brazil-Europe circuit is investigated. According to what he told Narcotics
D ivision agents, he arrived a few days ago from Cochabrimba, Bolivia, where
he bought the drug for $7,000 (about 350,000 cruzeiros). fle took a room in
a Copacabana hotel awaiting the flight to Madrid. From the Spanish capital
he was to go to Paris to sell the cocaine. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO
in Portuguese 14 May 80 p 16J 8834
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Porto Velho---The Federal Police superintendency
in Rondonia reported yesterday that a ring of drug traffickers working on the
route Porto Velho-Sao Paulo-~Rio de Janeiro was dismantled. According to the
police, the ring was d iscovered with the arrest of five traffickers--three ,
Bolivians and two Brazilians--in Gua~ara-Mirim on 20 June, at the border with
Bolivia. Tf,io kg of pure cocaine were found on the traffickers estimated at
1 billion cruzeiros by the police. [PY281315 Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL
in Portuguese 25 Jun 80 p 24 PY]
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COLOMBIA
DEFENSE MINISTER' S BROTHER INVOLVED IN DRUG TRAFFI(KING
PA170430 Paris AFP in Spanish 0203 GMT 17 Jun 80
[Text] Bogota, 16 Jun (AFP)--Colombian Defense Minister Gen Luis Carlos
Camacho Leyva confirmed here tonight that his brother, Alfonso, had been
arrested under the suspicion of drug trafficking. The defense minister ex-
plained, however, that he had ended contact with his brother some 10 years
ago because of his irresponsibility.
~ In a communique released to the press the minister revealed the text of
messages sent to the air force commander and to the attorney general asking -
for an investigation and application of the law if the suspect was found
_ guilty. '
He also presented a circular letter addressed to the commander of the four
armed forces branches--mailed last September--in which he ordered them to
disregard the petitions made by his brother availin~ himself of the relation-
ship with the high-ranking officer and minister.
Newsman Alfonso Camacho was arrested Wednesday at Bogota's Eldorado Airport
- ~ahen he landed on a military aircraft in which he had brought from Leticia,
located near Peru, an amount of cocaine estimated between one and five kilos,
according to newspaper reports.
A notebook faund on Alfonso Camacho allowed tY:e authorities to dismantle a
powerful drug traffickers' organization in Puerto Wilches, 450 km north of
Bogota. Some 250 kilos of the alkaloid were found at the organizations'
modern illegal laboratory used for processing the drug.
- Some 10 persons, 2 of whom are believed to be "fat cats" in this illegal trade,
were arrested at the Puerto Wilches operation carried out last weekend.
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TRAFFICKERS SUPPLY ARMS TO GUERRILLAS
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 9 May 80 p 3-A
[Article by Bernardo Navas Talero]
[Text] Lisberto Antonio Parra Gonzalez,.alias El Che, and Emil~o Jimenez,
alias Esteban, the two insurgents ~rom the FARC [Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia] wk?o surrendered on 3 May in La Macarena coumtains,
said that the guerrillas are oUtain~ing arms through deals with drug
traffickers.
They pointed out that until very recently, ~n compliance with directives
from higher commands, they were ;iven oxders to set f ire to marihuana
crops which they found in the~.r areas.of mperation. -
For reasons they claimed not to know, dur~ng the last few months they
have been contacting the peasants who raise marihuana and have forced
them on pain of death to inform them of the arrival of the buyers. -
When the buyers arrive the guerrillas trade the marihuana for a certain
_ number of arms or dollars "because they will not accept Colombian pesos,"
they added. ;
"At times we also use gangsters' airports and planes to receive shipments -
- of arms and munitions or to get someone out of the country," Emilio
Jimenez said. "They, the drug traffickers, often use the clandestine
FARC airports for emergency landings," ttie youngest of the deserters,
Jimenez, alias Esteban, added.
"About 2 months ago," he said, "a 4-engine plane attempted to land in
La Macarena and was not able to because it was too big; later, we found
out that it had landed at Apiay."
The Story of the DC-6
In fact, towards the end of last February an enormous and dilapidated DC-6
requested permission to land at the Apiay mil~.tary base airport.
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A well-informed source, who asked to remain anonymous, told EL TIEMPO
that the pilot of the huge machine--a Korean war veteran--atCempted to
negotiate over the radio some of the conditions under which he would
surrender~ When his demands were re~ected.he announced to the control
tower that he would "make the plane unserviceable."
The source added that the pilot, with unusual dexterity, deliherately
made a f aulty landing, which,put the antiquated plane out of commission.
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COLOMBIA
ALLEGED DIPLOMAT SEIZED WITH COCAINE
_ Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 5 May 80 p 7-A
[TextJ An alleged Colombian diplomat who was about to depart for the
republic of E1 Salvador turned out to be ;tnvolved in drug traf~icking
when units of thP Judicial Police [PJ] f ound in his suitcase 4 kg of
cocaine valued at~ 4 million pesos.
The incident took place on Friday a~'ternoon at Eldorado airport when the
alleged official, identified as Carlos Radolfo Bolanos Correa, was about ~
to depart for E1 Salvador aboard an SAM plane.
According to a spokesman of the National Office of the Attorney General,
Bolanos Correa had completed all the formalities~for departure and when
his baggage was about to be loaded on the plane ~embers of the PJ became
suspicious when they noticed 'how heavy the suitcase was. The suitcase
bore the sticker of the Colombian embassy ~.n E1 Salvador.
After a careful inspection, the PJ agents ~ound 44 plastic bags concealed
- among the personal effects of the diplamat.
Bolanos Correa was able to escape, but yesterday the authorities had
leads which will result in his capture in a few hours.
It was not possible to ascertain whether the man accused of drug trafficking
was really going to assume a post in the Colombian embassy in E1 Salvador
or whether, on the contrary, the sticker on the suitcase.was placed there
to facilitate the exit of the drug w~.thout police control.
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COCAINE TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, COCA~NE SEIZED
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 25 Apr 8U p 14-A
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A total of 2 kg of cocaine and apparatus for processing it were seized
by the F-2 from Silvino Roa Alfonso, Victor Manuel Salinas, Luis Hernando
Barrera and Rafael Antonio Salinas. The laboratory was located at 41A-21
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COLOMBIA
COCAINE SEIZED IN SAN BENITO ABAD
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 30 Apr 80 p 14-A
[Text] Sincelejo, 29 April. (De Blas ~ina Salcedo)--A light plane of
U.S. registration crashed day before yest~rday on the farm La Arena, in
the jurisdiction of San Benito Abad, Sucre Department, with several boxes
of tablets which in the underworld are called Jumbo or 714, and are 100
percent cocaine, according to information provided by Lt Miguel Angel ~
Rodriguez, chief of public relations of the Sucre Division of the National
Police.
The value of the shipment together With that of other boxes found by
police agents scattered all over the farm, ~s '100 m;tllion pesos,according
to our informant. ~ ~
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According to the officia]. version given to.the pres.s, at 1700 hours the
plane took off,from a' clandestine landing strip~in'.La A'reria with.several
crewmen, overloaded with drugs`which caused.the pTane to'crash land a
few minutes after taking off. On the arxival of the peasants of the area
the plane's occupants asked them to gather the boxes and promised to buy
them back from them later. The infiabitant~s of the area proceeded to do
this and the crewmen, whose identity is not known, set fire to the plane.
When the police, 50 strong, arrived from Sincelejo, sent when the command
received the report from the police post in Santiago, the remains of the
plane, 6 storage tanks, 100,000 tablets, a fire engine, 2 Walkie-Talkie
radios and complete rescue equipment were found. By that time the pilot
and his companions had escaped the police action.
During a search of the f arm 50 more boxes were f ound which were turned
over to.the Sucre Division of the National Police Command.
At the time of this report, 1745 hours on 29 April, the local police divi-
sion commander, Lt Col Manuel David Guarin Garcia, held a meeting in his
office to study the case with the head of the DAS [Administrative Department
of Security] Heliodoro Rodr3:guez Barragan, and other official representa-
t ives .
Two persons, the administrator and another employee of the farm, were
arrested. -
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BRIEFS
NEW DRUG SHIPMENT METHOD--Bogota, 20 June (EFE)--Colombian authorities dis-
covered a new method of smuggling drugs when 12 kg of high grade cocaine were
_ found in several oxygen cylinders shipped by plane from Leticia, in the
southern part of the country, to Bogota. No arrests were made because the
addressee, Luis Melendez, did not claim the drugs, worth 50 million pesos :
($1.25 million) on the Colombian market. [Madrid EFE in Spanish 0026 GMT
21 Jun 80 PA]
DRUG PLANE CAUGHT--Riohacha army and police units have caught a U.S. licensed
plane and its two crew members as it was going to take off from Almirante
Padilla Airport with a big drug shipment to the United States. The 863 twin-
engine craft was placed at the disposal of the second brigade based in Bar-
ranquilla. The names of the two crewmen were not given. [Bogota Radio
Sutatenza in Spanish 1200 GMT 23 Jun 80 PA]
DRUG ARREST--Bogota, 17 Jun (LATIN)--Two U.S. citizens of Cuban origin,
_ Pedro Diaz and Rafael Linero, were arrested by army units after they entered
the country clandestinely in a DC-4 airplane with U.S. Registration No. N-91--
379, presumably to pick up a shipment of marihuana to be taken to the United
States. Their plane crashlanded in La Guajira department because of a mechan~.-
cal defect. [Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish 2215 GMT 17 Jun 80 PAJ
DRUG DTSCOVERY--Bogota, 18 Jun (LATIN)--It was officially announced that the
authorities today confiscated 30 kg of cocaine, worth 60 million pesos ($1.3
- million), discovered in two liquid gas tanks brought in an airplane belonging
to the Europesca Company that covers the route between Florencia, 700 lan south
of Bogota, and the capital. Two persons, whose identity was not revealed,
were arrested. [Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish 0048 GMT 19 Jun 80 PA]
COCAINE ARRESTS--Bogota, 21 Jun (~FE)--The F-2 today confiscated over 100 kg
of high grade cocaine today in Soacha Municipality, south of this capital, and
arresteri six persons. The drug is worth approximately 500 million pesos
($12.5 million) on the Colombian market. The identity of those arrested was
not revealed. ~Madrid EFE in Spanish 2028 GMT 21 Jun 80 PA]
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DRUG PLANE DOWNED--Bogota, 21 Jun (EFE)--A U.S. registered DC-6 plane was
downed by Colombian troops in the Guajira region. Gen Guillermo Narvaez
Casallas, commander of the Army 2nd Brigade, reported that the plane took off
from a clandestine airstrip and was detected by troaps which opened fire. The
plane, which was loaded with a large amount of marihuan~, exploded in the air
and its five unidentified occupants were killed. [Madrid EFE in Spanish 0146
GMT 22 Jun 80 PA]
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_i of approximately 3 kg at an estimated cost of $1.5 million, and arrested Mexi-
can Baltazar Perales, a resident of California, at Tocumen International Air-
' port. The shipment was reportedly packed in Colombia to be taken to the
; United States. [PA231504 Panama City Televisora Nacional in Spanish 2315 GMT
16 Jun 80 PA]
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VENEZUELA
COCAINE CONFISCATED FROM INTERNATION,AL TRAFFICKERS
' Caracas ULTIMAS NOTICIAS in Spanish 5 Jun 80 p 55
[Article by Francisco Gomez and ~'reddy Urbina: "U.S. Registered P1ane Which
Crash-Landed in the Amazonas Terxitory Carried Cocaine Worth 100 Million
Bolivares"]
[Text] The sizable lot of smuggled pure coca3ne valued at about 100 million ~
bolivares and seized by the authorities from the crew members of a
U.S.-registered airplane which made an emergency landing near Puerto Ayacucho
belonged to a powerful network o~ internat3onal drug traffickers.
This was the conclusion reached by the narcotics bureau of the PTJ [Judicial
Technical Police] and other state security bodies ~ollowing the brief inter-
rogation to which they sub3ected U.S. citizen ~ranklyn Newton, pilot, and
Bolivian citizen Abell de Jesus Castellanos, a member of the crew of the
executive Baron aircraft, license N-127-TY, shortly a�ter their arre~t
yesterday.
It was learned that t~e aircraft was en route from Bolivia, where it took off
from a secret airport, to the city of Miami, where the smuggled lot of
cocaine was to be delivered to the ch3efs of this 3nternational drug
trafficking network. .
Tuesday night, while flying ovex yenezuelan territory, specifically Puerto
Ayacucho, the pilot, Franklyn Newton, who we were told is a veteran of the war
in Vietnam, observed a failure in the system ~eed3ng gasoline from the tank
to the engines.
In~view of the seriousness o~ the malfunction, the pilot decided to land and
did so near the bah~ o� the Orinoco River, between the settlement of
Samariapo and Puerto Ayacucho.
The control tower at the airport in the cap~tal o~ the Amazonas territory
advised the National Guard authorities, and a squad was dispatched. On
reaching the area 1 hour latex, they found the American and the Bolivian
wounded. ~
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Since an official repurt to the effect that the plane had not~reported its
passage over Venezuelan territory to any of the control towers in the
country was already in hand, the National Guard decided to search the air-
craft very carefully, and in a secret compartment, 8 suitcases containing
300 kilograms of cocaine wrapped in polyethylene bags were found.
This National Guard team then advised higher authorities of their discovery,
and Brig Gen Evelio Ruiz Ruiz, commander of Region 6 with headquarters in t~
Apure, and Col Manuel Cabrices Lamas, commander of the 61st Detachment at
~uerto Ayacucho, as well as PTJ of~icials in the region, traveled to the
area where the plane had landed in the early-morning hours.
Transfer to Caracas
- The head of the narcot3cs bureau of the PTJ, Co~nissioner Maximiliano Lopez,
axrived in the city o~ Puerto Ayacucho last night, and because this body is
responsible for txying similar crimea, the head of this bodq decided to
travel personal.ly to the location where the men had been detained.
At about 180Q hours, a PT~ aircraft returned to the La Carlota airport,
carrying this police o~~icial and the arrested men, the American
Franklyn Newton and tfie Bolivian Abell de Jesus Castelanos. ~
The same evening the two drug tra~fickers were questioned at the main head-
_ quarters of the PTJ.
At the time of their arrest by Nat3onal Guard troops, $10,000 in cash was
taken from these individuals.
National Guard Statement -
The ma~or general who is chief of the general staff of the National Guard
- a~ounced for his part that the troops of this Venezuelan army body involved
in this incident seized from the two men 8 suitcases containing cocaine
estimated to have a value of 20 million bolivares. ~
Couriers
- A police expert experienced in this type of a~~air pertaining to the inter-
national traf~ic in drugs told us yesterday that this smuggled lot.was one of
the largest seized on Venezuelan terxitory, and in addition, the executive
aircraft which he estimated is worth some mtllions o~ bolivares will probably
become the property o~ the Venezuelan state.
He said that there is full secuxity and that these were among the couriers
in a powerful drug traf~icking network made up ~or the most part.of U.S.
citizens who purchase the cocaine in Bol3via and have it transported in
luxury aircraft and light planes to their nat3ve land.
Interpol-Venezuela asked the ~BI yesterday for information about the
background of the U.S. born pilot, and also noti~ied the Bolivian police,
_ for similar information about the ci~~izen of that country arrested.
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VENFZiIELA ~
COCAINE LABORATORY DISCOVERED
Caracas ULTIMAS NOTICIAS in Spanish 29 May 80 p 46
[Article by Freddy Urbina: ~~"I3rug Cutting 'Laboratory' Searched and Presumpd
Drug Trafficker Arrested in Los Ruices"]
[Text] A presumed trafficket in drugs was arrested in a luxury apartment .
in Los Ruices, and flasks of cocaine, a scale and a chpmical substance for
cutting the drug,in his possession were seized.
This report was made puhlic by officials of the narcotics division o.f the
PTJ [Judicial Technical Police], who identi~ied the man arrested as
Raul Argenis Boada Granados, 25, a Colombian national.
Boada, at the time of his arrest during the search of Apartment 104 in the
Los Corti~os de Los Ruices complex, was carrying Venezuelan identification
papers in the name of Enrique Rmnan Chacon Viloria.
The report released said that it was ~ound that this presumed drug trafficker
traveled to Colombia, purchased drugs and returned by air from San Antonio
del Tachira to Maiquetia, and thence back to Caracas.
_ During the investigation, a corisiderable group of persons was identified,
_ apparently cons wmers who regularly called upon Boada in the apartment men-
tioned. If their participation in these events can be confirmed, they will
be arrested.
Meanwhile, Raul Argenis Boada Granados, also known as "Saltpeter Raul," is ~
being investigated prior to appearing in court.
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VENEZUELA
COCAINE TRAFFICKING GANG ME'Mf3ERS ARRESTED
Caracas EL NACIONAL in Spanish 17 May 80 p D-16
[Text] A former trainer of purebred horses and several private detectives
were arrested by agents of the Narcotics Bureau of the ~TJ [Judicial
Technical Police], partially destroying a cocaine tra~ficking gang which
had been operating for several months in the eastern part of the city.
The investigation pointed to Rogelio Medina, 40 years oiE age, as the pre-
_ sumed head o~ the gang. He woxked as a pro~essional horse trainer at the
La Rinconada racecourse until 2 years ago.
- The others arrested wexe German Herrera, a_private detective;
Luis Berconzky, 33, who was carrying identi~ication as a special agent of
the National Gvard; ~nd Antonio Lanz Landaeta, also a private detective.
Commisaioner Maximiliano Lopez, head o~ the Narcot~.cs Bureau of the PTJ,
revealed that during the search o~ an apartment at which former horse
trainer Medina 13ved on the 15th ~loor o~ the Sabino Building in the
Campo Elias cul-de-sac in the Candelaria parish, a lot of purified cocaine
valued at more than half a million bolivares was ~ound.
When the agents of the Narcotics Bureau reached the building, they found
_ Medina in the company o~ other men engaged in the sale of the drug, including
German Herrera, Berconzky and Lanz Landaeta, the commissioner explained.
"In addition, we found a high-power pistol and a portable xadio set of the -
'walkie-talkie' sort. We do not know what the weapon and the radio set were
_ uaed for," Maximiliano Lopez said.
The detectives also ~ound in that apartment a list containing the names of
25 television per~ormers. These ind~.viduals were regarded by the gang as
special cuatomers ~ox the sale o~ cocaine, the Narcotics Bureau revealed.
The private investigators arrested during the search have been described as
preaumed distributors of the drug. ~
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On his arrest, German Herrera had in one of his pockets a notebook and a
card identifying him as a special agent of the Intelligence Division of the
Metropolitan Police. A check proved that this document had expired more
- than a year ago.
Commissioner Maximiliano Lopez said that the television performers shown on
the list as purchasers of cocaine will be summoi.ed to the Narcotics Bureau
next week to make depositions there.
The PTJ is also investigating the connection between the members of the
former gang and drug addicts making,up the so-called "Swiss bank" which
operates in the grandstands at the La Rinconada racecourse.
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FURTHER MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST ADDICTION
Discharge of Civil Service Addicts
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 18 May 80 p 12
[Text] All addicted government employees will be given a four month period
of grace in order to kick the haUit, and i~ they f ail to do so, they wi11
be discharged af ter the period of grace passes .
According to authorized laws prohibiting the cultivation and export of the
- poppy plant, and following up on the efforts of all branches of the govern-
ment to uproot addiction from society, a memorandum has been distributed
to all ministries, institutions, and ~overnment organizations.
In this memo, signed by Dr Behesht~., Secretary of the REvolutionary Council,
wtth reference to laws and regulations pertaining to quitting drugs, it
is proclaimed and affirmed that anyone in the ministries, profit-making
or commercial institutions dependent on the government, public utilities,
_ municipal governments, and anyone in general who derives wages, salary
or the like from public funds and the national budget in any sense and who
is addicted to th e use of opium c~r it derivatives; must kick the habic
within four months of the date of the memorandum (4/30/80). Otherwise,
they will be discharged or thro~~n out of service by the appointed execu-
tive officers observing the orders of the minister or chief of the organi-
zation o:: the appropriate institution.
A similar memo was also published and circulated among the ministries and
government institutions of tlie former xegizne, but no one paid any attention
to it an~ it fell on its face at the administrative level. According to
that memo also, any addicted government employee was supposed to kick his
habit within a fixed period of time, and if not he was to be forever
removed from government service after a year. With the issuance of the
current mezno, which has been affirmed by the Revolutionary Council, it is
expected that a significant number of those addicted to narcotics will
be removed from government administrative off 3ces.
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The number of people addicted to narcotics has increased gxeatly during
the past few months, and t is certain that within th~.s groiip many are
also ~overnment employees.
Several days ago Ayatollah Khalkhali was designated chief of the Anti-
narcotics Campaign Office, but Ayatollah Khalkhali resigned from the post
after several days.
At~the present time there are about two m~llion addicts in Iran, most of
whom are young people.
Execution of Smugglers
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 21 May 80 p 2
['�ext] On the order of Ayatollah Sheykh Sadeq Khalkhali, 20 major narco-
tics smugglers were shot at dawn today at Tehran's Qasr Prison. The
~ b~dies of all 20 persons were transferred to the coroner.
Ayatollah Khalkhali also sentenced a woman to life in prison. The execu-
ticn of this group took place following the beginning of the Anti-smuggling
Campaign. This campaign will continue until all smugglers are totally
eliminated and suppressed.
This morning Ayatollah Khalkhali made the f ollowing list of names of the
- executed narcotics smugglers available to KEYHAN:
1. Hushang Kuhpa'i, father's natne 'Ali Akbar, of Esfahan
2. Ahmad Berahu'i, father's name 'Alamt of Zabol
3. Sakhidar Shiravand, father's name 'Abd al-Rahman, of Zabol
4. Mohammad Moseyn Amir Kani, known as Emr'kayi [American), father's
name Mohammad 'Ali, of Tabriz
5. Farajollah Parisheh, father's name Yadollar, of Hamadan
6. Gol Mohammed Garazhi, father's name Hoseyn, of Zahedan
7. Qasem Karimi, known as Rahimi, father's natne Hoseyn, of Zahedan
8. Manuchehr Sajajiyeh, big-time capitalist, father's name Reza of Tabriz
9. 'Ali Ramazani, father's name Navab, of Tehran
10. Hoseyn `Ali Penahi, father's name Rajb 'Ali, of Gowhardasht Karaj
11. Reza Sufiyani, father's name Asadollah, of Gowhardasht, Karaj -
12. Javad Khamushicheshm, father's name 'Abbas, of Tehran
13. Hushang Behmani, father's name Danyal, of Tehran
14. Reza Morikhi Pur, father's name Mohammad Mehdi, of Esfahan
15. Mehdi E'tesami, father's name 'Ali Akbar, a famous smuggler
16. Seyyed Rasul Hashemi, father's natne Seyyed Hassan, thief, fence, and -
_ famous smuggler
17. Gholam Hoseyn Bik Rasuli, father's name 'Ali Akbar, a smuggler with
record
;,8. Zabihollah Tehrani, fatyer's name Hoseyn, a long-time smuggler
19. Sirus Moheb Se'adat, father's name 'Ali, of Tabriz, international
smuggler ~
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20. Seyyed Asghar Bitara�an, father's naxqe Seyyed'Abbas, of Qom, inter-
national smuggler whose brother k'athoJ,lah B~.tara�an was prev~tously
executed
These People Were Ma~jor Smugglers
_ Concerning the execution of this. group Ayato�llah Khalkhali announced this
morning in an interview with KEyHAN; These 20 people made up the biggest
gang of international smugglers ~,n the cpuntxy. They imported narcotics
to Iran from ~ore~.gn countries.
Ayatollah Khalkhali said: This gxoup, by ~q~PZting heavy loads o~ heroin
fram Middle Eastern countries~ xndi:a, Pak~,stan, Afghani,stan, Iraq, the
Persian Gulf Emirates.~ Sy]r~.a, Lehanon, Tuxkey, Gxeece, Germany, France, ~
and England, all of them exceeding 20 k~los, distributed theu~ across the -
country with the help of their agents. This group, af ter a tumultous
four-day trial, received their re~,*ard ~ox the~.r actions. I should add
that Manuchehr Sajajiyeh, who had a long histozy of narcotics smuggling,
was the leader of th~s group. He was xeady to pay 20 mill~.on tumans in ~
exchange for an acquittal, but the court and the representative of the
- Iranian nation has shown these peop?P no tnercy, and sentenced them all to
death. _
Ayatollah Khalkhali said: This group xenpvated the heroin-making f acilities
and refinement apparatuses in Tahriz, Urmia, Qazvin, Hamadan, Tuserka.n,
- Esfahan, Shiraz, Jiraft, Zahedan, the Zabpl plain, near the A~ghan bordei,
Tehran, Sari, Gombad, Mashhad and othex cities in the region. They
_ benefitted by supporting countex-revolutionary activity in every area.
The penalty for these individuals was also death during the disgraceful
period of the former regi.tne, but through the zqanipulation of the smuggling
_ gangs and the payment of huge bzibes to the authorities of that time this -
group was able to save its li,ves, but through the efforts of the of~icials -
of the Anti-smuggling Campaign, the $evolutionary Guards of the Iranian
Revolution, ~he Gendarmes, and the busy Police, they were tried and duly
punished for their acts. These trials must be resolutely continued, and
if we do not follow up on their woxk, another disaster like toe one in
Kordestan will be repeated in Iran. The courts of the Islamic Revolution
have total need of the help and cooperation of the common people, who
should aff irm the revolutionary work with letters, telegrams, phone calls,
and petitions, and by obstinately f~.ghting smugglers' gangs everywhere
and their sales and d~.stribution activities.
In this regard I request that those who cooperate present the correct
address and the specific characteristics of the sellers, distributors
and manufacturers to Q~sr Prison. We will have no mercy on these people,
and we heartily thank the police, the municipalities, the Gendarmes, the
Revolutionary Guards, the responsible authorities, and the Committees
for their cooperation. The path of God is ~_n.need of unity of speech,
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so that we may move forward in all axeas and cut off the hands of the
devils in Iran. We must not a11ow this.country, under the shadow of the
- Islamic Republic of Iran, and undex the leadezship of the Emam, to be
transformed into a place ~or conspiracies and the smuggling and distr~~
bution of narcotics. Instead o~ using heroin, opium, hashish, and narcotica,
which have captivated our credulous youth and young girls and boys, we
will have constructive programs, ~n wh~ch all young people, with the
mobilization of the country i.tself, will build a new Islam,'participate
in a constructive holy war, and make ef~oxts to carry forward Islamic
goals and in the building and inqprovement of the country. They'shoul.d
be self-delegated to make the country flqur~sh, not captives of a Satanic
ring.
His creeping co~nercial policies, carelessness, and inexperience has
caused all this blood to flow from our young soldiers and Revolutionary
Guards, but we will no longer sub~~.t to creep~ng policies. We will
annihilate their negligence and Western democracy.
- We need the cooperation of the Iranian nation in all areas, especially
in the ruthless campaign against narcotics.. I have.a message for those
- people throughout the country who are active in the narcotics trade and
rwho make efforts to produce them. I say to them to come and serve the
Islamic Republic of Iran, to become good men and to depart from the company
of devils. If they continue what they are doing and remain committed to
the Satanic path, we will deal with them according to Islamic law.
Special agents in every city w~ll be seeking out lower echelon- individuals
from this gang as well as the remainder of the leaders, and this group
also, after capture, will be duly punished.
Ninety Kilos of Heroin Found
- [Text] Yesterday before noon about 90 k~lograms of heroin in one kilogram
stashes, 17.5 rials in cash, two G-3 rifles and four 20-round magazines
belonging to a large smuggl~ng ring were discovered by the Revolutionary
Guards.
Two narcotics smugglers named Ahmad B~rhi'i and Sanjidad Shirvand, known
as Arbabi in Gowhardacht o~ Karaj, were captured and taken to Qasr prison.
According to this report, after the issuance of the Emam's clear order
- based on the Anti-Narcotics Campaign, by now a number of caches l~.ke this
90 kilos of heroin have been discovered.
A s~okesman for the Revolutionary Guards. said: These individuals and
monies have been delivered to the appropr~.ate courts. The Revolutionary
Guards of the Islamic Revolution have established two telephone numbers -
for the people, 550 246 and 320 008, to enable them to notify.officials
of ma~or smugglers.
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Anti-Addiction Campaign
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 19 May~80 p 5
[Text] The question of addiction and how to fight
narcotics smugglers is one of the important matters
attracting the attention of everyone these days. Talk
and discussion concerning narcotics and the question of
addiction reached a peak when ~t beca~me known that
Ayatollah Khalkhal~ had been appointed to lead the
Anti-Smuggling Campaign. The decisiveness that Ayatol-
lah Khalkhali has shown up to now has brought about
noticeable disorder in the narcot~cs distribution
network of Tehran and even other cities which has
resulted in higher prices. Yet, despite all this talk,
there axe still groups of individuals freely using and
injecting drugs ~,n the streets ~,n the south of what
was formerly the Qal'ih quaxter. These people, because
of their pressing need for narcotics under any condi-
tions, prepare the narcotics they need for themselves. ~
While they were inactive and practi.cally vagrant, this
photo was taken yesterday a~ternoon, and it shows
clearly that despite all the yarious news reports
and propaganda on how to campaign against narcotics
and sometimes on the stepped-up sever3.ty o~ punishment
for addicts and dealers, the number of narcotics addicts
has in no way been reduced when a group like this
surprises one in broad daylight. Tn any case, the
revolutionary guards of Co~n~ttee 12 and their staffs
- are waging a hard fight against narcotics, but they
are astonished and perplexed in the face of a swarm
of addicts who are so lost in life that theX have taken ,
up drugs, and the guards don't know what to do.
The Revolutionary Guards say: If the government will
designate a place to transfer and keep addicts and
transfer them there, within one night we will gather
up all the addicts and transfer them there, and in
- cleaning up this area we will make possible a clean, _
profitable and active life for many people in society. ~
In any case, the white devil sti11 sucks the blood of
the ignorant, misled people in the slums of the former
Qal'ih quarter. Hope for these lost people is becoming
academic. Xet if a decision had been made in this area
14 months ago, what a lot could have been accomplished
by now and what results would have been obtained.
Hojjatoleslam Khalkhali: What is nece~sary at first is
to show decisi.veness in th~ prosecution of smugglers
and the confiscation of their means af transportation.
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Doctor Kazem Sami: Due to a lack of understanding of
causes, the campaign against addiction has suddenly
given way to a campaign a~ains.t addicts.
Chief of the municipality's Anti-Narcotics Campaign
Office: In areas like S~stan, Baluchestan, Khorasan,
and Malayer, we have villages where, for all the ~.nhab~-
tants, their only trade is smuggl~ng narcotics and
converting op~um to heroin,
All addicts and loafers throughout the city will be rounded up, and the
principal smugglers will be dealt with severely. This is. a promise that
has been repeated often and th~s time we are evidently closer to ful-
filling it with the active ~ntervention of the President of the Republic.
According to recent statistics obta:Iaied fxom international organizations,
Iran has the greatest number of narcotics addicts per capita in the world.
The issue of addiction, because of ~ts vast social, economic, and poli-
tical dimensions, does not simply end with the addict, the doctor, and
the "cure and this is not the way to f i.ght it .
The desired results will only be achieved when, in all plans of action,
serious attention is given to the fundamental issues.
Truly, what are the ways to fight addiction, and what should be done to
pull out the roots af th~s societal stumbling block? They tra~nsport
narcotics. The prosecution of professional swugglers at the borders and
even beyond the borders, and the rounding up of corrupt elements who
_ are hiding out in the sensitive central areas of Tehran and the rest of
the cities should be pursued with total v~gor. Alongside these steps,
the government and responsible o~ficials should prepare a place and a
~ob for individuals who have become corrupted and are unemployed so that
we canfind work for the detainees during this time. In our review of
the files of those who have committed ma~or crimes we w~.ll have absolutely
no mercy on distributors and importers, because mercy for them would be
a great crime against the rights of the younger generation.
, Continuing, he added: Doctors have been called upon to watch the situ-
ation and to treat addicts who can be treated. It has been reported _
that these days the smugglers have severely curtailed their activities
in order to defeat us by creating an environment of false demand, and
we will learn more. The search for. a solution should be f~xndamentally ~
based upon a search �or causes. Any effort that does not attempt to
eliminate the actual breeding ground for addiction will be a useless and ~
unsuccessful efforz. In order to eliminate the chief agents of addiction,
meaning the culture of imports and imitation, help should be obtained
from every possible source, such as the mass media and religious repre-
sentatives. If the issue of addiction is seriously confronted, this
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The Necessity of Issuance of a Religious Opinion fr.om the Ayatollahs
Hoj~atoleslam Ma~d proposes the following methods for the Anti-Addiction
Campaign:
1. The assistance of the people themselves~must be obtained. W~..thout
the cooperation of the people there i:,s, no possibility of our being
victorious over thi~ huge nuisance, Although.everyone agrees to the
people themselves having a role, what ~.s, ~ppoxtant ~s the~r manner of
participation in this work. If we expect an individual or individuals
from among the peopl~ to go to a lot of trouble to tell us about someone
who is making efforts to destroy the capabilities of others., or to turn
_ him over to the 1aw wher_ he is go~,ng to be fxee after a few days or even
a few hours, or when their sug~estions axe goiag *_o be lost in some
file, they will never cooperate. Tn order to attract the cooperation
of most of the people we must call to the~.r attenCion the roots of addic- -
- tion and the sniritual, social, and econrnq~.c problems and cons.equences
arising out of it. Even the Ayatollahs should prepare a relig~.ous legal
opinion declaring harmful narcotics f orbidden.
Compulsion will continue for a long ti.me here, and individuals who are
sent here will be forced to work until they adopt a correct course of
development, and until a psychiatrist has prepared them for a normal life
from the point of view of personality and rehabilitation.
At the conclusion of his talks, Dr Fakhr said concerning the punishment
of narcotics smugglers: Follow~ng up the measures that have been taken
recently throughout the country, narcotics smugglers Grill be dealt with
according to Islamic law and in a mo~t immediate and decisive manner,
and it should be noted that the perpetxators of narcotics smuggling are
counted among the entirely proven corrupters of the earth.
~ ' Lack of Precise Control of the Eastern Borders
Colonel Bakhtiar, Chief of the municipality's Anti-Nar^otics Campaign
Office, said concerning ways to fight add~.ction: First of all, all
responsible organizations, such as the Anti-Narcotics Campaign Office,
the Health Ministry, the Ministry of Agxiculture, the Gendarmes, and
other offici3ls who are active in the Anti-Narcotics Campaign should
cooperate in this task.
These organizations should take steps along a parallel course in the same
direction, with awareness of each other's activities, towards uprooting ,
- addiction. The next stage for the sm.ugglers will be a reckoning for what
they have done, and there will be no chance for them to appoint a lawyer,
or, God forhid, to bribe or fool the agents. For example, since.the
revolution we have arrested about 500 people in this connection of whom
only a limited number have been tried. The rest are in limbo in prison.
. ~ =�.~r:;
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Cooperation of the mass media, and especially radio and television, in
informing and educating as to tiie evil effects of addiction and its
political and social damage can be an important factor in stopping
addiction. When young people become familiar with the situation by
watching the destruction and degradation of addicts through contact with
this disaster, this will be an experience f or them so that they will
never go near it.
Unemployment, especially of able-bodied individuals, could be a factor
in the spread of addiction. Furthernnore, creation of work for unemployed
people is a step that could help to eliminate addiction. The creation
and maintenance of employment should be done with attention to areas with
heavy concentrations of smugglers, like Seistan, Baluchistan, and Malayer,
because in these areas we have villages where the whole population's
only profession is smuggling and producing narcotics and converting opiwn
to heroin. Having done this we should tighten border controls. Now, due
to lack of tight control of the country's.eastern borders, not only do
narcotics come into the country, but after...
...and narcotics are distributed throughout the country. The people's
cooperation with the police and other authorities will be an important
and conclusive factor in the elimination of addiction, and with informing
of the identity smugglers and addicts by the people, they will not have
the courage to show themselves by.any means.
Colonel Bayander, Associate Director of the Anti-Narcotics Campaign Office,
said concerning this: In my view the matters of addiction and smuggling
should be studied at the same time in a single opportunity, because
considering either one without the other will not produce any result, -
and this issue cannot be separated from the ordering of our economic
situation. ~
Continuing, he said: Addiction should be considered the greatest crime
and addicts should be severely punished, because it is these addicts who
give rise to smuggling. Addicts should be rounded up and dealt with,
taking into consideration the responsibilities of those who have family
dependents in the sense that the government, after rounding up the
addicts, should take upon itself the responsibility of managing the
addict's families so they will not also be drawn into corruption because
of a lack of supenrision and because of poverty. Another important point -
- is controlling the borders and points of entry into the country. For
example, even now substances for chang~ng opium into heroin such as
nitric and acetic acid are coming into the country ostensibly for other
purposes, but the biggest part of them are being used to make heroin. '
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KUWAIT
THREE IRANIANS ARRESTED IN OPIUM CASE
Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 19 May 80 p 6
[Article: "Three Suspects Arrested in Narcotics Case"J
[Textj Capital governnor8te ~nuestigators were able to arrest three suspects
in a narcotics case: Ghulam, 21, a porter in al-Shubrah; Aminal~ah, 30,
a dyer, and Shamsallah, 30, a chauffeur. All are Iranians.
Police inquiries had indicated that th~~ first suspect was dealing in nar-
cotics, and necessary measures. were planned to apprehend h~im., A source
was able to make an agreement with the suspect to buy two sticks of opium
for 40 dinars.
A trap was set up, and the area was kept under surveillance during the ~
transaction. The first suspect went to the residence of the second suspect
in al-Sharqiyah District to deliver the requested drugs to the source.
- However, the irivestigators were surprised when the sour.ce exited the
residence of the second suspect without the des3red drugs. It appeared
that the first suspect, fearing that he would be watched, asked the source
to come back an hour later, in an attempt at camouflageing [the transaction].
At the appointed time, when the source returned, the first suspect was not
there to meet him, but he met the second suspect, who gave him a quantity
of narcotics for the price that had been agreed on. Police were able to
catch this suspect redhanded and to confiscate two sticks of opium and
the money he had on him.
When queationed on the origin of the drugs, the suspect said they belonged
to the first suspect, and when he was apprehended and searched, one stick
of opium was found in the pocket of his pants. When the residence of the
second suspect was searched, the investigators found a small metal box
- which the first suspect had said belonged to the third suspect. When it
was opened, four sticks of opium and eight pieces of varying sizes were
found in it.
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When the first and second suspects were questioned about the origins [of
the drugs] they reported that they had obtained them from a person called
'Ali Akbar, 25, who lives in the same room with them in a bachelors;'
residence in al-Shuwaykh industrial district.
- The three suspects confessed to the charges and they were turned over to
the General Prosecutions Office, which ordered that they be imprisoned
awaiting trial.
CSO: 5300
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KUWAIT
SIX AFGHANIS ARRESTED IN DRUG CASE
Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 20 May 80 p 4
[Article: "Arrest of a Six-man Ring Dealing in Drugs After Transporting
Them From a Ship in Shoes!"]
[Excerpts] Anti-drug administration 3nvest3gators apprehended a drug
. ring of six Afghanis: A1-Ha~~ 'Abda3~lah, Shamsallah, 'Ata-al-Haqq,
'Abd-al-Hadi, Shir and Hadiyattah.
After obtaining a search and seizure warrant f rom the General Prosecutions
Office, investigators were able to make the first su~~ect believe they
wanted to purchase 20 dinars worth of drugs, and he was caught redhanded.
During the search of hia residence, quantities of hashish, opium and
poppies were found in a suitcase.
When th~ third suspect was questioned, it was revealed that the source of
the drugs was a ship anchored in al-Shuwaykh Bay and that this ship had
departed the country. ~
The sixth suspect was apprehended in the same residence [as the fifth
suspect] and the search of his residence yielded a quantity of hashish,
which he said he had bought from a Pak3stani boat anchored in the bay.
Discussions with the third suspect revealed that he used his shoes in
smuggling, and he demonstrated the way he concealed the hashish in them.
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KUWAIT
_ BRIEFS
METHAQUALONE CASE--Kuwait--Police investigations confirmed initial reports
that Ra'uf M. (an Egyptian) and 'Abd-al-Karim H(a Syrian) were dealing
in narcotic drugs and pills called Mandrax [a brand of Methaqualone]. The
first suspect was arrested while engaging in his criminal activities,
selling some Mandrax pills to an individual. He had been put under sur-
veillance and was arrested. When he was searched, another sheet of pi11s
= was found, in addition to the quantity he had sold. He also confessed ~ -
to having 30 sheets of pills at his residence. He directed police investi-
gators to his residence and removed the pills from his clothes trunk. He
said he had obtained them from the second suspect, who was put under
arrest at a coffeehouse in the Kuwa3t market. Investigators only found
one [more] sheet and it was empty. [Excerpts] [Kuwait AL-RA'Y AL-'AMrI
- in Arabic 28 May 80 p 2]
CSO: 5300
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AUSTRIA
POLICE DISCOVER RISE IN BROMINE-AMPHETAMINE USE
Vienna DIE PRESSE in German 29 May 80 p 10
[Artic'le by Hubert Margl: "New 'Madness Drug' Found"]
(Text] Vienna--A drug, new to Austria, has killed 31 people so far this
year. According to reports, Hubert Leitner, 20, unemployed, of Vienna-
Hernals, last Monday night climbed the parapet of the Vienna Hofburg and
fe11 into the Burg gardens. A night porte~ discovered the body, whose
skull had been crushed, on Tuesday morning. The toxicologists of the
Forensic Medicine Institute diacovered something interesting shortly
thereafter.
The broken pieces of pills resembling pencil lead found by criminal inves-
tigators in Leitner's socks turned out to be the dreaded bromine-
amphetamine whose effects even surpass those of the 'madness drug' LSD.
Leitner's autopsy, scheduled far today (Thursday), will show whether dur-
ing his "flight" the victim was under the 3.nfluence of this new, dangerous
- addictive drug. But the criminal investigators have hardly any doubt -
that Leitner had embarked on a'hypertrip' which can last up to 24 hours
after taking this drug.
Several abrasions on Leitner`s chest, neck and knees indicate that he had
been climbing the Hofburg facade. Eventually, driven by delusions, he
appears to have either ~ umped, or slipped and fallen, from a height of 8
meters. ~
The amphetamine derivative described above is not classified as an addic-
tive drug under the Austrian Drug Addictfon law. A spokesman for the
Vienna Office of Security stated that Bromine-Amphetamine is considered
to be a very potent "upper" with side effects including hallucinations
and delusions. The tiny pills found on Leitner's body, possibly pxoduced
in an illegal laboratory in Auatria were sufficient to produce about 80
"trips," each of which last approximately three times as long as a trip
produced by LSD. The solid version of this substance has never before
been seen in this country. During the past 6 snonths there were however
two cases in which the poison, in l.iquid form, had been carried on blot-
ting paper.
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AUSTRIA
SPECIAL POLICE GROUP TO COMBAT DRU.G USE
Zurich NEUE ZUERCIiER ZEITUNG in German 31 May 80 p 7
[Article by gr: "Austria's Battle Against Drug Abuse--Creation of a
- Special Police Unit"]
[Text] Vienna, 29 May--The Austrian drug scene has produced 30 deaths so
far this year, more than in all of 1979. The 31st victim was found with
a broken skull on Tuesday morning in the Burg gardens behind the Vienna
Hofburg and seems to have led the authorities on the track of a drug not
' previously seen in Austria. The dead man, aged about 20, tried, according
to police reports, to climb the Hofburg facade Monday night and fell to
his death from a height of 8 meters. The police assume that he was under
the influence of drugs. In the dead man's sock the police found pills
looking somewha~ like broken pieces of pencil lead, which were identified
by th e toxicologists of the Forensic Medi~cine Institute as Bromine-
Amphetamine. They may have been produced in a laboratory located in _
Austria and are said to be sufficient for 80 "trips~" each of which lasts
three times as long as an LSD trip. In this solid state they have never
before been seen i~_ this country. The local authorities have come across
Bromine-Amphetamine only twice before, both ~imes in liquid form stored
on blotting paper. The Austrian Drug Addiction.law does not list Bromine-
Amphetamine as an addictive drug; it is considered to be a very potent
"upper" with side effects including delusions.
As a matter of fact, the Austrian security authorities have recently
announced what for local conditions amounts to a sensational effort for
a major o��ensive against drug-related crime. After long hesitation, the
Ministry of the Interior will covertly introduce special agents inta the
drug scene in order to track drug traffic into and through Austria, and
especially to its sources. The agents are to undergo special training
and will be of help in convicting known dealers. A special unit, manned
by young volunteers, is being formed. "Relatively substar_tial," but so
far unspecified funds are to be earmarked for these operatior~s. Training
of this special unit will be based on experience in other countries,
especially by U.S., FRG and Swiss authorities. ,
The ne~w unft cannot take credit for the exposure of a well-~rganized drug
ring in the Lower Austrian district capital of Neunkirchen, announced last
Thursday. A total of 28 persons were arrested and some others are still
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
INCREASING USE, SOCIAL STATUS OF COCAINE EXAMINED
_ Hamburg STERN in German 22 May 80 pp 30-36, 239
[Report by Herniann Suelberg: "Cocaine--the White Giant"]
[Excei~pts] The drug of the chic set. A new drug is
threatening the FRG. After hasn and heroin the drug
of the eighties is cocaine. The police are helpless.
Coke is dealt only in the best social circles. But
the first blow has been struck against dealers from
the jet set.
They looked very well-groomed: the woman in an airy dress, the two men in
~ casual shirts, *_hree buttons too many undone, hairy chest5, suntanned.
For days they drove around in the Peruvian capital, Lima, in a VW Beetle. -
They did not suspect that each outing was being observed and photographed
by a detective from Berlin.
As the young dark-haired woman was about to go through customs at Lima air-
port on 19 April to board her palne, she was arrested. In the police sta-
_ tion at the airport officials tore opening the lining of her suitcase.
They were greetec? by flat plastic bags with white powder, most unusual .
for a Samsonite. The detective from Berlin was satisfied--1.4 kilos of -
gleaming bliaish cocaine confiscated. Narcotics that would have fetched
DM 300 , 000 on th e German ~arket . At the same t ime the two chic companions
of the cocaine l~.dy were arrested. The suntan faded from their faces,
because they already knew the narcotics investigator from Berlin.
The ~fficial knew that the two men had travel~d via Frankfurt, Luxembourg,
- the Bahamas and Ecuador to Lima. One day later the woman had followed _
them from Berlin by way of New York. The official also knew that they
were Silvia Bunn, Michae'1 Hass and Helmut Thill and that they were en
route to a coke deal. He found out when and by which route they planned
to fly back to Germany. When it lookeci as if the return trip they would
get complicated again, he asked his Peruvian colleagues for officiaJ.
= assistance. Now the three are behtnd bars in Lima, and four of their
accomplices are in jail in Berlin. They were all after the same thing:
the good life with cocaine.
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- In purely chemical terms the stuff is nothing special, only one of hundreds
of alkaloids, with the chemical formula C1~H21N04. But the chemist's lan-
guage has made worse things appear harmless.
Cocaine: a word that apparently divides mankind into three groups. The
- first associates the word at most with something that was happening in the
twenties--these are the unsuspecting ones. Others react violently, call-
ing it a"curse on humanity," damning it as being as bad as heroin and a
"madne~s drug"; they are mostly narcotics agents, prosecutors or politi-
cians. Then there are some whose reaction is Euphoria, who speak tenderly
of "charle.y," or the "champagne of drugs," or "snow," or scandlously "lady"
--those are the cocaine add~cts, the users. No other drug is surrounded
by so much ignorance, prejudice and even credulity as this one.
Cocaine is growing in popularity. What hash was for the sixties, heroin
for the seventies, cocaine seems to be becoming for the eighties--known,
loved, and a problem.
People are sniffing at parties, at rock concerts, film premieres, journa-
lists' conventions, photographers' sessions or artists' meetings. After
a raid on the New York discotheque Studio 54 it became clear why prominent
public figures went there--there was free cocaine for them in the back
- ro~m.
It seems to have become the nightly bread for musicians in particular,
whether they are on stage or in the studio. Concert organizers know that
they have to keep a stock of snow ready for some bands so that the kids
will even go on stage. Nothing works on an empty nose.
Chief Inspector Peter Loos, the senior Frankfurt narcotics investigator,
is still annoyed today that he did not manage to check around in the
Rolling Stones' dressing room years ago to see whether it had been
"snowing." "We were simply afraid, imagine what w~ould have happened--
Mick Jagger arrested, the concert canceled, 10,000 fans destroying the
concert hall, and we would have been asked if we ~~ad ever heard of using
proportioaate means."
Normally the detective only has problems when he wants to look for cocaine:
"We can't rent a Porsche or a Maserati, load in three fabulous women and
smuggle our way into thQ upper cri:st scene. The first thing preventing it -
is that we would have to be sure of the women. It's difficult to get in -
anyway, there are too many individual suppliers, there is no big dealer
network, and the people have known each other for years. Perhaps I can
loosen a heroin user's tongue with money, but the cocaine users have their
own. It has been really going for a year, everywhere we hear coke, cok~,
coke, but we rarely see anything."
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Occasionally the address search department of rhe Post Office sends an
undeliverable letter to the police, in which finely crushed powder was
found in a folded greetings card. Or a producer is picked up at the air-
port by customs officers with vials taped to his body or a Bolivian offi- ~
cer with drugs in the heels of his shoes. In 1978 just 4.2 kilos were
collected in the FRG in this way, a year later it was up to 19 kilos.
Chief Inspector Loos thinks that the police will not be able to take much -
intensive action against cocaine until, as is the case with heroin, the
, first deaths occur: "Heroin kills you, cocaine drives you mad. Perhaps
- a few people will get such a persecution complex that they will get hold
of a gun and start blazing away. The narcotics agents' biggest worry at
the present time is that there are increasing numbers of German idols
for the drug." "When film makei Fassbinder sniffs away in "Germany in
the Fall," and everyone thinks he does that normally,.people imitate that.
Anyone who considers himself critical, involved, creative or whatever,
thinks he has to sniff."
Helpless, bewildered, or "done-for" people, who have given up completely,
stick their heads in the sand of hero3n--to be "shut," to seal off, to
forget is the motto of those who refuse to make the effort. The super
well-adJusted, the career-hungry ones and the social climbers are more
likely to end up on cocaine--their motto is to be sharp, to be expansive,
to go with the crowd.
Effects are attributed to cocaine that are eminently suitable for a work-
- oriented society: the ability to speak better, work better, to keep going
better, to drink better, to make love better. . At least, this is the rosy
view of many who regularly arrange their cocaine into "lines" on a hand
- mirror with a razor.blade and sniff their. "hit" up into their nostrils
with a glass tube, a straw or a rolled-up banknote. Or they simply hold
a little spoon full of snow under their nose.
Peter Maier, a 24-year-old insurance salesman, worked in Schwaebisch-
Gmuend "in a perfectly normal office of a perfectly normal health insur-
ance progr.am; there were 12 of us, of whom 5 were more or less regularly
on cocaine. The first time I took anything was at a party for my 20th
birthday, the second time was 3 months later, then regularly on weekends,
about 1/2 to 1 gram. I was very shy, inhibited, I never met girls. One
Saturday evening I sniffed a 6-centimeter line. Afterwards I couldn't
sit still, I had to get out and I went to a disco. I felt like a king,
I felt more secure, and I bragged a lot about using coke, I could drink
like a fish, I thought I was just terrific."
� After a year he realized that perhaps he was not so...great, because he
still had no girlfriend. When he went back to his hometoum, Hamburg, he
� noticed that "I didn't dare go into a disco wit?~out taking coke firs~t.
I~elt really ~umpy and wanted to do something about it; I went to three �
nerve speci,alists, anci they all prescribed sedatives and sleeping pills,
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whole hospital-sized boxes. Once a week they had me come in and asked me
if the prescriptions were taking effect. And how, I was tired the whole
time."
Because he did not want to become dependent on sedatives, Peter Maier
stopped his pill therapy and called the Hamburg~ Drug Counseling Center.
~ As a cocaine user he was their first "customer." For a year he met once -
a week with psychologist Hartmut Janetzke. Maier: "All he did was ex-
plain that I could manage without it, he b uilt up my self- conf idence. I
haven't taken anything for a year, I've got a girlfriend and I go to the
disco without coke."
. Antidrug psychologist Janetzke explains it this way: "With drugs people
want to deal with something that they cannot otherwise manage. If it works
with a drug there is the danger of dependency, of the feeling that it will
only work with drugs."
Fashion model Angelika Schneider, 29 years old: "I had it the first time
at a party and was tremendously cheerful; then I discovered that I didn't
feel hungry and could lose weight, then I found out that you don't get
drunk so quickly, and now I draw a line before I go to bed and put it
next to the bed. I can't get going in the morning without coke."
- Anyone wanting to discover what the real effects of cocaine are, will find
very little among German scientists. There is an opinion delivered in
court in November 1973 by Prof Klaus Wanke, a Frankfurt neurologist. He
admits that he has rearely seen a cocaine user but he writes that cocaine
leads more rapidly to an increased dosage than morphine. The professor
establishes a fatal dose "for someone unaccustomed to it, 3 to 4 mg per
kilo of body weight, for an adult 210 to 1,000 mg."
Professor Wanke's testimony contains a description of a"typical cocaine
psychosis": "Microorganisms are seen on the skin, for example, ticks, ~ _
small worms, bacilli and bacteria." This had already been reported in
two German books from the twenties.
The investigative report "Cocaine 1977;" published in the United States,
contains deeper material. There is no mention of worms and ticks. At a
cost of $4 million the National Institute of Drug Abuse discovered that
8 million Americans have already sniffed snow, and a huge increase can be
expected that will be slowed samewhat only by the high cost of $100 per
gram. Continual high doses can, according to the report, lead to anxie-
ties, depression, insomnia, impotence, frequently paranoid feelings and
hallucinations or "to cocaine psychosis with accompanying violence." But:
"Rea.listically, very few persons have the financial means to buy the
amounts ~f cocaine necessary to produce these unpleasant reactions.'
Scientific medical research was carried out in 1977 at the New York Me.ii-
cal College on 19 healthy volunteers who regularly use cocaine." At
the state's expense they were allowed to sniff does of 10, 25 and 100 mg.
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Notice~ble changes in breathing rate, body temperature and a relaxation
in manual pressure could not be ascertained. Pulse and blood pressue did
not rise until the dose was 100'mg. After a maximum of 1 hour, and usually
after 30 minutes, the figures were normal again and the good mood was gone.
A patient des criged the good mood: "I have a pleasant feeling in my sto-
mach; my thoughts seem to come more easily than usual; I feel ?ess anxious
than normal; I feel as if all my wishes had been fulfilled." But there
was also reports of less pleasant reactions--six subjects reported a hang-
over after 1 hour, the "post-coke blues." They felt uneasy, depressed,
tired and--they wanted more cocaine.
_ In contrast to alcohol or heroin, cocaine is psychologically rather than
physically addictive. In Peru, Bolivia and Columbia the Indians have been
chewing the leaves of the coca bush for thousands of years and hardly any-
one ever flips out. It has always been a"gift of the gods" to them,
it made the hungry satisfied, the tired vigorous and the unhappy joyful
again.
The Frankfurt cocaine dealer Michael Bernhard handles so much that he
knows "there are already a couple of thousand coke users in Frankfurt--some
even in the highest circles."
He himself cannot quite make up his mind about the stuff: "I have often
cursed the fact that I always have some lying about ready. I sniff at
least a gram every day, I do almost nothing without it. It's true it`s
bad for my own business now,,but I can only warn against too much. There
are a lot of fairy tales about coke, for example, that it makes you per-
form sexually much better. O.K., perhaps at first, because it gets rid
of inhibitations, but after a while you j ust can't any more. You think you
are functioning better, you think you've got everything under control. But
you don't. So I would be glad to get off the habit a bit, I have to drink
a lot to settle down afterwards, to get to sleep, that's wearing in the ~
long run."
Coke dealer Bernhard is still one of the lucky ones. When he sni.ffs
cocaine, at least he knows that it is cocaine. He gets high quality
"Bolivian Rock," "Columbian Flake," or "Peruvian Sniff" directly from the
producer countries. Or after a detour through San Francisco and Canada:
"Who in the German customs ~xpects coke from Canada," at a price of about
DM 15,000 to DM 20,000 per kilo. "If you buy less than a kilo, you don't
get good stuff, if you buy it by the gram in letters, as most people do,
you get at most 25 percent pure, sometimes there isn't any coke in it
at all." Anyting and everything is mixed in that looks white and has a
crystalline structure: Italian baby laxative Mannito, aspirin, stimulants
and sugar, local anesthetics or caffeine and even cleansers like Vim or
Ata.
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With mixtures like these, the trade mark of the coke-head is not just the
coke spoon on a neck chain, or the running nose, or the sunken cheeks, or
the continual recitation of nonsense, but the eaten away nasal septum. A
drug does not catch on without an image. At a current price of over DM
200 per gram just the possession of cocaine is a status symbol, and its
illegality lends it the wicked touch--anyone who can get it and pay for it
is somebody. What the genuine bottle of champagne was formerly, is today
the silver tray full of coke lines.
Recently at one of the better parties near the Frankfurt police headquarters
there was a mood of upper-class exuberance. The entree for the 50 guests
was a"coketail," as a nightcap a"Pick-me-up coketail," for those who had
not already dragged someone away. In between the coke portions were dis- _
tributed with a toy excavator. They were all as happy as snow kings. _
COPYRIGHT: 1980 Gruner + Jahr AG & Co.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
BORDER CONTROLS AGAINST NARCOTICS TO BE REINFORCED
Bonn DIE WELT in German 8 May 80 p 5
[Article by Eberhard Nitschke: "With Hashish Ball Fit for Duty"]
[Text] Cologne--Customs officials want to intensify their drive against
narcotics smuggling by using additional apecial troops and bloodhounds.
Minister of Finance Hans Matthoefer, in charge of the operation, announced
that the readiness of customs officials against this kind of smuggling is
to be accomplished through targeted personnel reinforcements and improvement
in equipment. It would allow stricter and more frequent border controls.
At the present time, 65 special troops consisting of 550 officials are in-
volved in looking for hiding-places in transport vehicles and shipped goods.
Within a short period of time, 15 additional troops are to be formed. Also,
250 bloodhounds are in the process of being trained to find "hard and soft
drugs."
In this connection, Matthoefer pointed to the search facility at the -
Schwarzbach Autobahn Customs Office which was constructed with trucks in
mind, particularly those from the Near East; if necessary, specialists can
take them fully apart. These measures resulted in substantial "seizures."
Last year, for instance, customs officials confiscated 92 kilograms of heroin
and 16 kilograme of cocaine.
The ingenuity of criminal smugglers, the results of which were e~chibited
at the Customs Service Criminal Institute, led to appropriate countermeasures
by customs officials. In spring 1980, for instance, customs officials managed
to seize four suitcases filled with hashish valued at half a million German
marka, because they did not fall for a trick which consisted of using a -
helper in front of his accomplices' baggage to be checked "uy customs officials.
A few months ago, a process began to eliminate a weak point that existed
in the control of narcotics smuggling in~the FRG. After it was discovered
that X-rays were not suitable for the detection of hidden narcotics, "soft
beams" at a cost of DM 30,000 per piece are being installed at all airmail
_ centers. They will search the sirmail for narcotics shipments. .
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Whereas a dog, trained to sniff out heroin or hashish, can search intensively
only for 10 minutes at a time, after which it has to be relieved, the new
device can work around the clock. The Customs Service Criminal Institute
is d~smissing rumors that dogs have to become "addicted" before they are
ready for action. During training, amall balls are used. They are filled
with the appropriate narcotic and m~ist be found before the game starts.
Consequently, they were dogs of this kind who discovered in a customs ware-
house carpets that had been stored for weeks unnoticed. Long, flexible
narcotics bars had been plaited into the heavq texture, totally invisible
from the outside.
Among the measures instituted by the FRG within the framework of a scheme
to fight the abuse of drugs and narcotics is the inclusion in their sur-
veillance program of small airports and landing sites. In the border region,
special troops will be used; in other areas, surveillance forces and customs
agents. Customs boats will receive additional crew members to intensify
hoat controls of ocean and inland water transportation.
. While Minister Matthoefer viewed the devices in the Customs Service Criminal
Institute, someone slipped into his pocket an "aviascope," a gadget that
reveals what is hidden in automobile interiors. As seemed proper for a
minister of finance, his pocket was completely empty.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
NARCOTICS DEALER, TURKISfl HEROIN SEIZED
Munich StJEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG in German 16 May 80 p 13
[Article by tom: "One Kilogram of Heroin Confiscated"]
[TextJ For weeks, narcotics agents of Ll~e $avar3~an Land
Bureau of Criminal Irivestigation were observing the sales
office of a well-known importer of American limousines,
located on Landsberger Strasse in Laim. They suspected
that, in addition to selling cars, Karl-Heinz H., a
40-year-old sutomobile dealer, was using his sales center
as a transfer point for Turkish heroin as well. Finally,
on Tuesday, the agents went into action: The importer,
the go-between in the drug deal, and David M., the buyer
who had arrived from Frankfurt, were arrested; 1 kilogram
of heroin at a retail value of approximately half a million
German marks was confiscated.
Narcotics agents already knew that Karl-Heinz H. had purchased the heroin
in Turkey through middlemen and that he had hidden it in his trailer on the
sales lot. When the agents noticed him putting a 1-kilogram bag filled with
the drug into a Buick, they kept their eyes onthe car until, on Tuesday
- morning, it was handed to David M., the 35-year-old repreaentative from
Frankfur+t. They did not have to follow the "car" buyer for very long; he
had left his own automobile on the sales lot. The 35-year-old parked on a
quiet side street and remaved the white poison from the hiding-place. To
be sure, when he saw the policemen, he tried eo throw the stuff away and
flee on foot, but they managed to arrest him.
Subsequently, narcotics agents arrested Michael W., a 40-year-old car dealer
from Ulm whom they suspected of being the go-between in this deal. Later,
when H. was informed of his arreat in his trailer, the excitement caused him
to suffer a coronaYy collapse. The dealer is currently in the hospital of
the Stadelheim criminal detenCion center in no condition to be questioned.
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FEDERAI, REPUBLIC OF GERP~IANY
DRUG PROBI,EM SEEN COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL
Hamburg DER SPIEGEI, in German 9 Jun 80 pp 55-69 _
~rticle: "First Needle During Recess'_7
[Excerpts] Drug addiction is out of control�
~ut Bonn's countermeasures are a fai~~a,re. -
An as yet unpublished dope etudy comea to
the alarming conclusion that there are at
least twice if not three times as many
heroin addicts than ia ofYicially estima-
ted. The most recent plans by Bonn to
fight the drug problem are proving pro-
blematic. A law calls for treatment
posaibilities which as yet do not e~ist.
Following a new procedure and acting on orders of the Ber-
1 in youth authoritiea, mathematician Horat Skarabis and
neurologist Bernd-Mic2~ae1 Becker went over the local drug
- s cene with a fine-tooth comb.for 7 months. Ae Skarabis put
i t, they came up with "a quite awesome po~ential."
Inetead of the 3,500 heroin addicte estimated by police
and 5enat authorities, the two-man team discovered "almost
e ertainly" nearly twice as many, citing figures ranging
from 5,850 to 6,000. And, instead of finding the addicta,
as is populaxly aesumed, among middle-cla$s sons and daugh-
ters, they spotted the ma~ority among the lower clasaes.
As for the FRG as a whole where numerical estimate$ and
s tudies of the drug problem are le~s accurate generallq~
apeaking than in the more easily eurveyed city etate,
these finding~ make a mockery of the official figures.
Pro~ecting their figures on West German , the researchers
c ome up with 150,000 heroin addicts or ~S times a$ many as
the preaent official estimate of 45,000.
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Not only the Berlin findings show that the FRG drug scene
is fast getting out of control. Customs and police 3utho- .
rities seized 207 kg of heroin last year; but experts say
that 30 tons of the drug in effect got through to the dea-
lers and ultimately to the usera by a variety of avenuea. _
And the drug wave will definitely continue to rise.
"The problem of addiction will grow like an epidemic,"
U.S, narcotics expert Karl J. Deiasler predicts, but there
will be new manifestations of it. "Younger and younger
children will tur~ to the killer drug heroin, addicted to
it by adults; it will be a consequence of the children~s
sex wave as ~n the United States."
� In addi tion to heroin, cocaine is gaining among the addicts
while the legions of hashish and I,SD users --who are fre-
quent candidates for harder drugs-- are almost impossible
to estimate. Aside from by now popu].ar meeting places like
the Frankfurt Hashish Green or Zoo Station in Berlin, there
are ~unkie colonies in the suburbs, in a~mall towns ai~d on
farms far enough removed from constant police surveillance.
Those who are nabbed and taken into custody do not have ~to
do without. In tubes of tooth paste the stuff is smuggled
into psychiatric wards and on ~ail visits there are deep
kisses to transfer the powder from mouth to mouth.
_ Every third prisoner in the Berlin ~ails has meanwhile be-
come adriicted ae is every second youth on remand in Hessian ~
jails a.nd as are ?0 percent of thoae serving time in the
women's house of detention at Frankfurt-Preun~esheim. Drugs -
are even sold in the schoolyards and there are not a few
students H!ho give themselves the needle during recess.
The heroin market, at times dor~ainated by Chinese dealers
and at times by Persiana, has ~1ow seen lurkish Kurds make
their mark with a particularly pure mixture. This high- ~ -
grade "halvah" increases the danger of a~unkie taking an
overdose. According to official figures, 623 of them died
shooting up in the FRG last year-- twice that number would
probably be more accurate. Often enough, doctors list the
cause of death as hepatitis or relati~es cover up a drug -
death altogether.
There are 100,000 dramas every day, aometimes ending in
death but almoat always in sickness and crime and at any -
rate in abject misery. But the political authorities of
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the FRG aeem to be far less interested in all of this than,
let us say, in plans to alter trade tax legislation. And now
something like a first counterattack is being mounted, it
seems to be aiming in the wrong direction.
To get the heroin addicts out of the crime-ridden drug scene
and to shrink down the dealers~ market, Interior Minister
Gerhart Ba.um has plans to make methadone available under
state supervision as a drug substitute at no cost. But even
Baum admits that methadone does not qualify as a genuine
substitute for heroin.
It is merely designed to provide a basis for successful
therapy during the course of which the dosage would be lowe-
red gradually uritil the addict is ~'clean." Since methadone
can be taken orally, the Ministry feels that the medical
risks are less serious than they would be with non-sterile
hypodermic needles and impure heroin.
Baum's formula may seem convincing, bu-t the experts have no
use for it. SPD Bundestag deputy Frolinde Balser calls the
methadone plan a"tragic mistake" and drug pundit Deissler
speaks of a"sign of cynical resignation." At any rate,
there seem to be reasons for doubt.
The Minister points to favorable results in the United
States; but in America, where 80,000 heroin addicts take
their daily doee of inethadone, the program is being called
a failur~;. The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE recently
summed things up by stating that "methadone therapy was
overrated from the atart."
German experts~ too, are akeptical about the value of the
state drug. Berlin narcotics cowmissioner Wolfgang Heck-
mann, 34, has noted "an exceptional number of emergency
caees" whenever use of hard drugs was cut off on short
notice. When users subaequently returned to heroin, "the
accustomed dose often proved fatal." If inethadone were
made available as a substitute, the expert says, thnre
would be an alarming rise of such emergency caees.
Another point Heckmann makes is that heroin addicts in
Berlin or Frankfurt generally attain much greater highs -
than their counterparts in New York or San Francisco. The -
fact is that heroin available on the street in Anerica is
only 4 percent pure as against an average of 20 percent in
the FTtG. The amount of aubPtitute druga used in therapy
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would thus have to be correspondingly higher. And the higher
the ini tial doee, the more likely the therapy will get out
of control.
Narcotics expert Deissler (who says: "I have had 5,000
patients go through therapy") puts it succinctly. "There is
only one kind of addiction that is satisfied by metha.done--
the addiction of politicians to the need of offering the voter
something tangible and easily marketable politically which
they say will put the lid on drug abuee."
The reaction to Ba.um's proposal has been so negative that
even the experts in Bonn~s Ministry of Health, run by social-
ist Ant~e Huber, are beginning to air their doubta in public.
Huber~s press spokesman Helmut Boeger was quoted as saying:
_ "It is quite unthinkable that the government should act the
paxt of drug dealer."
As a consequence, the three Bonn ministries concerned --In- -
terior, Justice and Health-- have agreed on an alternate
- procedure. There is to be a narcotics law whose Sections 32
to 35 provide for "therapy in place of prosecution."
Drug users guilty of a drug-related crime were liable to a
maximum of two years in jail. Under the new legis~ation,
they would not have to go to prison, if they submitted to
therapy. If they 8ucceed in kicking the habit completely,
their conviction will be stricken fz~om the record as will
mention of their drug past in the ;~olice certification of
good conduct at which point they will be able to re-assume
their role in everyday life.
Supported by the Justice M~.nisters of the Laender, Justice
Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel strongly ob~ected to such extra-
ordinary regulations applying to one particular group but
had to give way to Gerhart Ba.um and Antje Huber, who were
for once in agreement, and had to accept unusual draft
legislation. The most recent veraion of it provides for a
prison term for recidiviste, but which does not have to be
aerved as long as ther~ is clear intent to enter therapy.
This much Bonn is willing to stipulate, but without agreeing
to pay for any of it. If the law passes the Bundestag as is,
the Laender will decide its fato. It will not be up to ~er-
hart Baum or Ant~e Huber to provide for sufficient thera- -
peutic services anci thus for the law~s success, but up to -
the Laender.
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Ministe~ Huber says: "Considering the estimatPd 45,000 dru~ -
addicts, the therapeutic facilities we hav~e seem r~.ther =
modest"-- and that does not take into account that there may
be 3 times as many, if the Berlin figures are taken as a
base. ~
At the end of the sixties, the Federal Social Court ruled
that drug addiction is an illness which ought therefore to
be treated; but therapeutic facilities in the FRG are still
- in short supply. All of 300 addicts can be accomodated in
West Berlin~ the drug metropolis where it all began in 1968
with the "roaming hash rebels" and '~smoke-ins" on the green. -
In the most populous Zand of Narth Rhine-Westphalia, there
- ia room at present for 130 addicta aeeking medical and social
- rehabilitation; 200 additional spots are to be available by _
the end of 1981. In the FRG as a whole, there are ~ust 1800
spots for., long-term therapy.to be had.
~xperts agree that long-term therapy centers run by self-
help groups of fornaer addicts, by local associations or
private welfare oxganizations offer the sole and real hope
for rehabilitation. Almost all the experts believe in a
psychological withdrawal phase of one-and-a-half to two
years; almost all make use of behavioral training and work
therapy, and almost all oi' them now know that addiction it-
aelf ia practically incurable.
"An addict remains addicted throughout h~.~ life," Ingo
Warnke, chairman of the Berlin self-help organization
"3ynanon," recently told the Bundestag's committee an
family, you+h and health matters. "But," he added, "an
addict can learn to cope with this weaknese by leaxning
- how to live a life free of drugs."
Therapy centers l~ike "Narconon," operated by weird secta
which simply aim to replace addiction to drugs by addiction
to ideology, are beginning to disappear. Ae a result, physi-
ciana now seem m~re inclined to view drug dependence as a
~'many-faceted peycho-social proble~'(as the German Medical
Congress put it year before last) and to relinquish the _
~ one-sided medical approac2~ by accepting the need for a
"graduated, regional treatment pattern based on the precepta
of social psychiatry."
But what the physicians have at last come to accept~ the
health insurance plans are turning into a problem again.
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Unlike the social welfa.re offices, they wi11 not pay for -
any tnerapy not conducted under a doctor~s supervision--
� which applies to most long-term therapies.
_ The co:~sequences are bad under any circumstances. It ei.ther
meane that at l~ast one third of the addicts --those who -
can claim health insurance benefita on the basis of prior
gainful employment-- is excluded from these promising
treatments.
Or it means that the self-help institutions will have to
hire doctors they do not need in order to help f9.nance their
operations-- whereby the cost of therapy will increase by at
- least 25 percent.
The "Tannenhof'~ in Berlin, operaied by "Drug Help Tuebingen,"
has 20 patients at present. Since this center does not have
a medical director as yet, it charges a daily rate of only
DM 1C6 as compaxed to the rate of DM 220 charged by the -
garl Bonhoeffer Psychiatric Clinic, a municipal institution
which also treats drug addicts. .
Some time in the future, the "Tannenhof" will be able to
accomodate 80 patients. The team of therapists presently con-
sist~ of four psychologists, two teachers, a former drug
addict, a soc,iologist, a lawyer and a w~lfare worker. On
~ withdrawa7., the "Tannenhof" joix~s forcea with a~unicipal
clinic, with ~he therapiste stressing the need for with-
drawal taking place without the aid of inedicines or drugs.
I,ike other self-help institutions, the "Tannenhof" team con- ~
siders itself�~~art of a therapeutic chain which starts with
counseling and in-patient withdrawal. This i~ followed by a -
1 1/2-year long-term, two-stage therapy. Nine months are de-
voted to psychological stablization and the second half of
the cycle is used for social and professional rehabilitation.
During this time, educational gaps can be filled, professio- .
nal training can be obtained, debts can be managed and pend-
ing court proceedings can be taken care of. The end of the
program --which is still in the planning sta~e-- would see
the patients moving out into residence communities whose
membera would once again earn a living without outside help.
This type of long-term therapy costs a,t least DM 58,000. The
regional drug commissioners are afraid that the high cost of
therapy might prompt the finance ministers of the I,aeMder to
block pas~age of the new narcotic3 law and perhaps support a
~ modified version of Baum's contr~versial methadone proposal.
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According to American sources, methadone-only therapy is com- -
paratively cheap, costing DM 3,000 per patient per year. But
if the cost for therapeutic personnel is added, it runs into
the tens of thousands, too. Any penny-pinching solution, all
- the experts agree, would be tan+amount ta capitualating be-
fore the problem. "If we did," says Erich S-trass o.f the Fede-
ral Office of Criminal Inves~igation, "we would be saying
amen to addiction." -
The Berlin research results effer convincing proof of the
fact that regular use of inethad~ne alone will not do. The
study provides accurate infor~ation for the first time as to
the social background of addicts as well as about the environ-
ment most conducive to addiction.
Eight out of ten a3dicts in Berlin come from lower-class
families. As a rule, the fathers are working men, petty
officials or "lowe~-grade" white collar workers. The records
show that there was an excess consumption of alcoholic beve-
rages in every third household. Three out of four addicts
- d~.d not finish 9-year elementary school and an equal number -
has had no job training.
Two-thirds of the hard drug users started out on alcohcl,
pills or hashish. The low�est staxting age was nine. Every
other ha~hish smoker was a mere 16 when he started on the
habit.
This bxeakdown makes it plain that the drug problem,which
has been imported from other culturee and societies, has not
created a kind of Russian roulette situation that affects
all social groups equally. In fact, there is a much greater
likelihood that it will affect those who have not or who have
hardly made a go of it in the .family, in school or on the job.
There are at least three facets to drug abuse as a psycho-
social problem: An individual must be psychologically ready
- for drug use; drug use m~ust be experienced as something posi-
tiv~ and, a~t least seemingly, offer the promise of resolving
- an otherwise insurmountable problem and, finally, its root
causes are invariably of social origin.
The upaurge continuea. The authors of the study project an
annual increase of 16 percent for Berlin. In ~i980 alone,
- they say, there will be 1,000 additional heroin uaers in
Berlin and a few thousand more in the FRG.
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_ This steep rise is being favored by a substantial drop in the
price of drugs. The new Turkish dealers --mastly family ope-
rations-- have been conducting regular heroin aales campaigns
in recent weeks to attract potential use~s.
In the space of three years, the price of heroin has dropped
from DM 300 ~er gra.m to DM 100 or even a bit lower-- deapite
_ the fact tha.t it is 40 to 70 percent pure, which is abnor-
mally high by international standards.
_ The result has been a structuraZ change of the market, thus
far noticeable only to insiders. For the time being at least,
tk~ese baxgain prices make it possible for the socially inte-
grated addict to satsify his needs "l~y paying for them with
the proceeds of honest work," as researcher Becker has~put
- it. But, once the dealers up the price, these inconspicuoua
~ ~unkies wi1Z start their slide into crirae.
The authorities have unintentionally brought on alaxming
change~ The police in Frankfurt recently cleared the Hashish
Green emporium so as "to keep outsidere from visiting Frank-
furt"for a while at least, as chief of detectivea Peter Zoos
said. But that merely shifted the problem to other sites.
~ In nearby cities like Darmstadt and Iianau, the addicts recon-
vened in small groups. Kurt Moog of the counseling ~ervice
"Refuge" tells of dealer9 luring "boys and girls into their
pads and giving them the stuff" in th.e Frankfurt suburb of
Hoechst.
In Berlin, too, police presence at well-known hangouts like
the Zoo Station or in Jahnpark has merely served to drive
the add.~cts aut into c,ther areas like Gropiusstadt, Wedd.ing
or Neukoellr~. Drug counselor Berndt-Georg Thamm says that
the "sensitive areas" there are ice cream parlors and youth
recreation centers, which suburbanites ca.n reach with a mini-
mum of traveling ~ime.
Youn~ pe ople axe now becoming addicted in areas which were
long considered clean. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the number
of drug deaths rose to 133 last year as compared to ~8 in
- 1978. Ulrich Walliser, chief of police in Esslingen, a pro- ~
vincial city in Baden-Wuerttemberg, calls the drug-related
crime ai tuation in his area "hopeless"-- it having risen by
almost 50 percent during the past year. gnd in Duchy I,auen-
burg, a faraway backwater district in Schleswig-Holstein,
the youngest drug user is reported to be a 12 year-old school-
boy.
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The use of heroin in the schools is becoming more and more
of a more problem although education authorities lang denied
it. A ten-month investigation by the Berlin superintendent
of schools unearthed 31 cases of Ysard drug use. In Frankfurt,
the police noticed dealars loitering in the vicinity of
schools and in a schoolyard children found two heroin needles.
Policemen and detectives cannot stop or even slow down the
rapid spread of drug abuse. In many cases, all the police
can do is turn the addicts over to the bureaucracy. "We
catch them so they can be treated," Frankfurt chief of detec-
~ tives Loos says wrily; "but soon we catch them again, some
of them as many as 15 times. It is quite a strain on us."
And aside from occasiona]. succeases, the agenta can do very
little to combat the influx of drugs. There really i$ only ~
one way to cut off the flow of heroin, Erieh Strass, director
of the Federal Office of Criminal Inveetigation's narcotics
division, gays: The farmera in the Orient, in the Far East
and in Zatin .America "must be presented with alternatives,
such as planting strawberries instead of poppies."
The pusherg in the FRG can sell their stuff almost without
hindrance, as though they were marketing coffee beans. To
satisfy the needs of West Germa.n addicts, they do not con- _
sider the 60 percent pure crgstalline "Hongkong Rocks" good
enough. When large amounts (once it was 28 kg) are shipped
into Hamburg or arrive at Frankfurt~s Rhine-Main airport
- (a 15 kg shipment), they are merely forwarded to Holland,
Scandinavia or to the United Statea.
The Kurds from Turkey are in firm control of the market.
They have replaced foreign workers from Istanbul and Izmir
who smuggled in a few gra.ms in their $ocks after vacationing
at home. The narcotics agents re~er to this as ant hill
traffic. Now, there are large, up to 90 pereent pure loads
welded into the chassis rolling across the border.
During the past few weeks alone there were "amounts being
. talked about and seized of which some months ago we could
not even conceive," Frankfurt district attorney xarald
Koerner says. In Ruesselsheim, for example, agents diaco-
vered 45 bags containing 23 kg of heroin still smel].ing of
motor oil in a Kurd~s apartmen#.Gne of the agents said:
"No doubt this was hidden in some eagine compartment and
driven in a few days ago."
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The Kurds, whose names are xilic (which translates into
eaber), Tilki (fox) or Ciu (mount~in spirit), are mostly ~
from Diyarbakir province in eastern Turkey or from the Lice
area. According to the Frankfurt district a,ttorney's office,
their relative$ ~oin them as political persecutees. They
then ask for aeylum an~i go on to finance "the revolutionary
aims of the Turkish I~urds by meana of drug trafficking."
Among their luggage agents not only discovered heroin but
political pamphlets as well ("A People Fights for Its Exist-
ence").
But heroin, the most popular drug at present, is not the
worst of the lot, as the ~lmerican experience shows. PCP or
"angel dust," as the pushers call it, is on the way up.
Berlin hospitals have meanwhile reported the first cases of
PCP poisoning. PCP, ~.n analgeaic prescribed by veterinarians
for use on dogs an.d cats in small dosee, which has also been
~ employed in larger do~es to anaesthetize zao elephants, was
.characterized as "probably the most dangerous drug since
heroin and LSD'~ by NEWSWEES years ago. The 700 PCP deaths -
during the first half of 19?9 are proof of this.
This hallucinogen has driven California addicts to murder and
self-mutilation already. Once it reaches the German market in
large quantities, prices will tumble even lower and such as
_ cannot resist temptation will beaome addicted to it. The fact
is, as Horst Skarabis discovered on an information trip to
the United States, that PCP is not very hard to make even for
- a layman using basic synthetics.
"Most of them over there do not spend more than a dollar for
a fix with angel~s dust," Skarabis says. At the moment, the
dollar exchange rate is DM 1.80.
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- FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
BRIEFS
HEROIN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED--Two Turkish narcotics dealers were arrested by
officials at the main customs office in Bad Reichenhall when they tried to
smuggle into the FRG 2 kilograms of heroin and 20 kilograms of hashish at
the Schwarzbach Autobahn border crossing. A 40-year-old Turk caught the
attention of the border police, w~en he tried to enter the country on a
scheduled bus and they wanted to refuse his entry. Officials noticed that
he attempted to persuade a fellow traveler to accept a bag. When the bag
was opened, 2 kilograms of heroin and 8 kilograms of hashing were discovered.
A bus check was also the final destination for a 37-year-old Turk. He had
hidden 12 kilograms of hashish in his suitcase. The main customs office
in Bad Reichenhall announced that, in addition to the two Turks, one of the
men behind the scenes of heroin smu~gling was arrested following extensive
investigations. [Text] [Munich SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITU?~11G in German 7 May 80
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~ I
GREE CE ~
~ WAYS TO COI~AT NARCOTICS USE PROPOSID
Athens AKROPOLIS in Greek 3 Jun 80 p 3
[Article by Or. Farakos: "Do Not Talk Often To Youths About Narcotics
Since They Will Want To Try Thea~�'] ,
,~Text ] The large amount of information about narcotics is harming our
y ouuths. Most specialists who.have been.conceraed.�or years'with�this
problem are against any education for youths; they maintain that inform-
ation must be restricted to parents and there should be none at all for
children.
This opinion is stated by Athens University Professor G. Logaras in his
a:ticle published in the May 1980 Information Bulletin of the Ministry
of Social Services.
Information, stresses Log~ras, ie considered by many professionals to be
an "entic~.ag" inducemant for the young person to try narcotics. The method
of showing intense and characteristic pictures ~,f the wretched results en- -
suing from narcotics use appeare to be more svltable.
In the February 1980 Sixth General Conference of the Narcotics Committee
of the UN Economic and Social Council which took place in Vienna, special-
ists agreed that education about narcotics through lectures and press
publications is harming youths.
The Example of England
- Characteristic is the example of England where an extended enlightenment
campaign resulted in a sharp increase in the number of people engaging
police officers because of narcotics use.
- In addition, in the yearly UN notifications about narcotics which are made
in Geneva, none of the UN member countries have reported that they have
had some result from the war against drug addiction.
In his article, Professor Logaras answers the question of whether narcotics
use in Greece has created the same serious problems as in other European
and non-European countries.
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Logaras answers: "Fortunately no, for the present." He stresses that our
country has remained unharmed by the narcotics epidemic which is hitting
many European countries and, even mor~, the United States.
For this reason, we must not transfer here to Greece untested methods for
fighting narcotics which.are used by other countries where the problem has
other dimensions and significance.
The problem, says Logaras, is different, for example, in underdeveloped
countries which produce legal or illegal narcotics, like Iran, Thailand,
, Burma and Mexico, where drug addicts, who use a variety of narc~tics,
number in the hundreds of thousands or even in the developed countries
where narcotics use has taken a discouraging form.
If Austria, with 30 deaths a year fnom narcotics, thinks that there is no _
narcotics problem, then Greece, with two to three deaths a year, certainly
has no problem, at least for the present.
It must be noted that Switzerland has 80 deaths a year from narcotics,
while in West Germany and France, deaths number in the hundreds every year.
As in all matters of health, continues Professor Logaras, so in narcotics
prevention is easier than the cure.
Methodology of Prevention _
The methodology of prevention is based mainly on identifying the persona-
lity type of the individual who is most assailable and can, when found
under appropriate external conditions, be led into drug addiction.
Environment and the influences and experieaces of childhood years thus
�orm the peraonalit~ so as to make it ~core or less resistant to the
illness of drug addiction. The search for these conditions inevitably
leads to the family and inner-familial relations. There enter the roota -
for the greater danger of or greater resistance to drug addiction later
_ in adulthood.
Often the drug addict is the "appointed" sick member of the family group;
on this person are loaded all the bitter experiences which the institu-
tion of the faanily today creates among its members.
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NORWAY
VIOLENCE GROWS IN OSLO DRUG WORLD
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norwegian 6 Jun 80 p 3
[Text] A drug addict was told that he would b~ rolled in chicken wire,
weighted with stones and thrown into Akerselva and when he fled frum
those who threatened him in an Oslo back yard he was followed by a
shower of bullets. Another addict had to stand with his legs apart
while a warning round from a double-barreled shotgun was fired between
his legs.
NTB [NORWEGIAN PRES5 AGENCY] has learned that Oslo police are working
on two concrete cases and that co�-responds to reports from the Oslo
section--the drug scene has become much tougher. This is also shown by
the fact that those threatened are afraid to report what happens to the
police.
In these cases the background for the threats was that tl:e two owed
money to dealers for drugs. The two addicts were also beaten up. One
was beaten with a truncheon of the so-called "totenschlaeger" type,
so that his breastbone was broken. Both had valuables worth more than
the money tney owed taken from them.
The Oslo police department confirm:d a case for NTB where an addict had
his kneecaps crushed, but he refused to explain what happened to the
police.
Another addict is walking around with a bullet in his body after a run-
� in with an opponent in the Oslo drug world. He has claimed that he has
been told he will die within a week. This feud is due to a quarrel
earlier in the winter over a girl--who incidentally died later following
an overdose. A former friend of hers had died earlier from a similar
overdose.
Police adjutant Pa1 S. Berg of the Oslo police department knows of
several concrete examples of addicts who have been punished for owing
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money for drugs. The police have also noted an increased tendency -
toward violence agai,nst those involved in drug cases who provide cor- -
rect information about others.
Many drug pushers manage to get word out on people they wish punished -
' even though they are in jail without letter-writing and visitation
rights, Berg said.
"People we have questioned have been threatened with knives on the
street and tol~i to withdraw their statements. We al.so have one case
- where four 'mu~scle men� went from Norway to Spain to 'talk to' a nar-
cotics smuggler imprisoned there. The probable reason was that he had
given too much information about the recipients in Norway,~' Berg said.
He also told us that criminals who in the past described themselves as
"pure profit criminals" and who would not deal in narcotics have now
_ succumbed to the desir~ for profits.
In his view such experienced criminals have helpQd make the~sc~ne
tougher because they are not dependent on drugs but are interested only
in making money.
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SWEDEN -
RESEARCHER DISCUSSES ADDICTION STATISTICS, TRENDS
Brussels LE SOIR in French 10 Jun 80 p 4
~ [Article by Slim Allagui]
_ [Text] Stackholm, June--From 10,00i1 to 14,000 hard drug users in Sweden:
a disturbing figure which has not stopped increasing since the end of the
1960's. Drugs, the second largest scourge after alcohol, is in the process
of undermining a society which for all that is the champion of social pro-
tectfon.
One shudders while reading the report prepared by Prof Nils Olof Danell,
from the Office of Social Affairs. For 5 years, with the help of sta-
tistics and surveys, he studied the manner of death of Swedes, who were
directly or indirectly the victims of drug usage. The results, based on
data supplied by 2,000 "reporters" (social counselors, police officers,
hospital personnel, prisons): 10,000-14,000 drug addicts, with an average _
age between 27 and 29, including 25 percent young women; 7,500-10,000 users
of the syringe, including 2,000 with a daily habit.
The drugs: opium, heroin and morphine...at the end: 66 deaths in 1979,
compared to 25 in 1975. What is more, these approximate figures are lower
_ than the actual figures. "In recent times, we have noted an increase in
the number of drug addicts who die right in the street of an 'overdose'
or because the exhausted body can no longer take the beating. Stockholm
is at the head of tbis dismal hit parade with 3,500-4,500 drug addicts;
then come the two big cities of the kingdom, Goteborg and Malmoe, with
1,400-2,000. In the Swedish capital, between the central railway station
and Sergels Torg, near parliament, and under the eyes of deputies who are
attempting by a11 possible means to eliminate this disease of youth,
adolescents and drug pushers meet, exchange money and precious packets.
_ The police, who are keeping a low profile, can do nothing about this.
"Not unless we set up a po lice state and put a policea?an back of every
person," they say.
In vain has there been an increase in detoxification centers, counseling
and information campaigns, .irugs insinuate themselves, stick to the skins
of a certain sector of disoriented youth, without material cares, almost
without antecedents, which is destroying itself in a spirit of t~lithe
unconcern.
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"The politicians are displaying a frightening indifference," angrily shouts
one mother, who has just written a shattering book about her own experiences:
"It's Your Problem." The book is signed Margaretha Lovenius (a nom de plume)
who writes about her son, Sven-Erik, age 14, a happy, smiling boy full of
enthusiasm and with excellent relations with his parents. Then one day...
the beginning of the fall.
"All of a sudden, he began to be taciturn; returned home later and later.
I tried to talk with him. Wasted effort. Annoyed by my pressing questions,
he answered me innocently: 'Everything considered, what do you think of
me?~~~
Sven-Erik was hooked on hashish, and gradually became addicted to hard
drugs. Result: the hospital. "And yet," she adds, "I thought my mother`s
love would have been enough to get him to stop taking drugs. A mistake:
families cannot solve this problem by themselves. The whole of society
must assume this responsibility... Why did my son become a drug addict?
I am unable to find an araswer to that question. Nothing in our home pre-
disposed to such a breakdown. The material security and harmony which
surrounded us would shelter us from such accidents. Such was not the case.
Being the parent of a drug addict is not an easy thing. We go through
life with a terrible feeling of guilt: what did we do wrong; what
mistakes did we make?';
And even is we have nothing for which to reproach ourselves, we remain
profoundly hurt: "Attention," Margaretha says. "Do not underestimate
= the moment your sons smokes a bit of hash; that can turn out badly.'� And
she proposes other treatment methods to the authorities: "'There should
be an alternative to the traditional hospital; the departments and communes
should by farms, for example, to establish collectives. In this way, drug
addicts would be able to learn to~be more responsible and to undergo
social rehabilitation."
In fact, institutions of this kind are not legion in Sweden. Except for a
small experimental village, Ska, located on a charming island 50 kilometers
from Stockholm, where familes overcome by life, alcohol or drugs go to
learn how to live again. Sweden would need many villages of this kind,
a 5uciologist remarks. However, who is going to pay the bill, when we
are in the midst of an economic crisis? What should be done: repress
- or let things go? That is the big question Sweden is asking itself.
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POLICE COMMENT ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF DRUG CASES
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 18 May 80 p 5
[Article by Claes von Hofsten: "Narcotics Just Flow In, Police Can't
Control It"]
[Text] At least 8,000 people in Sweden are at
present suspected of narcotics crimes. Only a
small number of these need fear arrest by police
because there are only abo~.~~ 340 narcotics police.
The figure 8,000 is still belived to be.low. It is based on information
from the ma~ority of the country's narcotics districts. At SVENSKA
DAGBLADET's request each district counted the number of known persons
in the district which are at presen~ suspected of some form of narcotics
~rime.
Small-time drug abusers who sametimes buy and sometimes sell narcotics are -
generally not included in the figures. The countp.y narcotics police will
not devote their time to these cases which are less serious from a criminal
: standpoint. They will concentrate their limdted resources on the big dealers
in the narcotics trade. An accurate figure is, therefore, difficult to
establish. Araong the 8,000 the ma3ority are themselves drug abusers.
Worse Than Ever
"Never before has so much narcotics been pumped into the country as is
happening now," sighed the district chief in Helsingborg, Inspector Erik
Ekelund.
He estimates the number of narcotics criminals in Helsingborg at between
200 and 300. That does not give Helsingborg the top rating. Malmo
seems to be worse. There Che narcotics police say they suspect at _
least 2,000 people.
In Malmo, Stockholm county, and Gothenburg there are so many persons involved
in the narcotics trade that the police can scarcely count them all.
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_ A Fraction Are Apprehended
"There must be thousands, and we apprehend only a fraction of them," said
Inspector Roy Strangner in Gothenburg. (Gothenburg's estimate was 1,000). �
Each district is making up a search register. All the names which crop
- up in an investigation are placed in it, even if they are not at the time
directly suspected. The register is an important part of the narcotics
intelligence puzzle. Those who are once involved in connection with
narcotics have a tendency to return often. In Norrkoping where 100
people are now suspected for narcotics crimes there were 2,326 names in
the register in January.
"Informers are highly valued, we worktHem~continuously and then we take
them in hand when the whole thing goes together," said the county narcotics
group in Stockholm, which expects at least 1,000 more names of known
narcotics criminals in that county. .
Search Made Easier
Even if drug abusers who are not under strict police surveillance are not
interesting, knowledge of their whereabouts can facilitate the search for
pushers. Therefore the police also retain their names. Abusers sooner
or later crop up in connection with other crimes. In the rural districts _
the police therefore usually have a rather good idea of who the drug users
are.
The police in Jonkoping were~the~efore very surprised when a while ago a
previously unknown man was brought In who said that he had used narcotics
for 10 years. He was different from most in that he could support his `
habit by selling off inherited property.
Some districts complain that they have too little resources to go seriously
after all those that they actually know participate in the deadly trade.
Inspector Lennart Hammarsten in Vesteras thinks he knows 100 narcotics
criminals in Vestmanland but the police can only search out two or three
at a time if the search is to be conducted effectively.
Headmasters Complain
Most districts report a marked increase of abuse of hashish. In Uppsala
the police have received alarming reports from several headmasters about -
how the pushers are trying to win new customers among the students at the
higher school.
Abuse of narcotics is the least in Norrland. Lulea thinks that it is on
the decline. Inspector Marcus Oj a, however, estimates at least about 70
suspects. The lowest number comes from Ostersund. The number of known
suspects in narcotics crimes there is believed to be around 10. -
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"if we had twice as many districts we could make twice as many arrests,"
said Inspector Sven Eriksson of Gavle, where 10 of approximat.ely 100
drug pushers are now under arrest.
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It also has the most narcotics police districts, nameZ~ thr~e. Gotland
and Oland appear to be inore innocent than they actually are. Narcotics
reports are made by the mainland districts.
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swEnrN
TREND SEEN IN 'MOVING UP' FROM HASHISH TO HEROIN
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 18 May 80 p 5
[Article by Willy Silberstein: "Now They Are Selling Hash To Buy Heroin"J
[Text] Marianne and Lasse both began to smoke hash
when they were 12. To do the forbidden was of course
so exciting. Today we can see them among the other
- pushers on Norrtnalms Square in Stockholm. They are :
- selling hash to get money for heroin.
SVENSKA DAGBLADET's series on hashish continues here with an interview with
Matianne, who is 18, and Lasse, who is 23. Both have the classic career
behind them. They began to drink liquor at an early age. They joined
a gang which used hashish. Tried it. Became hooked and went to stronger
= drugs.
"First it was fun. What friends we had in the hash gang! Everyone wore
about the same kind of clothes, thought alike, and had fun," said Marianne.
In those days she was convinced that ha~hish was not dang~raus.
"But I soon realized that was wrong. I often became sick. Had phobias,
was afraid to talk to people."
Bags of Heroin
Gradually Marianne-went over to amphetamines. A few years later she lived
together with a boy and a girl. The boy had bags of heroin there at home
, and urged some on Marianne.
- "Later he moved out. Now I understand that he was so generous only because
he wanted to get me addicted to heroin."
TrJhen Lasse was 15 he was already an experienced hash peddler who could
afford to invite friends to taverns and pay a bill for 1,000 kroner. He
also got information about hard drugs.
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"Then I broke up with my girl friend. And so I started with heroin."
Now every day is taken up with two preoccupations for Lasse and Marianne:
to sell hashish and get heroin.
_ Plenty of Customers
"To get 1?ash to sell is no problem. And there are lots of customers. We ~
both have buyers from 12-13 up to the 50's."
_ "But," said Lasse, with a moralistic quaver in his voice, "I only sold
'blue' to the youngest."
Blue is henna. It is a coloring agent which looks exactly like hashish
but is not effective for smoking by those who want to get high.
A little later, however, he said, "If a fellow is very desperate, and
doesn't have money for heroin, then he will sell hash to anybody. Even
the very young."
Lasse's parents are divorced.
Have Nozhing
"Mother's boy friends were never fathers to me. If they had started me
in a hobby perhaps I would have made it. Now I have nothing to go back
to. The drug life is all I know."
Lass~ has borrowed large amounts of money from his mother during recent
years. About 30,000 kroner per year.
"Sometimes I go up to her and say, 'Mama, I owe my dealer a thousand, will
you lend it to me...?"'
Future Plans
What do they dream of? What plans have Lasse and Marianne for the future?
Lasse wants to live in a house in the country. Take in drug addicts who
have decided to quit narcotics.
'YI will live there with my son," he said, taking a well-thumbed photo out
of his pocket. A lively.four-yea~-old boy gazes happily back. ~
"He is better than ten fixes..."
Marianne wants to work at handicrafts. Perhaps have a family.
"But no children, I think. I don't want to bring up children in this
society. I know how dangerous it is."
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Psychologically Disturbed
Marianne and Lasse daily see other addicts who have been at it longer.
Some have lost teeth. Have facial twitches. Serious psychological -
disturbances.
"No, I don't believe I will ever be like that. That seems so far away." -
Both talk about quitting. Marianne is going to a pay clinic this evening.
"But really, I have been on the way several times and didn't get there.
My boy friend left me and since then I haven'ttried to quit."
To a Collective Farm
~ Lasse expects to get a place on a collective farm in the country.
"I expect to stay on drugs until I re~lly get a place. If I don't get a
place I will continue here," he said. He sounded as though he meant,
"If they don't help me it's their problem." -
In the end, almost all addicts have the same plans--tomorrow. Or in a _
couple of weeks. When that treatment vacancy becomes available.
Quitting is what Roger also talked about. I interviewed him several years
ago. He had tried hashish on a train to Amsterdam. Later it was heroin.
But now he was going to quit. In a couple of days.
Several months later Roger was dead. Overdose in a dirty toilet at the
central subway station in Stockholm.
Footnote: The names in the article are fictitious.
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SWEDEN
SOCIAL AGENCY: NARCOTICS DEATHS INCREASE 10 PERCENT IN 1979
~tockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 19 May 80 p 1,5
[Text] Narcotics deaths increased 10 percent in
' Stockholm last year com~ared with 1978. Average
age of the dead was 29 years.
New figures have been released by Dr Nil-Olof Danell of the National Board
of Health and Welfare in Stockholm. The last five years he has studied
how many people died from direct or indirect abuse of narcotics. His
figures include Stockholm, Sodermanland, and Gotland, but most of the
deaths occurred in Stockholm.
In 1979, 66 persons died in Stockholm because of narcotics. That is six
more than the year before~
The number has constantly increase since Nils-Olof Danell began his count
of narcotics deaths in 1975.
These are the numbers for the years since then. 1975: 25, 1976: 46,
1977: 49, 1978: 60, 1979: 66.
It is primarily the opiates, morphine and heroin, which caused the deaths.
The opiates have always been dominant,.but now they take more lives than
previously.
"We.have noted an increas~ in the number of addicts who die on the street.
Eit~er of an overdose or because the body has become so susceptible through -
narcotics abuse that the addict is stru~k down by some sickness," said
Dr Nils-Olof Danell.
Since 1978 the average age of the dead has gone up a couple of years--from
27 to 29. ~
"That can indicate a slight stabilizing, that the number of new addicts
has declined somewhat. But it is still too early to reach any reasonable
conclusions."
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Women make up about 25 percent of the narcotics deaths. The dEad women
are on the average a couple of years younger than the men.
The number 66 for 1979 is too low. Actually more people than that died
in Stockholm because of narcotics, but all the cases did not get investi-
- gated. How large the true number is nobody can say.
"But we estimate that the actual number probably did not exceed 80,"
said Nils-Olof Danell.
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SWEDEN
DRUGS OFFICER IN THE HAGUE DESCRIBES ANTIDBIJG� EFFORT
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 19 May 80 p 5
[Article by Willy Silberstein: "Prompt Contribution Essential"]
[Text] Hashish flows in over Sweden's borders. A
couple of tons per month are smuggled here according
to police calculations. In an attempt to reduce this
traffic Interpol has stationed a Swedish policeman at
our embassy in The Hague. SVENSKA DAGBLADET has met
him.
Bo Johansson has previously worked on narcotics in Sweden. He is very
experienced in these matters.
Now for 3ust six months he l~as worked with narcotics on an international
level--stationed at the Swedish embassy in Holland.
_ Why Holland? There are several reasons. The country is centrally located--
in the middle of west Europe.
Furthermore ~wo of the world's largest ports are here, Amsterdam and
- Rotterdam. Another reason is the liberal legislation which Holland, at
least previously, applied to narcotics matters. That increased smuggling
to Sweden. .
"The most important thing about having a Swedish policeman stationed here
is promptness," said Bo Johansson. "With drug smuggling everything moves
with great speed. Therefore we must be in place."
Cases Compete
Bo Johansson's job is, among other things, to try to interest the Dutch
police in the narcotics traffic headed for Scandinavia. This is not
always an easy task.
"The Dutch are very positive. But if they have a case in progress in-
volving five tons of hashish and I come in with suspicions about
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smuggling a few kilo, naturally they don't throw themselves into my case
every time.
"But it usually goes well when we dis cuss the contributions we can make,"
said Bo Johansson.
- He gave a few recent examples of suc cessful cases. Several months ago
Bo Johansson was contacted by the Orebro police who suspected organized
smuggling of hashish from Holland to Orebro.
~ Bo Johansson talked with his Dutch colleagues. The search was begun. -
A vehicle was followed. The result was the arrest of several~couriers
in a hotel in Orebro.
"That case proved to be larger than we first thought. Probably they
smuggled half a ton of hashish altogether."
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GOVERNMENT AGENCY ESTIMATES UP TO 14,000 HARD DRUGS USERS
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 20 May 80 p 12
[Text] There are between 10,000 ~nd 14,000 abusers
of hard drugs in Sweden. Three-fourths of these
are men and the average age is 27. This informa-
tion comes from a report which the National Board
of Health and Welfare delivered to Minister Karin
Soder on Monday.
The investigation into the extent of narcotics abuse, called UNO, started
in 1978 and the object was to determine the extent of abuse of hard drugs.
In the category of hard drug abuse the investigators included in~ections
, and daily use of narcotics, regardless of the substance.
The figures given in the report are limit values.. They have not been
able, and do not consider it necessary, to quote figures more exact than
10,000-14,000.
The ob~ect of the report has been to try to determine the need for action.
' It was not possible to determine the identity of those who were studied
for the report. If secrecy had not been observed it would have been
difficult to get the information.
Contact Men
Here are some of the figures and findings of the ~eport: -
- . --Between 7,500 and 10,000 of the drug abusers inject narcotics.
--1,500 to 2,000 do it daily. . -
--Stimulants for the central nervous system are the most common, but other
substances are also used. Half of those who inject daily use opiates.
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l
~ --3,000 take narcotics daily by some other means. These include hashtsh
. sue~kers.
--75 percent of the investigated cases are mixed abusers, meaning that
they use both narcotics and alcohol.
The UNO got its information by using 2,000 contact men in different parts
of the country: social workers, hospital personnel, prison personnel,
police and others.
Daily
It has also been determined where the largest number of abusers are found.
Stockholm has the most, between 3,500 and 4,500. Gothenburg and Malmo/Lund
each have 1,400-2,000.
_ In Stockholm as many as 900 people take injections daily. The number for
Malmo/Lund is 450, and for Gothenburg 300. -
"These findings show no great difference from earlier findings," said
Supreme Court Judge Boret Palm, who is responsible for the report.
The next step will be that county conferences will be called throughout
the country where different portions of the report will be presented.
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SWIDEN
CUSTOMS SERVICE SEIZES 25 KILOGRAMS OF HASHISH IN MAIL
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 21 May 80 p 4
[Article by Claes von Hofaten: "25 Rilos of Hashish in Packages in
the Mail"]
[Text] For two months, customs officials in Stockholm waited in vain
for some of the increasing number of narcotics dealers to give them-
selves away by calling for some packages in the mail containing
narco tics.
Customs discovered the actual contents of the packages in one of the
usual spot checks at the central postoffice in Stockholm. The package,
which the custome officials suspect comes from Pakistan, had been
provided with stamps which would give the impression that it has been
sent From a country in Central America.
A dozen packages came to the same addresses and the same address in
_ ~ust a few days, but it has aot been possible to track down the intended
receiver. The name is believed to be false and the address gives a
postoffice box number which has not been rented out by the postal
service for a very long time.
"The packages contained about 25 kilograms of hashish, taken all
together," says Bertil Nilsson, an office manager in the Stockholm
customs organization.
This is not the first time the customs service has detected the smuggling
of narcotics by mail. Packages containing Pakistani narcotics were
found last summer in Stockholm, in Skane and on the continent. That
time they were packed in rolled-up newspapers, and that time, too, the
package carried stamps from other countries, certainly for the purpose
of making the package seem more innocuous. It was possible to discover
the receiver that time.
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The hashish in the package which now has.been discovered has a value
on the drug market correspondiag to about 1 million kronor. The
customs people and the Swedish national police therefore had hoped
_ that some individual or individuals who were expecting the packages
would appear and ask for them, but there still is complete ailence
after two months.
Bertil Nilsson suspects that the sender, whose name is written so
indistinctly on the package that it connot be deciphered, go~ two or . _
more addresses mixed up. On every new package which arrived, the
address was written very carelessly. On one of them, Stockholm was
even given as the aender.
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_ swEn~x
POLICE UNCOVER GANG WHICH SMUGGLED HEROIN FROM T[TRKEY
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 6 Jun 80 p 4
[Artic'le by Claes von Hofsten: "Heroin Gang Broken Up After Anonymous
Tips"]
(Text] Thanks to an individual providing anonymous tips, the narcotics
group of the Stockholm administrativP province police has succeeded in
breaking up a gang which had sold heroin worth at least 40 million
kronor. The four leading members of the gang were indicted on Thursday.
District Prosecutor Per Durling does not want to rev~al the details of
the successful tip-off operation, but basically what was involved was -
the fact that the individuals who now have been indicted were surprisingly
- prosperous. It has not yet been possible for the police to reward the
peraon providing the tips (as is usual in such cases) because that per-
son's identity is still unknown.
After a search which lasted almost all of last year, the police struck
the gang with a raid ~ust before Christmas. The raid was successful.
In additian to taking a large number of individuals prisoner, 1.5
: kilograms of neroin and 900,000 kronor in cash were found.
- At first, all those arrested denied the charge of involvement in narcotics
offenses. As the investigation wen4: on and time spend in ~ai1 became
oppressive for the suspects,one confession after another came out in
private.
When the preliminary investigation of the leaders was completed, a total
of 20 people were accuaed of belonging to the gang. Accdrding to
Prosecutor Durling, they imported 10 kilograms of heroin from Turkey
at the very least.
The maj ority of those accused are more afraid of being expelled from ~
Sweden than of havir:g to serve a long term of imprisonment for narcotics
offenses.
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The four who were indicted on Thursday provided the driving force
for the gang's activities. They hatched the ideas and instructed
the others regarding the parts they were to play in various opera-
tions. One of them used his 14-year-old son as a messenger. The
14-year-old delivered drugs to customers and in that way protected
his father from having to engage in that dangerous work. The son
himself is too young to be indicted.
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SWIDEN
PROSECUTOR ATTACKS NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING IN PRISONS
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 30 May 80 p 17
[Article by Margareta Artaman: "NarcO~~ics Shark$ Teach DiaCrict Drug
Dealers"]
, [Text] Goteborg--Spot checks ehow that millions of kronor circulate ~
within prison walls. Drug dealing continues uanhindered.
- Such a simple thing as prohibiting coiti-operated telephones ought to
stop a large part of the dealing in drugs from inside the prisona,
That ia what Public Prosecutor Christer Fogelberg says. He is a member
of the working group for narcotics questions of the Goteborg d istrict
government which conferred on ways of tackling the drug problem on
Thuraday.
_ Last year 42 drug dealers were sentenced to from 2 to 3 yeara of
imprisonment and 18 to 3 yeara or more in Goteborg. Over half of them
are ciCizens of foreign countriea.
- They Form Teams
- "What is dangerous," says Fogelberg, "is the fact that Swediah 'district
drug dealers' serving sentences of from 1 to 2 years are in prison with
these people. While they are in prison, they form teams with criminals
from Bangkok, Amsterdam and Weat Germany, exchanging telephone -numbers
and arranging contacts.
"That is what the community has to offer--such things as instruction
in Swedish for the foreign drug dealers in spite of the fact that they -
will be expelled later on. A relatively harmless individual can become
a great daager to society in that way.
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"Mairy solutions are suggested," says Fogelberg. "Before a person who
has been aentenced is placed in prieon, the organization for the treat-
ment of offendere should be informed of his membership in gangs, where
money and drugs are located abroad, the possibility of h?~ eacaping,
etc. Then they should be placed in different institutione--the _
criminals all together and the drug dealere all together, The depart-
ment for curing addicts ahould also be expanded."
Fogelberg would also like to have spot-check urine tests, the pr~hibi-
tion of visits which are not beneficial for the inmatea and the removal
- of coin-operated telephones, which are used freely for drug deals
these days.
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SWEDEN
BRIEFS
DRUGS INTELLIGENCE CENTER NEEDED--Stockholm, 18 May--"It is not realistic =
to try to take legal action against all narcotics violators," said Bureau
Chief Esbjorn Esb~ornson at the National Police Board. In narcotics as
in other areas there must be priorities. Of course the districts need more
people, but Esb~ornson said that within the current budget any increases
would be marginal. If there should be an increase he woul~ like to see
it used to build up a central intelligence service to fight narcotics
crime. The intelligence service would assemble, examine, and analyze
inforn~ation which local districts turn up in their reports. [Text]
[Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLA.DET in Swedish 18 May 80 p 5] 9287
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