JPRS ID: 9445 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JF'RS L/9445 _ 15 December 1980 - Woridwide Re ort p NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS - (FOUO 52/80) FBIS FOREIGN BROADCA~T INFORMATION SERVICE . FOR ~OFF'ICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 NOTE JPRS publications contain information prinarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency _ transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are translated; those from English-language sources ~ are transcribed or reprinted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets are supplied by JPRS. Processing indicators such as [Text] ~ or [ExcerptJ in the first line of each item, or following the last line of a brief, indicate how the original information was processed. 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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/9445 15 December 1980 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS l~ND DANGEROUS DRUGS (FOUO 52/80) CONTENTS ASIA AUSTRALIA Victoria lmposes Stiff New Penalties for Drug Abuse (Gerry Carman, Aileen Berry; TEIE AGE, 22 Act 80) 1 Prescription Druga Affected _ Surveu on Drug Use Penang Dealer Testifiea at Zampaglione Trial (THE AGE, 21 Oct 80, THE COURIER-MAIL, 21 Oct 80) 6 Deal in 1978 Activities in Penang Briefs Haehish Seized 7 Womzn Cannabis Couriers 7 _ Denial of Appeal 7 Heroin for Dying Patients 7 _ MAL.IYSIA ASEAN Countries Urged To Draft Uniform Drug Abuse Laws (SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA, 10 Sep 80) 8 L~ug Trafficker Sentenced ~0 20 Years' Imprisonment (SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA, 27 Sep 80) 10 Huge Narcotics Haul Seized From International Syndicate (SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA, 8 Sep 80) 11 Heroin Destined for Malaysia Seized by Thai Police (SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA, 23 Sep $0) 13 . Number of Malaysian Addicte Reportedly Reache~ 400,000 (KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS, 1 Oct 80) 14 - -a- [xII-H1h1- 138FOUOJ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 PAKISTAN Membera of International Ring Eec ape Police (Ahmed Bashir; THE MUSLIM, 14, 18 Nov 80) 15 Seven Arrested Background of Group Probe Completed on Heroin Smuggling (DAWN, 18 Nov 80) 17 Briefs Charas Seized 18 ~ Charas Seized: Three Neld 18 Opium Seizure at Baghbanpura 18 Charas Haul I8 - THAILAND ONCB Off.icial Reports on Drug Traffic (Jim Wolf; AFP, 28 Nov 80) 19 Traffickers Seized Enroute to Phuket (SANGKOR POST, 4 Nov 80) 21 Hong Kong Trafficker Sentenced to Life (POST, 18 Oct 80) 23 ONCB Chief on Chiang Mai Drug Conference - (Bangkok Domestic Service, 29 Nov 80) 24 EAST EUROPE CZECHOSI,OVAKIA Briefs Drug Laboratory Discovered 25 YUGOSLAVIA Drug Addiction Discussed _ (B. Likar; OSLOBODJENJE, 7 No~v 80) 26 ~ LATIN AMERICA BOLIVIA ILO Concerned Regime in Hands of Drug Runners (SUNDAY GLEANER, 16 Nov 80) 29 - b - ' FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY BRAZIL Hospital for Drug Addicts To Be Built in Rio de Janeiro (0 GLOBO, 28 Oct 80) 31 - _ Government Tries To Subatitute Other Cropa for Coca (d GLOBO, 7 Nov 80) 33 ~ ~ CocainQ Use on Rise, Particularly Among Wealthy (0 ~STADO DE SAO PAULO, 25 Oct 80) 3~C Briefs - Traffickers Have Small Bomb 35 Major Petropolis Trafficker Killed 35 Arrest of Trafficker 35 CHILE Briefa - Drug Trafficker 36 Cocaine Laboratory 36 COLOMBIA Traffickers, Cocaine Laboratory Seized ~ (EL ESPECTADOR, 4 Nov 80) 37 Cocaine Hidden in Artifacts Seized (EL TIEMPO, 25 Oct 80) 39 . 'Improper' Funds Received by National Bank Disnussed (Fernando Barrero; EL TIEMPO, 4 Nov 80) 41 Defense Minister: No Military Ties to Traffickers - (EL ESPECTADOR, 1 Nov 80) 43 Judge Rilled by Trafficker Fugitive (Hector Rodriguez Villa; EL TIE1~0, 31 OcL 80) 44 CU13A Military Judges Attend Worker Safety, Law Meeting (Mario RodriguPZ; VERDE OLYVO, 26 Oct 80) 45 MEXICO � Smuggler of Reprocessed Drug~ Captured (EL BRA.VO, 3 Oct 80) 47 Ex-Policeman Involved in Marihuana Trafficking Ring (EL MANANA, 17 oct 80) 49 Briefs Drug Destruction Intensified 52 - c - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 _ NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA - IRAN Dangera of Asian Drug Traffic Pointed Out - (JAVANAN-E EMRUZ, 20 Oct 80) 53 7 Briefa Poppy Cultivation Bans ~ 57 Heroin Factory Diacovered 57 Addicta, Pushers Sentenced 57 Guarda Net Opium 57 KUWAIT Several Types of Drugs Seized in Narcotics Arrest (AL-QABAS, 28 Oct 80) 58 _ - Briefa Hashish Bust ~ 60 Four-Man Drug Ring 60 Hashish Case 61 Lebanese Smugglers 62 ~ WEST EUROPE ITALY _ Heroin Dealer Arrested Near Cagliari (L'UNIONE SARDA~ 16 Oct 80) 63 TURKEY Mumcu Examines Narcotics Web (Editorial, Ugur Mumcu; CiTI~IURIYET, 24 Nov 80) 66 - - - _ Former SmugglPr Arr~s~ed- �or__T~ashish (HIJRRIYET, 25 Nov 80) _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . : . . . . 68 _ _ - d - FOR OFFICIAL USE ~NLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 AUSTRALIA VICTORIA IMPOSES STIFF i1EW PENALTIES FOR DRUG ABUSE Prescription Drugs Affected _ Melbourne THE AGE in English 22 Oct 80 p 1 [Article by Gerry Carman and Aileen Berry] [ Tex t] The ~Premier, Mr Hamer, last night annouaced taug3t new penalties for drug traffickers and a series of = measutes aimed at curbing the abuse of prescription drugs. , _ ~People trafficking in hardAdrugs such as herain and cocaine will face jail terms af up to Z5 years or a fine up to $200,000, or ~oth. ~ T'he existinA maximum penalty ts 1S yeats' jsit ot a ~ fine of 5100,000, or both. Irwili seek che co-operation.ot Legislation which wiH in- ~ Federal Government, which controls the provisioas ot the ~nase penalties, inaoduce g~dpsting Act, to mtroduce a new otiences and give potice simHar ban on such ulevision wide powers of arrat witho~tt a~d Rdio advertisemeat~. ' a warcant is ea~pected W be 'I~e legislatbn wili follow put before the present aession closety the main recoromenda- of ParliamenG � . ~ ~ '~~~II1C�~ The Governmectt wiU ban ~0~8 WrtY report on the nevv~pe~Per and magazine adver� ~8 ~lem in Victoria." Mr Hataer tabltd the repoct in Pat- tising, oi a number of non-pre- liammt yesterday. scripuoa, drugs which lnclude Mr Huner said he hoped� to in- _ prepasauons to he}p people s1teP ~ Mp ~aws as soan ns and cough-miaturea contsini~ ~~ible. - aaa�hisumines. . The Government will tighten regulations covering the prescription of drugs listed in Schedule 8 of the Poisons Act--hard drugs. _ Special Pads Doctors will have to issue prescriptions for such drugs on distinctively colored and numbered pads issued by the State Health Commission. Similarly, chemists will have to check all prescriptions for such drugs and send a copy of each cancelled - prescription to the commission. The working party report reco~ended that these provisions operate from 1 March next year. ~1 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 " "The Governsnent accepts that in the long term there is a need for computerisation - of all prescriptions for addictive drugs," Mr Hamer said. As a first step, a feasibility study will start soon. he said. The legislation will provide for confiscation of all drugs, and goods and money gained from the sale of drugs, even if no drug conviction is recorded, as long as an offence is proved. The new penalty for trafficking in hard drugs means that the existing jail penalty has been increased by 10 years and the fine doubled to $200,000. This - brings Victoria into line with New South Wales. There will be a significant change to penalties covering marijuana. A single ~ penalty will replace the present maximum penalty of 15 years' jail or $100,000 fine, or both, for dealing in Indian hemp and hashish and the separate penalty of 10 years' jail or $4000 fine or both for dealing in cannabis. - 'i'he sirrgle penalty wi!I provine Police who rnuld prove that a persons, the working ~par[y's im- for a 10-~ear jail sentence and person w+as likely to persist in pression was that fewer eRorc~ flnes of up to 550,000. dealing in drugs would be able are made in the areas of early in- People who seii barbitua~es on co maks atrests without wan- urvetnion. . the s:reets will no longer face ants. "For inttance, when people pn- - only a ~160 rna~c~mum ~ne a ~1r Fiamer seid Ghe Govtrnment sent for medical, treatmenc where co,~ ic.i~n. Thty w?!' be prosr� would fo:low recommendations by dtug misuse may be s relevant ou~ed uader che F'~isons Ac~ and t`~e ~rorldng pany designed to factor, attention is usuall~ fo- w�ill face 10 years' jail or a reduce deFays at the Forensic rused on their presenti~tg prob- S.iO,OM) fine, or bah. Science Laboratories. tn m~ny !em without the necessary ueat- People who sell barbituraces cases, the havy backbg ot menc or referral for cheir drug and/or utterinRpr escripcions will samples fot analysi~ has seri- probkm" n~ longer be dealt wi~h under ously delayed coan proceedings. Among the working paRy's re- common law +ca~utes chat have The working perty sugRested commendacions is a necwork oE no pre.scribed penalty for forgine. the use of both Government and Governmenc and non-Go~ernment bu~ will come under the Poisons private laboratories to lightra the agencies to work on early inter- .4cc, facing a penalty cf two load of the Fonnsic Science vencion, treatment and rohabiii- years' ja~l. Laboratories, at leaat until their tation. And it sug�esu special fa- A senior Government adviser propo~ed new premises were op- cilicies near casuatty depar~mencs said thac ~�hen tne new tegislacion encing. ' of publi~c hospitals, where a dr~c- ' took a8ect, many offences now On drug treetment, the repor~ ~ft~ed person could o~�ercome under che umi>reUa of Heatth Act says: "By comparisca with che the unmediate eitecu of the regulatiorts would comt undtc the amount of resources expended in drugs. Poisons A~c. the creatrneat oi ~-dependent The nevv laws ~ ~ Ilega~ cfru~s - _ _ -~~~s~~: - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . n~s p+~,.M? ro. p..pa.et~. a~etiow. a��~o � trsffieki~p iw heeoin or coesin~ Mriti ?is~ o0 25 ~ws. wwpnao~nt a~d/a s 5200.000 Qas. fTt� Pr~ P~~M M 16 ~rs i~ j~ii end/a ~ 1i~ a~r St0~A001. � Ths pensft~r fw pos~s~ioe of t~ dnqs b~ ~ IwCwwsd to - tMw ~rsen irnp~o~ and/a e S~Di00 ~aa (P'r'wwR p~id~s aer 12 ~ao~eM awd/a a 8600 ~i. MFetijuerte: . ms o~r ~o. orove~+~w, e..~~o a vslfiddwg in ~sbis sed/a proddcts deriwd boa~ e~tlis pi~ts w+q b~ ci+aq~d to 10 Yws 1~Orio~~wt a~d/a � =50.000 fa~. 2 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ~ Prw~w pr~i~s ~qi !`e~ 10 ~s jr wd l400Q te 16 pM?'~ j~il ad i10.000. d~ip o~ iM ~O~p1A ef flr prodretl . TA~ pw~~ b arkiwtiwp ~ a~a~i~ piMt wiM, b~ tlw a~~ as b? tra111ai~i~q - 10 tr'~s' MM w!/~ �~QAAO i~a � Pwrlp~ po~on d~ b~p d~d~a~ioe~ i~wrd bq ews - ~n Mil /a s ~6D00 lfw~. _ ' , ~ . _ � fa~q ~ pwoiptlon br ~~rkttl wbslMO~ a rllwiq � fap.d pr..~io~ - v�~Itr iwv r.rs' Mt~ _ � FM~ ~p~naeiow ~ /a !M pcrpoM of obt~MMe~ � ~',f~l ~'~w a f~5~ aw ~ MdJar a i~OD _ ~ (TA~M t1M0 O~i.r w01~ 00111~ 1111dp 1~p'11~011~ - ~ Tfi~INl~ 111 ! 1~l~O~ i~fM0/ ~ O~r ~0 NI~~01 � . � N'OMeMf.'lll O~ � NA~Md ~1a ~ MO ~S � :6~0 ~11~. ~n ~ ~.~ee~+ e~? aoc~o.. ~ a~~v.aer. .ae~ew. . - eneq. wiM n.w ~o b..r.+tt~n a+ eobs.d. ,�is~r ~ua vaa _ ~tswd 6qr tM 1lrlth Cowrwi~io~� , ' A!1 ~ei~d~ wiM I~w b ei~~ d~e wd~ d r _ p~ow~ lor tl+~ ~npa w~d wd a oo~ d MeU eMei~ pn~aiptiow b tM 1M~NA Co~~iMiow. - Survey on Drug Use , Melbourne THE AGE in English 22 Oct 80 p 9 [Article by Aileen Berry and Gerry Carman] _ (Text] The parents of many post-primary students introduced their children to ~ alcohol and other drugs according to a survey by the Victorian Government work- ing party on drugs. More than 60 per cent of the students in the survey used alcohol or analgesics or both. Mor~ than 43 per cent smoked. The survey, involving 2014 boys and 1853 girls, aged between 11 and 18, also found that__5, 7_ ~er cent use~ marijuana, 4.4 per cent used sedatives and 3.7 _ . _ _ _ _ _ - - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ per cent used inhalants. A}~t 1 per omt of IS~e stu. A large ptoportion. T9.3 psr ~aid they took it uP t~misetves - dents, all frorn ~(iovoernment anc oi the respondents, claimed and another 11.? per ceat Wamed schools, aaid they used hero+a t1x7' used betwees one and thra peers. Painkillers were the most but the woridng Pu'cY w~s sceP- o~ the 10 drugs listed in the sur� commonly-used drug; 66.2 per tical sbout ~ame replies. O[ the vey v~rYhile 128 per cent said they cent ot the respondents said they 0.4 per anc wtio ~afd tMt t~ey did not ux any drugs. Of tbe used thean and 59.4 per cent said used heroin daily. 0.2 per oent akohol users. ~4.9 per cerrt draolc their pare~ts, iatroduced them to or six nudeau claimed chry an avtrage at less than 8w the drvgs. Samilarly, while ontq Pused heroin mor~ thaa e~via a 8lasses of i~eer or wine a w~ee14 23 per oeat used timqufFtlsers. ~y ~vhile 16 per aot drank an aver~ 56.2 per ant ~vere lntroduad Eo Another 2.7 per ant sdd the~ age ot one or more ~Jasssa t day. t~em bq someone la tbe famity. usedpep pills, 2.3 per ant ~sed Near3}' 30 pEr ceat said they The survey s~oaed tlnt S.7 per uanquillisers ud 1.1 Dsr ~eat were ietroduced to alcohol by cerit oe Z'll students c;honed w used b~lucit~oQeas. their'Pareacs. sad 12.8 per cxst ~ 3 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 have used mnrijuant in tl~e pre- ional users, smoking le3a thaa trebling hetween ~ar eigttt aad ear nine and a.most doubl' - than guls used t~he dru ,~alth ~ sve cigarottes a month. ~u,em year 10 and year 11. ~ t' 6 ~ In the older agr groups, t4~cn ho~h Rroupa were mouly occas~~ was a pronounced incsease In the Most were introduced to mad- yroportions ot marijuaaa uaers. O na by peers or people over A slightly higher proportion of male students than female students used pep pills with a trend to higher usage as they got older. A higher proportion of students in year levels seven, eight and nine use inhalants than at higher year.levels, ~ although a few said that their use was for medical reasons. _ The survey also found tha[ of the 1.2 per cent wh:; claimed they used hallucino- gens, 16 used them up to four times a month and 19 used them up to foLr times a week. "The survey reports indicate that the extent of alcohol and tobacco use are similar for both male and female students although males are more likely to be he~vier users,'� the report said. "Females are more likely to be users of painkillers and sedatives but males are more likely to be users of marijuana." S ~ ~ / ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ , AVERAOE CONSt1MPT10N IN 18781percend~ge of 3872 stadentsl ~t t-tt 1~4 1~ 1.2 3�6 11� M~n � ~ Yw/ � ~ ~ � ~ 10 a 2f ~ tlw ~r ~II wNk iq M ~w Mr m~ W A~oo~,ol 39. i 14.0 13.0 17.9 11.6 3.2 0.8 0.3 0.1 Tob~ceo 56.7 6.4 ~ 7 6.9 6.2 6.8 7.9 4.3 0.1 Psi~, KfqKa 33.8 ~ 22.0 28.1 12.4 2.6 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.0 s~d~t~ws 95.6 2.0 1.1 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 - Tran~iNtsa~s 97.7 0.9 0.5 0.3 C.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 _ p~p p~its 97:8 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.3 C 2 0.1 0.1 0.0 ~nhalNrts 98.3 1.2 0.7 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 k,t~udno~e+s 98.8 0.3 O.d 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 - _ _ . _H~ _ - _ 99,1_ _0.3_ 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1_ 0.0 0.1 0.0 _ 94.3 2.0 1.3 1.2 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 , . ~ ~ ~ ~ . a. we af wib.ea~so�.na wm~l.s of arhe~nt t~rp.. a.ub.t~. in a�,. a~q�;... TOSACCO: iMntw. ~ 1fN rknc~ AICdHQI: Mw, wr. ~rib ~AIN KILLEIlS: ~iir~ iqri 1MrMi sfDATIVES: s~nR ~{~~'lb TRANQUIWSERS: v~ ibir~ . PEP PILLa: ~N. +qMe+wir. ~t INNALENTB: "11w ~ly", ra~A, sx~ft, Kad 13D: aii ~se+i~. w~je ~r~Yrw~n . HEROIN: ~wek ~1iM~, Nir MARIJUANA: ~ras. Mt MMi~fi, a.Mbis ~ax+o~: Wn?~ aanenissiot�d bY P~nY� 4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ~ ~ t~v.o~o~ ~~~e ~a~e �n �~s . can~, 2011 3026 3316 2918 3294 r~�o~n 83 335 341 803 778 Moea,~,. 148 38 23 25 1 S cooajn. ' 18 23 18 17 8 uo. . ' 57 46 22 37 38 M~.~,... 52 33 52 232 318 Tor~~ 2367 3501 3772 4032 4452 iouro.: vleexi. roMo. . L~pio ~dd ~tlrylMwid~ Mbo~N~eus kwlu/N oAwioM ai~tlrM to t~1~W ~f ~A/ktle11 M/ n~alet~d nibstsnoM. CSO: 5300 5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ~ AUSTRALIA PF..NIANG DEALER TESTIFIES AT ZAMPAGLIONE TRIAL - Deal in 1978 Melbourne THE AGE in English 21 Oct 80 p 16 [ Excerpt] A farmer Penang heroin dealer is Heien Barnacle. He said she ~ T~: ~d ~hree pounds. yesterday ideatified four wbs preseat whea he sold Ga+don ~~He did say if I creaced him. peopie on trial for drug cftarges heroin. He gave Mr Gordoa his ~at ia Toeyr, treated him ri hc, as people inwlved in haom addnss and tek~hone aumba. ~ ~Wd treat me ri~ht also$, deals in 1978. ' About six months later he sold ~~~d Toa avas aot ha Davin Tan ot Penr,ae told the ~t one pound (haif a y PPY Crirnina! Court t6at he was a ~o of haoin) for SA~000. ' a~ ~ Pn~, but agreed, and He said that towards the end s~0p ~~'~Se~ ~1hen a heroin addla and thac tu was o~ m~ a~o ~y over the heroin 'in a now under mett~adone ueaanr,nt plasdc bag, Tony aad Helea �He said he had sold heroin as a T~y, ~?o was with Helea ~n W~ ~d-in- comroission ageat, and ~ He identihed the Mr Antonio Tan said. ~ ~ Pushed it oa the sueets. Zami~Slione as Tony. He said He identiRed Antonio Zamp~- Tony celephoned him and said he "~ta that I received' a ule- Ilone, Helen Msrgaret Bamacl~, ~ a triead ot Fred Gordon, phone call that everythiag wa~ Darid Quendn lewetl and John a~ that iu we's in the'mirice~ going accocding to expeccanon." Aian Scrike upeople he had moec T~ ~rown Dmsecutor, Mr E, Mr Taa said he nceived a in Penu~g in 1878 to arru~~ D� Lloyd; 'Q~, asked him: What letter from Tony, saying some- heroin deala. did chat tn~icate to you ? one ~vould be ca~ling to arraage - a substaMial drop. The Sa[r he identi9ed, and 5:~i- ~ Mr Tan: That I tvould undec He identiiied Mr Jewetl and vatoro Zampaglione, have sll sund 1k w+a looldn~ for {~uying as two men �tie dealt pkeaded not. ~uilty to c~ar~ea re~ ~n. ~ql ~~p~~g, He said he had lacin~ to haviag con~nd co iar "I said that qa b~rran~e~,M ~old them about three ounces Pect prohibited goods, and hsring . Mr Tan said. avhich, he believed, was to be posaess~.~rolsibited goods. Mr Tan said tSat when he met sent to an 0~ park address in a Mr `I'an uidihat in eariy 1978 Tony at a' Penang hotel, 'Helea parcdl af photograp}tic equipmea~ he met a man calied Fred Gor- was wich him, uM Tony wanted _ don. wKo introduced him to ~is to lmow dbe Dri~ce Per pound ot The two men had told him chat arife. Helen. . whorn he ideatifled heroin. _ they waated a trial rua before ''Mr. . Loyd: Did he say the ~~tt!~8 themselves. . q~~Y lse wanted? Activities in Penang Brisbane THE COURIER-~fAIL in English 21 Oct 80 p 30 _ _ _ - - . _ [ExcerptsJ MELBOURNE. - A fonner Molaysian drug dealer toid the Melboume Criminnl Court yesterday thar he had arronged o heroin - purchase for o man focing drug-related charges. Tan Toh Eng. also . Tan idenci;ied :he man He said he had aiso knoa'n as Da~-td Tnn. 42. as ~ntonio Zampa3lione. . sold heroin as a commis- ot Penang. told [he courc Tan told the court k:e sioned agent and "push- he arrsnBed che sal~ ot ~ a heroin addiec for ed" tt on the streets ibo~ic a klto~rf~m ~~f h~- sbout fwr years when Wh11e ~orking through a rc~in ~o a man he Imea~ as ~~ng in Penang and aas Penang supplier knoa~n Ton~�. now !n Metbourne under to him ss Yeap. but also He ssid the heroln cas; going treatment for he- ~toam under the alias the msn abouc 510,000 ~n rnin addiction. !~lla Din. 1978. CSO: 5300 6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 20Q7/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R04Q34Q06Q026-4 AUSTRALIA BRIEFS HASHT.SH SEIZED--Sydney--Ten kilograms of hashish, worth more than $100,000 were _ seized by customs officers at Sydney Airport yesterday. Police said the drug _ was concealed in a suitcase bei.ng carried by a passenger from a Qantas flight from Athens. Two women will appear in court today. [TextJ [Melbourne THE AGE in ~nglfsh 20 Oct 80 p 4] WOMEN CANNABIS COURIERS--Two women appeared in St James Court of Petty Sessions ` yesterday after being arrested in what was described as a typical drug-courier situation. Gale Patricia Higbid, 25, of Sackville Street, Fairfield, and Pierian Lupic, 23, of~Amelia Crescent, Canley Heights, were charged with illegally being _ in possession of cannabis resin with a wholesale value of about $100,0~J0. They were charged under the Customs Act. Mr Keith Chaple, for the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, said both wcmen arrived at Sydney Airport from Cyprus on Sunday. They were each in possession of one suitcase. F.ach suitcase had a false compartment - in its base, in which five kilograms of cannabis resin was found. M. Chaple said that as far as the police were concerned it was a typical courier situation. Mr G. Smyth, SM, adjourned the matter to November 14, and granted each woman $10,000 bai1. The women's passports are held by Federal police. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY ~IORNIN(~ HERALD in English 21 Oct 80 p 10] DENIAL OF APPF.~~L--A form~r Sydney barrister twice convicted of conspiring to im- port drugs lost an appeal yesterday against his second conviction. Frank Christopher Lawrence, 38, of Glenview Street, Paddington, was convicted in the District Criminal Court on March 6, of conspiring with others to import cannabis into Australia in 1975. Judge Thorley sentenced Lawrence to six years' jail. In September, 1978, Lawrence had been convicted on the same charge and sentenced to eight years` jail by Judge Hicks. He ap pealed to the Court of Criminal Appeal and was granted a new trial. Yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeal--Mr Justice Moffitt, Mr Justice Hope and Mr Justice Nagle--unanimously dismissed his appeal ~ against his second conviction. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 22 Oct 80 p 12J HEROIN FOR DYING PATIINTS--Heroin is to be legalized in the Northern Territory _ to relieve thc suffering of people who are dying. The territory Health Minister (Mr Thatchworth) said that the National Health and Medical Research Council had recommended tha t heroin be reintroduced into medical use in Australia. The drug has been outlawed in Australi~ since 1953. (Mr Thatchworth) said legislation allowing the medical use of heroin was expected to be passed by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly next year. A number of state governments are also reported to be considering similar legislation. The minister emphasized that heroin would anly be kept by the health department and would only be administered to ease the suffering of patients near death. [Text] [Melbourne Overseas Service in English 1230 GMT 22 Nov 80 OW] - CSO: 5300 7 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 MALAYSIA ASEAN COUNTRIES URGED TO DRAFT UIGIFORM DRUG ABUSE LAWS Selangor SIN CHE'W JIT POH MALAYSIA in Chinese 10 Sep 80 p 3 [Text] The Federal Association Against Drug Abuse hopes that the Prime Minister will grant it an audience so that, with his assistance, it can expand its antidrug movemer.t through the country. The chairman of the association, Radin Rubadan, said today that it would ask Prime Minister Datuk Hussein Qnn's help so that all government agencies, corporate bodies, private enterprises, volunteer groups, and state suthorities would popularize this movement. He firmly believed that only through the cooperation of one and all can the difficult problem of narcotics be successfully solved. This antinarcotics movement was launched on 16 August and would continue u~til 4 - October. Radin Rubadan thanked Datuk Hussein Onn for the latter'c high-spirited speech on the narcotics problem delivered before Asian and Pacific British Commonwealth Cauntries Conference held in New Delhi recently. In the meantime, the deputy secretary general of the Action Party, Lee Lim Thye, MP, has appealed to the ASEAN countries to adopt a set of uniform laws to cope with and prevent drug abuse, in order to safeguard the peace and security of this region. As a~ember of the Malaysian delegation, Assemblyman Lee recently attended the 6- day Third ASEAN Conference, from 2 through 7 September, in D~akarta and delivered a epeech before an econamic and social affairs committee meeting. The main agenda of the meeting was to discuss and draft a set of uniform laws by incorporating the respective laws of the ASEADI member nations for controlling the production, distri- bution and application of narcotics and their derivatives. In his speech, Lee Lim Thye urged the conference to implement the recommendations adopted during the previous meeting, held in Manila last year, concerning the redoubling of efforts and expansion of cooperation among member nations to overcome - drug abuse rampant within the region, or else the problem would worsen. 8 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 Narcotics abuse has become the most serious economic problem facing ASEAN countries today, and it directly threatens the peace and order of the member nations. Mr - Lee urged all members of parliament taking part in the conference to pay due attention to this urgent problem and study ~oint programs and measures on how to wipe aut narcotica and prevent its abuses. He said that all agreed to the fact that the problem of narcotics has endangered our social structure, "I notice that the ASEAN countries are taking steps to study and strengthen the laws against the narcotics problem and are proposing to adopt a set of uniform laws or regulations for each member nation to cope with the drug abuse prablem. In this way we can achieve better results and coordination. "As a member of the Malaysian delegation, I support the abovementioned move, because the narcotics problem has become a common problem among the member nations. I would like to take this opportunity to stress the importance of drafting common laws to deal with and eradicate narcotics. "I am glad to note that narcotics specialists of ASEAN countries, who metiin Kuala - Lumpur in November 1979 concerning this problem, were in agreement with us. "The opinions drafted by the ASEAN experts covered problems of legislation, execution, - treatment, and ref orm~ as well as prevention, education, source material, research and manpower development. "The conclusion of their proposals also appealed to all member countries to study the possibility of confiscating the propertq of drug traffickers, through due process of law, in order to eff ectively control the peddling and supply of narcotics. The proFosals also made mention of the setting up of a t~aining center in Thailand for antidrug enforcers and to f ind houses and buildings for drug quitters. In the spirit of the ASEAN-U.S. dialogue, we should solicit the assistance of the U.S. Government to train the enforcere on h~w to reform drug addicts. We should also - popularize the education plan on how to guard against narcotics, and for this purpose the proposals of the experts suggested that an ASEAN training center be set up in Manila." 9300 CSO: 5300 9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 MAI~AYS IA DRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT Selangor SIN CfiEW JIT POH MAI,AYSIA in Chinese 27 Sep 80 p 5 [Text] A middle-aged Malaysian, found guilty of emuggling more than 13 grams of heroin into this country by hiding it in his underwear, was severely punished to undergo 15 floggings and 20 years' imprisonment. The defendant, Tay Hock Hua, 30, is a fo.reman working for a local construction firm. _ He denied the charges of having been involved in drug trafficking through his defense lawyer, Amaj it Singh. Af ter the trial, however, the ~udge found him guilty as charged. According to the prosecution, the def endant allegedly peddled 13.03 grams of heroin at the Ulan customs station at 2320 hours on 13 May this year. An officer ~f the Drug Eradication Bureau, Asoka by name, testified that he was tipped off by a colleague on 13 May to the effect that some narcotics might pos- sibly be hidden in a certain vehicle. On the night of the fateful date, while on duty at the Ulan customs station, he indeed saw a vehicle as described by his colleague passing by. (It was a green minivan.) Immediately he took along a detective dog and approached the van, ~ut this did not elicit any reaction. Undaunted, the customs officer searched the defendant's body and possessions. During the stripping, he noticed a bulge at the frent part of the inner pants. Af ter scrutiny, he uncovered five packets of nar- cotics from inside the seams, which turned out after a chemical test to contain 13.03 grama of heroin. So he arrested the suspect. Another witness for the prosecution, See Eng Kuei, who works at the Drug Eradication Burea~, said that on that particular day he saw the defendant board a minivan accrnnpanied by a woman at Yunus Bay and that their behavior was suspicious. So, taking along two colleagues, he trailed the vehicle from Yunus Bay to Toa Payoh, thence to the Ulan customs station, and finally to New Mountain. 9300 CSO: 5300 10 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 MALAYSIA HUGE NARCOTICS HAUL SEIZED FROM INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE _ 5elangor SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA in Chinese 8 Sep 80 p 5 [Text] Three off icers of the Central Drug Eradication Bureau, inf iltirating an inter- national narcotics syndicate, have succeeded in uncovering about M$1 million worth of raw opium and arresting three suspects. This was one of the biggest narcotics hauls of the Central Drug Eradication Bureau in recent years. The three arrested suspects are a Pakistani, a$e 28, and two Sri L.nka nationals, _ 34 and 21 years of age, :espectively. They will be arraigned before the court for trial soon. - As the drug-trafficking syndicate encampasses a huge organization, off icers of the Central Drug Eradication Bureau believe that a n~nber of Singaporeans are involved in it as members. A tight investigation is unfolding at present. Poh Geok Eck, deputy chief of the bureau, held a press conference this morning in which he gave a detailed account of the narcotics require. ~ He said that 2 months ago the bureau received an intelligence report saying that a Pakistan-based, foreign-operated, international narcotics eyndicate planned to emuggle raw opium fram Karachi (a Pakistani ~ort city) into Singapore. After receiving the information, the Central Drug Eradicatiori Bureau immediately launched a deployiaent action to round up the drug traff ickers. Not long afterward, the bureau got the news that an important accomplice of the narcotics syndicate would make an advance visit to Singapore for preliminary contacts. Indeed, on the 25th of last mont;i, a 28-year-old Pakistani, traveling on a Pakistani passport, arrived in Singapore by plane and stayed in a third-rate hotel on Steer Road. After arriving in Singapore, the Pakistani made contact with a 34-year-old Sri Lanka national who was a purser on the oceangoing freighter M.S. Maldives Loyalty. ~ It is ge~erally believed that before the important accomplice of the drug syndicate f lew into Singapore, the freighter had earlier sailed from Karachi, and the two persons were to meet in Singapore. 11 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340060026-4 About the same time, three officers of the Central Drug Eradication Buresu, dis- guising themselves as members of the syndicate, boarded the freighter, which was � berthed at a westside buoy. Through the purser's introduction, they met with a cook aboard the vessel, a 21-year-old Sri Lanka natianal. After some discussion, the cook han.ded over to the visitors three bags containing raw opium. The drug was wrapped in 22 packages, each weighing 2 kg (or 44 kilo- - grams in total), and would bring about 1 million Malayan dollars on the black market. ~ The three officers took the narcotics to the bureau, where a test was immediately ~ made to categorize the type and quality of the haul. A blitzkrieg action was launched to arrest the Pakistani and the two Sri Lanka nationals. Deputy Chief Poh of the antinarcotics bureau said that the uncovered raw opium is high-quality Karachi opium which would bring a good price on the market. He added that this catE~gory of opium had rarely beea seen by the Central Drug Eradication Bt;reau in t~he past 12 or 13 years, He hastened to add; however, that similar opium has been uncovered successively in certain European countries and Hong Rong in recent years, and that he b~lieved this opium is produced in western Asian countries. Following the arrest of the three suspects, the bureau took along detective dogs to sniff out the entire freighter, which took 4 hours. He pointed out that not all of the seized drug was meant to be pedd led in Malaysia but to be sold elsewhere via Singapore. 9300 CSO: 5300 12 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 MALAYSIA HEROIN DESTINED FOR MALAYSIA SEIZED BY THAI POLICE Selangor SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA in Chinese 23 Sep 80 p 13 (Text] A packet of heroin valued at 150,000 baht was seized in Hapai, southern Thailand, before it was smuggled into Malaysia, and its traff icker was arrested by police, according to a news report. ' Police Captain Nai San Liang of the Songkar Narcotics Eradication Section in southern Thailand had learned that some heroin would change hands at Hapai railway station to be marketed in Ma;laysia. Ae relayed this information to Police Major Mano Kaiwong, chief detective attached to the Hapai Police Department and, together with Lieutenant Colonel Sukun, director of the VII Narcotics Eradication Section, proceeded to a point near the station platform at 1530 hours on 19 September to ambush the drug trafficker. Indeed, at about the appointed time the police officers saw a suspicious-looking man carrying a briefcase, whereupon they accosted and examined him. In his possession was found what is lrnown as No 4 heroin weighing half a kilogram and worth 150,000 baht in the Thai market. The suspect was taken to the police station for interrogation and detention while awaiting charges. The suspect was identified as Nai Kosong Warapan, 25, living at 132 Third Street, Hapai. He works as an insurance company sales agent. He admitted that the drug was to be handed over to a Malaysian for sale in Malaysia. _ 9300 CSO: 5300 13 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 - MALAYSIA NUI~ER OF MALAYSIAN ADDICTS REPORTEDLY REACfiES 400,000 Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 1 Oct 80 p 4 [TextJ According to a WHO survey, the number of drug addicts in our country has reached 4 00,000, only 10 percent of whom are registered at the Federal Association Against Drug Abuse. Among the registered addicts, 6,000 are women. At a news conference held in Kuala Iumpur on 30 September, Ha~i Latun, chairman of the assoc iation, pointed out that Rampong Baru, Kampong Datuk Kramat, South Central District, Kampong Payoh, and Katong area--all located in Kuala Lumpur--are places where the largest number of drug addicts throughout Malaysia congregate. He appea led to various org~nizations, such as churches, volunteer groups, youth - groups, and political bodies, to render generous aid so that the movement against drug abuse can be promoted more effectively. He also announced that a 2-day symposium to counter drug abuse will be held next Saturday, and that a number of government officials and representatives of private = organizat ions will be invited to attend the meeting. Seven persons, representing various government departments and private bodies, will explain matters conceming drug abuse prevention at the symposiim~. 9300 CSO: 5300 14 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 PAKISTAN MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL RING ESCAPE POLICE Seven Arrested Islamabad THE MUSLIM in E~:Zglish 18 Nov 80 p 1 _ [Article by Ahmed Bashir~ ~Text~ _ LAliORI~., Nov. I7: With thc urett huaband o[ the daughter of a - of seven perx~ns, lhe fust phase of former Ambauador of Pakistan, the inquiry into the lnternatbnal frmous fur his adminiatrative hcruin anuggliryt r~cket has cndcd. experti~e tn Ayub Khen's tbne. Ne According to reports, thou paki~tan ~n London, wh~7e urested include Mohammad A:lam hi: faroily wen atreadY naturali.sed o[ Shah Alml, Chaudhry Amaians. The aon�in~law waa not Mohammad Anwu of Khuiu~~ a bright, or wa~ hc too bright to _ Mohammad A~lam of Naqi Muket h~ve retained his P~kistani and Abdul Wahid of Pahaau. But Muonality? Ile was a very thi~ Is not the full haui. Wh~7e the ~~syul opcrator, unt~7 evil daya extent and nature of the actuai~ _ hlm and he Iet his briefcasc imvlvement of lhe pharmaautica! f~p of hecoin fall in the hands of scientist and the Income T~c gendeman-kic! bn~thera of the polia at London's fleaUuow general manager-remains AWon� ~~nsidente as they were, unrnnfitmed, furtha attests are not ~ey handed him over to Interpol. ~~e~. 1~eroin l~aa been ~muBBkd in ali But some V1P gangsters have sorts of ways in coff'ins, in unyx given , slip to the polioe, appuent- ~~mps. in briefcases and in specially ly in conniv~na with polla. One made contalnera of super-sensitive among U~em ia stated to be Rana chemicals that cannot let a secrot Sattar, sorrin-}aw of a Sheikhupura out. Aut, ~ome scctets have a way dignllary. An experlcnced and wcll- fur lakinR out on lheir own. One connected rackcteer, he has ban containcr gut dam~ed during qrlior twia haulcd up. but he transit and told the whole.atory in a cou1J ~Iways buy time, a saleable foreigt? country. Our compatrbta in oommodity in our timea. Una he ~o~ Po~~ ~uld not do anythin6 wa~ imolved with a llanish young about it. woman ~rnu~ler alled Ffiryana. According to one report heroin Tlie two were caught red�hanJal al tt~vels to Islamabad f[om d?o the lslamabad A'u rt, S~ttar ba~ a Norlh, but thie may not bo fhe Karachi Airport police rccard atso Wh~~' ~ournks of the m~gic to I~ia credit. powder aze not alwsya cont~ned to 8ut the brotherhood could use traditiond routes. TheY ue another son-in-law of another rosorted to only when Pt e of dignitory. Ne wae Sukman, loving cont~ct mcn for tha safe pa~sag _ goodt ue ava~7able. 15 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Background of Group Islamabad THE MUSLIM in Engli~h 14 Nov 80 pp 1, 8 (Article by Ahmad Bashir~ ~Text~ LAHORE, NoY. 13: A senior Tt~a openad new vutas for the ~~~s wo, and here made ihe~ officer of tha Federal lnvesti- enterprising ki~ hrotha. The ulnnnte mecalculation. ger?er~i irnnaga oouW pn~tect him Ead~er, the gang had exported getlon AgenCy is sCheduled to ~tum certau? authoritir~. And heroin in weight oqual w th~t of leave for Hong Kong on ~~nioc police offkas ~hucd a man A forelgn nation~l hed - Nov. 13, where Interpol the icick.back, ud ~ve the entte unforWn�rtely died in PakislaTM a~d exper~ a~e waiting for hjm i~ preneur, the na;easary freedom hls ooffin had ro be sent homo. _ connection with the xtivities of~iiovemen~ They had all the doc~anenb - a~ of a Pakistan based interna- The buss aune from a specially of thcm farg~xl. Thc 6ig box in bright familY. One kid brotha w~ mournful draperies~ carrYing tional gang of heroin smugglers. ~ uie Inwnx Tax Deputment heroin� re~ortedly, went home by Srr~ller fries tike rrrriCrs a~xf �rnd be could bolc aRc the mcome air, ~uiY tlia Year. oontact inen h~ve ~Jrcm.fY bnen of the 6mily. A~~thr-' F+~courrgai and emboldenoAby taken into custaly, but U~ big lisl~, was a phatmace ~~~:t :~~~~c~~�' '.eir iueeesa and tl~ek networlc the the bu~inessr~en bnhind the ~acket, Iting in a public .da~rv. Stng docided W emu~gk~t~roln�L, d~e pharmaceutical scientist M+ho He wa~ a~niu; an u~ventor ot ~~cially chattered plane, The i~veuted the formula, an+1 thar gceata origmatiry, and it was Ix ttuff waR p~cked in 10 onyx W6le fricndi, ratiral, ,reinetetud, and who invented the new lieroin f'or- lamp~, up~arently mesnt es ditt ~erving oflicets, Who ~i'n'� b~~" mulz !t was a very cloxly-knit for intanaflon~l Criends nf pak cuverir?g the culprits, 1~eve exapod brojherhoud too, with all of them d~ The~o onyx lamps were d~e net. in place and in command. Newsmen ~~t �f the dfucts of a young Ifero~n of Pakutani orilpn is knew something ebout the, radcet, ofC~c~ aboard the aircraft. '1'he ~ n~~v develo~ment n the uita- but not really, ba:ause reports pFaa waa tl~wlaa� But then the un- netional underground, becau~e were eitha tuppressed by coUabo- expectod happetied� �,hile he w~u~~ i+ chea~er .nd more nting polia officers or by the 'I'he gang bosi had, dit'fkult to Jetoct, it Is lar more �enerd manager, a gifled a{wb~ist expanded hls dtcle of friends, - ~werNl, both in hyprw~i~ and with a suft speech. also cteatod hts own antithesi~, _ hil�rnty. Tt~is brrnd uf I~eruin h;ss This gcneral maaagrt has ban a~ w~ ntWtal� Hls tirali ;a the u~~sci internaUun�et mukcts. a~n~ now for three Yeus. 6~6 ~~~ady dpped off the 'fhc ~me etarted many yean ~'ta ~t wat disoovered th~t object� Poy~, Q? d~~ B~rt. The case frnm Taiwan. Uru� Enforcement Ad- aRainst him was dropped They each received a ministration aRents. The after two mnnths but the lite lail sentence which raids lead to the dis� two druQ couriers in- was cnmmuted to 33 coveryof 15,500grammes volved later ~ceived 24 vearc and four months of vo. 3 heroin about to ,r�ear jail Sentences. CSO: 5300 23 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 THAILAND ONCB CHIEF ON CHIANG MAI DRUG CONFERENCE BK290832 Bangkok Domestic Service in Thai 0000 GN,T 29 Nov 80 [Report on press briefing given by Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin, secretary general - of the Narcotics Control Board, after the closing session of the 24-26 November Asian-European Narcotics Conference held in Chiang Mai Province--date not given; portions in quotation marks recorded] [Text] "For quite some time the source of drugs such as heroin supplied to Euro- pean countries has shifted from our country to Arab or Middle East countries such as Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. This might be because of the drastic drop in opium production in our country over the past 2 years due to the drought situation. It was also the result of our suppression efforts. Thus, drug supplies ~ to Europe from the golden triangle have fallen off drastically over this period. We told the conference this. Foreign delegates expressed interest in this new ' development. We also exchanged views with them on various other problems." Pol Ma,j Gen Phao Sarasin also noted that foreign delegates expressed satisfaction - over the success of the crop substitution program launched by the Narcotics Con- trol Board. He said: "Foreign delegates attending the conference observed the projects under implemen- tation and expressed satisfaction with the results. They saw the mountainous = terrain and have come to reaTize the difficulty in controlling opium routes. They were satisfied with their f indings. We also discussed with them the diffi- culty in suppressing prod ucrion and explained why we had to declare some areas off limits to';;chemicals used in heroin refining. They understand the problem now. We also told them about our efforts to reduce the number of drug addicts, through treatment as well as through preqention." CSO: 5300 24 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 CZECHOSLOVAKIA BRIEFS DRUG LABORATORY DISCOVERID--Premysl P., who had two previous convictions, has been _ arrested for operating a drug production laboratory at his Prague apartment. (Prague PRACE in Czech 20 Nov 80 p 6] CSO: 5300 25 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 YUG0,5LAVIA DRUG ADllICTION DISCUSSEll Sarajevo OSLOBODJENJE in Serbo-Croatian 7 Nov 80 p 3 [Article by B. Likar: "The Dangerous Pathways of Drugs"] [Text] Whereas at an earlier period, xhe drug distribution routes in our ccuntry were only "transit," currently, more and more frequently, the drugs have a final destination in Yugoslav urban center~, and more and more are becoming a vice t~at inevitably haunts all the developed countries of the world. The opinion on th~ extent of drug proliferation in our country is considerably divided. Certainly, some specialists dealing with this problem assert that this has become a"great evil," whereas, others go so far as to state that there is no drug addiction on the whole in Yugoslavia. Where does the truth lie? In the desire to find this out, we talked with some of our physicians, who had spoken on drug addiction at a congress of neurologists and psychiatrists of Yugoslavia recPr.t'..; .`,~13 i~ Saraievo. Narcotic "Flowers" "We are 'quite successfully' keeping pace with Europe in extent of drug addiction. We have already seen heroin use in Belgrade. Drug-related crimes are also spreading, and the number of people dying from the effects of drug use is ever increasing," we were told in this regard by docent Dr Jovan Bukelic, Chief of the Belgrade Institute for Mental Health, the only Yugoslav physician to defend a doctorial thesis in the field of drug addiction. According to his observations, Yugosl~v c~rug addictions mostly use opiates [hashish, marijuana) and cannabis. Addicts, for example, try to raise marijuana in gardens and flower beds near their houses (examples are known from Istra, Porec and even Vogosce kod Sara~evo). "Drug prices are soaring," continues Dr Jovan Bukalic. "One vital of heptanone (in America, this is 'methadone') costs 2,000 dinars, and because drug addicts most frequently do not have enough money, they have to resort to crime. Also, because of fraud (sometimes Vitamin B is found in the bottles instead of drug), fights are _ occurring between them more and more frequently. "What is the time of life when most people are attracted to drugs?" 26 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 "Pathological Indicators" According to docent Bukelic, "the first stage of curiosity, i.e., the phase of - developing a liking for drugs, is at the start of puberty, between the dges of 13 and 16. Later on, one goes to the so-called 'heroic drugs' [hard drugs], between - rhe ages of 17 and 22. However, even in our country, we have severely afflicted drug addicts, who manifest 'pathological indicators,' but draw young people into ttieir groups. Sometimes, even elementary school children are drawn into the softer drugs, so that later on, they can be blacl~ailed to distribute drugs or steal, etc." In response to the question as to how the social environment affects Yugoslave drug addicts, Dr Jovan Bukelic said: "Formerly, it was a so-called 'intellectual elite,' but now, there are no class differences any longer. There are drug addicts even among workers, but in the large urban centers exclusively. "The problems of 'domestic drug addiction,' therefore, are beco~ning more and more like the same problems in the economically developed countries of the world. However, there also exists a speciality of our own: Yugoslavia holds fLrst place in Europe for so-called 'hippie hepatitis,' which is infectious jaundice caused by crude and unsanitary use of opium, by dirty needles, etc. "Th~ health consequences of drug use are more or less knowm to everyone, but let us _ repeat that the most frequent organic damage is done to the liver and to the brain (intoxication of the brain and mental disturbance) and quite a few suicides have occur.red also. At autopsies of persons who died from glue sniffing, for example, hemorrhagins has been detected in the brain, the kidneys and the adrenal glands." - Dea~h in Dreams When we bring glue up again, we state that in actuality, this is what the Sarajevo drug addicts use most often to "reach Cloud Nine." As we were told by Dr Ismet Ceric, member of the Federal Executive Council Commission for Combatting Drug Addiction, they have also "discovered" still another narcotic--a medicine that is used for treating certain neurological disorders and can be obtained in apothecary shops without a prescription. This drug can bring about a state of hallucinatory delirium," but it is also very harmful to physical and mental health, even more harmful than some classic drugs. The formula has been propagated from Sarajevo throughout the entire country. The same holds true also with glue, which is often fatal. For example, in getting high on sniffing glue and some dyes and fluids that are most often placed in a nylon pouch, in quite a few cases, the drug addicts are unable to control themselves (because they are intoxicated), and therefore, even death results. "Until r~cently, in Sarajevo, we were pretty well isolated from any of the more widesp::ead occurrences of drug addiction," says Dr Ismet Ceric, "however, during the last few years, we have attained second place among the cities of Yugoslavia. In truth, even now, the proportions involved are not all that great--from a clinical standpoint, we have processed a total of 53 cases in Sara~evo. However, drug addicts, irrespective of how few in number they might be, present a constant social-medical danger and a danger to society. As we have already mentioned, this is a'dependence sickness,' which causes severe damage to the physical and mental health and causes personality disturbances." ' 27 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Preventive Measures Dr Ismet Ceric, with respect to experience in Bosnia-Hercegovina, considers that in this republic, the drug addicts mainly come.from families in which a so-called sterile atmosphere predominates, meaning, that there is no closeness among family members. Children from completely broken-up families and, conversely, children . from families that give them everything possible, who are spoiled and are looking for something "special" are also drawn to drugs. The most dangerous age, according to our specialist, is between 12 and 16. The danger diminishes considerably later on. Basically, in our society, drug~ are most frequently taken in private homes. The treatment of drug addiction is quite difficult, and the only possible way it can be controlled is through prevention. For this purpose, a drug addiction consultation center was ogened recently at the "Dr Nedo Zec" Psychiatric Clinic, where a psychiatrist, a teacher, a psychologist, social workers, nurses, etc. work. There is also a"day hospital" there, where particularly severe , types of drug addiction are treated with the use of all methods known as of now. Therefore, the opening of the Drug Addiction Consultation Center is an exceptiona~ly important beginning for the organized compaign against this scourge. 5808 CSO: 5300 28 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 BOLIVIA ILO CONCERNID REGIME IN HANDS OF DRUG RUNNERS Kingston SUNDAY GLEANER in English 16 Nov 80 p 17 [Text] Geneva--The United Nations' International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ~ announced plans to send a high official to Bolivia to investigate the brief and violent record of the military dictatorship there which is said to be in the hands of drug runners. Concerned officials of the UN's Fund for Drug Abuse Control and its other special- ized agencies are likely to follaw his footsteps. Behind the impartial facade of ~ the UN, co-ordinated pressure is mounting in Western Europe and North A~nerica against the regime. Under international law, the dictatorship and attendant re- pression are Bolivia's internal affair alone. But direct involvement in the illicit cocaine trade could be the Generals' undoing. General Luis Garcia Meza and his fellow officers seized power in Bolivia on July 17, thwarting the democratic process after the national elecCioas. They imposed a regime of mass arrests, tor*.ure and su~nary executions, and silenced disident trade unionists, churchmen and tt. press, Westera Europe and North America responded by suapending aid to the country--pa.rtly to express their disapproval of the ultra- ~ rightwing dictatorship and partly because of their deep concera over the Generals' personal role in the illicit cocaine trade spreading on both sides of the Atlantic. "Bolivia is becoming the nightmare state in which the underworld takes over the government," cacmnents one influential American observer. "If a clique of Generals can seize a government, rua up the skull and crossbones and turn their land into a pirate kingdom, they become an active danger to every ~ other government struggling to enforce international law and, in this case, stamp out the drug trade." Drug Involvement ~ Apart from the larger issue of democratic rights dividing the whole of Latin America, the Generals have provoked the anger of the North Atlantic couatries by tiheir apparent personal involvement in the drug trade. Sources close to the Western gevernments believe that the coup was direccly organized and finaaced by the interr3tional drug syndicates and that several members of the present Bolivian Cabinet have been in their pay for some time. 29 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Britain was the first in the European Community to express concern to Bolivia over the coup; and it has cancelled a$50m mining project in the country, its most am- bitious aid scheme in Latin America. Belgium has suspended plans for a low-inter- est development aid loan to Bolivia. The United States has withdrawn its supporC to the Bolivian anti-narcotics progratmo~e "because we have no reason to expect co- operation from the authorities there", and advised its citizens to leave the country without delay. M~ost foreign correspondents have been already withdrawn from, or expelled by, Bolivia and many Western diplomats have been recalled. Bolivia's illicit cocaine exports are worth about $lb a year, comprising the country's most lucrative single source of export revenue. CSO: 5300 , ' 30 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 BRAZIL HOSPITAL FOR DRUG ADDICTS TO BE BUILT IN RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Oct 80 p 8 [Text] Meeting for the first time since its creation.at the beginning of this month by Gouernor Cha;,~s Freitas, the task force studying ways to combat narcotics decided yesterday to begin i~ediately construction of a hospital to treat drug addicts. According to .~ustice Secretary Erasmo Martins Pedro, who is chairman of the group, the governor has asserted he will give full support to constructing the hospital, Next Thursday 9,600 square meters of land on the Engenho Highway in Bangu, where the building may be erected, will be inspected. A ground plan was made during the first Chagas Freitas administration and the mem- bers of the group believe only small changes will have to be made to adapt it to the tract of land. ~ DESIPE [expansion unknownJ Director Antonio Vicente da Costa Junior announced that the hospital will provide guidance for the other hospitals in the department's network: "For the ~irst time, we will have a hospital that will also care for drug nsef~s�who are not under crizninal charges." The hospital, with capacity for about 200 beds, will be able to provide preventive treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, as well as examinations and research in the sector. The members of the task force--which also include Judge Joao de Deus Mena Ba~ereto, psychiatrist Oswaldo Moraes Andrade and social worker Maria Helena Siqueira Dcummond--believe that conducting examinations of addiction will ease the work of the Judiciary Insane Asyl~ and the Afranio Peixoto Institute. They also asserted it will permit technical guidance for treatment of addicts who are serving prison tezms and being treated by the penal system. Those convicted under suspend ed sentence and those who have been released from prison but are still addicted will also be treated. 31 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Council D uring ~resterday's meeting another matter was decid ed: creation of the state system for prevention, surveillance and suppression of narcotics use in the form of a council, along the same lines as the recently-created national system. Erasmo Martins Pedro hopes to have, within 15 days, "the general outline and perhaps the names of those who will be on the council." Judge Mena Barreto explained the way in which the council will be set up and oper- ated: "It will be made up of representatives from the Justice, Security, Health and Edu- cation secretariats and from other agencies operating in the sector; it will estab- lish permanent contact with the flow of information caming from state agencies that _ work in prevention, surveillance and suppression of narcotics use. The state coun- cil may guide these agencies, taking into consideration the directives e 3B~lished by the federal council." 8834 CSO: 5300 32 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ~BRAZIL GOVERI~Il~fENT TRIES TO SUBSTITUTE OTHER CROPS FOR COCA Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 7 Nov 80 p 6 [Text] Manaus--The First Regional D elegation of the National Indian Foundation _ (FUNAI), with jurisdiction in the state of Amazonas, will invest about 40 million cruzeiros to install 18 agricultural projects for the Indians to quit selling coca --the "ipadu;" as the plant is known--which exists chiefly among the Macu and Tucano groups that live on the Upper Negro River. Regional delegate Kazuto Kawamoto said that the Indians themselves complained about the constant attempts at negotiation by trsffickers in the region, responsible for distorting the culture of theae tribes, who cultivate the plant for use in religious ceremonies, rites and recitations of long myths, gathering the leaves on their land, in out-of-the-way places. " The 'ipadu' powder is not negotiated among the Indians and much less offered or traded among civilized people," Kawam:oto added, "however, production of "i~adu' for commercial purposes, in this case for sale to traffickers, is not a tribal custom, ~hus representing new behavior for the Indians that is in no way characteristic of their tradition." CoBnnercialization of cocaine involving the Macu snd Tucano Indians, on the border with Colombia in the region of the Papuri and Valtes rivers, has been mobilizing the Federal Police, who, after breaking up a network of 29 foreign traffickers and a few Brazilians, reconstituted the Bolivia-Manaus-United States connection, find- ing vast plantations worked by the Indians. The regional deputy said that FUNAI intends to discipline or prohibit excessive prodaction of "ipadu" and begin stronger suppression of marihuana, offering crop and livestock incentives so that in a short while the indigenous communities can have better living conditions and "not need to become involved in illicit and dan- gerous commerC~al activities." 8834 CSO: 530U _ 33 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 BRAZIL CO~AINE~USE ON RISE, PARTICULARLY AMONG WEALTHY Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAUTA in Portuguese 25 Oct 80 p 14 [Text] Rio de Janeiro--Consumption of cocaine in Brazil ~.s increasing, especially among the rich, it was reported in Rio yesterday by the director of the UN Fund for Surveillance of Improper Use of Drugs, physician Bror Rexed, who arrived in the country Thursday. He was at the Osvaldo Cruz Foundation discussing with scientists Brazil's need for a research program on improper use of drugs. In regard to the increased use of drugs in Brazil, he said that "he received information" to that effect and that there are five large clandestine laboratories in the Amazon region that refine cocaine. Bror Rexed wanted to clarify yesterday the reason for his coming to Brazil: it is part oF a series of visits to South American countries, having already been to Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. He will be here until 29 October, after which he goes to ArgenCina. Bror Rexed intends to find a way to establish a program for combating narcotics in Latin America, ~aith the aid of the United Nations. Two years ago, he reporCed, agreements were signed with Bolivia to give special emphasis to curing drug addicts, Similar agreements were signed during his trip to Ecuador and Colombia. He com- plained, however, about the lack of statistics in Brazil, asserting: "Without statistics, one cannot evaluate how serious the problem is in Brazil. There are a few studies, but only in regional terms." Monday he will go to Brasilia to attend the inaugural meeting of the Federal Nar- cotics Council. 88~34 CSO: 5300 34 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 sx~,zzL { BRIEFS _ TRAFFICKERS HAVE SMALL BOMB--A homemade bomb with great destructive power was found yesterday by po~ice of the Narcotics 8quad in possession of marihuana traf- fickers Washington Luiz dos Santos, 23, and Francisco dos Santos, 25, at a narcotics sales point on Alto Parnaiba Street in the Santa Rita section of Campo Grande. Be- sides this narcotics sales point, police discovered two others, one in Realengo and the other at the entranr_e to Mascarenhas de Moraes State School in the Santa Eugenia district of Nova Iguacu. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 24 Oct 80 p 10] 8834 MAJOR PETROPOLIS TRAFFICKER KILLID--Faulo Henrique Goncalves, considered by police the most important narcotics trafficker in Petropolis, was shot to death night be- fore last, along with his bodyguard, Geraldo Custodio Teixeira, on Quissama Street. Kleber Jose Lopes da Silva--a youth who was passing by--was hit in the right leg during the exchange of gunfire. Kleber--the onl;~ witness--said ~he killers were two men: one young, tall, dark and bearded, the other a short mulatto. Geraldo died immediately but Paulo Henrique was picked up by relatives and put in a car, dying on the way to the hospital. Before the shooting--which occurred about 1930 hours--police were informed by an anonymous telephone call that Paulo Henrique and _ other traffickers were selling drugs openly in Bosq~ie do Imperador. Later, the same voice said Chat the culprits had driven off in a white Volkswagen toward - Quissam.a. [TextJ [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 5 Nov80 p 13] 8834 ARREST OF TRAFFICKER--Police of the lSth BPM [Military Police Battalion] arrested _ - at dawn yesterday narcotics trafficker Ubiraci de Sousa Silva,"Bira," 23, who was armed with a.38-caliber revolver, in Jardim Marilandia, Campos Eliseos, Caxias. The 60th DP [Folice Precinct] booked him for carrying a weanon. Ubiraci is the brother of Iara Paulina de Sousa Silva, one of the major cocaine traffickers of ~ Lower Rio de Janeiro State. Through him,.police hope to find t.he trail of Iara. Bira is also accused of having killed the cri.minal "Delegado" 8 months ago, cre- ating retaliation by the gang of "Nei Baleia" and " Quincas," The latter was lynched in Jardim Primavera by almost 200 persons in April after an assault. [Text] [Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in PortuguESe 18 Gct 80 p 14] 8834 CSO: 5300 35 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 CHILE BRIEFS DRUG TRAFFICKER--The Chilean Supreme Court has rejected an Argentine request for the extradition of the Argentine (Roberto Antonio Buscar), charged with drug trafficking i.n Argentina and located in Chile by Interpol. The ex- tradition request was rejected for formal errors and will be returned to Argentina through the Foreign Ministry. [Santiago Chile Domestic Service in Spanish 1000 GMT 29 Nov 80 PYj COC AINE LAI30RATORY--Santiago police have dismantled a cocaine laboratory located at 2370 Providencia Avenue. They arrested (Arnaldo Morales ~ernandez), 47 years old, and (Jore Britos Gallegillos). Police found 50 grams of cocaine. [PY252047 Santiago Chile Domestic Service in Spanish 10 00 GMT 24 Nov 80 PY] CSO: 5300 36 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 � ~ �.'1 COLOMBIA r TRAFFICKERS~ COCAINE LABORATORY SEIZID Bogota EZ ESP~;CTADOR in Spanish 4 Nov 80 p 23-A [Text~] TNO organizations of drug traffickers which operated as many laboratories for gr~cessing cocaine, one of which was also invol~ed in the sale of compressed maxihuana~ were t~oken up by the F-2 of the Police Staff in simultaneous raids that - took place in the southern part of the city this past Sa.turday. One of the successful operations took place at the house at 37-28 South, occupied by Luis Eduardo Lopez Forero. In the house xas a complete laboratory for the pro- ~sing of the alkaloid. ~ Three Captured The raid was made by speciali'zed units of the F-2 Antinarcotics (~oup, of the Police Services Depaxtment. As a result, the above-mentioned Lopez Forero~ as weli as Ben~amin Rodriguez Contreras (of Honda) and Sose Francisco Marulanda (of_ Bogota), were captured. Cocaine and Equipment In the home were found 3 pounds of highly purified cocaine, and the following labor- atory equipments two plastic containers~ each with 1,5 gallons of ether; si.x plastic buckets; 1,000 sheets of filter pa.per~ indispensa.ble jn the processing of the alk- aloid; a plastic container with 25 gallons of acetone; a demijohn full of ether; glass stirring rods; drying lamps with the corresponding facilities; a Hema b~and scale with the capacity to weigh 1,000 grams; two Imives with coca.ine residues on them, and a pewter spoon in the same condition. f Secret agents also seized a Rena.ult 4 automobile~ license number A1-4279, a covereci. Nissan Patrol with f`ree transit nwnber D-12026, and an interna,tional ta.nk truck with license number nA-3512. The vehicles had been specially ~utfitted to hide and trans- port cocaine. . 'Loaves' of Marihuana The second laboratory was located at Transversal 62A, number 43-A-85 South, in a building owned by ~`f'rain Leon of Ca, jamarca., Tolima. He was the only one present when the search took place. 37 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Durj.ng the investiga.tion~ three arrobas of compressed marihuana were confiscated. The substance was pressed into blocks resembling loaves, appxopriate for export. Chemicals The laboratory on the premises contained four plastic containers Kith various chem- icals inside, two jars of hydrochloric acid, three of sulphuric acid, a test tube with a 1~500 cubic centimeter capacity, a sca,le to weigh up to 2 kilos and 25 g~ams, and a suitcase full of plastic bags for wrapping coca~.ne. The four individuals who kere captured in the tWO cases described were turned over to the judges who are in charge of the corresponding investiga.tions~ and during the week they xill begin to give their unsxorn statements. , . ~ ~ k _ - ~ ~ C ~ ~ ~ 'r ~ C ~ ~Y Z~'~Y ~N ..S . ' -f"+ i ~ ~ ~a*;~~~~ . . � Benjamin RocLr~.guez Contreras, Luis Eduaxdo Lopez Forero and Jose Francisco Marulanda~ captured. 8926 CSOs 5300 38 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 COLOMBIA COCAINE HIDDEN IN ARTIFACTS SEIZID Bogota EL TI~3YiP0 in Spanish 25 Oct 80 p 4-B [Text] A shipment of cocaine hidden in handicra,fts was discovered by units of the ,:ud icial Police ~roup of the Eldorado Airport. The gaods were be ing tratisported _ by a man and a woman from Manaos~ Brazil. The agents of the antinarcotics g~roup were surprised at the ingeruity shown by the traffickers in trying to get the alkaloid through without being ca.ught. ~ The two "runners" had objects such as jars, trays and even an executive attache case in their hands~ all made of cocaine pa,ste. They xere about to escape the notice of the authorities. - The woman, Roaio de Jesus Rua, of Jamundi~ Va11e, and Nelson Peralta Landiver~ of Manaos~ Brazil~ axrived in Bogota on board a commercial aixliner with the cargo in full view. The agents became~ suspicious Khen they saw tha.t the woman, who was about to pass through Customs~ was ca113.ng her compa,nion nervously. He was a little behind her~ The detectives inunediately approached her and asked that she show them the "handi- crafts" that she had in her hands. They noticed tha,t the ma.terial, pa.inted a dark bro~rn to simulate wood, was a little soft. When they exa,mined the articles closer, -~hey realized tha.t the "handicrafts" were none other than a 20-kilo shipment of coca paste, some of high purity. The shipment was ma.de up of several jars~ trays~ the executive attache case and a to iletry bag. The suspects, along w~.th the alkaloid~ we~re turned over to the appropriate authorities yesterday afternoon. Other Operactions The Ministry of Defense reported yesterd.ay the results of the opexations carried out in the nation in the battle against drugs, between 17 and 24 October. - � i 39 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/48: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300064426-4 The communique indicates that 47 Colombians were arrested with weapons and other items in the departments of Guajira, Magdalena, Atlantico and Antioquia. They had 1ri th~~lr ~x,~a~ssion 538 bundles of marihuana. and 1,500,154 hallucinogenic pills. , ~ ..r , i 1 ' f ti. . . w;y . a'.,ria',~'' ~ � ' - . . ~ i� . y t . ~1 ? _ I' x~~ ~ : ~ ~i,. , x, . s> f~~ . . ~ ~ Ramiro Pena Ayala is apparently the owner Simon Mariscal Gonzalez, former State c~f t}ie marihuana sliipment seized by Judicial Police agent, was driving the the Federal Judicial Police, as inferred truck when he wza stopped by the Federal from his bad record associated with the Police. He wa, carrying 2,620 kilograms drug traffic. of cannabis indica fror Veracruz. ~ Ex-convict Jose Martinez Macias was a member of the ring headed by Ramiro Pena. He was jailed for several years in La Loma when ~ captured with drugs in his possession. 2909 CSO: 5330 51 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 MEXICO ERIEFS DRUG DESTRUCTION INTENSIFIED--"The activities in which we are engaged in Zone 006 of the permanent camoaign against the drug traffic have been increasing considerably _ the amount of marihuana destroyed, inasmuch as we are also cutting the plantations which wp discover, seizing the grass and depositing it in the 9th Military Zone." The foregoing statement was made to this morning paper by Hector Aviles Castillo, coordinator of the aforementioned campaign, who explained that the activity of the ~ forces from the Office of the Attorney General of Justice has been quite well backed by Army troops which are rendering the necessary assistance at all times. He explained that, during the first 9 months of the year, 439 persons were arrested, all of whom were ir~plicated in one way or another in the drug trafficking business, in some of its aspects. Aviles Castillo said: "Thanks to the constant effort to exercise surveillance over the entire sector, we have managed to confiscate 33 vehicles and three aircraft, and to destroy a laboratory, all of which had been used to process and ship drugs, Also, in the area of use and bearing of arms, satisfactory collections were made, with the seizure of 67 long-barreled weapons, _ 46 pistols and 1,959 useful rounds of ammunition."[Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 14 Oct 80 p 6] 2909 - CSO: 5330 : . 52 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 IRL~N DANGERS OF ASIAN DRUG TRAFFIr, POINTED OUT Tehran JAVANAN-E EMRUZ in Persian 20 Oct 80 pp 22-23 [Text] As anti-addiction hospitals started work acrass the country, and the Ministry of Heal th put its 6-month 'strike' plan for the cure of all the ; nation's addicts into effect, we prepared various reports concerning addic- tion and printed them. In these reports we made various references to the _ methods of es tab lishing and operating these clinics and hospitals; we also held interviews with addicts concerning the various reasons for their addictive tendencies and ways of struggli.ng against them. These reports have appeared in past weeks. As these treatment centers comanenced work, each day a large number of people would contact them for hospitalization and cure so that they might be freed Erom the clutches of this ruinous demon and once again return to the embraces uE life and their own family. This welcoming ~f cure and liberation from addiction's clutches continued, and every day gained more attention. Never- theless, during the past 2 weeks we have witnessed that addicts are suddenly no longer co ntacting th ese centers; clinics which had daily seen dozens of applicants suddenly emptied, Following this, several clinics also closed, nnd thus there was a sudden halt in the field of addict treatment. An examination of the cause of this sudden halt is the subject of this week's article, which you read be]ow. Iran in a Geographical Ring of Narcotics Perhaps there are few countries like Iran that are similarly surrounded by narcotic-producing countries. Our eastern neighbors are Afgh~nistan and Pakistan, which are two of the world's largest opium producers. At their sides are India and the countries of eastern Asia like Thailand and Hong Kongy which are among the world's largest exporters of narcotics. As we pass from our eastern borders to the northwest of Iran, we come to Turkey, which is the most important station for export of East Asian heroin to Europe and the United States. Many years ago Turkey turned into an exporting station due to its proximity - to Europe and the USSR, and the general poverty of its people. In summary, " if we draw a line of the land route of Asian narcotics and connect it to Europe, we find Iran located on this chain. As we move from this issue 53 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 to the natural domestic conditions inside our country, we come to the opium poppy. This primary narcotic element has come into use and is cultivated in most areas of Iran. For years opium has been recognized as a valuab le substance due to the severe backwardness of Iran's rural areas, and it has been consumed for various purposes, among them phony medicine. In recent years, due to rhe increase in the price of opium on the consuu~ing market and the ~aterial poverty of peasants due to the destruction of agriculture, farmers displayed strong ~ interest in cultivating the opium poppy, and in this way increasing their income several times over. In recent years the government has also supplied domestic requirements by carry ing out opium poppy cultiva tion in designated regions. These require- - ments had various aspects; among them we can mention medicinal use, prepara- tion of a primary substance for drug manufacture, and preparation of the domestic dole for more than 200,000 lawful addicts which the government was compelled to prepare each month and place at their disposal. Due to these two factors, namely Iran's location on the belt-line from Asia to Europe and America, and the impoli*_ic cultivation of the poppy, narcotics were supplied easily and in great quantities in Iran, and were easily available to the people. As a consequence, a phenomenon called 'addiction' a ttacked the nation's lif eblood, and the possibility for its expansion became greater and greater. At this point we make mention of the domestic anti-addiction crusade which began years ago, and in which there were long- evident contradictions. That is to say that on the one hand the police forces were mobilized to struggle against addiction and smugglers, and the Majles enacted various laws and put them into effect as well; whi~e on the uther hand, far from everyone's eyes, the monarchy's filthy family brought thousands of kilograms of heroin across the borders in airplanes without any difficulty. They, too, had well comprehended that drugs and the spread of addiction among people, particularly among the nation's pure youth, could make the regime more successf ul in attaining its political objectives of controlling the people and the country. 'Ih is process continued through the years until the Iranian Islamic revolution _ came into being. In the first months of its establishment, it found addiction ~ to be one of the phenomena of the Ido~, along with hundreds of fundamental problems. It saw that addiction was spreading even more than in the past because dt~ring the revolutionary period more opium than before was being supplied dc~e to the absence of police control. In this period there were even some so shameless as to re-plow farm land, destroy the newly sprouted wheat that was the nation's hope, and go about planting opium poppy. Another group set up scales, razor and tray in plain viQw, and set to selling opi~ and hashish. However, due to the efforts of the revolutionary organs and the p~ople, these stands were soon removed, at least from public view. - Nevertheless, the buying and selling and supply of drugs continued as before in secre~y, and because of the income gained in this way, more persons became artracted to it every day, _ 54 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Start of a Fundamental Crusade and Mr Khalkhali's Arrival The first step in a serious anti-addiction campaign had to be police control of. the drug supply; by reducing the supply of these substances t~ the b~z~ars, and by gathering up addicts from the streets and alleys, further _ browth of the addiction phenomenon could be prevented, At the same time the campaign against domestic producers and suppliers permi~tted medical and social organizations to come forward and perform their roles. After this it was requisite that the president put Hojjatoleslam Khalkhali in charge of the anti-drug campaign. Upon his arrival, a ray of hoge shone forth, because there were few who did not know Khalkhali and the method of his campaign. First he went about organizing a special court and strike forces for the strict campaign against smugglers. Along with that he gat}lered up addicts from various locations, including their major centers, such as Jamshid, Qavam-Daftar and Gomrok streets, and sent them on to the Ministry of Health and treatment. Then he began his strict campaign against the basic drug producers and importers, and in this way the drug supply decreased appreciably. Due to the supply shortage in the bazaar, the price went up several times, and most addicts were not able to purchase drugs. Here the Ministry of Health and its treatment section began work, presenting a 6-month plan, and creating a nationwide net~aork of treatment hospitals. The t~ealth Ministry set 19 Azar [1 December] as the last chance for addicts to break their habiC, They began tr~atment with their own method, and addicts welcamed it, for two ma~or reasons. The first was that families in which there were addicts became mobilized, ~ and because of the treatment facilities easily available to them, took action towards breaking the habit of their own kin. The second reason was that with the start of the anti-drug campaign, the price of drugs increased several times over, and most addicts were n~ longer able to purchase their rPquirements, and in this respect were in the direst straits. Treatmen[ continued in this fashion, while criticism was also made of the Miiiictry of Health's treatment meth od, which we will also point out. At [his time the Iran-Iraq war brought a halt to the issue, The War and Addiction With the start of the war and the dispatch of police forces and Revolutionary Guards to confront the military aggression of Iraq's Ba'thists, police control - in relation to the production and distribution of drugs suddenly decreased. Mr Khalkhali and most of his Revolutionary ~uards set out for Khuzestan in - order Co fight at the side of other army brothers, because at this point fai[h and homeland were in danger and it was necessary to fight till the last breath for them. For the same reason the mobilization of military forces to protect the revolution took precedence over all other affairs, and in truth it had to be so. However, at this point corrupt profiteers took - advantage of the situation, and due to the lack of strict police control and Mr Khalkhali`s presence on the battlefront, and once again increased the drug supply. 55 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 View of the Chief of Staff of the Health Ministry's Anti-Addiction Campaign In this connection we asked the view of Dr Fakhr, chief of staff of the _ MiniaCry of Health's Anti-Addiction Campaign. He said: '"!'he most important thing is that the anti-drug campaign continue so that the anti-addiction campaign may be possible. As long as drugs are available in the bazaar, any possibility of cure is taken from us, and our activities in this regard are fruitless. "For the same reason, first of all the supply of drugs must be prevented so that the addict is pressured and drawn toward treatment. At the moment we have a 6-month, nationwide program in operation which wiil continue until 19 Azar [1 December], after which time every addict will be identified as a criminal." (We must explain that this interview's complete text can be read in future issues.) In conclusion, we remind you that at a time when Iranian warriors are fighting for the preservation and survival of this country, a number of profiteers and opportunists have set to work; in order to obtain more money, they once again throw naive persons into the clutches of the demon of addiction. JAVANAN magazine here warns all revolutionary organs and people to be aware that naive youths and persons who had broken the habit are once again put in danger of addiction, and that the several month-long effort of Hojjatoleslam ~ K}ialkhali, his colleagues, and the Ministry of Health are endangered. You, oh sister - You, ~h revolutionary brother, beware, because in each situation it is you alone who can through your vigilance continue this campaign. We remind you that those involved with the anti-addiction crusade await your - unsparing help. Identify the mercenaries who are active in the drug traffic in the area. Point - them out to the police and revolutionary institutions, and settle your debts with your fellow men. 9597 CSO: 5300 56 _ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ~ IRAN BRIEFS POPPY CULTIVATION BANS--Hoj~at O1-Eslam Shaykh Sadeq Khalkhali, head of the Narcotics Control Board, has warned poppy growers to stop their operations at once; otherwise, they will face serious consequences. Khalkhali has told the gendarmerie, revolution guards and responsible personnel on revolution committees to destroy poppies in the fields, identify individuals defying _ ttie ban and take them to the special courts. It may be recalled that 90 kg of heroin, 140 kg of opium, 31 kg of burned opi~ and 53 kg of hashish were recovered from smugglers last week. [Text] [GF211920 Zahedan International Service in Urdu 0200 GMT 21 Nov 80] Hr,ROIN FACTORY DISCOVERED--Hojjat O1-Eslam Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, head of the antidrug squad, has reported that the squad has discovered a heroin factory and has arrested 10 smugglers in possession of sizeable quantities of heroin and morphine. [GF021708 Zahedan International Service in Urdu 0200 GMT 2 Dec 80 GF] ADDICTS, PUSHERS SENTENCED--Ayatollah Khalkhali has sentenced 21 addicts and drug pushers to various prison terms in Kohkiluyah va Boyerahmad. They had 413 grams of opium, 110 grams of hashish, 1.5 grams of heroin and 69 grams of burned opium in _ their possession. [GF021641 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT 2 Dec 80] CUARDS NET OPIUM--One smuggler was killed and 110 kilos of opium seized during a struggle between smugglers and the Revolutionary Guards Corps of Khash region, announced the Zahedan Revolutionary Guards Corps' Public Relations Office. Pare reported that the smugglers were transporting opium in Dareh Sazgaz when they were caught by the Guardsmen. One Revolutionary Guard was in~ured during the iucident and three smugglers escaped on motorcycles. jText] jTehran TEHRAN TIMES in English 10 Nov 80 p 2] CSO: 5300 57 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 KUWAIT SEVERAL TYPES OF DRUGS SEIZED IN NARCOTICS ARREST Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 28 Oct 80 p 4 [Article: "Suspects Arrested in Drug Case"] [Text] Capital govemorate investigation department inspector Lt Col "Abdal-Ghaf.ur Muhammad al-'Awadi has succeeded ~.n closing a drug case in which two men named 'Abdal-Nuri and 'Abd-al-Rahman have been charged as suspects. The inspector discovered narcotic substances including opium, heroin, hashish and cocaine, Preliminary information obtained by investigation department personnel , indic~ted that the first of the suspects used and trafficked in drugs. After investigation and inquiry, it became clear that the second suspect took part in selling drugs with the first suspect. While passing by thP first suspect's house, inveatigation department officer al-Fiha' saw the suspect smoking a cigarette and talking with other indi- viduals. It was confirmed that the two suspects were conducting illegal activities of thi~ nature, and a well-contrived trap wa~ prepared to catch them in the act. A secret info~ar.t was then cl?arged with carrying out this plan, and he was able to make the first suspect believe that he wished to purchase 100-dinars-worth of drugs. The informant was able to purchase four portions for the 100 dinars. The suspect also gave him a package of hashish as a sample of what he had for sale in case the informant might wish to buy some. After obtaining an arrest and search warrant from the public prosecurcor, investigation department personnel were able to arrest the secor.d suspect. The suspect was found in possession af a sum of money equal to the value cf the opiiun sold to the informant. He was also found in possession of fo~r rnatchboxes, one containing a quantity of heroin wrapped in paper and the other four containing ~round-up hashish divided into portions for sale. Also discovered was a pipe used for the consumption of heroin and a glass vial containing cocaine t~ be taken by injection. 58 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Follow~ng this, investigation department personnel set a trap to arrest the first suspect, who appeared at his house at 0130 and was arrested. However, no drugs were found in his possession when he was searched. InterrogaCion of the two suspects revealed that they had both been living in a h~use belanging to the first suspect. A search of the house uncovered three large parti~ns of opium, a hashish cigarette ready for use, a pipe used for heroin con~,~_~i~ption, cigar~tte papers, and a medium-sized portion of ready-t.o-use hashish in a nylon pouch. The first suspect stated that he knew nothing about the drugs except that the second suspect had told him when instrLCting him to sell the four portions of opium to the informant. The second suspec*_ confessed that he had sold and distributed drugs and scated that he had b~ought the narcotics from India. This was substantiated by the suspect's passport. The two suspects were handed over to the public prosecutor's office, which ordered that they be jailed pending a~udicial inquiry . 8591 CSO: 4802 59 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 KUWAIT ' BRIEFS HASHISH BUST--Misdemeanor court has sentenced two men named Nayif and 'Uthman to 6 months imprisonment with labor and no reprieve for possession of 140 grams - of hashish. Information obtained by investigation department officer al-'Fiha' _ indicated that the two accused had obtained hashish for personal use. He obtained a warrant for the arrest and search of the two accused and any individuals found with them. He then proceeded to their room where he saw them taking hashish. A package of hashish was found in the room. The two accused admitted to the officer that they had been taking hashish. The first suspect stated that he had purchased the confiscated hashish from another individual by the name of Mutlaq for 170 dinars. He said that he and the second suspect had gone in together to buy the hashish. Upon being cross- examined in court, the first suspect admitted that he used narcotics and said that the second suspect was his friend and also used drugs . The second suspect con�essed that l~e had used drugs once before. He said that he had asked his friend, the other suspect, to buy drugs for him and had given him the money to make the purchase, and he stated that his friend had brought him the confi.scated quantity of drugs. Examination of the first suspect's criminal record showed that he had been convicted several times before on charges of drunkenness, selling alcoholic beverages and assault, The criminal xecord of the second susp ect revealed that he had previously been convicted for forcible rape. In rendering its verdict on this case, the court found that the charges against the suspects were substantiated and pronounced the sentence mentioned earlier. [Text] [Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 22 Oct 80 p 4 J 85 91 FOUR-MAN DRUG RING--Capital governorate investigation department personnel, under the supervision of Lt Col 'Abd al-Ghafur Muhamm~ad al-'Awadi, have succeeded in arresting two members of a four-man drug ring. The ring consists of individuals whose names are 'Ay d, Muz�i1, 'Ammash and 'Ayidh. The latter two members are still at large. A quanti ty of hashish was found in the possession of the two arrested suspects. Investigations by ir_vestigation department personnel had indicated that the f irst of the two suspects was plannin g to enter the country w ith a quantity of hashish in his possession. After verification of the information, a plan was prepared to catch the accused and anyone cooperating with him. A search and arrest warrant was obtained from the public prosecutor and the informant was directed to the suspect's dwelling place in the al-Sabahiyah area. The informant was able to make the first suspect believe that he wished to purchase a portion of hashish. They agreed on the sale of half a package of hashish for 100 dinars . The - accused was then apprehended in the act of handing over the hashish. A 60 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 search of the :;uspect's house produced a small portion of hashish estimated at tialf a package and a knife used by the suspect to cut the hashish upon selling ft, Under interrogation, the suspect confessed th at he had come f rom Syria some time before accompanied by the second suspect, He said that they had brought six packages of hashish with them, which h e distributed in the following manner: one-half package to the second suspect, an entire packet to the third suspect, and one and one-half packages to the fourth suspect. He led investigation department personnel to the house. of the second suspect, who resides in al-Raqqah. Here the first suspect asked the second for a tiashish cigarette, and the second suspect brought him a small portion. In a search of the second suspect's house, about one-half a package was discovered. Wh en asked the sourcE of the drugs, he said that he had gotten them from th e - first suspecC, The department personnel proceeded to the house of the third . suspect, but he was not f~:und and the search for him is continuing, A search of the fourth suspect's house produced an empty half of a bag in which ground-up hashish was found, The suspect was able to flee when observed by the investigation personnel. He is also being sought at this time for arrest _ and the carrying out of the necessary measures against him. [Text] [Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arabic 23 Oct 80 p 4J 8591 ' HAS HISH CASE--Misdemeanor court has sentenced an individual by the name of Ahmad to 2-months imprisonment with labor, no reprieve, and deportation for possession of hashish for personal use. The investigations of an officer i.n t~e narcotics division confirmed that the suspect possessed and was using _ drugs. The officer obtained a warrant authorizing him to arrest the suspect and searct~ his dwelling and automobile and anyone found with him. In the - afternoon, the officer went to apprehend the suspect who was found in a vehicle in the al-Naqrah area. When the vehicle was searched, two prepared cigarettes were �ound under the seat in which the suspect had been sitting, The susp ect ~ admi[[ed to possession of the cigarettes, The criminal evidence and forensic medicine report revealed that the cigarettes contained hashish. When the accused was questioned, he confessed that he used drugs and stated that h e had bought the confiscated hashish for 10 dinars from a person named 'Abd al-Aziz. He said that he had used part of it and the remainder was in the two cigarettes. Before the court, the accused denied any connection w.ith the cigarettes. However, the court determined that he was connected with them based on the following facts: the evidence produced by the investi- _ gations of the antinarcotics administration; the fact that the officer found two cigarette papers containing hashish underneath the car seat in which the suspect had been sitting; and the suspect's confessi:,n under interrogation to possession of hashish for personal use. Thus, the suspect was found guilty - of possessing the cigarettes for personal use and the court pronounced the aforementioned sentence. Presiding over the court was Judge Ahmad Fu'ad Kamil. Present at the trial wer.e Mr Sahil al-'Alami representing the public prosecutor and Mr Ghassan al-Khayri, session recorder. [Text] [Kuwait AL-QABAS in Arab ic 23 Oct 80 p 4] 8591 61 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 LEBANESE SMUGGLERS--A report from Kuwait states that investigation personnel the re have succeeded in uncovering a b ig drug smuggling operation. The opera- tion involved 250 kilograms of hashish with an estimated value of 300,000 dinars (app roximately 3.5 million liras). The Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said that there were three smugglers involved, including one Jordanian and two Lebanese. The drugs were placed in secret compartments along the deck of a freighter. The secret compartments were made in Lebanon. The ministry said that the two Leb anese are named Muhammad 'A, and Ahmad H. [Text) [Beirut AL-ANWAR in Arabic 21 Oc t 80 p S] 8591 CSO: 4802 62 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPR~VED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 ITALY HEROIN DEALER AR.RESTED NEAR CAGLIARI Cagliari L'UNIONE SARDA in Italian 16 Oct 80 pp 1, 2 (Article: "Traffickers Blitzed"~ [Textj A Quartu dealer was hiding a half etto [1 etto = 3.527 ounces] of heroin in his dwelling. The dealer is a young man who was arrested during an operation conduc ted by the carabinieri. The drug would probably have been enough for almost 3,000 doses for the market. (Our service) - Quartu, 150ctober--In a surprise attack, the Quartu carabinieri arrest ed a heroin dealer and rec~vered almost 50 grams of a heavy drug in his residence--48 grams of "brown sugar," a heroin that is not one of the best (it is full of t oxic sub- stances), but because of its low price on the city squares of Holland and of Milan, is cer~ainly the most importable. It p robably would have been enough to make almost 3,J00 doses. The young man who was arrested this morning in his resi- dence in Quartu is Salvatore Cocco, a 19-,ear-old carpentery known in police cir- - cles as a common criminal. However, it would seem that for some time he had also - been involved in the trafficking of heavy drugs--very greatly circulated in 90 - ~ percen[ of the towns around Cagliari. The stuff in his house is evidence of this. The carabinieri acted on the basis oF definite info rnfation and when they arrived in his apartment in Quartu, Salvatore Cocco ~lid not have enough time to hide anything. Thus, from a drawer came a small Fackage full of dirty white particles (heroin) and another small package that will be - analyzed by the military. It seems that the latter is hashish. There appears to be no doubt that Salvatore Cocco had all of the instr~ents in his residence that a drug dealer needs. The carabinieri recovered a pistol (6.35; the serial number had been carefully filed off), 80 shells, a small preci- sion scale (used to weigh hashish and heroin), same narghiles (pipes for opium and hashish) and 2 and 1/2 million in cash. 63 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 ~ In sl~ort, complete paraphernalia. The young man therefore did not even try to defend himaelf. When the car.abinieri a~rived at 0700 hours this morning in his apnrtment, he witnessed the search, was handcuffed without resistance, and went along with them in the "gazelle." According to the soldiers, Salvatore Cocco is "No 1, they say, among the wholesalers who supply heavy drugs to the entire Cagliari hinterland (as far as Serramanna and Sanluri) Ik is possible thaC the young man is a blg dealer, but the quantity and quality of the druga feund in his residence would rather indicate that Salvatore Cocco is one of the intermediate links that control the distribution of heroin in the CagJ.~s4 ri area. He is not a chance criminal. He has been involved in cases of _ thefts, robb~ries, and exploitation of prostitution. The affair is destined to have additirnia7. and more sensational developments, per- haps even within a very short time. The Quartu carabinieri may in fact be on the trail of a huge organization that supplied drugs to the dealer. Its base is probably in Holland. 'I~ao officials of tile operat~ve nucleus left this morning on the first flight for the peninsula. It appears that they will stop in Rome where evidently an a t[empt will be made to fit together the various parts of a vast "mosaic" of suspects and of proof that could definitely lead to additional arrests. - 'I'he operation was developed in the middle of the n~ght. Yesterday at about 1900 iiours, some patrols of carabinieri left the Garibaldi Street barracks. Shortly thereafter, the~ initiated a series of searches. The "stuf�" that they were seeking was found at No 48 Pais Street, in the district that extends to "(~attro Novemh=e" squrire. Under a stone in Salvatore Cocco's residence, a pistol and shells were found; then, even though the young man said there was none, the drug was found, It wAS in a small package, hidden inside a hollowed out brick; also, a little scale, the "narghile" pipe, other pipes for opium and 2 and 1/2 million in cash (in baiik notes of 100, 50,000, and 10,000)--money that could have been received by the young man during tt~e recenr weeks of activity. Caught by the evidence, the carpenter did not offer any re~istance. Handcuffed, he - shor tly aEterward arrived at the Garibaldi Street offices of the operative nucleus, where he was formally accused of the distribution and possession of heroin and of - llle gal possession of a firearm. The investigation, as mentioned, has only just begun. It appears certain that the young man was accused as a result of disclosures ?nade by some Selargius drug addicts. It has not been possible to find out anything else. In L-act, the strictest discretion surrounds the entire affair, which has caused considerable talk, in spite of Quartu being an environment where both light and heavy c~rugs at present circulate freely. Salva tore Cocco, who in the past was also accused of trying to hold up a po st office, was considered more as "a com~mon criminal than a drug dealer." Evi- dently he has succeeded in becoming a part of a huge organization in which he per- haps h~~.s became an important pawn. The weapon, heroin, the pipes, and the small, high precision scale that were found in his residence seem to be the most evident prnof of this. . ~ 64 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 ;,,,~at, . ~ i, : - ~j ~~~I~'~sii,'i ~ ~;:-T,;�7` };s �~iaa:~s; ~u u~�:!~~,~ ~y~ i4,i,,. . n. ~ ,~'L, . ; y . i!~' ~ ~'�~'r�.. ~4 ~~~~L ~;Ft~'y, , �:~;i:;lia:: .5_.a. ~i."~iii :,'F~. � F~ 5 � . �2 . . u ~ Salvatore Cocco, the young man in Quartu who was arrested because 50 grams of heroin were found in his residence. 8255 CSO: 5?00 65 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 TURKEY MUMCU EXAMINES NARCOTICS WEB Istanbul CUI~4iURIYET in Turkish 24 Nov 80 pp 1, 7 [Editorial by Ugur Mumcu] [Textj It has been disclosed that 19 tons of narcotics have been seized over the - J.ast 6 years. Just think what has been seized--and what has not! Everyone knows that the commerce in narcotics is a very profitable line. It is known that many individuals who have founded empires on "illicit wealth" have made millions in the narcotics trade. There is no one who is not aware of the ways in which former parliamentarians, who expended great efforts in this pursuit and who hoped to sell narcotics in Germany and France, dirtied their hands as well as their - reputations in this trade. Moreover, the facts that Turkey is a hashish-producing country, that Turks are in- volved in the narcotics trade on the European market, and that it is apparent nar- coCics trafficking is conducted hand in glove with arms smuggling necessitate a careful examination of such goings on. Let us today simply address these matters with an overview. Experts in this field call opium the "Mother of Narcotics" since morphine is derived from opium. Morphine base is derived from morphine. A chemical substance called - "acid anhydrite" is required for converting morphine base into heroin. This chemical substance is not produced in Turkey. The countries that produce it - are the U.S., Japan, West Germany, and France. Opium produced in Turkey cannot be converted into heroin without acid anhydrite. Consequently, heroin production is a multi-national branch of trade abounding with accomplices. Within this framework one discovers the mul[ilateral and powerful con- nections--domestically and abroad--of narcotics smugglers who carry on their commerce hand in glove with arms smugglers. _ There is no possibility of getting to the source, to the root of these matters with- out exposing these connections. If such an investigation were conducted: By what means does acid anhydrite enter Turkey? Acid anhydrite is being used in the paint and food industry. This raises the matter of how much acid anhydrite is being brought into the country legally. After this, the job is determining whether this substanCe is bein~ used for the in- tended purpo~es of its importation. 66 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300064426-4 Of course, acid anhydrite is being introduced illegally into the country to produce heroin. Smugglers say that this type of smuggling does not exist but that variouj types of smuggling are conducted in conjunction with one another. For example, cigarette smuggling and electronic equipment smuggling are at times conducted simul- - taneously by the same individuals, likewise narcotics and arms smuggling. We are not the only opium-producing country in the Middle East region. Besides us, opium is being produced in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Thailand, Laos, and Kampuchea also grow opium. In order to understand how multidimensional this smuggling business is, let us con- sider the following: Acid anhydrite is produced in NATO countries and shipped to this country. And the heroin made with this substance is transported to Europe via Bulgaria, a Warsaw Pact member. It is just like the introduction into our country by way of Bulgaria of various makes and types of weapons manufactured in NATO coun- tries! Hawwlll we come to grips with this thing? Is iC right that we ignore such dangerous matters, satisfied with asking the most pressing and important question of our day: Why was J.R. shot by his sister-in- law? CSO: 5300 67 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4 TURKEY FORMER SMUGGLER ARRESTED FOR HASHISH - Istanbul HURRIYET in Turkish 25 Nov 80 pp l, 15 [Text] It has been determined that 160 kilos of hashish worth 50 million lira siezed during a search for stolen property at the shack of a fisherman in the vicinity of Kurbaglidere belongs to the famous former morphine base smuggler Nuri Bostan. Bostan, who was taken into custody, said that he tried to get the hashish out of the country but was unable to locate a ship. It was reported that the hashish, placed in nylon bags inside a special sack made from a seaman's hammock, was Pakistani and of the highest quality. In the state- ment of one Hasan Okuer, who, upon seeing police, panicked and fled by 3umping into a stream only to be wounded by polic~ gunfire and later hospitalized, said that the hashish belonged to Bostan. Among those taken into custody for smuggling this large amount of narcotics uncuvered by chance durin~ the search by Theft Desk teams, Hasan Fehmi accused Bostan in his statement. In his own s[atement, Bostan, who was apprehended in Turkey following ~Cudret Bayhan's arrest in France, said, "I did not purchase this hashish wholesale. It came to me in installments. I would have gotten it out of the country but I could not find a ship." It was disclosed that th e investigation is being inten- sified with regard to Bostan, who until now had dealt only in morphine base and had chosen to deal in hashish for the first time. It was reported that after the . initial investigation Bostan would be transferred to the Narcotics Bureau but that the work of intensifying the investigation would be left to the Theft Desk. CSO: 5300 END 68 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300060026-4