JPRS ID: 10253 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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13 January 1982
Worldwide Report
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 2/82)
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13 January 1982
WORLDWIDE REpORT
yARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 2/82)
CONTENTS
,ASIA
AUS'TRALIA
Police Charged With Conspiracy in Griffith Marijuana Case
(THE SYDNEY MORNINI; HERALD, 3 Nov 81)
Crown Says Sentences for 7.Fao Cannabis Importers Too Light
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 3 Nov 81)
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Cannabis Prohibitions
HONG KONG
.Airport Customs Men Reveal Methods Useci To Smuggle Drugs
(SOUTH CEIINA MORNING POST, 7, 7.6 Dec 81) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tactics Always Changing
Heroin in Camera Bag
Police Raids Net Suspected Drug Dealers, Heroin Hauls
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, various dates)
Territory-Wide Swoop
Swoops in Kowloon
New Territories Raids
Lnos
Briefs
Poppy Growing Zones
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NEPAL
- Briefs
Hashish Dealers Arrested
NEW ZEALAND
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Australian Drug Inquiry Body In-v-ited to New Zealand
(1HE El~'NING POST, 27, 28 Nov 81) 10
Move Termed Unpreccdented
' Poliee Association Protest
Wellington 'POST' Comment, Editorial
Drugs Found in Mail for Americans in Antarctica
(~IE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 2, 3 Dec 81, ~iE EVENING FOST,
3 Dec 81) 13
Recipients Face Prosecution
Personnel Interviews Pending
Wellington 'POST' Editorial
Auckland 'HERALD' Editorial
Army Ienies Drug 'Epidemic' Among Troops in Singapore
(EVENING POST, 30 Nov 81).................................... 16
Australian on Trial for Importing Cannabis From Thailand
(THE EVENING POST, 2 Dec 81) 17
PAKI S TAN
Briefs 18
Heroin Seized 18
Opium Seized
Drugs Seized by Customs 18
Charas Seized
Hashish Recovered 19
Drug Seizure Reported 19
Heroin Smuggling; Foreigners Held 19
S RI LANKA
Massive Operation Uestroys 100 Acres of Ganja
(Srimal Abeywardene; THE DAILY NEWS, 17 Dec 81).............. 20
THAILAND
Muser Tribal Chieftain's Burma Narcotics Operations No�ted
(Paul Jasvinder; BANQCOK POST, 8 Nov 81) 21
Paper on Antiapium Campaign Among Hilltribes 24
~ (Chongkhadikit; POST, 28 Dec 81)
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Prem Gives Okay To Flan To Destrey Poppy FYelds
(NATION REVTEW, 4 Jan 82)..................................
Drug Traffickers Set Up 'Death Squa.ds'
(NATION REVIEW, 29 Dec 81)
_ Paper Citea Conflicting Views on Poppies
~ (NATION REVIEW, 19 Dec 81)................
Northern Governor Discusses Opium Problem
(Chongkhadikit; POST, 20 Dec 81)
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Opium Subagents Arrested
Wa rden Jailed in Trafficker's Escape
'Major Trafficker' Arrested
J SusFected TraffickeY Arrested
LATIN AMERICA
- COS TA RI CA
Briefs
Drug Traffickers Arrested
JAMAICA
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Ganja Pl.antation
PANAMA -
Briefs
Drug Seizures
- NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
I RAN
Briefs
Shiraz Drug Discoveries
IChorasan Opium Haul
Drug Seizure in Mashhad
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LEBANON
Briefs
Szizure of Heroin
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
GHANA
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Briefs
Coconuts in Drug Smugglir.g 43
NIGERIA
Use of Diplomatic Pouch for fiemp Smuggling Deplored
(Editorial; NEW NIGERIAN, 4 Dec 81) 44
_ WEST EUROPE
CYP RUS
Police Seize Ship, 5.5 Toiis Indian Hemp
(CYP RUS WEEKLY, 11-17 Dec 81) 45
Officials Said To Seek Helicopter for Narcotics Control
(CYPRUS WEEK�,Y, 11-17 Dec 81) 46
FRAN CE
Briefs
Drug Dealer Killed 47
NETHERLANDS
Heroin Weif;.`iing 21 Kg Found in Shrimp Shipment
(HET VRIJE VOLK, 17 Nov 81) 48
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AUSTRALZA
POI,ICE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACX IN GRIFFITH MARIJUANA CASE
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Svdney 'PHE SYDNEY MORNING HERA.T.D in English 3 Nov 81 p 3
[Text]
CSO: 5300/7518
Four policemea and a
farmer from.. Gdffrth, Antonio
Sergi, appeazed in Castlereagh
Street Court of Petty Sessions
yesterday chazged With con-
spiring to pervert the course oi
justice. -
in asummary o[ the erMence it
plaw to bft forward. the Crown
toid the caart ydterda; ihat the
fire defendaats alreed amoo` them.
eehee, aad wiW WLe=rs, to im-
Propai7 Proftd PeoPla wrho wen
growinR aod selllag Iadlau IMm4 la
tht Getffitb aem
As n rewit of wat a8eeemeats
TU toue polkewen hsd allowed
people, Iacludina Sergi, Whe wen
Yrowia[ aod/or ultlnQ the drag,
to hmveat s crop of it� afta the
Rop had - or a6ould hatc -
come under Pol(ce eootrol.
Atter toue polkemea lamed ot the
e:irtence ot thV aad aaother crop,
Ibey 6aa carriea a,t wek io-
vestigation lu 'anc4 a. way s to
eova up the imolvemwt ot otha
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.�peoplc, except for two other locai
[armens, Rocco Barbuo� aad
Giuweppe. Scaria
T'he po8ce4mra had caeried oat theh
invesdgaUnn ia wch a~.rar as to
proceet SergL .
Tley had eollated aad giveo
rr[dence to s i)isRict CouN
6eadnB� deaq c6argef aplod
Barbaro and Scarfo in soch a.vay
as W protect them and othen.
Sergi.
'ILry 6ad. purpoeted to invesdgaU
t6e growiog ot hemp iu the
Grif8t6 9res, bat W* luwatigatlea,
If done at all, wae dadgaed to
sive a tabe pictwo t6at a proper
investigatlon wo being dona
Ooe o[ the policemen, Dehcdve
Sergeant Joha Ellis, had giren
talts evidence to the Woodward
Royd Commlalon ioto Dnq
'Ira16cldog..
The Crows tdd t6o comt yester�
day t6at the only In[enoce was tLat
cuh defeodaot had some penooal
Baaacial a other reaard to gaia .
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AUSTRALIA
CROTdN St1YS SENTENCES FOR TWO CANNABIS IMPORTERS T00 LIGHT
Perth THE WEST A'JSTRALIAN in English 3 Nov 81 p 18
[EYCerpt] The crown yesterday contended in the Court of
Criminal Appeal that the ;aol sentences imposed on two
men convicted o4 importing cannabis resin into Australia
were inadequate.
In the Supreme Court Yesterday, Mr G. N.
in August, Donald Rad- Calde.r, iar the crowri,
ford Terrence Walding d subniitted that
(30), o! Sydney~ an
Wayne :'ieming 1281, of the sentences imposed
Brisbane, pleaded guilty did not take due regard
to charges of importing of the seriousneas of the
znd possessing cannabis offences.
resin. He said that the 'tirst
Mr Justice Brineden leg in the dlstributi aNon
' gaoled Walding ior 12 drugs was import
months and 2ined him and the quantity involved
g3000, while Fleming was was the secoi~i ]arSeBt
gaoled for 15 months and ever traceci in W'.~i�
tined $5M� The two a c c u s e d
~ The court. heard tha4 Wark~ ~ ~gap�~
when Walding arrived at earning Bood w'ages,
Perth Airport irom S(n� Were in the rlght loca-
gapora in May a search tion to get dru8s and, as
by customs ofllcers re- ou get 1~Ck' iiereAustraab-
vealed 4.9 kilos of canna- 1ia ~thout diiriculty.
bis resln in a suitcase+ He Said that the deter-
'NUrTy' rent aspect of sentenc-
Waldtng said he had ing was o1 primary im'
agreed to brirrg the drug portance in drug cases to
into Austral!a for an� dissuade people import�
other person whom he ing c1rugs or acting as
knew only as "Nitt7'�" couriers for others.
Later, drug-squad detec� He sttggested that the
tives traced F'leming sentences Were maniiest�
throuqh lottery tickets IY inadequate and that
- [ound in Walding's poBS� Mr Justlce Brinsden had
ession. He admitted mak� laced too much emphas�
inR the arrangement g on the men's back�
with Waiding. grounds and previoue
good conduct.
I3oth men worked 1n
tiingapore on an ot!-
shore oil rig and Fleming
,aid he had hoped to sell
the drug for between
g,3g,pp0 a n d $40,000
- through another person.
The drug had a street
- value of about $100,000.
- CSO: 5300/7518
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
CANNABIS PROHIBITIONS--State cabinet would never agree to relax nrohibitions on
cannabis, the Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, said yesterday. Cabinet's hardline
J attitude followed a request from the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, seeking Queens-
land agreement that there should be no relaxation of laws "at this time." A
further request for Queensland's views on whether it would be appropriate to
set a time limit on the need to review the policy also met with a tough "no."
~ Mr Bjelke-Petersen said Queensland wnuld never support a review as recommended
by the recent Royal Commission into Drugs. (The 3.nquiry recommended there
should be a review of the legal prohibizion of cannabis after 10 years.) "That
could create an expectation among cannabis users of a possible change in Gov-
_ ernment policy," Mr Bjelke-Petersen said. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL
in English 27 Oct 81 p 10]
CSO: 5300/7518
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HONG KONG
AIRPORT CUST014S MEN REVEAL METHODS USID TO SMUGGLE DRUGS
Tactics Always Changing
Hong Kong SOUT:i CHINA MORNING POST in Eaiglish 7 Dec 81 p 28
[Text] An eacise offiar, Mr
4 Szeto Che-wing, has been
a customs m a n for 21
years, but he stresses he is
still learning how to do his
job. "You never stop Irarn-
- ing: " says Assistant Superin-
tendent Szeto as he tells how
he and his staff at Kai Tak
airport try to kap one jump
ahead of smugglers.
It is a difficult job ba:suse
the wily bosses who control
rings of couriers sneaking
narcotia into Hongkeng kan
changing their tacticx.
As soon as the customs
men discwer a new mode of
- smuggling the kingpins of the
drug trade switch tracks and
adopt new methods.
_ At present, Mr Szeto :old
me laat wak as he guided me
through the customs hal at
Kai Tak. there is a change in
the pattern because of a
string of recent succcsses by
customs men who have nnb-
bed couriers attempting to
bring in drugs oonsignments.
- For a long period the
courien were found using
suitcases or bags with false
- �hnttoms. _
Customs searchm made a
number of arresu and the
courien then switched to
carrying consignmen:s oE
drugs internally, hidden in
their rectums or vaginas.
There have been a stringof arresu in such cases and
now, Mr Szeto believes, the
couriers may have gone back
to using concealed compart-
ments in bags.
The 200 men and women
who worlc with Mr S2eto.
screening new arrivals at Kai
Tak are spread thin on the
ground.
On an average day, 11.000
people pass through the cus-
toms lina.
Obviously, saysJVtr Szeto,
it is imposs~ble to search
evcry one of them.
But they do theic best.
They have mote to worry
about than just narcotics.
Thev have a revenue-rais-~
ing A'. ~ ing.ttiit jMy
senfers do not exceed' tNe
limUS of aicohol and tobacco
they can bring in duty free.
they search for such thmgs aa
walkie-talkiea, Fitearms and
fireworks and they play an
important rok in controllmg
the import of such banned
itertu aa ivorZ and furs of
endangered animal species.
But drugs nmain the
maJo-r concxrn.
The customs staff are
trained to sort the whest of
irtnocent artivals from the
chaff of likely dnsg couriers.
There ia a very 3efinite
profile to those who carry
drugs, but he dasn't tike to
give too many details of what
son oC person ctstoms mett
are loolung for in case it tips
oti the drug bassts and gives
them aa advantage. �
But he makes it plain that
the courien are often unwill-
ing paitners of the drugs
bosea.
Either they aro in debt to
loen' sharks or addicts them-
selvea who nave ban given a
grim choia of attempting to
make a drup run From Bang-
kok or of risking the wrath of
peid triad killers.
With wch a choice it ia
not 'surprising that there
seems to be an almast limit-
leas supply of courien.
Fear of retribution kaps
then silent when they are ar-
rested at lCai 'fak but it is
thought the met6ods of dis-
guising the drugs are made by
the ctganisera, not the coun-
ers.
Mr Suw and other ex-
perts suspect that the men
who run the drug syndicata
organiu bands of couricro to
travel on one aircraft, usually
heading into Hongkong from'
Baok.
7he couriers will think,
they are travelling by them-
selves, but also on the aircraft,
is likely to be a"minder;' a,
watchdog for the syndicate
who kaps a careful but re-
mote eye on the couriers to
sa how many of them get
through the customs net.
Smuggling methods are
ingenious and conatantly
changin,
.
Heroln comes into Hono-
kong hidden in birds' nats, m
corisignments of surgical in-
struments, secreted inside
lumq of rough jadestone and
concealed in statues.
1'he narcodcs may` be-
found in the hals or wles of'
shoes, inside carved-out tropi-
cal fruit or vegetables, in spe-
ciat bodybelts strapped
round the torw, in rubber
bags inserted in the body and
in canned foods prepared m
underground factories in
1'hailand.
Customs men have found
heroin in tuba of toothpaste,
in bottles of haircream, in
cans oE hairspray and in
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The customs team at Kai '
radios.
On the way out of Hong-
Tak has modern aids to help
- kong, searchen check sus-
it in the fight against smug-
pected or known couriers and
glers.
of thae is a large X-
have grabbed consignments
of heroin bound for Amster�
ray machine which can exam-
dam hidden in consignments
ine empty bags to sa if there
is anythmg hdden in false
of salted fish.
- Mr Szeto estimates that
Imings.
concealed in the
i
H
95 per vent of the heroin
seized at Kai Tak originata
ero
n
bags shows up on the X-rays.
in the Golden Triangle and
When the machine was in-
searchers began plac-
stalled
comw through Thailand.
But the drug syndicates
,
ing the shoa of suspected
are noa attempting to cover
couners in the machinc.
They found a number of
t6eir tracb by sendmg their
~ couriers from BangkoK to
-
shoes with hidden inner soles
composed of compressed
cities which are not known
- drug centres, such as Manila
opwm.
Word of bad news spreads
- and Taipei, be(ore directing
them back to Hongkong.
quickly in the narcotics
This ruse is used to try to
underworld and within a cou-
ple of weeks of the X-ray
throw customs men off the
track
machine being in-talled, fc,oe-
.
It doesn't work any more.
wear stoppal ;cing usod Fos
la addition to passengets
4 g~uggli"a� .
So far thu year, the efforts
from Bangkok, the customs
searchers pay close attention
of the customs men at Kai
to arrivals from Penang.
Tak have been rewarded by
thearresuof40couriers.
Kuala Lumpur and Singa-
increasingly, those
pore and
Mr Szeto and his staff
,
arriving from Karachi be-
hope to boost this number
considerably before the end of
cause of an upsurge in opiates
'
the year.
'
coming From that area.
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Heroin in Camera Bag
Hong Kona SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 16 Dec 81 p 26
[Text~ Pol'tce found a large
amount of 6eroin in a camera
equipment case carried by a
Malaysian who arrived at Kai
- T'ak airport on a flight from
Singapore, the High Coun
- was told yesterday.
Thee Lim-hocn (33) is on
trial befure Mr Justue Baber
and a jury for allegedly eraf-
ficking in a dangerous drug.
Detective (nspector Nal
Damond HowcroCt told the
court that Tha arrived at the
airport on April 3 carryin8 a
casc containing camera
equ~pment.
Customs officer. wha
searched the cas: iound it
had a false bottom.
CSO: 5320/9107
Inside were 1,112.99
$rams of a mixture,concain-
ing 71.61 grams of heroin.
Insp Howcroft sai~! that
when he interviewd Thee the
accused told him that he had
been handed the camera case
by a Fat man ai Singapore
airport.
He also said this man was
on the same Flight to Hong-
kong.
Thee was then told [o look
for the fat man among the
arriving passongers, but lnsp
Howcroft said he made no
effon to find this man after
they had passed through the
baage examination area.
qhe trial continues today.
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HONG KONG
POLICE RAIDS NET SUSPECTID DRUG DEALERS, HEROIN HP_ULS
Territory-wide Swoop
Hong iCnng SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 4 Dec 81 p 18
[Text ] police carried out a massrve tenttory-wiae swoop
yesterday on more than
30 premises believed to be
wnnectsd with a syndicate involved in the local distri-
butior, of arugs.
- The 10-hour operation, wh
ich began at 5.30 am yesterday,
was carriod out by officers of
thc Narcotics Bureau who were
assi9ted by offian from the
Colony-wide divisional special
duty squads.
They arrested 30 people - 24 men and six women - and
seized more than two Iba of No 3 heroin valued at 3200,000
on the retail market.
' Of those arrested, 22 were still being decained last night,
while the othen were either released- or on bail pending
furthor inquiria.
Police said thoae detained are expected to be charged
_ today on various dangerous dcugs offenca.
A senior NB offiar said
under the directions of Senior
last night that yaterday i sei-
Supetintendent Hui Ki-on,
zures were not as big as ex-
have ban investigating the
pected, but detectives believe
syndicate for the past six
that the raids had smashed
months.
the backbone of the syndi-
"they said because of the
cate,
syndicate's territory-wide net-
- Intensive invatigations
work. investigations tooli
into t he syndicate are pro-
many men and manhoun.
ceeding while NB oFficers
Detection is difficult as
were still huncing last night
members of the syndicate usa
for several of iu unior mcm-
radio pagsn to mare drug
yers,
transactions rather than di-
tn a raid an a decoration
rect contact with the buyers;'
company in Fa Yuen Street.
a unior NB detectiv. said.
Mungkak, detortives seized a
NB detectivq were rein-
packet of No 3 heroin�and
forced by divisional police
two men were arrested.
stations as the premisea to be
On seurching the cockloR
raided were scattered.
of the premises, the raiding
In one of the raids on a
officen fonnd 5170,000 in
flet in Hillwood Road. Tsim-
cash but none of the people in
shauui, detectives arrested
the premises claimed owner-
ship of the money.
four men and two women
after 33 half-ounce packeu of
Descetives said they were
No 3 heroin was xized.
investigating w6ether the
The flat is believed to have
cash was from the sale of
ban used by the syndicate as
drugs or from other crimes
a storage and dutribution
committed recently.
antre for Tsimshatsui and
ilB officers, working
Yaumati.
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Swoops in Kowloon
Hong iCong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 13 Dec 81 p S
[TeXt] PoGce arrested four meu
_ and seized 1.2 kg of 6eroin
and barbitone worth $200,000
0o t6e retail market in a num-
ber of swoops in Kowlooo yes-
terday and oo Friday.
The swooq began at 8 pm
on Friday w6en Speciai Duty
Sqiwd otficers staHoned in
Yaumad arrested tour men io
a car parked ouvide a 6otel (n
Salisbury Road Tsimshatsui.
Pollce seized 678 grams of
No 3 heroia and 226 grams of
_ barbitr,.ae trom t6e vedicle.
FollowinQ t6e arrests,. po-
_ Iice mounted raids in Tsim-
shatsui. Choi Hung, Wong Tai
r Sid and WaaQ Taa Hom.
In a tlat at WanQ Tau
- Hom e9ute, a further 311
grnms of 6eroia were seized.
New Territories P,aids
Honq Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 15 Dec 81 p 26
[TeXt] Narcotics Bureau deteo-�
tives arrested three men and a
Thai woman and seized 1.3
kg of No 3 heroin in a series
of raids in the New Territc-
' ries yesterday aftoinoon.
- A 32-year-ald man an:l a
31-ycar-old Thai womar. were
arrested in a hut at Yue Kok
temporary housing area at
- Ting Kok Road, Taipo, short-
ly before 2 pm followmg the
seizure of l.3 kg of No 3
heroin.
Follow-up inquiries led to
the arrest of anocher two men
- one in Yuen Long and the
� other in Kam Tin.
CSO: 5320/9107
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LAOS
BRIEFS
POPPY GROWING ZONES--Most of the Lao Souag nationalities living in the mountains
of the north have a preference for and expertise in the cultivation of opium
poppies and do this for a livelihood. A great deal of poppy is grown in the
provinces of Phong Saly, Louang Nam Tha, Oudomsai, Houa P'han, Xieng Khouang and
- Vientiane (on Phou Khao Khouai). Most of the opium is used in the production of
_ medicine. In the past, the capitalists used the opium to make narcotics with
which to fog the minds of the young people so th.at they would be mislead into
its use. [Excerpt] [Vientiane V IENTIANE MAI in Lao 7 Nov 81 p 3]
CSO: 5300/4587
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NEPAL
BRIEFS
HASHISH DEALERS AFtRESTED--Police have arrested red handed Kancha Thapa of Palung in
Makwanpur district as he was trying to sell five kilos of processed hashish at the
rate of twelve hundred rupees per kilo. Aiso arrested is Shyam Bahadur Tamang of
Ranipuwa for similar ofences. He was trying to trade two kilos of hashish for
three thousand rupees. [Text] [Kathmandu THE MOTHERLAND in English 8 Dec 81 p 21
CSO: 5300/4911
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rtEw zEAI.,Arm
AUSTRALTAN DRUG INQUIRY BODY INVITED TO NEW 2EALAND
Mave Termed Unprecedented
Wellington THE EVENING POST in English 27 Nov 81 p 3
[Text] THE Government said today it was prepared to allow an
Australian investigation into the Mr Asia drugs ring to- hold
hearings and summon witnesses in this country.
Officially descrihed as
unusual and perhaps un-
precedented, the move fol-
lows an infortnal approac4
from t6e Australiaas.
The Attorney-General,
Mr MeLay, said the Govern-
ment had told the Australian
Govecnment it was prepared
to appoint the investigation
as a commission of inquiry
under New Zealand taw.
By this move Australia's
Royal Commissioner of In-
quiry into Dcug Traffickiag,
Mr Justice D C Stewart,
wauld be allowed to ertead
the scope of. his iaquiry to
New Zealand.
In particular he would be
able to compel the ap-
Qearaace of aitaesses living
m New Zealand and conduct
hearings here; N[r McLay
said. �
_ Claim
The inquiry, set up jointly
by the Queensland, New
SouW Wales aad Australiaa
Commonwealth Govern-
ments, is basicaily directed
towards the Australian drug
dealing activities of Ter-
rence John Clark, alias Alex-
aader James Sinclair.
Nir McLay said the com-
mission was set up in part
because t6e Australian po-
lice had a number of matters
outstanding concerning
Sinclair's activities which
could aot be dealt with at
t6is stage by ordinary
courts.
The New Zealand police
had indicated that they had
no such outstanding inquiries
but the Australians had
found there mi t be people
in New Zealaa wit6 knowl-
edge of Clark's activities in
Australla.
Particularly, Mr McLay
said, they might know how
he disposed of the drug
ring's pcoceeds.
Mr McLay said the Aus-
tralian commission could not
compel or summon wit-
nesses from outside Austral-
ia to appear before it aad
give evideace on oath.
�BY aPPointing Mr Jus-
tice Stewart as a com-
mission of inquiry in New
Zealand under our Com-
missions of Inquiry Act 1908,
he will be ab e to come W
this country and conduct
such inquiries as are neces-
sary to auPplement his work
in Australia."
Terms
At the suggestlon of the
Australians the terms of the
New Zealand inquiry will be
ao wider than those under
which the AustraGan com-
mission is working.
10
�'Furthermore, the New
Zealand part of the inquiry
in New Zealand will obvious-
ly have to comply in every
respect with this country's
statute and casa law. Thus
the terms of refereace of
any New Zealaad iaquiry
wiil have to be ver;; careful-
ly drafted in consultation
witd the Australians," Mr
McLay said.
Mr MeLay said New Zea-
land poGce had no evidence
of the drug ring's activities
here which had aot beea
dealt with by the courts or
the police.
But, he said, if the Aus-
tralian c~ammission turned
up any indications for a ueed
for further investigations in
New Zealand "that will cer-
tainiy be done forthwith."
$ydDey
No decision has been
made oa whether the Aus-
traliaa Royal Commission
will go to New Zealand to
hold hearings.
A spokesman for the Aus-
tralian Federai Attorney-
General, Senatbr Peter
Durack. said that while no
decision had beea takea, the
Australian Government was
happy to have the indication
from New Zealand thaat it
would be welcou,e.
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Police Association Protest
Wellington TFE EVENING POST in English 27 Nov 81 p 8
T WAS outrageous that New Zealanders should be subject tQ Australian jurisdiction
[Text]
d
I
of the Pol
t
ice Association, Dr Bob
ay.
Moodie said to
- in their own country,
ary
the secre
He was commenting on
General has given in the
ld of inquiries in New Zea-
fi
nothing more than damaging
the reputatioos of people
tend their inquiry to New
Zealand.
f
yesterday's announcement
the Governmeat would
e
land. He has ab~Acated his
without the normal legal
d
e nce,
re
wh che havesn t yetrebeen
that
appoint the Australian Royal
responsibility to the Austral-
Attorney-General."
i
s.
safeguar,
If the New Zealand Gov-
drawn up, would be no
h
Commission of Inquiry into
Drug Trafficking as a com-
an
eonly
ir
1an~
w
need w assist he Australian
e
t
Australiaah commissionr The
mission of inquiry under
New Zealand law. (Report
y
d qu
Ne
~
situ-
aaaea c~
-
e
~
have
its own commission of- nt
binves e oeducted noaccordaace
- page 3).
m
co
Thomas
he
ation,
ission was a disgrace, and
p
quiry -with verY nanowly de-
with the New Zealand om-
t
�'Uur executive is most
unhappy about commissions
f
m
the marginal lands affair
muddied reputations
l
im
fined terms of reference to
complement the Australian
.
missions of Inquiry Ac
Justic
eMs
r
e dva
e
e
ar
uf inqwry generally. As
~ustralian royal com-
as
y
p
s
and coofused the public
inqTh �~licitor-General, Mr
.
e
gal
le
chi
Janice Lowe, said that the
f
:
missions are concerned,
ther record is even more
mind.
Damaging
paul Neazor, said the de-
cision by the AttorneyGen�
commission would have the
same powers as New Zea-
dismal," said Dr Nlood'e�
- '�It's a further example of
Commissions of inquiry
eral was a response to an
~
land commissions o inqwry and
wishy-washy
y
1
were e ses St wh ch ach ev d
ex-
that they W u d like t
and bUgations ould apply.
a t~~e
resent
thac the P
er
Wellinqton 'POST' Comment
Wellington THE M7Et1ING POST in English 28 Nov 81 p 4
[Editorial: "Movable Commission"]
- [Text] THE MR ASIA drugs riag and its foal
activities brought a most unwelcorae
notoriety to New Zealand.
The court hearings in England, at
which startlidg revelations were made,
ended some time ago bux aa Australian
investigatioa into the ring's activities in
that counta'Y is now proceedmg�
In what 1as beea described asper
tiaps an unprecedented move, the New
Zealand Government says it is pre- '
pared to allow Australia's Royal Com-
missioner of Inquiry into Drug Traf-
ficking, Mr ,1ust C'~nqStewart, uiry tot Neov
tend the scope of ti
Zealand.
Closer rconomic relations between
Australia and New Zealand ace a Wghly
- desirable thing, but tor a Royal Com-
- mission on drug activities to be allowed
to cross the Tasman is something dif-
ferent altogether, and must invite some
unease.
The secretary of the Police Asaocia-
tion, Dr Moodle, with memories of the
Thomas commission of inquiry (chaired
- by an Australlan), says u is outcageous
that New Zealanders should be subject
to Australian juriediction in their own
country.
T6ere is an assurance by the Minister
of Justice, Mr McLay, that the New
Zealand part of the inquiry wfll ob-
viously 6ave to comply in everq respect
with this country's statute and case
law. It is to be 6oped t6at, in operati4n,
t6is provision will turn out to be as
eifective as Mr McLay eovisages.
The stamping out of drug traificking
requires international co-operation.
This is already taking place on various
fronts. However, m the case of the Aus-
trallan Investigatian there are no
powers allowing it to compe1 or sum-
mon witnesses from outside Anstralia
to appeac betore it and give evidence
an oath.
The fact that the Australian com-
misaion has tndlcated it might need to
ezamine witnesses in New Zealand to
enable it to 4et a fuller picture of the
ring's activihes justifies the authority
given by tt e New Zealand Government.
After all, New Zealand was intimate-
ly involved in the aifair. The Australian
inquiry is baalcally directed towards
the Australian dniB dealinB activities of
a New Zealander, Tecrence John C7ark,
alw plezander James Sinclair.
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Dr Moodie says that if the New Zea-
land Government felt there was a need
to asaist the Australian commission, iY
could have set up ita oovn commission
of inquiry with verq narrowiq defined
terms oi referem to complemeot the
Australian inquirq. WEile this appears
to be a good suggestion, we would fancy
tt�at Mr Mcla has y gi
thought to suc6~a pr~bi~d v bas
dismissed it as impracticable.
In view oi the . verq special circum-
stances, there could be a sound case for
a movable commission.
The matter s6ould be seea ia t6at
light, and not as an indlcator of a aew
and undesirable trend.
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NEW ZEALANID
DRUGS FOUND IN MAIL FOR AMERICANS I.] ANTARCTICA
Recipients Face Prosecution
Auckland TI-E rTEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 2 Dec 81 p 5
[Text] Hashish,
cannabis and "magic mushroams"
have been
found by Christchurch customs officers in' mail and parcels
addressed to A
mericans in Antarctica.
Drugs had been found in'
ing relationship between the
A report from 114c`iurdo
more than 10 parceis, often
twu countrtes.
Station in yesterday's vew
concealed in foodstuffs to
They said that Antaretica-
York Times went so far as to
'-iol drugs dogs, the assistant
bound .nail had been "Syste-
allege that some afficials of
o:lector ' of customs in
c
maticaity opened, read, con-
the vational Scisnce Founda-
,
Caristchurch, Mr B. J.
fiscated and sometimes dam�
ticn. which had overall re-
Kearns, said yes!erday.
He said the dvcovery of
aged." '
Mr Kearns sa{d he knew of
;pnnsibility for the United
S!ates role 9n Antarctica, had
the drugs obviously justified
on!y one case in which a oar-
talked o[ moving the opera-
the checkin; of goods in
cel had been slightly dam-
tions base to Australia.
which had anaered
r.ransit
aged. The Customs Depart�
��thr,u�h the cost makeS this
,
some of the American scien�
ment had paid to replace the
unlikely."
tists. support workers and
servieemen m:lntarctica
articles.
He said that checking of
The newspaper said that
the et!stoms checks had
and in Christchurch.
4ntarctica-bound maii had
undermineu the "tradi-
Some of [ne americans
started as a result of indica-
tionally elose co-ooeration
could face prosecution when
'ions' that qoods were beinR
illeqally impcrted, and that
be!ween the United States
and Vew Zealand in the
thQy returned Erom Antarc�
cica "depending on the out�
some personnel were aettino
Stiidy of Antarctica."
come of the interviews we
" said
will have with them
dutv and sale5 exemptions to
wt,ich they were not entitled.
They had also "�stirred
anQer and deoressed mo-
,
1tr Kearns.
1Zr Kearns discounted as-
sertions by the Americans
rale" among the American
oersonnel
The linited States Govern�
including the State De-
ment
that the mail was in the
'
.
The yvperintendent of the
,
partment, the Defence Ue-
cate-
' freedom in transit
Antarc:ic division of the De-
and the ~ational
partment
g�r '
Tf mail was r.emoved fr-m
partment of Scieatific. and
industrial - Research in
5cience Foundaticn, has
an aireraft when it landed in
' Ntr R. B.
C>>ristchurch
! joined the New Zealand
authorties in investiaating
Vew Zealand, then. vr,der
rhe Custams Act. it had beea
.
Thomson, said ,yesterday
that the atfair was �`a bit of
; the Antarctic drug tra E;ic.
i moorted into Yew Zealand.
The mail goes to ChriSt-
a storm in a teacup."
In a letter to a\e+N Zea�
~ land rews a er last moiith.
p p
church through the United
Of the reported tale of a
he said:
move to 4ustralia
,a4 men anci women of Opera�
States YavY postal system. It
commercial air-
iv
o
.
~'There is no such plan or
tion Deep Freeze said that
the action of Christchurch
arr
es
n
cratt and is then transferred
any official . thought of
thin� of the sort
Sume-
an
customs oEficials had embit�
'
to Royal Yew Zealand Air
Force and Gnited States Her-
.
y
one miqht have said it when
!ered --hundreds of otherwi.;e
friendly Amecicans" and jeo-
cules aireraft for the trip to
ihev were annoyed down on
"
pardised the iriendly wor.l��
antarctica.
the ice.
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- Personnel Interviews Pendinc
Wellington THE EVENIDIG POST in English 3 Dec 81 p 27
[Text]
CHItLSTCHURCIi. Dec 2
(PA)� - About 30 Americaag
will be iaterviewed W6en
they return from Pcntarctica
this summer by customs
men, tolloaing the discovery
of drugs conservatively val-
ued at =5000.
Tbe drags, some con-
cealed in food parcels, were
detected by four druq dogs
as well �as customs officera
in Chrirtchurch.
Among tde drugs are
has6is6 valued at i2000P and
caneabia believed to be
worth about :1800.
About 70 percent oi the
peoPle who will be in-
terviewed are American ci-
viliarts engaged to work at
McMurdo atation, the main
US base ia Antarctica.
Other. people w be quesr
tioned by customs staff on
their return here are mem-
bers of the US military
forces.
"Some of the, druqs have
beea very cleverly con-
cealed in paccels," Mr $ W
Ford, chief cdsWms officer
(enforcen*nq said at 6is
Cathedral Square office to-
day.
He s6oaved how 13 gtams
of cannabis had beea foand
in a sealed 1 of food.
Mr rora: �Because
of t6is drng amuggling, inno-
cent people workiog m Ant-
arctica are sutiering as cus-
tome stafi have to WEpect
quite a few parcela, some.of
ahich aren't fouad to cou-
tain drugs..�
Sometimes up to 10,000
kilogcams of mail irom t6e
United States 6ad to be
checked.
The Christchurc6 assis-
taat collector of customs,
Mr..B J Keanns,~sald: .
Due care
"we hanare mail wich che
utmost, care auriag our
searches., We regret anq
Wellington 'POST' Editorial
damage to property but
sometimes it maq be neceg-
sary to damage a contaiaer
during a search for drugs."
The drngs displaqed to-
day in plastic bapt werE the
result of about 40 detections,
said Mr Kearas. �
He said the drugs 6ad
been found during searches
in the paat thm mocths.
"No dnugs aeat from t6e
Uoited States to Antarctica
were dewcted last year.
"Our dealing with US
taalls� baa teaded to be cgth-
er leas than it should have
beeo " Mr Keazns said.
"But as a result of certain
iriformation we have carried
out aearches a lot more
closely."
Mr Kearns said t6e detec-
tion of draga had bcen made
diiticalt for two customs
doga and tWO police dogi be-
canae some drup 6ad beetf
concealed in foodstuffs.
"T7e smell of otbd' ioods
6as sometimes diaguised the
smell of t6e drags and put
the dogs off the sceak"
As well aa cannabis and
has6ish, other drugs fonnd
include psilocybin
mnshmcFas, which 6ave an
effect similar to lsd.
Drugs graded A. B and C
were selzed.
Customs sald cannabia
touod appeaced to be of a
bettK qaalitp t6an the drng
normaUy available in this
conntry.
T.he drugs aill be
analyaed by the Department
of Scientafic and Industrial
Researc6 aad, after court
cases, it woald be destroyed
by the Health Departmeat..
It eould be late February,
when the sc;ence seasoo on
the ice eads, before all those
wanted fdr interview return
to Christchurch.
Wellington THE EVENING POST in Enqlish 3 Dec 81 p 2
fEditorial: "Druq Viqilance Is a Customs' Priority"]
( Te xt J THE CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT has
absolutely no cause to feel in any way
intimidated by the possible interna-
tiooal implications of its latest dtug
vigilance. . .
The seizure by its oificers at Christ-
c6urch of hashish, cannabis and
psilocybin "mus6rooma" (whlch lave
an effect sitnilu to Isd) ln mail aa$
parcels addrmed to Americana in Ant-
arctica has, aaturally enough, sttracted
more than usual lAterest $ut the taet
remalns that all mail landed in New
Zealaad is subject to customa checks
and in this instance the department was
simply daing its duty.
Nep Zealand's geograpfuc isolation is
no protection against dnug trafiicking.
This country has become an establiahed
part of t6e global illicit drug network
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and that makes all the more reseon
why our survelllacce . bas to be 100
petcent etflcient
U. as !t the caae, a quarter of the
Customs Departmeat's aannal budget
of about iZS mi111on is apot tryiag to
prevent the impartation of illegal
druga, then New Zealandees should ez-
pect the department to act wlthont fear
or favour. 'I'tils it does.
Hoaever, because the� Chr9stchurch
selzures in tbls instance have, by im-
plication, tovalved Operition Deep
Freeze aad !np~rticular Aaoericaa ci-
viliam at Mc1l~urdo Station, New Zea-
land is being aaked to justihr its action.
The "Nea York TfaeW", for etample,
says the action came as , s to
American otticials aed ra~me
complex queetions of intaraatioeal law.
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parce]s and the fa,:t that the United
States considered the mail "domestic"
and not subject to search by New Zea-
land officials.
But the customs enforcement is
clear. all maillanded in New 'Lealand ls
- subject to checks.
The Minister of Customs, Mr
- Templetou, quickly defended the de-
partment aad the American. Embasay
here announced it was being kept in-
formed. At the same time, American
personnel both in Christchurch and
McMwdo maintained publicly the "vio-
lation" of some of theu Antarctic-
bound mail and accused the. New Zea-
laad Goverament of treating them as if
they aeere "certified felons oafettered
by scruples."
Such indignation should be. kept in
perspective rather than allow an in-
_ ternational incldent W develop over
what waa for our cnstoms authorities
just another coup in the' continuous
fight againat the unportation of illicit
drugs into, or through, New Zealand.
The mail seized hardly falls into the
category of harnciless home comforts
aimed at bringing a little cbeer to those
confined oa the ice. Outwardly, the food
parcels might have looked the real
thiag, but some judicious sniifing re-
vealed more than 40 ot them contained
A, B and Ggraded drugs,
ThEre is eveA the adauscsion that the
caAnabia found a)peared to be of a bet-
ter quality than the drug normally
available iw t6ia countrq.
In doing ~ts duty, the Customs De-
partment has dealt another blow fo the
drug traffickers. It should serve as a
waraing t.o those who miqht have felt
they were on to easy picking9 Dowa
Uuder. -
Auckland 'HERALD' Editorial
Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 3 Dec 81 p 6
[Editorial: "Narcotics on the Ice"]
[Textl r' president Reagan recently '
prpmised police chiefs s foreign
pdieX.- "that. vigorously seeka to
inberdict and eradicate illicit
dri"M wherever ctiltivated, pro-
ceeeed or transported." By inter-
cepting drugs bound ior United
States personrel in Antarctica,
the New 2esland Customa Depart-
ment must receive oificial back-
inQ from Wsahington. * ,The President recognises drug-
trafficking for the scourge that
it is. Mrs Feagan is so concerned
about the effects of drug abuae
that she personally launched an
anti-narcotica crusade last month.
Such a firm official stand
must ensure that those Americana
who hava complained about their
CSO: 5320/9108
mail beiif'tea.rched""can upect"
no , support from their oww,
Administratioa. Certainly it is;
nansense to suggest that Deep,
. Freez+e� � headquarters could be
moved from New Zealand in
protest. To do so would imply
that the use of hashish, cannabis
'and "maQic mushrooms"- on -the'
ice was tolerated or condoned.
. New Zealand cuatoms officers
have a atatutory right to search
Antaxctic-bound mail. Those re-
sponaible -fcr the saflety of tha
United States pblar community,
which lives. . ia a hazardous
natural environment, might be
thankful that the powers under
the Customs Act are used.
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~
ARMY DENIES DRUG 'EPIDEMIC' AMONG TROOPS IN SINGAPORE
Wellington EVENING POST in English 30 Nov 81 p 9
[Text] A lawyer's claims of "a
spreading drug epidemic"
among New Zealand sol-
diers in Singapore have
been denied by Army
headyuarters in. Welling-
ton. The problem had been
"contalned" by a recent
investigation, the Army
saia.
' The'defence counsel for
two New Zealand soldiers
who pleaded guilty to selling
cannabls to- fellow soldiers
said in a Singapore district
court that t6e men were vic-
tims of "a spreading drug
epidemic" in the New Zea-
land Army.
Even before they were
posted to Singapore in 1979
, the drug probiem at the
Army's Dieppe Barracks had
reached unmanageable pro-
portions, the lawyer, Mr
Dennis Tan, was reporfed
as saying.
The Army's public rela-
~tions ofiicer, Major Mike
Wicksteed, said in Welling-
ton thal the Army denied
there was "a spreading drug
epidemic."
"The drug problem in the
battalion in Singapore has
never reached 'un-
managcable proportions'."
he said.
`Corttained'
"While we do not ctaim to
have Wtally eliminateQ the
use of cannebis, its use in the
battelion has defiNtely been
contained.by the recent in-
vestigatioa into the ptoblem.
"The investigation fnto
the use of cannabis withln
t6e.550-map battalion in SiA-
gre hes involvedleg a.1 ac-
t beiag taken ag kiast 24
sbldiers.
"Tvrelve men were dealt
with summarily by t6eir
- oommandi~.. officer, eight
likve.Iieea tried by'district
court=mertial, and foy.r
c~ea have- beea handled by
the civil authoritieg id Siagt-
�pore. '
Waming '
"Ever,y serviceman
posted. to Singapore i's
werned ~before departure about the etrict enforcement
ot drug laws in t6et coun-
try, Major Wkkateed said. �
�This waming is repeated
on anival in Singapore and
every six months whlle the
serviceman is in the' coun-
try�
T6e investigation lasted
from February to June and
was "very thorouah;' Major
Wickateed eaid. There was ao evidence of any drug oth-
er than cannabis being used.
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AUSTRALIAN ON TRIAL FOR IMPORTING CANNABIS FROM THAiLAND
Wellington THE EVENING POST in English 2 Dec 81 p 22
(Text)
. _ . W. _
AUCKLAND, Dec 1(pA)� - An ~Australian appeared in the District Cotut here todaq charged witv.
importing into New Zealand cannabis plants said to have a street value o# $L million. y~ . c
Andre Mi11ey. 30. of ed
fi:ed abode, deaied import-~
ing cannabis last Christmas
Day.
He appeared betore Jus-
tices of the Peace. Mrs A V1
Fizpatrick and Mr A R'
_ Gocbey for the taking of dep-,
_ asitions.
Mr Rowan Moas ap-
peared foc Mllley, wbo was
originally frnm France.
The police praeecutor Ue-
tective Sergeant David~
Gucas said Milley Was al'
leged to 6aye imported tac~
_ suitcases contaiaing Sdf
smaIl packages of cannabis,,
weighing a total of 42.8 kilo-l
_ grams.
Tbe bags were not:
claimed"and were seized byy
the police at Auckland air-~
iprt�
T16� od8f1daIIt Was latET;
lacated in Australia, and ex-.
_ tradited. ~
prosecution avitness De-
tective Inspector Brion Phil-
ip. Duncan said he worked ai
a earcoqcs attache in Bang-+
kok from August 1978 to Au�
- gust 1981.
Heavy bags
On Ctiristinas Eve I980~
he weat W Bangkok Interna ,
tional Alrport as a result of.
information received, andt
watcbed Milley check in two'�
suitcases. They appeared
very heavy.
~ Detective Inspector
Bryan .Tohn Rowe, an officee
in charge of the drug squad�
in Auckland, said he went W,
,Auckland airpprt on Christ-inas Day .1990: and kook-
ppssession of two unclaimed
auitc.ases.
"Roqa1 Thai" luggagi
labels on the baga overe:
marked with the destlhation;
Auckland, and the name
Miltey, he said. ~ '
The saitcases were found ;
to contain two Iarge pack-,
ages wrapped in black;
polytheae: each one contai*-;
ing 25 smaller packages. j
He Wld tlye conrt samples !
from the packages wereq ~v-'.
en to an analyst at the D6IR. i
and certified to be.cannabis,
plant cootaining resin.
�
The plant material waa in
compreas.ed form, and i
aeighed a total ot 48.2 kilo-
grams, Nir. Rowe said. ' I
lt would normally be sold .
in �bullet'; form,, And beiag,
THat'carinab(s, Would'fiave''w
street value of $1 million ut',
total. ~
"It is believed that this
patticular seizure was the4
targest of itstype ever made!
in New Zealaa~;' he said.
Detective.Inspectori
I.indley David Sinton said !tie�
was, a member of tfe New
Zealaad Police' Force. .and-'
had been seconded.for duties,
in Australia. ; ; ~
N0 S1gII !
On Chrigtm2s Day:j 1980. I
he received instructions
from headquarters W find-;
iVlilley, but initial inqufries i
failed to.locate him. �
He continued lnquiries i
and 1ocated Mffiey in a Syd-,
ney baatyard in September.,
198Mr Sinton read to the;
court a formal statement,
that Milley made at the po-'
lice statbn in 3ydney. ;
Ip the statement, Millep,
sald he met a man ahot
called 6lmseli "Peter" in ai
Sydney bar where he waa~
working.
Peter hed ofiered htro
=5000 to bring jewellery_
froraBang1 aad he agree&
W d0 tl~t, t~m 6e aeeded:
the ma&9. Mllieq sald in ttis
statetnent
Peter gave him the moo-'
ey to go to Bangkok and +
brought the suitcases W himr
in the hotel there. R'hen t~
bap were opened he recog-;
nised a smoll like.-caanabis~;
Milley said in the statement,i
but Peter 6ad toid him Ee!
'aould be in touble if he dtt
-not go ahead with the pla~n.
In the statement, Miller.
said he kad aever receieed
the :5000 from Peter. ,
.
A Kiwi? . ~
� He did not know any oth-:
er name for him, but be
thought he was a iVcw Zea-.
lander. '
Mr SinWn said , he conr
tacted We11Ington an6 told.
them adat DElley had said+:
and that .afternoon NLlley'.
was visited by Australian po-
lce aad charged with the ot-'
fence. After hearing the&
evideace, Mrs Fitzpatrick
and Mr GorbeY ruled ther0l
was a case to answer.
. Milley waa remanded in,
cnstody, to appear before aary U the District Court on
3,.
ebruary
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
- HEROIN SEIZED--About 109 ki].ograms of high quality heroin has been seized in
Baluchistan. The official sources in Quetta said that this heroin was being
smuggled from Pakistan to Iran. Five alleged smugglers have been arrested and the
cars used for this purpose confiscated. [Karachi Domestic Service in Urdu
0200 GMT 28 Dec 81]
OPIUM SEIZED--Quetta, 31 Dec--Thirteen kilograms of opium valued at 26 million in
the foreign market has been seized by anti-smuggling squad of the central land
custom in riangochar area of Kalat District. According to a custom press release
two alleged smugglers have been arrested and a truck uaed for smuggling has been
impounded. Further investigations are in progress--PPI. [Text] [GF041334
Karachi DAWN in English 1 Jan 82 p S]
DRUGS SEIZED BY CUSTOMS--Customs air freight unit yesterday impounded 13 drums,
contaa-ning 625 kilograms of "seco-barbital sodium," valued at about RS 312.5 millian
in the underworld market. In the last week of November, the customs special checking
squad had seized 600 kgs of the same material valued at RS 300 million in the
- underworld market. [GF041339 Karachi DAWN in English 31 Dec 81 p 81
CHARAS SEIZED--Tao persons were arrested and over 110 maunds of charas were re-
covered from their possesston by the Anti-Burglary Squad of City Division police
ycesterday. Accused Nazir Ahmed and Rehmatullah were caught, while they were trying
to load the consignment on a Hyderabad-bound passenger bus at Boulton Market.
- [Text] [Karachi DAWN in English 19 Dec 81 p 101
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HASHISH RECOVERED--Wah Cantt, Dec. 24--The Customs and Anti-smuggling Squad No. 1
arrested two persons, Mohammad Iqbal and Abdul Hakim, and allegedly recoverT~ two_
lakh grams (five maunds) of Hashisl: and motor spare parts.. The raiding paY
changed fire with the accused for about ten minutes as it chased the car which
turned turtle when its tyre burst on being hit. [Karachi DAWP+ in English 25 Dec 81
_ p 91
DRUG SEIZURE REPORTED--Quetta Dec 26--Narcotics worth Rs. 163.5 crore was recovered
at two different places within last 24 hours in the world's one of the biggest drug
haul. According to details, Acting on a secret information, the Customs Mobile
Staff ambushed a Toyota pick-up No. 1180 near Pishok on Noshki-Dalbandin road last
night and recovered 59 kilogrammes of heroine from its concealed cavaties. [Kara-
chi MORNING NEWS in English 27 Dec 81 p 81
HEROIN SMiJGGLING; FOREIGNERS HELD--Tao foreign nationals were arrested from Lahore
Railway Station on cnarges of smuggling heroin on Saturday. D. Brown, a Britisher,
was travelling to Karachi by Khyber Mail with 150 kilogram heroin while Erwin
Dictor, an Austrian, keeping 30 gram heroin was going to India. Charas and opium
weighing 1282 grams was also sei.zed by the District Excise Staff from various
places in the city. Five persons were arrested under the offence. Three drunkard
were also arrasted for drinking and making hooliganism in the Tibbi area. [Text]
[Lahore T"rIE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 6 Dec 81 p 51
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SRI LANKA
MASSIVE OPERATION DESTROYS 100 ACRES OF GANJA
Colombo THE DAILY NEWS in English 17 Dec 81 p 1
[Article by Srimal Abeywardene]
(Text] The Police and the Air�-Force will team tAgeiner
t o d a y to
taunch one of the bfggest ever c ampaigns to destroy an estimated�
hundred acres o f
ganja plantation s in the Southern Province.
A stage tao operation
is likely to tollow in
Petches of 'green Qold'
meWculousiy Drepared
ary hes considerablr
the Ea$tera Province.
camoufigBed arith vege-
maps of the sresa W
a!lected sania growing.
Over 300 men and
table 'messas' in chena
be covered. Wn faau-
'The plets geAera11Y
SLAF hellcopter8 will
Plota, and aometimea
liar with the iungles
arA much 8maller
be used ln this aearch
more extensive, have
ovlll helu fn thia effort.
thouBh they may be
and ' destroy mission
1een identifted st Hsm-
The authorities are
more numerovs," 8P
which the autfiorities
beBamuaa in the Wel�
keen that tha operatioa
Weerasinghe aaid.
exPect wiil lead to the
fawaya � police area
which wiu continue far
The auchoritiea be-
deatructioa of at least
0918c in the Hambsa-
dve de1Ya fr^m todnY
Beve thaL the aurcess
Rs. 10 million worth of
~ta area and Iiabam
alao gatheza intelli-
-~f the narootics aquad
unharves4d gania.
luwewa irr the Uda
Qenc,e oa DoacbinQ� anQ
in busting a gania
"We Are cackling
Wslawe pollce ares.
tlliclt tlmbei- iplling,
ring, whicfi . included
mllttarY
this Uke q
Mr. TX WenpitlYa.
. Mr. ]jems ' Weem
society namee had re-
,
We , alread9
eperation
the Deputy Defence
tiaghe, 8P; the hesd of
'
r,ulted in "ordera" to
.
know where rtoet of
Mlntatwr lnitiated thts
the poli
ce naTcotica
the groartng areaa ta11-
the patches we want to
War on aanJa. Earlier
;quad and Squadm:.
n~
ing oti snd tbe c.apltal
We
Oaetroy are loeated
thls week It}P Ana

Lea~ter Oliwr Rx
re uired for the eulti-
.
aill set uP ba~e ~~P~
~r~evlratne and Air
alnahe of t~he SL~F,
vatic,a dryitlg up.
et Sella K~taragama,
Force Commander Dlck
~
aere ~eaeocfakd ~vith
�
Pe~m r~~~
~e
DId LeO Perers st �
Whea we acted in
�
Uda Walawe and H~-
flnsl srrangementa.
Nsal meeWDg reater-
'February the plant+
beaamuwa and we wiU
Qo into the Jtwalea and
The mea oa. the neld
daY�
wete Lall atsd msture.
deatroY the Ran1a:'
wUl be linked to thett
A reconnaisanae of
Now they are not, it
1s eaater to deatroy the
NIt. Leo Perers. DIG.
base campQ, Air Force
the snA W be covered
haA demonatrated thst
PlanW 6efon they sre
Eaatern. Ranae, said
yeater4ay.
Headquarters aad the
police Comaauntcation
the prevfous opetatton
full gzoan," Supei'1n-
ereaiu
he
t W
The QunJs planta-
Centre, by rsdiu.
14unched by tho nar: o-
laet Febru�
tics aqUad
g
e
knden
exPlMned.
- Wona, often amaU
BLAF e:aer4 hove
,
- CSO: 5300/4912
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THAILAND
MiJSER TRIBAL CHIEFTAIN'S BURMA NARCOTICS OPERATIONS NOTED
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 8 Nov 81 p 21
[Article by Paul Jasvinder]
[ Text ~"YOU want No. 4?" a husky voiced �
man wlth shifty eyes asked me.
"I've got pleaty. The price ft
85,000 baht for 700 grammes. Yon
pay ln advance. Cesh only."
Welcome to Doi Larng, the wi1d,
lawless land where heroin and
gambling are the two preoccupa-
tlons of the resldenta and where
Cha Ue reigns 'supreme. This is
Cha Ue's territory, the leader of
the Muser rebels, a loosely-knit
army wh:ch follows the-rules of its
leaders to the letter. Their goal?
To fiQht the Burmese soldiers to
the very end.
Dol Larng, located some 30 kilo-
metrea irom Fang District in
Chiang Ral, la conaidered one oi
the major supply routes of heroln
to buyers from Thailand. Sources
say the druQ.is manufactured 30
kllometrea deep inside the mowr
tainous jungle irom here, accessi�
ble only to the Muser soldiers.
. The maln attractlons of thla no
man's land, dividing Thailand and
Burma, are drugs, gambling and
moonshine whisky - not neces�
aarily in that order. The village is
aituated on the Burmeae side but
is accessible to Thaia, although
few dare take the risk. It ls one of
the strongholda oi the Muser
rebels and the alte of cecaaional
akirmiehes with Burmeee govern-
ment soldlers.
Hard Drugs
C,ba Ue's army is betieved to be~
mainly supported by sales af hard
drngs - mainly hernin, although
lt taxea traders for any merchan-
dise brought into its terrltory.
The dealer I talked to, who Is
also a well�known bueineasmen.
here, sald he gets heroin through
Muser soldiers. "They are my con-
tacts," sald the dealer. He s$id he
makes ib per cent commission flat
from each sals. Demand for No. 4
heroin is hlgh now becanse Qf an
anticipated bumper crop of opium
throughout the region.
' Th2 dealer explained the follow-
ing procedures ior each transac-
ti011~
The dealer accepts the money
irom the potential buyer and
givea !t and the order to the Muser
aoldiers (after his cut ls de-
ducted). He said once the "gooda"
arrive, usuaIly in one day, he es-
corts the buyer to the nearest
border point.
"Ban Tod is the best point to
take the drugs out," said the
dealer, referring to. the border
about half a kilometre irom here.
"Our iob fiNshes there. Once you
are on the Thai side, you are on
your own."
Asked aboui the maximum

quantity a buyer can order, the
dealer replied: "Whatever you
want I can d211ver. The beat stuH
is I.lon Brand No.. 4. It's made out
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of opium planted by the Burmese
who sell it to the Muser soldiers."
Asked what safeguards the cus�
tomer has after handing over the
money in advance, the dealer
replied: "L.ook, I have been in this
business many years. My neck is
at stake. I wouldn't be here today
if I had betrayed my customers."
He added that betrayal may occur
once the heroin is smuggled out to
Thailand because of the huge
amount of money involved.
The dealer said he is in "big

business and prefers large or-
ders. "Forget about the 700
grammes, why not place a 7,000
- grammes order? Better yet, trY to
smuggle the drug out of the coun-
try. It takes only once, and you'll
be a rich man."
- No. 4. That's what fhey call it
here. The word'"herain" ls rarely
- mentloned. Says the same dealer:
"There are many kinds of heroin
a vailable in Doi Larng, but the
hest isHo.4 Lion Brand. It's easy to
differentiate it from other brands.
� Nlost brands are soft and powdery,
but No. 4 is crude, like detergent,,
because it is f resh."
About a block away from the
druB dealer's shop is the mornin6
- market where gambling Ls a siaily
occurrence.Called "casinos", they
consist of a few makesnift tabl2s
located inside the market, a huge,
barn�like compound in th� cenU'e
of the town. Every day, hundreds
of gamblers form a big circle
around the tables, eagerly clutch
ing both Thai and Burmese bank
notes. Blackjack
Two Chinese sit at the centre of
each tabte: One takes care of the '
money while the other spins the
dice inside a black tin box and
immedlately covers it with a lld
before gamblers put down the
money on numbers of their
choice. Various games, such as
blackjack and other card games,
also draw ecrowds t sucked inbevery daY,~~"They B
sald the dru8 dealer shakin8 hia
head s1ow1Y
Casinos ar �e oper_ until verY late at night as many BRmb1e after
thetr day's Work is done. A large
Peanuts
rousing the curiosity among the
ocal residents, partlcularly the
un-carryinB Young soldiere. I was
aving lunch inside the market'
he day Z arrived when two Muser
o1dleEs, armed with 1+i�19s, sud-
denl p ared at the table and
glared at me� One was short and
thin~ bothn n tt eir ate teensnd
plucked up courage and asked
both to joln me for lunch. They
ignored mY invitation and walked
off towards the gambling table.
My second confrontation with
the Musers came shortly before I
boarded the bus back to the Thai
side when a man with a weathered
face and in civillan clothes with a
gun dangling loosely on his hip
stopped me.
"Are you a Thai or American?"
asked the man, giving me a search-
ing look. Thai, I answered. "Good
for you," he sald and slowly
walked back towards the market.
'Law and Order'
"That was Cha Der, one of Cha
Ue's sons." tlie bus driver told me i
as the vehicle began to descend
the muddy road. "He comes here
to keep'law and order"'.
IIlicit buainess, Th~e~ine$
druSs, 6~b1in8
daes not on1Y exist but is encour-
aged by the Muser leaders with
visions of money in mind. Produc-
tion of home brewed whiskyt
called Lao Kao, (white whisky) is
rampant.
One daY I and the bus
driver walked out of the raucous
market place and passed along.
subterranean passages of mud
t6at must have stretched 200 feet
before e k
illledthatchedhut made outof
bamboo leaves. The drieer gave a
series oi knocks, and it was
opened by a young soldier carry-
ing an M�18. He. smiled and mo-
tioned us to step instde. The small
room reeked oi strong alcohol and
sticky rice. In entank rwith w t r
raom was a hug
bubbling under the hot stove.
"This is 40 degrees proof alco-
hol," said the soldier, holding a
botde of freshlybrewed whisky
"But that's peanuts," he said.,
"He makes millions a month trom,
heroin to support his men."
Upium smoking !s prohibited
here, he tsid, adding that a major
bulk oi the yield. is delivered di�
rectly to the Muser soldiers who
use it to manufacture heroin.
It is impossible for a visitor to
come into this rough land without
22
number oi 8amblers. surprlsingly, i
ar~ %vomen.
~~tiyorr.en in Doi Larng are as, g
ruugh as cren," said one gambler� h
' Many women here are also drug t
addicts." Thai,
s
There is a huge sign in
Burmese and Chirese on the wall
directly above one gambllng table
in one corner, warning gamblers
to strictly obserie houe~al~es 1 fog
rules, with- heavy p
cheaters. '
"That's really a joke because
the `house rules' are made by Cha
hisrules mean hegw nsl and ou
A
lose. next to the
Another bold si~,Those found
gambling sign says,
in possession of white or black
powders will be automatically
ftnPd 10,000 baht and sentenced to
six months in jail or both flned
and jailed or will be at once ex�
pelled from Doi Larnq or will be
executed."
"No one paYs any attention to
the sign," said one man and
laughed. "The reason behind put-
ting up that sign is that Cha Ug
wants no one in possession of her-
oin except himself."
Market morning dominates the
social life and is the gathering
place for the planters, druB deal-
ers and gamblers. It ls the only.
hub of Dol Larng's activities
where transactions of all Wnds are
carried out openly.
One drug dealer and gambler
said that Cha Ue makes 40,000
baht a month from gambling con-
cessions withc it even coming
here. In additio, to gambling paY�
offs, the source added that the
Muser leader also gets 5,000 baht
from production of moonshine
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in his hand and proceeded to exa
plain to us several methods of
_ making the moonshine whisky.
(One method was to add Fab
- detergent. "It's stronger," said
the soldier. )
Although casinos and drugs
dominate daily life here, Doi
Larng's legitimate economy is
based on tea production. iVlost of
the women in the village work at
the nearby tea plantations.
Tea
"Tea is fetching a very good
price this year," one tea planter
told me as our bus sloshed
through the flooded road leading
back to the Thai side. "We're sell-
ing for as much as 80 baht per
kilo." Most of the tea planters
supply their products to tea facta
ries in Fang District where it is
manufactured and sent to Bang-
kok.
Once I asked a gambler how
easy it is to obtain marijuana in
Doi Larng. He didn't answer, but
took me to a fruit vendor, a frall,
betel-chewing old woman.
"Mama," the gambler said to her,
"can I have five baht worth of
kanja? (marijuana)" The woman
hurriedly accepted the money and
disappeared inside the house. She
returned quickly and gave him
a handful of kanja neatly wrapped
in a small paper bag. .
"Strong stuff," said the gam�
bler, studying the marijuana in his
hand. He discarded the tobacco
from his cigarette and refilled it
with marijuana and lit it. "Strong
and very good," he said, deeply
inhaling. "I can have 30 smokes
for the money I paid."
"tM1'here did she get the stuff
from'."" I asked. The gambler es-
corted me to a small garden at the
back of the woman's wooden
house and pointed at 9ome green
plants.
There probably are more guns
in Dol Larng than the whole popu-
lation combined. Everyone seems
to be carrying one: The soldlers,
the gamblers and the civilians out
ln the street.
'fhe handling of the guns by the
younq soldiers appears to be more
symbolic than practical. Soldlers
are told to hotd ca to the weapon
24 hours a day and never leave
without it in - case of "an
attack by the enemy." So it was a
common sight to see the soldiers
having their lunch lnside the mar-
ket place with one hand flcmly
clutching the M-16. .
"We want to be ready just in
case," said one sarong-clad sol-
dier. Ready for what? I asked. The
soldier looked startled, probably
unfamlliar with such a question
from a sVanger. He did not ce-
spond but kept on eatlng.
One long time resident sald
that the majority of the soldiers
are unable to graap the conflicts
and political ideology existing be-
tween Muser and Burmese lead-
ers.
"They (the soldiers) are just
too naive to understand the crux.
of the problem," sald the resident,
adding that many young men with
no education decide to join the
army either because of boredom
or a determination to carry 8uns�
"'They are bored stiff with the
society that has no diversified cul-
ture and offers no socialisation,"
continued the man in his late 40s,,
a former Muser soldier himsell.
"Once they joifi the army, they
immediately begin to play the role
of the defender. Carrying guns
gives them a feeling of supreme�
power.
"Muser youths are brain-
washed by the army to dlsplay
hatred. There is nothing more
dangerous than giving the young-,
sters guns and telling them they
can shoot anybody they feel is
suspicious." .
Threat
~ Does the Muser-Burma conflict
pose a threat to Thailand?
In private conversations. Thai
otficfals saY that except for ttie
[low of drugs, they don't see any
danger posed by the Muaer sol-
diers. "Muser soldiers don't
bother us because they don't hold
any grudge against Thai people,"
explained the official. "We'll start
worrying when they begin en�
croaching upon our territory."
Fighting between Muser sol-
diers and the Burmese at present
is more or less a cat-and�mouse.
affair. According to one career
soldier, the situation has reached
a stalemate because of the lack of
clear cut issues involved in the
conflict, except repeated com�
plaints by the Muser leader, Cha
Ue, that his peopie are being op-
pressed by the Burmese, though
no specific charges have been
made by him.
Other sources say the stale-
mate will continue unless a ma.jor
confrontation between the two
parties takes place, which they
believe is highly unlikely.
Talking to the Muser rebets one
fails to understand their aim. Two
answers were given in conversa-
tions:One is "we want liberation"
although only a few can intelli-
gently discuss what the word-
means, and two "it's up to our
leader," meaning Cha Ue, whose
whereabouts remains as much a
mystery as the man himself, even
to his "constituents."
Money
From personal observation
here in Doi Larng, it seems the;
major preoccupation witti Cha Ue
is making money, and lots of it,
through the heroin trade.
One can't help sympathising with
the Muser people, most of whom
don't seem to comprehend the
conflict with the Bnrmese.
Shortty before I left I had a
brief conversation with a young
soldier who couldn't have been
more than 17 and was holding on
to his M�18 for dear life. Asked
why he was carrying the weapon,
the soldier answered: "Libera-
tion."
"What liberation?" I asked. He
blushed aad looked down at his
gun. Then he slowly turned his
head towards hls colleagues. None
moved or uttered aword.
"I don't know," the young soi-
dier finally answered.
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THAILAND
PAPER ON ANTIOPIUM CAMPAIGN AMONG HILLTRIBES
BK290701 Bangkok POST in English 28 Dec 81 pp 1, 3
- [Article by the Chongkhadikit]
[Text] The National Security Council has launched a concerted campaign to get
the hilltribes to voluntarily destroy their own opium poppy plants in exchange
- for rice supplies and substitute cash crops.
NSC Secretary General Prasong Sunsiri said that he personally saw hilltribes
in Doi Sam Mun, in Chiang Dao District of Chiang Rai Province, tear out poppy
plants with their own hands last week.
He has also ordered that people from the plains who supply the hilltribes with
poppy seeds be arrested.
He called upon agricultural, forestry, public welfare, public health, education
and other ministerial officials working with the hilltribes to cooperate with
the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to help reduce or eliminate the culti-
vation of opium.
Squadron leader Prasong cited i.nstances where forestry officials destroyed hill-
tribes' coffee plantations during work to carry out a reafforestation programme. _
After inspecting poppy fields in the north, particularly in Chiang Rai and Mae
- Hong Son provinces, he said the government must aim at:
--providing the hilltribes with a means of obtaining income that they would be
giving up by destroying their poppy fields.
--helping the hilltribes understand the necessity of ending the cultivation of
opium.
_ --severing the connections between opium seed suppliers and the hilltribes by
rounding up the suppliers.
--providing medical facilities for rehabilitating drug addicts among the hill--
tribes and educating their young people against amoking opium in order to stop
them planting opium for their own consumption.
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Sqd ldr Prasong was accompanied on his inspection tour by police Major General
" Chawalit Yotmani and police Colonel Koson Limpichat of the QNCB and representa-
tives of various ministries and government departments. He also took with him
several hilltribe youths who are students at Ramkamhaeng University to act as -
inrerpreters.
The NSC secretary general said that he informed the hilltribe peoples about
_ the evils of narcotics derived from opium and told them what the government,
with international assistance, would do to help them find another source of
income once they switched from cultivating opium.
He said the government would provide seeds for each crops to replace opium and
also supply them with rice which cannot be grown in the harsh, hilly terrain
that the hilltribes inhabit.
The rice would be supplied to villages through cooperatives. These would be
promoted not only to provide channels for diatribution of official aid and
essential materials but also for marketing of the replacement crops.
Following sqd-ldr Prasong's lecture the hilltribes at Doi Sam Mun walkPd out to
the fields and plucked out the poppy plants by the roots.
~ Obviously impressed by this reaction, sqd-ldr Prasong said it showed that the
' hilltribes would cooperate with the government if they were given reasonable
treatment.
'He added: "The plains people who supply the hilltribes with poppy seeds are the
, culprits. They are taking advantage of the belief that the government would not
dare take drastic action against the hilltribes for fear they would become
i insurgents or join the Communists. We must get them."
I,
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THAILAND
PREM GIVES OKAY TO PLAN TO DESTROY POPPY FIELDS
BK040511 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 4 Jan 82 pp 1, 10
- [Text] Prime Minister Gen Prem Tinsulanon has switched on the green light for
the long-delayed plan to destroy poppy fields in 10 villages in Chiang Mai,
deputy secretary general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB)
Pol Maj Gen Chaowalit Yot.na.ni said.
However, he said the premier wanted the plan to be "executed gently" so that it
would not offend the hilltribe people.
The plan to wipe out over 140 rai of poppy f ields was initially scheduled to be
implemented in November but was postponed because the premier did not endorse it.
More than 1,000 border patrol policemen and defence volunteers are expected tio
be employed in the controversial plan.
Pol Maj Gen Chaowalit said Prem recently gave approval to the plan but instructed
author;ties responsible for it to implement it in gentle manners.
"The premier prefers to see the authorities be gentle in executing the plan.
He wants the authorities to try to persuade the hilltribe people to cut down
the poppies themselves," he stLid.
The authorities were instructed to destroy the poppy fields on a case-by-case
- basis to lessen the chance of offending the local people.
Informed sources in ONCB said the plan was temporarily shelved because the
government was afraid that it would antagonize the hilltribe people.
- Pol Maj Gen Chaowalit said Prem had given an instruction that poppy fields in
areas where substitute crops were introduced should be destroyed'first. Economic assistance should be extended to areas where their inhabitants were
poor before their poppy fields were to be deatroyed, he said.
Premier Prem ordered the plan to be suspended on grounds that he needed to know
more information about it. .
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The 10 villages where poppy fields will be destrovzd are under a United Nations
crop substitution plan. The fields cover a totai of 140.2 rai.
The 10 villages are Khun Chang Kian, Buak Chan, Mae Samai, Khun Yuang, Ban Phanom,
Ban Hinfon, Ban Puitai, Mae Tho, Doi Ammun and Ban Hup.
~ ONCB had initially planned to invite representatives of mass media to witness
- the destruction of the poppy fields.
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THAILAND
DRUG TRAFFICKERS SET UP 'DEATH SQiJADS'
BK290114 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 29 Dec 81 p 1
[Text] Chiang Mai--Anti-drug agenciea here claimed to have evidence suggesting
that big-time drug traffickers in the north have set up "death squads" to deal
with anti-drug officers, informed sources in the police department said.
The sources said that the traffickers set the price for each of the anti-drug
officers to be killed at between 15,000 and 20,000 baht.
- They said anti-drug officers with good performance record are potential targets
of the death squads.
According to the intelligence reports, the traffickers normally pooled their
money among themselves when they wanted to have any of the anti-drug personnel
terminated.
The reports also said that the traffickers sometimes set up traps to kill anti-
drug officers who were lured to a place where they were told some drugs were
being delivered.
Armed men would ambush the officers at the scene, according to the reporta.
The sources said that anti-drug agencies, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of
the U.S., the civilian-police-military unit five of Chiang Mai, and the drug
suppression centre of the border patrol police here were working out counter-
measures.
Meanwhile, a report from the police department yesterday said that since the
armed caravan of Khun Sa clashed with Thai rangers from Pak Thongchai on
September 29-October 8, all trafficking activities were temporarily suspended.
The clash resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.
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THAILAND
PAPER CITES CONFLICTING VIEWS ON POPPIES
- BK190447 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 19 Dec 81 p 13
[Text] "D-day" was set and more than 1,000 border patrol policemen and defence
volunteers were ready to be mobilized to chop down over 140 rai of poppy fields
in 10 villages in Chiang Mai.
But suddenly words were passed down that Premier Prem Tinsulanon wanted the plan
to eradicate the poppy f ields to be put off until he was given adequate informa-
tion about it.
The objection raised by the premier--as seen by officials of the Office of the
Narcotics Control Board (ONCB)--means that the plan has automatically been .
shelved.
One of the officials said the plan was from the start opposed by the National
Security Council (NSC) which had expressed fears that it would antagonize hill-
tribe peaple in the villages.
- "The NSC apparently did not want the hilltri.be people to be angered by the eradi-
cation of their poppy fields and turn against government officials operating
along the border," he said.
It is no secret that some of the hilltribe men owning the poppy fields have
been working as informers for government authorities. They have reportedly
been feeding the government with intelligence information on the movements of
the Communist insurgents and Chinese haws.
A rough study based on experiences shows that if one of the hilltribe people
becomes an insurgent the government would need as many as 50 men to destroy him,
an informed source said.
For these reasons, NSC apparently feels it unwise to anger the hilltribe men
who are serving as a bulwark against Communist influence, the source said.
T'or practical reasons, opium is still something the hilltribe people find it
difficult to live without. Those belonging to the older generation are mostly
addicted to opium smoking as a means of relaxation while the poppy is undeniably
an economic crop of the hilltribe people.
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Opium is also widely used by them as effective pain-killex since public health
service in the areas is almost non-existent.
Officials of the ONCB said that now is the poppy harvesting season and is
definitely a wrong time to move against the poppy fields.
"The hilltribe men pin their hope on the poppies as a source of income to repay
debts they have accumulated over the year," nne of them said.
He said in fact there were reports that hilltribe people in some of the target
areas had been told by insurgents to resist the campaign.
"We don't understand why they chose to do it during this time of the year,"
complained one anti-narcotic officer who said Communist insurgents had already
begun making propaganda out of the campaign in Khun Wang and Mae Samai villages.
However, government authorities in favour of the campaign claimed that the hill-
tribe people had not kept their words.
"They have been saying that they will stop growing poppies next year. But they
still do it," one of them said.
He said the yields of the poppies this year are three times higher than the
_ previous year.
Officials of the office of the prime minister reportedly believe that an eradica-
tion of the poppy fields will in a way give a good image f or Thailand.
"At least, it will show to the United Nations, the United States and the rest
of the world that Thailand is serious about suppressing narcotics," one of them
was quoted as saying.
Looking at the problem from another perspective, however, officials of the ONCB
said the lack of coordination among the agencies carrying out their separate
crop substitution programmes has also made the matter worse.
The Thai-United Nations project reportedly envisages an immediate end to poppy-
growing in the north without regard to the fact that it had been a century-old
tradition of the hilltribe people. Its crop substitution programme has not been
very successful because of marketing and transportation problems for aubstitute
crops inllroduced.
Hoi-yever, the government programme under royal patronage puts more emphasis on
attempts to promote the hilltribe people's professions rather than putting an
end to poppy-growing.
"The people behind the programme apparently understand that poppy-growing is
still a basic and necessary way of living of the local people and that the crop
substitution programme will take years before it will yield results," said an
official of the ONCB.
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So it was natural that people behind the two programmes of different philosophy
had conflicting views on the aborted plan to eradicate the poppy fields last
week.
- "But whatever the conflicts may be, national security must come first," observed
one anti-narcotic officer. "We should not worry too much about pleasing the
UN or the Americans who do not really understand our problems."
The hilltribe people themselves were reportedly not very happy with the news
that government authorities-were planning to destroy their poppy fields though
they were promised assistance for substitute crops.
Local officials have already tried to convince them of the necessity to give up
_ poppy-growing and even distributed them with seedlings of alternative crops.
- But the hilltribe people were not very responsive. Not many of them were willing
to exchange their poppy seedlings with those of typical crops.
In the end, government authorities were able to obtain only 41.76 kilogrammes
of poppy seeds from them.
Most of the hilltribe people claimed that their substitute crops did not produce
the yields they desired. Some argued that they had already invested in their
poppy fields and wanted to make something out of them this year.
~ officials of the ONCB pointed out that the government needed to prove to the hill-
tribe people that growing substitute crops can be more rewarding before it can
"convert them."
But what is more important is that the government must crack down on the drug
- rraffickers that have been serving as the market for the poppies grown by the
hilltribe people.
The drug traffickers, who normally provide the hilltribe men with financial
assistance in their poppy-growing, buy the yields at the spot.
~
"So if the government can deprive the hilltribe people of the market of their
poppies, all of its efforts to put an end to poppy-growing will certainly work,"
one of the officials said.
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THAILAND
NORTHERN GOVERNOR DISCUSSES OPIUM PROBLEM
BK200505 Bangkok POST in English 20 Dec 81 p 7
[Article by the Chongkhadikit: "Getting to the Root of Opium Problems"]
[Text] As next year's opium harvest promises to be a bumper one, even bigger
than this year's, the governor of Chiang Mai is concerned over the fact that
suppression of t:he narcotics traffic is less than effective because of the lack
of an adequate crop substitution programme.
The concern becomes deeper as the Burma Communist Party links itself up with
Chang Si-fu or Khun Sa, drug king of the Golden Triangle, and other heroin dealers
using routes across the Thai border.
Minorities trading in opium not only for their own livelihood but.also to finance
independence movements have compounded the problems in the north. [as published]
About 40,000 to 50,000 rai in narthern Thailand is cultivated with the opium
poppy. The hill tribes use slash-and-burn methods, destroying large areas of
forests.
Governor Chaiya Phunsiriwong asks, "Let's get rid cf the opium, but how will
the hill tribes live?"
This is where crop substitution comes in but "it always comes in too little and
too late."
Suppression operations cannot succeed if unaccompanied by crop substitution.
"As long as people plant opium, there is a source for heroin. It's not much
use to catch the smugglers because where there's opium there is a way to take
it out and there's someone ready, willing and able to take it out."
Foreign governments alarmed over the spread of consumption of Golden Triangle
heroin in their countries put too'much emphasis on suppression arid not enough
on crop substitution, it is felt by the governor.
"Too much emphasis has been placed upon suppression of traffic in narcotics
after they have crossed borders from the opium fields. Foreign support for
crop replacement has been very weak," commented the governor.
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"It's easy to destroy the ponpy plants. They are planted in areas totalling
40,000 to 50,000 rai.
"However, the government is concerned over the problem of how the hill tribes
are going to live when their poppy plants are destroyed.
"At the same time, Thailand has cammon borders with Burma and Laos where opium
is growing. The Burma Communist Party has taken control over the northern portion
of Buma.
"The most influential group in the Golden Triangle is that of Rhun Sa or Chang
Si-fu.
- "Behind the cultivation of opium there are definitely people who put up capital.
These people are mainly from the minority groups. These groups could be residing
within our country or in neighbouring areas.
"The destruction of opium plants, therefore, is a most sensitive matter. We
have to find reasons for such a measure. We have to look after the welfa?-e of
the hill tribes before we destroy their means of livelihood.
"If we destroy the plants before we do anything to help the cultivators, it is
going to bring about a difficult situation. If we say that we are driving the
hill tribes into the arms of the Communists, we will be accused of being alarmist.
"I don't think the Communists will infiltrate, I think the more likely infil-
trators are the minorities. There are four auch groups. One is indigenous which
wants to set up its own independent state. Another group does not care much and
is easily led. The third group is the Chin Haw (Yunnanese) who migrated from
- Yunnan after the 93rd and the 193rd nationalist Chinese armies had retreated
- from China into Burma and northern Thailand. The fourth is the 93rd army itself
which has come into our norrhern areas before. It is thia army which brought
the Yunnanese along to serve as supports.
"Since the first group concerns the Burmese Government, it is the last three
groups which constitute a threat to Thailand. Communists have infiltrated the
second group.
"It is from the third and fourth groups that narcotic bans like that of Khun
Sa, actually a Yunnanese, come.
"There are at least 300,000 hill tribes people in northern Thailand, with 100,000
- of them being in the Chiang Mai area.
"These are people without nationality. If we push them, they will be used by
other groups for their own purposes. In this way, suppression is a two-edged
sword.
"We cannot eliminate opium planting 100 percent. When we move against the hill
tribes in one area, they go to another. The frontier has no boundaries. We have
to help them change to a new means of livelihood."
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Governor Chaiya is advising the Ministry of Interior to formulate a new policy.
"If we continue like we have been doing, we will not see the end of the tunnel.
We must have a stage-by-stage planned programme.
"Several million rai of our forests and watersheds have been destroyed by the
hill tribes. It should be possible for us to allow the hill tribes to cultivate
those areas already denuded.
"The areas must be arable. We go in and set up infrastructure. The most impor-
tant thing is to introduce administrative machinery which will enslire that these
hill tribes remain in those areas. If we don't sefi up administrators we won't
_ be able to stop them from their nomadic wanderings to destroy more forests.
- "If there is no administrative setup, it's going to be a difficult business.
- "Even in areas which have been deve].oped the hill tribes continue to grow opium.
They don't do it in the villages but at a distance from the villages, probably
a day's walk away. They go away from the villages for one week and return.
Then they go away again for the harvest.
"I asked them if their opium had never been stolen. They told me they had an
honour system.
:
"The American suppression officers don't understand. At one time when opium
was a national problem causing us many difficulties no one was interested.
Look at the opium wars of the past and the interests of foreign countries which
the opium trade served.
"Great interest is now shown in opium because heroin which is derived from opium
has become an international problem. The foreign governments are interested
only in how to prevent heroin getting into their countries.
"They don't see what the effects of destruction of the poppy f ields would �nave
- on Thailand. We would like them to be sympathetic with us.
"We are appealing to them to help correct the problem at the roots within our
society. Suppression only attends to the end results of the problem. The way
_ to attack the problem at the root is to assist us in crop replacement.
"A crop replacement programme cannot succeed if the foreign governments look
- at economic problems from a narrow viewpoint. They set up tariff barriers
against our commodities. They know we are an agricultural country. We have
surpluses of rice, maize, tapioca, sugar and other produce. We need these
surpluses in order to sell to the world's markets. When barriers are set up
against our products, it adversely affects our national economy.
"The foreign governments who are pressing us about suppression are looking at
only one side of the coin.
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"When we produce potatoes as crop replacement, restrictions are placed upon them
by foreign governments.
"Japan and the United States are producing rice to compete for our markets. If
_ these and other countries want us to destroy the poppy plants and continue these
kinds of trade policies, they'd better forget it.
"They can also forget the few millions they give us as aid for suppression.
"We don't want such aid which is actually self-serving. All they have to do is
eliminate their restrictions against our agricultural products.
"They have to look at our problems from our point of view--our side of the coin."
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
OPIUM SUBAGENTS ARRESTED--A joint team of narcotics and crime suppression police
arrested three men with almost 10 kilogrammes of prepared opium at a Commerce
Ministry silo in the Phra Prabaeng area, Samut Prakan, yesterday afternoon.
Thongmuan Simanorom (40), leader of the silo workers, Charoen Phoncharoen (50),
a guard, and Som Phanpi, 35, were initially charged with illegal possession of
opium following their arrest in a 4:30 p.m. police raid. Police claimed the
- men were subagents of a trafficking ring and had been distributing the drugs
- to labourers and workers in the Phra Pradaeng area for some time. The police,
_ led by deputy commander of crime suppression division, Col Chalo Koetthet,
searched the silo located by the Chao Phaya River and found 10 packages of opium
weighing 9.2 kilogrammes. [Text] [BK250753 Bangkok POST in English 22 Dec 81
P 21
WARDEN JAILED IN TRAFFICER'S ESCAPE--Former commander of Bang Khwang maximum
security prison Han Phansombun has been given a 20-year jail sentence for aiding
the escape from the prison of convicted heroin trafficker Siri Sirikun. The
- sentence was handed down yesterday in the Nonthaburi provincial court. Han was
char.ged in September 1979 with malfeasance in office, exercisiiig his power as
the prison commander to illegally release Siri and with conspiring with an
- accomplice to forge a criminal court seal and release warrant. Siri, who had
: been sentenced to jail for life, was released from jail on June 30, 1977. But
his disappearance was not uncovered until about 2 years later when he failed to
= appear in court to hear a verdict on his appeal against the life prison term
- handed down in the Dika (supreme) court. A subsequent investigazion into Siri's
disappearance implicated Han and two lower-ranking wardens. Siri was arrested
in Butterworth, Malaysia, in September 1979 and was later extradited to Thailand
to serve out his life sentence. He also received a 21-year sentence after being
found guilty of having escaped from prison. [Text] [BK250753 Bangkok POST in
- English 25 Dec 81 p 31
'MAJOR TRAFFICKER' ARRESTED--Thai and Australian anti-narcotics officers have
arrested a man they believed to be a major international drug trafficker operating
between Thailand, Australia, Europe and America, officials of the Narcotics
- Control Board announced last night. They said Suppha-at Chaoduli was nabbed
- while he was allegedly on one of his trips to deliver heroin in Melbourne on
December 24. Suppha-at, 33, had earlier delivered an amount of heroin to his
- customers in Australia on December 3. Suppha-at allegedly operated a textile
store and a guesthouse in Chiang Mai to conceal his real business, the officials
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said. Following Suppha-at's arrest, anti-narcotics officials in Chiang Mai
arrested a police off icial, Pol Sgt Maj Surasak Phaomphan, who they accused of
- being a courier for the alleged international drug trafficker. They also seized
3,235.8 grammes of No 4 heroin and 230 grammes of No 3 heroin from Surasak.
The drug was reportedly to be smuggled out of the country to Australia. [Text]
[Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 1 Jan 82 pp 1, 101
SUSPECTED TRAFFICKER ARRESTED--Police yesterday arrested a auspected drug
trafficker at a checkpoint on Pahonyothin Road after he failed to deliver almost
10 kilogrammes of No 3"red rocks" heroin to a prospective customer. Kittikon
Sae Tang, 28, reportedly admitted that he was to have delivered the drugs to a
Malaysian man in the Central Plaza Shopping Centre in Lard Prao earlier in the
morning. However, the man, whom he identified as Peter Robert, failed to show
up. A police team, who had set up a checkpoint near Soi Ro So Pho Niwet to
search for illegal weapons, stopped Kittikon's volvo sedan as it was heading
towards Kasetsat University at about 1:30 am. While searching the car, police
allegedly found 9.6 kilogrammes of heroin in a large bag on the back seat.
Kittikon reportedly told police that he had delivered drugs to Malaysian clients
several times before. He was charged with possessing drugs with intent to sell.
[Text] [Bangkok POST in English 1 Jan 82 p 11
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COSTA RICA
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--San Jose, 23 Dec (AFP)--The Costa Rican authorities
arrested two members of an iaternational drug traffickers band operating in
Colombia, Costa Rica and the United States. They are Carlos Perez Espinal,
a Nicaraguan who is allegedly the chief of the drug traffickers, and Hernando Ibarra Quezada, a Costa Rican who worked at the airport as an
immigration official. Ibarra had 2 kilos of cocaine at the moment of their
arrest. [PA251425 Paris AFP in Spanish 2134 GMT 23 Dec 81 PA] CSO: 5300/2114
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JAMAICA
SRIE]?S
GANJA PLANTATION--Eighteen acres of ganja, including fully-grown plants and
seedlings along with 152 crocus bags af the weed, were destroyed by the police
in operations in Belvedere district, in rural St Andrew, on Friday. In a six-
hour operation, the police also destroyed 68 tins of ganja seeds. [Text]
(Kingston THE SUNDAY GLEANER in English 29 Nov 81 p 21
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PANAMA
BRIEFS
DRUG SEIZURES--During 1981, the narcotics department of the Ministry of Finance
- and Treasury seized $93.2 million in drugs at the Omar Torrijos Herrera airport.
Among the drugs seized were "methaqualon" ($90 million); 26.5 kgs of cocaine
($3 million); and 220 mm of hashish ($200,000). Authorities disclosed that
38 persons were arrested in connection with drugs, including 14 U.S. citizens
- and 7 Colombians. [PA011658 Panama City LA REPUBLICA in Spanish 30 Dec 81
pp 1, 10 PA]
- CSO: 5300/2114
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IRAN
BRIEFS
SHIRAZ DRUG DISCOVERIES--Shiraz Islamic revolution guards have seized 16 grams
of heroin and 14 kg of opium juice from a number of gersons. [GF291258 Shiraz
_ Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT 28 Dec 81]
KHORASAN OPIUM HAUL--A man has been arrested in (2Saravan) for possession of 1
kg of opium. 'I~ao persons have been arrested in the Quchan area for possession
_ of 1 kg of opium. [GF311755 Mashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 31
_ Dec 81]
DRUG SEIZURE IN MASHHAD--The Neyshabur antidrug squad has seized 17 kg of opium
from a number of persons. SimilarLy, the Mashhad Islamic revolution guards
corps have seized 31.7 kg of opiwn and 2 kg ef heroin from a number of persons.
[GF041714 Mashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 4 Jan 82]
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LEBANON
BRIEFS
SEIZURE OF HEROIN--The security authorities at Beirut Airport arrested two persons
who were trying to smuggle 1 kg of heroin to the United States. [Text] [NC212215
Beirut Voice of Lebanon in A.rabic 1215 GMT 21 Dec 811 .
CSO: 5300/4707
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GHANA
BRIEFS
- COCONUTS IN DRUG SMUGGLING--A Ghanafan Indian hemp smuggler recently held British
\ Customs Officers spell-bound far the clever way in which he tried to smuggle into
London a quantity of the drug. Bennet Amofa, a 27-year-old clerk, hid the drug in
coconuts which showed no signs that they had been tampered with, reports Ben Asa-
moah, Ghana News Agency Correspondent in London. T'he officers described the ruse
as a"notorious feat in the world of smuqqlers." At a London Court, Mr Ian Camp-
bell, a customs officer, prosecuting, told the court that but for the extra vigil-
ance of the custaaas officers on duty at the Heathrow Airport, Anwfa, a clerk of
the Ministry of Education, wou13 have qot awa with his specimen because "it was
so cleverly done that it was not possible to detect any foul play." Mr Campbell
said the four coconuts would be kept by his department and used as traininq mater-
ial. Amofa was given a three-month suspended sentence and fined L300. Earlier,
Mr Peter Copley, caunsel for Amofa, had asked the court to consider the present
conqestion in British Prisons and not to send his client ta prison. He suqgested
that in future foreign offenders like Amofa should be qiven suspended sentences
and deported as a move to ease the current prison accommodation crisis in Britain.
[Text] [Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in Engl.ish 10 Dec 81 p 11
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NIGERIA
USE OF DIPIAMATIC POUCH FOR HEMP SMUGGLING DEPLORED
Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 4 Dec 81 p 11
[Editorials "Scandal at Our London Mission"]
[Excerpt] Tales about scandals in our missions abroad are legion, and like all
tales ought to be taken with a pinch of salt--sometitnes a whole spoonful. But af-
ter what happened at our High Commiasion in London, it would take a fool to dismiss
the tales entirely with the wave of the hand. At any rate given our seemingly con-
genital disposition to abuse privilele--and what can be more privileged than a bag
that is immune from the prying eyes of the security forces under normal circum-
stances?--same degree of credulity is certainly pardonable.
Still to think that anyone would want to and actually succeed in loading any of
our diplomatic bags with hemp despite all the safeguards against abusel It really
beats one hollow. It does however prove something which is obvious. This is that
a well-organised syndicate traceable to Nigeria must have been involved probably
with a little help from aome top VIPs--obviously, very irresonsible persons.
To trade in hemp is bad enough and deserves the stiffest penalties. But to use our
diplonatic bag as a cover-up for such nefarious trade, with all its implications
for our image, and more important still, for our security is simply the li.mit. And
nobody who is discovered to have anything to do with this, no matter how highly
placed should be allowed to yet away with it. No expenses should be spared to
identify such culprit(s) and once identified must be made to face the entire ri-
gours of the law. In other words nothing short of public prosecution in addition
to inte=,al disciplinary measures by the Ministry of External Affairs, will do.
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CYPRUS
POLICE SEIZE SHIPf 5.5 TONS INDIAN HEMP
Nicosia CYPRUS WEEKLY in English No 114, 11-17 Dec 81 p 1
[Text] Cyprus police yesterday made what is believed to be the biggest success in
their anti-narcotic campaign so far, uncovering a record giant haul of 5-1/2 tons
of Indian hemp stacked on board a Lebanese-owred cargo ship off Cape Kiti. The
vessel was sailing from the Lebanese coast to an undisclosed port in Europe.
An official announcement said the "Esperants", flying the Cyprus flag, was stopped
by two poliae launches, the "Kimon" and the "Aphrodite", and a search on board
brought to light the all-time record cargo of drugs, worth several million pounds
at street prices in Europe.
Disguise
The captain of the ship, a Greek national, and the eiqht-man crew--four Turks, two
Egyptians and two Lebanese--were all taken to Larnaca police station where they
were being held in custody last night. Officials did not disclose their names.
Reports from Larnaca said the name of the 275-ton cargo ship had been painted over
J in white on the bow and a number of the letters on the stern had also been painted
over in a apparent attempt to disquise it.
The 'Esperants' was hemaned in by the two police launches under the command of Mr.
Panicos Hadjiloizou, the senior officer of the police anti-narcotics squad, and a
- top Interpol official who has been in Larnaca since last Thursday.
Plaques
officials said that neither the captain of the cargo ship nor any of the crew of-
fered any resistance to the police, and no arms or ammunition were found on board.
The huge quantity of hemp was found neatly packed in half-kilo plaques wrapped in
plastic and sewn into w}aat officials described as 'tidy bags.'
One official was overheard to remark: "This is the first case of Greco-Turkish
cooperation I have seen for quite some time," as the captain and his crew were
- brought ashore and driven to the police station.
Court
Last night the ship was docked in Larnaca harbour and under heavy police guard.
The detainees are due to appear in court today.
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CYPRUS
OFFICIALS SAID TO SEEK HELICOPTER FOR NARCOTICS CONTROL
Nicosia CYPRUS WEEKLY in English No 114, 11-17 Dec 81 p 2
[Text) Cyprus Police need a helicopter or small aircraft to help them in their
figl:.: against drug smugglers using the island as a transit centre, the Chief of
Police MIr Sawas Antoniou has said.
The police already deploy launches and radar-equipped vessels bought from France to
patrol the island's coasts and to shadow or intercept vessels suspected of being
enqaged in smuggling.
Specially trained dogs are also at hand to sniff out hidden narcotics.
But Mr Antoniou, in an interview with 'Agon' newspaper, said: "There is no doubt
that a helicapter or a small plane would greatly facilitate the job of the police
and help them follow suspicious movements on land or in the sea.
"We have to improve the means and equipment at our disposal, especially since drug
smuqglers have all the money they want to get the most modern equipment to carry
out their illegal traffickinq".
Mr Antoniou said the efforts of international smuggling rings to use Cyprus as a
transit stage for channelling narcotics was of "particular concern". The situation
had worsened following the.events in neighbouring Lebanon.
"It is true that because of its geographical position Cyprus is used as a centre
for the channelling of narcotics to Europe and America �rom the countries of pro-
duction, such as Turkey and Lebanon", he said.
In cooperation with Interpol and ather national police forces, the Cyprus Police
are striving to locate ant neutralise such gangs and have had significant succes-
ses, he said.
The police Chief repeated that there was no concern about the spread of narcotics
among the Cypriots themselves.
"Isolated cases, mainly involving young people and aliens, come to light from time
to time, but the measures taken by the police are a strortg restricting factor.
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FRANCE
BRIEFS
DRUG DEALER KILLED--Paris, 5 Jan (AFP)--A gunman carrying a United States pass-
port who was killed in a shootout with police in the Paris metro (underground
railway) last night has been identified as a known drug dealer with contacts
in Thailand. He was provisionally identified as Paris-born Michel Bernard
Naddef, 33, living in a suburb here, police said. He was registered in the
Interior Ministry files for drug traffick.ing. His U.S. passport appeared to be
genuine and showed frequent travel between Europe and Bangkok. The drug squad
was inve:;tigating his background to see if they co'uld trace his narcotics contacts.
Naddef was stopped by police when he leaped over a metro entrance to avoid paying
for a three-franc (50 U.S. cents) ticket. They frisked him and found a pistol,
but he broke away andthen opened f ire with a second pistol he carried. A police
officer fired one shot and killed him outright. Police have been checking the
identities of young men in the metro in an effort to control growing violence
i there. Pickpockets, said to be mainly drug addicts, hold up an estimated 250
to 500 passengers weekly. A young man who refused to part with 100 francs (about
18 dollars) was stabbed in the abdomen on Sunday night, and other passengers
made no attempt to help him. [Text] [NC051213 Paris AFP in English 1119 GMT
S Jan 82]
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NETHERLANDS
HEROIN WEIQiING 21 KG FOUND IN SHRIMP SHIPMENT
Rotterdam IET VRIJE VOLI{ in Dutch 17 Nov 81 p 5
ff ext7 The Iiague--The police in The Ho,gue dealt the drug trade in
the Netherlands a crushing blow with the confiscation of 21 kilograms
of heroin concealed in a shipment of deep frozen shrimp from
Pakistan.
The heroin (market value 2.5 million guilders) was f ound yesterday
afternoon in a raid on a house on Daguerre Street. All the 12 occu-
pants of the house were arrested. The principal resident was known
to the police as "small scale drug dealer."
Yesterday evening the police arrested another five Pakistanis in
narious hotels in The Hague.
- The heroin was transported in an airliner from Pakistan to Schiphol.
The shipment was picked up thare by a messenger service and delivered
yesterday afternoon in The Hague. .
- At the moment whe.n the shrimp (70 foam rubber cases with 42 pound
packages) were brought in the house, a team oP 20 detectives struck.
According to a police spokesman in The Iiague "the cases were scattered
about the whole Yiouse, in the living room and even on the stairway."
By way of precautiong all residents of the house in questiony 12 men
ranging in age from 17 to 52 years, were taken Znto custody. This
morning only a few of them were questioned. They are detained at
various police stations in The Hague, to prevent them from contacting
each other. In June of last year the police in The Hague also confiscated a large
shiPment of heroin from Pakistan. A Pakistani diplomat appeared to
be involved then in this matter and shortly afterwards he was expelled
from the Netherlands. The police in The Hague confiscated the largest
amount of heroin a year and a half ago when many tens of kilograms of
lieroin were found in a shipment of Buddah statues.
The Amsterdam narcotics unit tipped off the police 2 months ago about
tlie drug shipment intercepted yesterday. No resistance was offered
during the raid on the house in The Hague.
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