JPRS ID: 10424 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/ 10424
31 March 1982
Worldwide Report
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROJS DRUGS
(FOUO 15/82)
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31 March 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FoUO i5/$2)
CONTENTS
ASIp
AUSTRALIA
Ztao� Thais Arrested at Sydney ?3rport_in Reoord Heroin Bust
(THE AGE, 19 Jan 82) 1
Man Charged in Huge Indian Hemp Operation Gets Bail
(THE AGE, 21 Jan 82) 2
Heroin Smuggler Skips Bail, Sought by Police in Sydnay
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 16 Jan 82) 3
Briefs
Heroin Bust Impact 4
- Heroin Smuggling Se.ntence , 4
Drug Profits Smuggling � 4
Policy on Overseas Arrests 5
'Mr Asia` UI.sclosures 5
Record Cannabis Bust 5
Report on Drug Trafficking 6
BIjNGLADESH
Briefs
Smuggled Opium Seized
7
PAKIS TAN
Refugees Reported To Be Active in Drug Trafficking
(Azhar Masood; 7HE MUSLIM, 1 Mar 82) 8
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Briefs
Heroia Smuggling Bid Fniled 9
Addiction Center in Karachi 9
Over 5 Maimds of (haras Seized 9
Heroin Seized, Zhree Held lp
~ Heroin Seized 10
- (haras, Opium Seized 10
PHILIPPINES
Tougher Law To Curb Rising Philippine Drug Abuse
(Emma Ruth Zafra; THE MUSLIM, 24 Feb 82)......o il
B rie fs
Marijuana Pusher Gets 20Year Term 13
THAILAND
U.S. Proposal To Swap Drug Convicts Opposed
(POST, 17 Mar 82) 14
New Guidelines Planned in Anti-Opium Drive
(NATION REV'IEW, 2. Mar 82) 15
Khun Sa-Led Army To Strike Minorities
(NATION REVIEW, 12. Mar 82)
Briefs
Heroin Smuggler To U.S. Arrested
Opium Smuggled From Laos Seized
Hong Kong Chizese Smuggler Jailed
Soldiera Charged With Chemical Possession
Drugs Seized in North
Antidrug Fighting in South
Marihuana Seized in Glass Factory
LATIN AMERICA
BAHAMAS
Briefs
Cocaine Seized
BOLI VIA
UN Help To Fight Narco.lics Requested
(EL DIARIO, 13 Feb 82)
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Antidrug Official on Progress of Campaign
(Radio Ill'Lmani Network, 3 Mar 82) 21
Presidential Secretary Discusses Drug Traffic
(AFP, 12 Mar 82) 22
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JAMAICA
Vessel, Crew of Four, 2 Tons of Marijuana Seized
(THE DAILY GLEANER, 26 Feb 82) 25
MEXICO
Results of January-February Antidrug Campaign in Zone 6
(EL SOL DS-SINALOA, 3 Mar 82) 26
Poppy Plantations, Clandestine Laboratory Discovered
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 21 Feb 82) 28
Gocaine Trafficker on Trial 23
Drug Trafficking 23
Antidrug Personnel Dismirssal 23
Cocaine Factory Mscovered 24
Argentine-Bolivian Border Clash 24
Seizure and Destructian of Marihuana in Sonora Reported
(EL IMPARCIAL, 2 Mar 82) 29
Briefs
Drug Ringleader Captured
Heroin I7istributor Arrested
Drugs, Weapons Seized
Jail Officials Acquitted
Heroin Seized
Marihuana Fields Destroyed
U.S. Drug Trafficke rs Captured
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LIBERIA
Briefs
Marijuana Sei;zed at Airport
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WEST EUROPE
DENMARK
Minister to Nordic Council: Ghristiania Drugs To Be Stopped
(DAGF:NS NIYHETER, 5 Mar 82) 34
Or Will Close Down 'Free City'
Lively Debate ia Helsinki on Drugs, by Kaa Eneberg
Uanish MP Smuggled Hashish to Meeting
Paper Comments on Nordic Narcotics, Editorial
Paper Sees Signs of New Firmiess Toward Ghristiania, 'Free
Ci. ty l
(Editorial; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 11 Mar 82) 38
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Hesse Social Minister on Heroin Use, Therapy Centers
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE, 17 Feb 82) 40
Briefs
Munich Opium Haul
42
FINLAND
Minister at tiordic Drug Conference Tells Country's Status
(IiEISINGIN SADIOMAT, 20 Feb 82) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . 43
FRAN CE
Interministerial Council on Drugs Established
(Jean-Pierre Defait; L'HUMANITE, 8 Jan 82) 45
Type, Arrest, User Characteristic Statistics Swmnarized
( LE MONDE, 30 Jan 82, LE FI GARO, 28 De c 81) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Arreats, Qverdoses, Drug 1ypes
Young Usera, Immigrant Dealers, by Jean Paillardin
Solidarity Ministry Representative an Addiction Policies
(Francois Colcombet Interview; LE MONDE, 30 Jan 82).......... 50
Police Corruption in Arrests, Confiscation Revealed
(Agathe Logeart; LE MATIN, 9 Feb 82)......... 53

Medical Center Director Discusses Treatment, Overdoees
(C,'hristian Colombani; LE MONDE, 30 Jan 82) 55
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Hong Kong Chinese, Heroin Seized at Roissy
(LE FIGARO, 28 Dec 81) 57
GREE CE
Major Drug Trafficker Sought in Italy Arrested at Airport
(AKROPOLIS, 29 Jan 82, Z+0 VIMA, 30 Jan 82) 59
Syrian Drug Trafficker Arrested, by D. Stavropoulos
Arms Traffic Involvement
Details on Heroin Traff.icker's Arrest Provided
(TA NEA, 2 Feb 82) 62
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AUSTRALIA
TWO THAIS ARRESTED AT SYDNEY AIRPORT IN REC;ORD HEROIN BUST
Melbourne THE AGE in English 19 Jan 82 p 1
[Text ]
SYDNEY. - Ten small blocks
af high-grade heroi.n seized at
Sydney airport were the single
biggest heroin haul the. Aus-
tralian Federal Police have
made and were worth more ;
than $10 million. .
Two 1'hai men flew into Syd-
ney aboard, a Thai Airways flight
: at 10.20 on Sunday nlght.
' The men were watched , by
offcers of"the AuStralian Federal
: Police and. the Customs Degart-
ment, actiqg on lnformation frqm
. Thai.narcotics authorities. '
As the men picked up llieir bng-
gagehich included a large card-
boar, yvd box, police moved lri. Ttie
box .contained gifts, smell itemfs'
of . bamboo and some patterned
shirts.. . . � :
When the' items were removed,
the box was found to �be heavier
than ezpected: Beneath a false bot-
tom lay the Diocks of compressed
heroin wrapped in calico. They
weigtied a total of. 8.5 to nine
�Ailograms.
Two men were arrested' and.
questionea. A 34-year�old man
was expected-to be charged with
� the importapon and possession of
a prohibited drug. A 39-year-old
man was expected to be charged
witn Importing the drug. ' They will appe,ar in tne speciai
Fede:al courc at the St James
Centre today.
~ p spokesman in Car.berra satd
last ntght that Federal police in'
Sydney had seized obout 13 ktla
I rams of heroin, including the
atest haul, during the past tfiree
weeks.
lt is ..belIeved that the. total
.
vslue of heroin seized recertly.
in SydneS1s more than thatot all,
heroin seizures made � by Federul
pollce last year. � : ~ :
�Detective Chief Inspector �John
Wheadey, of the Federal police,.,
said the haul on Sunday niRht
was only the start of what would
be a farly lengthy investigation.
Inspector Wheatley said he did
not think it had been an amaleur
operation.
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AUSTRALIA
MAN CHARGED IN HUGE INDIAN HEMP OPERATION GETS HAIL
Melbourne THE AGE in English 21 Jan 82 p 7
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volved in running a $52 mWioa �
Beant Spence aaid. .
Inddih' hemp " plduta~ti.on , -in.
' Irigatlon - , equfpment, xecaea,
�south=western , New . ,South .
: pumps, : a '.c~ravse. adt(; t~e}tllisers
; Wales, was gra~nted Bail 'in'
had alsa ,been,found::.s
. Sydney Central, Cotitt yeater-
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cultlvatlon. of Indian hemp. at
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He aaid Mr Gattellarl; ates one
Balranald, between 1'May :1980 .
of the peraona�
involy~ed, in� the
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Mr ' Gattellari denied the
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chargea and'aaid he did not know
anythln about them,
tellui was the 18th, person. to
be arreated ln ralatlan ' fa' id~e
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The' prosecutor, Sergearrt M.
Spence
aaid
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Plaetatfon. . ' .
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The Chkf. Stipe~tdary Magi-
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large Indian hemp plantation on s
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to
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Brakea Hill Court �ot Pe~y. Ses-
. ruary last year. ,
abns 'on 8:FdbnierY.'whd. in-
� He said 60,000 plan+s:.. ;aopie ~
other 'six, peaple * wlll 'apppkr.
three-: metres high, had been
He allowed -Mr,-i: Gaitellari
. found. and polke had seued.3.8.
$10,000 bdl wth a $ib,OQO: ceah
tonnes o! Indian hemp In . Ieai ,
surety on ths condiUoas he, sur-. .
form which was ready for trana
re.~der i~ia paasport ind ; regoa+t
po a and another 2.27 kg ot hemp
tlmee a w~eaic to Liverpooi
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ses.
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AUSTRALIA
HEROIN SMUGGLER SKIPS BAIL, SOUGHT BY POLICE IN SYDNEY
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 16 Jan 82 p 5
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1000trm . o! : high�as'edp
S75,000 on conditlon tluit
hero~n. . with a: etreet
_ ~e report twloe-'dei~'to
Granvllle poSoe ;statioW�
value--oi about�~ mll-
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an� applidetioii, heavd:;bY
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chailed havfng ~suppd~d?~
look out iot M,akary. ~�,;�J i
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tiaroin between�7Wy '1
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CSO: 5300/7535
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
HEROIN BUST IMFACT--The $10-million heroin haul in Sydney this week was just
the "tip af tl.:e iceberg" in what Federal Police claim is a successful co-or-
dinated operation to disrupt big syndicates operatfng in Australia. The of-
_ ficer in charge of the operation, Detective Inspector John Wheatley, said the
seizure of high-grade heroin was worth as much as the total amount of the drug
seized last year. It was the biggest single amount yet uncovered by E'ederal
Police. But he was mare interested in his squad's behind-the-scenes success
"Understandably a big seizure grabs the headlines and everyone gets excited,"
Inspector Wheatley said. "But the real success has been in arrests where no
drugs have been involved. Our efforts have been particularly directed towards
disruption of the major organisations to prevent them bringing the drugs in."
- In the past eight months his squad had been responsible for the arrest of 30
"very significant" figures in the drug trade. Most of those arrested had been
charged with conspiracy to impart heroin. A detective ia the NSW Drug Squad,
who wishes to remain unnamed, told The Australian the quality of heroin being
sold on the street was already very poor, and was likely to deteriorate fur-
ther. [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 20 Jan 82 p 21
HERpIN SMUGGLING SENTENCE--A Vietnamese refugee who arrived in Australia in
1977 yesterday was gaoled for two years for having possessed cannabis resin
with intent to sell or supply it. Huu Dung Nguyen (23), of Subiaco, admit-
ted before Mr Justice Kenned,y in the Supreme Court that he had 35.8grams of
cannabis resin. The court heaxd that Nguyen had escaped from Vietnam in 1977
and arrived by refugee laoat in Broome. He had no family to provide social
support or control. [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 21 Jan 82 p 351
DRUG PROFITS SMUGGLING--Melbourne--A Thai man smuggled $186,000--the proceeds
of illicit drug sales--out of Australia, the City Caurt was told yesterday.
The police alleged that later 3.5kg of heroin and 26.7kg of cannabis were
faund at the man's brother-in-law's house in Thailand. Supahaus Chowdury
(33), a guest-house manager in Thailand, appeareci before Mr Alexander Vale,
CSM, seeking bail. Chowdury has been charged with the possession, importa-
tion and trafficking of heroin on December 4 and 5 last year. Inspector Tim
Egan, of the feder,al police, told the court that other people had been char-
ged and otY:ers would be charged in connection with drug importing. He said
that 28 false passports were used in a drug-importing ring. In May, June and
August last year swns of $25,0000 $71,000 and $90,000 had been taken fram Aus-
tralia in suitcases by Chowdury, Inspector Egan said. "The money was proceeds
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from drug sales." He said he did not know the quantities of drugs involved--
"but there are big amounts of heroin." The Thai police had raided Chowdury's
brother-in-law's house on December 30 and found heroin and cannabis. They also
- found 21 partly-completed boxes that were the type used to import drugs into
Australia," Inspector Egan said. Chowdury was arrested on December 27.
Cross-examined by Mr Terry 0'Brien, for Chowdury, Inspector Egan said tnat no
heroin or big sums of mney had been �ound in Dhowdury's hotel roomwhen hq
was arrested. Mr Vale refused bail on th(: ground that Chowdury was an unac-
ceptable risk. [Perth THE WEST AIISTRA,LIAN in English 27 Jan 82 p 401
POLICY ON OVERSEAS ARRESTS--The Federal Government yesterday warned-it would
take a hard line approach towards Australians caught trafficking in drugs over-
seas. A spokesr.ian far the Minister far Administrative Services, Mr Newman,
said there would be no "super tolerance for people just be-quse they are Aus-
tralian:: in another part of the world". He said that traftickers could expect
no help and no sympathy from the Australian Government and must accept penal-
ties handed down by f.oreign courts. He said the Government's attitude was
clearly spelt out in passport li.terature and if more Australians taok note of
it "they would not be so ready to offer themselves, or be lured into acting,
as couriers for drug runners". The warning comes after the Government's recent
refusal to intervEne in the case of William Sinclair, 68, whose 33-year jail
sentence for drug offences is soon to be reviewed by a Thai court. The Attor-
ney-General, Senator Durack, said of the case: "The Governnent will nat at-
tempt to interfere where tt,e laws and pracedures involved are applied without
discrimination against Australians." The Sinclair case has cancerned civil
liberties lawyers because o� the part played by Australian officials in the ar-
rest and trial of Sinclair. The president of the Law Institute of Victoria,
Mr Matt Walsh, has suggested the possibility of guidelines to control the giv-
ing of evidence by Australian officials before foreign courts. The guidelines
could limit the giving of evidence which would not be admissible in Australian
courts, he said. [Melbourne THE AGE in IInglish 12 Jan 82 p 121
'MR ASIA' DISCLOSURYS--Convicted New Zealand drug boss Alexander Sinclair,
known as Mr Asia, is said to be ready to spill all he knows about the interna-
tional drug scene to the Australian Royal Commission on Narcotics. Reports in
New Zealand say that members of the commission are now in England ready to in-
terview Sinclair. However a London press report claims that international
drugs bosses are so concerned at what Sinclair might reveal that they have put
a millian-pound price on his head. They want him dead before he can talk.
Sinclair built his warldwide empire from a base in Auckland. He has been
- jailed for 20 years for murdering his former partner, Marty Johnson. An Aus-
tralia House spokesman in Iandon is reported as saying: "We are conscious
thcit there are many people who don't want Sinclair to give evidence, and we
are trying to keep it to our chest". [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English
' 14 Jan 82 p 2]
RECORD CANNABIS BUST--Melbourne--Victorian and federal police yesterday made
seven mare arrests in cracking what they termed the biggest cannabis smuggling
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ring uncovered in Australia. They said the ring was the subject of a year-
long investigation, code-named "Operation Capa." Based in South-east Asia and
operated here and in Britain, the ring was respansible for importing cannabis
valued "in the millions." Police made public the operation yesterday after
three houses in Melbourne's eastern suburbs were raided. The dawn raids were
by 20 hand-picked police. Seven people--four men and three women--were being
questioned last night. The ASsistant Commissioner (crime), Mr Paul Delianis,
said "Uperation Capa" was a joint operation involving state police, the feder-
al police and the Customs Department. He said the Capa task force was formed
in February last year after a lot of crime intelligence work. It worked in
parallel with an anti-heroin operation, revealed by po?ice last week. Mr De-
lianis said the South-east Asian ring brought aannabis resin into Australia.
It sent mainly herbal cannabis ta England. "It was a very carefully planned
operation because this has been a very professional ring," Mr Delianis said.
Other smuggling operations uncovered in the past had involved larqe, single
quantities of the drug, but this ring was the biggest overall operation yet
uncovered, he said. He said the ring imported and distributed the drug. Po-
lice would nat officially discuss the quantities of drug the ring was alleged
to have brought to Australia--but Drug Bureau officials said the total would
go "into the many millions of dollars". [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English
14 Jan 82 p 16]
REPORT ON DRUG TRAFFICKING--The first report of the federal and New South
Wales joint police task force on drug trafficking is not to be made public
because of likely criminal prosecution against a number of people. A draft
press release said the report was tabled in federal parlianent today by the
prime minister, Mr Fraser. The release said it was likely that criminal pro-
secution would be started against a number of individuals named in the report
for drug, conspiracy, perjury and passport offenses. [Text] [Melbourne
Uverseas Service in English 0500 GMT 18 Mar 82 BK]
CSO: 5300/5681
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BANGLADESH
SMUGGLED OPIUM SEIZED--Chittagong, Mar. 2--About 28 lbs of opium narcotics
worth Taka 1 crore 2 lakh was recavered by the Sea Customs Special Squad from
the 'Banglar Maya' at Chittagong Port yesterday. According to the Collector
of Customs, on the basis of an information customs intelligence and rummaginq
squad made a thorough search of the vessel, 'Banglar Maya' of Bangladesh Ship-
ping Corporation BSC and teized the narcotics from the library room. Custom
- also seized three, pieces of three-in-one radio-cassette, 1�10 cartoons of
foreign brand cigarettes and number of pieces of sarees from the ceiling of
the afficers cabins. The Customs collector declined to elaborate further i.n
this tiatter as investigation was still continuing. However, none was ar-
restecl. The ship arrived at the port the other day from the east coast of
Indian port Tuticorin. [Dacca THE NEW NATIOP'! in Fnglish 3 Mar 82 p 11
CSO: 5300/7022
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PAKISTAN
REFUGEES REPORTED TO BE ACTNE IN DRUG TRAFFICKING
Islamhbad THE MUSLIM in English 1 Mar 82 pp 1, 8
[Article by Azhar Masood]
[Text]
ISISLAMABAD Feb. 28: A
group. of Afghan refugees. led
bY a notodous Afghan
smuggler nicknamed - Uchat
Khan'� and who had been a
narcotics smuggler before
the Soviet army action in
Afghanistan in December,
1979 had obeen involved in
drug trafficking from Pakistan
to several European. cities; * an
Afghan source told Tlie Muslim
today. .
The name of "Uchat Khan` is
aaid to be a guazantee in
international market for a quality
supply of marUuana aad is said to �
be a member of the international
mafia.
The government, it may be
mentioned, haa... succeeded in
reducing the productton of opium
from 100 tona to 85 tons in the
past few yeara and has daalt a
severe blow to traftickers but
some who have evaded the Iaw
enforcing agenciea ue atill in
operation.
"UchaL' Khan" .mostly stays in
plaaa llke Roterdam; Liverpool:
Hamburg, Maraelllea and aome
French porta. Only cloeestof hfs
associates know hia cornct name.
Ip Bomb4y, too, he h4a h1s buoineee
dinka. .
It ia alao learnt that thou the
entire trafAcking la done by "~chat
Khan'a men a�ho are moatly
Afghana some Pakietani tribesmen
ue alao a puty to thia aordld,
buainess ;
CSO: 5300/5678
According to a U.N. aurvey, the
indlcatora of prices and purlty of
heroin in Westren Europe- during
the pait year ahowed that there had
been dtacp decline in drug tiaffck-
ing from' the 'golden triang1ts'-the
areaa uonnd Thailend. and Laoa. [t
futther nvealed that after
extrtordlnary conditIons created in
'golden triangle", Pakistan,
AfghaNstan and Turkey became
the main eource of narcoUcs for the
rest oil the wotid.
. Taking' advantage of the
changed aituation. Uchat Khan and
his men very clearly monopolised
the world marketa: H9a men� ue�
now nsponaible for tanuqitting the
stuff from Nurirtan to Europe.
According to the U.N. lettar on
asrcotics, two mejor � tratiicking
proups had zecently been broKen up
m Iran their operations illuatradng
the preaent pattbm. Traffickers
from'the.aouth-east of this country
having.nla4ivea in Pakistan becaine
much ,.fioia active over the last
three years becauae it had become
too dangeroue to try, as in�the paat,
to � croq the Afghan territory
d'uectly fmm the frontier anas
betwan Afghaniatan and PakL~tan
around I.andikotal to the weat.of
Peshawar. . ; .
'I]teee tiaftickera had enabWh�
ed cbntact. with Kurdish counter-
partt�from the extreme north-west
of lran. At both then trlbal gcoupc
extended acroq- the frontkrt of the
oountria they ' aen in a atron6
podUon.to evaAe, botder; controL.
Thete particulu groupt ' had
conantrsted on moving opium,
morphine and heroin'across Irtn in
acchange for gold, fireums or hud
,cuirency, prefetabiy Deutsch marks
or doWrL The next step in a msjor
traffioking;~hain appewed to hsve
beea at Istanbul when nationals of
some Weatern European countries
appeared to have joined up with
Icaniat trafficker:. ;
, . . . ~ �
.
The. aourrx of ;the heroin bdng
moved in this traffic.wai nill bot
prxiwly.' 'known. "Some- ' reports
spoke of �-up to . 18-dandestine
laboratorias Qperating. it, one ttme
along the frontier areas betwan
Afgheni:tan attd Pakirtan. A much
smaller number,had ban.�preciiely
'identified and meaeurea to move
againat them aen being worked
out by'the tgencla vf the countrks
concerned1,,,,;

In rg enerol, �difficultiea
enCOUnteted,,by. . the drug law-
enfoicetpent agencies. in: moat of
the' reQion wen tompouirded' by
other utirelated evenb: 4 The war
. between Itaa`itrd-hW-aud_caused
; coakidenble_ popiaatioa. dwu,
within Iran. Eventa in Afghanistan
meant.;,!lhat about 1.5 million
Afghan nfugaa lvere now
eatabed om weat of, the Afghan
/Iraniilf border and ' they - were
utad i'a:t cover for minor trafftckers
trying to move small quantitka of
Wicit opi~tes acrou the border
from Herat !n Afghanistan, ' .
The enforixment work of the
Iranlan authoddas htd foroed ecme
trafflckert and chemlats out of the
country. They now appareA to bc
conVIbuting . to 'the increasing
p ro4uttlon of morpfilne and heroin
in ddtlne Lbontotles along the '
tr ler betwan Afghanistan and
Palt . , . '
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BRIEFS
HEROIN SMUGGLING BID FOILED--CIA staff foiled a bid to smuggle heroine
[as published] worth Rs. 100,000 on a motor-car at Wahdat Road on Friday.
The smuggler Arshad Iqbal of Misri Shah was arrested and his motor-car
LES 5900 impounded by the Police. The heroine weighing 850 gram concealed
in the dash board was recovered and confiscated. The accused had brought
the narcotic from Bara in tribal area for smuggling to a foreign country.
[Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 6 Mar 82 p 3]
ADDICTION CENTER IN KARACHI-A Drug Addiction Centre will be set up soon at
the Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre for conducting an in-depth study of
various drugs and modes of treatment in different phases. A reliable
source told MORNING NEWS yesterday that the plans were already in the f inal
- stages for undertaking this project. The suggestion for setting up the
centre was put forward by the World Health Organisation which he said has
committed to provide necessary equipmnnts for it free of cost. The centre
will be established in collaboration with the Pakistan Narcotic Board. The
source said that such a centre would be the f irst of its kind in Pakistan.
The plan will have to be approved by the Ministry of Health which will study
it thoroughly. The details of the functioning of the Drug Addiction Centre
have been worked out. It is hoped that the Centre would play in identifying
the drug addiction problems and suggest adequate treatme.lt. (By Nurun
Nahar] [Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 24 Feb 82 p 5]
OVER 5 MAUNDS OF CHARAS SEIZED--A raid conducted by the Martial Law author-
ities and the police on three bungalows led to thF: recovery big haul of
charas and liquor in Malir yesterday. Eight persons were also arrested
during the raid. The contraband goods wiiich included more than five maunds
of charas and 208 bottles of liquor worth about Rs 20 40 000 the sources
said. According to reports one Karim had hired three bungalows in the
Boston Raza area in Malir where he used to run his narcotic dens. The area
police had arrested two of his narcotic pedlars on Wednesday and charas and
10 bottles of liquor were recovered from them. According to the break-up:
eleven kilos of charas and 39 bottles of liquor were seized and four persons,
Abdul Waheed, Ghulam Sarwar, Rahim Bux and AnGrar were hauled up. In another
raid in a house five maunds of charas concealed under Che heaps of stones .
were seized and two persons Shah Mohaumad and Ferdouse Khan were picked up
from there. In yet another raid two persons, Azhar Ali and Saeed Ahmed
were rounded up and a gun along with 16 rorads of cartridges and 169 bottles
of liquor were seized. (Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in Engliah 6 Mar 82
p 51
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HEROIN SEIZED, THREE HELD--The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has smashed
an international gang of narcotics smugglers, consisting mostly of former PIA
employees dismissed under MLO 52, and recovered about etght kilograms of
fine quality heroin from them. Three persons, Shahid Maqbool, Arif Raza and
Abul Hassan, have been arrested by the police. Shahid and Arif were removed
from the PIA service under MLG 52 while Abul Hassan is still working in the
PIA. Another person, Nadir Ali Khan Durrani also a dismissed PIA employee,
escaped to London, official sources said. Moreover, three more absconders:
Abdul Ghafoor Butt, a former security oEficer in the PIA; Choudhri Mohaimmad
Aslam, a former driver in the PIA; and Mushtaq, a businessman and leader of
the gang are being sought by the federal police. [Excerpt] [GF221120
Karachi DAWN in English 20 Mar 82 p 8 GF]
HEROIN SEIZED--Karachi, 12 March (Staff Reporter)--The Liaquatabad Division
Police arrested two persons today and recovered from their possession 4 kilos
of heroin worth 40 million rupees. According to details, the superintendent
of police, Liaquatabad received information that a large quantity of heroin
had been brought into the area. The police then started surveillance of
suspects. Last night Jauharabad police found two persons, Master Sultan and
Abdul Bari alis Rais, wandering around in a suspicious manner in the area
of Aisha Manzil. They were stopped and searched and 4 kilos of top quality
heroin, worth more than 40 million rupees in the foreign markets, was found
in their possession. According to the police report, Master Sultan lives in
New Karachi and Abdul Bari lives in A1-Azam. Master Sultan was said to be a
notorious drug dealer and has been arrested several times before. The two
accused are being questioned. [Text] [Karachi JANG in Urdu 13 Mar 82 p 121
CHARAS, OPIUM SEIZED--Mr Abdul Qayyum, District Excise Inspector of Peshawar
raided the house of one Kifaya.t K:-Lan, son of a railway employee, and
recovered 14,000 kilogram of charas and 800 kilograms of contraband opium.
The accused was handed over to the local police and further investi ation is
in progress. [Text] [Peshawa.r KHYBER MAIL in English 4 Mar 82 p 61
CS O: 5 300 /56 82
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PAILIPPINES
TOUGHER LAW TO CURB RISING PHILIPPINE DRUG ABUSE
Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 24 Feb 82 p 7
[Article by Emma Ruth Zafra]
[ Text ] Mppiyp; For "the first titne,
Philippine anti-narcotics auLha
rities encountered - last year
four cases of "Angle Dust"
abuse - in the country. it ia,
authorities were quick tcj note,
potentially the mosCdan�e*ous
drug on the street touay azd
medically more darigeraus than
herion. Angle Duat, or PCP (Pencycli-
dine hydrochlorida), it- a sur~cal
aneathetic developed- in the Iste
SOs but phich, ir m~nufactnced
todsy on1Y i~� iDegal hboratoria ia
tho West, mottiy ia the US. Euly .
testa have found hnmm patieab
wallcin6 up screaminB, in a shte of
temporery inaaaitY. Some of thwe
who und the chemiwl msnifegted
bizarte, oftm vloleat. behaviout.
One man under the iaflumce of
Ansle Dust reportedlY polled. out
his oarn tooth w}th s iet of, plfetr,
while uather, a woman, fdod her
owa baby in cookiaa oiL
But Angte Dua is amon8 the
last of the Philippine dtu8 a
blems, and ao lm thaa Preddent-
Marcos recently noted that the
incidence of ciimes in Yetm
ManiL ind other pacts of the aona-
'try has often been traoed to d1u8
abuse. 1[aoila Via Mayoc Junas
Bubere, a fo:ma polke wperin-
tendent, concede+ thst 9 wt of 10
crima igaiost ProPertY in this
apttal city are oommitted by thow
under.the latluence of druas.
Dtug abure hss alwsys bcea a
headache to polia in citia wlere
studetts tead to consregata And
evea 'In CenW Mindsoao a relati-
vely nu2l ma in'tha South - dru8
addictioa azrtonS schoolchildcea
and outof-school youths lut been
Hated u the mmbes one crime
probim. The Govenunmt b
cectaialY aot anund, brirft
dowa in mid-Febnuq a strkter �
verdon - the tifth change siaar
1972 - of the Dang.etous Dsug Act.
� For one thins, the Isw raWd �
imprbomnent apd even makiag
mece. Qomsiao of opium aad
marVuaaa whkh may maa a prison
sentena of ftom eix. to 12 art
impriwmnent, excapt for macluaaa
whkh may mean. a priwn sentmFe
of fmm six to 12 yeus (up from
the pervious penalty rangin; from,
dx months to 12 yeus).
A nevv providon holds that any'
polloe.offioer-found to,have mieap-
T~topriated or falled to account for
oonfiscatod drugs shall, upon
convktlpn, :be sentanoed upto 12
yesn ia pdron, PlusAitqwliflcxtion
for lite fmm public offfce. The
ktvolvemeat of some polia officen
~ dru8 ftaffickinB has reantly
come.out into the open, although
polioe sourcq say thepr has
been noticad as eatty~as~ the '
mid-609.
pt}a wurces say that aftar a
c~id on a mariJusms PLatstba+ fo:
i~qance. anly the laa potent, aad
1,~~ mcpenaive. lavel ue burned
ai~iie the mon wughtifter
mkjuana buds fiad theu� wsy Inta �
. the Illidt trade. ReoeatlY, the
ConstabulsrY (natbml
dwSO ~e-ful ofim~ai-
~ one of iq serganta. He
J ibiwought ffie aontrabaad to
the cih in udform, sllowing him
to t:avel namolated. - �
Aaothgt new proviaion is the
abolition of tsv.ards to iaforman
who tip police�otffoers about mari-
naaa ptanution~. Source~ ssy thre
~t has been ob:etved recently thst
��infotmets" snPP1Y Peamtt with
mu#oans seeds and tip tha polioe
�ats2t � the plaatstbn to set a
:ewa:d wt'dch oonld rach a
11
maxfiuuhn - of 15,000 pews
(S1,852). Rewardi wi11 cbntinne to
be given to tipa about other hud
dtugs. .
Crltics charge that the Govern-
meat b orer-raacHag to the drug
abuse sitoatbn with a stricter law.
They poiat out that a lot of peoQle
nonnally kaoan as hardworlcuig,
profddonalt casry their marguana
M6it berona ooueg). 'The nea mw
wfth m~ice auninala of all of them".
said oae ob:erMer. "They ahould go
alWut against puehars ud uaera of
hud Mugs itutead, aad liberaliie or
dectkAbdbs mu~uana laws, u is
the ttemd in the U"
In - ame American States,
limited poii:sdon and use of mari-
jwas L sIlowed today, s'rocopi-
tioA of the fact the - as in Califor-
nie - a lot of their raidenta, indu-
ding ptofessioatb,, are wing
marfusaa. P:o-mnijuans advocates
ugue thst the praotioe should not
be 6omidend crimhial.
Undec �the naw PhIIippina Drugs
Law, drug � iatoxiatkn while
committing a crime caa, for
iiutaace. eievaLe z chup of homi-
cide to muid.w. "I agcee thst drug-
related crima should be puaished
heavgy", ssys oae ob:erver. "But
the fact u, mwt wcrs of muijuaaa
are not prone to violeace".
Ldeed, a ptaidentW study
made in the U.S. in the euly 70s
fouad that m uans untt - u a
rule - ae irAbdagunhable from
tlieir peers, ee not prone to
violance, and ue not aven predis-
posed to graduate to harder drugs,
lat alone ddictioa to mugwna
(which tha atudy fouad to be
groundlad.
A UNESCO study made ia the
philippiras in 1976 found that to a
near mqjosity, street cornae Mera
the spawning Xrounds of drug
cbuae. Anoti:araG,e_'7 done in 1978,
fo,md thst 6alf of drug abuxrs in
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Metro Manlla high schools have a'
brother or dster imolved with
druga. Aht~at halt of thore tutNey-
h
ad have clon frieads takiug drugs
with three out o[ 10 ctaimmg that
all their frienda ue abo on dcugs.
Indad, the itovincial asembly
of Benguet, a mountaia provinoe in
Northern Luzoa, approved last,yar _
a rdolution s~-Xig-ba Govrerri-
ment authorlties to leg,alise Uu
plantiag of marguan:. The raolu-
uon's autho: ac4ued that it could
become Benguet s No. I ash crop
and major foreign exchangrearnGr�
Pcemium matMwaa aurentlY
oominands s top ,p~+ of 2.000 �
pewi (S247) per lafo. [n tui. Bea-
gnet is now. caosidered to be the
oounuY s blQat muw produ-
cer, the plaat pcobsb y evea clae
to mining md vqeetable 6cming aa
cna provina�: mmor inauatr.
The Banguet propod calls fos .
the export of procesred marijusns
to some Amerian states. A govern
ment agency will have the axclusive
right to buy directly from facmers
and export the commoditx, at the
aame .tnne cloeety :uve:viftx plan-
tatioru to pravent pilt'ec111le} The
Benguet oonttabulacY ProvincW
commaada caW the pcoposd
"ridlculous".
In 1991, a total of 249 juam
werpe rrided in SO provina (ia .
1972, thece wae only 12 provlnces .
known to cultivate muljwm)�
Mazluans caatianes to be tLe dcug
of choioe amoag dco8 abuan, u
evidenced_ by a recant wrvey of
patients la rehabilitatioa ceatra. It
a fatlowed - in PuPu1MtY - bY
5300/5683
fivo brand: of cough iy,v,s, s trU�
quili~er. tao cold tablel:, aaothes
three cou6h mv, glue, -and�
anotherttanquiWa. �
'fhe mimbac ofpeople urated
due to druB abuse iactaied fmm
2,587 in 1981. The yeariy asmsa-
mwt made br the Dangeroua Drugs
Board (DDB) capo:te that, in 1981,
dcug-rehted arceats contiaued to be
on the "npwud ttend". incceaiag
by 47 per oent from 1980. While
trnffic m and abnse of heroin and
other opiate. LSD aad oocaine
cemained undec cantrol, suthorities
ate appreheaaive that a spiTwver of
-herion~fo oms" u a re~ult of the -
bnmper opium~ crop ha:vest in the
Goiden Tr~aBle ls~t yeu.
Akeady. tbey raport a nrival of
herioa teatiio "ln imall anonnts" in
M.nw., . cebu .na Angto cities,
&Ithousii tha "Boupi rapondble
.wase immediatdy lmmobWsed'.'.
. In fict, widte the Philippines is
not s lucrative market for hecoia,
locat wthocitia - u aell u thoae
in the US.. Jamn ~~~ad Hong Kong
- bdieYe tlut ManiL fn: been u~ed
� u a ttamit . poirt in the iiter-
mtbwl harbn Wde. Eleven drug
maggliog aes wen encouate:ed
by anthaitia Wt yeac, lbur at the
Maaila IatemtioW Airport, the
nrt outslde the couatry. ' '
Even the .pauritycoascioua
Fort Bonifacio +amY ~p ~ M~~
,Mani4 it aot aoiampti fmm 'dnag
abuw. The � defesaa ' mlaister
nantly'ordered an imrestigstlon of
the Wlaged prerenoe of dtuQ pwhars
inside tlle amD, vlctimising morth'
cdildrea of wldten. Two out of S
studeats in the camp's victimldag
repcrtedlY into drugs; althougtr the
12
camp commaoder . sayt the Cgura
��(aze) dmply o'rerestimaftld".
But evarybody 'agres that drug
abuse is g~ttiog to be s common
fact of lifi in the muntry, from the
watch your-ar boy4 in Mamla's
busiest shdpp~ distc~ct anifMg glue for a"high . to tbr patties oY
the rich ia plusfi viYages� oE its
subucba:
Polioe sry thst drug deah ue
often held in expensive hotela and
disco hou~ea, wh~e childrea of
squatter famMea anoka marijuana
on the street in brod daylighi. �
ErVty bottks of aouah :yrups
abound in the iwlated cornera of
public high achoots, while children
of rich aad middle. clsa funilie:
indulge in Umnquiliiers inside
exclwive Catholic schoolL .
Maails plans to put up lb won
d:ug tga hborttosieo in ach of �
the four tricts. The polloe aay
imestigation of dcug-relsted crima
has boen delayed by lack of testing
facili at praent done by the
National Buruyt of Investigatloa.
With the mini-laboratoria, polioe
to get tat resulu aithin hourL
� Them ne curmtlp, �lZ, drug
rehabilltatioe. centros � ; ia-, the
wuntry. including one ahich was
closed Wt January due to inado-
'quate facilitia. T1ure am ~la 15
hospitala with peychlaMc facilitia,
moat of than oonantrsted in
Mauo ManiL. Authoritia acpect
more drug nhsbilitation cxntm ue
in the offing, Mith plam slready
beiag mde for Manila, Quaoa
City. Cebu Clty, and tao towns in
Panga~a province in Central
Luzon.
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BRIEFS
MARIJUANA PUSHER GETS 20-YEAR TERM--For selli.ng 050 worth of marijuana three
years ago, a 29-year man was sentenced yesterday to a maximum prison
term of 20 years. Sentericed by the MarLila circuit crim nal court for viola-
tion af Section 4, Article II of the Republic Act 6425 was Danil-a L. Taysan,
of 800 Sto. Tomas st., Sampaloc, Manila. He was also ordered bi Judge Amante
Q. Alconcel to pay a fine of @20,000. Tayson was arrested on Oct. 6, 1978 af-
ter selling 40 sticks of marijuana to a member of the Constabulary anti-nar-
cotics unit (CANU) who posed as a drug user. His trial, however, was deferred
~ after he was found to be a drug dependent himself by the dangerous druqs
board. The board ordered Tayson's confinement at the drug rehabilitation cen-
ter in Tagaytay city fmm Novemaer, 1978 to February, 1980. In his decision,
Judge Alconcel said drug pushers are similar to subversives as both "seek to
destroy the Republic." "These are dangerous criminals who are instrumental in
the spread of drug addiction," he said. [Manila BULLETIN TODAY in English
6 Mar 82 pp l, 91
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THAILAND
LY.S. PROPOSAL TO SWAP DRUG COHVICTS OPPOSED
BK170201 Bangkok POST in English 17 Mar.82 p 3
[Text] A top narcotics officer yesterday expressed disagreement with a
proposal for the exchange of prisaners by certain foreign cowntries.
Addressing members of the American Chamber of Commerce at a limcheon yester-
day, Se cretary- General of the Office of the Narcotics Control. Board (ONCB),
Pol Maj-Gen Phao Sarasin said: "Drug traffickers are worse than murderers.
They should be kept in jail for a long time--at least for 20 years because
they w311 never refrain from drug trafficking. They will return to the same
- business r_`_ght after their release."
he also noted that Thailand has made several artempts to suppress the drug
trade and arrested many drug smugglers. However, certain coimtries still
want those convicted of drug offences back to their cowztries. The United
States, Canada and France have proposed prisoner exchange treaties with
'I'hailand but the issue is still under nego*iations.
Gen Phao disclosed that some 140 kilogrammes of heroin, mostly top-grade
No 4, were seized and 229 people arrested at Don Muang Airpost last year.
Most of the drugs were destined directly or indirectly to Hong Kong, Paris
and Amsterdam, he added. A total of 254 foreigners 28 nationalities were
also arrested last year on drug charges all over the country, Gen Phao said.
Gen Phao said opium crops produced in Thailand this year were a little less
than last year's record of 54 tons because of an unusually 1ong rainy season.
He also estimated that opium crops in Burma would total about 500 tons.
He explained that there are seven minority groups engaging in opium trafficking
along the route stretching from Mae Sai District of Chiang Rai to Mae Hong
Son Province. Most of the trofficking was tmder the control of the Shan
United Army led by Khum Sa,
Other groups are the Shan State Revolution Army, Shan State Army Eastern,
Lahu National Liberation Arnry, Wa National Defence Force and the Kachin
Independence Army with about 200 men in each group.
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THAILAND
NEW GUIDELINES PLADNED IN ADITI-OPIUM DRIVE
a BK020212 Bangkok NATION REVIEFI in English 2 Mar 82 p 1
[Text] The government is to revise guidelines for related agencies to
dissuade hilltribesmen from growing opium in the north, a senior government
official said yesterday. National Secur3.ty Couacil (NSC) Secretary General
Squadron Leader Prasong Sunsiri said that Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanon
on 15 January set up a committee to review the government's previous efforts
over the issue.
The committee, which met for the first time yesterday, assigned the NSC
secretary general to draw up new guidelines and measures for the govemment
drive against opium plantation in the north.
Prasong said that the meeting discussed problems facing the government in
its efforts to eradicate the remaining poppy fields which totalled about
35,000 rai.
"Various government agencies concerned still face the problem of overlapping
responsibilities without adequate cooperation," he said.
The meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Miniter Gen Prachuap Suntharangkun,
also discussed policy and administrative problems which obstructed the task
to weed out opium cultivation in the north.
Prasong did not say when the next meeting of the committee would take place,
but said that he would complete drafting the new policy and guidelines
"as soon as possible." "I will submit the new plan to the next meeting of
the committee," said Prasong who is secretary of the committee.
- Other members of the committee include Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Gen Rian
Dithabanchong, Natioiial Police Chief Pol Gen Suraphon Chunlaphram, the
director general of the Central Investigation Bureau and Secretary;- General
of the Of�ice of the Narcotics Control Board Pol Maj Ren Phao Sarasin.
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THAILAND
KHUN SA-LED ARMY TO STRIKE MIHORITIES
BK120157 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 12 Mar 82 p 6
[Text] Mae Sot, Tak--A minority group leader said yesterday that between
500-700 Shan rebels led by Khun Sa are rallying in an area opposite Mae Ai
District of Chiang Mai in what he believed to be preparations for an attack
on two rival rebel groups.
Lt Col Sao Hseng Harn, who claimed to be a representative of the so-called
"Shan State Progressive Party," said Khun Sa`s target;: were t..ze strongholds
of Wa and Lahu minority groups. Both targets are located neai: Nong Yawno,
a Burmese town opposite Ban Thadon of Fang District, he said.
Lt Col Sao, who was present. during a press conference held near here by
representatives of seven minority groups on Wednesday, Cold the NATION that
Khun Sa wanted to capture the two strongholds for his Shan United Army.
The two aforementioned minority groups have a total armed strength of about
500 men, he said. "We expect the offensive to start very soon," he said.
Lt Col Sao is also vice president of the National Democratic Front--a united
front binding seven minority groups which are fighting against the government
in Rangoon.
- Bo riya, who is leader of the Karen National Union, is its president.
Lt Col Sao also claimed that Khun Sa, a wanted drug kingpin who fled a
recent military offensive by the Thai Government, was also believed to be
present in the area [where] his forces were rallying.
They said Khun Sa was preparing to strike at four hilltribe groups which he
accused of supporting the recenr_ Thai Government's offensive against him
at Ban Hin Taek in Chiang Rai.
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TiiA"ILAND
BRIEFS
HEROIN SMUGGLER TO U.S. ARRESTED--A tour guide was arrested yesterday morning
at Don Muang Airport and charged with attempting to smuggle 3.kilomgrammes
of No 4 first grade heroin out of the coimtry. Chup Wongchaturaphak, 31, told
the Metropolitan Narcotics Unit (MNU) police that he was only to deliver the
drugs to a Thai, whom he identified only as `Lek` in Dallas, Texas. However,
MNU polide said they believed Chup was a member of a Thai drugs gang operating
in the United States and his passport showed that he entered the United
States many times before. Cyp was arrested while about to board a Thai
international flight to the United StaCes yesterday morning. The drugs
were foimd in secret compartments at the bottom of the two suitcases he was
carrying. He was initially detained at the Crimes Suppression Division on
charges of possessing the drugs with intent to sell and attempted smuggling.
(Text) [i3X120303 Bangkok POST in English 11 Mar 82 p 3]
OPIUM SMUGGLED FROM LAOS SEIZEb--Loei--Tao men were arrested yesterday in
Pak Chom District of this northeastern province after smuggling in 22 kilo-
grammes of raw opium from Laos, police reported. Police said that they were
informed by Deputy Governor Mangkon Thongsuwan that 1�'i-re would be opium
smuggled across the border from Laos to be dalivered to a drug dealer in Ban
- Nakhor Village of Tambon Pak Chom yeste~day. After being informed, a team of
Pak Chom police, led by Chief Inspector Pol Lt-Col Prasoet Prieuwanit, waited
in the village, police said. Police approached two men they saw pushing
a motorcycle and a wheelcart along a trial and they found 22.2 kilogrammes
of raw opium wrapped in newspapers in their wheelcart, police said. Arrested
were Wirat Malasi, 25, and Choen Ratwongsa, who were later charged with
- possessing drugs with intent to sell. They were detained in Pak (hom police
station, police added. [Text] [BK120303 Bangkok WORLD in English 10 Mar 82
p 3]
HONG KONG CHINESE SMUGGLER JAILED--A Hong Kong Chinese man was yesterday
sentenced to 25 years in 3ai1 by the criminal court after being convicted
of possessing heroin for sale and attempting to smuggle the drug abroad.
Choy Wing-cho, 21, was arrested at Don Muang Airport on 14 November last year
as he was about to board a Lufthansa plane for West Germany; police found
405 grammes of heroin in a cardboard box h.,* was carrying. [Text] [BK190126
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SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH CHEMICAL POSSESSION--Chiang Mai--7.tao soldiers attached
co the Defence Energy Department in Fang District were arrested yesterday and
charged with illegal possession of 182 kilogrammes of ascetic anhydride--
a chemical used in heroin processing. At 11 am officials of the Office of
the Narcotics Control Board (ONGB), customs and Chiang Daa police intercepted
a pick-up truck driven by Chief Warrant Officer Thongsuk Bunprasoet and
Sargeant Thongkham Wangphan at Chiang Dao checkpoint. Inside the truck
the officials reportedly uncovered five plastic bags containing the chemical.
It is not yet known where the two soldiers were heading. Last year the ONCB
declared districts bordering the Burmese and Malaysian borders as chemical free
zones. Fo ur chemicals that are used in heroin ref ining-- including ascetic
anhydride and ascetic chloride--were forbidden in those areas. Thongsuk and
Thongkham were last night detained at Chiang Dao police station for further
ques*ioning. [Text] [BK190126 Bangkok POST in English 17 Mar 82 p 31
DRUGS SEIZED IN NORTH--Chiang Mai--About 260 kg of narcotics, including about
26 kg of heroin, has been seized here during the past 5 months, a senior
police official repor.ted yesterday. Ch.iang Mai Plice Chief Pol Col Kasem
Sukphong said police seized about 26 kg of heroin, about 243 kg of raw opium
and 1,525 litres chemical liquid needed for the refining of opium into
heroin during the period. Thirty-six persons were also arrested in connec-
tion with the seized narcotics duri.ng the period between 1 October last year
- and 9 March, according to the provincial police chief. He admitted that the
seized narcotics was only "the tip of an iceberg." "A relatively large amount
of heroin has been smuggled out to foreign cotmtries," he said. [Text]
[BK190126 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 16 Mar 82 p 6]
ANTIDRUG FIGHTING IN SOUTH--Hat Yai--Anti-narcotics force in this commercial
town is finding ways to increase the number of personnel and introduce new
equipment to fight against the increasing drug flow in thesouth. Pol Maj
Prasit Khlaimuk, a police officer directly in charge of the anti-narcotic
work here said Hat Yai had become one of the biggest drug trafficking centres.
He said the Office of the Narcotic Control Board (ONCB) was considering
increasing the size of the anti-narcotic force here to cope with the situa-
tion. An informed source said there were about five to six major drug
suppliers here but because of the consistent suppression by government
authorities ghey had been keeping a very low profile rece::tly. [Text]
[BK190126 Bangk.ok NAT]:ON REVIEW in English 17 Mar 82 p 3]
MARIHUANA SEIZED IN GLASS FACTORY--Samutprakan--More than 3 tons of marihuana
was seized yesterday along with a number of guns and ammunition from a glass
tube factory in this provincial town about 25 kilometres from Bangkok,
police reported. Three men, including the factory owner, were arrested.
Police said a combined force of crime suppression division policemen and
customs officials raided the U.A.A. glass factory following a tipoff that
the factory had been exporting marihuana. The combined team said they fotmd
more than 3 tons of marihuana pressed into sticks and packed into cartons
inside the factory. Twenty items of equipment used in pressing and packing
marihuana, two Colt .375 pistols, a.38 revolver, a baretta 6.35 handgun and
more than 300 cartridges were also found there, police said. The tnree
arrested men were identified by police as Adun Siwatthana, 34, the owner of
the factory, and two of his workers, Somphong Philat, 32, and Sawet Ummarin,
35. Police said Adun first claimed that the marihuana belonged to one of
his frien ds but later admitted owning it. He also admitted owning the guns
which he said were used to practice shooting, police added. [Text] [Bangkok
POST in English 9 Mar 82 p 51
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R!:i1AMAS
' BRIEFS
COCAINE SEIZED--Cocaine worth $128.75 million was found aboard a twin-
engine Cessna 404 that landed at Bimini yesterday. The incident happened
when a U.S. customs surveillance plane spotted the twin-engine Cessna
flying to Florida from the Bahamas, an Associated Press report said. The
plane was followed to Lake Okeechobee where it began to circle looking
for its landing site. "We suspect that the waiting off-loading crew
spotted our plane and signalled the Cessna by radio," said Jim Dingfelder
of the U.S. Customs. After that the Cessna turned around and flew towards
Bimini where the U.S. Coast Guard said it landed. The U.S. Coast Guard
saw two people run into the woods. Thsy contacted the drug enforcement
agency who notified the local Bahamian authorities, said AP. The local
police and customs searched the plane and found 515 pounds of cocaine
on board--worth an estimated $128.75 million on the open market. The
plane was impounded and the coca3ne flown to Nassau this afternoon.
jTextJ [FL161230 Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 11 Mar 82 p 11
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BOLIVIA
UN HELP TO FIGHT NARCOTICS REQUESTED
PY120037 Za. Paz EL DIARIO in Spanish 13 Feb 82 p 1
[Text] United Nations, 12 Feb (DPA)--The Bolivian ambassador to the United
Nations in New York, Fernando Ortiz de Sanz, today called on the governments
of the great powers to help his coim.try combat drug traffic.
Ortiz de Sanz said that "there are some developing countries i.n the Middle
East, Asia and Latin America which have the misfortune to produce, due to
natural conditions, some of the basic material for making opium, cocaine and
other drugs.
"This involves countries lacking in major resources," he continued, "but,
in contrast, it is tne large urban centers of the rich countries that are the
sites of the drug markets, and it. is from them that the Mafia collect the
billions of dollars with which it is closing the circle of crime, corrupting
governments and violating borders in order to promote this atrocious type of
business."
The diplomat remarked that if the international commimity wants to wage an
effective battle agai.nst "this cancer of modern society, drug addition"
there is no doubt that the prosperous nations will have to provide the
necessary resources.
"We cannot do it," Ortiz de Sanz added. He said that "our countries are
passing stiff laws agai.nst the clandestine manufacture and against the
illicit trafficking in drugs, and we are taking the most extreme customs
measures."
The ambassador also said that he was not asking a cent for Bolivia, but in
order to do away with the evil that does not recognize borders.
Ortiz de Sanz met late yesterday with the UN secretary general.
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BOLIVIA
ANTIDRUG OFFICIAL ON PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN
PY041234 La Pa2 Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 1100 GMT 3 Mar 82
[Text] Col Raul Gonzalez Fe�Lry, director general of the National Council
for Struggle Against Drug Trafficking, has regretted that a group of peasants
in the Yapacani area has defied the laws which have been dictated for the sole
purposP of fighting the manufacture and trafficking of dangerous drugs.
Colonel (Gonzalez Ferry) said that this situation is causing concern in the
organization under his leadership, adding that the breakers of the law will
be punished for their activities, since Yapacani is not an area that
traditionally produces coca leaves.
The executive in charge of the branch carrying out the struggle against this
evil, again5t which the government has undertaken a strong campaign, stated
that the funds available to his organization will always remain insufficier.t,
taking into account the large amotm.t of money at the disposal of drug
traffickers in the country.
He then said that the National Coim cil for Struggle Against Drug Trafficking
is now engaged in the implementation of the program to replace coca planta-
tions, a basic stage in the enterprise of eradicating cocaine manufacturing.
He stated that this program is part of a development program which should be
supported by international organizations, as was said some time ago. Colonel
(Gonzalez Ferry) said that the preparation of the program was well Lmderway
and that its implementation can be foreseen within the next 2 or 3 months.
He also confirmed recent reports by his office about an incident which had
taken place between drug repression personnel and peasants at (Ipiganta), a
place in Cochabamba Department.
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BOLIVIA
PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY DISCUSSES DRUG TRAFFIC
PY190117 Paris AFP in Spanish 0220 GMT 12 Mar 82
[Text] La Paz, 11 Mar (AFP)--Juan Carlos Duran, minister secretary of the
presidency, said here today that the United States has complete information
about the problem of drug traffic in Bolivia and is seriously concerned over
its expansion.
Duran received the visit of U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr, who was accompanied
by Dominick Di Carlo, assistant secretary of state for international narcotics
matters. The minister secretary said that the government is highly concerned
about carrying out a massive campaign to fight this international scourge,
drug traffic.
In a brief statement Ambassador Corr said: We held a very frank and open
exchange of opinions on the problems of the drug traffic.
In answer to a question about the state of the fight against cocaine
trafficking, Duran in dicated that although there has been no great progress,
several cases have been sent to the regular courts; the National Directorate
for the Control of Dangerous Substances has been reorganized; coordinated
work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is being carried out; and
many cocaine factories have been destroyed.
He added that some progress has been made in the legal field with the approval
of a law on dangerous substances and drugs and that progress has been made
in the substitution for coca -aultivation. In this regard, several experts
have indicated that Bolivia needs about $5 million to bring to completion the
substitution of crops for cocaine.
Duran said that Bolivia`s international image on matters of drug traffic is
really bad; therefore everyone should cooperate in the struggle against the
drug traffickers.
Duran said that during his conversations with Di Carlo, the U.S. official
said that there are possibilities of increasing international cooperation in
the antidrug campaign. He also indicated that the U.S. Government has not
posed any conditions for this aid. He added that the U.S. Government is
concerned at a possible increase of this illegal activity and that this should
not only be a concern of the United States but also of Bolivia.
In conclusion, he said that the government, through the Office for the
Struggle Against Drug Traffic, is studying the return of the armed forces
to the campaign against this illegal activity.
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\
BRIEFS
COCAINE TRAFFICKER ON TRIAL--La Paz, 10 Mar (AFP)--It was reported here today
that Oberto Suarez Gomez, :.~ho is accused of being the maia drug trafficker
in Bolivia, was included in a tiial opened at the request of the district
prosecutor. Suarez, whose children and wife have been detained in Geneva,
Switzerland for traveling with forged passports, is considered the most
important contact of the international cocaiae Mafia in Bolivia. There are
11 other persons included in that trial. The United States I:as made clear
to the Bolivian Government that in order to completely nornalize diplomatic
and economic relations, the traffic of cocaine must be eradicated from the
country. According to press rumors, Suarez is in Bolivia and he strolls
the streets with impunity. It is even said that he has a fleet of airplanes
which allows him to move without any difficulty in the eastern and wooded
region of the coimtry. It is presumed that once all legal requirements are
fulfilled, the Foreign Ministry will request the extradition of the members
of Suarez' family to face trial. [Text] [PY171935 Paris AFP in Spanish
2327 GMT 10 Mar 82]
DRUG TRAFFICKINCr-The Bolivian and U.S. Governments have expressed great
~ concern over the international scourge of drug trafficking and their intention
to combat it., Juan Carlos Durand, the presidential secretary general and
[acting] information ministery, made this statement at the end of a meeting
that U.S. Embcasy officials held with President Torrelio. He said that both
partieG expressed a desire to start a massive campaign to combat this
international scourge and to eradicate it through joint undertakings. Durand,
who said that the struggle against drug trafficking has achieved significant
progress in the past 6 months, noted a series of laws and measures that have
been put in force in this regard. At the meeting that President Torrelio
held with U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
International Narcotics Matters Dominick Di Carlop and Planning Chief
(Paul Glosow) they dis cussed this issue in detail, in addition to the need
for greater international cooperation to carry out a more effective campaign
against drug trafficking. [Text] [PY121513 La Paz Radio Illimani Network
in Spanish 1100 GMT 12 Mar 821
ANTIDRUG PERSONNEL DISMISSAL--La Paz, 26 Feb (TELAM)--Approximately 90 percent
of the personnel of the Cochabamba branch of the Bureau for the Control of
Dangerous Drugs have been discharged for bullying peasants of the Chapare
area, according to an announcement made by p'refect, Lt Col Guido Sandoval
Zambrana. According to reports aubmitted by the peasants, the agents
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indulged in excesses under the pretext of controlling cocaine traffic. They
confiscated farm prcducts and money from peasants of this department, the third
most important of the country. The prefect said that the'crimes perpetrated
by the agents will not go iapunished and added that an investigation will be
held in order to compensate the relatives of peasants who were killed during
a clash which came about as a reaction to the bullying of the agents. The
prefect also revealed that 10 agents involved in various incidenta are
im der arrest. [Text] [Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish 1930 GMT 26 Feb 821
COCAINE FACTORY DISCOVERED--The Ranger Regiment last Sunday discovered a
clandestine cocaine factory in Monte Cristo, 110 km from Santa Cruz. It has
been reported that 30 persons, who were not identified, were arrested and that
54 kg of cocain.e was seized. [PY151829 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in
Spanish 1700 GTTT 15 Mar 82 ]
ARGENTINE-BOLIVIAN BORDER CLASH--Salta (DYN)--A gun battle between a border
- guard patrol Emd a group of smugglers ended ia the death of one of the
latter, the arrest of 10 others and a haul of 6 kilos of cocaine and about
1,000 kilos of coca leaves in 20 sacks, borderYguard sourcea reported yesterday.
The clash took place early yesterday morning in Pocitos, a dense tropical
forest area on the border with Bolivia, and the latter were waiting for their
prey as a result of a tipoff from a Spaniard, who was arrested a week ago but
whose name was not given. [Text] [Buenos Aires HERALD in Engli:sh 18 Mar 82
p 11]
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JAMI4:CCA
VESSEL, CREW OF FOUR, 2 TONS OF MARIJUANA SEIZED
Kingston TiE Dr1ILY GLEANER in English 26 Feb 82-'p 15
[Photo Caption]
[Text] GAiVJA BOAT: This is the HALCxON, which was seized by the coast guard
- offshore Trelawny on Friday, February 12. The vessel contained 4,000 lb. of
compressad qanja with an estimated street value of some US $2-millian on the
international market. Three Americans and a Jamaican were arrested and char-
ged with possessian of ganja, trafficking ganja and attempting to export ganja.
Z'he three Americans who pleaded guilty to the charqes were fined a total af
$11,500 each or an alternative sentence of three years, in the Resident Magis-
trate's Court at Clark's Town on February 15. The Jamaican was remanded in
custody to reappear in Court at a later date. The coast guard vessel which
intercepted the "Halcyon" is in background.
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MEXICO
RESULTS OF JANUARY-FEBRUARY ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN IN ZONE 6
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 3 Mar 82 p 5
- [Text] It was during the first 2 months of this year that the greatest activity
was evident in the battle against drug trafficking, from the standpoint of the
destruction of plantations by fumigation; because it was that that time that
the largest number of them was detected, possibly due to the fact that the
rain had by then ended and the dry season was still far off.
In making the foregoing statement, Hector Aviles Castillc, coordinator for
Zone 6" of the permanent campaign against drug trafficking established on a
national level by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, said
':hat a program is being devised, to be started within the next few days, which
_ is aimed at intensifying the locating of plantations by all possible means, and
kit destroying them immediately.
He explained that the statistics that have been kept on this subject indicate
that the period of the greatest activity consists of the month of February;
noting that, this year, although this does not indicate that the situation has
become difficult, there was a considerable increase in the areas planted with
poppies in particular.
And, to corroborate his ciaim, he gave us the following figures:
January Marihuana and Poppies (Plantations)
1977
2,195
4,794
1978
72
2,961
1979
2
1,554
1980
93
843
1981
170
1,219
1982
22
1,466
February Marihuana and Poppies (Plantations)
1977
218
11,357
1978
211
3,832
1979
110
1,529
1980
24
1,240
1981
40
2,502
~ 1982
4
2,035
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In this connection, Aviles Castillo explained that the fleet of six fumigating
helicopters, five of which are for backup, with a small airplane, will be
increased by four ddditional craft for fumigation; and that the reconnaissance
flights will also be increased, so as to have more potential for acting to
prevent harvests from being made.
Returning to the statistics, the.Lone 6 coordinator said that, during 1980,
1,676 poppy plantations were located, as wexe 234 marihuana plantations; while
last year the totals were 3,911 poppy and 877 marihuana plantations.
February Results
In commenting on the activities carried out last month, he noted that 67 persons
had been arrested, from whom three long-barre3.ed weapons and one short-barreled
weapon, plus seven useful cartridges, were seized, twa clandestine laboratories
were discovereA and four vehiclea were confiscated. A total of 205 kilograms
and 23 grams of marihuana, and 45 grams of poppy seed, were seized. As for
opium gum, the amount found in the possession of those arrested was 2 kilograms
and 65 grams, and the heroin totaled 193 grams.
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MEXICO
POPPY PLANTATIONS, CLANDESTINE LABORATORY DISCOVERED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 21 Feb 82 p 4
[Text] The investigations conducted by the Federal Judicial Police led them
to arrest Ricardo Ochoa Rojas and Nicolas Carranza Felix, who had been engaged
in growing poppies, an assignment given them by Severianfl. Gutierrez Armenta,
~ who was also arrested subsequently.
According to reports obtainen by EL SOL DE SZNALOA, the first two individuals
were reported by telephone, anv on 13 February members of the policy entity
went to the Los Naranjos farm, in the township of Imala, where they were
located and captured.
During the course of the interrogation, the subjects in custody stated that,
on a site known as "La Quebrada del Rincon" in the same township, there was
a plantation. Upon going there, they indicated exactly the location, on 75
square meters, of plants already 40 centimeters tall, scattered at the rate
of six per square meter.
They also admitted that, on Isla Tacuiloli, which is located between the Los
Naranjos farm and the Humaya River, there was another plantation on an expanse
of 5,000 square meters, with plants 42 centimeters tall, distributed in the
same proportion as on the former one. Both plantations were razed by the
Judicial Police.
In the same statements, they noted that Gutierrez Armento had given them a
bottle containing poppy seed, and that they had agreed to plant it, so that
the product obtained could be later divided among the three of them.
It was on 17 February that Gutierrez Armenta was arrested, while traveling
along the International Highway, at the headquarters of the Ninth Military
Zone, in a red Datsun pickup truck with license plates TNK-63, showing the
well-known spiders.
UFon being interrogated, this person provided information
possible to diacover a clandestine labaratory located on
farm. The investigators went there and collected all thP
were on the premises.
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MEXICO
SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION OF MARIHUANA IN SONORA REPORTED
Hermosillo EL IMPARCIsL in Spanish 2 Mar 82 Sec D p 6
[Text] Nogales, Sonora, 1 March--The health authorities burned 200 kilograms
of marihuana valued at 1.5 million pesos which was turned over by the Federal
Public Ministry agency with'headquarters on this border.
The burning of the grass took place at 1200 hours on the grounds of the Health
Center, in the presence of its director, Dr Luis Cervantes Garcia; the admin-
istrator, Roberto Sanders Nava; the secretary of the institution; and Federal
Judicial Police agents wro guarded the baga containing the 200 kilograms of
mar3huana.
According to information provided by Dr Cervantes Garcia, the injurious grass
was confiscated from the presumed drug traffickers Enrique Celaya Suarez, Juan
Alva;o Marquez Nunez and Jesus Regalado, in connection with investigative action
on the part of the Federal Police entity's officers.
He remarked that the marihuana, which was presumably to be marketed in the
United States by its owners, was aeized in the residence of one of the latter
in the Lomas de Nogales housing development in this town.
It was announced that those preaumed responsible were turned over to the Fede-
ral Public Ministry agency so that the charges stemming from the illegal busi-
ness might be brought against them, according to law.
The burning of the 200 kilograms today is the second occasion when grass
seized by the Federal Judicial Police has been burned thus far this year;
the first time involving 63 kilograms confiscated in the town of Agua Prieta,
according to Cervantes Garcia.
Marihuana Seized in Ciudad Obregon
Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, 1 March--Today, the Federal Judicial Police :onfiscated
350 grams of marihuana in a washing and lubricating shop owned by Luis Carlos
Borboa, aged 23.
After questioning, Borboa admitted that he had turned over an equal amount to
an individual named Jose Luis Galaviz, aged 32, and another named Heriberto
Rodriguez Uranga, aged 40, who were to be responaible for selling it. The
grass distributors attempted to obtain 26,000 pesos. All three were held in
cells, so as to ascertain where they had been prociiring the product.
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
~DRUG RINGLEADER CAPTURED--Luis Garcia Madrid, the head of the drug trafficking
ring broken up yesterday by agents of the Federal Security Office, who seized
a huge drug shipment, has been caught. He was overwhelmed and about to be
riddled with bullets on the site where he was apprehended. The least that
can happen to him is to be held and, after the trial brought against him, be
"confined" behind bars for many years, reportedly because, despite protection,
his participation and liability in these and other actions has been fully
confirmed. This individual was protected against acts of the Police Inspector's
Office, the State Judicial Police, the Preliminary Investigations Department,
and both the assistant and assigned agent of the Federal Public Ministry, but
_ not against the Federal Police, much less the Security Office. And, even if
he obtained thi.s protection and showed us the document indicating the protection,
we would have det�ai.~ned him, as we shall do at the first s.Li;. ? fihat :occurs, :that is,
unless he has already escaped:. to Sinaloa, where that type of individual goes
to take shelter. "E1 Gordo" as he is also called, arranged for protection in
his behalf and that of his accomplices, Gilberto Ontiveros Lucero, Magda Alicia
Garcia Madrid and Bertha Alicia Munoz Guerrero. [Text] [Ciudad Juarez EL
FRONTERIZO in Spanish 22 Feb 82 Sec B p 2] 2909
HEROIN DISTRIBUTOR ARRESTED--Rafael Amador Valdez was arrested by members of
the Federal Judicial Police as a result of the investigations conducted b,y
that entity to locate the person responsible for distributing heroin among the
addicts in the state, which proved that this individual was one of the suppliers
of that drug. After being questioned, the sub3ect in custody said that he had
actually been angaged in selling drugs to anyone who requested them. At the
time of his arrest, he had in his possession seven small aluminum foil envelopes
containing a total of 8 grams of Heioin.' The subject explained that he had been,
operating in this activity for some time, and gave the names of his customers,
whom he claimed to knbw quite well,'because they are complete addicts. The
Federal Judicial Police investigation ia continuing, because an attempt is
being made to establish the identity of those engaged in marketing the drug,
so as to ascertain its origin, and arrest those guilty of that illegal activity.
M-anwhile, according to the Federal Judicial Police, this individual will be
turned over to the agent of the Federal Public Ministry for whatever crimes
against health may be charged to him, beginning with the possession and distri-
bution of drug products. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 22 Feb 82
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DRUGS, WEAPONS SEIZED--Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, 19 February (NOTIMEX)--Agents
of the Federal Security Office, under orders from Comdr Ramon Rodriguez,
seized 1,600 kilograms of marihuana, three kilograms of cocaine, some high-
powered weapons and two drug traffickers. After a brief shooting confrontation,
they captured the drug traffickers Adolfo Quinones Avilg and his nephew,
Eduardo Vargas Quinones. Escaptin$ them was Luis "Gordo" Garcia Madrid, the
right-hand man of Bonifacio "Boni" Contrerao, who is currently serving a 7-year
- term in the local prison for the same crime. The operation, which was organized
in Mexico City by Comdr Miguel Aldama del Carmen, took place at No 5 Sierra del
Carmen Street, in the E1 Granjero housing development located at kilometer 18 of
the Pan-American Highway. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in
- Spanish 20 Feb 82 pp 1, 2] 2909
JAIL OFFICIALS ACQUITTED--The judge of the first instance in penal proceedings,
Hector Pablo Aguilar Osuna, reported to EL DIARIO a confirmation of the
decision for acquittal which arrived in ~:hat court yesterday from the State
Superior Court of Justice. From Saltillo came the confirmation of the decision
for acquittal of the individuals tried for escape of prisoners, namely, Guada-
lupe Martinez Ramos, who was serving as deputy warden of the jail at the time
of the escape, and Domingo Vazquez Na3era, who holds the same position; as
well as for the 3ai1 guards at the time, Antonio Rosas and Francisco Ramirez,
both of whom were tried for escape of prisoners. The incidents occurred over
a year ago in this town, when the drug.trafficker Ruben Fonseca succeeded in
fleeing during that escape. Other inmates also escaped at the time through a
tunnel that they had made in plenty of time. They left from a side of the jail,
and it was in ce11 number 9 that the tunnel was sealed. Yesterday, they were
notified of the confirmation of the decision for acquittal by the Superior
Court of Justice in Saltillv, Coahuila, which had been lssued tiheun by the judge
of the first instance in penal proceedings, Hector.Pablo Aguilar Osuna, in this
town. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 10 Feb 82
Sec D p 4] 2909
HEROIN SEIZED--A heavy blow was dealt to the organized drug traffic yesterday,
when Federal Judicial Police forces seized 2 kilograms of pure heroin with a
black market value of 10 million pesos, which was confiscated at the Health
Station located opposite the towa of Ben3amin Hill, Sonora. It was in the
fEtnder of a Ford sedan driven by Mr Norberto Contreras Moreno that the agents
- found Che drugs, which had come from the state of Puebla and were bound for
the city of Los Angeles, California. The agent of the Federal Public Ministry,
Ernesto Avila Triana, showed three plastic containers, one of which held the
heroin concentrate which, according to the individual under arrest, was to
be mixzd with other drugs and then sold. Avila Triana said that the campaign
against drug trafficking in Sonora is a permanent campaign han.dled by Jaron
Juarez Jimenez, which is carried out by means of close surveillance on the
highways, in the cultivation areas and in the town itself, action which is
performed by members of this police entity with the aid of trained dogs
called "Fritz" and helicopters. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish
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MARIHUANA FIELDS DESTROYED--Guamuchil, Sin., 2 Marcn--Poppy and marihuana
fields were destroyed this past February by members of ti:� Fourth Infantry
Battalion. The planted fields were in the mountain range between the munici-
paZities of Badiraguato and Mocorito, in small areas where corn was also planted.
Lieutenant Colonel Jose Beltran Antuna, deputy commander of the above mentioned
battalion, explained that 124 drug plantations were destroyed, but that it had
not been possible to arrest those who had planted the fields. [By Rosario
Oropeza] [Text] [Plexico_ City EXfiEISIOR in Spanish 3 Mar 82 p 36-A] 8255 U.S. DRUG TRAFFI(xFRS CAPTURED--A DC-6 aircraft loaded with 6 tons of
marijuana crashed today while trying to make an emergency landing on the
Pan-American Highway, kilometer 24, southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.
Its occupants, U.S. citzens John Patrick Donahue and Brand Mayer Russel and
Julian Noriega Junior, a Colombian, were captured by state and federal
authorities. The trio confessed they had obtained the drug in Colombia and
were transporting it to the U.S. black market. [FL171038 Mexico City
NOTIMEX in Spanish 2225 GMT 15 Mar 82]
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LIBERIA
BRIEF S
MARIJUANA SEIZED AT AIRPORT--Two extra large suit cases of marijuana estimated
at $150,000 were Manday intercepted by the Joint Security Forces of the Roberts
_ International Airport (RIA). The Commander of the Joint Security Force at RIA,
Colonel Daniel Doe said that the luggage which arrived on board a Swiss Air
flight had been turned over to the Ministry of Defense for disposition. Col.
Doe also stated that since the inception of the April 12 Revolution, mare than
100 cases of drugs estimated at several million dollars have been seized and
_ turned over to the Ministry of Defense. Speaking in an interview Tuesday,
Col. Doe said that the Joint Security Force is working assidiously to protect
and secure the "first international qate" as well as to provide good relation-
ships for incoming and outgoing passenqers. [Excerpt] [Monrovia DAILY OBSERVER
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DENMARK
MINISTER TO NORDIC COUNCIL: CHRISTIANIA DRUGS TO BE STOPPED
Or Will Close Down 'Free City'
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 5 Mar 82 p 1
[Text] The Danish 'free city' Christiania will be
closed if hashish sales there do not stop. Danish
Minister of Justice Ole Espersen made this promise
at the meeting of the Nordic Conncil in Helsinki on
Wednesday.
In this way the Danes hope to put an end to the so-called hashish affair
which has disturbed the activities of the council for several days. The
main character, Danish Member of Parliament Ole Henriksen, made a personal
apology on Wednesday. This was said in a written statement in which he
apologized and said that he regretted the incident.
Lively Debate in Helsinki on Drugs
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 5 Mar 82 p 6
[Article by DN correspondent Kaa Eneberg]
- [Text] Helsinki, Thursday--The debate in the Nordic
Council on Thursday became a lively demonstration of
Sweden's and Denmark's different views on hashish use
in general, and the 'free city' of Christiania in
Copenhagen in particular.
Danish MP Ole Henriksen was a silent listener to
Parliament. He created sensational headlines by
Helsinki session, and in much of the media this
work of the council. The smuggling was intended
be obtained at other places besides Christiania.
Stockholm.
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Ole Henriksen had originally expected to speak during the debate, but was
forbidden to do so, probably by his own delegation. Many of them protested
his actions. His cause in the debate was carried by Margaret Auken, a
fellow member of the Socialist People's Party.
Hypocrisy
She and several other Danish speakers called the strong Swedish criticism
of the 'free city' hypocrisy.
"The hard drugs which create criminal conditions in other parts of Copenhagen
are not available there. But in Stockholm you only have to look out the
window at Sergels Torg to see hard drugs traded."
This was said by Bernhard Tastesen, Danish social democrat. He, together
with Auken, protested a proposal presented by Rune Gustavsson (Center Party),
among others, that the council should continue actively to work for all non-
medicinal drugs to be prohibited in the Nordic countries. The proposal was
approved despite seven negative Danish votes.
Rune GusCavsson spoke in favor of preventive measures and more strict super-
vision. At the same time he said that he was not advocating more severe
punishment. The Nordic countries have agreed on a 10-year maximum punish-
ment.
Maximum Punishment
- But Norwegian Jo Benkow (Conservative Party) and Asbjorn Haugstvedt (Chris-
tian People's Party) did. Haugstvedt said that he favored the Norwegian
call for an increase of the maximum punishment from 10 to 21 years. Jo
Benkow said that the Nordic countries should use all available means--pre-
ventive measures, more police activity and greater punishment--to make it
unprofitable for the international drug sharks to operate here. He said
that increasing the punishment would have a d2terrent effect.
Danish Minister of Justice Ole Espersen (Social Democratic Party) argued
with Gabriel Romanus about Christiania. This happened after Romanus spoke
positively about Denmark's apparently demonstrating a greater understanding
of the Swedish criticism.
"Our view on these questions has not changed at all," said Espersen, and he
= emphasized that the Danish government regards hashish as a drug.
In a Danish newspaper interview recently Anker Jorgensen was quoted as de-
nying that.
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Danish MP Smuggled Hashish to Meeting
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 5 Mar 82 p 6
[Text] Police Chief Hans Holmer of Stockholm has started an investigation
to clarify the hashish affair involving the Danish MP Ole Henriksen at the
Nordic Council in Helsinki. Henriksen risks prosecution in Sweden for his
conspicuous possession of hashish, and is suspected of a narcotics offense.
On Thursday Holmer sent a letter to his Danish counterpart and reported his
suspicions against Henriksen. He requested the Copenhagen police to ques-
tion Henriksen about his purchase of hashish at Sergels Torg.
Henriksen purchased some hashish in Stockholm, and exhibited it at the
start of the Nordic Council meeting in Helsinki. He wanted to demonstratP
that hashish could be purchased at other places besides Christiania in
Copenhagen.
Paper Comments on Nordic Narcotics
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 5 Mar 82 p 2
[Editorial by SN: "Narcotics in Nordic Countries]
[Text] By a vote of 64 to 8 the Nordic Council on Thursday approved a pro-
posal for a more strict narcotics policy in the Nordic countries. The
goverrunents were urged, among other things, to "work for a more uniform
judicial system." But this means, above all, that the Danes must tighten
up their practices when it comes to possession of small amounts of drugs.
This can be compared to a statement by the Nordic Council of Ministers in
Stockholm on 19 February. It said that it is unacceptable that "within
some areas of the Nordic countries it is easier to obtain drugs than it is
within other areas of the Nordic countries." The area alluded to is ob-
viously Christiania in Copenhagen.
Has the Danish government therefore been i.mpressed by the Nordic criticism?
The debate in Helsinki did not give a clear indication. Danish Minister of
Justice Ole Espersen said that the criticism of Denmark resulted from the
debate in Denmark several years ago over the legalizing of hashish. He
said that the authorities are doing everything that can reasonably be ex-
pected to prevent the sale of drugs, even in Christiania. The police made
several hundred hashish seizures there in 1981.
But it is obvious that the authorities in Denmark are doing too little, and
that the relative passivity has something to do with the Danish attitude
that some kinds of drugs are more acceptable than they are in the other
Nordic countries. Danish Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen said recently in a
newspaper interview that "according to banish opinion, hashish is not a nar-
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Even though the Danish government declared itself to be entirely in agree-
ment with the other Nordic governments at the meetings in Stockholm and
Helsinki, there is an undeniable difference in attitudes. This is unfor-
tunate, since Denmark lies across the road to the other Nordic countrie5,
and its input in the fight against drugs is ind.ispensable.
Authorities in southern Sweden are disturbed over what is going on in
Copenhagen. The Social Services A3ministration in Malmo points out the
differences in attitude on the two sides of The Sound. In Copenhagen a
possessor of up to 100 grams of hashish is sometimes released with only a
warning, while in Sweden he would normally be indicted and punished.
The Social Services Administration has written that "70-80 percent of the
inhabitants of Christiania work at dealing hashish and related crimes."
Most of the hashish in Malmo comes from Copenhagen, and "it is our impres-
sion and that of our police that the availability of hashish on both sides
of The Sound has never been greater than it is now."
The Nordic Council has pointed out the problem. It remains necessary to do
something about it.
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DENMARK
PAPER SEES SIGNS Oc NEW FIRMNESS TOWARD CHRISTIANIA, 'FREE CITY'
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 11 Mar 82 p 10
[Editorial: "Christiania's Future"]
[Text] In the flood of opinions and viewpoints conccrning Christiania that
_ has grown larger and larger in recent months, the remarkable thing is that
the government has lacked a firm base. The minister of justice has pre-
sented views he probably regretted bitterly afterward. It is still unusual
for a minister to try and establish degrees of illegality. The other min-
isters, especially the environmental affairs minister, have been restrained
and tongue-tied in the mounting debate.
The environmental affairs minister has had good reaon not to express his
opininn and his point of view. He has been hampered by the fact that the
architectural firm of K)ller & Gronborg, at the request of the government,
has worked on a planning outline for the future of Christiania. The outline
has now been discussed at the Environmental Affairs Ministry, after which
the minister prepared a report for Folketing on the future uses of the
Christiania area.
The report contains at least two positive surprises. In the first place, it
is both positive and surprising that the main Line of the report involves an
effort to make Christiania legal. Thus it says that it must be stressed to
the inhabitants that "the general laws of society must be observed in the
area." Buildings must be legalized, payment must be made for services
rendered, the businesses that exist there--including retail trade--must be
supervised as they are elsewhere in society. The other positive thing is
that the environmental affairs minister is not drawing the government into an
artificial construction in which it would be necessary to build up a large
administrative apparatus in order to run the future Christiania. Here the
government has refused to follow the proposals of the architectural firm
which--in the words o; the environmental affairs minister--"appear extremely
complicated and would probably also require the establishment of special
legislation on Christiania."
Thus the government is now standing where it should have been all along:
with a demand that th2re not exist an enclave in society that is exempt from
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the regular rules and obligations. The government is also of the opinion
that normalization should be carried out in cooperation with the inhabitants
of Christiania. But presumably we can assume that if cooperation cannot be
worked out or if it breaks down, the government's position will not break
down too. The justice minister's attempt to establish degrees of illegality
must now be brought to aa end.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
HESSE SOCIAL MINISTER ON HEROIN USE, THERAPY CENTERS
Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE in German 17 Feb 82 p 11
[Text] Wiesbaden, 16 February--Speaking in Wiesbaden, Armin Clauss, the Hesse
social minister, ref erred to a change in the consumption of narcotics. He said
that although statistics show a decline in the number of deaths from heroin in
the FRG, this was by no means cauae for giving the all-clear signal in the
_ struggle against narcotics, for the number of heroin addicts is still rising
by about ten percent a year. In Hesse alone there are an estimated eix to
eight thousand young people addicted to heroin.
Clauss drew attention to the fact that even in the mid 1970's some had
already thought that the "drug war" had been won after narcotic crimes and
the number of drug victims declined. But later, he added, in the year 1979 a
new "peak" had been reached in the narcotic scene. The drug danger is far
from having been averted, he said, not least fi ecause a record poppy crop is
expected in the "Golden Triangle" between Bu,cma, Laos and Thailand. The
international drug trade, organ.ized in bands which have r.eplaced the more
family-type operation of the Kurds, will make sure that the drug market is
soon stimulated again.
Unfortunately, Clauss lamented, research into the causes of drug consumption
is still in the beginning stages and for that reason no one seems to know
exactly what might best b e done by way of prevention. There are 27 counseling
centers for drug addicts in Hesse and three additional centers are scheduled
to b e added this year. They receive a meager 5 million marks from the Land
budget for their work. In Frankfurt alone drug counseling teachers who
were prepared for their work in a one-week course are active in 147 schools.
Experts compiled material with the aid of which the effects of drug use are
supposed to be indicated in the classroom. The Wiesbaden Youth Theater "Die
Baustelle" ["The Construction Site"], has aet itself the same goal and is
going on tour this spring with the educational play "Carrot."
By going so far as to use rock music as a medium for conveying information on
_ the dangers of drugs Clauss has, he says, caused people to shake their heads
- at him both among experts and among the public. He plans nevertheless to
continue along this unconventional path, the social minister stresses, because
with rock music it is possible to address young people with whom there is no
other way of establishing a dialague. The "rock house" in W'Lesbaden with its
anti-drug program, is designed to establish such contacts.
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There is space for long term treatment of 119 drug sufferers in Hesse. In
the near future space is planned for 326. Not all who allow themselves to
be treated do so voluntarily. Many are "motivated" by the drug counseling
centers to allow themselves to be treated; others, Clauss reports, feel so
persecuted and pressured by police raids that they report for treatment.
From time to time criminals are given the choice not to go to prison but to
the clinic in accordance with the motto "therapy instead of punishment" which
Clauss once in fact promoted but from which he ia now backing off. In his
- opinion the slogan might better read: "therapy is punishment."
_ Clauss shrugs his shoulders when asked how high the relapse rate is for drug
- addicts after therapy. There is, he replies, no comparable treatment process.
It is only possible to help addicts to the extent that they can be taught to
live with their addiction. Too little is as yet known to be able to say this
or that person is cured because he has been "clean" for one year or four
years. All he can say is, "The number of those we help keeps on growing."
Help ranges from detoxif ication to occupational reintegration. A work center
for occupational rehab ilitation of for=_ drug addicts is being built in
Frankfurt at a cost of 4 million marks in which 20 teaching and working places
are to be offered. Training is planned in the wood, metal and electronic
trades.
Something is indeed b eing done for add3cts in Frankfurt but the metropole on
the Main has forfeited something of its truly dubious nimbus as the principal
trading center for narcotics. After the destruction of the "scene" on the
so-called hash meadow the center of the drug trade has moved more in the
direction of the main station. In addition, however, new drug trading centers
in Hesse have sprung up in smaller cities, for example, according to Clauss,
in I-imburg, in Schluechtern and in the zonal border region.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
BRIEFS
MUNICH OPIUM HAUL Police have discovered that a garbage can in a back courtyard
in Schwabing has been serving a ring of opium dealers as a depository for narcotics
or a"dead-letter drop." as i.t is called in dealer jargont Two members of the
group and a customer were taken into custody last weekend by detectives from the
Davarian State Criminal Police Office. Arrest warrants have been issued for the
three individuala, two men and a woman. The police had received a tip that the
group was using the garbage can as a drop. It was also ascertained that a package
containing 1.5 kg of raw opium had been deposited there. Investigators staked out
the courtyard. In a short time, 29-year-old Sigrid A. appeared, took the package
out of the container and handed it to a man Klaus L. (28) who had also entered
the courtyard intending to take posseasion of the drugs. The police made their
move at that moment. The dealer and her customer were taken for questioning to the
Bavarian 5tate Criminal Police Office on Maillingerstrasse. Shortly thereafter the
alleged head of the ri.ng, the 30-year-old Afghan citizen Nasir A., was also tracked
down and arrested. Neither he nor his "coworker" Sigrid A., by the way, lived in
the Schwabing building whose courtyard they were misusing as a rendez-vous with
their customers. He probably smuggled the narcotics in from the Orient. According
to the narcotics detectives, their find shows that the smoking of opium seems to
be coming into s?Munich le in Munich. Of course~ heroin csn also be produced from raw
opium. fext] SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITtJNG in German 16 Feb 82 p17 7l+5g
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FINLAND
MINISTER AT NURDIC DRUG CUNFERENCE TELLS CUUNTRY'S STATUS
Helsinki HELSINGIN SANUMAT in Finnish 20 Feb 82 p 11
[Article: "Finland's Drug Problem Still Small"]
[Text] Compared to Sweden, Denmark, and Norway Finland's drug-related cri.mes are
rather few. Since 1973 the use of drugs has decreased in Finland, but, on the other
hand, the number of drug-related crimes has been on the increase in recent years.
This statement was made in Stockholm where social, justice, and police affairs min-
isters of the Nordic countries met on Friday to discuss the Nordic drug situation.
Bacause of the government situation in Finland, our delegation was lead by Margit
Eskman, chief of the Social Administration.
The last meeting of this type was held 5 years ago. Since then the use of heroin,
psychotropic substances, and cdnnibis, among other things, has increased alarmingly
and it is also feared that the use of cocaine is becoming more prevalent in the
iJordic countries.
The Central Cri.minal Police have calculated that the actual number of drug users
in Finland is approximately 2,000.
A considerable number of Finns misusing drugs have fled to Stockholm or Copenhagen
where drugs are easier to obtain than in the Finland. In Sweden it is estimated
that the number of Finnish drug users is approximately 500 and there Is also a con-
siderable number in Denmark.
Last year a total of 955 drug-related crimes were reported to the police. However,
the number of investigated incidents was nearly 16,000. Small amounts of drugs
were confiscated in only 164 incidents.
In Finland drug-related criraes are preponderantly concentrated in one area: appro-
ximately half of the drug-related crimes investigated by the Ministry of Justice
were committed in the area of Helsinki.
Nearly all of the drugs in Finland were smuggled into the country. For example,
Swedish off icials every week detain Finns coming from Denmark with small amounts
of drugs in their possession.
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Prevalent Cause of Death in Denmark
In Denmark after traffic-related deaths drug abuse is the second largest cause of
death among youth. There are 6,000--10,000 drug abusers in the country. Last year
nearly 1,500 kilos of cannibis praducts (hashish and marijuana) alone-were confis-
cated in Denmark.
In spite of more effective measures by the pali.ce and customs officials, it has
not been possible to prevent the increase in the use of drugs. This is a result
of the fact that the trade in drugs is profitable and highly organized. Also the
attitude toward drug users in Denmark is quite tolerant. While the possession of
drugs has been made a crime in all the other Nordic countries, in Denmark an indi-
vidual may possess 5 grams of heroin ar 100 grams of hashish for his own use.
The number r,f drug abusers is also increasing in Norway according to officials.
Among individuals violating Norwegian drug laws more and more are foreigners. Un-
like the other Nordic countries the police are detaining and confiscating more drugs
in outlying areas than in the capital city of Uslo.
Street Trade in Cocaine in Sweden
For example, the professional importing of heroin is being directed by foreigners.
In 1980 6,000 ind3viduals were arrested in Norway for involvement 3n drug-related
crimes.
It is estimated that 10,000--14,000 people use hard drugs in Sweden. The use of
substances that stimulate the central nervous system is the most prevalent. Heroin
is easily available throughout the whole country and recently the street trade in
cocaine has also increased. The use of hashish and marijuana is very prevalent
also among youth.
According to a committee studying the extent of drug abuse in Sweden approximately
200,000 people under the age of 25 have experi.mented with drugs at one time or ano-
ther. Hashish is the most prevalent. The number of confiscations increased from
3,569 in 1979 to 5,972 in 1980.
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FRA NCE
INTERMINISTERIAL COUNCIL ON DRUGS bSTABLISFIED
Paxis L'HUMANITE in French 8 Jan 82 p 14
[Article by Jean-Pierre Defait]
CText] The Council of Ministers on Nednesday acted to establish an inter-
ministerial council--headed by the prime minister--which xill be responsible
for coordina.ting government policy on drug addiction. No ma.tter how one tries
to grapple xith the drug phenomenon, it appeaxs in actual fact to be worsening
steadily. In any event, the government believea--according to the statements
made in the official communique--that the situa,tion "demands vigorous action."
The collection of data which are customarily employed to attempt to determine
the evolution of the traffic in, and consumption of, drugs has not yet been
ma.de public for the yeax 3ust ended. Some figures are circulating here and
there, hoKever, and they are in and of themselves disquieting.
The customs officials were the first to publish their balance sheet for 19811
more than 3 tons of assorted drugs seised at the Roissy and Orly airports
alone, and 311 traffickers arrested. The latter had attempted to introduce
into France 2,472 kilograms of hashish, 86 kilograms of cocaine, 22 kilogra.ms
of heroin, 9 kilogra.ms of morphine, 4 kilograms of opium and 33,000 ta.blets
_ of ampheta.mines. This represents, in 1 year, ajump of 400 percent for
cocaine and 20 percent for heroin.
At the Ministry of the Interior no definitive statistics ha.ve been established
as yet. An upward trend in the number of arrests has been confirmed, however,
both in drug use and in drug trafficking. It is therefore feaxed that the
dramatic record of 1980--172 deaths linked directly to drugs--may be
approached.
In any case, all experts appear to agree in saying that there have never been
so ma.ny drugs--of every kind--available to drug addicts, and customs figvres
suffice to indicate that the demand continues to grow. The decision of the
Council of Ministers is therefore in response to a necessity, at the very
least. This "headqua,rters" of the fight against drug addiction will consist
of vaxious ministers= its labors will be coordina.ted by the minister of
na.tional solidaxity, Mme Questiaux, xho--according to the official communi-
que--proposes to give priority "to a vigorous policy of prevention."
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It goes without saying, hoxever, that thia decision cannot overshadow the
need for reinforcement of the fight against the drug traffie itself. The
spectaculax blox dealt Christma.s Ewe by the National Naxcotics Office against
a"channel" established between Hong Kong and Paris proves--if such proof xere
necessaxy--that our country is still the victim of penetration by the big-time
drug traffic.
Moreover, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the vaxious levels of gov-
ernment will henceforth have to cope with new forms of drug addiction. The
use (which is following an upwaxd curve) of glues and solvents, for exa.mple,
gives rise to problems that axe uniquely difficult. The several examples that
have made the front page to date (especially in the eastern part of France)
reveal that adolescents--and. sometimes small children--axe in this xa.y being
weaned to the use of drugs. The hope now is that the action just taken xill
enable us at least to hope that the overall problem xill at last be accorded
the full measure of attention it deserves from the government.
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FRANCE
TYPE, ARREST, USER CHARA.GTERISTIC STATISTICS 3UNMARIZED
Arrests, Overdoses, Drug Types
Faxis LE MONDE in French 30 Jan 82 p 11
[Text] The statistics of the Central Office for the Repression of the Illicit
Narcotics Traffic (OCRTIS), headed by Jacques Franquet, inlicate for the yeax
- 1981 a substantial increase in drug addiction. In 1980 there were a total of
10,958 arrests for dealing or use, Whereas the Judicial police services
recorded a total of 13,850 for last yeax. In 1981, 180 international traf-
:fickers and 546 domestic traffickers were arrested. The increase in the
number of arrests for use and dealing over the figure for 1980 (an increase
of 2,900) equals the total of all arrests for use and dealing in the 2 yeaxs
1969 and 1970� These figures strikingly illustrate the "flaxe-up" in drug
addiction over the pa,st 10 yeaxs. .
Most noticeable of a11 is the increase in the number of heroin addicts. In
1981 there were 4,735 axreSts for heroin use and dealing, which equa.ls the
total number of arrests for all drugs combined in 1977- In compa.ring the
official records for heroin since 1970, we find fluctuations that are linIced
to the incidence of police repression. In 1975, after the breakup of the
"French Connection," the heroin a.d.dicts represented only 5 percent of all
drug axrests. With the arrival on the maxket of the Asiatic heroin in 1976,
however, the number of arrests soaxed and reached 36.37 percent of all a.rrests
in 1981.
Arrests were more numerous in Paris than in the provinces, where they repre-
sented 47 percent of the na,tiona,l total and where t'hey increased by 70 percent
over the figure for 1980.
In contrast, the number of fatal overdoses decreased in 1981, from 172 in 1980
to 141 in 1981. The same phenomenon xas recorded in the FRG [Federal Republic
of Germa.ny], whereas the number of such deaths increased in Italy and in
Switzerland. Paris is also overrepresented, xith 71 overdoses (approximately
50 percent of the tota.l).
The statistics have also disclosed a paxallel increase--although in lessar
proportions--in cocaine use and dealing. The cannabis "business" is declinings
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it represented, in 1981, only 48 percerit of total arrests compaxed to 74
percent in 1980. These figures reflect a more understanding attitude on the
nas-t of the police toward mere users. This yeax, heroin has accordingly
become the taxget drug.
In conclusion, the ORCTIS report reveals a trend toward greater longevity among
addicts, most of whom now reach the age of 30. A11 classes of soaiety axe
involved. The traffic is more diversified; the channels employed axe more
numerous; and the products axe more diverse.
Young Users, Immigrant Dealers
Fa.ris LE FIGARO in French 28 Dec 81 p 10
[Article by Jean Faillardin]
[Text~ All the statistics demonstrate the fact that drugs axe gaining ground.
In 1981 the number of drug a.d.dicts and dealers arrested in France reportedly
almost doubled by compa,rison with 1980. This spectaculax increase is, more-
over, more frightening still because for some months the police--especially
in Paxis--have to some extent forgotten the smokers of "H" [hashish], for they
- have much too much to do ir, connection with the dealers and devotees of haxd
. drugs.
- Of every 100 addicts, 50 are heroin a.ddicts (compared with 4 percent in 1975)s
heroin users all of whom admit that they were introduced to the "weed" before
trying the "powder."
Much more disturbing is the fact that the age of the drug addicts is steadily
declining. It is not unusual to encounter 14- and 15-year-old addicts, for
whom the "Joint" no longer suffices. They have had, in their possession, ISD
tablets pilfered from their older brothers and sisters who have returned from
Amsterdaan; amphetamines; Valium; or other products on List "B" stolen from
pharma.cies. They also inhale anythings ether, 90-Proof alcohol, and even
rustine [meaning unknown] glue.
But when they have the means (and they find them) it is to heroin that they
are above all attracted: Cocaine remains--no one really knows why--the
"stimulant" of certain more "evolved" circles, such as the world of "shok
business."
To all these explanations--which certain specialists will not fail, once
more, to offgr by wa.y of "Justifying" the formidable progress of the "white
powder"--there is now a.dded an explana.tion that is less scientific and polit-
ical but logical in a way that is hard to contradicts na.mely, heroin "walks
the streets." It is bought and sold in the quaxters of Paxis under the very
eyes of the pa.sserst,y. Nothing is easier for a drug addict than to obtain his
daily dose in Belleville or Montmartre. Heroin is now openly for sale in
France--or nearly so.
This is true to such a,n extent that every day and every night the police of
the naxcAtics squad of the quay des Orfevres who haxass them are arresting
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tens--yes, tens--of "dealers" and drug addicts on the sidewalks. The traffic
is increasingly less cautious.
But the police--who are going all out to make arrests--do not paxticulaxly
frighten the established dealer, who is in most cases quickly set free to
resume his tra,de. To quote the new ?r~ss of this antidrug squad, Police
Superintendent Marcel Maurin (who proved himself in liquidating the French
Conaection f�rom 197J. to 1974 in Marseilles): "So long as the antinarcotics
campa.ign is waged only by a handful of police and customs officers, and so
long as the courts do not deal more severely xith criminals and the government
leaves the borders open, heroin xill continue to wreak havoc."
The new (and very productive) methods of Maxcel Maurin and the inspectors of
Police Superintendent Christian Gallo to round.up the traffickers could prove
to be decisive, if only the authorities decide to support them other than by
mere promises. Ninety-three.percent of the dealers arrested are immigrants--
the great ma jority of whom are Algerian-3 and Tunisians, and this must bm
understood, and it must be said, xithout feax of being accusc.d of racism.
Above all, yt is necessary to know hox to accept one's responsibilities and
draw the conclusions therefrom.
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FRA NCE
SOLIDARITY MIATI5TRY RTPRESPNTATIYE ON ADDIGTION POLICIES
Faria LE MONBE in French 30 Jan 82 p 11
[Interview with Francois Colcoabet by Qiriatian Colomba~+~i]
[Question] You have been sorting out the drug doasier at the Ministry of
Solidarity for the pa,st 6 months. What is your concept of your job?
[Ansxer] When Mme Questiaux asked me to take chaxge of the drug problems,
she did not xant a specialist but someone who had never taken paxt in the
vaxious rites of drug addiction. I am a magistrate. I was a judge in the
Paxis courts, in the section that deals xith drug cases. It is rather as a
generalist that I was selected. Moreover, I am also an associative activist.
The minister wanted to start, in her ministry, a movement based on ideas as
diverse as possible in order to approach this dossier from a new point of
view, in order to restore drug addiction to its place among other phenomena
such as alcoholisa, suicides, and highxay accidents.... From this perspec-
tive, it Kas essential that the Ministry of National Solidarity assume the
lea.dership.
[Question] Does drug addiction, however, have specific characteristics that
_ grevent it from being assimilated to the other "social plagues?"
[Answer] I'd like to say first of all that the drug problem is a serious
phenomenon because of the number of deaths it causes and the number of persons
it affects. In 1981 the conswnption of heroin continued to increase, but
that should not prevent us from seeing the overall drug problem in its true
dimensions. What ma.kes drug addiction "special" is the way in which publi,
opinion reacts emotionally and blind.lys when talking about drugs, people axe
too often talking about samething else. Another theme runs throughout that
does not concern drug atldiction directly. The generational conflict, for
- example, or the loss of moral values. I'd like to get rid of thia double talk
and get people to understand this fact. Moreover, drugs have been a symbol of
the more permissive, the more tiberal, alternative aocietiess "The drug
culture is the Left," people hs~ve been saying. This political approach has
led to a false interpretation of the problem. I have discovered that almost
all the scientific treatises on the sub3ect of hashish--whether for or
aga.inst--axe advo�ating a cause, a political concept.
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CQuestionj By having the scarecrox of the drug problem it is certainly
possible that regression Kill be encourage4. Is it true, then, that anything
goes in the effort to cure the drug addicts?
[Answerl We axe extremely vigila.nt in this connection. The 1970 law ga.ve the
pol'_,e inareased poxera, and it can be said tha.t in general they have not
abused them. On the other hand, it's a different story in certain hal.fway
houses. There should not be any infringement of the democratic freedoms in
- these centera, even if it is done in the alleged interest of the addict. We
are going to establish a very strict control on this point..
The Effica.cy of Prohibition
[Question] What is your vieK on the liberalization of certain drugs? Isn't
it paxa.doxical to prohibit such itoms at a moment xhen addicts axe also using
= lega.l products such as glue and trichlorethylene?
[Answer] I believe that prohibition can be somexhat effective. Absinthe, in
the 19th century, was devastating in its effects. No one drinks it any more
today. We can never know whether prohibition does or does not engender a
desire to break the lax. As for liberalization of hashish, the commission
will not have to decide. It will prapaxe the doasier, but a democra.tic polit-
_ ical deba.te is to be initiated and the young people themselves xill choose the
world in which they wa.nt t,o live. In any event, prohibition of these substan-
ces is justified, if only from the standpoint of the $ocial cost they entail.
It is true that this social cost ia not the same for each drug but variea.
[Question] Nevertheless, isn't it annoying that alcoholism is outside the
purview of your comtaission?
[Answer] ihe commission will study the matter, and it may.some day take
measures concerning alcohol.
[Question] What means will you use for the time being?
[Answer] Our action should ba.sica,lly center on grevention. We believe it is
necessary to repress the traffic severely, but repression can never be the
ideal way. Reintegration is not a miracle remedy, either. A.better knox-
ledge of drug addiction must be dissemina.ted throughout society. Nhat we
have in place today is too monolithic. The health clubs in our ed.ucationa.l
institutions, for example, axe resented as eraa.nations of the administration.
We realize that the na.tional educa.tion system is perhaps not the best place
to dispense unofficial knowledge. Many teachers axe unawaxe that drug addicts
axe entitled to anonymity or that one person in each school administration is
in charge of the problems of drug addiction.
We would like to have drug information more widely diaseminated, paxticularly
through the association system. The members of the associations for aid to
drug addicts should be more active and should no longer defer to the media-
tion tea.ms, even when the latter have outstanding credentials. We shall
~ fina.nce the associations on the basis of the individua,ls who sta,ff them, in
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order that their paxticipation in the reintegration effort can prepare the
way for genuine prevention. The members of the associations must be better
informed., and more dynamic, so that they aay disseminate knoKledge of tMe drug
phenomenon. We shall also monitor the training of the med.iators, who should
_ have a general, ba.sic educational ba.ckground and participate in a continuing
training program.
[Questionj All this will be very expensive.
[Answer] No; it Kill suffice to have a better distribution of the subsidies.
In any event, we axe thoraughly persua.ded that we xill not provide a miracle
solution; but we will not be believable unless xe clean up our oKn front yard,
unless the government'e own stataments regarding drugs are themselves not
ambiguous. It is in this Kay that xe xill succeed in motivating public
opinion, in making it better informed so that a common ztruggle can be
carried out against drug addiction."
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FRANCE
POLICE CORRUPTION IN ARRESTS, CONF'ISCATION REVEAIED
Paris LE MATIN in French 9 Feb 82 p 12
[Article by Aga.the Logeart]
[Text~ "There has been a great deal of exaggeration in
the way these ma.tters have been presented," Gaston Defferre
declaxed; but the police yesterday took refUge in the
secrecy surrounding the judicial inquiry.
The accuss,tions brought on 7 February by the JOURNAZ DU DIMANCEIE against four
police officers of OCRTIS (Centra,l Office for the Repression of the Illicit
Narcotics Traffic) caused the public prosecutor in Paxis yesterday morning to
open a judicial inquiry for corruption of civil servants. For his part, the
minister of the interior reacted Sunday by announcing that the Office of the
Inspector General of Police had alrea.d.y taken over the case. But Hhat exactly
axe these four police officers accused of? Of having allowed traffickers to
escape from the police, consciously and by prior arrangement? Officially,
they axe chaxged only with imprudent penetra.tion of the underworld.
"Four inspectors of the na.rcotics squad tipped off the traffickers." It was
under this heading that the JOURNAZ DU DIMANCHE on 7 February stirred up a
strange kind of storm. According to this weekly, Jean-Pa.ul Granger, "chief of
an operational group with the naxcs," had for amwnber of years been organi-
zing the flight of drug traffickers. Trails that should have resulted in
ar.rests were frustrated. Operations that should have concluded with'arrests
in fla,grante delicto resulted in failure. Prearranged seizures of drugs were
rendered impossible at the last minute by cancellation of the delivery of the
drugs.
Worse still, the inspector reportedly did not act alone but in concert with
three of his colleagues; and it appeared even possible that after confiscating
heroin these police officers would sell it themselves. Police Superintendent
F'rancois Le Mouel, the then chief of OCRTIS (where the aforementioned four
police officers worked) reportedly realized that these flights by traffickers
could only have origina.ted within the ranks of his oxn service. He is said
to have related his suspicions to the ma.n who wa,s to replace him last 2 April,
Police 3uperintendent Franquet.
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Franquet reportedly succeeded later in identifying the suspect police offi-
cers. On 4 Janua.ry, "in the interests of the service," the four men were
transferred to another service. Verifica,tiors and cross checks, to be sure,
take timel but it seems that it wa.s not until after Michel Guyot, central
director of the judicial police, allegedly had areport from OCRTI5 laid
before him tha.t the Ministry of the Interior (which, it appears, discovered
the existence of the ca.se someWhat late) ordered the Genoral Inspectorate of
Na.tiona,l Folice to conduct an imrestiga�:ion. A. Ministry of the Interior
communique revealed this informa.tion, immediately after the ministrv ha.d
leaxned of the JOURNAZ DU DIMANQHE asticle. Bringing up the reax, the public
proaecutor of Paris yesterday charged Jud.ge Yves Corne7.oup xith conducting a
judicial inquiry for corruption of civil servants. Trie people at the Pa.lace
obviously were only dimly awaxe that they-had been informed by the press at
a time when the Ministry of the Interior was already conducting its awn
inquiry. "The corruption of civil servants," the public prosecutor's office
recalls--in a statemen. by the prosecutor at the Court of Appeals, Pierre
Arpaillange--"is covered in, and repressed by, Articles 177 and following of
the Pe na.l Code. "
14-iile at the Ministry of the Interiol yesterday everyone was entrenching him-
self behind the secrecy surrounding the 3udicial inquiry, and was refusing to
confirm all or part of the revelations madP by the JOURNAZ DU DIMA.NQHE,
Minister of the Interior and Decentrallzation Ga.ston Defferre was at the same
time in Maxseilles talking about Khat people axe now calling the "naxcs'
escapes." "There has been a great deal of exaggeration in the way these
ma,tters have been presented," he opined. T.he truth is that for some time
there had been suspicions concerning certain members of the police force,
but these suspicions did nnt beax on what xa.s published last Surxiay. Here
we havP a mysterious distinction to makes What, then, xas the objsct of the
suspicions of rrancois Le Mouel and subsequerrtly of Police Superintendent
Franquet? Le Mouel let us know yesterday that he xould make no statementl
arxi as for his successor, we xere unable to eontact him directly. We were
also told yesterday at the central bureau of judicial identity--where Jean-
Fa.ul Granger is currerrtly assigned--that Granger was "out for the day."
The SNAPC (Autonomous Union of Pl.ainclothes Police Officers)--xhich is a
member of the FASP, the Autonomous Federation Cof Police Unionsl--wonders, in
a statemerrt published late in the day, "at the lack of enthusia,sm, on the part
of the a.dministration, for expediting an irnrestigation by the IGPN [General -
Inspectorate of National Pblice]:" The unions are--it seems--having great
difficulty in leaxning just what exactly their colleague Jean-Paul Granger is
being accused of. They axe also, to be sure, amazed at the time necessary
(from 4 January to 2 February) to open an uiry when j.n fact f.or ma.ny
months (the JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE says 2 yeL) the existence of flights ar-
ranged from xithin the OCRTIS itself had been suspected.
Meanwhile, Jean-Pa.ul Granger and the three other police officers he has
allegedly implicated are officially accused only of "imprudent penetration of
the underworld."
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FRAPdCE
MEDICAI, (ENrF.R DIREGTOR DISGUSSES TREATMENT, OVERDOSES
Paris I,E MONDE in French 30 Jan 82 pp 1, li
[Article by f."hristian Colomba.nil
[Eccerpt] The annua.l studies and statistics concerning the drug traffic and
drug use in France confirm, for 1981, the pessimistic report of the United
Idations Office of Naxcotics Control to the effect that drug addiction is
spreading throughout the world. The year 1981 would appeas not to have been,
in France, the year for change in this respect. The statistics of the
Ministry of the Interior, as well as the information in the report of the
14axmottan medical center in Paris, do not indicate ar~y slackening in drug
addiction, even though the number of fatal "overdoses" is declining. On the
contrarys with the passage of time the drug phenomenon is expanding. It is
evolving, and changing in chaxacter, in accordance xith the aovements of
society, the mod.e of communica.tion among human beings, their emotions and
their morality. Genuine problems make, their appeaxa.nce--problems that former-
ly were isolated incidents.
The drug addiction of young children, for exa.mples "They consume dramatic
quantities of legal industrial and phaxaraceutica,l products; but who is there
to speak out against-the baseness and complicity of xhich some of these
dispensers of slavery and death are guilty?" xonders I?r Claude Olievenstein,
director of the Ma.rmottan ceriter. His annual report details the xavages of
sel'L -medication arxl organic solverits "Hhich have become a large-scale nationa.l
problem," but also deacrtbes the appearance af nex products such as Burgodin,
a morphinized synthetic product which a Brussels doctor prescribes extensively
for thousands of French drug addicts. It is obvious that the "traditiona.l"
sixbstances--heroin and cocaine--coritinue to be widely used.
To continue with the statisticss the Marmottan center in 1981 carried out
1,700 medical procedures more than in the previous year, arxl the figures of
the Ministry of the Interior also indicate an increase in drug a.ddiction.
These alaxming statistics--and even though the situation in France is not
compaxable to the situation in other European countries such as Germar~y or The
Net-herlarxis--should not prevent us from driving out the other demons that are
engendered by drug addiction. Granted that drugs are a"plague," thoy should
not, for all that, become an excuse for any and all policies or--even less--
for ary and'all actions. On this poirrt, xe read the opinion of F'rancois
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Colcombet, xho is in charge of the problems of driag addiction for the Ministry
of Ivational Solidaxity. Dr Olievestein [sic] likewise deplores this fact.
"The year 1981," he says, "was a year of outrageous politicization--scandalous
noliticization--of the drug problem." He recalls the Montigny case "Khere
drugs were used as an excuse for employing informers,"�arid the campaigns by
"nro-fascist" groups who "exploit this drama in order to .frigh.ten the public."
Just as Mree Questiaux, minister of national solidarity, did in her speech at
Strasbourg to the Council of Europe in November 1980, Dr Clievenstein insistse
"The fight against drugs should not lead to restricting the freedoma of our
citizens, or to replacing deperidence on a substance with depend.ence on an
institution or on a charismatic public figure."
The drug phenomenon has become too generalized, too much of an everyday exper-
ience, for us to continue to re3ect drug addicts as "wrecks" and to consider
them to be perma,nent recipients of public assistance. In order genuinely to
cure them, the evidence shows the best method is not to start out by treating
them as- children but rather by respecting their freedom and their sense of
responsibility. This is the essential condition for preventing the fight
against drugs from becoming at one and the same time a threat to democracy--
as has been the case in certain institutions in Fra.nce or in the use of
behaviorist methods.
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FRANCE
HONG KONG QiINESE, FEROIN SEIZED AT ROISSY
Paris I,E FIGARO in French 28 Dec 81 p 10
[Textl (AFP) A channel for drug traffic from the Fax East to France and. The
Netherlands was destro,yed on Ghristmas Eve in Paris, leading to the seizure of
10 kilograms of virttza,lly purs heroin base.
According to Police Superintendent Jacques Franquet, chief of the Central
Office for the Suppression of the Illicit Narootics Z`raffic, nine Chineae from
Hong Kong who belonged to an organization ba.sed in that city have been
arrested. The nine men will be turned over to the office of the public prose-
cutor at Bobigny (Seine-Saint Denis) today; it has 3urisdiction in this case.
The operation carried out by the French police is a follow-up to two previous
ca.ses, which reportedly also implica.ted Chinese from Hong Kong xho belonged to
a highly atructured orga.nization of the same nature. It is also a continua-
tion of a whole series of unlercover surveillance operations, Pblice Superin-
tendent Franquet said.
Of the nine traffickers, four resided from tiae to time in Paxis to receive
the heroin, cut it with caffeine and then red.istribute it to the b`reneh and
Dutch maxkets. The others--xho Kere ca,lled the "ants"--shuttled back and forth
between the Thai-Ma,laysian border and Hong Kong, Bangkok (Thailand) and Europe.
Following a series of "casts of the net" by the French police, hoxever, the
traffickers from Hong Kong became more ca,utious.
In July, assisted by the inveatiga,tors t`rom the National Directora,te of Cus-
toms Investiga,tions (DNED), the police arrested, in Paxis, 10 traffickers of
Asiatic origin and seized 10 kilogiams of heroin. In November, an Ita,lian
who xas bringing 3 kilogra.ms of heroin in f`rom Bangkok for the saiae Chinese
organization xas intercepted at the Paris-Roissy airport together xith five
Asian acaomplices.
This series of arrests, surveillance operations, investigations and the coop-
eration of the Thai police via the antenna that the F'rench Central Office for
the Suppression of the Illicit Naxcotics Traffic had insta,lled in Bangkok
made possible the Christmas Eve operation.
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The tra.ffickers had found more complex circuits, hoxever. The five couriers
from Bangkok had accordingly passed through Copenhagen (Denmark), then Nice on
the Cote d'Azur, before ending up in Paris, xhere their accomplices awaited
them. They xere nonetheless arrested, for they had been "ahadoxed " from the
beginning by the French police, xho had mobilized vast ma,terial and huma.n
resources for the occasion. The 10 kilograias of heroin xere concealed in
suitcases that had false bottoms.
The heroin in question was almost pure--95 to 97 percent pure. It xas to be
cut with ca.ffeine arncl resold. A.ccording to police estimates, this heroin--
cut by 50 percent--could be sold at approxiioately 250,000 franes per kilogram.
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GREECE
MAJOR DRUG TRAFFICKER SOUGHT IN ITALY ARRESTED AT AIRPORT
Syrian Drug Trafficker Arrested
Athens AKROPOLIS in Greek 29 Jan 82 pp 1, 7
[Article by D. Stavropoulos]
[Text] The Mafioso leader of perhaps the largest narcotics network engaged in
supplying West Europe with heroin had his headquarters in Athens. From here he
used to pull the strings of his labyrintYiine illegal organization. However, for
roughly a month now he has been held in custody at Korydallos.
The authorities have not made any announcement concerning this. But according to
reliable (and exclusive) information obtained by AKROPOLIS, silence is being
observed on the part of the authorities because the Mafia is searching for him
everywhere, so that it can free hi.m.
Spotted in Milan
With utmost discretion, the Greek police is keeping in touch with the Italian
police so as to be able to go forward with the process of extraditing this
Mafioso figure to Italy, where he is wanted.
It seems that this case has moved forward very rapidly following the breaking up
in Milan of an international ring whose center of activity is in Athens. The
Italian police arrested 43 people, including one Greek whose name was not
announced.
As was learned, this gang had been bringing large quantities of heroin, morphine,
and cocaine into Athens via Turkey. Each week, these narcotics were being conveyed
from Athens to Italy, in 10-kilogram packages, on commercial airplanes.
In Italy the head of the gang was (Raffaele Retzio), who was arrested in his
apartment. This apartment was a"cottage industry" for processing narcotics.
But the Italian authorities believe that the real leader is to be found in Athens.
It seems that their suspicions are sound ones. Because the Mafioso in Korydallos
is the person they are hunting for.
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Trap Set at Ellinikon Airport
This Mafioso arch-smuggler of narcotica is a Syrian. He was arrested at
Ellinikon Airport after being caught in the trap which had been set for him by
agents of the YPEA [National Security Service] and the Narcotics Prosecution Police.
Earlier, the special narcotics prosecution service of the United States (D. A.
Drug Administration?]) as well as the entire Italian police force had been
called in to help find and arrest him, because this Syrian smuggler had set up
and had put into operation seven illicit laboratories for the preparation and
processing of heroin in Sardinia and in Milan.
But he himself had his permanent residence in Athens, where he used to pass
himself off as a business magnate.
Upon receiving relevant messages from Interpol, the Greek authorities located him
and put him under surveillance.
In this way they learned about all of the associates with whom he used to arrange
the "orders" from Greece and the shipments of the narcotics from the Middle East
to Europe.
He Told All
As soon as the Italian police learned that the Syrian arch-smuggler had been
spotted in Athens they came to Greece, and in cooperation with the Greek authorities
they drew up a plan for his capture.
The Syrian was indeed captured, and on being interrogated he confessed to a great
number of things.
Thus, the Italian authorities made use of this information and located the illicit
laboratories for processing heroin.
In fact, just the other day they penetrated the Milan "ring," where they arrested
43 persons--including, as we have written, many Italians, Syrians, and one Greek.
According to the information on hand up to now, this narcotics network has been
transporting enormous quantities of heroin, morphine, and cocaine to destinations
all over Europe, and it is considered by Interpol to be the largest in the European
sector. Even now, associates of the gang leader at Korydallos prison are in Athens
still. These have been put under surveillance, because they are preparing some
action, with the center of their activity being Glyfada.
Arms Traffic Involvement
Athens TO VIMA in Greek 30 Jan 82 p 7
[Text] The head of an international network for selling arms and large quantities
of narcotics in Italy was arrested by the police authorities at Ellinikon Airport,
shortly after his arrival from Bulgaria.
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He is the Syrian (Salakh A1 Din Vakas), 37 years old, who was arrested by order of
the appeals court prosecutor, following a message from Interpol, with the charge
that he was trafficking in arms and narcotics.
Vakas was connected with a Greek woma.n, who lives in Glyfada. After looking for
him for days, the police authorities had lost his trail, and a group of policemen
began to follow the woman friend of the accused. On the evening of Wednesday,
this woman went to Ellinikon Airport, and after a short while she met with the
Syrian suspect, who was passing through Athens "in transit." He was going to
remain for 3 hours in Athens and then was to continue on his trip. Within this
interval the man wanted by Interpol got a visiting permit to go into the city.
But he did not have time for recreation with his friend. Salakh Vakas was arrested
as soon as he passed through the customs inspection, and he was taken to the
Korydallos prisons. Because he is being sought under a warrant from the examining
magistrate of the courts of Trento, Trieste. Salakh Vakas is charged with
transporting weapons and narcotics to Italy. The weapons and the narcotics were
being sold in Italy by 50 colleagues of the 5yrian.
The Italian authorities have requested the detention of Salakh Vakas until they
can send the documents for his extradition.
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GREECE
DETAILS ON HEROIN TRAFFICKER'S ARREST PROVIDED
Athens TA NEA in Greek 2 Feb 82 p 12
[Text] Salonica--Within the 2 years of his activity, Panaqiotis Papadakis,
26 years old and a former jewele�r, distributed heroin valued at 30 million drachmas
to the young people of Salonica.
Papadakis, known within the community of addicts by the pseudonym "Kouperakias,"
traveled 23 times to Istanbul in the last 2 years, bringing back large quantities
of heroin.
An extensive netowrk of "dealers" was delivering the narcotics to the marketplace.
Four of the gang members, Evangelos Katartzis, Khristos Mandousoudis, Kharikleia
' Vasilaki, and Aridreas Pyrsopoulos, are already in prison for dealing in and using
_ narcotics, while Dim. Koupanis, Panagiotis Kapsaskis, Fotis Floudos, and Nik.
Voulgarakis are scheduled for trial.
The spotting and arrest of Papadakis the other day was achieved following a
surveillance of 3 months. During his many months of activity, Papadakis managed
to slip away from surveillance by the police by changinq his residence every
3 months and by frequently falsifying the license numbers of his automobile.
During the last 3 months, he was living in a luxury villa in Panorama. None of
his associates knew the address of his house or his telephone number. He would
always telephone them himself and designate a different meeting place each time
for handing over the narcotics.
- From the confessions of his colleagues it emerqes that the heroin was being
delivered mainly to "hangouts" located on Patriarkhou Ioakeim, Mitropoleos, and
Proxenou Koromila streets.
Pan. Papadakis, who is married to an Englishwoman and the father of a 2-year-old
boy, had been arrested in March 1978, along with his wife, his sister, Nikos
Kounados, and Sawas Khristofaridis, by the Turkish authorities at the Iran-
Turkey border for possession of has`Ash.
The first four were set free after serving their time, whereas Khristoforidis
was sentenced by the Turkish court ta 101 years in prison, which was finally
reduced to 36 years.
"The 'system' is to blame for my plight," said the narcotics wholesale merchant
to TA NEA yesterday, and he added that "I would never want to see other young
pecple caught in my position."
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