MEETING WITH STATE DEPARTMENT'S ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERS, 1000 HOURS, 29 APRIL 1981

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1981
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1000 hours, 29 April 1981
1. The attendees at the meeting may be found in the
2. Mr. Linnemann appeared to be on an exploratory
mission. The State Department's problem is that it is not
receiving what it considers adequate raw or finished intel-
ligence on narcotics matters around the world. The problem
is essentially two-fold: as the DEA has increasingly taken
over the DO's collection activities in the field, it has
compartmented this information so that it is not circulated
within the Foreign Affairs Community; NFAC analytical capa-
bilities are withering as a consequence of the informational
drought (DEA does not routinely make its own analyses
available to the Foreign Affairs Community). Mr. Linnemann
was, therefore, interested in learning whether Intelligence
Community mechanisms existed which he could stimulate to
focus Intelligence Community activities more seriously on
narcotics matters.
3. Mr. Linnemann did not appear interested in having-
the Intelligence Community Staff begin any work immediately;
indeed, he suggested that the group reconvene in three
weeks or so for further discussion. It was implicit that,
in the interim, a new Assistant Secretary for International
Narcotics flatters will most likely be chosen and that
National Security Council mechanisms for handling narcotics
questions might well be formed. I in particular,
and the other members of the group acquainted Mr. Linnemann
and his special assistant with the types of studies and
tasking plans that the Intelligence Community Staff has
traditionally prepared. I volunteered to begin
preparation immediately of a HUf1INT Tasking Plan and to
convene an Intelligence Community Committee on Dissemination
to consider the question of narcotics. f1r. Linnemann sug-
gested that he was more interested in a multidisciplinary
collection study, but did not refuse request
for collection objectives that would be the basis for a
HUf1INT Tasking Plan.
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4. at the same time volunteered NCPO to
prepare a parallel multidisciplinary collection study on
narcotics matters, to which I did not object in that public
forum, but neither did I endorse one. Subsequent to the
meeting, I expressed to and his Executive Officer
my reservations about doing two studies in parallel, partic-
ularly since we would be overloading the circuits to those
organizations from which we would have to request the
information to prepare our studies.
suggested
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that HTO could alone coordinate collection
which we could then use whenever we wished.
objectives
I replied that
would be in touch with
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the matter. further.
5. My sense from the meeting and subsequent side con-
versations with the participants is that we are only in the
very initial stages of deciding on what the Intelligence
Community should or would do for the State Department. Given
the Department's lack of immediacy, I would expect that
it also will not soon provide collection objectives for a
study of any type without strong prodding from the Intel-
ligence Community Staff. What Mr. Linnemann really seemed
to be looking forward to was the creation of a National
Security Council Subcommittee on narcotics matters (SIG-N)
with appropriate staff support from the White House. He
also envisioned a reconstituted subcommittee of the Critical
Collection Problems Committee, which would then undertake
any staff studies deemed appropriate, as well as make any
6. The narcotics question is from the intelligence
point of view a can of worms. There are clearly juris-
dictional disputes in which the intelligence agencies
currently have little at stake and therefore little interest.
Rather, State, apparently despairing of getting DEA to
cooperate, would put CIA and DIA into the field to compete
with DEA to collect the information it insists it needs--
hardly a healthy situation. There are, further, obvious
legal implications as to what intelligence should do in
this area; the Office of General Counsel would have to be
closely involved in any activities undertaken--even initial
studies of the problem. And before the above questions are
addressed--and before the ICS begins any work--we need some
clearer idea of how DEA will be treated in the Executive Order
that will replace 12036. It is my strong recommendation that
we approach any State Department request with caution and,
especially, that we have our own house in order before we
do anything in response to such a request.
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28 April 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THROUGH:
Director, IIUMINT Tasking Office
RD/HTO
rRT DD/HTO
D/HTO
SI:BJrCT: Meeting with Acting Assistant Secretary of State,
Bureau of International Narcotic Matters;
Wednesday, 29 April, 1000 hours, your office
1. The following will attend:
Joseph Linnemann, Acting Asst Sec, LNM
Clyde Taylor, Deputy Asst Sec, INM
Jon Wiant,.INR Global Issues Staff, Special Asst for
Narcotic Intelligence
Mike Ulmann, Executive Secretary, Cabinet Committees,
White House Staff (not yet confirmed)
ICS/NCPO .
2. Mr. Linnemann accepted with alacrity. the offer of a
briefing on the activities of the HUMINT Tasking Office. He is
particularly interested in our relationship with DEA and would
appreciate an account of how we work with DEA, how we task them
and how we will analyze and assess their responsiveness.
3. If the White House staff member, Mr. Ulmann, is present,
Mr. Linnemann feels that an explanation of the government-wide
effort in the narcotics field, the problems .of coordination that
exist and the need for a smoothly coordinated effort in the field
would be helpful.
4. Mr. Linnemann is in the process of forming an inter-agency
group (IG) on narcotics. He strongly supports the preparation of a
Tasking Plan on narcotics. (It might be possible to get a first
draft from his office or from Jon Wiant--Carol Baumann is his boss.
You might wish to raise this possibility. I, or someone else in
HTO, could edit and vett the draft in the Community.)
ALL PORTIONS OF
THIS MEMORANDUM
ARE CONFIDENTIAL.
STO - SIRVES (Signals Intelligence
Requirements Validation and Evaluation Subcommittee)
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5. By the way, INM may have an assistant secretary-designate
by tomorrow. Appaprently the 7th floor has awakened to the dangers
involved in the international narcotics trade. There is even a
rumor of White House pressure for a sizable increase in the field.
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