NNBIS COORDINATING BOARD MEETING ON 2 AUGUST 1984

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• Publication Date: August 6, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
6 August 1984
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: David D. Gries
National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics
SUBJECT: NNBIS Coordinating Board Meeting of 2 August 1984
1. Admiral Murphy presented an overview of improved NNBIS
cooperation, including a meeting which he alleged had ironed out
difficulties between himself and Mullen. He also noted that intelligence
reaching NNBIS was better than ever.
2. Schowengerdt, who runs the NNBIS Center in Washington, followed
with a viewgraph presentation on the Joint Surveillance Committee
report. The issues of concern to the Intelligence Community include:
-- Threat Assessment: Interdiction remains at a low level, in
part because of inadequate intelligence.
-- Detection: Unlike the Intelligence Community, the law
enforcement community uses little secure communications gear;
hence, DEA, Coast Guard, and Customs must upgrade their voice
privacy nets to prevent traffickers from listening in.
Surface-bound radar in ships and on land has limited
detection potential. What is needed are more aerostats and
look-down, airborne radar.
-- Deterrence: Little intelligence interest here. The domestic
agencies are struggling to tighten federal laws and
regulations that greatly hamper their deterrence operations.
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-- Reaction: Poor detection, in part reflecting inadequate
intelligence, delays or defeats reaction by interdiction
assets.
-- Conclusions: Low success has been achieved against,a high
treat. Interdiction assets are used inefficiently, and
detection assets (AWACS) borrowed from DOD cannot be greatly
increased. Border interdiction is only one aspect, but an
important one, of federal strategy against druggers.
-- Recommendations: The interdiction effort should emphasize
air over sea detection--the current mix of responsibilities
by agency is satisfactory--aerial surveillance of traffickers
at the borders must be enhanced--better intelligence on
traffickers is needed--the focus should be on South and
Central America, not on the Near East and Asia--a Central
Command Center should be established to handle intelligence
flowing from detection efforts and to feed reaction assets.
-- Options for Enhancement: Four options for improved border
interdiction were presented--Murphy backs Option B, which
calls for a $145 million package of additional aerostats and
P3A aircraft, but no enhancement of ships and planes
available to Customs and Coast Guard to react to traffickers
detected by increased surveillance--other options range from
doing nothing to increasing both aerial surveillance and
Customs and Coast Guard reaction assets.
3. During the ensuing discussion, positions were staked out as
follows:
-- Customs said it didn't have the ships and planes to arrest
more druggers.
-- DEA did not want agencies to reprogram money from other drug
programs to border interdiction.
-- OMB wondered who was going to pay.
-- FBI was concerned that reprogramming within agencies would
simply take away from other worthwhile programs.
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-- Treasury, alone among those agencies represented, refused to
coordinate on the Joint Surveillance Committee Report, unless
the report made a recommendation as to which agencies would
pay for what--the real issue here is that McNamar* and Murphy
have locked horns for some time over who would pay for five
additional P3As that Customs wants. McNamara wants DOD to
pay, Murphy wants Treasury to pay.
4. Murphy will present the study to the Executive Board next week,
with the general concurrence of all except Treasury, but with the report
modified to take account of the points made in the discussion above.
Since the Intelligence Community is a major player only in the threat
portion of the report, I made no comment and presume our concurrence is
taken for granted. Note: We should watch the Central Command Center
idea. If it relates only to border interdiction, it might be useful, but
command centers have a way of growing.
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