CCPC STUDY ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AGAINST ILLICIT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1976
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Critical Collection Problems Committee
29 October 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR THE NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: CCPC Study on Intelligence Activities
Against Illicit Narcotics Trafficking
1. The attached Critical Collection Problems
Committee (CCPC) Study is an update of the 1972 CCPC Study
on Intelligence Activities Against Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs. This Study examines current collection activities
committed to the problem and the relationship among U.S.
intelligence and enforcement agencies conducting such
activities, determines what improvements in intelligence
coverage have been achieved, identifies intelligence defi-
ciencies and recommends measures that might be taken to
improve our overall intelligence coverage.
2. The Study is submitted in two parts: (a) a
covering report containing an Executive Summary of intel-
ligence activities against illicit narcotics trafficking,
and a Conclusions and Recommendations section; and (b) a
Back-up Study. (A Special Annex is forwarded in separate
channels.)
3. The CCPC has made a detailed review and evaluation
of current intelligence information collection activities
targeted against illicit narcotics trafficking. This
intelligence target, however, is a most difficult one for
the Intelligence Community since the primary users of nar-
cotics intelligence (especially raw intelligence) are law
enforcement agencies (such as the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration and the U.S. Customs Service) which are not directly
associated with the Intelligence Community apparatus. Court
procedures, regulations and interpretations of statutes
circumscribe the extent of association between the Community
and the law enforcement process. Narcotics intelligence is
essential to the international narcotics control effort but
a fundamental problem has yet to be resolved--to what extent
can (or should) the Intelligence Community be involved in
the international narcotics control effort.
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4. Although there have been some improvements in
the U.S. narcotics intelligence effort, several additional
measures should be taken to improve the intelligence product.
Several of the problems requiring attention, action and
resolution, however, are themselves manifestations of the
fundamental question of the appropriate role of the Intel-
ligence Community. There is a problem in developing the
necessary support for the narcotics intelligence effort and,
consequently, an imbalance in the allocation of resources
devoted to this effort. To date, the exchange of narcotics
intelligence information among the various enforcement and
intelligence agencies and operational coordination of U.S.
clandestine collection operations has not been sufficient.
5. The Committee has concluded that since the
Intelligence Community's participation in and assistance
to the narcotics control effort are limited and are, not
likely to change appreciably without revision in current
policy and regulations, the Director of Central Intelligence
should seek National Security Council consideration of the
problem and generation of guidance for the intelligence
Community. It is also considered important that the
Department of Justice respond expeditiously on the Drug
Enforcement Administration's request for clear guidelines
as to its relationship with U.S. foreign intelligence agen-
cies in general and with the National Security Agency and
the Central Intelligence Agency in particular.
a. Approve the Executive Summary,, Conclusions
and Recommendations; and
b. Note the Back-up Study and Special Annex.
(5 October 1976)
Acting Chairman
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