NARCOTERRORISM

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 22, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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22 February 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Oliver B. Revel
Executive Assistant Director - Investigations
Federal Bureau of Investigations
SUBJECT: Narcoterrorism
1. You will recall that last year your bureau, responding to tasking
contained in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, produced for Congress a study
of "narcoterrorism." Your product, referred to informally as the "red
book," resulted from a collaborative effort involving several agencies
including CIA. You will further recall that the report contained the
observation that three issues deserved follow-up attention and would get
such through the joint efforts of the National Intelligence Officers for
Counterterrorism and Narcotics. This memorandum reports on the actions
taken pursuant to the above.
2. Issue: The problem of ambiguity in the use of the term
"narcoterrorism."
The NIOs for Counterterrorism and Narcotics have held a series of
meetings to address the problem of defining, with more precision, the term
"narcoterrorism" in order to enhance communication and reporting on the
matter. These meetings involved appropriate representatives of the
Intelligence Community agencies as well as intelligence specialists from all
the relevant law enforcement agencies. These meetings have resulted in a
consensus that this definition be used in the future: Narcoterrorism is a
generic term that refers to the nexus between terrorism/insur7enc,11 and drug
1 trafficking. It encompasses: (1) drug trafficking by terrorist/insur9ent
1 groups for funding their activities; (2) violent acts by drug trafficking
groups designed to influence national and/or international counternarcotics
policy; and (3) other, perhaps temporary, linkages between
terrorist/insurgent groups and drug-trafficking organizations.
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The undersigned NIOs believe that the above definition is sound and
appropriate for general use in that it is broad enough to subsume the
relevant phenomena and specific enough, in the three-point breakout, to
facilitate differentiations when necessary.
3. Issue: The state, timeliness and general utility of the analytic
products now available on the the subject of "narcoterrorism"
The NIOs reacted to this requirement by forming an interagency working
group consisting of appropriate representatives of the Intelligence
Community and the law enforcement agencies. The group held meetings to
review the current "library" on the subject of "narcoterrorism" and to
access its adequacy. This was accomplished with this result: it is the
consensus of the NIO/Counterterrorism and NIO/Narcotics organizations that
the current state of analytic product on the subject of "narcoterrorism" is
adequate. The current intelligence and the research pieces on this subject
are fulsome and the NIE 1/8-85, November 1985, "The International Narcotics
Trade: Implications for US Security" is holding its usefulness and validity.
4. Issue: The state of intelligence collection against the target of
"narcoterrorism."
It is apparent that intelligence on "narcoterrorism" will have a high
priority in the years immediately ahead. Accordingly, a realistic and
effective collection strategy against this target is vital. To get a
comprehensive assessment on the current state of this collection endeavor
and to acquire recommendations on how collection could be-improved, the NIOs
for Counterterrorism and Narcotics have formally petitioned the Intelligence
Community Staff to undertake a study of this matter and report the findings
by I May 1988.
5. It is hoped that these results are responsive to your needs. Please
be in touch if further clarification is needed.
Charles E. A en
National Intelligence Officer
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