UNIFIED, GOVERNMENT-WIDE STRATEGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R000802020034-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 34
• Content Type: REPORT

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Unified, Government-Wide Strategy
CIA is actively involved in the ongoing efforts to produce a
unified government-wide strategy for combatting international
illicit drug trafficking. In connection with these efforts, the
President has recently established a Cabinet Council on Legal
Policy, chaired. by the Attorney General, to focus on the
development and implementation of drug supply reduction
programs. The DCI is a member of the Sub-council on Drug Supply
Reduction within this Cabinet Council, and has appointed the
General Counsel and Deputy Director of Operations to participate
in the Council's Working Group on Drug Supply Reduction. This
Working Group has been charged with developing specific proposals
for action on the many issues confronting the federal agencies
and departments involved in the effort to stem the flow of
illicit narcotics.
A number of these issues have a direct impact on CIA,
foremost among them being the development of improved research
and intelligence capabilities. Obviously, CIA plays.a major role
in gathering and disseminating intelligence about the levels of
availability of drugs, supply sources and distribution systems in
foreign countries, as well as the capacities of foreign
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governments to control drug supplies. The Task Force on
International Initiatives, a sub-group within the Working Group,
has noted that the following needs must be addressed by United
States Government agencies involved in research and intelligence
efforts:
? a need for improving the scope and quality of
national and international intelligence activities
produce improved estimates on worldwide
production and trafficking;
? a need for improved utilization and
coordination of narcotics-related information;
a need for a significantly increased priority
for narcotics intelligence collection.
Other issues being dealt with by the Working Group that
involve CIA include a proposal for CIA to survey all available
technology for assessing cannabis growth in the United States and
a proposal to increase interagency cooperation in enforcement
activities aimed at removing assets from drug tratlickers. While
asset removal is primarily a law enforcement concern, CIA can
participate by supplying information acquired in the course of
foreign intelligence collection efforts which would indicate that
assets are being removed overseas.
The Working Group on Drug Supply Reduction has been tasked
with developing a proposed implementation plan which will
incorporate the various task force proposals finally adopted by
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the Working Group as a whole, and will identify the specific
steps which Cabinet departments must take to produce an effective
Drug Abuse Prevention Policy. In addition, the Director of the
Drug Abuse Policy Office has recently circulated for comments
within the executive branch a working paper which contains an
overall Federal strategy for the prevention of drug abuse and
drug trafficking. The Director for the Drug Abuse Policy Office
has recently been elevated to the status of Senior Advisor to the
President, a change which indicates the overriding White House
concern with this problem.
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