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JPRS L/9345
14 October 1980
Worldwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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14 October 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT
I~ARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 43/80)
CONTENTS
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7HAI LAND
Treatment for Drug Addicts at lham Krabok Monastery
Described
(Ettore Mo; CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 9 Sep 8~) 1
Meo Traffickers Arrested in Chiang Mai
(TAWAN SIAM, 31 Jul 80) 3
Heroin, Traffickers Picked Up in Qliang Mai
(BAN MUANG, 28 Jul 80) 5
B rie fs ~ �
Heroin To Be Burned 7
Narcotics Effort in South 7
Hero~n Seized in Phatthalim g 8
LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVIA
Further Press Commentary on Military Drug Connection
(Gregorio Selser; EL DIA, 26, 2~ Aug 80) 9
Officials Linked to Drugs
Brazilian Magazine Coumients
Government Launches 'All-Out War' Against Drugs
(EL DIAP.?0, 12 Sep 80) 18
Briefs
Traffickers Arrested, Drugs Seized 19
Cocaine Factory Discovered ].9
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B RAZI L
Prominent Businessman Arrested on Drug Charges
(Various sources, 27, 28 Aug 80) 20
Elchemer Arrested at Airport
Elchemer Des cribes Operation
Police Suspect International Links
Possible Boliviai~ Link Cited, by Flavio Tavares
Indians Grawing Coca in Amazon Region; Drug Arrest
(VEJA, 3 Sep 80) 26
Briefs
Clandestine Landing Fields 28
- COLOMBIA
Cocaine Lab, Six Traffickers Seized in Tolima
~ (EL TIEMPO, 22 Aug 80) 29
Book on Marihuana Trade Is Rapid Seller
(German Santamaria; LECTURAS DOMINICALES de EL
TIEMPO, 17 Aug 80) 35
MEXICO .
Briefs
Cocaine, Heroin Traffickers Caught 36
Marihuana Trafficker Sentenced 36
Ztao Drug Smugglers Sentenced 37
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
E GY PT
Ton of Narcotics Hidden in Alexandria Waters Seized
(AIrAHRAM, 11 Aug 80) 38
SUB-SAH~tAN AFRICA
KENY A
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Bhang Grower Sentenced 40
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WEST EiIROPE
CY P RUS
Gang Arrested in Larnaca With Ton of Hashish
(0 AGON, 17 Sep 80) 41
I TALY
~o Iranian Heroin Smugglers Arrested
(Edoardo Stucchi; CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 31 Aug 80).... 43
Morphine Consumption Increases in Milan
(Augusto Pozzoli; OORRIERE DELLA SERA, 18 Aug 80).... 46
Treatment of Drug Addicts in Milan Reported
(Giuseppe De Luca; L'UNITA, 1 Sep 80) 48
Narcotics Agents Arrest I~eroin Dealer
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 17 Aug 80) 52
Cocaine Dealer Arrested, Drug Seized
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 28 Aug 8Q) 53
Briefs
Drug Arrest in Milan 54
=1 SPAP1
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Algeciras Hashish, Marihuana Link in Morocco-Europe
Drug Route ~
(DER SPIEGEL, 8 Sep 80) 55
SWE DEN
Police Arrest 35 Drug TrafFickers in Stockholm Park Raid
(Claes von Hofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 29 Aug 80)...... 58
Briefs
Drug Smugglers Sentenced 59
SW I TZE RLAND
Ztao Turks Sen tence d fo r He ro in Smuggl ing
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 14 Aug 80) 6Q
TiJRKEY
Campaign Against Narcotics Called Inadequate
(Ahmet Ozgen; CU1~iURIEYT, 8 Sep 80) 61
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T'HAILANI)
TREATMENT FOR DRUG ADDICTS AT THAPQ KRABOK MONASTERY DESCRIBED
Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian 9 Sep 80 p 3
;Report by special correspondent Ettore P+fo]
[Excerpts] Bangkok--Tham Krabok is about 100 kilometers from Banokok, to
the north, in the area of Sarabur~, The white monastery buildings and the
few wooden houses of the village are clustered at the foot of the Prong .
Pran Hills, a chain of low hills of solid green except for a bit of re~d
at the top from some spurs of rock. !'~hen I arrive, four or five youths,
seated on top of piles of rock already reduced to gravel, are continuing
to break the stones with constant, regular hammer blows, tac tac tac, as
if timed by a metronome. This, too, is part of the therapy.
The treatment lasts 10 days.
The remedy is here. It is a liquid extracted from a hundred different
herbs, most of which (8G percent) grow in the fields and woods around the
monastery. It is produced by a primitive method. Part of the herbs are
dried and reduced to powder; the rest are boiled in two big iron cylin-
ders, into which, at a certain point, the powder is also poured. The
result is a dark brown vegetable soup, a sort of rather thick mush; which
~ the monk-pharmacists then put up in bottles.
Every morr_:.ng for 5 successive days the patient must swallow his portion,
which is 30 centiliters; the mixture is so repelle~nt and creates such a
turmoil in the stomach that vomiting is alr?ost immediate. "And naturally,"
explains the abbot Chamroon Parr.chand, to whom the direction of Tham
Krabok is entrusted, "the body rids itself of the poisonous residues, and
at the same time the desire to turn to the drug is eliminated."
From the second day on, the treatment provides for a sauna every day "to
purify the ~ody" and some pills (also obtained from the miraculous hundred
herbs) to take the second and third nights before going to bed. The pills
have the same disruptive effect in the intestines, and if any poison has
remained in the body after the morriing oral rite you can be sure that it
will be violently expelled during the nocturnal hours.
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IVork i s thc other s i dc of ~chc thcra1~y. ~i.`tcr thc fi rst ~;.i~ys of turn i n~,
thc stomach uj~tiicle down, thc boys find a job; thosc who arc IIOi brcakin};
stones ~vhile singing hymns spade up the ground or water the flowers. All
goes ~ti~ell. The important thing is to stay active, to forget that "insidi-
ous little demon," says the abbot, that is always lying in wait. One lit-
tle team is working on the framework of a building under construction at
the entrance to the village; that is hotiv the zealous r~onks of Tliam Krabok
fiave taken advantage of the free labor.
The monastery's work with drug addicts began in 1959, after the Thai
governmellt had prohibited the use of opium. "~Ve have not kept a precise
count," says Abbot C}iamroon, "but from 1960 to 1962 ?ve had something like _
10,000 patients, and from 196s" on, 40,000 to 50,Q00. 1Ve have had many
foreigners: 1,500 from Laos, 200 from Malaysia, 300 from the Shan ~tates.
, Then came the occidentals. In the last 3 years we have had about 60 of
them: Americans, English, Germans, Swiss, Austrians, Icelanders. Ital-
ians, no� I do not recall having seen any of them."
The problem of drug addict.ion is serious in Thailand, which with its
6U0,000 addicts is competing for first place with the l)nited States.
"Born w.ith an opium pipe in his mouth" is a Bangkok expression, and recent
polls show that 2 percent of the population (47 million) take the "stuff."
"We have 52 institutions, public and private, for treatment of drug ad-
dic~s," says General Pow Sarasin, head of the narcotics control agency,
"but they are not enough." Not long ago 3,000 heroin addicts sought hos-
pital treatment, but after 6 months over 70 percent of}~eroin addicts are
found to have relapsed into the habit (as against 50 percent of opium ad-
dicts).
It is therefore natural enough that the government looks ?vith favor upon
the impressive salvage work of the monks of Tham Krabok, and in 1963, to
show its approval and solidarity, gave tlie monastery substantial pieces ~
of ground and even a building. "Our work," says the abbot, "does not end
tivhen the boy compl~�~�s the ~Q days and returns home cured and with the
intention of not tr~.king drugs any more. ~Ve follow them, check on them at
a distance, by letter or even by going to see them; these checkups begin
about 3 months after the release of the patient. The results? We can
draw these conclusions: for 70 percent the cure is successful; 25 percent
relapse into the habit; we lose track of the remaining 5 percent."
C'JPYRIGHT: 1980 Editoriale del "Corriere della Sera" s,a.s.
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THAILAND
MEO TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED IN CHIANG MAI
" Ban ~ok TAWAN S IAM in Thai 31 ~ ul 8 0 pp 1, 16
[Article: "Two Drug Traffickers Who [Once] Worked For Lao Su
Arrested"]
[Text] Two Meo txibesmen who once worked for Lao Su were
arrested while transporting opium and heroin down from the
mountains to sell it. Police disyuised as merchantr.s as ked to
buy th~ drugs. However, while they were talking to each other,
the triioesmen, numbering about 30 people, who were transporting
the 70 kilograms of opium saw some unusual movements and fled
into the mountains. The police were able to arrest only two
people; they seized evidence valued at 50 million baht.
From Chiang Mai, a reporter has reported that,at~1100 hours
yesterday,Police Colonel Krasaewet, the police superintendent,
led a force of policemen disguised as merchants to contact
a group af villagers to buy opium in Pa Haeo hamlet, village
11, Niae Daeng District, Chiang Mai Province. This was done
b~cause it had been learned that this h3mlet had been producinq
opium and selling large quantities to Thai, Chinese and foreign
merchants for a long time. In order to make the arrests, the
superintendent ordered all the policemen to disguise
themselves as merchants. When the police were in position, he
ordered one of them to go make contact and ask to buy opium
for 100,000 baht.
While they were waiting, it appears that 30 Meo tri?~esmen came
down from the hi11s carrying 70 kilograms of opium and heroin
valued at 50 milliora baht. The officiai made contact and asked
to bu~� all of it. However, while they were bar~aining, the
Meo tribesmen saw some unusual movements b1? the policemen.
They fled into the hills, leav~.ng the evidence behind. The
police arrested two brothers, Mr Laolu Saethao, age 48, and
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~ Mr Chapao Saethao, age 38. Both of these tribesmen once
worked for Lao Su, an international heroin dealer, but they
separated from him and are now engaged in their own drug
- trafficking operations.
The police turned both of these people over to Police
First Lieutenant Phon Wannasaeng, the officer on duty at the
Chiang Mai District police station, together with the
evidence and three pistols for further handling of the case.
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THAILAND
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HEROIN,TRAFFICKERS PICKED UP IN CHIANG MAI
Bangkok BI~N MUANG ir.i Thai 28 Jul 80 pp 1, 16
[Article: "Heroin Valued at 6 Million Baht Confiscated"]
_ [Text] At 1530 hours on 26 July, Folice First Lieutenant
P~asit Khlaimuk, the head of the Chiang Mai ProVincial
Drug Control Unit, led a force of police and surrounded the
house at 34/1 Soi 1, Maninophrat Street, Siriphum Commune,
Muang District, Chiang Mai Pro~~ince. It had been learned that
heroin was secretely bought and scld at this address.
While the authorities were laying in wai~, the four men and
one ~,~oman who were in the house rushed out of the house and
fled in all directions. The police gave chase and arrested
three of them._The other two escaped. The house was then
searched and four bags of No 4 heroin weighing 1.5 kilograms
and valued at 260,000 baht [ in Thailand] or at 6 miilion baht
abroad was found. The three were placed under arrest and the
evidence was seized. A11 were turned over to Police First
Lieutenant Sawat Chantharaprida, the officer on duty at the
Muang District, Chiang Mai Province, police station, for
investigation.
From the investigation it was learned that the suspects were -
Mr Hanping Saechoen, age 48, a Ho Chinese, Mr Wirachai
Homniyom, age 35, and Mr Niran Meksaen, age 30. The two who
escaped were t~rs Inchoem Saechoen, the wi fe of Mr Hanping, and
Mr Prayun (last name unknowr~.
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[Photo caption]: Mr Hanping, Mr Wirachai and Mr Niran, the
three drug dealers who were arrested and the evidence valued
at 6 million baht.
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
HEROIN TO BE BURNED--The Office ot' the Narcotics Control ~
Board is making preparations to burn approximately 600
kilograms of confiscated heroin on 8 August. A news report
from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has
stated that General Prem Tinsul anon, the prime minister, will
lead the burning of the heroin on Friday, 8 August 1980, at
the Public Danger Relief Center on the Super Highway. These -
drugs were confiscated in 1979. The news report also stated
that, concerning the drugs to be burned, approximately 600
kilograms ot heroin and 2,000 kilograms of other types of drugs
will be burned. [Text] [Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 30 Jul 80 p 3]
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NARCOTICS EFFORT IN SOUTH--In a period of 6 months, the
Commissianer's Office of the Provincial 4 made arrests in
368 cases involving heroin and 109 cases involving the selling
of smuggled ore. Yesterday mornir.g, Major General Chitrasen
Aknithat, the deputy commissioner of the provincial 4, talked
with a reporter at the Parut Palace about the results achieved
in controiling narcotics within the area of jurisdiction of
the Commissioner's Office of the Provinciai 4. He said that in
the 6-month period extending from January through June 1980,
narcotics control activities did not achieve the results they
should have. It is felt that the drug [problem] is spreading
widespreadly. Large zmounts of heroin and marijuana were
seized. There were 368 heroin busts and 431 suspects were
arrested. As f or marijuana, there were 312 drug busts and 423
suspects were arrested. As for opium, there were 13 busts and
12 suspECts were arrested. As for madder plants, there were
Five busts and five suspects were arrested. The deputy
commissioner of the provincial 4 further stated that since the
plan to control sea violations was implemented on 10 January
this year, very good results have been achieved in arresting
people for selling smuggled ore. Arrests were made in 109
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cases and 1 ~S suspects were arrested. Evidence such as seven
rafts with equipment, 15 fishing boats with equipment,
30,320.5 kilograms of tin ore mixed with sand, approximately
4,242.15 kilograms of calx, 2,133 kilograms of smelted tin
ore, four firearms and one car was also confiscated. [Text]
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HEROIN SEIZED IN PHRTTHALUNG--A young teacher has been arrested
far selling heroin in front of a movie theater. He sadly
confessed that he had obtained it from an agent in front of
the train statioYi and had been selling it for a long time to
earn extra money. A selfish teacher was arrested at 0900 hours
on 24 July. From an investigation conducted by the authorities,
it was learned that a heroin gang frequently sold heroin in
front of the Colosseum Theater on Prachabamrung Road in
Duhasawan Commune, Muang District, Phatthalung Province. Thus,
at the time and day mentioned above, police officials, led by
Police Ma jor Phaibun Tunrayanisaka, the chief inspector at the
Muang District, Phatthalung Province, police station, went to
the theater. They discovered a young man whom they later
learned was Mr Somkit Khwanmong, age 26, who lives at 12
Prachabanrung Road in Muan District, Phatthalung Province and
who is a grade three [rank~ teacher at the Laemtanok village
school in Khuankhanun District, Phatthalung Province carry-
ing four medium-sized cardboard boxes. The authorities took _
him for interrogation and searched him. The authorities
learned that good-quality heroin valued at approximately 10,000
baht was hidden in the boxes . Mr Somkhit confessed that he
purchased the heroin from a ma jor agent at the Phatthalung
train station and then took it and sold it to various addicts .
. He had engaged in this for a long time. The police thus placed
Mr Somkhit, a bad teacher, under arrest for further handling
of the case. [Text] [Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 26 Jul 80 pp
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BOLIVIA
FURTHER PRESS COMMENTARY ON MILITARY DRUG CONNECTION
Officials Linked to Druga
Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 26 Aug 80 p 16
[Arttcle by Gregorio Selser: "At The Request of the Military Regime
A Miami Judge Frees Drug Trafficker"]
(Text] On the eve of the beginning of hearings bq a U.S. Senate sub-
committee called b; Senator Dennis DeConcioi, Democrat from Arizona,
for the investi.gation of public threats made by Col Luis Arce Gomez,
'~Bolivian minister of interior~on a greater "flow" of narcotics traffic
toward the United States, new revelations are shaking the present calm
climate of Washington.
The main point now is the surprising release of Alfredo ("Cutuchi")
Gutier.rez ordered by the courts of Miami. He is a 44-year-old Bolivian,
~ owner of a cattle ranch and an air taxi company of the department of
Santa Cruz de la Sierra in eastern Bolivia.
As we reported in a recent story, Gutierrez and his friend Jose Roberto
Gasser Terrassas were arrested in May 1980 in Miami by federal agents
of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the agency for the suppressiun
of drug traffic, when they were attempting to "pass" 854 pounds of
pure cocaine (some 390 kg), considered the largest quantity of
smuggled drugs intercepted at one time up to that time by the
author ities . .
Two Entrepeneurs, Captains of Industry
"Cutuchi" Gutie.rrez is the son of Dario Gutierrez~ powerful sugar
manufacturer in Santa Cruz and at the same time owner of the rightwing
newspaper EL MUNDO, and a prominent f igure in the terrorist organization
Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB).
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Jose Roberto Gasser Terrassas, "businessman" of 37 years-of-age, is the
son of "Old Man Gasser," who began his career as a smuggler of anything
from Paraguay and wound up as a powerful figure in the sugar manufacturing
- branch. The son opened the "branch agency" of narcotics traffic at the
- same time that he worked as president of the Santa Cruz Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, president of the Bolivyan Private Industry
Federation, a member of the board of directors of EL MUNDO and also a
prominent figure in the FSB and presumably its largest financial
supporter.
Both captains of industry accomplished the feat of the record single ship-
ment of cocaine (854 pounds~, although they coul.d not conclude the
operation with complete success. The ~udge who heard the case set bond -
of one million dollars--yes, dollars--which Gasser Terrassas paid without
blinking, after which he left the United States. Less lucky than he,
Gutierrez was bound under a bond of three million dollars~ which
because it was not paid,caused him to be held in a Dade County jail.
The Garcia Meza Dictatorship Blesses Gutierrez
The scandal today consists of the revelation that on 3U June--the coup
of the Cocadollars took place on 17 July--a Florida state court reduced
the three-million-dollar bond to just one million, which Gutierrez paid _
immediately and in turn left for Bolivia. Questioned by the press, the
members of the aforementioned court argued that the reduction was based
on the fact that the criminal resorted to legal rules which allow the
prolonging of an investigation for gathering more proof against the
accused. Since Miami newsmen are very alert because several weeks
ago it was revealed that some judges were being bribed by the world
drug traffic Maffia, they nosed about in the records until they dis-
covered that Gutierrez while in prison presented a statement sworn
before the court, whose text, signed by high-level'Bolivian officials,
among them the present minister of interior, Col Luis Arce Gomez, told
of the lack of a prior criminal record by Gutierrez, attesting to h3s
"good character and nature."
The fact that there is no prior criminal record is nothing more than
proof of how tainted Bolivian justice is because Gutierrez, as well as
Gasser Terrassas, are very well known in their country as important
figures in drug smuggling. The court set the trial date for next
October on which date it is taken for granted that neither criminal
will show his face in the United Sta,tes. The lawyer for both of them
in Miami, Jeffrey Weiner, up to now has shown great skill in avoiding
reporters who want to ask questions al~out his clients.
The Bank of America Also
The surprising thing about this puzzle, which has moved from Miami to
Washington, is the appearance of Carlos Aguirre, Bank of America agent
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in Bolivia. Drug traffic also appears to he mixed up in here, based on
an incident which *_ook place in 1475 in which two Bolivians were arrested
in Montreal, Canada, for illegal tr.affic in cocaine. At that time Gen
Hugo Banzer was the president, One of those arrested in Canada, named
Canedo, worked as Banzer's private secretary; the other was Edwin ~'a~ia
Frontanilla, as of that moment nicknamed "cocainilla."
The arrest of both drug traffickers provided a n~w ingredient to the
suspjcions harbored by the Canadian police: that the Bolivian consul
general in Montreal~ "Chito" Valle Urena, Banzer's son-in-law, was mixed
up ir the "connection." His strong defense of Canedo and Tapia
Fron~anilla automatically chdnged the suspicion to almost a proof. Since
he could not be arrested because of his official position, the police
simply linked his name to the others and let La Paz know about it. His
family thus affected (another member, nephew Guillermo "Willy" Banzer
Abastoflor, was to be arreated for drug trafficking in the United
States), the dictator asked Carlos Aguirree, official of the Bank of -
America, to "investigate" the charges. Aguirre went to Canada and on his _
return reported that "Chito" Valle Ur~na was innocent of "guilt and
charges." At any rate, he was quietly removed as consul and transferred _
to another place. It was only then that Banzer invited the Bolivian
Journalists Association so that it could make its own investigation.
The trade union organization declined such an honor, suggesting that
it had doubts about the "proofs" provided by Aguirre. The latter was
recompensed with a trial position in the 5upreme Court of Justice, which
as a general rule is attained only after a distinguished career as
a lawyer of advanced age or as a legal expert. When Banzer fe11,
Aguirre was removed from the Supr~me Court and returned to his work
in the Bank of America.
Concentric Circles
The fact is that at this time the Bank of America is the visible head
of the banking-financial group from which the regime of Luis Garcia
Meza is negotiating a postponement of the nearly $160 million interest
payment on Bolivia's debt. That group of creditors includes Citibank,
Manufacturers Hanover Trust~ Libra Bank and the Bank of Nova Scotia,
both of the latter of Canada.
The Bank of America is not only assigned the work of piloting the operation
of postponement but also the "restructuring" of the foreign debt, which
is estimated at some $3.6 billion dollars and which this year alone
amounted to $626 million. By pure coincidence it turns out that the
son-in-law of Carlos Aguirre, Jorge Surco, has been appointed Bolivian
charge d'affaires in the United States. Surco has been given the task
of the profuse distribution in the news media of Washington, New York and
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other cities. of a document titled "The Government of Bolivia is Facing
an Insidious Campaign," whose text is aimed at distorting the charges made
against several of the military men now holding key posts in the govern-
ment and who are implicaCed in, and cl~sely connected to~ the traffic in
cocaine.
Finances, drug traffic, ultraright militarism, professional anti-
communism and smuggling roll and unroll in concentric circles, forming
a tight mesh~ never as thick as it is now. As THE NEW YORK TIMES said:
For the first time in the world the drug traffic Maffia has taken over a
government.
Colonels Arce a.nd Salomon
The most conspicuous figure in drug traffic and smuggling continues to
be Minister of Interior Col Luis Arce Gomez, who was also the mastermind
behind the thwarted military coup of November 1979 and that of last
17 July. It was tie who publicly threatened the United States with
"flooding it with cocaine" if it halted its economic aid.
Arce, together with retired Col Noberto "Bubi" Salomon, are owners of
an airtaxi company and a flying school named "Oasis of the Air." In
Banzer's time, Salomon was commander of the Air Fighter Group and
later minister of urban a.ffairs. In February 1980 an aircraft of his �
company crashed shortly after takeoff. When the authorities investigated,
they discovered that the wrecked aircraft contained 310 kilos of cocaine
paste. It was only on the next day after the crash, when the news
about the drug was already public. Salomon appeared charging that the
wrecked airplane had been stolen, a story which of course no one beiieved.
This incident caused him to be appointed military attache af the embassy
in Venezuela. On 2 June, another airplane of Oasis of the Air, rashly
leased by the UDP [People's Democratic Union] and on which presidential
candidate Hernan Si~.es Zuazo was to travel, crashed shortly after takeoff
and the crew and passengers �aere killed with the exception of Jaime Paz
Zamora, candidate for vice president of the UDP. Obviously there was
sabotage, although Salomon and Arce initiated a claim against the
insurance company for "the accident."
Offer of $70 million For "Initial Costs"
In its 15 August edition the LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REPORT (London,
WR-80-32, "Bolivia: Garcia Meza Seeks a Mainline Solution," p 10)
provides this news:
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"Some of the closest supporters anc~ advisers of the new Bolivian govern-
ment appear to be thinking seriously of legalizing the growing of coca,
as a source of income to replace the mos*_ traditional foreign aid pro-
grams, if they are canceled. Foreign correspondents were coZSu~ted on
the subject two weeks ago in La Paz. Last week, Minister of Interi~,r
Col Luis Arce, who it is supposed has more than a passing interest on
the subject, said to the correspondent of the Spanish news agency EFE
that if the Un~ted States halts its aid, including the program for
controlling drug traffic, it will have to bear the consequences." The
correspondence reproduced the arguments for the legalization of cocaine
in terms superior to those used normally for the legalization of
cannabis.
"The mental stability of Colonel Arce has also been placed in doubt in
U.S. diplomatic circles. But no one has seriously questioned the support
of the all-powerful drug Maffia to the Garcia Meza coup. A NEW YORK
TIMES correspondent said to LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REPORT that he has
evidence that a group of the drug traffic Maffia of Santa Cruz went to
La Paz the first week after the coup to offer the new government more
than $70 million as an immediate financial support to cover the payment
of the amortization of the debt due immediately, The implication of those
interests in the new regime undoubtedly has strengti~ened opposition to
it by foreign governments.
"Other observers have described the supporters of the present regime
as "political lumpen," and undoubtedly the lack of support of any
significant political force is noticeable. With Garcia Meza are working
members of the FSB, which was virtually ignored as a political force in
the last elPCtions (where it obtained fewer than 20,000 votes). His
government also includes members of the dissident faction of the MNR
[National Revolutionary Movement] headed by Guillermo Bedregal, who was
also involved in the Natusch coup last November."
There is an overabundance of reports on the "Bolivian narcotics ~
connection" in Washington. It was for some reason that officials of
the DEA responsible for drug traffic control worked in Bolivia from
some years back up to now. There is an overflow o� infurmation on that
connection in INTERPOL and about the second international business in
importance in that country: smuggling. The federal police of Argentina,
Peru and Brazil also have extensive dossiers on the subject, althougri
they remain silent for explicable reasons of the political times. How--
- ever, it will be enough for the United States and Interpol to publish
what they know for the entire Garcia Meza and Arce Gomez team to be
vomited from power by the clean elements of the Bolivian Army, which
although in the minority, do exist.
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Brazilian Magazin~ Comments
Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 27 Aug 8~ p 12
[Article by Gregorio Selser: "The Brazilian Magazine VEJA A~.so Links
the Coup With Drug Traffic")
[Text] In its edition of last 30 July, the Brazilian weekly VEJA of
Sao Paulo published a story on pages 33-34 titled "A Subsidiary of the
Coup," in which it referred to a tragic-comic story.
~ A few days after the Coup of the Cocadollars--17 July--a group of
Bolivians, who supported the putach by Luis Garcia Meza and Luis Arce
- Gomez, invaded Brazilian territory on the border with Bolivia, occupyin~
the conaulate of that country in Corumba, state of Mato Grosso do Sul and
expelling its chief, Julio Davila Valdivia. This at least was the report
that reached Capt Sergio Lara, chief of Military Police in Corumba,
who decided to intervene at the head of 30 soldiers, since the Brazilian
government had not recognized the rebellious regime and for that reason
maintained relations with the government of Lidia Gueiler.
As was reported in his story by correspondent Luis.Claudio Cunha, what
actually happened was that the consul was repeatedly threatened by customs
agent Tito Salinas, office boq Herman Saucedo, aRSistant Carlos Gimenez
and customs guard Guido Pinto--the latter "arrested by the Brazilian
police 3 years before for trafficking in cocaine"--and they occupied the
consulate and did not allow its chief to enter. The story adds other
interesting facts:
The Cocaine That Passes Through Corumba
The reco~nition by Brazil of the drug-~unta had already been decided
but "publlc revelation should wait until after the visit to Brazil by
Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo" and after that official was out of
the country. In the OAS~ Mexico was among the countries which censured
the coup and Brazil among those who defended it. Official recognition
while President Lopez Portillo was in the country would have been an
undiplomatic move.
The rebellious attitude of Salinas was due to the fact that he owed the
, consul some 150,000 cruzeiros. which Valdivia was asking for, and to the
' fact that he "was disgusted with.the work discipline and demands imposed
by Valdivia from the time he was appointed consul." But the most
interesting part of the story in VEJA was the final paragraph; "In
Corumba, despite its modest size--two rooms for whi.ch it pays a monthly
rent of 7,000 cruzeiros--the Bolivian consulate handles 80 percent of
Brazilian trade going to Bolivia. Nearly 10,000 of Che 70,OQ0
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there illegally. The '~order bureaucracy, according to estimates of
Brazilian officials, yields more than 50 million cru~eiros daily. But
the vital center of interest in that area circulates outside the legal
transactions: it is the business in cocaine. The Brazilian Federal
Police estimate t hat 1.5 tons of cocaine pass through there annually and
that seizures do not even exceed 1Q percent of that ton and a hali."
VEJA Figures
The same conservative weekly, VEJA, once more dealt with th2 subject
of drugs in an ed itorial published 13 August (page 36~ with the following
titles and subtit les: "Bolilia, A Strong Sme11 of Powder." "Cocaine
Traffickers Were Behind the Coup By General Garcia Meza."
The text of the entire page says the following: "The stories telling ~f
the coup-drug connection in La Paz have increased to such a point that
today in Bolivia there are those who call the "Putsch" by Garcia Meza
a"cocaine coup." According to many, not oniy are the majority of the
military involved in naxcotics traffic but the coup itself was brought
about to protect the interests of the powerful network of cocaine
traffickers in Bo livia. In other hords, the coup was carried out less
to prevent the Bo livian left from seizing power--as Garcia Meza bawled
out on the day of his inauguration, in the standard pretext of
"international communism"--than to prevent Siles Suazo, on:.e in power,
from upsetting the applecart of the profitable operation of the
traffickers, who in recent years have made of Bolivia one of the largest
cocaine factories in the world.
The Role of Boliv ia
"The illegal trade in cocai:?e yields no less than $500 million per
year to a few Bo 1 ivians; more than tin, the main export product of the
country and of wh ich Bolivia is the aecond-ranking producer in the world.
Operations are b a sed primarily in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, headquarters
of the military and civilian groups which supported the Garcia Meza coup.
The largest part of the information on this business is found recorded
in the Department of State in Washington, where in recent years a
significant study on the role of Bolivia in the international cocaine
connection has b een made, It is a role which has only grown. The
Department of St ate discovered, for example, that the Bolivian cannection
became the main supplier for American addicts: from 40 to 60 percent
of the nearly 30 tons of the drug which entered the United States last
year came from Bolivia,
Moreover, since the July coup, American officials have been noting that
a larger and larger number of Bolivians involved in cocaine traf�ic
are today in impo rtant positions in the new government. The most
mentioned name on that list is that of Col Luis Arce Gomez, minister
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of interior of the new government and former chief of the powerful Army
Intelligence Service up to the time of the July military coup. Arce,
during the time he headed that service, made efforts to torpedo the
government antidrug machinery. Moreover, he had in recent years changed
from a simple stooge of the traffickers to a chief of one of the many
gangs of traffickers in action in the cauntry himself. Arce, of course,
- is particularly sensitive when there is talk of cocaine. Last week he
ordered the jailing o� American correspondent Mary Helen Spooner of the
FINANCIAL TIMES. The reason: She had written an article about the
involvement of Arce in the traffic.
In Customs
The second person placed on the list of those involved is tne new
minister of education--ironically an air force colonel named Ariel Coca--
involved in a shipment of 100 kilos of cocaine seized last year in
Panama. And there are still other cases such as that of Col Otto Lopez,
army commander in the Tarija Region, who is considered the main saboteur
of previous government efforts to contain drug traffic in the area.
"That is not all. There are also indications that known smugglers and
traffickers are participating in operations of kidnaping political
figur~s of the left or even members of the interim government of
Lidia Gueiler deposed by Garcia Meza. There is another case, that of
Fernando Monroy ("E1 Mosca"), known ~angster of Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
Monroy was seen in action in the attack on Palacio Quemado, the home of
the Bolivian presidency, when paramilitary commandos arrested President
Gueiler and a har~dful of ministers.
"Another revealing sign of the coup-cocaine connection detected in
Washington was the extreme rapidity with which traffickers or their
stooges went to occupy k.ey positions in those government sectors
precisely responsible for controlling drug traffic. Jose Abraham
Baptista, for example, a Santa Cruz trafficker, is considered one of the
main financial backers of the Garcia Meza coup. He obtained what is
probably the first prize in this race for decisive posts. No less than
two of his relatives were appointed to positions of authority in
Bolivian customs."
Smuggling Also
The VEJA story.we have repeated has no political motives. In Brazil,
as in the United States, drugs are a national scourge. On 28 June
in JORNAL DO BRASIL (page 11~ Professor Arthur Pereira de Castilho Neto,
attorney general for the republic and member of the National Health
Council Technical Chamber on Narcotics and Drugs, published a pondered
analysis with the title of "Drugs, a National Epidemic," in which he
revealed that the habit has now been detected as beginning in children
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nine years of age, indiscriminately addicted to marihuana~ cocaine and
tranquilizers, and he demanded "a global action to fight the epidemic
y in which the government, private entities and the social community should
participate."
An integral part of this scourge is smuggling. The drug trafficker
is indissolubly linked to smuggling, he is one of its branches. The
Brazilians know perfectly well that no fewer than a dozen airplanes
leave th eir territory for Santa Cruz de la Sierra every week, carrying
substantial shipments of ether and acetone, two products needed for chang-
ing the coca leaves into cocaine paste, in addition to electrical appli- _
ances and food or manufactured goods, whose price is much lower than it is
in Boliv ia. The colonel with the predestined last name, Ariel Coca,
was chief of the Department of Control of Narcotics and Dangerous
Substances during the time of T3anzer. He was also commandant of the German
Busch Aviation School in Santa Cruz. As such he had the perfect front
for the smuggling of whiskey, electrical appliances, food, and above all,
light weapons from Paraguay, the latter were particularly used to pay
off the bands of narcotics traffickers and the gunmen of the FSB for
their work of support to the illegal traffic and even more for their
work lab eled as "paramilitary" which Luis Arce Gomez unleashed from
November 1979 on. That he was appointed minister of education appears
to be a joke, although the joke that is going the rounds is that they
appointed him because they once saw him with a book in his hand and he
even wears glasses, which gives him the appearance of an intellectual.
Another prominent case is that of Rudy Landivar, who Garcia Meza has ~ust
promoted to major, although he never went to any military school.
Immediately after the coup an attempt was made to reward him for his
services in Santa Cruz by appointing him director of customs in the
department. He feigned refusal, choosing instead to be chief of the
organization responsible for reviving the so-called Military-Peasant
Pact. Landivar continues to be one of the mainsprings of the traffic in
narcotics.
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BOLIVIA
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES 'ALL-OUT WAR` AGAINST DRUGS
PY231757 La Paz EL DIARIO in Spanish 12 Sep 80 p 5
[Text]~~e al.l-out war against drug traffickers has now ':~en extended to drug consumers
and Lu the cuc~ Cr~tde.
The dangerous drugs department has reported that drug traffickers who attacked narcotics _
department personnel inthe town of Koana in Los Angeles on the border with Peru were
arrested on Saturday, 6 September, during a raid.
As a result of this raid the authorities confiscated 1,790 grams of cocaine chloralhydrate.
- The authorities detained Juan Gomez Chambilla, who was in possission of 900 grams of
cocaine chloralhydrate; Dionisio Charana Huanapa, who had in his possession 390 grams of
cocaine chloralhydrate; Remigio Alabe Vonifacio, who was in possession of 500 grams of
cocaine chloralhydrate; and Sergio Charana Apaza and Gregorio Gomex Chambilla.
These men will be severely punished on charges of having resisted the authorities and for
their activities in drug trafficking.
Dangerous drug deparCment officials have stated that they will not tolerate actions of
this nature which endanger the lives of police personneJ..
They added that there is an all-out war against drug trafficking and that raids are being
carried out throughout the country to combat drug traffic and consumption. They also
noted that they are controlling coca production and trade.
During a raid these authorities carried out in the Tajibos region in Santa Cruz, they
discovered a cocaine factory hidden in two trenches.
During this raid, the authorities confiscated 10 grams of cocaine chloralhydrate and all
the tools used to produce the drug. The police also burned all the drugs found in the
place on orders given by department authorities.
Drug department officials also found an abandoned cocaine f actory a few kilometers from
t}ie town of Warnes. .
The police have identified the owner of the factory but they are still trying to capture
the other members of the Rang.
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, DRUGS SEIZED--The National Directorate for the Control
of Dangerous Substances seized 500 grams of cocaine and arrested Peruvian
citizens Remigio Alave and Igacio Colque during an operation carried out in
a town of the high plateau. It was also disclosed that the directorate
burned 5,660 grams of cocaine seized during five other operations. Italian
citizens Giuseppe Bellinese, Sonia Amelotti and Flaminio Giarrizzo and the
French citizens Socquet Juglare and Legrain Patrick Alphonse were expelled
from the country on charges of drug tr~fficking and consumption. The
directorate has also placed the following persons, found guilty in drug
trafficking in Cochabamba, at the disposal of the public ministry: Victor
Heredia Guevara, Cornelio Sanchez Morales, Carlos Sandoval Paredes, Rosa
Carrillo, Rita Camacho de Torrez and Julio Torrez Orellana. [La Paz PY241215
PRESENCIA in Spanich 7 Sep 80 PY]
COCAINE FACTORY DISCOVEREB--The narcotics department discovered a cocaine
�actory in the city of Mineros, near the city of Montero; it belonged to
Rolando Diaz. The factory was accidentally discovered as a consequence of
a fire which broke out nearby. Aquino Rosales was in charge of supplying
the factory wi*_h coca leaves. [La Paz EL DIARIO in Spanish 13 Sep 80 PY]
CSO: 5300
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BRAZIL -
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PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES
Elchemer Arrested at Airport
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 27 Aug 80 p 1
[Text] Businessman Eduardo Jose Elchemer, director-president of the
Sao Paulo Manufacturing and Trading Chamber, a company licensed to make
saleS of war materiel to the Middle East and Europe, was arrested by
Federal Police when he tried to remove five kilos of cocaine from a
locker at the Congonhas Airport. Elchemer bought the cocaine for 2
million cruzeiros, and, as he confessed, he intended to resell it in
Europe for 25 million. For three days the police staked out the airport,
alerted by an anonymous telephone ca11 describing the person who would
withdraw the cocaine.
Elchemer Describes Operation :
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 27 Aug 80 p 6
[Text] Sao Paulo (0 GLOBO)--Businessman Eduardo Jose Elchemer was arrested
the day before yesterday afterno~n by agents of the Federal Police when
, he tried to remove a shipment of five kilos of cocaine from a locker at the
Congonhas Airport. He bought the cocaine for 2 million cruzeiros, he
confessed, and was to be resold subsequently in Europe for 25 million
cruzeiros. He is the director-chairman of the Manufacturing and Trading
. Chamber of Sao Paulo, a private company licensed to sell war materiel to
the Middle East and some European countries.
Echemer is also the owner of several real estate properties, including
in Cabo Frio, where he owns a development with nearly 4,000 lots.
Recently he has devoted himself to arranging deals for soccer players
to be sent to other countries. His arrest shook s~~cial and business
circles in Sao Paulo~ and caused a reserve general to go to the Federal
Police station on Piaui Street to intercede for his release. Elchemer is
being held incommunicado and the Federal Police b elieve that they could
make new arrests shortly.
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A telephoned tip with the description of the person who would go to make ~
the cocaine shipment deal--a man with grey hair, mec~ium height and
stocky--kept the police on stakeout at the airport for 3 days until the
moment when the businessman appeared with the key to the locker and with-
drew a black bag in which were three packages of the drug. The business- �
man was recently in the news when he wae the intermediary in the sale of
player Romeu of the Corinthians to a U.S. club, transaction which in the
end was not accomplished despite the trip to Brazil by a U.S. represent- ~
ative. ~
"Good Deal"
Elchemer declared to the Federal Police that "this was the first time"
that he had dealt in drugs and that he bought the cocaine from a man
who called himself Eduardo whom he met in the United States,
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"The man--with an Ttalian accent--told me that he had a'~good deal' for
me, but only told me what it was about at a dinner in a New York
restaurant," Elchemer to police.
He added that at first he did not believe what the man said but wound
up asking that he bring h~.m two kilos of cocaine. After that, already
in Sao Paulo, the man who proposed the sale to him made several calls to -
him at his office until they reached an agreemeni. Five kilos would be
purchased for two million cruzeiros.
"The seller wanted the money in advance," said Elchemer, "but at the
time I did not have it. It was then that I tried to pawn a ring belonging
to my wife at the Savings Bank, where I was informad that the cEiling
on jewel loans never exceeded 270,000 cruzeiros. .
The businessman said that he th en turned to a businessman acquaintance
who lent him the money, He made it a point to say that his friend
knew nothing about what he intended to do.
With the money, the businessman dro;e his Cougar automobile to the parking
. lot of the Congonhas Airport, from where he went to the international
section where the seller was waiting for him. He gave the money to the
man, received the key to the locker where the cocaine was deposited and
he went toward it while his contact disappeared.
According to the police, he reached the locker several times and turned
~ away as if he wanted to leave, but finally he opened it, withdrew the
bag and left quickly. Unlike the waq in which.he arrived, he tried to
hail a taxi. At that momPnt thc: police approached and arrested him.
Europe
Elchemer said that it was his intention to sell the drug in Europe,
although the police believe that if he really intended to take the drug
to another country he would not have removed it from the locker prior
to preparing himself for the trip. Elchemer's relatives meanwhile con-
firm that he had a trip scheduled to Europe related to busine~s of the
company he heads. According to the Federal Police, the cocaine purchased
by the businessman, which according to him was purchased for two million
cruzeiros, could be sold in Europe for more than 25 million. A brother
of Elchemer, saying he was "astonished at the story," declared that "he
does not need that because just the land he owns provides him with income
greater than that amount." As for the general who tried to intercede with
the police, and whose name he asked be kept secret, declared that he has
been Elchemer's friend for 30 years and that "If I had knowtt of anything
that discredited him I would have broken off that friendship a long time
ago. I would be the first to denounce him," declared the general, at the
a same time saying that he still does not believe that Elchemer had been
involved in drug traffic. "As far as I am concerned that was a setup."
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Police Suspect International Links
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Aug 80 p 4
[Text] Sao Paulo (0 GLOBO)--Federal Police suspect that businessman
Eduardo Jose Elchemer, arrested last Mnday with a shipment of cocaine,
is linked to international drug traffic. The owner of a company which '
has the concession fcr the sale of war materiel abxoad and the owner of
several real estate developments, Elchemer has a criminal record with
three arrests among which are one for fraud and one for bookmaking.
The police also believe that he did not tell "all he knew" in his state-
ment and that the five kilos of cocaine which he said he bought for two
million cruzeiros from a man he met in the United States "already had
a specific delivery point," although the businessman declares that it was
his first transaction. Police estimates are that the ahipment would have
brought nearly 25 million cruzeiros abroad. Th~ businessman was arrested
when he withdrew the cocaine from a locker at the Congonhas Airport where
the police were on stakeout after an anonymous tip.
Threats
Elchemer's wife and two daughters yesterday left the luxurious apartment
where the family lived in the Higienopolis district, going to live with
relatives. The reason, according to Alfredo Elchemer, a brother of the
businessman, was a threat made by a masculine voice on the telephone that
the wife and the daughters would be killed :if the husband revealed details
on cocaine traff ic.
The police are investigating the threat, thinking that the zrrest of. the
person making it could lead to the dismantling of a large international .
gang of cocaine traffickers. The five kilos seized from Elchemer have the
same degree of purity as the shipments also seized in Sao Paulo from U.S.
citizens Joseph Griffs and Donald Gary, which amounted to seven kilos.
According to the police statement, it was the same informant who "provided
the servir_e" on the American traffickers, as well as on the shipment which
was in the airport locker.
Developments
Elchemer is the president of the Sao Paulo Industrial, Trzde and
Administrative Chamber and the owner of several real estate undertakings
in Cabo Frio: the Rio Mar and Barao resorts of I.tarare in I.guape and the
Pago-Pago development in Ilha Comprida. He maintains five offices in Sao
Paulo and another in Rio de Janeiro.
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Possible Bolivian Link Cited ~
Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 28 Aug 80 p 15-A
[Article by Flavio Tavares: "'Honest' Brazilian Suainessman Arreated
With Five Kilograma of Cocaine"~
[Text) Sao Paulo, Brazil~ 27 August--A Brazilian arms merchant, Eduardo
Jose Elchemer arreated "red-handed" at the Sao Paulo airport with five
kilos of cocaine from Bolivia claimed he is "a personal friend" of
General Garcia Meza in an attempt to obtain his release from the police.
�
Elchemer was arrested last night as he was leaving tfie airport passenger
terminal carrying the drug (valued at more than 13 million Mexican
pesos) in a traveling bag which had been placed in a luggage locker two
hours before by a passenger who arrived from Corumba, a Brazilian city
on the border with.Bolivia.
The arrest of Elchemer caused a commotion in high commercial and business
sectors of Sao Paulo, where up to i.~w he waa considered a citizen above
suspicion of involvement in international cocaine traffic. Owner and
president of a European weapons sales company. the "Trade, Industrial
and Administrative Chamber of Sao Pau1o Limited," he became a cloae
friend in recent years of the military chiefs of Bolivia and Paraguay, �
through whose mediation he carried out many sales deals for sporting and
military weapons. His arrest, it appears, clears up a great deal of the
mystery which led Bolivian generals to overthrow President Lidia Gueiler
last July.
Shipment of "Sporting Rifles"
In March. Elchemer made the sale of 350 22-caliber "sporting rifles" -
to Bolivian business groups of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The first shipment of weapons (actually British Thompson submachine guns
used in World War II), arrived in the port of Santos in Brazil on the way
to Santa Cruz de la Sierra addressed to a Bolivian businesa firm.
In these cases Brazilian customs makes no tiype of inspection of the
merchandise, which nevertheless should be made by Bolivian border author-
ities.
Ten days ago, with General Garcia Meza already in power~ the second part
of the shipment arrived from an unidentified European port. In the city
of Aauru, in the interior of Sao Paulo, a watchman at a railroad station
told the press that the shipment waited several twurs be�ore being
transferred to other cars with the destinati.on of Corumba, from where
they would be taken to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. In the 14 crates, the
shipment declared appeared as "22-caliber pistols and shotguns," weapons
used for hunting.
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Tt~e interniediaries in the sale were Eduardo Jose Elchemer and his
company in Sao Paulo.
Twelve days ago, Elchemer went to Santa Cruz de la Sierra under the
pretext of undertaking new business deals with Bolivian fishing and
hunting equipment companies. It is believed that he was paid part of
the valiie of the sales, not in cash or drafts, tiut in cocaine.
At police headquarters in Sao Pau1o, Elchemer denies that his sales of
weapons to Bolivia had any connection with cocaine traffic. However,
events appear to confirm that he was: The same arnts merchant confirms
that in his trip to Santa Cruz de la Sierra 10 days ago he bought five
kilos of cocaine, paying nearly three million cruzeiros (around 1.4
7 million Mexican pesos). He also paid the equivalent of 900,000 Mexican
pesos to "a courier" to carry the drug to Sao Paulo.
Other Traffickers Let to Arrest
The Brazilian Federal Police reported that the cocaine was purchased at
a Santa Cruz de la Sierra distillery, the same one where U.S. traffickers
Joseph Griffs and Donald Gary obtained seven kilos last week before
being arrested in Brazil a short time ago. Apparently the two U.S.
traffickers gave the Srazilian police the clues so that they could find
the five kilos which arrived at the Sao Paulo airport yesterday.
Undoubtedly what the Brazilian police could not have suspected was that
the shipment would be addressed to an arms merchant with the reputation
of being an upright and worthy man with a broad circle of friends among
government and business circles in Sao Paulo, and who did not even deny
relationships he has with heads of governments.
One of these friendships mentioned by Elchemer is no less than that of the
Bolivian dictator himself: "I am a personal friend of General Garcia _
Meza and he is going to help me and could heTp you also," Elchemer said to
Brazilian Federal Police agent, who arrested him as.he left the airport.
The agent did not believe him, thinking that the friendship invoked was a
lie or a trick by the trafficker and he took him to the Narcotics Bureau
. where he remains a prisoner.
The Bolivian embassy in Brasilia, questioned via telephone by this
correspondent and by several Brazilian newspapers, refused to comment
on the arrest of "the personal friend" of General Garcia Meza.
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BRAZIL
INDIANS GROWING COCA IN AMAZON REGION; llRUG ARREST
Sao Paulo VEJA in Portuguese 3 Sep 80 p
[Text] Brazilian police dealt two more blowa in recent day:~ to a
cocaine production and distribution network in national ter�ritory.
In both casea it ran into good luck and happenstance. In Sao Paulo,
an anonymous telephone call alerted the Federal Police about a ship-
ment of cocaine which would be sold at the airport of Congonhas. The
police went there on Monday 25 Aug;st and arrested businessman Eduardo
Jose Elchemer with five kilos o� cocaine. In Manaus, the Federal Police
, learned that the Maki and Wapixuna Indians located in the region of
Alto Rio Negro near the border with Colombia were abandoning their
subsistence crops and planting more and more "Ipadu." The agents went
there to check and lo and behold, "Ipadu" was the native name for
"erythroxylum coca lamk" a variety of the coca plant.
With those two additional actions,, the Federal Police end the month
of August with a series of at least six important operations against
drug traffic: Costa Rican Raul Leon Viales raas arrested in Belem
as he was leaving for the United States with four kilos of�cocaine;
in Sao Paulo, on the Castello Branco Highway, two U.S. citizens, who had
been followed from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, through the interior
= of Mato Grosso do Sul and Sao Paulo, were arrested with seven k3.los of the
drug. In Rio, one of the largest Carioca drug traffickers, Renato de Souza
Santos, "Tonelada," was arreated. Finallq, a large operation was carried
out in Manaus: four cocaine powder producing laboratories were dis-
covered and two gangs, which exported the drug to the United States
and Europe, were broken up.
The Indians
From all the operations, the police discovered new traffic routes and
accumulated information that will certainly lead to new arrests. However,
the discovery of fields of coca grown by the Amazon Region tribes was a
real surprise. Around the middle of August federal agents were in the
Alto Rio Negro region, 2,000 kilometers from Manaus~ following clues
obtained during investigations on the "Amazonian Connection" of the
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traffic. In talks with Indians and natives~ they confirmed that "ipadu"
is a common plant in the area, even growing in its natural atate along
rivers~ lakes and channels. Moreover, they confirmed that the Indians
there normally use some preparations of the plant in ceremonies and
holidays. Finally, they confirmed that the Maki and Wapixuna Indians
had been increasing plantings of "ipadu" and that they usually crossed
the border to sell loads of leaves in Colombia.
The story seemed obvious. It was only a matter of collecting samples
of the leaves and sending them to Brazilian and U.5. laboratories and
_ wait for a reply. It soon came: The plant was coca, the same variety
found in the Bolivian Andean regions, the largest producers of the drug.
Surprises
Federal Police agents are convinced that the Indians were induced to
plant coca by Colombian traffickers. Some Indians even said they were
= taken to the other side of the border to learn the techniques of turning
the leaves into paste--this is a material of lesser volume and more .
easily transported. The region of the fields is of difficult access and
for that reason the size of the area planted cannot be evaluated. The
Manaus police, however, be"lieve that there is still much to be discovered
in this story.
In Sao Paulo, businessman Elchemer, arrested at the Congonhas Airport,
hr~s been trying to disavow connections with any drug traffic network. .
He pictured himself as a business man who by accident ran into a good
offer to purchase a shipment of cocaine. The offer was allegedly made
in New York and finally consumated by means of a number of telephone calls.
Last Monday~afternoon Elchemer went to the international section of
the Congonhas Airport, met a man whose name he does not know, gave him
i.8 million cruzeiros and receiveu tne key to a baggage locker. There,
he removed a sack containing three packages of cocaine powder, five kilos.
He was arrested when he sought to take a taxi. For three days, alerted
by a telephone call, the agents staked out the area.
The story is intriguing. Elechemer is apparently a successful business-
man: a merchant, real estate agent and arms factory representative in
Brazil. He said this was the first time he dealt in drugs and that
he intended to sell the coca in Europe for some 25 milli.on cruzeiros.
This, also, ;aas what surprised his relatives: they said that Elchemer
has land, including in Cabo Frio, worth many times 25 million cruzeiros.
The police believe the story is more complicated.
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BRAZIL
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CLANDESTIr~E LANDING FIELD5--At least 150 clandestine landing fields
built by smugglers and drug traffickers are in operation in the region
of Presidente Prudente and Aracatuba, it was revealed yesterday by
Federal Police Commissioner Dacio Marques, who declared that plans
for the location and arrest of those reaponsible is already underway.
Beginning next week, the agency's regional organization will begin its
activities in Presidente Prudente. Last Thursday Marques Cruz part-
icipated in a meeting in Tabarai with several prefects of the region at
which time he reported he wi11 concer~~rate his activities on fiRhting
the use of dr.ugs, smuggling and the traffic in ~romen. As far as he is
concerned, the region is not critical but "only a point of passage on
the way to, or return from Paraguaq." To attend to the more than 80
municipalities, the new Federal Police district office will also have
a deputy commissioner~ two clerks and 20 agents a~ting in the 9th and
lOth regions [Text] jSao Paulo 0 ESTAD~ DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 30
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COLOMBIA
COCAINE LAB, SIX TRAFFICKERS SEIZED IN TOLIMA
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 22 Aug 80 pp 1-A, 2-A
[Text] In another spectacular blow greater than previous ones in Co-
lombia and in the ~ntire world agents of the Narcotics Groups of F-2
of the General Staff seized 700 kilograms of 100 pezcent pure cocaine,
whose value on the United States black market is estimated at over 400
billion pesos.
Six important ring leaders in the narcotics traffic fell in the hands of
the detectives and the investigation spread to various cities in the coun-
try.
The secret agency officers had been conducting a patient, careful inves-
tiqation for a month, in order to catch the ring leaders. This occurred
. yesterday on a farm located in the rural area of the municipality of Na-
tagaima, in Tolima Department.
The individuals were engaqed in t;le process of drying the alkaloid at the
time ~ahen the detectives arrived at the farm on La Molana Trail, in the
a;~ove-mentioned municipality. The surprise was so great that they offered
no resistance.
The blow delivered by the operatives of the secret agency is greater than
the one delivered in September 1979 in Bogota, when 800 kilograms of the
drug were seized in process of preparation and lower in purity.
Among the items seized from the narcotics traffickers are a number of
55-gallon cans in which there was alkaloid in process of precipitation.
The gang members were drying the cocaine crystals in the sun, taking ad-
~ vantage of the region's hot climate and thus the use of sophisticated ovens
and lamps was avoided.
The F-2 said that, originally, nine persons were arrested, but three of
them were released, because they were farmers.
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ITALY
BRIEFS
DRUG ARREST IN MILAN--A 6Q-year-old known drug trafficker was caught with
drugs hidden in underpants. At almost 60 years of age, Giussepe Ceci, a resi-
dent at 8 via Panigarola, k.nown to the police as "Don Peppino," has
returned to ~ail. His usual "vice"; drugs. This time he had hidden the
_ drugs in underpants. The elderly trafficker was caught the afternoon of the day
before yesterday at home by the Scalo Romana police. He vaiiily maintained
that he was "clean�" Hidden among underwear were 7 grams of heroin. A
search of his apartment then revealed two small scales, numerous small
cellophane envelopes, and 9 grams of mannite, a substance used to cut
drugs. Giuseppe Ceci was en probation. A few months before,he had been
arrested in Florence, again for the possession and sale of drugs. [Text]
[Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian 15 Aug 80 p 10] 8255
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. SPAIN
ALGECIRAS HASHISH, MARIHUANA LINK IN MOROCCO-EJROPE DRUG ROUTE
Hamburg DER SPIEGEL in German 8 Sep 80 pg 150-152
~~Article: "Sister Marihuana"J
[Text] During the tourist season, Spanish customs
officials are catching five hashish smugglers daily
in the small port city of Algeciras, the new major
transfar point for the drug.
Day after day, spec.tators are thronging behind the fence at the landing dock
for ferryboats from Africa in the harbor of Algeciras to watch "Pirri" sniff.
They are almost never disappointed: '?'he German shepherd of the Spanish
customs office who iias been trained to find hashish makes a discovery at,
- least once a day. Whenever the smuggled drug comes to light, the dog ~a
applauded enthusiastically.
The daily crowds do not arrive ~ust by chance. For 100 kilometers ~~uth
of Algeciras, in the Moroccan Riff Mountains the quantity of hemp r~i~at is
being grown is increasing steadily. Morocco is Europe's most impcrtant
hashish supplier and the small port city of Algeciras in southern Spain
has become the biggest hashish transfer point: According to a cautious
estimate by Spanish customs authorities, approximately 50 percent of the ~
_ stuff consumed in Europe gets to the North by way of Algeciras.
Annually, between 130 and 150 tons of hashish are sold illegally in Algeciras
by narcotics rings and local smuggling gangs. In the meantime, the warehouse
of the customs authorities contains such large quantities of the confiscated
goods that security guards in the bu~lding had to be increased to deter
thieves.
During tl:e tourist season, the Guardid Civil, which consists of approximately
100 officials and operates in the port city of Algeciras around the clock
in its search for hashish, catches up to five delinquents daily, most of
them youthful adventurers and small crooks; 80 Germans were among them in
Algeciras and Cadiz alone during the first 5 months of this year.
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The police owes its quota of arrests less to Pirri, the dog, but rather to �
~ helpful hints from Piorocco: The same dealers who sell the hashish in the
Riff Mountains frequently transmit to Spanish customs authorities the auto
registration numbers of their clients after concluding the deal.
Because prices can only be kept high when smuggling is not too easy: In
this manner, the price has risen from DM 300 to DM 3,000 per kilogram within
3 years.
Anyone who gets caught by the police in Algeciras frequently has to spend
2 years first in pretrial confinement, because the provincial courts in
southern Spain are as little prepared for the flow of drugs as are the jails.
In the Cadiz prison, for instance, where many of the hashish smugglers
who get caught in Algeciras are sent, 220 prisoners are kept in a building
which was planned for 140 inmates. For all the prisoners only three toilets
are available all day.
"The sewage," one of the inmates told SPIEGEL, "leads through the room where
we have to eat our meals." Another person complained that the food contains
dead bugs and dirt. And: "Even small offenses are punished with beatings
and weeks of solitary confinement."
Apparently, conditions are even worse in the detention center of the Spanish
enclave of Ceuta on the Moroccan coast, another place where many captured
hashish tourists land: Sle~ping quarters of 12 by 5 meters house 25
prisoners each, sleeping on clouble bunks. There are no windows. Seventy
persons share four sinks.
Eventually, when the trial takes place, the verdict is according to the
rule of thumb: One year in prison for each kilogram found when arrested,
the longest sentence is 12 years and 1 day. Only one who has enough money
can buy his freedom from prison by posting bail of up to DM 30,000.
But the big-time dealers do not get caught in Algeciras anyway--they
realized a long time ago that Algeciras, as well as Malaga, the other
traditional smuggling port in Andalusia, has become too dangerous because,
according to an underground Smuggling primer which is circulating among
dealers, the police "works well there." The 50-page handbook warns
explicitly of the;~e two ports.
The big-timers have already organized new trade routes, against which the
Spanish police are more or less powerless:
Hashish plates, and more and more frequently hashish oil, are loaded on
deep-sea yachts on Morocco's Mediterranean coast. They either take a direct
route and dock at harmless small ports somewhere in k;urope or else th~y
drop their anchors in luxury yacht harbors on the Costa del Sol which are
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crowded with tourists, for instance, Puerto Banus in Marbella. There they
can unload their freight without being disturbed.
Frequently, there are also strong motorboats leaving Gibraltar in the after-
noon for the Pioroccan coast 11 kilometers away; they return at full 4peed
- across the strait loaded with hashish, and in the evening they throw the
goods, which are fastened to bags of salt, into the sea near the Spanish
coast. Within 6 hours the salt dissolves in the water, and at daybreak the
hashish package drifts ashore by itself. Occasionally, when the recipient
is interrupted while picking up the package, it happens that unsuspecting
tourists find watertight packages containing hashish weighing as much as a
centner.
The extent of the hashish trade between the coasts became apparent lasr
May on Gibraltar, when Scotland Yard arrested on Gibraltar and in England
hashish dealers who were involved in a transaction valued at approximately
DM 1 billion.
In a hideaway that the bank manager Ambrosius Vinales had constructed in
one of the numerous rock tunnels on Gibraltar, the police found pound bills
valued at DM 120 million--intended as payment for hashish transporters in
Europe and producers in Morocco.
Adventurerb and addicts who end up in Algeciras, Ceuta or Cadiz can only
~lream of such sums. "We have nothing to do with the international drug-
mafia or heroin scene. We are amateurs," a 27-year-old German writes not
without professional pride; he is in ~ail in Cadiz for possession of 20.7
kilograms of hashish. "We are replacing 'brother alcohol' with 'sister
marihuana,' because we believe in our drug."
Those who get caught, get their drug also in ~ail:
Hashish is smuggled into the prison of Algeciras inside hollowed-out melons
or tennis balls that are thrown over the wall by someone on the outside.
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SWEDEN
POLICE ARREST 35 DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN STOCKHOLM PARK RAID ~
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 29 Aug 80 p 12
~Article by Claes von Hofsten: "Police Raid Parks to Combat Drug
Trafficking"~
E
[Text~ Now order should be restored to Stockholm's parks. The police
launched a widespread raid on drug trafficking in the parks. Thirty-
five people have been caught and drugs have been confiscated in equal
pro~,ortion.
The raid was launched last week. Vitabergspark in SodermzLn was the
first target. The wall behind Sofia Church in the park has been for many
years one of the meeting places for what is called street i~rafficking in
drugs. Many living in the area have ^omplained about the state of
affairs. Older people do not dare visit the park. Some violent crimes
still have not been reported to the police.
"The parks are swarming with druge addicts, boti~ buyers and peddlers,"
says Police Inspector Hugo Nyberg, head of narcotics investigations in
Sweden. In all 22 policemen have been detached to the recently launched
cleanup operation and they are working double shifts. Anyone found with
drugs is arrested and brought in for questioning. Still, most of the
ones caught have so little drugs on them that they can claim it`s only
for their own use and soon they are back out on the streets again.
The trouble with this kind of action is that the problem only jumps from
one place to another. Police Inspector Nyberg emphasizes, however, the
importance of keeping the drug addicts from thinking they can easily get 6
away with breaking the law. "It's good to keep them worried," is how he .
explains it.
The National Criminal Investigation Department reco~ds all the informa-
tion gathered at the questioning. The idea is to ascertain the modus
operandi of drug peddling, to find patterns in its operation. Hopefully,
the big suppliers will finally be tracked down.
Vitabergspark is only the first police objective; other exposed parks
will follow, though not only the parks will be searched in the raids.
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SWEDEN
BRIEFS
DRUG SMUGGLERS SENTENCED--The repercussions of the proceedings against the
so-called Limhamn gang have not yet been felt. The gang specializes in
smuggling cannabis from Copenhagen to Malmo by hiding the drug in the anal
cavity. Thursday three Malmo residents were given jail sentences for
their participation in the gang's illegal dealings. Zn all 32 Malmo
_ residents have been sentenced in the city court, including three sentences
on Thursday. The gang leaders have had the others smuggle in no less than
80 kg of cannabis. Those sentenced on Thursday had bought their drugs
from one of the gang leaders; one was found with 5 kg and the other two
had 3 kg each. A 25-year-old received a two year prison term and 40,000
kronor fine for a serious drug violation and assault. The others, who are
a little older, were each given a 1 lr2 year prison term ar.d fined 25,000
kronor. [~Text][Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 25 Jul 80 p 10] 9396
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TWO TURKS SENTENCED FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING
Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian 14 Aug 80 p 9
rArticle: "Lugano Trial of the Largest Heroin "Factory" in Europe;
Transportation of Ref ined Drugs to Cereseto Castle by Turkish Couriers"J
[Excerpt] The drug factory that is located in Cereseto Castle in Casalese
(the largest in Europe), discovered this past June by Milan Customs, had
Middle East connections. The heroin was transported to Italy via
Yugoslavia by Turkish couriers. Then it was refined in the very well
equipped Ceresetc laboratories.
This was disclosed yesterday during the trial of Mehemet A1i Alis and
Abdullahtif, who were arrested on 1 February by the Swi.ss police as they
neared Campione, Italy, in a taxi. Each was sentenced to 8 years in
prison. ,
The investigation disclesed that this was the first time that heroin had
gone through Switzerland. The Turkish couriers usually entered Italy via
Yugoslavia. On that occasion the two criminals, perhaps because they
. believed the new route to be safer, preferred to go through Austria and
then Switzerland.
The packets that contained 5 kilos of very pure heroin had been ingeniously
hidden in the gearbox of their automobile. Then, at the last minute,
when the "goods" began to scorch, the two Turks decided to remove the
drug from the hiding place in the car and to transfer it to a taxi and go
to Campione, Italy. They were spotted and stopped by the poli ce before
they reached Italian territory, where another courier was waiting for them.
It is almost certain that the pure heroin was being transferred to the
Milan and Cereseto laboratories for the purpose of being processed and put
on the international market. :he narcotics squad police at po lice head-
quarters in Milan were immediately informed of the :ituation. A few days
later Portaccio's men stopped another Turkish car and found 7 kilos 250 �
grams of heroin in the gearbox. The heroin is valued at about 7 billion
lire on the retail market. A young Turk was arrested and another was
reported but not found.
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TURKEY
CAMPAIGN AGAINST NARCOTICS CALLED INADEQUATE
Istanbul CUNIIiURIYET in Turkish 8 Sep 80 pp 1,5
/Article by Ahmet Oz gen/
/Te:ct/ Our country serves as a bri.dge in the flow of narcotics such as
heroin, hashish and LSD to America and Europe. Narcotics enter at our
eastern and southeastern borders, travel across Turkey and go on their way.
Our country is also known to be used as headquarters.
The fight against narcotics smuggling is conducted hand in hand with inter-
national security organizations. �
We talked with a top officer from the Narcotics Branch who gave us the fol-
lowing information on the forms the campaign takes:
/Question/ Narcotics are known to be entering the country over our eastern
borders. The eyes of the world are again on our country. Would you explain
the reasons?
/Answer/ Our country, actually, is used as a bridge or headquarters by nar-
cotics smugglers. This is Turkey's role in international smuggling.
Plants grown in Asian countries like India and Pakistan are brought from
these places to our country. In years past, Europe and America were sure
that our country was the source. Indeed, poppy cultivation was banned in
our country in 1971. However, it was understood that our country was only
a transit point in n~rcotics smuggling and poppy production was resumed.
/Question/ What is being done?
/Answer/ An effective fight against narcotics smuggling is carried on in
our country. The effort is extraordinary in Istanbu~., which is a smug-
gler's paradise because of its population. It is still not adequate, how-
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First among the major reasons for this is the lack of trained personnel.
Of course, that is not all. There is not even a narcotics laboratory in
Istanbul, yet working scientifically increases the impact of the campaign.
We cannot search for narcotics by smell. It is not knowr: how many people
in our country use narcotics. The developed nations work systematically,
so that they can even tell how much damage is done to the national economy
by addicts. In short, for a positive campaign, our methods must be modern-
ized.
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The fact that the narcotics business is illegal, earning easy and plentiful
money, increases the profit rate.
Taking a look at the market in this light, 1 kilogram of heroin is said to
sell for 700,000 liras in our country, 60,000 marks in Germany, 100,000
guilders in the Netherlands and $260,000 in the United States where the
profit is at its highest.
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