JPRS ID: 9299 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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APPROVE~ FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-R~P82-00850R0003000300'19-5 ~ _ ~ l~ ~EP'TEMBEI~ ~ FOU~ ~ ~F ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 FOR OFFICIAL USF, ONI.Y JPRS L/9299 11 Septemb$r 1980 Woridwide Re ort - p NARCOTICS AND L~ANGEROUS DRUGS cFo.uo 3si8oj FBIS FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 NOTE J~RS publications contain information primari.ly from roreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are translated; those from English-language sources are transcribed or reprinted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets are supplied b~ JPRS. 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For further information on report content call (703) 351-2811, COPYRIGHT LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING OWDIERSHIP OF MATERIALS REPRODUCED HEREIN REQUIRE THAT DISSEMINATION OF THIS PUBLICATION BE RESTRICTED FOR OFFICIAL USE Oi~ILY. ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/9299 11 September 1980 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGE~ZOUS DRUGS (FOUO 38/80) - CONT~NTS ASIA AUSTRALIA Briefs ~ Drug Corruption 1 ~ Cocaine Bust 1 JAPAN Police ihicover Drug Ring Headed by South Korean '(ASAHI EVENING NEWS, 28 Aug 80) 2 MAI~AYS IA ~Varcotics Arrests, Trials, Sentences Reported (Various sources, various dates) 3 Heroin Qiarge Life Sentence Heroin Possession Heroin Arrests = Heroin Injection Appeals Denied Opium Seized at Border Heroin Sentences Heroin, Morphine Possession PHILIPPINES CANU Chief Pledges Drive Against Drugs (BULLETIN TODAY, 21 Aug 80) 8 SINGAPORE Ban on Poppy Seeds Used in Cooking (NEW SIINDAY TIMES, 20 Jul 80) . . . . : . . . 9 -a- [TII -WW--138FOUO] ~'1 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY THAI LAND Heroin "r'rice Rises, Addicts Turn to Amphetamines (SI~'~1 RAT, 4 Jul 80~ 10 Banglcok Heroin Seizure Reported � (DAO SIAM, ZO Jul 80) ...............................v. 12 Policem~n Acts as Accomplice ir. I~brphir.e Transaction ~ (DAO SIAM, 16 Jul $t}) 14 ~.ATIN AMERICA ; BOLIVIA Possible J~ta Drug Link Discussed ' (Joaquin Rivery; GRANMA WEIICLY REVIEW, 17 Aug 80)..... 16 Cocaine Traffic Has Developed Pawerful, ProCected Route (FL 1~EMP0, 11 Jul $0)...< 18 Briefs ; Is i go Drug Facto ry 21 ~ Co caine Facto ry 13is cove red 21 Antidrug Campai~ i.aunched 21 Cocaine Seizecl 21 B RAZIL Traffickers in Amphetamine Salts Arrested in Copacabana ' (0 GLOBO, varioua dates).......... f 22 Can~oas Woman Arrested in Rio ~ Trafficker Descr_ibes Drug Involvement . Fatal Drug Replaces Cocaine , Amphetamines in Place of Cocaine Minors Arrested ~or Selling Cocaine in Vidigal District ~ (0 GLQBO, 2 Aug 80),> 27 ; Briefs Drug Abuse Control Syatem 28 - Cocaine Seized in Rondonopolis 28 , ,i - b - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY COLOMB IA Military Forbidden To Destroy Clandestine Airfields (Rafael Sarmiento C.; EL TIEMPO, 25 Jun 80) 29 _ Argentine Paper Notes Colombian Drug Problem ( ~7,ARIN, 22 Jun 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Official Investigated for Collusion With Traffickers (EL TIEI~'0, 29 Jun 80) 33 Major Cocaine Laboratory, Traffickers Seized (EL ESPECTADOR, 22, 24 Jim 80) 34 Laboratory Raided, Four Arreated Details on Raid, Traffickers Cocai.ne Laboratory Raided in Bogota (EL ESPE CTADO R, 25 Jul 80) 38 Traffickers' Plane Crashes in Magdalena River " (EL ESPECTADOR, 6 Aug SQ) 39 Developments in the 'Cacaine Queen' Case Cited (Various sources, various dates) 40 Investigation of .TUdge Ordered 'Cocaine Queen' Rearrested ~ 'Queen' Had Plastic Surgery . ' Judge : Orj ~ie la Not ' Queen' Judge S~ill :Cn Office Judge Fired for Freeing Traffickers (Luis De Castro; EL ESPECTADOR, 3 Jul 8Q) /~8 After Major Seizure, Nbst Detainees Released - (Various sources, 6, 14 Jul 80) 50 Only ltao Under Arrest By Now All Freed Drug War Almos t Eliminates a Family (EL TIEMPO, 25 Jul 80) 52 Briefs Cocaine Exceerls National Budget 54 E1 Dorado Cocaine Seizure 54 - c - ~ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY GUATEMALA Briefs Large Marit.uana Field Destroyed 55 ME XIC 0 Addition ,Among Y.ouths ~~as Become Serious (EL SOL DE MEXICa, 17 Jul 8(1) 56 Feder,31 Police Suspec~ed in Trafficker~:s Murder (EL BRAVO, 31 Jul F30)...v 59 Drug Traffic Motive Seen in Municipal Official's Murder (EL BRAVO, 25 Jul 80) 62 Farmers Jailed for Growing Druga Released in Sinaloa ( E L S OL DE S INAIAA, l~ Aug 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 Briefs Heroi.n Traffickexs Captured 66 Marihuana Traffickers Arrested 66 Revenge for ~rder Attempted 66 Marihuana Shipment Stopped 67 Sinaloa t~ntidrug Cautpaign Lauded 67 Guerrero Stat:e ~rug Acrtvity 6$ Trafflckers Seized in Tamaulipas 68 Marihuana Trafficker Sentenced 68 NEtiR E~'~ AND NORTH AFRICA I RAN Briefs Drug Smugglers Arrested 69 Drug Smugglex�s ~xecuted 69 Narr_otics Confi~ car.arl in KhomPVn 69 Drug ITtstrl.butezs Sentenced 69 Drug Traffickers Executed 70 LEBANON Hash~Lsh Market Flourishing Despite ~rest (AIrWATAN A.L-r E~BI, 5-11 Jul 8(l) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 PAKIS TAN Briefs Smuggling Attenpt Foiled 77 Addict:~ Reach 8U,OQ0 77 - d - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340030019-5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Opium Haul Committee Set on Narcoi~cs Qiaras Seized 78 Si1B-SAHARAN AFRICA KENY A Briefs Marihusna Crop Destruction Urged ~ 79 LIBE RIA B ri efa Marihuana Destroyed ~ - WEST EUROPE ITALY Ex-Boxer Arrested on Drug Charge (L'UNITA, 3 Aug 8U) 81 SWE DIIJ . Narcotics Traffic Spreads Fxnm Stockholm Center to Suburbs (Leif Dahlgren, Eva Hamilton; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 22 Ju1:~80) 82 TURKEY Briefs Constitutional Court Rejecta Narcotics lrbtion 85 - e - FOR OFFICIAL USE ~NLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 AUSTRALIA BRIEFS ` DRUG CORRUPTIC~N--A coroner investigating drug-related murders in Victoria says he h as uncovered examples of c;~ganized crime and official corruption in Australia. The coroner, I~r (Mason), was inquiring into the murders of Douglas and Isabel Wilson at (Ry.e) last year. He found they had been shot on the orders of (Terrance John Clark), who was the leader of an international drug ring. Mr (Mason) said evidence had shown that organized crime and corruption r~n rampant, and he said people in off icial positions of government and law enforcement had been corrupted by mercenary greed. He listed 11 offenses including f alsification of evidence by narcotics agents, falsification of court documents, federal police receiving payment for gassing official information and many forms of conspiracy to pervert the course of ,just3ce. He said he would forward copies of all evidence to state and federal attorneys general. [OW310440 Melbourne Overseas Service in English 1130 GMT 29 Aug 80j COCAINE BUST--Two men have been remanded in custody by a Sydney court on drug charges following what federal police say is the biggest cocaine seizure in Australian history. Tt?e men did not plead to the charge. The court was told that the men were arrested yesterday after police seized 7 kilograms of cocaine valued in excess of $3 million at a suburban house. Police said the drug, in 38 plastic packets, was hidden in a box of Bolivian artifacts f lown to Australia via the United States and Canada several months ago. When the box was collected from a bond storage _ at Sydney airport yesterday police followed the two men to the house where they were arrested and the drug seized. Police said they were alerted to the shipment of cocaine by the United States drug enforcement agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. [Text] [OW211355 Melbourne Overseas Service in English 1130 GMT 21 Aug 80] CSO : 5300 1 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 _ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY .IAPAN POLICE UNCOUER DRUG RING HEADED BY SOU~i KOREAN ~ OW291315 Tokyo ASAHI EVENING NEWS in English 28 Aug 80 p 3 [Text] The police have unraveled a new ma3or drug smuggling ring here and - will soon put on the international wanted list a Korean businessman who is the ring leader. " The police have discovered that the smugglers brought into Japan at least ~7 kg of amphetamines, equivalent to a street value of 17,100 million yen. About 100 persons have already been ari~sted for their involvement in the crime. i~olice believe the smuggling ring would be the largest among s~.mi.- lar amphetamine smuggling groups which have operated in 3apan. The metropolitan police department identified the ring leader as Son Pu-hwan, 47 of Pusan in South Korea. He was found to be operating a marine praduce company in Pusan and also *o be invalved in the operation of another fishery concern which owns 14 fishing vessels. - Accordin~ to investigation, Son sold a total of 57 kg of amphetamines in Japan between December last year and April this year, which were smuggled in- to Japan ~b.iover 19 trips '~y using the crew of Korean vessles. This figure of drugs smuggled in compares with 51 kg of amphetamines, which until now was the largest amount amuggled into Japan by a single drug ring operating out of South Korea. The police believe that Son operates two secret factories to produce the drugs in the vicinity of Pusan. Ever since Son acquired a hew fr~ight ship in March this year, the volume of the drugs which he shipped into Japan greatl:y increased. The police believe that the sudden boost in the shipment volume resulted from Son's need to se- cure money faet to pay for the newly-acquired veasel. - COPYRIC~iT: Asahi Evening News, 1980 CSO: 5300 2 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 MALAYSIA NARCOTICS ARRESTS, TRIALS, SENTENCES REPORTED Heroin Charge Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 1 Jul 80 p 11 [ T ext ) ~'i~t:i~ ~iai~i:~ i~'roo.: ' ib.�:~e `.~o ~.u~uaa i~e f A mothes ot~ cbil- to'them. . d~i�:~~, ~ S~ti~.saiQ. she war AbnH~ar:3~i,.wau today ;e~~bed lty a poltce- - ~b ~ d�'" womaa when police � fince o~�+~cher~eoi ha~t� . ~a~, C11 a L~~ R m~~p~}t a j was loand ~ be'R' pee` ! R~riacht at 8.50 'p.m.:.on ~~',g~ aLo�satiQ~the police-= a ]A'!7:' , : ~ . fa~md notbin~ on aayone' $mbok Ya~r.~w~q nms . d' food �,italI~ � md '~atess ia herttrt at tbe tima , 'm~ats. !dr ~ba~ehelora� liv. '.'?hs beadns. cantinuet. f~',laatbe..ers~,~d~ded oa.JuY~,l~... , , � ,,F Life Sentence Kuala Lumpur iVEW STRAITS TIMES in English 1 Jul 80 p 12 [Text] _ ~ JO~OR~ BARII. Y~o~. -~~RS Yenon aad ][r~ A~oa-etick ma~sr was ~ R~m1 k~Y aP- 1lft ssntence aad ~ sti^oite~ of tbc tvtan i~,1,~ pl.es aad S~tm. ~ Yap� Hoo~ . 8an aod tao pa: ot heroia. . otLerp~1tc~ o!llcezs ~?sat I:ae I!b C~oo. ~d- ; to a ba~e at l[elodiea attled oommtttlag the `~'ard�� and "w~en no oae a(Laoce fa a ba~s at Jar ~ed a. pollce oeder laa Rensss, ltelodies tQ oQen the door. tbe oi-~ l3arden Le~ at 12:1~6 aaL ticezs brote tt down a~ ao YaY 1~,1976. ~ torosd t~eir way lato the Anotber man. By~ . hovM."� . , . ' Wen~ l~oo~ who wss The oisaers rwhed to ~uY ~~'i~~ ~rith Lee. tLe batbroom~ wheris thsy. wa~ aaquitted whea DPP ssw Le~ puebias some /Abbss Iamall Rowiand piaatic packets tnto tba withdrew the . ctiar~e '"iraMr outleL 3 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 'rIer.a~~� ~ossess~_on Kuala Lumpur N~..'W STRA:..T_5 TI~i~S in Ec_~;ii~'~ 3 Ju:t SO p 10 [Text ] EC~:,~:'s~'i ~..~5~::~'~J~,. We~. ~ash- e~~-~s~. ~ E,"3Yt~, 314,.du;~ u~ ~ $mall ~w~ an.~Q 8c~�~ plamt~l~ ; s~~CeY~ u~ l~~coin� tro~.~~r ~a~~.a�a~ iG: ~x~ ta.the t~a :,~~:~f~n~ ~au.^~'� a~=~' tol~_ here~ t,altsy: Y ~:."~3:f~~r:~ so~a : livtng ~a. Le ca5txu~,,a~~ wf4tt ~~a:'.~;."' c~� L'...~ ;~r~' -:yi ~ fl.s~t ;.~1ic~ tDe po11Ce' ot ~esA:n aa. Loso~cw ~ ar~cJ~4 r.~ Js1an Ga=~. ~t~,-�~, ~,I ;~~slr~ i~ius ~s+ t;e~r3 ~ w-sa svork- ~g~Cc Y. ~ ~1.lIL. :iA ~ FsF; :~l "si~01713L1. $ lii3':: - ' ~ 4'~~c~ ~'~emer Iis~~�ti^tx L+s:- ~c~.~ ~.en 1i,~3 Eaxrp~'~~ l~a Bon tol~~ itn$ ~:~~s: t~e cnr h:~s~ :n Jalan lf~ a~r~Uce ~er. `y ~.r T~:x~a ~~n~a ain9 dug up _ ~ ~�s~~a ~:a: ?~w G:z~ p.~~ L~aaVf~x'i~c.ra 4wo places ia 't~as.+~l~si'~'~?~�`'~ Mer ;arti;~n, ilQr 'Laf � II~ ~mitl a mezc~C~', ~ od~s3. � � ~ g,~-~:~, forrasara~ '~G~a- '.~~e Snvesti~sidag of' ~S~a ~Tcsxg~, I.ca+~ xf~' ~i~ ]tubs111 pe~c~[;t~$~ tb~ ~�.~~~a~,stt o~ 8iau~ ~3� S~kl tho court ca~a 4f ~ Ami~a~ t3~xcr ~s recotdAd a~ cr.n~tloned ~n~L .sslrux~ ta.:xr~ a~>s~~ ~tuCm~eat ~om F~oo oa _ ~ ~1n~ a :a wsa a~rrosl'a~d: 3sp a~.'u~'_.a: ,1 tt~ta w~l S.cw bo3~i ~im lt~da~o ao~~: ~9l~a aub nkrt~ ~~:.xs: ~e~?nged to t'~ ~"~!+:�L~ ~-;o.r ~daha311 ssld c~ ~ded. We :oa:s+d a~b.~~ Sae ~`,:A~ iba ~~'"1~~"i ta ~i~s h3~d Y~ n' :a~.~ husbaad. c,iaeb~"~1^~i:.~:, '~'..~at heox`).a$'r.ontinuea c~ ~,,'d t.~c tus aR~ ob- t~a.~ 2Seiare court Sr,i~r�d tj:~a ~r~. 3~o~a a~~ ~.r ]I"o~$ Sen6' , ' _.:_L . Heroin Arrests Kuala Lumpur NEW STBAITS TIMES in English 4 Ju7. 80 p 7 ~T T ~ ~~.~1'~ih'3~ CmA8x8lbI6& [ Excerpts ] ~ KIIAT.~ ~T..~�~.,.� io~scd L~y~ strasra o~ ~uora.,= �E'F~~i~~ ~AO~ t~d8,g ~ ~^~e~,~ ~~�v~.~~'~ ehe man and ~'Whexb. ~'~~t~ ~hzc~~i att?er~ !m a ~tah-ba:s~ wlana}r t~e be po~sn~safi~a fl~ y~ax~ c~s~�ha~B~g: c8~e~da2L',.:iE ._z.~-^'-: ~~~n''Tr~t: A:mir~ c~wesrtia~ the mAn. ~ e~mpm~aa ~~:Px~ ~?as ~~t-~~ppea.~ ~ ~uQt. ~~~u ~'ya}:u~.~~sh ~on$tsbli no= p iE'v ~kra~s~e3 ~ic~e~1 ~e hsd som~-. ~i~ ~,Is~.~a, kY,~::~p; ~ his mouth aad hiscolle~aexa~,. f~+aeir .Taina to say ' ~ ~ ~ K~ ~ . . . . H~ R81d PG~ f~7GL'~flI" ~@ f031II~ ~ h~'IIIC~I' and, 2h~2 ~ cons~a?bl~ ~~.o~a elraw in- atoppa~'end cP~rrclsed ~ ;~;~e L'~a maa'a martgr.. coupdcs ~.a~n~g ir~ a ~ :a~pi~iou= ~d;uaaer ia .'~`tad wnma~. ~a?aa Iat-~ ~a~a~n~ 'Ttian~i ~cal~ e;c a~a.rcl~ed at tbe~ Rabmrasn at ~?d p.x~?. C~x~pbsll police sta-. w. id~ara by a~ vvomsn con- s*.~.bl~, who found goe:.- - arx~~vs o! heroin ~ 2aid- dw~ In the wamaa's ~.v~t~ pa~rt_ - . G APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Heroin Injection Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 4 Jul 80 p 7 ~Tey, ~ , . > ~ ` �'JO~H~OKK~ �SAFiII::'Ptiurs-~ A-m~ pteade~ Suilt~7=,' t~o8a~,g~~all ~ t��~~a, ysr ~ pes~c~qho ~vd~aot? a~n~xd medicab praa= . tl fauer. - . . , . Aewa~'gzantedtiQil�at: ~60o pwding ee~+tessce oa: Au~ . : ' . . ' Z'6r other persoa; Ab ; dn6. Ftahm~.~n . ~iohanned I~c~a: : wl~o saas v?it~t- i~~ecting a-~ yamoh~?a with heroln. howev~r. P`,esdad noti 8~9-. , , . : ~ ca~s was S~ed for hearln~~ an� 7uae ao ne~ct yaar. Ball af ~ was sl~ rA. ~~~~,L'.l. ~~TY�'~... Appeals Denied Kuala Lumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in Englisn 9 Jul 80 p 32 [Excerpts) , , ~ -~.�r - " � , � ; pBTCiI Op ~t11TY 8t C13C jl]IICt~OIt; ~`~T!! `~C~ Ot218! CAS6. ~pj~ ~~TMpUR. Z`ues., ot Chulis 8Lreet aad Penaag~ a a~ip e n t e r B h o r A h � Road oa May 14, 1978. ~ Chon~~ 4a. waa alw sen. teaaed to ISle iimprison- ~ 3itr Iusffce S~ied~ = Othman - An~s cowasel, Mr Aimeer afent by ~ the Alor star ~~tnd Mr 3uetic's Datuk Abdul, ~131~i~'h Sauadhu, in ap-. Hlgn Court tn P'ebruary. ~ee ep-; alnet the convic- atter be ~va~ taund guilty ' pea1A. one wea agsinst. con-~ on. said~e trlt~l Judge had : vt trslticking 2o.oe6 gm o~ Yiction aad ~?a agsinst, sea~ erred in Iaw whea he aaid a rsw opinra and as,a6e tenc~: ~ ~.i,r. �w . _ prfma tscie c~:e had bee~ ~ ~rammes o! heroin. . . Tbn: ~ court~: disimfsaed th~' naade out , agala~st the. ~c-=, . Khor committe~d ttie' ga Convictioa oi; . . oifence at No. 197, Jswi ~w~ergAng Teow Huat aad He said the -prosecution M~~~ Je~xwi. Perlie at ,a]sp the crpea�e~al by the had falled to rove Lhat An 9.~ ~m' on Nov. 8o;18T7. sen ce.. . .had the dadahpunder h!a con DPPJohn O`~ara aa~id DFP s~8ln~lt the sentnace dld rioS re- ~~mi~' troL ~He a.~~o aabmitt'ad that ~ the~ serioueness ot the ' DPP's appeal ag ainst ~ ~e dadah wa~s not found on, the, oifence as. dadsh: s e n t e a e e. i mp~ o a e d o n � - mena~ce was a aerioue a l ~ i p e n t cer~~A1t Chong by Tbe ri~~~aroea- ~ one. t h+ e 7 ~ i i g h . xP i~ a 6~~ ~e He eayld the Judge had ' Ang 'TeoW Huat, H0; waa~ te a c e. o f l i f e i~ c p r i s o n-~ f a i l e d t o o b a e rn t h e r a m- senteaced to life im riaon-: ~i�~k the death pen- psgin~ occurrence of da� P altq ahould hsve beea. dah o f fence ln this coun- msnt ~ bq the Pesiang Hight paumed in thit~case. - tr~r , Cpt~tt in MArCt1 this year: ~ He said !he Judge ~He aeked t#se court.to stter he�was founc~ guilty oi� ehoiild have taken lnta reverse tl:e aenteace to- tra!liCking, 8,613_gm ~ o~ Pre-. consideration the public tb~t. ot death. ' � ' mterest when imposfn8 wo~atseY C~hasi Ishak the eenRen~ce. - ' submittnd 4hat death T1m` ~i~fiaa c!lamiesed� ~~ty vras not furtSfied the a~ against the In thb caie. .;.:ar convl oa and uphetd ths, ~ FDs said tLe.~~hh Court seate~ace o! ti~e lmprison- ~~on �~ouId not . be. _ ` disturbed unleas tbe Jad ha,d errad in taw ~ 3ut~an dfemiased: the DPP's� apgos,t... , . . S APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Opium S~:Lzec~ at Bocd~~r - Kuala Lumpur NEW STRA:tTS T:[MES in En~i~~.;;i~ 5 J~il 80 p 1 [Text ] ~~~e.'~.~`~~;'i~.~~. "~~'I ..a~c ~ ~,e~~a~. - ~t a ~ ~t e r;a . ~ : ~ b ~ ~ r,:R,_-,.-... 3IIV(~APOR~:. 3at~= The Cus- : cided what ~""on i~~ to be take~ ; ~ -tams � Depsr4m8at ~ ~ss con- ~O~' tound ia posaeasion : ni'med that kaaa.ka~{~as-ka~. o i~: as it is ]moov~ in M~ala 1- att "We'll' be meeting� soon to dia- ~ . Y cusa about the actioa to be taken," . ingredient that is~ u~ed in the said tbe spokesman.. ~ - prep Stat10II Of II11ittOII, CI1iCkeII. He ddded that they, eeiz~d 388.8. crab and cuttle~h curriea kg. oi .kaaa kasa during thetr re-~ � c~ntaina mor~hine. cent ralda in tha citq area. All oi it ~ A(~rtoma apokeamaa said to- woL:d be de~troyed soon: . day that the Chemistry De- ~ - ~ vartmeat aaalyais had shown that ~::~~5. . it �atains betRr~ea twa to six ~ . milHgra~as ot. morphina tor every~ . 100~m. Following the aeizure the Cua- - . It bas, therefore, been decided to~ ~I~~e:rt aanounced that, treat it like anq other druga. Fiow- it was an otfence to import or sell eve~.. the _ department has not de- the ingredient in the Republic. ' " " ' ' 'The depertmeat eaid thst kaaa kaaa fs PoPPY see~l. and coWd give the same aifecta of hard dau~s if ussd excemdvel~. Tt i~t usunl}y imported ~wia lndia by Indiaa pro- irW~on s1w'p~ and used by Iadlaa~ in the prepara. tion~ ot. muttoa. cbicken, atab aad cuttleflah~ . Yeanwhile. houee- � avlv~r were ~ocked whea' $l~r+aita Ti~~nea~tl~a~t the Cnstoms Depsrtmeat ha~,bsaned the import aad ~ale ot kaaa kaaa ~ One ~housewife~ said: "It�s ve untair. The C~uboms~ould luvo ~lv- en advance notioe to iboQkeepess aot to eell r~ tbe in;redient - R have beea using tl~is fot years a t~ my grand= Psteats aad great-gi'aad- parents l~sve been w~1nB it !or af~ long ea� sayoae can rem,ember. ~ "We hsve. never~ Bone Lfah. I doa't understand why s~iidenly the Cus- C S 0: 5 300 toma. want to seise. it� 9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 THAILAND HEROIN PRICE RISES, ADDICTS TURN TO AMPHETAMIPJES Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 4 Jul 80 p 3 [Article: "Heroin Becomes More Expensive; Addicts Turn to Amphetamines�~ ] [Text] This year, there has been a downward trend in the number of drug addicts because heroin is difficuit to obtain and it is expensive. However, people are i~urning more and more to other types of narcotics because they are easy to obtain and they are cheaper. Concerning drug addicts this year, Dr .~khom Sorasuchat, a psychiatrist and drug counselor at the Police Hospital., stated that the number of addicts has decreased as compared with last year. This may be because narcotics such as heroin are difficult to obtain and prices have increased greatly because of the resolute suppression acti.vi~ies. But at the same time. there has been an increased use of other types oi drugs such as various distilled substances and sedatives becaus e they ar e cheap and easy to obtain. Dr Akhom also stated that, in Bangkok and in the south, there is mor e use of narcotics such as hpsoin than of other types of drugs. Tn the north, opium is popular and in the northeast people like to use amphetamines. As for the present number of addicts in the country, it has been estimated that ther e are at least 200,000 addicts. OP this number, 95 percent are males and 60 percent are between the ages af 16 and 24. It also appears that greater numbers of youths with little education are addic-~ed than are youths with high~r levels of education. Besides this, it was learned that 49.37 percerAt of all criminals are addict ed to narcotics. 10 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Concerning drug rehabilit~tion methods, Dr Akhom stated that addicts who have been physically cur ed of their drug habit should be separated [from non-addicts] for 6 to 12 months for psychological rehabilitation. At present, the special subcommittee is considering the area behind the Lamtakhong dam in tlakhon Ratchasima Province or at Sikhieu, which is an area _ that belongs to thE Penitentiary Department, as a treatment center . 11943 CSO: 5300 11 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 ~zL~ BANGKOK HEROIN SEIZURE REPORT~D Banqkok DAO SIAM in Thai 20 Jul 80 pp 1, 2 [Arti~le: "Drugs Traded Openly In Front of a Well-Known Hot el~~ ] [Text~ The Drug Suppression Division has made a ma jor - _ heroin bust, seizing heroin valued at 40 million baht. The _ dealers openly soid the drugs in fron~ of a large downtown hotel in broad daylight. The police rushed up and made arrest~ riqht in front of many foreigners who were ~taying at the hotel. As for the foreign drug dealer who was waiting in his hotel room, when he saw the police;arrest the others, he quickly flecl. Concerning the heroin raid, underground agents of police officials of the suppression division re~orted to Polic-e Colonel Toe~n Sanitwong Na Ayuthaya, ~he comma~lder of B7 that at 1200 hours on Z9 J~a~.y, heroin would be sold at the Monthien Hotel on Phra Ram 4 Road in Suriwong subdistrict, ~ Yanna.~wa district. After receiving this report from the agents, he ordered Police Lieutenant Colonel Prakat Sataman, a deputy inspector at B7 and five othes policemen to go and conceal themselves around the area wher e the deal was to be made. At 1345 hours, a r~ray Datsun Sunny, license No 3 Ng 3636, arrived and parked in the parking lot in front of the hotel. A f ew minutes later, a blue Gallant Sigma arrived. After parking next to e~ch other, the man driving the natsun got ' out of the car. He carried a paper bag and gave it to the man ~ waiting in the Gallant. There were many foreigners walking busily here and there and the police noticed that, at this hotel, one foreigner was interested in the man in the car and ~ that he looked at him constantly. This for eigner was dressed casually~ When he saw the pol.ice make ~he arre~t, he immediate- ly took the opportunity to flee. The heroin dealers who _ disobeyed the law and the ~~ridence were taken to and turned 12 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 over to Police Lieutenant Chanchai iJetir~tthaka, the officer on duty for further investigation. From an examination of the ~vidence, it appears that there wer e 7..9 kilograms of No 4 super heroin valued at 400,000 ballt in Thailand or at 40 million baht if taken and sal~ in Hong Kong. As for the suspects, it appears that their names ar e Mr Suchat Saelim, age 26, who lives at 26/54 Tanratnakan Roacl, Hatyai district, Songkhla Province; Mr Khamnuan Kam- sawat, age 33, who lives at 6 village 4 in Amphawa district, SamutsongkYvram Province and who was the man who came with Mr Suchat in the Datsizn. As for th~ suspects who arrived in the - Gallant, tYieir names are M~' Phaichit Bunua, age 31 , r~rho lives at 1855/101 Charansanitwong Road and Mr Thawir~ Sihirananawong, age 43, who lives at 38/2 Sikhema R~oad in Muang district, Phukhet Provinceo None of the four suspects was willing to disclose anything and they did not disclose the name of' the buyer . The officials think t~:at these people have been druc~ dealers for a long time, They have ~hem under arr est for turther handling of the case. 11943 CSO : 5300 13 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 i THAILAND POLICEAIAN ACTS AS ACCOMPLICE IN MORPHINE TRANSACTION Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 16 Jul 80 p 16 [Articles "Police 5ergeant Major Arrested As Accomplice In 'Morphine' Transactions Valued at 10 Million Baht~~] [Text] A reporter for the newspaper DAO SIAM has reported that at 1630 hours on 14 July, Police Major Krit Suphakitcha, the deputy commander of the Songkhla drug suppression branch, - learned that a group of major drug dealers who had carried on operations in Hatyai district for a long time had gathered . together to make a deal with a customer at a large hotel in Hatyai district . Ther efore, together with Police Captain ~ Amphorn Phaili, the chief inspector in Hatyai, Police Lieutenant Samrieng Sangkhachan, the head of the Songkh~.a drug suppression unit an~ Police Lieutenant Rachen Sunkamon, the deputy head of the suppression unit, he [went with] a detective who pretended to purchase drugs from the group mentioned above at the Sai.rung restaurant near the President Hotel on Phetchakasem Road in Hatyai district, Songkhla Province. When the detective with the police officia~s r eached the place agreed on, these drug dealers were sitting drinking beer waiting for him in the restaurant. When they saw the buyer, the dealers gave him the keys to a blue Toyoto Hi H, ~ license Na S.K.M. 0099. When the buyer opened the door of the , car, he found a case of beer and wh2n he opened the lid, he found a to~tal of 5 kilograms of No y~9 morphine hidden in the case. The police then revealed th~nselves and arrested the four drug dealers without force. The four included '~olice S ergeant Major Chamnun Saengkaeo, a highway patro lman in Songkhla, Mr Bandit Sombun, Mr Manorat Sawatdirak and Mr Kamon Charaphan. They also confiscated three pistolss a 357 caliber pistol, an 11 caliber pistol and a 38 caliber pistol. The authorities took all of them and the evidence and turned 14 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 them over to Police Lieutenant Winyiz Kanchanaphanang, the officer on duty at the Hatyai district police station in ordes ta con~inue the investiqation of the case. As for the morphine: mentioned a.bove, it is val~aecl at 900,00~ haht [in Thailand] and would be worth 10 million baht if taken and sold abroad. 11943 ' GSO: 5300 - 15 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 ~ � ' BOLIVIA POSSIBLE JUNTA DRUG LINK DISCUSSED Havana GRANMA WEEKLY REVIEW in English 17 Aug 80 p 4 [Article by Joaquin Rivery: "Opposition, Repression and Drugs"j I [Text] News from Bolivia thia week earmarked the inability of the Bolivian putschists to celebrate the country's national day, the founding of a clandestine government and an outcry chargiag the fascist rulers with being drug pushers. ~ The most eloquent indication that reai8tance continues was the statement ' by General Luis Garcia Meza on Aug~ist 6, at the Tarapaca armored regiment, to the effect that the army is faced With "subversive war," and that only after that war could it devote iiself to the "ob~ectives of the government of national reconstruction." This shows that the fascists for the time being can only dedicate them- selves to repressing the opposition to their de facto:~regime. This stands in stark contrast to previous claims to the effect that the country was completely under the control of the putschists. The repres- sion itself contradicts those claims. The relatives and friend~ of lead~ ers of the Democratic People's Unity (UDP) that won the June 29 election are prime targets of the fascists' ire, and their homes are conatantly - being raided by b$adit groupe making off with~anything of value. The regime didn't dare allow natianal day celebrations, and Garcia Meza _ himself had to take refuge in the beavily guarded Tarapaca regiment to make his statement on the 6th. In contrast, Herr?an Siles Suazo, who had been elected president on the UDP ticket announced on Auguat 5, the day~before Bolivia's national day, the setting up of a clandestine government with the participation of the Bolivian Labor Central (COB) arid the antiputachist parties. This is the first time aomething of this sort has happened i.n Bolivia's long list of - 189 coups. - There have also been frequent charges that the generals and colonels who led the coup are deeply involved iri the drug traffic, specifically cocaine. - ~ 16 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 There have been reports that Carcia Meza, Luis Arce and other generals and colonels control the cocaine smugg?ing business. Cocaine plantations are located in the dEpartment of Beni and Santa Cruz de la Sierra where the finished product is turned out. 5anta Cruz, it should be r.emembered, is the cenrer of Bolivian reaction. 'While the fascist military are zealous defenders of the most rotten seg- ments of the Bolivian oligarchy, ~hey alsa safeguard their own dirty deals. ' A list of drug pusher.s prepared by journalist Gregorio Selser includes former dicator Hugo Banzer; former dic[ator Juan Pereda Asbun; General Luis Garcia Meza, current head ot the fascist clan; Colonel Luis Arce, Meza's minister of the interior; General Edmundo Sanabria, Colonel Rafael Layza, Police Colonel Guido Benavides, Colonel Raul Becerra, Col.onelAir Carlos riena, Colonel i~iar~o Oxa (well-known embezzler and swindler), Force commander General Waldo Bernal~and others. Argentina's role in the coup has also been noted this week by sever~l publications. The daily UNO MAS UIv'0 charged that 50 ewgdatsntoaadvisetinlthenroundup of cers entered the country in the last f y political opponents and increase the efi2ctiveness of torture, while prisoners and workers have identified Argentines as being among those who beat them in jail and in the attacks of paramilitary bands. Argentina was also singled out as the first country to recognize the Bolivian fascists. Garcia Meza's regime has felt the pressure of interz~.ational isolation, and every day it urges "friendly" governments to send delegations to Bolivia to check on their "respect" for human rights. So far, the only ones to recognize the regime have been the countries of the River Plate basin (ail under military rule), Israel and Taiwan. The fascists blame foreign correspondents for their isolation and have subjected them to persecution. Even U.S. journalists have been jailed in La Paz during the last few days. Othera hav~ sought embassy protection, and arrest orders have been issued for the Bolivian correspondents of REUTERS. Fr,reign ~ournalists have even had to move from their hotels for constan~ fear of arrest. The only thing that can safely be said is that the regime.does not have the situation under control. Curfew remains in effect in La Paz, other cities and the mining areas. Classes are still suspended, and the clan- destine opposition is active. CSO: 3020 17 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 BOLIVIA COCAINE TRAFFIC HAS DEVELOPED POWERFUL, PROTECTED ROUTE Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 11 Jul 80 p 9-f [Text] La Paz (AFP)--Bolivian cocaine traffic, the "Bolivian Connection" of the drug, has become the new "Potosi" (silver bonanza) for some, with revenues for 1979 calculated in the bill ions of dollars. The same year, Bolivia's official expor ts brought the government only 920 rnillion dollars in all, and this figure includes the privileged mineral exports whic~, despite a decrease in production, benefitted from an upward trend in mineral prices last year, espec ially for the government. In the last 3 quarters of the year, cocaine traffic in Bolivia increased 2,000 percent, despite police efforts to suppress it. With U.S. technical assistance, the police have multiplied their control mechanisms, but for every kilogram of co caine seized, 300 others leave the country undetected, thanks to the well o rganized "connection," a complex spider web with branches as powerful as they are widespread. U.S. authorities provided incentives to Bolivian officials to suppress the traffic which has a million-dollar trade operation with the international drug rings. This income represents an unusual avalanche of dollars, quickly dubbed drug- dollars by Bolivians, as if cocaine were Bolivian ail. In cities such as Santa Cruz de la Sierra in particular, the dollar's exchange rate with the Bolivian peso is lower than the official one (25 pesos to the dollar). According to experts, the only reasonable explanati~n for this oversupply is that because of the million--dollar paym~nta for "packages" of cocaine, the local market is glutted with U.S. cash. The "Bolivian Connection" always begins in rural areas of the country where the farmers receive tempting offers from strangers for their coca crops. 18 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 One kilogram of coca makes one gram of pure cocaine hydrochloride which is sold for between 250 and 800 dollara once it re~ches New York. For processing, the coca leaf is taken to camouflaged laboratories in some humble house in a common neighborhood or in an abandoned house in the count~y. There, by means of somewhat primitive systems, the product goes from the olive green color of the leaf to the pure white of cocaine powder. From the laboratories, the drug travels in small planes to Panama or Miami _ (Florida). This is the drug traffic's most dangerous stage. The "Connection" has hidden airstrips not only in Bolivia but also in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and ths United States. The planes are capable of short hops only, even though they all carry extra fuel tanks. Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Br.azil and Argentina make up one particular "terri- tory" of the international drug ring, which might have its headquarters in New York, Miami, Panama City or somewhere else. Each ring resp~cts the other's "territories" and it is this "gentlemen's agreement that accounts for a large part of the success of these "octopuses" which almost always manage to elude police controls, government legislation or any international pacts on the subject. The pilots who fly the small aircraft have usually lert behind poverty, unemployment or a youthful impatience to make a fast buck. ThesE men take courses in flying that are given at various Bolivian airports, paying an average of 60 dollars per hour of flying time until they complete 100 houre of training. Most of the time it would Ue hard for them to justi�y this expenditure out of their own funds. Once they have been able to pay otf not the first installment but the entire plane, the new aviators, like the coca farmers or the cocaine processors, become part of the "Connection," with Chousand~ of Bolivian pesos in the deal. Thanks to modern equipment received from the United States, the Bolivian police improved their control systems but, according to the official infor- mation itself, the results are inconclusive to the extent that the big drug . traffic escapes purely national systems of suppression. The fact that it is possible for a small plane to fly from Santa Cruz de la Sierra or La Paz to Miami, with 8,000 1cm in the air and three stops on the way, clearly indicate~ that the cocaine route is a very powerful and pro- tected international channel. 19 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 The ring's ties with business, political circles and influential people are reminiscent of the legendary days of Prohibition and the apogee of crime and vice in the United States. Thus, ever so often, dead bodies are f ound bearing the unmistakable sings ~ that the ring has exercised its implacable "justice." ~ "The Bolivian Connection" has become an international organization which goes far beyond Bolivian borders and has its main center of power in the _ United States. 11937 CSO: 5300 s ; ~ 2~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 BOLIVIA BRIEFS - ISIGO DRUG FACTORY--It has been officially reported that the drug control department officers arrested eight drug traffickers when they discovered a cocaine factory in Isigo, near Fortachuelo located in the Department of 5anta Cruz. It was reported, moreover, that three drv.~; ?'raffickers were wounded during the clash that ensued when the drug department officers arrived. [PY022022 Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish 2148 GMT 30 Aug 80 PY] COCAINE FACTORY DISCOVERED--Sucre--In a press conference Ma~ Atilio Bustos, director of the drug contro]. department, has reported that drug control department officers discovered a cocaine factory located 120 km from Sucre and that the off icers arrested all thoee involved and confiecated the equip- ment used for the refining of cocaine. [La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanish 24 Aug 80p4PYJ - _ ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED--In line with instructions received from the Bo- livian Government the prefect of Santa Cruz Department� has launched a c~m- paign against drug addiction which is badly harming the youth, not only in Santa Cruz but throughout the entire country. During a press conference held on Monday, Prefect Oscar Roman Vaca stated that his office, the secur- ity organizations of the state, Che press and other newsmedia will actively participate in the campaign aimed at eradicating this social plague. [PY031946 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 1130 GMT 3 Aug 80 PY] COCAINE SEIZED--The Cochabamba police have reported that during an operation carried out yesterday evening, Roberto Cordova, a drug trafficker, was waunded when he resisted arrest. His companion, Isidro Sanchez Cuellas was also arrest~d and 2,300 grams of cocaine seized. [PY040246 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 0100 GMT 3 Sep 80 PY] CSO: 5300 21 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Bx~zzL TRAFFICKERS IN AMPHETAMINE SALTS ARRESTF.U IN COPACABANA Canoas Woman Arrested in Rio Rio de Janeiro 0 GT.OBO in Portuguese 27 Jul 80 p 1 [Text] Vera Suzana Westphal (see photo), a trafficker in amphetamine salts arrested day before yesterday by agents of the Narcotics Bureau, is 21 years ol d, a native of Rio Grande do Sul, specifically Canoas, the unmarried u~o ther of two children (a boy of 5 ard a girl of 4) and a resident af Rio since 1977. According to her, her stepfather promised to adopt the childxen if she left Canoas. Vera was arrested in Copacabana in the company of her lover, Alberico Barros de Santana. u c{ p ~ 'I ~R' ~ ~G~ ~ ~ 'II ~ ~ r~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .~~jf.. , 6 . . . ~ . . . . ~ti.., 22 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 TraFficker Describes Drug Involvement Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 27 Jtil 80 p 18 [Excerpts] Arrested day before }esterday by agents of the Narcotics Bureau in her apartment in Copacabana, Vera Suzana Westphal, trafficker in amphetamine sal.ts, 21 years of age, is a Rio Grande do Sul native of Canoas and the unmarried mother of two children. Vera was arrested with her lover, Alberico Barros Santana, 22 years old, and the agents confiscated 12 bags of the drug in their possession. They were denounced by Maria de Fatima Lima da Silva, 23 years old, arrested in her apartment in Leblon while in the act of selling the drug to an addict. Vera has been living in Rio for 3 years. Her mother, Vilma Carlos Westphal, is separated from her husband, Belquiz Westphal, owner of two nightclubs in Porto Alegre, and lives with Luis Carlos Nepomuceno. According to Vera, her mother's companion adopted Vera~s children, a boy of 5 and a girl of 4, but on condition that Vera leave Canoas. Vera had borrowed 1,000 cruzeiros from a girlfriend and taken a bus to Rio. Vera related how she became involved with drugs: "Three months ago I met riaria de Fatima Lima da Silva on the Ipanema beach. I had had a row with Alberico. She invited me to spend a few days at her family's home in Sao Paulo. There I met her boyfriend, Zequinha. In chatting, he asked me if I expected to remain in Sao Paulo. I told him I did not, that I had no money and was destitue. He then made me a"proposi- _ tion": to carry amphetamine salts to Rio and se11 them. I would get half the profits. I asked Fatima if she would help me. I took a number of bags and gave five to her." Vera said she received 10,000 cruzeiros per month from her father: - "Did he not give you that money to take care of expenses until you found employment? "What are 10,000 cruzeiros wo-rth to a woman these days?" she answered. Fatima ~ Fatima is in the same jail as Vera. Whenever she mentions her imprisonment, she begins to cry. "I was arrested at the door of my residence in Ataulfo de Paiva St where I live with my mother, Maria .Tose Lima da Si1va. I am a widow. My husband died in an accident. Mom is separated fro m dad, Cicero Soares da Silva, partner in a company in Sao Paulo which sells nuts and bolts. She receives an allowance from him and gives me 3,000 cruzeiros per month. 23 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Fatal Dxug Replaces Cocaine Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Poxtuguese 26 Jul 80 p 1 [Text] Drug traff ickers Alberico Barros Santana, or "Bal," 22 years old, his lover, Vera Suzana Westphal, 21, and widow Maria de Fatima Lime da S�llva, 23, were arrested yesterday in their apartments in Ataulfo de Paiva St, Leblon, and Duvivier St, Copacabana, by agents of the Narcotics Bureau. They were selling amphetamine salts to addicts in the South Zone, and the police seized 17 bags of the drug in their pos~~ssion, costing 500 cruzeiros each. Amphetamine salts, originating in Argentina and com~on in the United States, are being widely sold in Rio in a trafficking maneuver aimed at offsetting the effects of the lack of cocaine. 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',~1:iF/: ~ . . . . ~ Traffl.ckers Maria de Fatima Lima (at right) and Vera Suzana Westphal 24 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Amphetamines in Place of Cocaine Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 26 Jul 80 p 13 [Text] Yesterday, agents of the Narcotics Bureau arrested traffickers Alberico Barros Santana, or "Bal," 22 years old, his lover, Vera Suzana Westphal, 21, and widow Maria de Fatima Lima da Silva, 23, in two apartmen~s in Leblon and Copacabana; they were selling amphetamine salts to addict~ in the South Zone. This drug, originating in Argentina and couunon in the United States, is currently being widely sold in Rio in a trafficking maneuver aimed at alleviating the effects of a lack of cocaine brought about by the closing of the Bolivian borders as a result of the military coup. ~ a` ~~r , ~ `4s': : ~ k`yS~ ;,k~,. .~a~.ja ~.~i' n,~, , M' .u , .+n -1''.:',: 'Y; ' ~ ,:`~y~"t ,:r'~. ' 'h'~~~;.`,,! ..r i ~ ~~~.r.t: ~`,t~Y~-'.' , . . + . . r. ` \ : `Wh Alberico and his girlfriend had 12 "bags" Simultaneously ~aith the arrests, the police seized 17 bags of the drug being sold at 500 cruzeiros each; the salts had been brought from Sao Paulo by Vera and Bal and had been bought from a trafficker known only as Jose Antonio, or Zequinha, who resides in the Jabaquara District. The three were booked � by Deputy Aloisio Russo after being caught redhanded in a transaction in which an addict was buying a bag from Ma.ria de Fatima at her apartment. Meanwhile, the addict's identity has been kept secret by the police. Denounced The trafficking of amphetamine salts was reported a few days ago by an unidentified person through a call to telephones 223~9406 and 243~-9406, 25 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 placed by the Narcotics Bureau at the disposal of anyone who might want to report drug trafficking and traffickers, The report pertained only to apartment 205 at No 80, Ataulto de Paiva Ave, in Leblon, where Maria de Fatima lives. The police surprised her at that apartment while in the act of selling a bag to an addict. When arrested, Maria de Fatima related that the drug was supplied to her by the couple, Alberico Barros de Santana and Vera Suzana Westphal, who reside at apartment 1003, building 37, Duvivier St, Copacabana. Only five bags of the drug were found in Fatima.'s home, from an unknown quantity received a few days previously. Fatima had introduced Vera and Bal to Zequinha about a month ago, acc~rding to what she said. At that time Chey had agreed to sell the drug at a commission of 50 percent. Twelve bags were found in the possession of Bal and the woman. Vera, in tears, said that she agreed to se11 the drug only to earn enougt.~ money to go home. According to what she told the police, her residence 3.s in Canoas, Rio Grande do Su1. Her boyfriend said he receives a monthly allowance of 4,000 cruzeiros from his family in Bahia but could not explain how he became - involved in drug trafficking. The Drug According to observations made by the police, there has been a decrease in - the supply of cocaine not only to Rio but also to other states and cities due to the closing of the borders with Bolivia, and this shortage has been felt in the drug market of the South Zone in the last few days. Seeking a way out of the predicament, Rio addicts sought a substitute and turned to amphetamine salts described by In.spector Pedro Paulo Abreu as being very similar in agpearance to cocaine but "more crystallized," greatly resembling refined sugar crystals. . 8568 CSO: 5300 26 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340030019-5 BRAZIL MINORS ARRESTED FOR SELLING COCAINE IN VIDIGAL DISTRICT Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 2 Aug 80 p 14 [Text] Yesterd~y, agents of the Narcotics Bureau arrested two minors--M., 16 years old, and J., 17--on the slope of Vidigal District; they were selling cocaine as crdered by Pedro Ribeiro, owner of a drug trafficking outlet in Dona Marta District in Botafogo. Together with the minors, the police seized a glass contained containing five bags of cocaine which, according to M., were being sold at S,J00 cruzeiros each to addicts of the South Zor.e. The minors entered a social investigation car and were driven to the head- quarters of the Division for the Safety and Protection of Minors, proper. information being subsequently co~unicated to the magistrat-�~re. The testimony given by the minors made it possible for Deputy Aloisio Russo to conduct an inquir~ concerning trafficker Pedro Ribeiro. ~ Last year, M. had fatally shot (accidentally, accarding to her) another minor in Cidade de Deus; at that time, the case was tried at the 32d Police Precinct and from there it went to the Magistrature for M3nors. Later, she said, she moved from Cidade de Deus and ca~ to live in Vidigal District. In Santa Cruz Yesterday, police of the 36th Police Yrecinct (Santa Cruz) arrested Wilson da Silva, 32 years old, in Rua dos Bancarios, Jardim Santa Cruz; he resides on Rua Sao Benedito in the same neighbo rhood. They found him to be in possession of 79 packets of marihuana and 23 bags of cocaine in addition to 1,200 cruzeiros obtained thro ugh the sale of drugs. Deputy Romeu Diamant, in charge of that precinct, announced that the suppression of drug trafficking is being stepped up throughout that area. Jose Cruz Moreira, or "Tinta Forte," and minor C. were arrested yesterday afternoon by police of the 27th Police Precinct while in the act of selling drugs in Caixa d'Agua District in Engenho Novo. The police confiscated 343 marihuana cigarettes, 53 bags of cocaine and a precision scale in addition to a.38 caliber revolver and several boxes of ammunition. 8568 27 CSO: 5300 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 BRAZIL BRIEFS DRUG ABUSE CONTROL SYSTEI~-Throsgh a decree, President Figueiredo today cre- ated a national system to prevent, to cont~Ql and to repress ~rug abuse. One of the ob~ectives of the system is to include in science cours~s taught in elementary school clarifications concerning the nature and effects of drugs. In coordination with the appropriate organizations, the system will also pro- mote the inclusion of similar explanations in courses for teachers. The national system will be headed by the Federal Drug Council and will consist of the �ollowing organizations: the Health Ministry's Sanitation Contr.ol Department, the Federal Police Drug Department, the Federal Education Council, the Finance Ministry Budget Control Department, the Social Welfare Medical Institute, the Brazilian Welfare Legion and the National Child Welfare Foundation. The system will be instrumental in outlining the na- tional drug policy, in establishing priorities among the activities to be carried out and in modernizing both the administrative s,tructure and pro- cedures. The Federal Drug Council will have representatives from the min- istreis of justice, health, education, social welfare, finance and foreign relations and from the armed forces staff. [Text] [PY030338 Brasilia Do- mestic Service in Portuguese 2200 GMT 2 Sep 80j COCAINE SEZZED IN RONDONOPOLIS--~o kg of pure cocaine vaXued at 4 million cruzeiros was seized yesterday by the Federal Police in Rondonopolis, 300 km from Cuiaba, while being transported by two international drug traffickers. Most of the drug, originating in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, was destined "for Eastern European countriss," according to an official report issued by the Superintendency of Federal Police in Mato Grosso, while the remainder was to be distributed through intermediaries 3n Sao Paulo, Goiania and Rio de Janeiro. T:~e cocaine--620 grams--was found in a private automobile driven by Joao Henrique Baptista Pereira, native of Marilia, Sao Paulo. That portion would go to Europe and, according to the trafficker, was brought into Brazil because, "unloaded in European countries as coming from Brazil, it �aould arouse less suspicion than if it came directly fro m Bolivia." In 1972, Joao Henrique served 5 month.s in prison in Sweden, again through involvement with drugs. From the imprisonment of the first trafficker the police were abl~ to locate a second who was working as a"partner" in the affair: Raimundo Nonato da Si1va, who had 1,400 grams of cocaine in his possession. The portion being transported by Raimundo was to be distributed in Sao Paulo, Rio and Goiania. [Text] [Sao Paulu 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 3 Aug 80 p 37] 8568 28 ~50: 5300 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 COLOMBIA MILITARY FORBIDDEN TO DESTRG~ CLAIvDESTINE AIRFIELDS Bogota EL TiEMPO in S~anish 25 Jun 80 p 6-A [Article by Rafael Sarm:iento C,] [Excerpc] About 25 clande~tine airf.ields uscd by international drug tratfickers in La Guajira con..*_inu~ to "oper~te normally" because the governor of that departn?ent has not authorized the Operations Command of the Antinarcotics Grou~ to dest~oy th~m. ~ This was charged today ey the commander of the Second Brigade, Gen Guillermo Nar~aez Casallasy who acided that in spite of the seizure of several planes loaded with marihuana, those azlstrips continue in service because the Command is prevented frorn destroy{ng them. The high--ranking military officer reported that yesterday a bimotor Cessna plane, t1n?Erican registi�ation N5496G, was seized on the "Caricari" airfield, where several other pl.anes have landed~ Bad Use of Property General Narvaez Casallas indicated tha.t the owners of the ranches where the clandestine strips have been constructed are influential persons who demand respect for private properi:y, "but I believe that they can also be asked that proper use be made of that private property." He referred to the s~tuation in the other coastal departments affected by the drug traffic and said that "they have cooperated witt? the governors ta destroy the clandestine airstrips." ' The high-ranking milita.ry officer als~ said there are about five "extremely well-known" airstrips which continue ta function in spite of the fact that everybody knows what thzy ar~ used for. For example, there is one at , Codegua, one at Willy, otie at Asdrubal and one at Coziejo. "All these fields are well known, because we have surprised several planes there loaded with marihuana and other hallucinogens," Narvaez Casallas stated. 29 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 Another Plane Lands A light aircraft with American registration N-883-J landed at Riohacha airport, but the occupants fled. The Beechcraft plane, white with gray stripes, flew over the city of Riohacha for several minutea and later landed at the air terminal, where it was abandoned by its two crew members, , who fled hurriedly. Guajira police said the plane ran out of fuel and could not continue its flight. Marihuana Plantation Units of the Cordoba Battalion of Santa Marta have located a 7-hectare marihuana plantation in the jurisdiction of Bonda. Two young people looking after the plantation fled. Only a 30-caliber carb ine with shells was found. The plantation is on a ranch located 7 km from the ~urisdiction of Bonda, in this municipality. The plantation was destroyed on the spot. 8735 CSO: 5300 30 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 ~ ~ COLOMBIA ARGENTINE PAPER NOTES COLOMBIAN DRUG PROBLEM Buenos Aires CLARIN in Spanish 22 Jun 80 p 7 [Text] The power of a Colombian "supermillionaire elite" resulting from Lhe exploitation of cocaine and - _ marihuana has reached incredible proportions. So great is this power, according to a newspaper investi- gation, "that it has begun to affect Colombia's eco- nomic, social and even politicbl stability." That "elite," sheltered by the drug underworld, has appeared overnight. Quito, 21 Jun (EFE)--The power of the drug mafia in the neighboring country of Colombia, called a"supermillionaire elite," is the central subject of a report published today by the newspaper EL COMERCIO. The report, datelined Bogota and signed by Gloria Helena Rey, contains a number of examples of the power of the Colombian "nouveau riche," who have eme�r.ged "out of the exploitation of the cultivation, processing and sale of cocaine and marihuana. "The economic power attained by the traffickers is acquiring incred3.ble proportions and has begun to affect the economic, social and even the political stability of Colombia," said the Ecuadorean paper. Further on the article describes the purchase of apartments in Bogota and the construction of an exclusive club in Cali, as well as other activities, many times for sentimental reasons, by that "supermillionaire elite" which has appeared overnight. "The booming drug traffic (coca and marihuana) has produced money to buy many things: from cadavers to submarines, including islands, achools, buildings, consciences," the report states, and further on it gives the details of some of these "transactions": the purci-3se of 19 islands in the Caribbean, transportation of drugs in submarines, the purchase of hotels and schools which are opposed to the group or its family members, acquisition of an aviation company, etc. _ 31 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 "This year," it reveals, "the mafia plans to take over a group of radio stations, a chain of supermarkets, a newspaper, a bank and a financial corporation." In closing it discusses the birth of "that other clase, that other race and, practically, that other world within Colombia. "A world," it continues, "composed of inen and women who have enormous and easy fortunes, absolute masters of a powerful underground sconomy which is drowning the country in inflation; the 'emerging' class--as many have called it--in which the greatest problem is that of having too much money." 8735 CSO: 5300 32 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 COLOMBII~ OFFICIAL INVESTIGATED FOR COLLUSIOI3 WITH TRAFFICKERS Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 29 Jun 80 p 3-A [TextJ The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation has started an investigation of the secretary of the Criminal Proceedings Section, Daniel Vargas, for alleged irregularities in his job and for influence peddling. According to reports uncovered by EL TIEMPO, the aforementioned official personally presented to the 92d crim'nal trial ~udge, Jaime Emiro Rincon, one Julio Roberto Bolanos, a Colombian Foreign Ministry official accused several weeks ago of trying to take severa_l kg of cocaine out of the country by plane in a suitcase carrqing the diplomatic seal. According to what we have ascertained, Vargas asked the ~.udge not to issue a warrant for Bolanos' arrest. Investigator Rincon refused the request of the secr.etary of the Criminal Proceedings Section and, after establishing that there was sufficient evidence to have him arrested, issued the respective warrant on 9 June. Eight days later, and under odd circumstances, Judge Rincon received a notification of transfer signed by the director of the section. The off~cial met yesterday with the nation's attorney general, Guillermo Gonzalez Charry, and the minister of justice, Felio Andrade Manrique, to whom he showed the records believed to be the reason for the alleged transfer, and requested an investigation. It was also learned that other crimina2 trial judges registered protests yesterday about the wave of transfers which, according to our findings, affects oniy about 10 of the 95 courts operating in Bogota. 8735 CSO: 5300 , 33 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034419-5 COLOMBIA MAJOR COCAINE LABOREITORY, TRAFFICKERS SEIZED ~ Laboratory Raicled, Four Arrested Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 22 Jun 80 p 14-A [Text] A huge cocaine processing la.boratory was discovered and seized yesterday by F-2 units at the so-called "Fusaca" farm located on the street of the same name in the jurisdiction of the neighboring town of Soacha. This operation follows those cara-isd out recently in Bogota, Leticia and - Puerto Wilches by authorities charged with combating the narco tics traffic, an activity which has en~oyed a boom lately because of the eno rmous profits made by the criminals involved in it. 100 Kg � About 100 kg of processed cocaine and another large quantity of cocaine - paste were seized in the F-2 raid on the aforementioned farm, located some 12 km from the municipal headquarters. Also seized by the officers were numerous utensils and chemical ingredients used in this type of work. In addition, two shotguns and a Dodge auto with license plates AF-9067 were confiscated. The enormous quantity of drugs was hidden in the attic of the building, which is located in an isolated area. The fact that there were no houses ~ nearby made things easy for the traffickers. Fcur Arrested The I'-2 group which raided the aforementioned house arrested four persons on charges of alleged involvement in the processing and possession of cocaine. Those arrested were identified as Armando Bermudez, Miguel Vanegas, Jairo Bermudez (brother of Armando) and Edgard Rodri guez. A woman and five children residi~ig in the house remained free, since ~ authorities felt they were completely unaware of the existence of the laboratory and the kind of activiti.es being engaged in by those involved in the illegal traffic. 34 ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030019-5 ~ ; _ . _ . ~ ~ � wy . . ~ ~ ~ K~ : $ ~ p t ~'i ~ ~ Y G. S ~ Kf ? 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