INMAN'S 2D CAREER: TACKLING JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY

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• Publication Date: March 8, 1983
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DEA used CIA personnel to "help us re
In fact, "DEA produces both strategic and pare a pr l onal
intelligence. Of the total strategic product tactical/lope r ;inal
percent is provided by the CIA. -32 approximately 25
DEA also provided agents to Oliverd, as noted noted St the
actions. North's NS "covert
Conclusion
given large increases in drug intelligence activities b
Reagan administration are particularly frightenin
g, n -the
unfolding IranJcontra revelations of illegal domestic Political the
cal
activities. The very agencies included in the war on drugs
FBI, the DEA, and the CIA- -the
violations of U.S. laws, some related also
drug charged
The
political uses of a "drug war" were summed up back in 1975 y
Dr. Louis "Jolly" West, who headed covert experiments and other mind control methods for the CIA:
ments with
The role of drugs in the exercise of political control is also
coming under increasing discussion. Control can be im-
posed either through prohibition or supply. The total or
partial prohibition of drugs gives government considerable
leverage for other types of control. An example would be the
selective application of drug laws... against selected com-
ponents of the Population, such as members of certain
minority groups or political organizations. 33
32. Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, ?
98-8, February 23, 1983.
33. R. K. Siegal and L. J. West, eds., Hallucinations: Behavior, Ex-
perience, and Theory (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975).
creased greatly over the past several years. The reorganization
of the intelligence community is the crucial feature of this in-
crease. In 1981, the DEA and the FBI were given joint
jurisdiction over drug enforcement. Over the next few years,
as the number of joint cases escalated, related electronic sur-
veillance increased by almost 300 percent. By 1984, DEA in-
telligence exchange agreements had been reached with all 50
state Police forces to give them access to data culled by the El
Paso Intelligence Center, which processes hundreds of
thousands of requests annually.29
Use of agents and informants has also ex
General Edwin Meese proposed that employers hire agents to
spy on workers in parking lots, locker rooms, and even nearby
bars; his recommendations were based on the advice of Peter
Bensinger.30 Hopefully, Meese will not try to implement
other more extreme practices accepted by Bensinger when he
headed the DEA. Referring to torture in Mexico by the Mexican
Federal Judicial Police, Bensinger is quoted as saying that
U.S. DEA officials "leave immediately when the torture
begins," and then get their answers after the Mexican police
are finished with the "interrogation."31
The DEA reorganization also dictated increased cooperation
with other intelligence agencies. All field offices of the FBI
and DEA were ordered in 1982 by then Attorney General
William French Smith to set up liaison agents with each other.
FBI narcotics investigations increased from 100 to 1,000. The
29. Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, J-
99-9, March 19, 1985, p. 22.
30. New York Times, October 31, 1986.
31. Thomas Plate and Andrea D
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