INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS STUDY RECORD OF PROGRESS CHALLENGES AHEAD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2011
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• Publication Date: August 1, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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Critical Intelligence Problems
Committee
International Narcotics Study
Record of Progress
Challenges Ahead
August 1985
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International Narcotics Study
Record of Progress
Challenges Ahead
August 1985
This study is approved by the Director of Central Intelligence.
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The Critical Intelligence Problems Committee (CIPC) study, International
Narcotics Coordination and Collection, was promulgated by the Director of Central
Intelligence (DCI) and the National Foreign Intelligence Council (NFIC) with the
requirement for the CIPC to review and report within six to 12 months on the status
of implementing the recommendations contained in the International Narcotics
Study.
This report summarizes and documents the actions that have been put into effect
or are in the process of being implemented. The Intelligence Community's capability
to address the international narcotics problem has significantly improved during the
past 12 months. The very existence of a viable narcotics intelligence community today
is due in large measure to the heightened awareness by Community principals of the
gravity of the narcotics threat to the US. We believe that the Community's
commitment to implement the recommendations contained in the International
Narcotics Study is a major factor in this improved intelligence posture.
The magnitude and dynamic nature of the narcotics intelligence target is such,
however, that the Community will continue to be confronted with difficult and
complex tasks in fulfilling its narcotics mission. These issues are discussed in "The
Challenge Ahead" section of this report.
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The CIPC narcotics intelligence effort-including a detailed study promulgated
by the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), with the concurrence of the National
Foreign Intelligence Council (NFIC) on 18 April 1984, and a following addendum
which was forwarded to the DCI on 7 February 1985-has brought narcotics into the
mainstream of critical issues being addressed in a systematic way by the Intelligence
Community. The two CIPC studies have provided the basis for the intelligence
structure now in place to support the drug control objectives of the United States. To-
day, the Intelligence Community is a major contributor to the US Government's
effort against this uniquely dynamic target.
To improve our narcotics intelligence posture, 59 recommendations were set
forth in these two reports. To date, 48 recommendations-over 80 percent-have
either been put into effect or are in the process of being implemented by the
responsible department or agency. This is a striking record of progress when
contrasted with the narcotics intelligence posture of the Community only a few brief
years ago. However, these accomplishments do not capture the experience gained by
the Community over the past year in marshaling its resources and talents against this
complex and challenging intelligence problem.
The recommendations that were endorsed by the DCI, NFIC, and the CIPC in-
volved a commitment of intelligence resources to be arrayed against a broad spectrum
of high-priority narcotics targets. Today, there exists a viable narcotics intelligence
community composed of a cadre of dedicated intelligence professionals. This
expanded narcotics intelligence community, with representatives in the communities
of both law enforcement and foreign intelligence, operates on a variety of levels and
engages the collective resources of the Intelligence Community and law enforcement
organizations. The Intelligence Community in supporting the government's campaign
against illegal drugs has gone beyond traditional intelligence analysis, and is now
looking for exploitable vulnerabilities of the drug traffickers as well as opportunities
to enhance foreign drug control efforts.
Since the time the CIPC began to examine this critical intelligence problem,
numerous concrete accomplishments have been recorded. They include:
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? Establishment of a research and development program to respond to the
specific and unique needs of intelligence personnel involved in narcotics
intelligence collection.
? Expansion of the number of Memoranda of Understanding between offices of
the General Counsels of the Intelligence Community, the Justice Department,
and law enforcement organizations to ensure adequate protection of sensitive
sources and methods.
This last point is part of a much larger effort that has resulted in establishing a
common framework which enhances the flow of intelligence concerning narcotics to
designated US law enforcement agencies, while at the same time, protecting the
security of the information and of intelligence sources and methods.
As indicated in the preceding discussion, the Intelligence Community is pursuing
all avenues of the intelligence process in an effort to combat the international
narcotics threat. This record of achievement is in no way intended to suggest that the
Intelligence Community has solved all of its problems or that it will successfully meet
the challenges ahead without difficulty. Both the magnitude and dynamic nature of
the narcotics target will continue to compel collector and analyst alike to readjust and
refine the effort. For example:
At the same time, the Intelligence Community will continue to be faced with the
challenging question of how much further to go in the investment of future
intelligence resources against the narcotics target. In its conclusions, the CIPC
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Narcotics Study emphasized that, "Over the longer term, the amount of additional
resources programmed by the Intelligence Community against the narcotics target
will depend in large measure on the priority attached to the issue by senior levels of
the US Government."
The clear implication behind this statement holds true today. Before investing
additional resources, the Intelligence Community will have to look closely at the
proposition that more intelligence on the narcotics issue is not necessarily better
intelligence. In this regard, the Community is fast nearing the point at which a
qualitative assessment is needed of the contribution narcotics intelligence collection
has made in specific terms to the support of US drug control goals. The issue of the
relative importance of narcotics to other priority concerns must also be examined. As
a positive intelligence activity, the narcotics target ranks relatively well when
compared with other comparable global intelligence concerns, such as terrorism and
technology transfer. However, from a realistic standpoint, as a US national security
issue, it is not on a par with other important, complex, and operationally difficult in-
telligence targets. Thus far, the Intelligence Community has been moving at a
measured pace as its involvement in narcotics intelligence requires increasing
commitments and demands, examining with some degree of care and scrutiny the
probable consequence of each step. We believe this approach is sound.
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The Intelligence Community has gone some distance in using the mechanisms
and disciplines of the traditional intelligence process to support the US Government's
international narcotics control effort. Over the past year, diverse elements within the
Community have taken initiatives in heretofore largely unexplored areas of inquiry
and grappled with intelligence concerns and issues for which there were no
precedents. Significant substantive intelligence gaps remain with regard to narcotics
intelligence coverage which the CIPC Narcotics Study, as well as the subsequent
addendum, have reviewed in some detail. The NIO for Narcotics is aware of these
gaps and is specifically charged with bringing them to the attention of the appropriate
Community collection elements on a priority basis.
Transcending all aspects of narcotics intelligence collection, analysis, and
production is the need to assure the development of a cadre of dedicated narcotics in-
telligence professionals within each department/ agency thoroughly familiar with
both the capabilities of the Intelligence Community and the requirements of the law
enforcement organizations.
There also is apt to be a growing need for more actionable intelligence analysis.
Currently the analytical components of the Intelligence Community concentrate on
those areas of the narcotics problem loosely labeled "strategic intelligence."
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