SOURCE DEBRIEFING GUIDE

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TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
NATIONAL DRUG POLICY BOARD
Washington, D.C. 20530
NDIC Members
John C. Lawn
hairman, NDIC Committee
Source Debriefing Guide
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I am pleased to enclose five copies of the new Source
Debriefing Guide for drug intelligence information. It
should prove useful to collecting more drug information in a
systematic and comprehensive manner.
Many agencies contributed to the guide and your
participation is most appreciated. The assistance of the
CIA and the Intelligence Community Staff was especially
helpful in getting the guide printed.
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A more extensive distribution of the guide has been
made under separate mailings, but if you or your agency
needs additional copies please call Cheryl Holmes, Chief,
Publications Unit, DEA, Office of Intelligence, on 633-1509.
Enclosures
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Source
Debriefing
Guide
Prepared by..
Office of Intelligence
Drug Enforcement Administration
With the advice and assistance of
U.S. Customs
U.S. Coast Guard
Intelligence Community
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Preface
Part One: General Questions Regarding
Drug Traffic
Part Two: Questions in Specific Areas
of Drug Trafficking 6
Section I Production, Processing, and
Distribution of Opium-Heroin-
Morphine Base, Coca-Cocaine-Crack,
and Marijuana-Hashish-Hashish Oil 6
A. Sources 6
B. Laboratories 8
C. Transportation and Storage 9
D. Identification of Persons or Groups
Involved in Smuggling 10
E. Arrangements for Obtaining
or Moving the Drugs 11
Section II Production, Processing, and
Distribution of Dangerous Drugs
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A. Sources 13
B. Illicit Laboratories 15
C. Diversion of Legitimate Drugs 17
Section III Questions for Persons with
Detailed Knowledge of
Laboratories 20
A. Precursor Chemicals and
Equipment 20
? B. Production 21
C. Marketing 23
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Section IV Questions for Persons with
Specific Knowledge of Transporting
and Smuggling Drugs
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A. Smuggling 24
B. Transportation 25
Section V Persons Apprehended at a
Border While Smuggling Drugs
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A. Drugs 34
B. Traffickers 36
Section VI Financial 37
A. Transportation of Funds 37
B. Laundering Activities 38
C. Asset Identification 39
Section VII Official Corruption
and Terrorism 40
A. Corruption among Government
Officials 40
B. Foreign Government Involvement in
Facilitating or Supporting
Drug Trafficking 41
C. The Exchange of Drugs
for Weapons 42
D. The Involvement of Terrorist/
Insurgent Groups in the Drug Trade 42
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The Office of Intelligence has updated this
Source Debriefing Guide to assist the debriefer
in formulating questions concerning the
international and domestic drug traffic. This
Source Debriefing Guide is not meant to be a
text on drug intelligence. It is intended as a
source document to supplement the skills and
knowledge of the debriefer in the technical
areas of drug production, smuggling, and
distribution. Information gained from responses
to these questions can provide tactical,
operational, and strategic intelligence for drug
law enforcement activities.
It is not expected that every person
interviewed, whether defendant, suspect, or
witness, will supply information on all aspects
of the drug traffic. A series of general questions
provided in Part One of this guide is designed
to identify the areas of knowledge of the person
being debriefed. It is recommended that all of
the general questions be posed first
Part Two of the Source Debriefing Guide
consists of seven subject sections, each with
specific questions to develop information on
relevant subjects. Using the general questions
in Part One, the debriefer can then identify the
specific areas of knowledge and refer to the
relevant set of questions in Part Two.
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In the event the subject's answers to the
general and specific questions indicate technical
or extensive area knowledge, it is recommended
that technical debriefmg assistance be
requested from those DEA elements or other
Federal agencies with in-depth knowledge.
Drug traffickers often are aware of other
criminal activity, such as burglary, robbery,
homicide, etc. Note these activities for later
referral to other agencies.
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Regarding Drug Traffic
1. Which illegal drugs have you used, sold,
transported, or do you have knowledge of?
When? Are there "brands" or trade names
on the drugs?
Specify and explain:
? Heroin
? Black Tar
? Morphine Base
? Opium
? Cocaine hydrochloride
? Cocaine base
? Crack
? Hashish
? Hashish Oil
? Marijuana
? Amphetamines
? Barbiturates
? Methamphetamines
? LSD
? PCP
? Other drugs (specify)
2. Who is the source of supply? Where is the
person located? Where did the person obtain
the drugs? Who are U.S. distributors?
Who are the foreign distributors?
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systeni!
4. Do you know of any locations where drugs
are cultivated, manufactured, processed, or
stored? (See Part Two: Section I, A and B
and Section II, A and B)
5. Do you have any knowledge of the
smuggling of drugs across the U.S. border?
If so, where are the entry points? (See Part
Two: Section I, C) Do you know of
smuggling across other international
borders? For end use or transit?
6. Do you have any knowledge of methods
used to transport drugs? (See Part Two:
Section IV)
7. Describe the method of conceahnent, type
of conveyance, and persons involved in
drug smuggling. (See Part Two: Section IV)
8. Are false documents used to conceal the
identity of smugglers or couriers? How are
documents obtained? How are they
falsified, and by whom? What type
documents are used?
9. What are the prices and purity of the drugs
upon entering the United States? Do you
know prices and purities at other stages of
trafficking?
10. Have you ever seen or been told of opium
poppy, coca, carmabis, or mescal cultiva-
tion either in or outside the United States?
(See Part Two: Section I)
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cocaine, hashish oil, crack, or dangerous
drug laboratories within or outside the
United States? (See Part Two: Section II
orifi)
12. Who finances the drug trafficking
operations?
13. How are drugs paid for? Is the money paid
up front, or are the drugs sold on consign-
ment or exchanged for other goods? If in
currency, identify it If payment is in
exchange, identify other goods.
14. How are funds to pay for the drugs moved?
Cash? Letter of credit? Bank deposits?
Bank wire transfer? International checks?
Traditional "underground" banking
systems? (See Part Two: Section VI)
15. Do you know how or where the proceeds of
any drug transaction have been hidden or
invested? Who controls laundered
drug funds?
16. Do you know the associates or businesses
of any drug trafficker?
17. Do you have knowledge of any drug
transactions?
18. What types of ledgers, journals, classified
ads, computers, bulletin boards, or other
documents or mechanisms are used to
manage drug transactions? Are codes used?
19. Are you familiar with any other areas of the
United States or the world? Describe.
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activity into or out of the United States?
Are drugs exchanged for other goods?
Do you know of non-U.S. international
smuggling activity?
21. Is there an exchange of one drug for
another, for example, cocaine for heroin?
Are arms being traded for narcotics?
Identify the source and recipient of the
arms and the drugs. (See Part Two:
Section VII)
22. Is there any official corruption involved?
Who? Paid by whom? How much? For how
long? What major traffickers are they
associated with? (See Part Two:
Section VII)
23. Have you been involved in non-drug
criminal activity? Give dates of involve-
ment Identify the crime category, the type
of operation, and the level of operation.
Crime
Category: Contraband, sexual assault,
prostitution, pornography,
weapons, explosives, stolen
property or vehicle, forgery,
fraud, or other.
Type of
Operation: Smuggling, financing, whole-
saling, or other.
Level of
Operation: Syndicate, international foreign
based, international domestic
based, national, local, other.
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24. What is the principal ethnic group involved
in the drug activity? What syndicates or
organizations, multi-national or national,
are involved? Will the traffickers deal out-
side their group or organization?
25. What language(s) do you speak?
26. What special skills do you have? Pilot, ham
radio operator, chemist, photographer,
money launderer, other.
27. Have you ever worked as a confidential
informant? For whom? Give dates and
current status.
28. Have you ever been confined in prison or
any other institution? Give names, dates,
locations, and reason for confinement.
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ICC U.G Li1l/110 111 i?opulA.L.U., L-11 Va0
of Drug Trafficking
Section I.
Production, Processing,
and Distribution of
Opium-Heroin-Morphine
Base, Coca-Cocaine-
Crack, and Marijuana-
Hashish-Hashish Oil
A. Sources
1. What are the geographic
coordinates and locations of
opium poppy, cannabis, or coca
fields? Names of roads? Local
name for the area? Identify
landmarks.
2. Identify the owners and culti-
vators of the fields, their
residences, telephone numbers,
and associates.
3. When are the fields planted and
harvested?
4. How many harvests per year?
5. What yield is expected and
obtained from the fields?
Does this yield vary with the
harvest season, if more
than one?
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now many plants per square
meter or hectare?
7. What are the arrangements
between owner and cultivator?
8. Specify and explain the
suppport for growing areas
including:
Water sources ? irrigation
methods.
Chemicals and
fertilizers used.
How are seeds and other
supplies obtained and
paid for?
9. Is the opium gum, coca leaf/
paste, or cannabis stored at the
field or moved? If moved, how,
where, when, by whom, and
to whom?
10. Are the fields protected? If so,
by police, military, government
officials, guerrillas, or others?
Are the protectors armed?
Do the fields have electronic
surveillance devices? Are the
fields booby-trapped?
Are attempts made to hide or
disguise fields? If so, how?
11. Do the local authorities know of
the fields? Have they previously
destroyed them? When? If not,
why not? Identify local
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Base, Cocaine HC1/Paste/
Base, Crack and Hashish Oil
Laboratories (Also review
Section III.)
1. What are the geographic
coordinates and locations of
laboratories?
2. Are the laboratories at or near
the fields?
3. What equipment is used at
the lab?
4. What precursors are used?
What else do you know about
the precursor chemicals?
5. Describe the chemist(s).
How trained? By whom?
Does the chemist have any
other interest in the operation?
6. Who finances the laboratory?
How?
7. What security measures
are used?
8. Is the heroin or cocaine dyed,
diluted, or adulterated?
9. Does the laboratory operate
continually? If not, does it
operate only when an order is
received, only at harvest time
or when?
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received or passecif is there a
telephone, two-way radio,
electronic teletype, computer or
contact point? Identify tele-
phone number, radio call sign,
teletype address, computer
password, codes, or
contact point
11. What conveyances are used?
Describe the type, ownership,
drivers, transportation routes.
12. How many people are involved
in the operation of the lab?
Their identities? How often are
the labs moved? Who decides
when the lab is moved?
13. What are the hours of operation
of the lab? How many days
a week?
14. Are records maintained
regarding drug production and
distribution?
15. What else do you know about
the lab and its operations?
C. Transportation and Storage
1. How is the product moved?
Does the buyer pick up at the
lab or at the growing field or at
any other point?
2. How are arrangements made to
move. buy. and sell the dnivs?
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and buildings are involved?
Describe them. Who owns the
vehicles or real estate?
4. How many people move the
drugs? Who are they?
5. What routes are used? Are the
same routes used all the time?
What or who determines the
routes?
6. Are escort or convoy type
methods used? Describe them.
7. Is the movement protected?
By whom and how?
Are arrangements made in
advance or as the need arises?
8. Is the finished product moved
to a holding point? If so, where?
To whom? How is it protected?
D. Identification of Persons or
Groups Involved in
Smuggling
1. What couriers do you know,
or know about? How much are
they paid?
2. Who are the backers, fmanciers,
and protectors?
3. Are any other persons or
groups involved? What routes
and contact points do they
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groups, religious orgaruzations,
or criminal syndicates, or other
groups do the couriers belong
to? Are they males, females,
adults, children?
E. Arrangements for Obtaining
or Moving the Drugs
1. How is contact arranged for
order, delivery, pickup, security,
transfer of diugs, etc.?
2. What communications methods
are used? If telephones or
beepers, what are the numbers?
If radios, what frequencies?
If written messages or cables,
what addresses? If signals or
couriers, what are the details?
If computers, what passwords?
3. Do the traffickers employ any
communications security?
Do they utilin communications
centers? Who controls them?
4. What counterintelligence
methods are used by the
traffickers?
5. Are controllers used to monitor
drug movements? How do they
get their instructions?
6. How are couriers recruited and
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the progress of the shipment?
If so, to whom and how?
8. What ports or places of entry
are used for these shipments?
Why?
9. What methods are used to
conceal shipments? Describe
and explain. Are the loads
transferred within a country to
other means of movement or
concealment? Describe.
10. Are false documents involved in
the shipments? Describe these
documents and identify the
supplier.
11. Who knows when the loads are
en route and the methods being
used? Identify fully.
12. How is payment made?
In advance or upon delivery to
intended recipient? Other?
Are the same people involved
in payment and movement of
the drugs? Are payments in
cash or by wire transfer, bank
draft, or in another form?
13. Identify any businesses involved
in the traffic? Witting or
unwitting? Describe extent of
involvement
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15. Who packages the drugs and
where are they packaged?
Section II. Production, Processing,
and Distribution of
Dangerous Drugs
A. Sources
1. What drugs are involved?
Which chemicals are used?
2. What is the form, e.g., powder,
crystal, liquid, capsule, tablet,
blotter, or other?
3. Were you a courier? How are
arrangements made to pick up
the drug? Are children being
used as couriers?
4. Where do the drugs come from,
e.g., street sales, minor or major
distributor, direct from the lab?
5. From whom and how are they
obtained? By direct or indirect
contact through second or third
party? Is the supplier associated
directly with the manufacturer?
6. How much do the drugs cost?
How much can they be sold for?
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7. How are the drugs distributed,
e.g., personal pickup or delivery,
U.S. Mail, UPS, other kinds
of shipment? What are the
names of distributors and
sellers?
8. Can you obtain samples?
Make purchases? Introduce
someone?
9. Give names of people fmancing
the operation. Do they take
part in the actual physical
transactions? Is anyone else
involved in any way?
10. Do you know the location/
address of the lab? Who owns/
operates the lab? Who are the
chemists? Who is financing
the lab?
11. Are the drugs intended for U.S.
consumption? What proportion
goes where?
12. In the case of mescaline or
peyote and similar drugs, where
are the plants located or grown?
Who is "harvesting" the crop?
Where do they bring the raw
material?
13. How are the drugs or chemicals
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make drugs?
B. Illicit Laboratories
1. How many people are involved
in the operation of the lab?
Their identities? Location of
lab? How often is the lab
moved? Who decides when the
lab is moved?
2. What are the hours of operation
of the lab? How many days
a week? What quantity of drugs
is produced?
3. What type of equipment is
used? Describe type, capacity,
and quantity of equipment in
use at the lab. For example,
pill press, mixing equip-
ment, etc.
4. Who supplies the equipment?
Who installed the equipment?
How is it powered?
5. What manufacturing process
is used? Is more than one used?
What formulae are used?
6. What precursors are used?
Where did the precursors come
from? How were the precursors
obtained? Where are the
precursors stored? What
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brokers, false invoices, trans-
shipment to other countries.
7. How are the drugs packaged,
e.g., plastic bags, bundles, jars
or bottles, packages? How many
dosage units or hits in
a package? Describe. Where did
the packaging come from?
(Follow same questions as for
precursors, #6.)
8. What payment, paperwork,
equipment dealer, broker, and
company names are used?
Describe. (Follow same
questions as for precursors,
#6.)
9. What diluents are used?
Are the same ones always used?
(Follow same questions as for
precursors, #6.)
10. Do you have, or can you obtain
samples?
11. To whom is the drug dis-
tributed after sale? In what
form? What do they do with it?
12. Are any of the suppliers or
laboratories involved in
manufacturing licit drugs?
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defend the labs?
14. How are the equipment and
chemicals disposed of?
C. Diversion of
Legitimate Drugs
1. How are the drugs obtained?
By prescription from
physicians? Dispensed without
a prescription? Excessive
quantities of over-the-counter
medications dispensed by
pharmacists? Directly from
physicians? Identify the
physicians and pharmacists
involved.
2. Are any records falsified by
legitimate handlers to cover
illicit distribution? How?
Are fraudulent names used on
dispensing records?
3. Are the drugs stolen?
Give details: by whom, from
whom, how, where, when?
4. How is payment made for the
prescription? Does it differ
according to the controlled
substance obtained?
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drugs? How many dosage units
are prescribed per prescription?
6. Is the physician part of a
conspiracy?
7. Are the drugs sold by a
pharmacist without a
prescription? What volume?
What price? What form?
8. Will he sell one or numerous
prescriptions at a time?
How large a volume will he
prescribe or sell?
9. Does the pharmacist prepare a
phony prescription to cover
the transaction?
10. Does he provide illegal refills
of a legitimate prescription?
11. Are real or fictitious names
used? If fictitious, how are these
names obtained?
12. Does the physician perform an
examination? If an examination
is performed, what is the
procedure?
13. Does the physician know that
controlled substances
dispensed/prescribed are not
for legitimate use?
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15. Does the physician identify
the pharmacist who will fill
the prescriptions?
16. Is the transaction documented
in a record and if so how is it
recorded and maintained?
17. If the physician sells directly,
where are the drugs obtained
and in what quantities?
Are drug samples involved in
the diversion?
18. Does the physician require
a person to take or administer
the drug in his presence?
19. What other drugs are available
from the source?
20. If the drugs are obtained from
a wholesaler or manufacturer,
at what point are they diverted?
If in finished form, are the lot
numbers available?
21. Are the employees or the
owners involved?
22. Is the diversion by employee
theft? If so, how was security
breached?
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Section III. Questions for Persons with
Detailed Knowledge
of Laboratories
A. Precursor Chemicals
and Equipment
1. What kinds of drugs are being
produced? What is the main
drug? What other kinds of
drugs can be made in the lab?
What is the production
capacity?
2. List all the chemicals being
used in the lab. For each
chemical list the following.
Chemical name
Amount of chemical
Size and type of container
Company or manufacturer
name on label
Where was each chemical
purchased or otherwise
obtained?
Was it a local company
or source? Ordered from
out-of-town? Imported
from another country?
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pumps, hydrogenators, pill
presses, and other equipment.
List the brand names or manu-
facturer names. Where was
the equipment purchased or
obtained? What did it cost?
4. What else do you know about
the precursor chemicals and
equipment?
5. What are the sources of the
laboratory needs such as
equipment, chemicals,
labor, etc.?
B. Production
1. During what hours and how
often is the lab operated?
2. What processes are used to
make the drugs? Are there
formulas, directions,
a cookbook? How long does
it take to make a batch?
What does the finished product
look like? What is done with it?
How are old chemicals and
equipment disposed of, e.g.,
thrown out in the trash?
Poured down the drain?
Poured into a lake or stream?
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the precursors obtained?
Where are the precursors
stored? What method is used
to divert the chemicals from
any legitimate source?
Give the name of firms,
country of origin, and method
of operation, such as the use
of brokers, false invoices,
transshipment to other
countries, etc. What else do you
know about the chemicals?
4. What safety equipment is in
the lab, e.g., fire extinguishers,
fire alarms or oxygen masks?
5. Is the laboratory protected from
or by the police, military, or
guerrillas? If so, by whom?
Are there armed guards?
Are there electronic
surveillance devices or booby
traps installed? Are there locks,
bars, alarms, guard dogs, radio
scanners, guards, lookouts,
or weapons?
6. Is the lab also used for any
legitimate purpose, e.g.,
commercial production, student
teaching, research, experiments?
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the chemist paid?
C. Marketing
1. What records are kept?
Can you obtain copies? Are the
records coded? Do you know
the codes used?
2. How was the product packaged,
shipped, or stored? Was the
product marked? What is the
meaning of the marking?
3. To what extent do local
marketing conditions influence
the use or modifications of
operating procedures?
Example: Heroin produced in
Southeast Asia is deliberately
made fluffy in consistency
because operators are paid off
in volume of product, rather than
weight Knowledge of such local
customs would enable more
accurate estimates to be made
of the country or region of
origin of subsequent seizures
or purchases.
4. What else do you know about
the marketing of these drugs?
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Transporting of Drugs
A. Smuggling
1. Do you have direct knowledge
of any drug smuggling? If so,
how did you acquire this
knowledge?
2. What kind of drug is being
smuggled?
3. Where is the drug smuggling
occurring? Give detailed
locations. Identify trans-
shipment points, if any.
Does ownership of drugs
change after transshipment or
at staging points?
4. Who is involved? Is this person
a runner for someone else?
If so, whom?
5. How is the drug smuggling
done? Give details of any
special devices or procedures
used by the drug smuggler.
How is the smuggling means
acquired and from whom?
6. How often does the drug
smuggling occur? Is there a
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How much? By whom?
8. Who else knows about this
drug smuggling?
9. When did you first learn about
it? How long has it been
going on?
10. Is there Axed fee for couriers?
Is payment made in cash,
merchandise, or stolen goods?
11. Are any of these shipments
co-op ventures? Are "insurance"
schemes involved to reduce
risk or loss?
12. Do you know of special
instructions concerning
crossing points, times to cross,
cover stories, backup arrange-
ments for delivery, etc.?
B. Transportation
Car, Truck, Camper
1. Are you aware of any pattern
of transportation of drugs by
car, truck, or camper? Describe.
2. What drugs are being moved?
3. Who is involved? Identify with
names, addresses or locations,
aliases, and associates.
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delivery points. Are the
same routes used each time?
5. Has any vehicle been modified
in any way to carry drugs?
Describe in detail.
6. Where and by whom was the
modification made?
7. How much is carried in each
load? How often?
8. How long has this system
been active?
Air ? Private Planes
9. What drug is being transported
by private aircraft?
10. Who is the pilot? Does he own
the plane? If not, who owns the
plane? Is he a contract pilot?
For whom?
11. Is the plane rented?
From whom?
12. What is the make of the plane?
If unknown, how many engines
does it have? What color is the
aircraft? What is the tail
number? Has the tail number
been altered?
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14. How often? Is there a pattern?
15. Does the plane or ground crew
have any special equipment?
16. Where is the pickup point?
Identify by name of field, city,
farm, or other. Give directions
to that point
17. Where is the load delivered?
To whom?
18. Are pilots or ground crews
armed? With what type of
weapon?
19. Is the organization involved
in airdrop activities? Where do
the airdrops occur ? over land
or at sea? What are the names
or numbers of pickup vessels?
20. Has the aircraft been modified
for airdrop activities? How does
the crew contact vessels or
ground crews?
21. What happens to the load once
it leaves the plane? Identify
and give the license numbers
of any ground vehicles used.
Identify ground crews or
drivers.
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23. What are the air smuggling
routes? Are there drug trans-
shipment points? Where are
the staging areas for the
aircraft?
24. Are any special techniques used
to avoid detection? Specify.
Do the smugglers know the
locations of drug enforcement
radars?
25. Who owns or operates the
landing fields?
Air ? Commercial Aircraft
26. What couriers or runners are
using commercial planes to
transport drugs? Identify by
name and give description
Do the couriers travel alone or
in groups?
27. Are aliases or false passports
used? Give details. Who
provides false passports?
Is there any nationality which
is preferred?
28. Identify airport and city at both
departure and arrival point
Why are these airports used?
Have others been used? Why?
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30. How are they concealed?
Body carry, in cargo, or in the
aircraft? Where in the aircraft?
31. How frequent are the ship-
ments? Is there a pattern?
32. Identify the airline and the
person or group responsible
for shipment of the drugs.
For whom are they intended?
33. Describe any methods known
for shipping drugs concealed
in cargo.
34. Identify any airport or aiiline
personnel involved.
35. How are airline tickets
purchased? How are they paid
for (by cash, credit card, or
other)?
36. Describe any special techniques
used to avoid customs or other
airport security.
37. Are false documents used for
shipping? Explain.
Who provides them?
38. How are the drug shipments
delivered to the intended
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40. Who does the vessel
communicate with? What
frequencies? When? Does the
vessel communicate with
aircraft? What are the alternate
plans in the event of communi-
cations breakdown?
41. Where does the vessel fuel
and provision?
42. What do you think the risk of
interception is?
43. What intelligence and guidance
do you receive prior to sailing?
44. What do you know of maritime
law enforcement operations
and methods?
45. How many smuggling trips
have you made?
46. Do you transit directly or
travel near the coasts of foreign
countries enroute? What
countries?
47. Should a rendezvous be
missed, what are the alternate
plans?
48. What ports or anchorages are
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50. What is the destination of a
courier after a drop off?
51. Do you ever see any aircraft
overflying you? Do you report
it? To whom? How?
Boats and Ships ? Private
52. Describe and identify any
private boats used to transport
drugs. Are there established
procedures for breakdown,
repair, rescue, or replenish-
ment? How common are
breakdowns?
53. Who owns the boat or ship?
Where is it kept? Identify the
crew members. Who is the
major dealer involved?
54. What drugs are transported
onboard? In what quantities?
What are the source countries?
55. What ports, harbors, marinas,
or coastal areas are used to
load and off-load the drugs?
What sort of vessels do you
offload to?
56. What specific routes are used
by maritime smugglers?
Why are these routes preferred?
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avoid detection? Does the boat
have any special equipment or
hidden compartments? Specify.
58. How often is the boat used for
drug smuggling? Is there any
pattern? How close do
smuggling vessels travel to each
other? Are there vessel holding
areas enroute?
59. Are the drugs concealed aboard
the boat? Where?
Boats and Ships ?
Commercial
60. What commercial ships are
being used to transport drugs?
Identify vessel names, voyage
numbers and direction, routing,
and the shipping line involved.
Are the officers of the shipping
line involved?
61. Are any ship's officers or crew
members involved? Identify.
62. Where are drugs loaded and
off-loaded? Were freight
forwarders/consolidators used?
Who and where?
63. Are false shipping documents
used? Who provides them?
Were shipping charges
prepared? How and by whom?
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tectuuques are used to avoia
detection? Dropoffs? Pickups?
Are the drugs shipped directly
or transshipped through other
countries?
65. How frequent are shipments
made? Is there a pattern?
66. Are any port officials or workers
involved? Identify.
67. Is the shipping agent involved?
Identify the shipping agent
68. Who hires the crew?
69. In what country is the ship
registered?
70. What is the name of the ship?
Is the name of the ship altered
at sea?
71. What is the radio frequency of
the ship? Call sign? Code used?
72. Are cargo containers used to
conceal the drugs? Are they
rented or owned? What is the
container number?
73. Provide information from the
bill of lading to include number,
shipper, consignee, description
of cargo, and persons to be
notified when shipment arrives.
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to the ship? If transported in
advance of the ship's arrival,
where are the drugs stored?
Section V. Persons Apprehended
at a Border While
Smuggling Drugs
A. Drugs
1. How many times have you
crossed the border with drugs?
Where, when, and in what place
did you cross the border?
Are these preferred times and
places? Was anyone with you?
2. What routes did you follow?
3. How are the drugs supposed to
get through the border check-
points? Are there any advance
or following vehicles escorting
the drugs? Were the escorts
armed? Did you encounter any
law enforcement activity
enroute? Did you use counter-
surveillance?
4. What was the drug involved?
What is the average amount of
drugs you have carried across
the border?
5. How much did it cost?
How much were you paid to
smuggle it? How much have you
been paid in the past? From
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whom did you get the
money? Where and when did
you get the money?
6. How many accomplices do you
have? Do you make drug
smuggling trips alone or in
groups? Describe any acts of
complicity on the part of
officials/authorities.
7. Where are the drugs going?
8. How much will the drugs
sell for?
9. Do you know anyone else
smuggling drugs across the
border? Tell what you know
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involvement of officials, etc.
10. Describe any techniques of
concealing drugs known to you.
What modifications (false
compartments) are made to the
vehicles?
11. Are you selling drugs?
How much are you being paid
for it? How much have you
received in the past?
12. Do you know of any staging
areas or stash sites on either
side of the border?
B. Drug Traffickers
1. From whom did you obtain
the drug? For whom are you
moving or selling the drug?
Describe the trafficking organ-
ization and the members you
are involved with. Are you
related by blood or class to
these members?
2. Where, when, and in what
place did you obtain it?
3. To whom will you sell it?
4. Do you have more than one
source-of-supply? Who is your
current source-of-supply?
How many times have you been
supplied by this person?
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per week! Identity the location
of the source-of-supply.
Describe him/her.
5. Do you know any other
customers of your source-
of-supply?
6. To whom do they sell?
Where do they make their
sales? Who is involved in the
sale? Describe them.
7. How were you recruited to
smuggle or sell drugs?
Section VI. Financial
A. Transportation of Funds
1. How are drug payments made?
Are the drugs paid for in
advance or on consignment?
2. How are drug payments and
proceeds moved?
3. What are the domestic or
international routes used to
move money?
4. What methods of concealment
are used?
5. Is there any particular pattern
to the movement of funds?
A particular day of the week,
airline, etc.
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payments made? What denomi-
nations?
B. Laundering Activities
1. What countries are drug
monies laundered to or
through? Why are these
countries preferred?
2. What U.S. cities are drug
monies laundered to or
through?
3. What laundering tech-
niques are employed?
4. What banks are used to secure
drug monies? Are bank officials
witting?
5. Who are the major money
launderers?
6. How many people are involved
with your group in laundering
monies? What type of people or
businesses are involved?
7. What is the rate charged by
the money launderer?
8. What fmancial instruments are
used to launder monies?
Cash
Wire Transfer
Checks
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fiduciary instruments
Others...?
C. Asset Identification
1. What assets are held by
members of the organization
and where are they located?
2. Do members of the organization
hold assets in their names or in
nominee names? Explain.
3. What types of business invest-
ments do members of the
organization utilize and where
are they located?
4. Are computers utilized to
record activities?
5. Are money counting machines
used? What type and model?
6. What type of financial records
and books are retained by the
organization?
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and Terrorism
The primary use of this Source Debriefing
Guide is to collect information which will lead
to the prosecution of major drug traffickers and
their organizations as well as the forfeiture of
assets. Information pertaining to drug
smuggling methods, routes, trends, etc., as well
as growing areas, refining techniques, etc., are
also of significant interest to help all Federal
drug enforcement agencies better allocate or
deploy their resources.
On occasion, a cooperating individual will claim
to have knowledge of an activity of significant
interest to the security interests of the U.S.
Government which may or may not relate
directly to the drug violation. The following
questions will assist the debriefer in some of
these situations.
A. Corruption among
Government Officials
1. What is the nature of the
official involvement? Are they
taking advantage of their
position to profit from the
drug trade?
2. Is cooperation with U.S. law
enforcement efforts used as a
cover for drug-related activities?
3. What firsthand knowledge does
the informant have concerning
this issue?
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B. Foreign Government
Involvement in Facilitating
or Supporting Drug
Trafficking
1. What is the nature of the
involvement? Is it a government
official or is it part of a govern-
ment policy?
2. How does the informant know?
Who told him? How reliable
was his source of information?
3. What services are provided to
drug traffickers? Are traffickers
of all nationalities treated the
same? How much do the
services cost? What is done
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for Weapons
1. Who supplied the drugs?
2. Who furnished the weapons?
What type of weapons?
.3. How does the informant know
this occurred?
4. What were the weapons to be
used for?
D. The Involvement of
Terrorist/Insurgent
Groups in the
Drug Trade
1. What is the extent of involve-
ment? Direct, indirect, or
extortion?
2. What evidence, other than
allegation, does the informant
have to support his
information?
3. Is there a direct exchange of
drugs for weapons?
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of information need to be questioned. The
debriefer, however, should be sensitive to the
need to fully explore areas of drug-related
activity that go beyond the primary investi-
gative goal. These are sensitive issues which,
while they may not affect prosecutions, may
shed new insights into areas of concern for
policymakers. DEA's Office of Intelligence
should be contacted immediately for assistance
whenever it appears a cooperating individual
has information which falls into these general
categories. If appropriate, other Federal
agencies will be consulted.
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