NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION DIRECTIVE ON NARCOTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00434R000200120008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 24, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
NIC 05327-85
24 October 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Herbert E. MeyerWil
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
FROM:
Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics
SUBJECT: National Security Decision Directive on Narcotics
1. On 22 October 1985, I attended the initial meeting of an interagency
working group convened to begin drafting a National Security Decision
Directive (NSDD) on the threat posed to US national security by the drug
trade. The meeting was chaired by Jim Stark of the NSC Staff. A
representative from the President's Commission on Organized Crime, the Office
of the Special Assistant to the President for Drug Abuse Policy, and the
Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, and Defense also attended. The Chief
of Staff, NNBIS, and another member of the NSC Staff, the former Special
Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, also will be
added to the working group.
2. As outlined by Jim Stark, the NSDD would be brief, consisting of a
statement of the problem and a list of actions directed by the President to
address the security implications of the drug trade. The statement of the
problem essentially will be gisted from an NIE on the same topic that we hope
to coordinate during the next few weeks. Actions required to address the
problem are to be developed by the working group; some probably will have
resource, policy, and/or budgetary implications for several agencies. A draft
of the NSDD is to be ready for consideration by the Cabinet by December.
3. Each member of the working group was asked to develop a set of
recommended actions for consideration at the next working group meeting to be
held on 1 November. To give you an appreciation of the scope and substance of
the NSC's thinking on this, here are some examples of actions that Jim Stark
noted had already been discussed among NSC Staff members:
--the National Security Advisor to the President should be a member of the
Drug Enforcement Policy Board
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--there should be greater involvement of the military in the drug war
--there should be a greater effort to stop drugs moving into the United
States in commercial cargo, particularly containerized cargo
--security assistance should be increased to countries threatened by the
drug trade.
4. This process is likely to touch on a number of sensitive issues and
Intelligence Community equities. Especially with NNBIS coming into the act,
there will probably be a push for additional Community support for
interdiction and enforcement, and I don't believe members of the working group
are sensitive to the limitations of our role. I have other concerns regarding
the coordination process involving this NSDD that I will discuss with Charlie
Allen. We will, of course, keep you fully informed of all developments
regarding the NSDD.
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