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15 November 1979
- Worldwide Report
NARCOTICS AND DAPJGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 48/79)
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15 November 1979
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 48/79)
CONTENTS
PAGE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Foreign Ministry Reports on Australian Drug Offenders
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 15 Sep 79)
1
Canberra Receives Report on Investigation of Narcotics
' Bureau
(THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 20 Sep 79)
2
Briefs
_ Travel Consultant Jailed
3
Heroin Smuggler Sentenced
3
Jail for Old Offense
3
Alleged Drug-Ring Chief
4
$150,000 Bail in Drug Case
4
Marihuana-Crop Sentences Cut
4
Deadly Drug Stolen
5
Valium Study Urged
5
HONG KONG
Beating the Drug Problem
(SOUTH CHINA MORNINv POST, 16 Sep 79).......
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Drug Assets Law Creates Problems
- (SOUTH CIiINA MORNING POST, 22 Sep 79)
8
Drugs Swoop Nets Six
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 27 Sep 79).
9
- New Heroin Flood Feared
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 9 Oct 79)
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Pair Deny Heroin Charges
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12
Tobacco, Alcohol Worse Than Drugs
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 13 Oct 79)
13
Drug Abuse Is Well Under Check
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 14 Oct 79)
14
Four Get Stiff Sentences for Manufacturing Drugs
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 18 Oct 79) .
16
Soaring Heroin Prices Boost Bank Robberies
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 24 Oct 79) ..............e
17
Drugs Trio Win Appeals
- (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 23 Oct 79)
19
~ $57 Million Drug Haul on Panamanian Freighter
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, various dates)...........
20
Taifooksnan Seized Again, by Tommy Lewis
Laws on Ships Urged
Seven Get Bail
e
Briefs
_
Six Held in Swoop
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Heroin Found in Handbag
24
Drugs in Suitcase
24
Drug Suspect Remanded
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' JAPAN
Brief s
Drugs From South Korean Ship
25
_ Stimulant Drug Related Crimes
25 .
NEW ZEALAND
Supreme Court Hears of Heroin Worth $1 Million
(THE EVENING POST, 9 Oct 79)
26
Court of Appeal Upholds Ten-Year Heroin Ter.m
_ (THE EVENING POST, 28 Sep 79)
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Heroin Supplier Sentenced to Eight Years
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 4 Oct 79) 28
Drug Net Reported Pulling in Some Big Fish
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 8 Oct 79) 29
Upswing in LSD Mail Called Sign of Drugs Switch
(THE EVENING PUST, 10 Oct 79) 31
Briefs
- Jail for Second Offense 32
- Jailed for Heroin Possession 32
Heroin Couriers Sentenced 32
THAILAND
Sydney Detective Testifies in Australians' Trial
(THi SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 15 Sep 79) 33
- CANADA
� B.C. Supreme Court Upsets Heroin Ruling
(Various sources, various dates) 34
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, Provincial Heroin Treatment Act Invalid
New Legislation Under Consideration
Ruling Discussed, Editorial
Results of RCMP's Eight-Month Drug Probe Outlined
(John Marshall; THE GLOBE AND MAIL, 6 Oct 79)....... 37
_ Minor Drug Convictions Reported Declining
- (TEIE WEEKEND CITIZEN, 13 Oct 79) 38
LATIN AMERICA
ECUADOR
Questions Surround Murder of Interpol Agent
(VISTAZO, 5 Oct 79) 39
Agents Arrest Cocaine Traff icker
(EL UNIVERSO, 21 Sep 79) 45
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_ Briefs
- Interpol Drug Trafficking 46
MEXICO
Report on International Border Meeting on Drugs
- (EL FRONTERIZO, 22 Oct 79)
4':'
Police, Navy Battle Cocaine Traffickers at Sea
- (EL SOL DE SINALOA, 16 Oct 79)
49
_ Nogales Judge Sentences Large Group of Traffickers
- (DIARIO DE NOGALES, 19 Oct 79)
51
Rural Police Involved in Trafficking Released
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(EL BRAVO, 19 Oct 79) ........................o.....
53
Shooting Prompts Drug Probe, Bribery Rumored
(EL BRAVO, 4, 5 Oct 79)
55
Arrest Reveals Drugs
Police Bribe Hinted
Antidrug Campaign in South Eased, Then Intensified
(Et, SOL DE SINALOA, 27 Sep, 2 Oct 79)
58
Battle Deerned Successful .
Resumption in Zone 06
Marihuana, Cocaine Traffickers Captured, Jailed
(EL MANANA, 4, 6 Oct 79)
60
_ Charges Denied
Imprisonment Ordered
_ Mcrdern Aircraft Purchased for Antidrug Campaign .
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 8 Oct 79)
62
Law Offers Leniency for First Offenders in Jail
_ (EL SOL DE SINALOA, 14 Oct 79)
63
Minors Caught With Various Drugs, Weapons
(EL SOL DE SINALOA; 9 Oct 79)
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Brief s
Cocaine, Pill Traffickers Sentenced
66
Cocaine Seized From Foreigners
66
New Marihuana Trafficking Policy
66
Jalalpan Marihuana Plar_tation Destroyed
67
Opium Traffickers Captured
67
Heroin, Morphine Tra.tfickers Sentenced
67
- Cocaine Traffickers Captured
68
Drug Laboratory in Guadalajara
68
_ Four Cocaine Traffickers Caught
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, Weapons f.or Traffickers Seized
69
- Gas Tnnks Conceal Marihuana
69
Traffickers Caught With Various Drugs
69
Police Violations Denied
69
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Anti-Addiction Campaign Outlined
~ (KEYHAN, 23 Sep 79) 71
WEST EUROPE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
How Turkish Drugs Reach the FRG
(Peter Neuhauser, Gaby Weber; STERN, 18 Oct 79).... 78
FRANCE
New Health Minister Incensifies Drug Enforcement Program
(Monique Vigy; LE FIGARO, 14 Sep 79) $6
- ITALY
Ttao Kilos of Pure Heroin Confiscated, Five Arrests
(Aldo Repetto; CORRIERE DEY,LA SERA, 17 Aug 79)..... 88.
Drug Lab Discovered, Four Arrests
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 30 Aug 79) 90
Turkish Heroin Seized, Four Arrests
(CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 29 Aug 79) 92
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= Drug Praffic Network Disbanded, 44 Arrests
(G. Perciaccante; L'UNITA, 18 Sep 79)
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Briefs
Hashish Seizure in Venice
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Thai Heroin Seized
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Arrest of Heroin Dealer
96
TURKEY
Briefs
Enormous Narcotics OpPration
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Hashish Seizure
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- UNITED KINGDOM
Cnstoms Investigator Killed in Cannabis Operation
. (Various sources, 21, 22 Oct 79)
98 '
Police Detain 33, by Christopher House
Suspact Sought, by T. A. Sandrock
Drug Smuggler Caught !n Customs' Invisible Ink irap
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(THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 4 Oct 79)
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Five Sentenced After Cocaine Ring Broken
_ (John Shaw; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 13 Oct 79).........
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_ Briefs
Four Jailed
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AUS TRA L IA
FOREIGN MINISTRY REPORTS ON AUSTRALIAN DRUG OFFENDERS
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 15 Sep 79 p 24
_ [Text] Canberra.--At least 90 Australians axe in jail or have been chaxged
around thw world over drug offences.
Eighteen are under re-
straint in Thailznd, ac-
cording to the Foreign
Affairs Department.
Five have been jailed
for various terms ranging
from tn�o years 2our
months to 11 years, 10
_ are on remand or thelr
cases are proceeding, and
three are on bat1.
Foreign Affairo ofti-
cials agaln repested s
- w a r n i nK yesterday to
Austra(ians travelling
oversess not to bresch
laK�s of the countrtes ln
which they were tnv-
. ellinR.
The. officials sald con-
 sular stafi could not re-
lease peaple from jnil if
thev broke local laws.
, "Australians are ifable
to the law of-tfie-land
they are in," one official
said.
��They should not be-
lieve tnat, just because
t h e y are Australians,
- theq are above the lavyc
of the paeticular country
they sre in, or thst, ft
they get caught, all theq
have to dQ is yell and
they can ge� out "
He said there could bp
more than 90, but these
w e r e only the cases
which the department
was aware of either be=
. c a u s e the individuals
cso: 5300
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concerned had contacted
Australian Missions, or'
they had been brouqht to
the department's atten-
tion.
He sairi therc could be
more Auatnlians In jatl
in New Zealand or Btit" '
sin servint short sea-
tences who had never
souaht or wanted con-
sular assistance. Accordin6 to the de=
pastment, eight Austrs,
lians are being htld in�
Britain and two in New
ZEaland. �
Four are held in the
United States, Belgium.
France and India, Five
in Spain, six in MalnysiiV
snd eight in Greece.
Spread out
The rest are spread out
In countries from Argen-
tina to Eaat Germany,
PTorway to Syris r,nd
Rhodesia to New Cale
donia. ;
However, � it is the'
number caughE in Thaf-
land which is causing thi
greatest concem.
The department said
s e v e r a 1 countriea, 1n-
cluding Thailand, had
introduced.the deetH
penalGy for certain drug
oifences, althou`h no
Australiana so far hRQ
been sentenced to deaWt,
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AUSTRALIA
C,ANBERRA RECEIVES REPORT ON ZNVESTIGATION OF NARCOTICS BUREAU
~ Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 20 Sep 79 p 10.
[Text]
The Federal Government .has
received a confidentisl report. on
the orpai.satioa aad coatrol of
the:�Nircatica Burew libmn� Tha
Royal C+ommiaeioaer imphin8
into druit, Mr Justice %ttiame.
The Mlnister far Bnsinesa and
Cansamer AffaiFe, Mr. F'ifq ,said in
a atatement to the 4ouee yataday
that the reportwonld not be made
public ia accord :�with s r*eat bY
Mr fustice Williama,
Aliegatioam have been made that
a burwu pfl9tar was supply'
formation to �an Autralasian drug
ayndicate frow,bw'es~ reco:da com-
pled wi.th. du fielp of N4w Zealand
coWe Douglas, and' 7aBbe1 Wileon,
who wcre' later;murdend;
W Mjava.su tmderUiciag mat
the Royal ~ Comaoiteioa'a final' re-
pitM includittg! vvhateyef ndrm-
mbndatiotts thgt may be' -oa"the
Narco6cs Bweau,. oul pe talled
far debate in ~I~tYhan-re-
ceived about 96 end .af;-the. iir.
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AUSTRALIA
- BRIEE'S
TRAVEL CONSULTANT JAILED--A travel consultant who brought about four grams of -
cannabis resin to Perth on a flight from London was fined $400 yesterday. East
Perth Court was told that customs officers found the resin in a matchbox and
- a cigarette packet in a travel ba.g. John Bwdge (22), of McCourt Street, Leed- '
- erville, pleaded guilty tc charges of possessing arxi importing ca.nnabis resin
at Perth airport on Wednesdaky. Budge said he bought the resin i.n London for _
his own use. He was fined $200 on each charge. [E~ccerpt] [Perth THE WEST
_
AUSTRALIAN in English 14 5ep 79 p 201
~ HEROIN 5MUGGLER SENTENCED--The community was greatly concerned with the stamp-
ing out of the saie of dangerous cirugs, Mr. Justice Andrews said in the Crimi-
- nal Cout yesterday. Mr. Justice Andrews sentenced Michael Joseph Higgs to five
- years' jail on each of two charges of having sold heroin to an undercover po-
liceman. The terms are concurrent. Higgs, 27, laborer, formerly of Ranley
Grove Street, Paddington, pleaded not gui].ty. An undercover policeman said
he bought heroin from Higgs for $70 last November 21. Higgs sold him a second
lot of heroin for $120 on December 26, the policman said. Government analysts
said the 281 milligra.ms of white powder in the first deal contained S1 milli-
grams, or 4.1 per cent, of heroin. Fi.fteen per cent of the 858 milligrams of
white powder in the second deal was heroin, the analysts said. Mr. Just'lce
Andrews said the Court of 4imina.l Appeal had said recentZ,y that more severe
sentences should be imposed for selling evsn small amounts of heroin. The
Appeal Court had said that sentences had ranged from three to five years and
that, in future, sentences of about five years should be regarded as minimal,
Mr. Justice Andres said. [Excerpts] [Brisbane TFIE COURIER-MAIL in English
= li Sep 79 P 131 JAIL FOR OLD OFFENSE--Sydney.--A Sydney man, traced through a car he abandoned
at London's Heathrow airport, was yesterday ja,iled on a five-year-old drtag
chaxge. In Sydney Criminal Court Judge Thorley sentenced Roioert Edward Dux,
_ 32, to six and a half years' jail for selling heroin--a charge on which he.
was first arrested on June 6, 1974. Judge Thorley said Llux pleaded guilty
but failed to attend court in November, 1974, after leaving the country on
a false passport. Subsequently IJux ha,d been involved in the distribution of
' marijuana in Britain and had served a six months' sentence for a drug offence
in Thai].and, the judge said. Dux had left Brita,in in such a htrry that he
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ha.d abandoned his car at Heathrow airport, Dux had re-entered Australian on
- the false passport, but Commonwealth Police were called to investigate his
fira,nces and noted his drug selling history. The judge fixed a non-parole
period to expire on February 20, 1982. [Text] [Melbourne THE AGE in English
_ 11 Sep 79 P 5]
ALLEGED DRUG-RING CHIEF--A man alleged to be the ringleader of a heroin-smug-
gling operation was remanded in custody yesterday after the crown opposed bail.
Kim Anthony Hunter (26), of Barnes Street, Inna.loo, had been on bail since A-
pril. He is chaxged with 11 offences, mainly concerned with the alleged im-
portation and poasess4.on o� heroin late last yeax and eaxly this year. rSr
S. 0'Sullivan, for the Commonwealth, told the East Perth Court that the total
maximum penalties that Hunter faced if he was convicted of all the alleged of-
fences was 200 yeaxs' gaol and an $800,000 fine. He said that Hunter was con-
sidered an extremely bad bail risk, though he had ansered bail on previous
occasions. Mr 0'Sullivan said the crown had a statement from a travel agent
living in Penang, Malaysia, tha,t allegedly implicated Hunter. The statement
alleged that Hunter had been arrested in Thailand for z heroin offence and
while on bail had absconded to Ma,laysia. There he ha,d allegedly made a
_ false declaxation to Australian authorities to ge+ a replacement gassport
because hiU own ha.d been seized in Thailand. Hunter was remanded till
September 17. [Excerpts] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 8 Sep 79
P la)
$150,000 BAIL IN DRUG CASE--Bail tota.lling $150,000 with sureties of $40,000
_ was set yasterday for a fisherman alleged to have brought about 500 grams of
heroin from Asia to Perth. Mark Henry Abbott was allegedly to have got
- $10,000 for the trip� Mr S. 0'5ullivan, fo3: the Commonwealth, said that
Abbott had signed a confession. Several others were involved in the alleged
offences. Abbott was rema,nded till September 17. [Excerpts] [Perth THE
WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 8 Sep 79 p 311
MARIHUANA-CROP SENTENCES CUT--Three men gaoled for growing a big cannabis
~ crop near Lake Grace had their sentences reduced yester3ay in the Court of
Criminal Appeal. Biagio Macri (28) and Bruno Morabito (25) had sentences
, of eight years with five-year minimums reduced to six yeaxs with 3 1/2-yeax
minimums. Luigi Fotia (31) had his sentence of seven y,eaxs with a3 1/2-
yeax minimum reduced to five yeaxs with a 2 1/2-yeax minimum. Mr Justice
Lavan said yesterday that tha three had been liable to 10 years' imprison-
_ ment, a$4000 five, or both. To justify pur.ishment of eight years required
that the offences fell into the category of the worst of thei.r kind.. The
circumstances here were not in triat category. The profit tha.t would ha,ve
been ma,de on the crop was conservatively estima.ted at $3.5 million gross
for its operators, but the evidence showed tha,t the three men were almost
certainly not the ma,in movers but mere cogs in the wheel. [Excerpts]
[Yerth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 7 5ep 79 p 1$1
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LIEADLY DRUG STOLEN--Sydney; Thi_eves have stolen a dea3ly drug from the sur-
~ gery of NSW country veterinaxian. The drug, immobolin, is a potqerful narcotic
- used as a horse anaesthetic. A specialist said last night that one millilitre
- of it could kill a human being. The theft occurred on Friday night at Armi- -
, dale, 500km north-west of Sydney. The thieves took a safe which also contained
- other dangerous drugs, including pethedine, themalon and innovax. [Text]
: [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 11 Sep 79 P 8]
~ VALIUM STUDY URGED--Senator C. V. J. Mason (AD, NSW) called yesterday for an
= urgent inquiry into American evidence that the clrug Valium may be add3ctive. -
_ He said it was possible Valium should be declared a drug of habitua.tion with
its prescription limited to "necessary" cases. Evidence to a US Senate sub- _
committee showed that Valium ha,d been addictable in the case of eight witnesses -
- who gave testimony. Valium in Australia was being prescribed in blanket fashion
- for a wide range of symptoms, Senator Mason said. "This was evidenced by the
' huge number of prescriptions written, which had been estimated as high as 10
milli.o:i a year." [Excerpt] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English
13 Sep 79 p 10]
cso: 5300
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FIOIdG KONG
BEATING THE DRUG PROBLEM
Iiong Kong SOUTH CHINA MOR1vIIJG POST in English 16 Sep 79 p 8
_ [Text] cIong Kong's anti-narcotics efforts are definitely succeeding, says
the chairman of the Action Committee Against Narcotics.
- Addressing the opening of the month-long Wanchai District Anti-Drug
_ Campaign at Southorn Playground, Sir Albert Rodrigues said: -
_ "We are making considerable inroads into the problem of drug abuse among
our youth. '
_ "Drug prices on the streets are at an all-time high, attendances at out.-
patient clinics iiave never been greater, the number of people under 21 in
drug addiction treatment centres and in the Society for the Aid and
- Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers has been declining over the past 11 years.
"There has also been a major drop in those convicted for minor drug
offences over the past five years."
However he said, "we should not relax our efforts."
He said the Government, advised by ACAN, is firmly committed to eventually -
eliminating the drug abuse problem.
To achieve this, effective law enforcement is needed against criminals -
who traffic in drugs and their helpers.
Sir Albert underscored the need for a wide range of treatment and rehabili-
tation facilities for drug abusers, firm support from members nf the
community, and close cooperation on the international scene.
He said over the past years Iiong Kong has directed major efforts into
the linked fields of prevention, education and publicity against narcotics.
_ And- many intensive antidrug campaigns hrive bEZn held at district level
since 1973.
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_ "In Wanchai during the next four weeks, residents, students and workers
from all walks of life will be able to participate in a wide variety -
- of programmes including exhibitions, seminars, competitions, film shaws -
and recreational events."
The chairman of the Wanchai District Anti-Drug Campaign Organizing
Committee, :ir Cham Siu-leun, said more than 400 local organizations, -
including area committees, mutual aid committees and schools, have
- prepared 80 anti-drug programmes for about 230,000 resident's in the
district, which also covers Happy Valley, Tai Hang and Causeway Bay.
This is the first of three district community involvement campaigns to '
0
be organized this year by ACAPI, and it is targeted at more than a million
_ residents.
~ Other campaigns will be in Mongkok and Tsun Wan.
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xo~rc xo.,1c
DRUG ASSETS LAW CREATES PROBLE24S
Eiong Kong SOL'TH CHIrIA %1OR?iIi1G POST in English 22 Sep 79 p 8
[Text ]
_ Logal ofticers will have to
Meanwhile, the Govern-
overcome "many tcehnical
ment plans to expand ita
prablems" in drafting le$isla-
general anti-narcotics educa-
tion to provide for the scizun
hon work next ear to cover
of all assets.of convicted drug
t
Ff
k
specific princi targets.
ra
c
ers.
These inc ude factoriea,
- A Secretariat soura said
companies, schools, the fami-
this yesterday as drug-fght-
ly as a unit and people who do
- ers welcomed the latest move
not attend commumty activi-
announced by the Commis-
ties. �
sioner for Narcotics, Mr
This was disclosed yester-
Peter Les, on Thursday.
day by the assistant secretary
Besides the wording of the
for security of the narcotics
amendment, the source said,
division, Mr Bowen Leung.
its implementation could also
"We wan: to. teach those
be aproblem because of the
in strat corners and tea
diversified assets of drug
houses," he told a Lions Club
bosses.
of Tsimshatsui dinner mat-
Mr Lee had told a lunch
ing.
meeting of the Kiwanis Club
"'We want social workers
that thc new law was necea-
to inculcate an element of
sary to deter drug trafficking
anti-drug addiction in their
more effeclively.
work."
A long-time campaigner
Implementation tactics
against narcotics, Dr L. K.
and various anti-drug activi-
Ding, also gave "full support"
ties are now being worked
to fhe move.
out.
"Nothing can be too harsh
for these traders of death," he
said.
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DRUGS SWOOP NETS SIX
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 27 Sep 79 p 15
[Text] -
PolicZ on Tuesday seiz-
ous t~ of druga, inclnding They were also investigat-
ib
td a quantity of Part Ipoi-
ant
wand 1 ;uspected ing the aoura of the drugg.
son, worth aboUt. 525,000,
in a serier of raids in Y
' . ' some of which have halluci-
The au have been rokaood natory effects when taken
"
'
an_
msti
bn bail pend
urg
farther in- wiW akohol.
.
Threa man ene three
quiria. Officen said inveatiga-
Offiars were yafl~tday tions besan
aboit two weelu'
h
women lwve been arrestcd in
connectiaq with 'We eeizure of
,
c
eckina t6e dfug~ bdfote a o~vhen
detecti
vee
of
t
~e
them to a Gwen- ~
i some 15,000 tabieta of vari-
atrict
Speciel
uty
D
Sq
wd
m~ ~~~t f~Y~. received informadon that
maadrlx pilis had surfaced on
the market.
FoUowing inqniri . 13
offce�, led by In~ on
Mark Kinitpouth an Steve
Evans, raided 4 Aet at 240
Ferry. Stroet on Tuesday
evening. :
Offioerh seized about
1,000 tablets of different
, types of drugs.
An_ inapoctor of the Medi-
d H
h' D
l
l
ca
sn
ea
epartment,
t
who acompanied the offi-.
cers, made an on-t6e-spot
examinadoa.
Two women and a man ia
the flat were srrested.
Hours later. the pariy
raided a dispeasary and a flnt
in Canton Rusd where mdre
pills wete seized.
Thepilla were well paciced
and ready for sala
Two ffma and a woman
wer' arnsted in cannec4ion
with the smnd seizure.
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iiEW HEROIN FLOOD FEARED
Hong Y.ong SOUTTI CiiINA riORPdING POST in English 9 Oct 79 p 11
[Text]
A vigorous anti-drug
cam i n is bein mount-
Pa 8 8
This partly acwunted for
the decline in the volume of
sponsored by the UN has
in sorqe 30
been completed
ed to revent the entr of
P Y
heroin that found its way here
d
.
vili> es.
heroin here frorn the Gold-
an
to the steep rise in prices
of the drug in the past few
,
he project is successPul
'
en Triangle.
months
but on a very small scale;
_ And this month's target of
.
"Even with the inflated
Mr Lee said. �
About 700 villages in
_ the renewed drive against
- drug trafficking and abuse is
prices of gold,,the price of No
3 heroin now is still higher
Thailand still depend on
densely populated Mongkok.
than the metal," he noted.
opium as the main crop.
This was discl~ by the
He said this can also be
He said the Goiden Trian- _
Commissioner for Narcotus,
attributed to the highly effec-
gle can become one of the _
- Mr Peter Lee, at a press
tive law enforcement cam-
world's greatest producers of
conference yesterday to an-
paign.conducted against drug
coffee.
- nounce details of the drive.
trafficking IocaUy and in
But this will take years.
Warning the public to be
T6ailand.
"And the project should
on guard ngainct any inrnuds
An addict hcrc usuully
go hand in hand with the
- of drug abuse. Mr l.cc said
pays $250 for his daily intakc
developmcnt of trunk rondw in
international anti-narcotics
of No ] heroin.
the mountainous areas, the
agencies fear a resurgence of
"The high prices have two
provision oF inarketing ur- -
- drug smuggliag from the
efFects: to convince addicts
ganisations and recruitment
Golden Triangle.
that they should turn to treat-
of a$ricultural eztension �
'
Farmers in the opium-
ment and to compel traffick-
Mr La said. �
staff
growing region were reported
ers to employ new and varied
The USSS million (about
to be preparing to plant the
methods .to smuggle in the
HK$25 million) crop substi-
~ crop again to make up for the
drugs," Mr La said.
tution programme in Surma
= losses they suffered in last
'
The success oF the cam-
has been hampered by the
year
s drought.
The G
ld
T
i
l
paign to prevent the resur-
problem of insurgency.
,
o
en
r
ang
e
gence of drug traffickin$ will
The five-year programme
which straddles Thailand,
depend, he added, on �'mter-
in con unction with the UN
Burma and Laos - has bcen
'
national co-~~peration as well
� � start~last Xear.
described as the world
s big-
as our own efforts.
The one m Laos was aban-
gest source of heroin and
"No international agency
doned because of political
other prohibited drugs.
has authority ovor one coun-
reasons, -
"Harvest time will be in �
try.
On the law eriforcement �
February," N/r Lee said, add-
"IYs up to the law enforce-
side oP the campaign in
ing that the normal yearly
ment units of the country to
Hongkong, Mr Lee said legis-
. yield there is about 500 tons.
reduce the flow of drugs, he
lation is under way for the
Last year the drought cut.
explained.
confiscation of assets amassed
down the Golden Triangle's
He said a pilot project oP
by druq trafficking.
production to onl y 150 tons.
crop substitution in Thailand
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He said drug prices shjuld
be kept as high as possible so
Prevention, is ali imporv
tant-fiapald.
'
"More than 300,000 resi-
dents a
that addicts have w turn to
H
t spoke ot Nie need for a
re ea
pqc~~ tQ a�end a
_ treatment. �
"The risc in the attcnd-
strono community spirit in
tackling the drug ptoblem,
wide varipty. . of oducational
and entertainment ra
"
C
ance at methadone cxntra
.4 1 gm'very`encouraged to
grammes,
t6e Mongkok
ity
Qistrict Offi
makes it necaaary� to extend
theoperatinghours.
"T
haar thbt over -'100 otganisa-
tions are takitf rt
in the
ar, Miss Regina
Lau, said.
The Seni
U
wo evenin
� clieics now
provide day servias, he seid.
,
Mongkok ant$-drug cam-
'
or
notficial
Member of Rhe Executive
The deily turnout at the
centres is 8
000 -
pan,
he said.
~Our young,people should
~Council, Sir Yuet-keung Kan,
will officiate at the o
eni
,
"Wherever there ie a nad
,
-
we'll provide more ficilities
(x persuaded not to toucti
drugs at all," he said:
p
ng
ceremony to be held at the
Moqgkok Stadium.
and clinics.'"
He caid Honglcong is very
He said a dence poputation
can br9ng on a number of
He W~~l be accompanied
bY the Secretacy for Security,
Mr Lewi
D
- experien~:ed in coping with
the drug problem.
"
i
social problems.
"The denaity of Mongkok
f
h
s
avies.
The caqpp`ign is the gec-
ond of the thr
This an be verifled by
s one o
t
e highest in the
ee campeigna of
th
- the fact. that many. Asian
countries have sent delega-
world.
"ts densit 175,000
Y of
e Action� Committee
inst
N
~
ABa
cotics
this
y~'~
tions here to learn from us
hectare com
res with 300
in
is cur
T~
f
~s~
ron
d
g
bein
held i
d
our treatment program:ne,
i
the UK, 23 in the US ar~d two
in Csnada
"
n, Wanchai an
' the
third will start in Tsun W
prevent
on work and tech-
nues
f~iLng drugs," Mr
.
The month-iang cam ai n
a
8
an
nezt rnonth.
Lee said
will ye opened on Saturd
y.
These three campotigns are
expected to reach ;morc' than
dne million peop]e.; .
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PA [ R DI:NY HEP.OIN CHARGES
fiong K.ong SOUTH CIiINA PtORNING POST in F.nglish 10 Oct 79 p 15
[Text]
A 43-rear-oid man, Ng
The car later stopped and
Kwong-fai, yesterday pleaded
thra men got in.
not guilty to manufacturing
Ng met t6e car on a bicy-
heroin on his farm at Kiu
cle.
Ling Shan, San Tin, New
Officers intercepted
. Temtories.
Fung's car, arrested Fung
He and Fung Chau-chung
and two of the pasaengers.
(30) also pleade3 not guilty to
1'he third one escaped
possessing 7,123 grams of a
In the car wero 16 Ibs of
miature of salts of esters of
heroinworth $I million.
morphine for unlawful traf-
There was also an en-
fickmg.
velope containing-thra pack-
Ng further denied possess-
ets oF heroin under the
ing 1,709 grams of a mixture
driver's scat.
of salts of esters of morphine
Ng was arrested and he
at his farm.
took the officers back to his
Fung also denied possess-
fam,
- ing 38.64 ~rams of heroin
ln a pigsty was found a
mixture in his car.
charcoal atove and there wcre
C r o w n counsel I. C.
signs of drugs being in the
Whitehouse told Mr Justice
process of manufacture.
Baber and a jury in the High
In another shed, equip-
Court that Ng and his family
ment for manuf3cturing her-
had been living on the farm
oin and packing heroin into
for a number of years, rearing
polythene bags was found,
pigs and chickens.
Mr Whitehouse said.
Early in the morning of
Hearing continues today.
March 8, a iarge team of
t the
Customs officers ke
Mr Robert Whitehead ap-
p
e under
ound the viila
pea rs far Fung and Mr
g
area r
Kumar Ramanathan for Ng.
surveillance.
_ At 7.30 am Fung was scen
driving a car towards the
farm.
CSO: 5300
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HONG KONG
TOBACCO, ALCOHOL tJORSE THAN DRUGS
Hong Y,ong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 1-1 Oct 79 p 7
[Text]
People should be warn-
ed of the dangers of tobac-
co and alcohol abuse
which are equally. if not
more, damagmg than nar-
cotics.
The superintendent oF the
Saciety for the Aid and Reha-
bilitatton oF Drug Abusera,
Nir James Chien, said this
yesterday.
He said that tobacco, is
generally rcgarded as the
"gatewey drug" to heroin de-
pendence.
"Non-cigarette amoking
young pdople aro much less
vulnerable to narcotic abuse."
From smoking heroin
through cigarettes, the young
addict quickly learns W ad-
vance to "chasing the
dragon" (inhaling � heroin
fumes) using tinfoil from
cigarette packages.
He told the Hongkong Ro-
tary Club that it "is not
known exactly how many
j~eople in Hongkong are risk-
mg their lives or damaging
their health by eacessive
smoking, drinking and taking
druAltgs."
hough from statistics it
appears Hongkong is gaining
ground in atresting the prob-
lem of narcotic addiction, no
attention is being paid to
other forms oF addiction, such
as alcohol end cigarettes.
He said the public nas not
been adequately warned
against such dangers:
The apparontly shrinking
number of heroin addicU "is
dertainly no juuification for
us to be conEent to rest on our
laurels. .
"The health of our next
generation and the well-being
of our vommunity depends on
our action now."
He said nicotino addiction
has,even moro casualtias than
heroin addicfion here.
"It is ~eatimated that
Hongkong has about one mil-
lion smokers, with more and
more young people starting to
smoke et a younger age."
China bse an estimated
tobacco oonaumption of 600
cigarettes per person per
yeae, and recently launched
an anG-amoking campaign.
Mr Chien said there is a
dire slartage of informatiorr
on alcoholism in Hoagkong;
but there is a rising tnnd of
alco;olism. "t'h e .percentege oF pa-
tienta admitted W Castle
Peak Mental Hospital for
alcoholic paychoaia ia riaing
steadily.,,
The increasing privalegce
of drinking in Hongkong, A4r
Chion.said, is probably due to
its Westernisation. .
. Trends also show that
drug addicts often replace one
abuse with anotber, such as
alcohol.
"While it is~r atifying to
see seven or eight thouaend
addicts tlock� to our metha-.
done elinics daily~. there 6sa
been no attempt to emeea
thcir 'drinking habits or pat-
terns of. non-optiate abuae,"
he said.
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DRUG ABUSE IS jdELL UPZDER CHECK
Flong ICong SOUTH CHINA t10RNING POST in English 14 Oct 79 n 9
- [Text]
- Drug abuse in Hong-
"these in turn are comple-
square Idlometro in the UK,
kong has been controlled
mented by preveadon, cduca-
23 in the US and two in
and progressively removed,
tion and pnblicity pra
Canada.
the Senior Unofficial
Member of the Executive
grammes designed to per-
suade our young peoph never
On the -ffects of dense
po~ulation, Sir Yuet-keung
Council, Sir Yuet-keung
Kan, said yeaterday.
to experiment witb rrugs, and
toattractexistingaddictsinto
"
~id ;
"Parental control over
Speaking at the opening
aremony of the Mon
kok
treatment
't'be sucass of the Colo-
'
children ma sometimes be
loosened, and the develo
~
g
District Anti-dru Cam
B P81Bn
n
s endeavours, Sir Yuet- ;
y
keueg said, oould be san in'
ment of understanding and
mutual support between
at Mongkok Stadium, Sir
= Yuet-keung said:
the very 6igh level of drug
friends 'and neighboun may
"Two major social evils
pricav on the strats, �t6e
rxord number of drug abus-
often be discouraged.
"Such effects are often ac-
6ave arisen, in part due to our
very rapid rate of growth and
era in daily treatment and the
steady decline in the number
ixnted when residents have to
ahare common facilities and
_ our densely-packed popula-
tion - corruption and drug
ofyoung~einvolved.
"In t~s ooetinuing war
limjted resouras with each
abvae.
"But these
roblems hav
againat brugs, the support of
H
k
'
l
i
i
ll
other, and falings of anxiety
and deQtiration may reault."
p
e
been tackled m a typically
ong
ong
s peop
e
s v
ta
y
important, and that is the
While the majority, had
adapted to the "oongested
Hongkong way by facing
them squarely and pragmati-
purpose of the campai#n:'
Sir Yuet-keung said high-
envuonment, some develop~
ti
i
l h
i
cally
"
S
,
density living inaitably
an
-soc
a
ab
ts, or turned to
crime or drugs to relieve the
i
r Yuet-keung said drug
' trafficking and drug abuse
brought considerable prob-
lems to many
frustration ia their lives, he
have ban two long-standing
'
.
."Mongkok City District is
said.
Sir Yuet-keung said he
scourges of the Colony
s com-
munity.
one of the mosbdtnsely popu-
Iated areas in the warid
hopes the campaign, t6e big-

Following the reoonstruc-
tion oE the Actio
Co
itt
.
�
Approximately 250,000
l
u
h
-
gest ever orgamsed in Mong-
kok, will drive 6ome. the dan-
n
mm
a
Against Narootics .in 1973,
peop
ve .
e .
ete in
a smail
area of undet'1 ~fi square kilo-
gers of dru~ abuse to all
Mon
kok residents
they have; been deaft with in
an imaginative, co-ordinated
"
metres = almost 170,000.
pa~p le per square kilometro."
g
.
He hopes the campaign
will dissuade young ~
ple
WaY�
Effective Iaw enforcement
This compares with an
overall density of 300 per
~
from experimenting with
dru
s and enco
6
has ban clasely linked with
g
ura4e t
e
public to be more willing to
international action and with ,
- the provision of comprehen-
nport the activities of those
in
sive treatment, rehabilitation
volved with drug abuse.
and after-care facilities.
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"In addition, I trust it wili
_ inspirc a grcalcr willingncss
to offcr cmpluymcnt and
ulhcr I'urms uf practical as-
sistance to rehabilitated ad-
dicts and to those who may be
at risk of becoming addicts."
The Mongkok campaign is
the second of three anti-drug
campaigns sponsored by
ACAN.
- It is the effort of more
than 700 schools and organi-
sations in conjuction "with
- various Govcrnment depart-
ments and voluntary organi-
sations.
More than 300.000 resi-
dents are expected to attend
the 80 events.
CSO: 5300
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Sir Yuct-keung and the
Secrctnry for Security, Mr
Lewis Davies, offici�rted at
the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In attendance were Unoi-
Cciiil Legislative Councillor,
Mr Wong Lam; the Commis-
sioner for Narcotics, , Mr
Peter Lee; the City District
Commissioner (West Kow-
loon), Mr Tony Eason, and
the City District Officer
(Monglcok), Miss Regina
Lau.
About 10,000 residents
and students watched a three-
hour varietv show after the
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k{ONG {CONG
FOUR GET STII'F SGPJTENCES FOP..fAI3UFACTUP.ING DRUCS
Hong Kong SOUTH CHIPIA MOF,iIIIJG POST in English 18 Oct 79 no page number given
[Text ]
Threc men were each sen-
'
The car picked up Ng
impris-
tenced �ta nine years
yu; and La at the farm.
onment yesterday for manu-
u,ficers intcrcepted it at
facturing dangerous drags in
-
the roasi junction and arrest-
a village near the border.
ed the three.
Ng Yee-kin (30), who
in the car were 16 Ibs of
- used to work in a radio pag-
heroin worth $t million. .
- ing company, and Lee Choi
(46), a cooked food stall
There was also an en-
velope containing three pack-
worker, had pleaded guilty
ets of heroin under the
before Mr Justice Baber in
driver's seat.
the High Court to manufac-
turing salts of esters of mar-
Ng Kwong�fai was also ar-
rested and he took the officers
- phine.
back to hisfarm.
Ng Kwong-fai (43), owner
In a pigsry wac a charcoal
of tbe farm in Kiu Ling Shan,
stove�and thee wero sig6a of �
San Tin, New Territories,
drugs being in the process of
which was used for manufac-
manufacture.
turing dangerous drugs, had
In snother shed equipment
denied the charge but was
for manufacturing heroin and
found guilty by a jury after
trial yesterday
packing hero;n into polythene
d
f
.
The jur
also found anoth-
bags was
oun
.
d
y
- er man, Fung Chau-chung
ants were
The defen
represented by Mr Robert
(30), guilty of possecsing dan-
Whitehead, Mrs Jackson-
gerous drugs for unlawful
Lipkin, Mt R. Sujanani and
trafCcking.
Mr K. Ramanathan.
He was sentenced to seven
C row n counsel I. C.
years.
Whitehouse prosecuted.
The court was told that on
'
March 8 Fung was seen driv-
ing a car towsrds the farm by
customs ofricers who had
been kaping it under surveil-
lance.
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~

SOARI2IG HEROIN PRICES BOOST BANK ROBBERIES
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA riORNING POST in English 24 Oct 79 p 16
[Text]
- Rocketing heroia pnce*.
- are a major factor behind
the reeent surge of bank
- robberies.
The Director of Criminal
Investigation, Mr Paddy
Clancy, said yesterday that
since mid-summer the street
price of heroin has jumped
_ from S40 per packet to $160
_ per packet.
_ Spcaking at a Hongkoag
_ YCiwanis Club meeting, Mr
Clancy said a heroin addict
nads two packets each day.
T6e daily requirement of
$320 worth of heroin is driv-
- ing addicts in search of quick
- cash to bank robbery.
Already this year 56 bank
robberies have been reported,
compared w i t h last year's
total of 11.
_ "The bank robberies we
believe aro connected to the
drug situation;" Mr Clancy
said.
He added that most of the
rob6eries have been unsophis-
, dcated, one-man' operaUons,
; pointing to addict involve-
ment.
He said the narcotics
records of many robbery sus-
pects arrested so far this year
turthet support suspicions of
_ a' growing trend m drugs-
. relatod crime. a
" 'MOic is no dnubt the'
abseace of drugs and the very
high prices required to pur-
.chasa them when they are
available have caused more
addicts and others involved in
t6is disgusting trade to turn
to crime."
Ironically, the high heroin
prices pushing addicts to rob- ,
bery is partially attributed to
the success in cracking down
on drug imports. 4
Mr Clancy cited the re-
ant $57 million heroin haul
on the Panamanian freighter,
Taifooks~ -ai, as an cxample ;
of the success. .
But, he said,'the underly- :
ing reason for the short sup-
ply is a poor crop in the
Golden Triangle. � ;
When a new crop becomes
. available, local trafficking is
expected to rise again.
Mr Clancy said manpower
shortages caused by the de-
ploYment of large numbers of
' �police officers to slow the
pacx of illegal immigration
nas also ban a factor in the
rising number of bank rolr
beries.
Haadded tha't conerary ta!
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public opinion, illegal immi-
"
But, he added, deapite all
that has been done the public
grants themselves have not
contributed greatly to crime
is still reluetant to report
rates.
"There is a widety he!d
crimes.
He denied that crime vic-
misconception that illegal
tims were afraid to report to
the police.
- immigrants from China and
Vietnam are heavily involved
He said that in eddition to
i
i
'
a enerat reluctance to report
n cr
me.
We have no evidcnx oF
'
cnmes involving smell losses
or slight injuries, some people
that:
lllegal immigrants are in-
th
l
had indicated a fear that the
not want to be
e
Po1ia would
rce
y two or
volved in on
r cent of reported crimes,
~
bothered over minor
i
said.
Commenting on the re-
'
incs.
cr
Mr Clancy said the police
wi11 continue to stress the
cently published crime vic-
Mr Clancy
timisation survey
importana of roporting cil
,
ezpressed "surprise and

crimes in the hope t6at this
message will eventually be ec-
at the sur-
disappointment
vey s Gndings that only 18.2
cepied by more people.
pcr cent of all crimes oommit-
ted are reported to police.
He noted long-standing
police efforts to increase the
reporting rate.
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IioNC hOr,c
DP.UGS T';tIO WIId APPEALS
Ilong F:ong SOUTH CtIIPdA WRNING POST in English 23 Oct 79 p 14
[Text]
1 hrec men, serving prison
terms ranging from eight to
For siz days the Court of
Appeal heard submissions by
As a result ol tneir suc-
ccssful appeals
the sentences
15 years for conspiracy to
traffic in dangerous drugs,
appeliants' counsol against
the unsafe and unsatisFactory
,
on tho thra will be set aside,
Mr David Sparrow ap-
yesterday succeeded in their
appeals against convict
ion.
state of the conviction.
The credibil
it
of an
peared for Yu on the instruc-
i
f L
They were Yu Yuk-kwong
(58), Chan Kai-yin (38) and
.
y
accomplice w h o turned
C
i
Li Ti
t
ons o
au, Chan and Ko;
Mr C. H. Koh for Lee Fai on
Lee Fai (46).
rown w
tness,
ng-zee,
formed one of th
j
the instructions of Ho and
e ma
n
Wong; and Mr John Hazan,
All three were alleged at
grounds of appeal.
'QC, and Mr Anthony Sedg-
their trial to have been linked
Police began, investigating
wick for Chan on the inatruc-
with a dangerous drugs syndi-
the case in April 1976 when
tions of Liu, Chan and Lam.
cate headed by former news-
Li, a former seaman who was
Sonior Crown eounsel An-
paper publisher Ma Sik-chun
arferted [or in lmmlgretion
drew Hodge and Crown coun-
aiid his brother, Ma Sik-yu.
offena, gave them artain
sel Francis Cheung appeared
The Court of Appeal ad-
information. 1
For the Crown.
- journed for three hours before
It had been submitted by
The Court of Appeal rnm-
delivering its judgment. It
wunsel for the appellants
prised the Chief Justice, Sir
will give its reasons at a later
that there were material dis-
Denys Roberts; Mr Justice
date.
crepancies between Li's stafe-
Leonard and Mr Justia Li.
Yu and Chan were each
ment to the police and the
sentenced to 15 years' impris-
evidence he gave in court.
onment and Lee to eight
His identification of the
years in November last year.
aPpellants mvolvoment in the
They were found guilty by
operation was also unsatisfac-
a jury of conspiracy to traffc
tory, it was claimed.
in salts of morphine between
January 17, 1969, and June
The appellahts were
among nine defendants origi-
1972,
nally charged in connection
Yu had been described by
with the alleged syndicate.
_
the Crown asa sort of porter
Among them were Ma
_
for the syndicate by helping
Sik-chun and his nephew, Nia
- to bring dangerous drugs into
Woon-yin, but the Ma9 and
Hongkong, while Chan was
thrce . other defondants
sald to be the paymaster.
Lee was alleged to be the
Cheng Ah-kai, Wong Ping-
fai and Wong Muk-ping -
absconded while on bail
strong-arm man in the syndi-
cate. �
.
Another defendant, Pui
_
Sai-hung, a restaurapt opera-
tor, was tried�separately last
yeai and was acquitted.
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tiovc xoNc
- $57 riILLION DRUG HAUL ON PANAMANIAN FREIGHTER
Taifookshan Seized Again
: Hong Kong SOLT[I CHIDTA MOr.NING POST in English 21 Oct 79 pp l, 7
[Article by Tommy Lewis]
[Text]
C'ustoms officcrs yestcr-
day swooped on the Panama-
nian freighter. Taifaokshan,
and seized drugs worth $57
million on the retaii market.
It was the 21st seizure
made on the vessel since 1974
and the biggest drug haul on
board a ship in Hongkong
waters in 10 years.
By eariy today, officers of
the bperations Branch, work-
ing under the direction of
Senior SuPerintendent Jimmy
Prisk, had detained five crew
members for qucstioning.
Informed sources said
threc crcw members were
taken off the freighter an-
chored off Western District.
Thc other two, who had
left the ship after its arrival in
Hongkong, were detained in
their homes.
The five were on engine
room duties during the
freighter's voyage to Hong-
kong from Bangkok.
The drugs were discovered
in a secret compartment
below the vesse!'s engine
room by a team of officers led
by As'sistant Superintendent
Szeto Chi-wing.
A hole just big enough for
a man to squeeze through was
found concealed underneath a
steel' plate Ilooring on the
lowest deck of the engine
room.
When the compartment
was discovered, an officer,
wearing an oxygen mask, was
lowered into the hole where
he discovered the drugs pack-
ed in four sacks.
The drugs consisted of 48
!bs of No 3 heroin, 35 mor-
phine blocks and about a
pound of suspected No 4 her-
oin.
The drugs are believed to
have been taken on board the
Freighter in Bangkok to baost
supplies of the acute shortage
of heroin in Hongkong.
The Taifookshan arrived
from Bangkok on Friday
evening.
A party of customs offi-
cers boarded the freighter to
search it as it is one of tlieir
"favourites" for dmgs.
Nothing vras found during
the overnight search.
The breakthrough came
shortly before midday yester-
day when the manhole was
diswvered in the engine
room.
When the sacks ol' drugs
were seized, the Customs'
drug-sniffing dog, Dewers,
who is atationed at Kai Tek
airport, was rushed tu the
ship to assist ofGcers search
for more drugs onthe vessel.
Dewers was taken on
board a customs launch.
As the Isunch was ber-
thing alougside the freighter,
the "eager drug sniffer" leap-
ed - and landed in the sea.
His handler and several
other customs officers im-
mediately dived into the sea
and brought Dewers to the
freightcr.
The seaPCh on the Tni-
fookshan was stiU going on
this morning.
Officers said they will not
rest until every inch of the
ship is searched. ,
Superintendent Sandy
Sehders, who hea&ftptotna+
Harboar Division.'assistod by
hia deputy, Mr. Suto, aro
personally directing the
search. -
' "My search team has done
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= an extremely good job by de�
mean that drug syndicates
The Taifookshan is the sis-
- tecting the ingeniously con-
may have already or are
ter ship of 'fai Chung Shan,
ccaled manhole in the engine
about to set up a drug manu-
another "favourito" of Cua-
room where the drugs were
facturing plant here; he said.
toms officers.
found," Supt Sanders said
He said that with the soar-
Since 1974 there have
.
_ am proud of t6em."
ing drug prices in Hongkong,
been more than 40 seizures of
Following the seizure, ofriecrs
racketeers are trying to im-
drugs of various quantities on
of Customs' Operations
port the drugs for big and fast
baard theTai Chung Shan.
Branch took over the investi-
money.
Meanwhile, Stn Supt
gation.
Sen Supt Prisk said he will
Prisk will be one of the two
It is making in-dePth
-
liaise today with offiars of
the Na
coti
s B
h
top drug Fighters to attend
the Unit
d IV
ti
d
investigations as who is be-
r
c
ureau on t
e
e
ons-sponsore
a
hind the drug smuggling
matter.
. meeting of national narcotics
racket in Hongkong.
According to drug en-
f
law enforcxment agencies to
When contacted last
orcement officers, addicts
be held in Sydney next
night, Sen Supt Prisk said he
are now paying $200 for 0.1
month.
is concerned.with the seizure
of a gramme of heroin with a
The other will be Chief
of morQhine.
purity of between eight to 10
Superintenderit John Thorpe
"With morphine it could
per cent.
'
'
of the Narcotics Bureeu.
t
he purity in previous
At the meeting, Sen Supt
years was well over 25 per
Prisk will have a lot to say
cent and the heroin much
about yesterday's seizure by
-
cheaper.
his men.
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1,:I1Jti
l1(1 Sh.1 pti Ui'gll`d
'ioi,b x~~i,g sc~u~li cIIIPJA MOR"dll~lc
rc~sT in rn~li5� 22 c~>e New 7.ealand authorities.
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- NEW ZEALAND
UPSWING IN LSD MAIL CALLED SIGN OF DRUGS SWITCH
Wellington THE EVENING POST in English 10 Oct 79 p 48
[Text]
- THERE has been an upsurge in-
ISD imports onto the New _
Zealand drug scene.
_
The Chief Cuatoms Officer
He estimated the LSD.
(enforcement) Mr Bob Ste-
wbic4 Ras impregaated on
p4en said today Were had
b
i
per, to be wort6 betweea
een aa
ncrease in ISD
4000 atid :6000.
seizures, and this iAdicated
Nr Howle} saId LSD 6ad
that more was beiag
been the "in" drag some two
imported.
to three qears ago but had
It appeared to have resuft-
faded irnm the ueae after a�
ed from a drying np of ot6er
series ot bia aeiures ud
types of imparted drugs.
~ ~~r8~ dam
The tatest seiwre Was
made Ra Auckland laat
overseas,
However, it had re-
Week
emerged in the laat ai: -
Mr Mike Howley, deputy
months, and thla Ras a
collector of Customs in
matter �i concern-
Auckland, said a parcel
Mr Stephea said one rea- _
- irom North - Amerip con-
aon for its increaaed
promin-
tainihg 8000 doaes of LSD
ence may be the fa Wat it -
was detected at the Post
waa eauer to import.
Ottice eight days ago.
-
Doses Aere very small
It was detivered to the bo:
and the chemicalcould be
number marked on the
impregnated in paper a
parcel, and tbapetsoa who
even $ cubes.
~
attert~pted to. ptck It up was
He s
ajd the chaage in
- takea into custodY last
popularitq M dyfiereat drags
FridaY.
cauld be attribnted to ~
Another peraon had bee4
contlnnal cdanges in the
interviewed: and bot6
drug yem_
cdarged with oifeaces.
had not
et been
The
liers wete constanU
i
d be
~
y
q
- charged wid~ the spedile
s coul
g aad th
ch
f
s
lt
i
h
ofience of importing the
ma jor
:ures
o
e
e resn
t
or the arrest of some oi the
_ drug. Investigatiods Rere
algniticant traff[cketa.
- contiauing, said 11dr
Howley.
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NEW ZEALAND
BRIEFS
JAIL FOR SECOND OFFENSE--Auckland, 2 Oct (PA)--Seven months after his
release from a two-year jail term, a 20-year-old Auckland man committed =
a similar type of drug offence, so today Mr Justice Moller sentenced
him to five years' jail. The Judge said Ian Bruce Mclntosh appeared to
have learned nothing from his jail experience. He said McIntosh, who
was an unemployed fibreglass worker, was released from jail in February,
1978, after being convicted of offering to supply a narcotic. By
September 1978, McIntosh had committed the affence of possession of
heroin for the purpose of supplying others. For the protection of the
public, Mclntosh must be taken out of the drug scene. Mclntosh appeared
for senCence after being found guilty by a jury of possessing 1.77 grams of pure heroin. [Text] [Wellington THE EVENING POST in English 3 Oct 79
p 10]
JAILED FOR HEROIN POSSESSION--Auckland, 4 Oct (PA)--Possession of less
than one gram of heroin resulted in an Auckland man being sentenced to
three and a ha1= years' jail today. Mark Tauwhari, 30, unemployed, had _
been found guilty by jury of possession of heroin for supply. Counsel,
Mr E. R. Leary, said the quantity of pure heroin involved was .95 of
one gram. Mr Justice McMullin said -the heroin was divided into nine -
- sachets with a street value of $900. He was prepared to give Tauwhari
credit for giving some limited assistance to the police. [Text]
[Wellington TflE EVENING POST in English 4 Oct 79 p 32]
HEROIN COURIERS SENTENCED--Two men who imgorted heroin saorth a total of
$140,000 by hiding it in their bodies were yesterday sentenced to five
years' imprisonment when they appeared in the Supreme Court at Auckland.
Barry Wayne Joseph Gundry, aged 23, a roofing contractor, of Orakei, and
Simon Pater Co3.quhoun, aged 24, an unemploqed procesa worker, of -
Meadowbank, had earlier pleaded guilty to indictable charges of importing _
heroin. Before sentencing the men, Mr Justice Mahon said he found it
hard to see why couriers who made deliveries of drugs to New Zealand .
possible had traditionally been at the bottom of the scale in terms of
the.severity of sentences. Gundry and Colquhoun had been importing'a
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THAILAND
SYDNEY
DETECTIVE TESTIFIES IN AUSTRALIANS' TRIAL
- Sydney
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
in English 15 Sep 79 p 5
[Report
from Neil Kelly]
[Text]
BANGKOK, Friday. - A
selling 22.6 kgs of heroin every
Sydney detective told a crim-
two months and that he was
inal court here toda
that
sending men to Thailand to pro-
cure hero:n
$39,360 and a sub-machine
.
He was informed that these
gun were seized in raids on
men got heroin from William
_
Sydney houses last October,
Sinclair. -
following the arrest of three :
Ttie heroin was distributod by -
Australian in Bangkok. ,
Ned Smith, his brother Edwin
,
Willixm Smith, Warren Fellows
`
Detective-sergeant Barry Went- �
,
Dave Kelleher and Williem Mc-
worth Dunn, 43, of the NSW.
I-ean�
police, was giving evidence at,'
After Hayward, Fellows and
the resumed trial of footballer
Sinclair were arrested in Bangr
_
Pauf Hayward, hairdresser
kok on October 11, police
Warren Fellows and baz-owner
searched Ned Smith's home is
William Sinctair, who are
Henry Street, Sydenham, and an. _
=
accused of attempting to
other house in the streeL
smuggle 8.5 kgs of heroin to
At ihe other house they found
Australia.
$39,360 in bags, which was said
They have pleaded not guilty
to belonQ to Nal Smith.
to that charge, but Hayward and
Fellows have pleaded guilty to
Ned gmith way aneyted. and =
when police searched the home
illegal possession of the heroin.
Sergeant Dunn said that in -
of his brother Edwin at Black-
July, 1978, he had been in-
town, they found a wb-mac6ine
gun and five plastic heroin bags
formed that Arthur Stanley
(Ned) Smith of Sydenham,
which contained residue of 5ne
heroin, Sergeant Duna said
Sydney, and other mcn were
trafficking in drugs.
,
.l.he court was ad'
7~ned unt7
.
.
An informant said 5mith waa
j
bur~y.
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B.C. SUPREME COURT UPSETS HEROIN RULINC
Provincial Heroin Treatment Act Invalid
. Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 11 Oct 79 p 95
[Text)
VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. Supreme Court
has ruled that the provincial government stepped
_ beyond its legal bounds and tossed out the controver-
- sial Heroin Treatment Act.
The ruling came on a constitutional challenge
launched by convicted drug addict Brenda Ruth
Schneider of Burnaby, B.C., who has been on a metha-
done maintenance program since 1969.
_ Her action was on behalf of herself and all others in
_ the province who may be psychologically or physiCally
dependent on drugs.
Chief Justice Allan McEachern ruled the legislation
= is in effect the same as the federal Narcotics Control
Act and the Social Credit government overstepptd its
bounds in passing the law last year.
_ He also ruled the legislation, which empowered the
government to make treatment mandatory for convict-
ed drug addicts, had the effect of creating a ntw
crime, that of drug dependeiice. McEachern noted
such laws can only be enacted hy Parliament.
Health Minister Bob McClelland said in response to
the decision the government would continue the volun-
tary aspect of the heroin treatment program.
- "We feel honor-bound to continue with the volunta-
ry and court referral part of our program - which is
going quite well - and that part will continue," he
said.
McClelland said, he was disappointed with the
court's decision and said the ruling indicated a need
_ for federal involvement in this kind of program.
_ He said he intends to press for changea in the Crim-
inal Code next week in Ottawa.
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"I think it (the ruling) is wonderful," said Fred
hiclnnis, president of Concerned Citizens, Drug Study
and Educational Society, which was in the forefront of
opposition to the compulsory treatment program.
McInnis said care of the province's heroin addicts
should be left to the medical profession.
The government stsould follow Italy's example and
legalize heroin for use by confirmed addicts, he said.
New Legislation Under Consi-deration
Vancouver THE VANCOUVER SUN in English 12 Oct 79 p A2
[Text]
A federal law that would allow judges to
sentence convicted drug addicts to treat-
ment centres instead of prison is under
conslderation by the Conservative govern-
meat, Juatice Mintster Jacques Flynn said
Thursdaq.
Whlle B.C. governmeat oHiciale were
preparing brlefa to preas Ottewa tar 811 the
"gap" in hemin treatment created whea
the B.C. Supreme Coart rnled the prov-
ince'a Seroin Tnatment Act unconatitu-
tionAl, Flynn told the Senate such legisla-
tion is alreAdy in the works.
Flynn, spealdng during debate on the
thmne speech, satd he wants to moderaize
the Criminal Code.
The federel governmeat is considering
introduction of a bill that conld send con-
victEd drug ad8icts for trtatment inetetd
of to prieon. A juetice department aource
sald Flymn'e blll would pertnit treatment
only after convictlon oa criminal cherges
aad only with the addict's coasent.
Civil llbertariaaa who challenged the
conatitutionality of the B.C. law objected
that the provincial statute forced addicts to
submit to treatment agatnat their will.
Chiei Juetice Allan McEachern of the
B.C. Supreme Court ruled Tuesdey that the
B.G. law invadui the field of federal law
and created a aew oifence - nascotic de-
pendency - and was therefore unconstitu-
tional.
B.C. Alcohol and Drug Commiesion
Chairman Bert Hoslrin said Thursday'be
will preee the faderal government for awitt
passage of legislation to fill the gap in her-
otn treatment.
Hosldn and Provincial Health Miaister
Bob McCleltand will meet in Ottawa Mon-
day with Flynn, federil MWth Miniater
David Crnmbie, -Sadicitor-(#eneral Allan
d,pwrence and other federal autfaritks.
'The B.C. delegot#op lntend6l.to:~per-
auede the governmeat to re-introduae a bill
'flfat died 0iithe order paper of the Iitt Ppr-
liament (Bill C-21) and would have permit-
tpd judges tO send narcotic-dependent.peo-
ple for trcatmeat. Flylm's remarke to the
Senate lndictte ffiie will he done.
� Hoskln aeid BW 0-81 or simflar legisla-
tion would allow the proviaoe*to fi1180 per
�eent of.ita heroin treatment program's pa-
ttent csgaclty. -
Hoaidn said the provincial pmgram will
etlll treat volunteers and people ient to it
lg a coadition of their parole or proOttion.
Other planned reforma of the Criminpl
Code, Flynn told the 3enate, .aiil: tnclude
legislation to prohibit publicaNon of the
iact that a house or oiHce hie been aeanh-
ed under a police search Warrant until it
becomes evideace in a tiial.
"This wlll prevent needleu xnd impmp-
. er embecrasamwt anifered by those who
are never charged folloaing i pmperly
conducted search of their premiies by the
pollce," Flynn said. .
Ia connectioa with ita prnmiaed freedom
of informatlon law, the government aill
also make changes to the Federal Courh
Act and theHuman Aighta Act, F1yua wid.
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ku.l iiit, Ui:;custiL'cl
V,incouver THE WEEKEND SUN 4-n English 13 Oct 79 p A4
[l:clitorial: "Square One, Revisited"]
[TextJ
tiow that the B.C. Supreme Court has
_ ruled that the pmvincial Heroin Treat-
ment Act is invalid, giealth Miniater Bob
McClelland mvst ask himaeif some tough
- queations. _ Mr. Justice Allan McEachern's ruling
- that the act involved criminal, not healtli,
legislation bears out the opinion of the
B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which
has been makiag just that argument
- since August 1977 and helped to bring the
court qction. Theproyincial government may appeal
the deciaion, and Attorney-Gen'eral
Garde Gardom is apparently looldng f nto
that possibility. Bnt in the meantime Mr.
McClelland must try to rationglize the
9pending of huge amounts of public
- money (an eatiimated $8 million by the
end of th is year) on a program that had
long beeri pinpointed by a varled body of
private pmfessionals as doomed to exact-
ly the fate it met. Had Mr. McClelland really cared to
intrnduce a prngram that had a chande of
surviving he might well have taken the
hint given to him by the previous federal
government. After a meeting -wtth
provincial officials that involved discus-
sion of the heroin plan, former justice
minirter Ron Baaford pmvided in lus pro-
posed amendmeats to the Crlminal Code
fo'r court-ordered treatanent for addlcts'
who had consented to treatment. That
was clearly a statement of the govern-
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a
ment's desires, and Mr. McClelland
ch.ose to ignore it. .
The health minioer ha8;argued that no
harm is done by the Supreme Court deci-
sion because only t,he voluntary aapecta
of the prograz~ have been put iato use.
Does Mr. bdeClelland forget that wheea h.9
introduced the program he justiged the
comPulsory " et on the grnund tbat no,
voluntary pr tn; ha$ qeen succe'ssful?
If Mr. MeClelland puehed ahead wlth his
Pro6raro JA pedek:$p VriurvoJe4 irom a
pubUc ci6e*reddrug nbt�i, as
has been w~ " he caa only look con-
fused a~d short4loftil by revereing his
argumente nbw." Although it ngght hsve been preferable
to have h04 rWlipS oq compulsory
addicdon titiaiment aa a civil or human
rights issui, Mr. Ju:tice McEachern'a
deciaion doeB not rule out the posaibility
of federal compulsorq programs to treat
hemin addicts. That is exactly what Mr.
McClelland ltas eaid he:wiIl push for dur-
ing his vlsit to Ottawa. Justice. Miniater Jaeques Flynn, by
suggesting hia own verdon of the Liberal
plan to coanmit only addicts who consent
to treatment, appears to be no more en-
thuslaetic. alaout compulsory treatment
then wae.Mr.` BaeicW. It is an eminently
reasonable ataad: there is no simple aolu-
tion to the comple*tiee of the social and
legal prole}as cruted by drug addic- tion.Witiii Mr. MeClelland's recent prat-
fall as an example, few pollticians or gov-
ernments are likely to pretend otherwise.
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CANADA
:
RESULTS OF RCMP'S EIGHT-MONTH DRUG PROBE OUTLINED
Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION in English 6 Oct 79 p 5
[Article by John Marshall]
[Text]
Two Royai Canadian
Mounted Police officers
ended eighC months under
cover in Metro ToronW last
week. And as a result, 86
peopie have been charged
with drug trafficking of-
fences.
Warrants have been is-
sued for 27 more.
The operation, which
included a surveillance
`gm of about 10 other oHi-
cers from the RCMP Tot-on-
to drug section,concentrat-
ed on street pushers, the
bottom level of the illicit
drug market.
That is a shift from re-
cent practice in which the
RCMP concentrated on
major traffickers and the
middlemen, and muncipal
police went after the street
retailers and users.
Police seized 31 grams of
heroin, 317 of cocaine, 517 of
speed (methamphetamine),
146 of PCP (phencyclidine,
a hallucinogenic anesthet-
ic), 1,931 of hash oil, 563 of
hash, 18 pounds of marijua-
na, 8,555 hits of LSD and
5,057 of bennies (varlous
kinds of stimulants).
Ii they were all sold at
retail street prices, they
could have bmught in about
$120,000, the police say.
Inspector Will Stefureak,
officer in charge of the
Toronto drug secUon, said
the 66 persons charged have
been brought befom the
courts for remands" siitwy
and in small graupe over
thepast week. They face a
totaf of about 130 counts, 31
of them concerning canna-
bis derlvatives (marljuana,
hashlsh and hashish oil), 26
fQr speed, 25 for LSD,18 tor
hetbW, 17 for cocaine, 8
PCP, 9 for morphine. 2 for
codeine and 2 for bennies.
Inspecior Stefureak will
not name the tao underdov-
er men ("now cleaned;uP
and off the street") iuiles.g
they are required to appear
in the courts.
He said they had been in
the force five or. eight years
aad had had prevfous expe-
rience in dnig investiga
tlons.
Most. of the accused are
young, 45 of them no dIder
than 25. Only six are more
than 30. But only five are in
their teens. Thirteen of
them are women. The small Involvement of
heroin in the undercover
dealing is a retlection ot the
generally !ow level of use in
Toronto. On the other hand,
cocaine, only a few yelirs
ago comparatively uncom-
mon in the city, has been
increasing in popularity,
InspecWr Stefureak said
the duration and exterit of
the operation is unique ior
one against street dealers.
Ita main objectives, Qe
said, were W defer street
trading and W drawpublic
attention to tlfe slze of drug-
selling activitles in ToronW.
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CANADA
MINOR DRUG CONVICTIONS REPORTED DECLINING
Ottawa THE WEEKEND CITIZEN in English 13 Oct 79 p 17
[Text]
Convictions for marijua-
na and hashish possession
dropped last year, possibly
because enforcement stres-.
sed the more serious traf-.
6cking and importation of
the drugs, the health de-
partment says.
A department release
said convictions for canna-
bis offences reported by
enforcement agencies to
thG federal bureau of dan-
gerous drugs dropped 16
per cent to 31,718.
The _majority of cases
are for simple possession
of the drug, a depanment
spokesman indicated.
The decrease "may re-
flect enforcement trends in
which priority ia given to
the offences of trafficking
and imporiation,'." 'the de-
partment said.
Nearly onathird of 646
convictions related to
opiates and similar drugs
show users and traffickers
are obtaining their drugs
from legai sources,
known usera of illicit drugs
increased 6.2 per ant to
18,389. Heroin users mee
1.3 per oaat to 11,435.
. Reporttd eocaine users
increased 20 per cent to
2,155, coatinuing an
upward that which, began
in 1972, the dapattment
said. ,
Known users of the che-
mical PCP rose 16 per
cxnt to 2,184.
The department also re-
ported a 38-per-cent drop
to 685 in' the number of
known ~ users of halluci-
nogenic drugs.
CSO: 5320
Last year, 236 convic-
tions involved theft, forge-
ry and manipulation to
obtain cxrtain drugs.
Late last year, bweau
director T. Reid McKim
said users and traffickers
penelratod mcdical chan-
nels for narcotics and
drup controlled through
prescriptions.
Tactict described by
McKim inclnde:
� Impersonating physic,
ians when telephoning
prescription orders.
� Forging medical pres-
cription fortns.
� Persuading physicians
to write prescriptions by
faldutg illness.
� Donble-doctoring, or
visiting several doctors to
obtain prescriptions using
methods mentioned:
The convictions reportod
are related to the illicit
use of inedical drugs such
as hydromorphone, a fa-
vorite heroin substitufe,
and ox+ycodone, similar to
morphine drugs.
Other figures show the
number of 'generally
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ECUADOR
QUESTIONS SURROUND MURDER OF INTERPOL AGENT
Guayaquil VISTAZO in Spanish 5 Oct 79 pp 100-102, 104-106, 108 -
[Article: "The Mafia"]
[Text] A dull silence has surrounded the bloody event that occurred on
the skating rink of the Policentro during the night of 25 September, wher ~
Captain Marco Narvaez and the drug trafficker, Jorge Gonzalo Mori Luzuriaga,
were shot down. Also, Vicente Mori T;uzuriaga was wounded and is being
treated at the Kennedy Clinic.
The Policentro shooting produced an impressive flow of commentaries,
versions, and rumors--completely confusing the case. There are many interro-
gators and the information 3ssued by Interpol contains areas of obscurity
- that should be clarified. At the same time, Dr. Walter Mori Luzuriaga, -
- acting as spokesman for the large family from Catacocha, Loja Province,
said that 3.t was a question of revenge and retaliation on the part of
Interpol agents.
- He hinted that his brother, Jorge Gonzalo Mori, years before had been an
"Interpol" agent and that in the course of his activities, he had succeeded
in exposing an agent in the city of Lo3a who was engaged in the trafficking
- of drugs. This agent, a police off3cer whose name was not given, is said to
- have been a companion at the Interpol Police Academy and is said to have
been condemned for that reason. This version does not stand up, since the
data are disconnected and are not very specific. -
In an interview on Guayaquil TV channel 2 he said that his brother, Jaime
Mori, had been subjected to beatings and torture by the police, and that he
feared for his life. The next day the Guayas police superintendent, himaelf,
lawyer Abdalah Bucaraim, countered the verbal attack by charging that the
Moris wanted to win publ.ic sympathy and that what was actually happening.was
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He insinuated that he had tried to cut his veins with a razor blade. In
addition, the Guayas superintendent of police emphatically stated that the
investigation that they were carrying out included sectors of the police
institution,and that if any corruption is detected with respect to thoae in _
uniform, they would be forced to leave their jobs.
The Economic Entanglement of the Luzuriagas
There is not the slightest doubt that the matter hinges on an economic enigma.
A confidential investigation disclosed that Vicente Mori had negotiated the
purchase of the modern and luxurious skating rink and a"boutique" for
- the "Marmoriza Limitada" firm for the considerable sum of 20 million sucres. `
Exactly 3.5 million sucres had been advanced on behalf of the Policentro
enterprise. Prior to starting the negotiation, its directors had obtained
_ economi.c reports from three important banks in Guayaquil.
The confidential reports were all positive: the Mori family could meet its -
obligations. They were also trying to arrange the best possible terms for
a mortgage through a bank. But it was not possible to conclude this nego-
tiation, because of a temporary reduction in the operations of the local _
banks. The Moris were short of cash. That is why they owed the architect
who did the preliminary work on the rink some money. -
At the same time, Mrs. Luzuriaga de Mori, mother of the implicated persons,
was allegedly acquiring a second "boutique" in the Policentro; the details
of the purchase are unknown, but it is believed that the negotiation was
completed.
- The question is: How did the Mori family, originally from Catacocha, a large
family of modest origin, succeed in a few years to elevate its economic
standing to the point of having sufficient means to negotiate properties on
the order of eight figures?
Another detail that might lead the investigators to the solution of some
unknown quantities resides in the fact that no member of the Mori family
appears on the Ministry of Finance's list of taxpayers. Neither does the
"Marmoriza Limitada" enterprise appear on the Public Finance lists of
income taxpayers.
Dangerous Missions
An Exceptional Police Chief Shot Down
The tragic death of Captain Narvaez, who has been accorded the highest
"post mortem" police rank, has made a deep impression on the nation. Captain
Narvaez served in the Guayas government since 10 August 1979, that is, from
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i;
the day of the advent of the constitutional government. During the first
month of service his impressive professional zeal and proper performance
drew the attention of the sectional authorities.
He was a highly qualified officer and had been trained to handle dangerous
missions. His "curriculum" manifested high professional marka and he had
_ special training courses in several countries. It has been unofficially
indicated that he enjoyed the trust of the renowned United States Narcotics
Bureau, and he was trusted by international police organizations that are
engaged in the fight against the trafficking of drugs.
From what it has been possible to establish, he had initiated a secret
investigation to determine the degree of "integrity" existing in the Guayas
Interpol and had succeeded in identifying abnormalities and in detecting
significant international connections. These are reasonable conjectures
that were made known to VISTAZO by semiofficial governmental sources.
Nevertheless, there is the following question: Why did an Interpol officer
like Captain Narvaez, who had oeen deputy chief of the anti-drugs unit for
2 weeks,go with very little protection to an appointment with a prisoner
(Jorge Gonzalo Mori) at a place that became a mortal trap for him?
Why was Interpol agent Teofilo Ordonez unarmed, and wh3 did he tell his
superiors that he could not defend his captain because he had lost his
revolver during the skating rink incident?
Who were the persons who were with Vicente Mori in the office of the skating
rink?
Drugs, Multimillion Business
A frightening escalation in the trafficking of narcotics has been noted in
recent months along the Ecu3dorean coast, especially iiz the provinces of
Loj a, E1 Oro, and Guayas, known as "the cocAfne route." "The Ecuadorean
Connection" is already a fact--not just a movie title. The reasons are the
result of the mortal war that was begun by the Colombian government againat
the leftist guerrillas, whose source of revenue and economic level of living
resided precisely in the cultivation and "exportafiion" to the United Statea
of enormous quantities of marihuana and cocaine. The Bogota government,
under pressure from Washington, has undertaken a total war against those
groups of guerrilla exporters of drugs, and recently it has been observed
that there have been displacements of drug buyers from Colombia to Ecuador,
according to confidential raports.
Apparently there are five groups of powerful drug traffickers with good
connections that are operating in our country. From confidential reporta,
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it seems that one of those groups was formed by Vicente and Jaime Mori
Luzuriago. The names of the members of the gang are not known. There
possibly are various women couriers, charged with transporting drugs to the
lucrative United States market.
What happened to the 10 kilos of cocaine that Captain Narvaez was looking
for? According to official reports, only 200 grams were confiscated. The
value on the foreign market for 10 kilograms of cocaine is about 4 million
dollars.
A great deal of money, too much money. And we of course know that money,
with its influence and corruption, bends the strongest of spirits.
Whad had the unfortunate Marco Narvaez succeeded in discovering?
Was he killed because he lcnew too much and because he remained honest?
The public deserves a full answer to this bloody mystery.
_ The Shooting
The closest point of reference with regard to establishing how the shots
between tYce Interpol agents and the drug traffickers in the Guyayquil Poli-
centro ca.me about is related to the arrest of the drug trafficker, Luis
Marotto Fuentes, at noon on Sunday, 23 September, at kilometer 7 on the
- Duran-Tambo road. This drug trafficker was an escapee from the Bahia jail
and was captured by agents Adolfo Luna Peralta and Teofilo Ordonez Villacres
on their return from the E1 Triunfo parish subsequent to carrying out a
- mission connected with the trafficking of drugs.
Behind the Skating Rink
In a jail cell, and upon being investigated by the Interpol agents, Marotto
acknowledged his drug delivery "contacts" and indicated that he worked
closely with one of the Mori brothers. In ths meantime, the agents found
out about an odd thing that was taking place in the Litorr1l Penitentiary.
Drug trafficker .daime Leona-rda Mori Luzuriaga, a prisoner who has been
serving an 8-year sentence since 1976, was regularly leaving the prison
enclosure in a blue truck which he owned and going to his residence where
he had his lunch at about 1400 hours, to then return to the prison. He did
all of this without any difficulty, making use of a special permit grattted
by the penal administrative office. Since Marotto's arrest, the Interpol
agents, on the order of deputy chief Captain Marco Alonso Narvaez Camacho,
himself, carefully kept track of Mori. On Monday, 24 September, Jaime Mori
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arrived at his residence as usual. The Interpol agents saw some persons
- inside Mori's house and also saw that sameone was running out of the rear of
the house which is under construction. Under these circumstances, the
agents decided to enter Mori's house. At the end of their search--which
included the discovery of a scale and part of a laboratory to process drugs--
the agents found two "pies" under some boards where the construction was
taking place. Each "pie" contained 100 grams of cocaine paste. Then they
immediately proceeded to arrest Jaime and Jorge Gonzalo Mori.
Once the Mori brothers were arrested, an investigation was initiated, at
which time it was learned that Jorge Gonzalo rYori on Monday, 24 September,
made his most recent drug delivery to his brother, Vicente, at the "Marmoriza"
premises in the Guayaquil Policentro. It was established that that drug
was camouflaged and put in sacks containing peanuts.
_ The Drug Traffickers Are Surrounded
A few minutes before 2000 hours on Tuesday night, 25 September, the following
arrived at the Policentro: Captain Narvaez, agents Adolfo Luna, Bienvenido
Sanchez, and Teofilo Ordonez, accompanied also by Jorge Gonzalo Mori.
According to agent Teofilo Ordonez Villacres's version, the following
occurred. The ones who entered the "Marmoriza" were Captain Narvaez; the
prisoner, Jorge Mori; and Ordonez, himaelf. Agents Luna and Sanchez guarded
the front and rear doors. Inside the skating rink, which is in the lower
part of the premises, the three went up the winding staircase that leads to
the upper �loor. They went to an office in which were Vicente Mori and some
- other persons whose identities have not yet been ascertained.
The Brother's Denunciation
' After the agents identified themselves as members of Interpol, Jorge Mori
told his brother, Vicente, to hand over the 10 kilos of cocaine that he had
brought to that same office the previous Monday, fox which he and his brother,
Jaime, had received 20,000 sucres. According to Ordonez's account, Vicente
Mori, astonished, said to Jorge Mori: "You're doing this to your brother!"
as he took a few steps and quickly took a revolver from one of the drawers
of his desk. He shot in the direction of Captain Narvaez, who bent over to
proctect himself.
As soon as the shooting began, the other persons who were there disarmed
agent Ordonez, but the latter succeeded in escaping by forcibly breaking
away from the hands that were holding him. He quickly went down the stairs,
followed by other persons who tried to overcome him, crossed the entire
courtyard of the Policentro, took a taxi, and went to the SIC [Criminal
Intelligence Service] police station to ask for help. The ordonez version
_ ends by saying that when he returned to the Policentro with police assistance,
~ Captain Narvaez and Vicente Mori were alreadp wounded and Jorge Mori was
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Uncertai.nty Concerning the Shooting
The other agents who were guarding the front and rear doors did not contri-
bute further details conceming what might have happened at the shooting,
since they were not on the spot. Agent Adolfo Luna's contribution was that
he grabbed Vicente Mori while he was trying to flee through the inside cor-
ridors of the Policentro, after breaking a glass door. Mori was already
wounded when he tried to escape.
After the shooting, Captain Narvaez was seen leaving the "Marmoriza"
premises. He was bent over with intense pain, the result of four bullet
wounds. As he was being helped by the agents, the captain lost a great
deal of blood and became increasingly weaker.
Interpol: Vicente Mori Rilled Sis Brother Because He Was An "Informer"
Up to now it is not precisely known how the events occurred, but several
versions, same contradictory, have been advanced. For example, the day
after the events, the Interpol issued its report, according to which it was
Vicente Mori who allegedly shot his brother, Jorge Gonzalo, having accused
- him of being an "informer" because the brother had denounced him to the
police.
PHOTO CAPTIONS
1. p 106. Vicente Agustin Mori Luzuriaga was the most prosperous member
of his family. He was wounded and up to now has not disclosed
anything.
- 2. p 106. The Mori Boutique, managed by the Mori sisters, also involved in
drug trafficking.
3. p 108. Carlo Backhaus, director general of INMOTEC, the administrative
firm of the Policentro, says that they will terminate the
- "Marmoriza" contract. [Photo not reproduced.]
8255
CSO: 5300
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ECUADOR
AGENTS ARREST COCAINE TRAFFICKER
- Guayaquil EL UNIVERSO in Spanish 21 Sep 79 p 18
_ [Text] The local Interpol office announced yesterday that its agents had
_ arrested Vicente Guillermo Leon Zuniga, member of a band of drug traf-
fickers.
_ According to this information, Interpol agents became suspicious when they
noticed a very nervous individual traveling from Guayaquil to E1 Oro by
interprovince transport. After searching him, they found 338 grams of co-
caine paste. He was arrested and brought to the local Interpol office.
On geing questioned, the suspect revealed that he had obtained the drug in
Huaquillas, and gave the name of the seller, whose identity is being with-
_ held for investigative reasons, and who is being sought by Interpol.
Other t4embers of Bank Being Sought
It was reported that Leon Zuniga is part of a bank of drug traffickers whose
members are being sought in various parts of the country.
The suspect will be handed over to the "Sala de Sorteos" Selection
chamber] of the Superior Court of Justi.ce, so that a decision can be made
on where to try the drug trafficking case.
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ECUADOR
0,., .
BRIEFS
INTERPOL DRUG TRAFFICKING--Guayaquil, 20 September--The National Police be- gan an investigation here to determine whether there has been complicity
on the part of local Irterpol agents in drug traffic king. According to
a story published today by EL TELEGRAFO, the leading Uruguayan newspaper,
there have been six pulice officers removed from their positions so far,
- with investigations continuing. These men, according to the newspaper, '
assisted in the capture of a band of traffickers in possession of 200 .
kg of pure cocaine. Later, however, the six officers reported the seizure
of only 152 kg. Besides bringing this particular case to light, the news-
paper points out that the investigation represents the first step in a series
of clean-up measures initiated by the police after the establishment of the
new Ecuadorean government. [Text] [Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish
21 Sep 79 p 12-A] 9077 '
CSO: 5300
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MEEXICO
= REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL BORDER MEETING ON DRUGS
_ Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 22 Oct 79 p 1
[Text] Deputy Maria Eugenia Nioreno came out yestierday against the legaliza-
tion of marihuana in the United States, because it would represent a setback
in the binational.efforts being expended against drug abuse.
She made this statement yesterday afternoon, during a press conference held
on the occasion of the opgning today of the Fourth International Border Meet-
ing on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, which will take place from 21 to 24 October.
The deputy and national president of the Youth Integration Centers said that,
- in some parts of the United States, groups of individuals and politicians in
particular have been attempting to legalize marihuana, arguing that "it does
not harm the body." _
She claimed that this situation is a cause for considerable concern, but, for-
tunately, the group is very small, and she is confident that the United States
Gavernment will not waver in the face of the drug abuse problem, which is
one without borders.
She said that this position would be reiterated again during the course of
the international meeting, which will be attended by officials from the neigh-
- boring country and groups with the same interests from the Youth Integration
Centers: namely, those concerned with preventing drug abuse.
Deputy Maria Eugenia Moreno said that the Youth Integration Centers operate
as rivil associations, because they are a community service.
An attempt is made to let individuals with drug abuse problems know that the
members of their town are interested in thein, and will come to their aid -
. without any idea of exercising repression against them.
W'Lth regard to the meeting, she remarked that experts from various ins titu-
_ tions had been invited and that its gurpose was to give the professionals -
and para-professionals from both countries an opportunity to share.informa-
tion on the individv.al socioculturaY, economic and psychological features
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that have affected drug addiction in this area as a public health problem
which has appeared in recent decades and has involved extensive portione
~ of the population.
She said that this situation had prompted the need to adopt measures involv-
ing international cooperation and strategies calling for coordinated action
on the local, regional, national and international level.
She went on to say that there are now facilities for consultation between
Mexico and the United States for solving such complicated problems as those
relating to persons without documentation and drug traffieking. She said:
"We believe that from these binational meetings there can resuZt mechanisms
for consultation between the two governments leading to a solution for the
drug addictiUcL problem."
Peter J. Collumb, head of the Texas Department of Community Affairs, with
headquarters in Austin, Texas, will take part in the meeting, representing
the governor of Texas. Members of some of the 35 Youth Integration Centers =
will take part representing Mexico,.. The Fourth Meetin~ will open at 0900 hours today, at the Civic Center in the
neighboring city of E1 Paso, Texas. _
This morning, Deputy Maria Eugenia Moreno will deliver a message at the open-
ing ceremony for the meeting; and, following a break, the work will begin, and -
will continue all day.
The deputy and president of the National Exeeutive Committee of the Youth
Integration Centers will leave the city after the official opening ceremony.
2909
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MEXICO =
PULICE, NAVY BATTLE COCAINE TRAFFICKERS AT SEA
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 16 Oct 79 p 6
[Text] Mexico City, 15 October--After a heavy gun battle between drug traf-
fickers and forces from the Federal Judicial Police, as well as Navy troops, -
_ on the open sea, a shipment of pure cocaina worth nearly 150 million pesos
was seized and a United States citizen presumed to be a drug trafficker was _
arrested.
- The rest of the drug traffickers managed to escape aboard a besutiful yacht
named "Marauder," which, under cover of maehine gun fire, quickly took shel-
ter in the North American territorial waters north of Ensenada, Baja Cali-
fornia.
According to the repbrt from the Judicial Police, the individual in custodq,
. Steve Curtis Zalabak, was carrying the drugs to a private beach owned by the
_ American Steve Bigler and disguised as a"tourist camp," known as "Cantamar,"
- located at kilometer 45 of the Ti3uana-Ensenada highway.
The Judicial Police intercepted the shipment, which was contained in a light
blue super-van model Ford truck, with California (U.S.) license plates 33510-Y,
and in which they discovered 25 polyethylene bags containing 12.5 kilograms of
pure cocaine;concealed behind wooden paneling in doors, on the floor and in
seats.
- Shortly thereafter, Steve Curtis, aged 34 and a native of Hermosa Beach, Ca-
lifornia, residing at 201 Cooper Avenue, Vista, California, confessed to the origin and destination of the drugs. The purchasers, Steve Bigler and Pat
- Passheim, the latter of whom owns the "Sun Protective Glass Tinting" company, -
were waiting for h3.m on the yacht, anchored off the coast facing the "Canta-
mar" tourist center.
Carlos Aguilar Garza, coordinator of the antidrug campaign in the state of -
California [sic], immediately ordered the arrest of tlleship's crew; but
some accomplice of the latter must.surely have given thein a"tip," because
the yacht took off at full speed for the'open sea, despite the'fact that -
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The Judicial Police sought the aid of the Navy forces detailed to that loca-
_ tion and they gave chase aboard a light vessel; but the advantage that the
yacht "Maraudar" had was considerable and, in addition, the latter's crew
- protected its escape with machine gun fire.
It was 1Earned that Curtis had lived in Puerto Rico for 2 years, and travel-
ed constantly to Peru and other South American countries. In this way, he
managed to make contact with Bigler, a native of Hawaii, with whom he made
some drug deals, delivering the drugs on board his yacht near the dock at -
Mnana Harbor.
Steve Curtis also confessed that he had engaged in sim3lar deals with Pat
Passheim, who has his sun glass business at Redondo Beach, California. He
said that both operated among wealthy Californian businessmen and industrial-
ists, some of whom are located in Ramona, California, who are known to have
_ been his steady customers.
The Judicial Police reported unofficially that the drugs had been purchased
by Curtis in Tijuana, Baja California, from the brothers Carlos and Oscar
Jimenez, who were staying at the Bahia Hotel in that town.
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NOGALES JUDGE SENTENCES LARGE GROUP OF TRAFFICKERS
- Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 19 Oct 79 p 1
[Text] Yesterday, the second district judge of Nogales, Cayetano Hernandez
Valencia, announced that he had passed sentence on 18 persons, the majority -
of whom had been arrested for drug trafficking. The combined sentences ex-
ceed 100 years and, on the other hand, 11 individuals have received an out-
right release, having been acquitted of the crimea with which they were charg-
- ed.
The court's work, involving a study of records, face to face encounters and
- ~ statements, until the verdicts were arrived at, was exhausting during Septem-
ber and October.
Carlos Lopez Espinoza, Jose Aispuro Torres and Armando Esquerra Hernandez
each received a jail sentence of 5 years and 4 months, and a fine of 5,000
pesos. -
Jesus Alberto Betran Gastelum and Celia Rivera Urias received ajail sentence
of l years and a fine of 5,000 pesos.
- Arnoldo W. Valenzuela was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in jail, and given
a fine of 2,>000 pesos.
Juan Vi.lla Parra and Raul Cota Borbon received a sentence of 5 years and 3
months in jail, and a fine of 5,000 pesos. ~ Both Oscar Ramon Robles Valenzuela and Jose Luis Gutierrea Lopez were sentenc-
ed to 5 years and 6 months in jail, and given a fine of 5,000 pesos.
Jesus Samaniego Rubio and Esteban Arroyo Varela received a sentence of 6 years
_ in jail and a fine of 10,000 pesos.
Er?nesto Palomque Alzalde was sentenced'to 6 years in 3ai1 and fined 5,000 pe-
sos; Victor Monreal Sanchez*received 5 yeara in 3ai1 and a fine of 10,000
pesos; Ismsiel I, Argueiles was sentenced'to 6 yeara and 4 months*in jail and
_ fined 5,000 pesos; Fausto Flores Rochfit was sentenced to 7 years and 4 months �
in 3ail and fined 5,000 pesos; and Netzahualcoyotl Flores Salgada and Pablo -
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Leon Varela were both sentenced to 1 year in jail and given a fine of 1,000
pesos.
Jesus Samaniego Rubio was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in 3ai1 and fin-
- ed 10,000 pesos; Octavio Rodriguez was given a sentence of 4 years in jail -
and a fine of 5,000 pesos; and Marcelino Gamez Valencia was sentcnr_=-;[ to i
year and 6 months in jail and fined 5,000 pesos.
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MEXICO
' RURAL POLICE INVOLVED IN TRAFFICKING RELEASED
- H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 19 Oct 79 p 10
[Text] Last night, four former members of the State Rural Police were releas- ;
eu after having spent over 24 months in jail for being implicated in drug
traffickiizg, an activity which they had also concealed on a large scale.
Those released last night are members of the large group of Rural Police ar-
rested by tlie Federal Judicial Police following a gun battle among them for
control of the drug traffic going on from the southern part of the country
to the United States, using the various communications routes in Tamaulipas.
The former Rura? Police members freed last night are Rufino Obregon Villa,
Narciso Reyna Ruiz, Lorenzo Reynosa Gutierrez and Jesus Lnpez Galvan, who
were behind bars for slightly over 22 months, after the notorious incident
wherein it was discovered that the State Rural Police as a whole were impli-
cated in drug traFficking.
The last of the Rural Police remaining in prison in this town left the prison
_ at about 2030 hours last night, following the arrival, a half an hour earlier,
of a telegram sent to the administration of the municipal 3ai1 by the second
district judge of Nue4o Laredo, who heard that scandalous case.
The notice from the district judge stated that the four aforementioned Rural
Police members had received an acquittal, and were therefore to be released
immediately.
It also stated that the released individuals would have to appear within 5
- days before the second district judge of Nuevo Laredo, Luis Garcia Romero,
who would officially inform them of the'ruling issued yesterday, Thursdaq.
Seven other members of the Rural Police were released over a yeaY ago, after
they filed for and obtained pardons on different dates. The'only ones remain-
ing incarcerated were Rufino Obregon Villa, Narciso Reyna Ruiz, Lorenzo Rey=
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Among the first to be arrested was Raul Salinas, the son of Raul Salinas
Gracia, head of the State Rural Police.
Background of the Case
It was in October 1978 that two groups of the State Rural Police were discover-
ed at dawn on the local road in E1 Barretal engaged in a gun battle, while
one of those groups was guarding a large truck containing several tons of
marihuana.
That group of Rura'1 Police was headed by Rau1 Salinas, who was seriously wound-
ed in the shoot-out, along with other persons.
T'he Federal Judicial Police subsequently intervened, and made a total of 11
arrests. It was explained that both State Rural Police groups were in con-
tact with powerful drug traffickers, whom they allowed free passage for trans-
porting the harmful grass; and, at times, they themselves guarded the drugs
so as to prevent other police entities fram halting the shipments.
On the day of the conflict, there was some confusion, and one of the State
Rural Police groups thought that those watching over-the large drug shipmenr_
were not in on the "fix," and, following discussions, the gun battle occurred.
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SHOOTING PROMPTS DRUG PROBE, BRIBERY RUMORED
Arrest Reveals Drugs
H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 4 Oct 79 p 16
[Text] Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas--Another drug trafficking ring has apparent-
ly fallen into the hands of the police with the arrest of an individual who
had participated a few moments earlier in a gun battle in the municipality of
San Fernando and, upon being arrested, was found to have a package of mari-
huana joints in his possession. Moreover, upon being questioned, he identi-
fied some purchasers, and is therefore being intensively queried about the
drug traffic.
Shortly after 0100 hours yesterday, Leonardo Torres Hernandez was intercepted
at the intersection of Lopez Portillo and Ciudad Victoria highways, after the
- San Fernando authorities had reported that several individuals were tteading
in that direction after Saul Cantu Garcia was seriously wounded for unknown
= reasons. They noted that these were dangerous persons, because they were
going about well supplied with high-powered weapons.
Upon being arrested in a 1971 Ford car with Texas license plates EUQ-692,
Leonardo Torres did not put up any resistance. He was not carrying any
weapons, but he was found to have 20 joints and a bag of marihuana inside
his car. In his defense, he said that he was taking the car to a lady with
the surname Grimaldo, claiming that he knew nothing about the marihuana.
When questioned, he said that the leader was Arma.ndo Grimaldo who had wounded
Saul Cantu in San Fernaado for unknown reasons, and that he had ordered him
to deli.ver the car to his sister, whom he only knew by the surname Grimaldo.
The police inspector, Joel Garcia Chapa, left with the prisoner for San Fer-
nando, because he had claimed'that there was more marihuana in his res3dence
there. For this reason, fie is presumed'to belong to,an organized.r3ng.traf- -
ficking in drugs on a large �cale. He also identified several small-acale purchasers in this aunicipality who
are their customers, particularly one named Juanito, who lives near the
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Federal Licentiate Adolfo Lopez Mateos Secondary School, as well as others
whose names the police have and who are expected to be arrested at any mo-
ment.
He also named mang well-known farmers in this locality, but it is not known
wh.y he mentioned them by name; although he did say that he had worked with -
them and that they migfit fielp fiim to get out of jail.
As for Armando Grimaldo, he was claimed to be very well known in this town,
because he apparently resided on Zaragoza Street, and was engaged in the
- small-scale sale of curios, in a.idition to the fact that he has a record as
an addict.
The investigation is under way, and hence many surprises are anticipated if
there is no interference to prevent the probe; inasmuch as well known per-
sonages from the area may be implicated therein.
The Wounded Individual Ts Tn Serious Condition at a Matamoros Clinic 'Furthermore, the wounded man, Saul Canti Garcia, aged 25, is in rather seri-
ous condition, confined in the San Vicente Clinci in Matamoros, where he was
taken from San Fernando by relatives in a priWate vehicle.
Cantu Garcia received a bullet wound in the le.ft side from Armando Grimaldo,
a resident of Valle Hermoso who is at large.
The incident occurred at about 0900 hours, inside the Los Bohemios bar,
where both the victim and the individual who shot him were drinking alco-
holic beverages with some friends of the latter.
The wounded man resides at No 25] Iturbide y Ruiz Cortines Street, in San
" Fernando. Upon being questioned by police authorities, he said that he did
not know the person who had shut him, and he also denied knowing the reasons
that the latter had for doing so. Police Bribe Hinted
H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 5 Oct 79 p 10
[Text] Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas--Strong infliience was exerted to make the
police i:nspector, Joel Garcia Chapa, give up the investigation concerning a .
ring of drug traffickers and another group of assailants; and it was claimed
very discreetly tfiat he fiad rec6ived'a large sum of money to let everything
be dropped.
The foregoing was learned'..in a highly eonfidential manner, but it was claimed
that the facts would be exposed in time. .
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The great deployment of police, the ostentatious use of long-barreled, high-
powered weapons, the shouting and the desire for notorie+ty of Police Inspec-
tor Joel Garcia Chapa were all merely "empty talk," beeause it turned out
yesterday that none of it is true, and that no one succeeded in arresting
those who have been identified as being impltcated in both the drug traffic
and a ring of assailants.
Neither marihuana purcfiasers nor cfiannels for the latter, nor producers of
that grass, and no purchasers of inhalants either, appeared anywhere. It is
all highly suspictous, because everyone already knows tr,at Police Inspector
Joel Garcia Chapa likes to boast of the reputation of being presumed ~:o be
working when he is faced witfi cases such as the foregoing.
Leonardo Torres, arrested by the'preventive police with marihuana, knows a
great deal about tfie drug traffic.
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_1
_ ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH EASED, THEN INTENSIFIED
Battle Deemed Successful
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 27 Sep 79 p 7
[Text] The intensification of activites related to the battle against the
drug traffic in the southern part of the state has ended, after the destruc-
tion of 2,150 marihuana plantations over an expanse of land totaling 461,475
square meters, which would have brought the traffickers nearly 13.8 billion
pesos.
This report was made by Cruz Lopez Garza, coordinator for Zone 06 of the per-
manent campaign against the drug traffic that the Office of the Attorney Gen-
eral of Justice has established; noting that false accusations had been made
that seasonal corn plantations throughout the entire region had been fumigated.
_ Lopez Garza remarked: "Actually, we had to fumigate two carn fields, blit fihis
was due to the fact that the marihuana had been planted in an interspersed
, manner, and those plantations were in the mountains, where there is no con-
trol af any kind for learning the name of the owner, since no agricu'Ltural
group has registered that land."
The Zone 06 coordinator said: "The entire southern area was cotabed both by
air and land, because in every operation that we conduct, we always have the :
backing of the Mexican Army forces, either through the Condor Task Force, or
those of the 9th Military Zone, such as in this instance, when we were aided
by forces,from the 8th Infantry Battalion detailed to Mazatlan." :
Lopez Garcia commented: "All the plantations in this zone have apparently .
been exterminated, and therefore Fre shall soon start working in another part
of the state; but we sfia11 continue to make reconnaissanee flights, to pre-
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Resumption in Zone 06
Culiacan EL SOL DE STNALOA in Spanish 2 Oct 79 p 5
[Text] The 37 sectors into wh3.ch Zone 06 of the permanent campaign against
drug trafficking is divided, over an area of 150,000 square kilometers, will
be inspected again in the air searches made by forces from the Office of the
Attorney General of Justice.
For this purpose, the most important bases in that zone are: Choix, San Jose
del Llano, Culiacan, Mazatlan, San Ignacio and Cosala, in Sinaloa; Topia, in
Durango, and Guadalupe and Calvo, in Chihuahua, from which the activity to
counter this scourge of society will be reintensified.
This announcement was made by the director of coordination, Cruz Lopez Garza,
who also reported on the activities carried out during September, when 109
arrests were made, as well as seizures of 590 grams of heroin, 6 grams of
- cocaine and 24 grams of hashisfi.
He added that 1,580 kilagrams of op ium gum, 99,455 kilograms of marihuana,
1 kilogram of seed of that same grass and 5,600 kilograms of poppy seed had
also been confiscated; in addition to 11 short-barreled weapons (pistols)
which were taken from those under arrest, as well as Chree long-barreled
weapons and 608 unused rounds of ammunition, plus six vehicles which had
been used for these illegal activities.
As for the work done on destruction using manual and fumigation systems, Lo-
pez Garza told EL SOL DE SINALOA that, in the first instance, 202 marihuana
plantations covering an area of 54,729 square meters had been destrAyed;
and, insofar as poppies were concerned, 217 plantations on an area of 279,291
square meters were destroyed.
The Zone 06 coordinator said that all these activities were, as usual, aided
by the valuable cooperation of the Mexican Army forces, both in the Condor
Task Force and in the 9th Military Zone.
Lopez Garza explained: "And the support that was received for the fumigation
was also sizable. Thanks to it, we succeeded in destroying 1,546 marihuana
plants on an area of 353,975 square meters, and 67 poppy plantations on an
area of 16,050 square meters. Whereas, in the ease of plantati.ons interspersed
with the two types of drugs, six were discovered and destroyed, over an area
_ of 3,650 square meters."
Finally, he said that since the rainy season had now ended, the entire region
included in Zone 96 would be 3nspected again, little by little, to detect
possible plantations; because tfie orders from his superior are not to let
down the effort and endeavor to eradicate this harmful activity.
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MARIHUANA, COCAINE TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED, JAILED
Charges Denied
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 4 Oct 79 Sec B p 3
[Excerpts] Octavio Malacara Garcia, regarded as an important member af a ring -
of drug traffickers who were operating in Donna, Texas, and whom he was sup-
plying with marihuana, cocaine and other types of drugs, flatly denied his
participation in drug smuggling upon appearing to make his preliminary state-
ment hefore the second district judge yesterday. ~
His codefendant, Gilberto Vallar Alvarez, a resident of 3 Encinos Street, Vera- ,
- cruz, also claimed to be dissociated from the drug traffic. '
.
- When interragated, Octavio Malacara admitted to having made many trips to Ve-
racruz to obtain cannabis indica, which he later sold in Donna, Texas. He
- also said that he had purchased moderate amounts of cocaine on other occa-
sions. '
As for Gilberto Vallar, he explained that he had used him as a contact, to
become introduced to drug traffi�kers in Veracruz. This statement was con- .
firmed by the individual in question.
- I Imprisonment Ordered
Nueva Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 6 Oct 79 Sec B p 3
[Text] The second district judge issued a:...writ for official imprisonment
against Octavio Malacara Garcia and Gilberto Vallar Alvarez= as individuals
presumed guilty of committing a crime against health in the degrees of mari- "
huana possession and trafficking.
. Both had admitted to the. Federal Judicial Police that they were engaged in
drug txafficking.
The Federal Highway Police captured the'pair on 26 September at kilometer
203 of the National Highway. '
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Qctavio Malacara uzas driving a 1973 Ford car, with license plates FQD-882,
and was accompanied by Gilberto Vallar. They were carrying heavy caliber
pistols. A pillowcase filled with marihuana was found under the back seat
- of the car.
When questioned by the Federal Judicial Police, Oetavio Malacara confessed
- that they had intended to use tfie marihuana found on them as a"sample;'for
the purchase and sale of a shipment of 1 ton of cannabis, which was to be
bought in Veracruz and subsequently sold in Donna, Texas. -
- Octavio Malacara Gracia, or Garcia, and Gilberto Vallar Alvarez, who were
_ arrested for having 1,300 grams of marihuana in their possession, cynically
denied their involvement in drug trafficking. Both made theis preliminary
statement to the second district judge yesterday morning.
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- MODERN AIRCRAFT P[iRCHASED FOR ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN
Culi3can EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spznish 8 Oct 79 pp 1, B
[Text] An investment of over 500 million pesos has been arranged by the Of-
fice of the Attorney General of the Republic to reinforce the permanent cam-
paign against drug trafficking, based on its concern over eradicating ttiis
illegal activity in its entirety from the whole national territory.
= The foregoing statement was made by Cruz Lopez Garza, coordinaCor of that
campaign for Zone 06, who notified EL SOL DE SINALOA on an exclusive basis
that 119 aircraft have been purchased for this purpose, two of which will
be of inestimable value from the standpoint of the serviee that they will
- render in performing the task of destroying poppy and marihuana plantations.
He added that the "35 and 25 Lear jets" would have special equipment for mak-
ing reconnaissance flights with the use of the scanner system, which is one
of electro-optical tracking with the use of computers, requiring a specific
= system that was put into operation last year, Qne which cost over 175 mil-
lion pesos.
The subject of our interview went on to say that these two aircraft will be
the basis for the forthcoming operations throughout the republic, owing to
= the fact that their operational capacity is extremely extensive, since they
can cover the country from one end to the other within a very short period
- of time, photographing everything that they encounter on their travels.
The other equipment which will be received, together with the two aforemen-
tioned planes, by 25 October at the latest, consists of a-Bell 111 Ranger and
a Twin Brother with a capacity for 14 persons, which will be used pri-
marily for transporting forces of the Office of the.Attorney General and
from the Army, according to the Zone 06 coordinator.
Finally, Lopez Garza said that the personnel who will be responsible for
crewing the two Lear jet planes, each of which costs an average of 80 million
pesos, are already being trained at NASA, so that they will have the necessary
information.
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LAW OFFERS LENIENCY FOR FIRST OFFENDERS IN JAIL
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 14 Oct 79 p 9 _
- [Text] Estimating that the number of those imprisoned for federal crimes, spe-
cifically that categorized as a crime against health, who may enjoy the bene-
fits granted by the T-aw on Minimal Standards during the next 6 months ranges .
between 150 and 200, the head of the agency of the Federal Public Nlinistry,
Hector Aviles Castillo, stated that this government agency is interested in
helping those who have committed an offense for the first time.
Hence the plan called for both by Aviles Castillo and Gilberto Zazueta Felix,
director of the IRSS [InstitLte of Health and Social Rehabilitation], to
hold constant discussions wherein an attempz wi13. be made, using all possible
- means, to guide the inmates so as to eliminate the trafficking within that -
institution; because if any of them is caught committing illegal acts, he
will nat be able to receive any benefits, and if the reason is different from
the one which caused him to be jailed, tlne penalty will be reimposed, and
the one given him for the new offense will be added to it, according to Aviles
' Castillo.
The federal ofticial declared:."Therefore, the normal activities in which -
- we in the agency engage are aimed at giving us complete documentation on
what is being used against the offender, so that, in this way, we may ascer-
tain which of them have been accused of drug trafficking crimes, and study -
them, so as to help them subsequently, enabZiAg them to receive some benefit."
Aviles Castillo remarked: "Now that the socioeconomic study has been made a
regulation at all times and in all cases, but with an opportunity to help those
who break the laGZS out of ignorance or necessity, our concern is greater; and
we are doing everything possible to enable them to obtain their release, de- _
pending on the circumstances."
- The head of the Federal Public Ministry explained: "And so, in addition to the
- study of the proceedings, there must be a report on why aud under what circum-
stances the individual broke the law, and also whether he did so with a know-
- ledge of the basic facts; and it must also be determined whether it was for
profit or out of necessity."
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Upon being asked about the highest index among the various types of crimes
against health, the agent of the Public Ministry said that, in the first
place, the majority of those incarcerated, nearly all of them, are farmers,
who engaged in planting marihuana; adding: "Those are the only ones whom -
we are IZelping."
Aviles Castillo explained: "And it is very important that this be made per-
f.ectly clear: tfiat those who will receive the benefits of the Law on Minitaal
Standards are those who have been tried or sentenced for the crime of plant-
ing, cultlvating or harvesting marihuana, and in some instances for posses-
sion, if and when the amount is not excessive and also if there has been no
second offense."
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- MINORS CAUGHT WITH VARIOUS DRUGS, WEAPONS
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 9 Oct 79 p 9
[Text] The minors Jose Castro Felix, Angel Serrano Riveros and Carlos Humber- -
to Castrejon Diaz, all 17 years of age, were placed at the disposal of the
Minors Guardianship Council after being captured by forces of the Federal
Judicial Police, who found weapons of different calibers and drugs in their
possession.
The agents of the Federal PubZic Ministry deemed it feasible for the youths
to be turned over to the aforementioned institution, so that they might re-
ceive treatment suitable for their age, and in an attempt to guide them along
the right path; although tfie official admitted that this was rather difficnlt
to achieve in the case of one of them.
Carlos Humberto Castre,jon Diaz is a second-time offender, having been arrest-
ed at the beginning of March with marihuana in his possession.
The items confiscated by the members of the aforementioned policy entity
were the following: a plastic bag containing a brown-colored substance with _
a penetrating odor, appare.ntly heroin, which weighed approximately 470 grams;
anather bag containing a dark brown substance, also with a pervasive odor,
which had the appeaxance of opium gum, weighing about 15 grams; and also a -
package containing grass which is presumed to be marihuana, weighing 75 grams.
The spokesman for the federal office said that they had also seized a preci- ~
sion scale, a 9-millimeter caliber Star pistol, two Browning pistole of the
same caliber, a 30-M1 Universal brand carbine, a loaded magazine far use in
that weapon, as well as r wo other 9-millimeter magazines, also loaded, and
a 1975 green Cheyenne.model Chevrolet pickup truck with license plates TU-
3700. _
The agency of the Federal Public Ministry stated that the youths had been
questioned and confessed to the possession of the items described; and hence
the federal public official decided to place them at the disposal of the Miriors Guardianship Council.
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BRIEFS
COCAINE, PILL TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED--Three drug traffickers who were captured
on 30 March 1978 in Ciudad Reynosa with cocaine and pills in their possession
were sentenced yesterday by the third district judge. Javier Pena Garcia re-
ceived a sentence of 6 years and 6 months in jail for possession of cocaine
and pills; while Juan Manuel Sosa Pineda was sentenced to 5 years and 3
months in jail for the same crime. Jose Hernandez Montelongo was given a
4-year jail sentence for possession of toxie pills. These three individuals
were arrested when they had just completed a"deal" involving 10 ounces of
cocaine. Javier was subsequently relieved of another 250 grams of the same
drug and, when they arrested Juan Manuel, 775 grams of cocaine were found in
his possession. Montelongo was discovered to have 50 grams of the same drug
in his possession. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish
20 Oct 79 Sec B p 3] 2909
- COCAINE SEIZED FROM FOREIGNERS--A Nicaraguan and three Venezuelans who had .
been engaged in cocaine tra.fficking in Monterrey were captured by the Federal
, Judicial Police, together with a couple who were supplying them with the drugs.
On 18 October, the federal agents raided the residence located at No 116 Du-
rango South, in the "Centro" development, and arrested the Nicaraguan Benja-
min Conrado Saavedra, and the Venezuelans Carlos E. Canas, Erick A. Lapreaye-
vara and Hilmer A. Felice, who were found to have 28 grams of cocaine in
their possession. They said that an individual know as Roberto Loza, alias
"La Changa," had sold them the drugs. Also in Monterrey, a warrant issued for the arrest of Hector Gonzalez Trevino was executed. He was wanted for
= attacks on the general communications routes. In Tampieo, Enrique Meraz
Rodriguez was arrested for a crime against health. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo :EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 20 Oct 79 Sec B p�3] 2909 NEW MARIHUANA TRAFFICKING POLICY--The incident went unnoticed, but very re-
liable sources have disclosed that, on the Monday before last, the federal
_ prosecutors, including the coordinator of the'Office of the Attorney General ,
_ of the Republic for the northwest zone, held a meeting.with the inspector
and two commanders of tfie uniformed police. Our sources'reported that the
purpose of this meeting was to issue instructions to the'police chiefs to
the effect that, from now on, any individual who is arrested with marihuana
is to be placed immediately at the disposal of the federal authorities, and
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the Federal Judicial Police will conduct the investigations. Both Maj Flavio
de la Pena Medina and Comdrs Octaviano Ramirez Sanchez and Jose Trinidad Gon-
zalez Perez promised that, henceforth, anyone arrested with marihuana will
not even make a"report," but will be taken to the Federal Palace, where the
forces of Manuel Espindola and Carlos Santibanez will proceed to investigate
him in connection with the drug traffic. The request made by the federal
- prosecutors to the chiefs of the uniformed police resuited from the fact
that the press reported that the latter had arrested someone with marihuana;
and this caused them to be on the alert against those engaged in distribut-
ing drugs in this border port. We hope that this measure will bring pasi-
tive results. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 26
Oct 79 Sec C p 6] 2909
JALALPAN MARIHUANA PLANTATION DESTROYED--Puebla, 10 October--This morning
- Federal Judicial Police agents burnded vast marihuana plantations located
the day before yesterday in the town of Jalalpan. The commander of the po-
lice forces, Rodolfo Calvo Rodriguez, announced that, when reconnaissance
flights were made last weekend, over 8 hectares of the grass were discovered,
and it was subsequently decided to destroy all of them. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo
EL MANANA in Spanish 11 Oct 79 Sec A p 5] 2909
OPIUM TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED--Guadal3jara, Jalisco, 18 October--Four individu-
als who were members of a large drug trafficking ring which came here to make
a sale of 2 kilograms of opium for $50,000 were captured, and part of the
money, as well as drugs, including marihuana, other substances and a scale
. were seized from them. It was learned that some members of the ring succeed-
ed in escaping, but they are being hunted in the areas of the republic where
they may have sought refuge; and they are expected to be caught within a few
days. Those in custody are: Alejandro Marin Rodriguez, Jo$e Refugio Gutier-
rez Delgado, Felix Iniguez Melendez and Juan Manuel Gonzalez Olguin. The
drug sale was about to take place at a hotel near the Truck Station. [Text] -
- [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 20 Oct 79 p 41 2909
HEROIN, MORPHINE TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED--While the third district judge, Andres
Cruz Martinez, issued a verdict of guilty against Raul Villarreal Fernandez -
and Emilio Castaneda Lopez, the second district judge, Luis Garcia Romero
handed down his final decision in the case of Fernando Vazquez Villarreal,
finding him guilty of a crime against health. In proceedings 236/977, brought
against Villarreal Fernandez for the possession of morphine and heroin, and -
' against Castaneda for the transportation of heroin, Cruz Martinez imposed on
the former a sentence of l years in jail, and the latter was given corporal
punishment amounting to 6 years. These two individuals were arrested on 5
October 1977 at the "Embaiadores" farm in Miguel Alemaii, Tamaulipas, after
the Federal .Tudicial Police had caLght Raul with two polyethylene bags con-
taining 900 grams of a brown powder. This person claimed that the individu- -
al responsible �or tfie drugs was Emilio Castaneda, a..resident of Tehuala,
Nayarit. Insofar as Vazquez Villarreal is concerned, this individual was '
given a jail sentence of l years. He wag arrested on 5 January 1979 for the
transportation, possession and supplying of marihuana. He was caught as a ,
result of the confession made by Domingo Casas Alvazado, alias "La Promesa,"
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to the effect that the latter had sold him the marihuana which the Federal
Police confiscated from him. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO
tn Spanish 18 Oct 79 Sec D p 3] 2909
COCAINE TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED--Mexico City, 22 October--Federal Judicial Po-
lice agents, in cooperation with Mexican Arnry forces, captured an interna-
tional drug trafficking ring and confiscated from its members a shipment of
- pure cocaine with a value on the drug black market of over 45 million pesos. -
Santiago Flores Vicencio, Antonio Flores Vicencio, Rafael Garcia Flores, _
" Magdalena Valenzuela Lopez and Andres Lopez Ulloa headed the ring, as did
eight other accomplices. Those under arrest were taken to this capital and
placed at the disposal of the agtnt uf the Federal Public Ministry, to whom
they explained that they had r.eceived the drugs directly from four Colombians -
- who had brought fhem from Bogota, Colombia. They later took them to the
town of Tijuana and delivered them to three North Americans, who were respon-
sible for transporting them to the leading consumption centers in the United
States. They said that, in addition to taking drugs to the United States,
they were engaged in distributing marihuana and toxic pills. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 23 Oct 79 pp 3, 4] 2909
DRUG LABOR.ATORY IN GUADALAJARA--Mexico City--Yesterday, the Federal Judicial
Police broke up an international drug trafficking ring, arresting 13 members _ of it in the city of Guadalajara. An additional 20 members of the gang,
which operates in Colombia, Mexico and the United States, still remain to be
captured. Those arrested for crimes against health were taken from Guadala-
jara to the Federal Judieial Police jail in the Federal District, where they
have been questioned by agents of the Narcotics Group of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Republic. The army took part in the capture of the
criminals, backing up the federal entity. The individuals in custady were
engaged in the purchase, sale, preparation, transportation and distribution
of cocaine, heroin and marihuana, according to an official report from the
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. The areas for their opera- _
tions were located in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Baja Califor-
nia. Some of the drug traffickers who are in jail were captured in Tijuana,
and others were caught in Nuevo Laredo. They were taken from those towns to
Guadalajara. They purchased the drugs in Colombia, particularly the cocaine
- which, together with the heroin, they processed in a clandestine laboratory
which they had establishad in Guadalajara, for subsequent shipmsnt to the -
United States. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 23 Oct 79 p 2] -
2909
- FOUR COCAINE TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT--One photo shows two major drug traffickers,
heads of the ring captured by the Federal Judicial Police of Nogales with a
shipment of 6,300 kilograms of cocaine which was to be removed for sale in
the United States. They are Benito Bejarano and Takeo Matsumoto, who were -
operating in Culiacan. Another photo shows two more of the drug traffickers _
captured by the Federal Judicial Police in Nogales in a large-scale action,
seizing over 7 kilograms of cocaine. They are Arturo Lugo Lugo and Jesus
_ Mares Rivera, the accomplices of Matsumoto and Benito Bejarano. [Text]
[Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALFS in Spanish 20 Oct 79 p 4] 2909
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WEAPONS FOR TRAFFICKERS SEIZED--Over 100 submachine guns, pistols and rifles
which had been smuggled were discovered by Federal Judicial Police agents.
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic stated that these weapons
were to be sent by the drug traffickers to the farmers to use when they are
planting and cultivating marihuana and poppies. These weapons were obviously
brought in from the neighboring country to the north, without any official
declaration to that effect. An agent of the Federal Public Ministry is in-
vestigating this incident and, for reasons of security and so as not to in-
terfere with the probe, the authorities in question have not supplied all
the details concerning this new contraband that arrived in Sinaloa. [Text]
[Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 2 Oct 79 p 41 2909
GAS TANKS"CONCEAL MARIHUANA--Mexico City, 3 October--A couple of smark alecks
took advantage of t1:Q energy shortage in the United States to smuggle marihua-
na, which they shipped in tanks used for-gas for domestic consumption. Forces
of the Federal Judicial Poliee based in 5an Luis Potosi discovered a pickup
truck in the town of Ventura with Texas license plates MN-1696, a 1974 model
loaded witfi "butane gas" cylinders. The truck had already aroused suspicion
because of its constant crossing of the borders between the northern part of
the country and the United States, and they decided to investigate it. The
vehicle was stopped, and its occupants, Arturo Acosta Tizcareno and Guadalu-
pe Luna Sandoval were not upset, because they assumed that the vehicle would
be searched, but never imagined that the cylinders would be opened. In this
way, the Federal Judicial Police found that the traffickers had gut 1,320
kilograms of perfectly compressed marihuana inside of 30 butane gas cylinders
each having a capacity of 30 kilograms. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA
in Spanish 4 Oct 79 p 81 2909
TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT WITH VARIOUS DRUGS--The agents of the Federal Judicial Po-
lice detailed to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, dealt the drug traffic a heavy
blow on Monday, when they arrested four individuals bound for Ciudad Acuna
to deliver some "samples" of cocaine, marihuana and toxic pills, apparently
intending to make a large drug sale. The Public Ministry reported that those
under arrest are Manuel Santos Menchaca, Rosalio Ayala Martinez, Mario Alber-
to de los Santos and the rlexican-Texan Julian Rodriguez. The arrest of the
_ four took place at a gap known as "La Puerta del Golpe," located several ki-
lometers from Ciudad Acuna. They were riding in two pickup trucks, one a
1976 Chevrolet and the other a 1973 Ford, with border license plates. Con-
fiscated from them were a package, containing about 10 grams of marihuana,
a bottle containing a small amount of cocaine and several gla3s bottles with
pills of various brands, as eell as a pipe engraved with a cannabis leaf,
, two packers for making cannabis indica cigarettes and a 22 caliber rifle.
- [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 26 Sep 79 Sec B p 31 2909
POLICE VIOLATIONS DENIED--"My denial is flat, because Federal Judicial Police
forces have never commieted any violation in the area of operations of the _
Condor Task Force; and, furthermore, the only purpose for which that entity
goes to the mountains is to carry out warrants for arrest issued by the Fe- -
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- false." The foregoing statement was made by Cruz Lopez Garza, Zone 06 coor-
dinator of the permanent campaign against drug trafficking, under the Of-
- fice of the Attqrney Generaf of Justice; who explained that no attention
could or should be paid to sucfi rumors, whieh are being circulated by the
news media, because his duty is to obey orders and deal with charges that
- are made to him directly. He added that everything stated publicly cannot
be considered an accusation, because there is no irrefutable evidence much
- less real reasons for seeking to downgrade the entity for the sole purpose
of detracting from the benefits that have accrued to the community since it
ridded the latter from the looting that existed previously. "Hence, we do
not even consider the as.saults on schools, attacks on minors and the whole
string of lies attributed to us. It would be different if they came to
- complain about aome irregular situation that cropped up, because the com-
plaint would be immediately investigated, and the one who caused it would
. be severely punished." Lopez Garza said: �tWe know that many of the statements
- that have aFpeared are made from political motives rather than on the basis
of actual facts; and therefore I am not at all concerned about what might
be attempted in this regard. Hence, I repeat again, emphatically, that I
shall personally deal with any complaint that is made to me in the offices
of the Attorney General of Justice, punishing anyone who dares break the
- entity's discipline." [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 2 Oct 79
p 3] 2909
CSO: 5330
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IRAN
ANTI-ADDICTION CAMF'AIGN OUTLINED
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 23 Sep 79 p 5
[Text] In order to prevent the smuggling of domestic production, the
Ministry of Agriculture increased the price of opium from 10,500 rials to
_ 14,500 rials. The official number of addicts in the country is 163,315 and
they consume 300 to 350 tons of opium aanually. According to uaofficial
_ statistics, there are one million addicts in the country, and the Ministry
of Health considers this figure close to 700,000 peraons. For the last
12 years, the cultivation of opium was permitted in Iran under the euper-
cision of the government in order to spend the revenue on the treatment of
addicts.
- The ever-increasing number of addicts has cauaed alarm in Iran. Prelimi-
nary steps have been taken for general mobilization and a multi-directional
campaign against addiction. For this purpoae, an anti-addiction campaign
staff was establfshed in the Min3stry of Health and actions were taken in
providing the necessary plans. On the other hand, the law prohibiting the
cultivation of opium is suppoeed to be prepared and enforced. Under these
circumstances, the issuance of opium coupons for the suthorized addicts and
= even thoae over 60 was stopped, so that after adequate studies, actions
_ could be taken regarding isauance of new cards.
Preliminary efforts are being made to increase the capacity of hospitals
aad reduce the waiting period, so that the addicts could be perauaded to
stop. In the meantime, the military and disciplinary forces will also be
mobilized to cloae the borders to the smugglers, diacover and prevent the
distribution and consumption of narcotics and do their share in this social
Jehad (holy war) against the biggest blight of the 20th century.
Some time ago, KEYHAN reported and warned that addictinn was epreading to
the youth and that if it wae not stepped as soon as possible, it would
turn into a social crisis very ahortly. At present, the youag addicts use
narcotics freely in the streets and alleys. The traders of "White Death"
have laid their trap in everq street. Under these conditions the country
is losing many youths who are the future hopes of this country and the fami-
- lies have become worried.
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Follawing the publishing of these reports, the Minister of Health and Wel-
fare contacted KEYHAN and announced the establishment of anti-addiction cam-
paign staff and extensive programs for fighting and uprooting addiction. He
also emphasized that one way of fighting addiction ie to destroy the grounds
for production and distribution. Most probably, beginning with next year,
the cultivation of opium will be prohibited and extensive treatment programs
will be implemented.
The Minister of Health and responsible officials of the Anti-Addiction Cam-
paign staff did not disclose the details of the programs they have prepared.
- However, in general it is said that the treatment facilities will be increa-
_ sed for the treatment of the addicts, they would be warned to give up addic-
tion in a specific period of time, and if they do not give up, they will
be sent into exile to islands which have bad climates. There, they would
undergo treatment an3 work at the same time. If their addiction is repeated,
more severe meaeures will be taken. They will be exiled to the islands for
a longer period of time and, finally, the leaders in smuggling and addic-
tion will be executed. This is part of the multi-directional campaign against
addiction. Various phases are being comnleted now. It is said that some
_ islands in the south of Iran are being prepared by experts for this purpose.
The responsible authorities emphasize that in the first place the anti-
addiction campaign will take action through persuading the addicts to give
up their addiction, banning the production and dis=ribution of narcotice,
controlling the borders, and other training programs. If these procedures
were not found effective, harsh decisions will be made especially for
their leaders and those who spread addiction. Cresting self-confidence in
the addicts, destroying the economic and cultural grounds for addiction and
other training programs are included in the first phase of the anti-addic-
tion campaign. This calamity should be uprooted, as much as possible, by
persuasion and without using force. In the following phases, some action
should be taken based on using force so that those addicts who have not given
up their addiction with soft words and persuasion would be separated from
society in order not to turn others into addicts.
Regarding the goals and programs of the anti-addiction campaign staff, the
- minister of health and welfare said: This is a coordination staff for
fighting against addiction and it has been established with various wings
- that are responsible for the anti-addiction campaign. They have started
- extensive activities for providing fundamenCal plans for fighting addiction.
At present, the staff is preparing extensive plans which will be implemented
with decisiveness and legal authorizations. For this reason, all neces-
sary possibilities have been anticipated.
Therefore, the flames of addiction which were hidden under the ashes appeared
after the revolution. The flames should be put out with the mobilization
of the public. It was announced that unauthorized faruers and smugglers of
narcotica would receive capital punishment.
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How to Fight Against Addiction
Those involved in the issue of addiction have concluded that as long as there
are narcotics, treatment of the addicts will not produce a result, and that
if that all Che addicts go to the treatment centera, it will take years--
considering the treatment facilities and the posaibilities for expanding
them--for all addicta in Iran to receive treatment based on the asaumption
that no one would become an addict during that period of time. Putting
the addicts and retail smugglers into prison will not produce any result
but filling up the prisons. So, what is left is a continuous campaign
against all elements involved in smuggling and addiction including the ad-
_ dicts themselves. This may be an extremist view, but the ordinary ways
have shown that without pressure addiction will not be uprooted. Iranian
prisons have always been filled with smugglers in the previous years. In
the f irst 8 months of 1976, 12,000 persons were prosecuted for scruggling
opium.
If we go further back, we will see that in Shahrivar, 1347 [23 August-22 Sep-
tember 1968], more than 5,000 persons were in prisons on the charges of
= smuggling. A comparison between the two statistics show that imprisonment
has produced no result. We will realize how gxeat the danger is if we take
into consideration that the amount of the smuggled goods that are discovered
and the number of smugglers who are caught are between one-twentieth or
one-thirtieth of the true number.
Although there are no official statistics on the number of addicta, some
semi-official statistics estimate that there are about one million addicts
in Iran. The authorities of the Ministry of Health admit that there are
600-700,000 addicts and say that this figure is closer to reality.
According to latest statistics, there were 163,315 authorized addicts in
the month of Tir, 1357 [22 June-22 July 1978]. Since Tir, new cards
have not been issued. They smoke about 300 to 350 tons of opium annually.
The price of government opium during the first year, that is Aban, 1348
[23 Oct-22 Nov 1969] was 17.50 rials, which was increased to 21 rials in
1355 [1976] a gram.
- The maximum amount of opium given to authorized addicts is 5 grams a day.
However, for the first time this year there are not sufficient narcotics
available. The reason is that due to the extraordinary conditions, in the
past several months those who had planted opium refused to deliver the nar-
cotic preparation from opium residue to the government and they smuggled
them to the consumption market. Because of this shortage, the Ministry
of Agriculture has decided to negotiate with those who had planted opitm
and increase the price and to pay 14,500 rials for one kilo of opium. Com-
pared to last year's price at 10,500 rials, this will make a remarkable in-
_ crease.
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~
Cultivation of Opium Poppy in Iran
Although in the recent years there has been a remarkable increase in provid-
ing and preparing narcotics by artificial substances, nature ie still the
- most important resource for narcotics. Most of the specialists in addiction
problems believe that as long as narcotics are planted, it wiil not be pos-
sible to uproot addiction.
- Since long ago, opium, which is the oldest type of narcotics, has been plan-
ted and used. Asia has been the most important area for the cultivation of
poppy and preparation of opium. The Golden Triangle has included Burma,
Laos, Thailand, Eastern Asia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey.
The most j.mportant production centers for opium are located in Western part
of Asia. Until 1334 [1955] opium was planted and used in Iran freely.
That is, even the ruling governments encouraged the consumption of opium
directly and indirectly. However, in 1334 [1955] the ruling government
passed the law prohibiting the cultivation of opium and decided to stop the
- cultivation of this product. The gendarmerie was assigned to discover and
destroy the planted opium.
The law was in effect for about 14 years. However, it was never able ro
uproot the cultivation of opium and during all those years, opium was
planted and prepared illegally. In addition, there was a remarkable in-
crease in the import of opium from neighboring countries. In general,
the factors that led to the regime's failure in fighting with the cultiva-
tion of opium was that the cultivation areas were scattered and the offi-
cials had mcde under-the-table deals with those who had planted opium.
Even the la;4 which was passed in 1338 11959] for increasing the punishment _
of the smugglers did not have any effect in stopping the cultivation and
smuggling of narcoCics and it failed to stop the import of smuggled goods
to Iran. The only thing that it did was to fill up the prisons with
smugglers of small quantities.
- According to statistics presented to the United Nations in 1339 [1960]
within the 6 years that cultivation of opium was prohibited in Iran, the _
- amount of 14,370 kilograms of opium was discovered and seized from smug-
glers. This perhaps shows only one-twentieth of the opium that had been
smuggled into the country. In the same year, Iran`s representative at UN
y Narcotics Campaign Conference announced that Iran sustained a loss of more
than 30 million dollars caused by the prohibition of cultivating opium in
- Iran, and that more than 300,000 Iranian farmers had lost half of their
income.
The published statistics indicate that only in the months af Azar and Dey,
1340 [22 Nov-20 Dec and 22 Dec-20 Jan 19611, 2,411 kilos and 500 grams of
opium, 825 kilos and 500 grams of (narcotic preparation from) opium reai-
due and 2 kilos and 195 grams of burnt opium [low quality] were seized from
smugglers. The total amount of narcotics discovered in 1340 [1961] was up
to 12,983 kilograms.
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The fal.lure in the campaign against the cultivation of opium and the ever�-
increasing smuggling at- opium through the borders compelled the regime to au-
thorize the culkivation of opium once again. A great deal of gold and for-
eign exchange was leaving the country at the time for opium. In Esfand,
1347 [20 Feb-20 Mar 1968] the authorization for the Iimited cultivation of
opium and its export was approved. At that time it was decided that until
- the time that the neighb oring countries are cultivating opium, opium could
b e planted in Iran under the government's supFrvision.
In the end of 1349 [1970] the Organization for Opium Transactions was es-
tablished which was in charge of all works related to the cultivation, har-
= vesting, manipulation of opium, turning it into opium residue, opium and
its distribution to the pharmacies. Based on this project, the Organiza-
tion for Opium Transactions undertook to spend the income from selling opium
_ on the treatment of the addicts.
- Anti-Addiction Government Programs:
- --The establishment of an Anti-Addiction Campaign Staff at the Ministry of
Health.
_ --To increase the treatment facilities for the addicts and reduce tne wait-
- ing period.
--Training the addicts and making them familiar with the consequences/side- "
effects.
--To persuade the addicts to give up their addiction, to provide adequate
possibilities and to determine a deadline. -
--To prohibit the cultivation of apium.
- --To control the borders and prevent the illegal import and distribution
of narcotics.
--T.o make revision in the autnorized coupons of opium and issue new cards.
--To destroy the economic and cultural grounds of addiction.
--Severe and continuous fighting against the brokers and sellers of nar-
' cotics. -
--To send those addicts who do not give up their addiction in the specific
period cf time to exile in islands with bad climates.
- --To exercise severe punishments up to execution for those addicts and `
- b rokers who are not ready to give up their addiction under any circum-
- stanres.
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Statistica on the cultivation area of opium poppy:
1349 (1970) cultivation year 12,000 hectarea =
1355 (1976) " " 221000 " ~ 1357 (1978) " " 17,000 " Narcotic resources:
In �the past, nature was the only source for providing narcotics. However,
- in the recent years chemical laboratories have become a large source for -
the production of narcotics. With the combination of several chemical sub-
= stances all types cf synthetic narcotfcs are made. We can therefore di-
vide the narcotics into two groups: Natural and Synthetic.
Natural Narcotics:
Opium
' Morphine
_ Heroin '
Hydro-morphine ,
Codeine
Cocaine
_ Coca leaves
_ Seeds of nenuphar
_ Hashish
' Pewtyl (sic)
Mushrooms with hallucinogenic substances.
Industrial Narcotics:
~ Dixtromoramid
- Methadone
Normtadon
Pitidine
- Barbitones -
Valium
Librium
- Milton Agnil
Dermiden
Amphetamine
- Combination of Barbitones and Amphetamines =
Last Year's Major Discoveries in 10 Provinces:
Province Opium Heroin Hashish
' Tehran 30 kilos 27 kilos & 178 grams 2,800 kilos
and 245 grams
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_ Province
0 ium
Heroin
Hashish
Gilan
192
kilos
482
grams
-
Khorasan
2,035
"
1
kilo & 143
grams
109 kiloa
Fars
16
"
843
"
-
: Kerman
222
"
97
71 .
Azarbaijan
(East & West) -
3
kilos & 386
grams
1,178 "
Esfahan
-
4
kilos & 315
grams
-
Khuzestan
-
252
Hamadan
126
"
10
kilos
_
Lorestan
Total
2,754
kilos
47
kilos & 696
grams
4,963 kilos &
245 grams.
The above statistics are
from
the report which was presented
to the UN in
1978 by the
Ministry of
Health
and Welfare.
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HOW TURKISH DRUGS REACIi THE FRG
Hamburg STERN in German 18 Oct 79 Pp 72-79, 278-279
[Report by Peter Neuhauser and Gaby Weber: "Quick Death from Turkey"]
[Text] The FRG has become the world's heroin country
No 1. At least 45,000 yoimg people are alrea4y addicted
to drugs, and more than 600 of these will die from
addiction this year. STERN has done some research on
how the lethal drug reaches yotmg people in Germany.
The main suppliers are traders in Turkey.
Duisburg Regional Court, room 201, 1 June 1979, 9 a.m. Among the audience
are four Turks. They are staring at their campatriot in the dock who is
being interrogated about his identity by the presiding judge oP the Third Major Criminal Division. His name is Nusrettin Gunduzhan, he ia kl yeare
old, xas born in the small Anatolian town of Diyarbakir anci for 6 years has
worked as a welder in the FRG. As the judge is about to come to the matter
in hand, the dePendant suddenly pulls a razor blade from his right and cuts
his artery. Employees of the court carry the bledding man out of room 201.
Outside there are a couple of narcotic agents of the Federal Criminal Police
Bureau (BKA) in Wiesbaden who have been summoned as witnesses. While the
Turk is.being bandaged and is receiving an inflzsion on his stretcher, the
BKA agents ask him, "W2~y did you do that?" In broken German, the defendant
replies: Out of fear from the four Turks among the spectators, for if he
should say one word too mar~y he would be a dead man by the time he got out
- of prison, at the latest.
" The event about which Gtimduzhan did not we.nt to make any statement had
- occurred on 14 October 1978, when Duesseldorf police, poeing as Well-heeled
persons interested in heroin, arrested the foreign worker and an accomplice
of his in po;;session oP 3.5 kilograms of heroin at the "Seuzertal" autobehn
parking area near Arasberg.
= Thus heroin to a market value of DM 420,000--as Well aa' the couriers--had
been withdrawn trom circulation, but the men behind it all remained unscathed.
They are in Turkey, a bankrupt country, which Federal Chancellor Schmidt has
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called a"pigsty" but which nevertheless, as an important NATO partner,
receives hun dreds of millions of deutsche marks in financial aid from the
government in Bonn.
_ This same Turkey has become the main supplier of the lethal drug of heroin,
decisively contributing to the FRG becoming the World's heroin country No 1.
Three pieces of statistics demonstrate this:
- In 1970 the police recorded 16,104 offenses against the narcotics laW--
almost all in soft drugss--whereas in 1978 the offenses numbered as many as
_ 42,800-the majority of them in the hard drug of heroin. -
--In 1970 police in the FRG seized half a kilogram of heroin, while in 1979,
already by the end of July, the amount was 117 kilograms.
--While in 1970 a total of 29 persons died of.' hard drugs in the FRG, such
deaths will number more than 600 in 1979.
And almost every time that sizable quantities of the lethal "H" drug are
seized, Turks are involved. In the opinion of BKA narcotic agents, Turks
control 90 percent of the wholesale trade in the FRG. Pnd John Warner, the
head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DF.A), told STERN in Paris:
"Wherever we make a hit, we almost invariably come across Turks." More than
half of the heroin wholesalers nabbe3 in Europe between June and August with
DEA help were Turks.
For centuries the cultivation of poppy has been an important line of business
in Turkey. In addition to painkillers such as morphine and codeine, poppy
also yields heroin. For most of the unimaginably poor peasants in the eastern
part of the country, the illegal sale of poppy to heroin producers since time
irrmiemorial has been the onl} way of makin