JPRS ID: 10092 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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3 November 1981
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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3 November 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
~ARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 51/81)
CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Victoria MP's Say Drug Ring Is Involved in Meat Scandal
- (Greg Wilesmith; ~iE SYD~VEY MORNING HERALD, 12 Sep 81)........... 1
Heroin 'Flood' Expected Following Recent Police Seizures
(Paul Molloy; THE SYDNEY MDRNING HERALD, 17 Sep 81) 3
7.tao Named in Hearing on Narcotics Bureau ~Leaks' to Qark
(THE SY DNEY MORNING HERALD, 25 Sep 81) 5
Royal Commission on Drug Trafficking Hears Testimon3~
(TgiE AUSTRALIAN, 9, 10 Sep 81, T1iE AGE, 16 Sep 81) 6
Passport Racket, by Marsali MacKinnon
Sylvester R~commendations, by Marsali MacKinnon
Continuing Flow of Heroin, by Aileen Berry
WA Opposition Proposes Amendments to Drugs Bill
(ZHE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 9 Sep 81) 9
Netherlands Drug Supply Link Cut With Arrest in Perth
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 12 Sep 81).~ 10
Eleven Arrests, Drugs Seized in North Queen~land Raid
(TEiE COURIER-MAIL, 24 Sep 81) 11
New Drug Legislation Introduced in Victoria Parliament
(THE COURI~R-MAIL, 24 Sep 81) 13
- Drug Offenses Increasing in Queensland, Commission Told
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 24 Sep 81) 14
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Heroin Seized, Four Held; Police Believe Drug Ring Broken
(ZIIE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 19 Sep 81) 15
Briefs
Heroin Case Sentence 17
BURMA
Briefs
Opium Seizure in Moulmein 18
Drugs Suppression in Lashio 18
Opium Sei zure a t Rail S ta tion 18
HONG KUNG
Growing Number of Young Drug Pushers Worries Government
(SOU7.1-I (~iINA MORNING POST, 28 Sep, 1 Oct 81) 19
Narcoti~s Offenses Ib uble, by Olivia Sin
S chool A;i tidrug Camg~a ign
Record Opium Seizure Sends Ztao Men to Jail for 5 Years
(SOUTH C~iINA MORNING POST, 13 Oct 81) 21
N~J ZEALAND
Heroin Hauls in 9 Months Triple Total for All of 1980
(Kaye Calder; EVENING POST, 21 Sep 81y 22
Seizure of Opium in Auckland One of Largest Recorded
(EVENING POST, 22; 25 Aug 81) 23
- Drug Source Unknown
Ttao Arrested Charged
Police Uncover Laboratory Manufacturing Bromo-DMi~
(NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 5 Oct 81) 24
Editorial Stresses Efforts To Stop Drug Trafficking
(;Editorial; PRESS, 15 5ep 81) 25
PAKIS TAN
Narcotics Packing Factory Unearthed
(,KHYBER MAIL, 4 Oct 81) Z7
Briefs
- Bogus Afghan Passports Seiz~d 28
Contraband Goods Seized 28
Drugs Seized Near Peshawar 28
Charas Seizure 29
Karact~i Hastiish Haul 29
Hashish Haul 29
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Karachi Opiiim "rlaul 29
Quetta Opium Haul ~g
PHILIPPINES
Briefs
Cebu Marihuana Far.n Raided 30
Nueva Ecija Marihuana Farm 30
THAILAND
Response to U.S. 'Pressure' on Narcotics Discussed
(Suthichai Yim; NATI4N REVIEW, 2 6ct 81) 31
Woman Arrested With Heroin Enroute to Beijing
(BANGKOK POST, 20 Sep 81) 36
Burma Drug Caravan Clashes With Government Forces
(Subin Khuankaeo; BANGKOK POST, 10 Oct 81) 37
Briefs
Control of Qiemical Flow 39
U.S. Prisoner Exchange 39
Sangkhla Heroin Refinery Raided 39
He ro in Arres ts 40
Drug Financier Arrested 40
Bangkok Heroin Seizure 40
- Opium Dealers Sentenced 40
- Heroin Ilistributors Arrested 40
Marihuana Ring Leaders Sentenced 41 -
Police Link in Seizure 41
Heroin Possession Sentence 41
LATIN AME RI CA
- BO LI VIA
B riefs
Fate of Seized Coca 42
BRAZIL
Cocaine, Marihuana Traffickers Arrested in Jardim Botanico
(0 GLOBO, various dates, 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 9 Sep 81)......... 43
Tip Leads to Arrest
Actor To Explain ~eck
Judge To Ques tion Tra f fi cke rs
Rancher Arrested for Trafficking
TV Technician Denies Involvement
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U.S. Charges Concerning Amazon Region Come as No Surprise
(0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 4 Sep 81) 47
Briefs
Palice Arrest Traffickers 49
Cocsine Seized in Ccrumba 4^
- MEXICO
Briefs
Plane With Marihuana Crashes 50
Helicopters Sent to Tamaulipas 50
Cocaine From G~zco Seized 51
PARAGUAY
- Briefs
_ Drug Traf f ickers 52
VENEZUELA
Briefs
Narcotics Seizure 53
NEAR EAST AND. NOR~i AFRICA
IRAN ~
' Briefs
- Torba t-e Heydariyeh Heroin Seizure 54
Torbat-e Heydariyeh Opium Seizure 54
Shiraz Opium Juice 54
Torbat-e Heydariyeh Brug Dealer 54
Torbat~e Heydariyeh Opium Juice 54
Torbat-e Heydariyeh Opium 54
Shiraz Heroin Seizure 54
Mashhad Heroin Seizure 54
Mashhad Airport Drug Seizure 54
Gachsaran Drug Seizure 54
Opium Juice Haul 55
Mashhad Drug Haul 55
Borazjan Opium Haul 55
- Drug Seizures 55
LEBAN ON
Briefs
Drug 5muggler Arrested 56
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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
LIBERIA
- Security Officer Arrested for Marihuana lheft
(J. N. Elliott; NEW LIBERIAN, 2 Oct 81) 57
WE S T E UROPE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Police Step Up Measures To Combat Heroin Traffic
(STERN, 24 Sep 81) 58
NO RWAY
Country Becoming Major Drug-Smuggling Route to Sweden
(Morten Fyhn; AFTENPOSTEN, 10 Sep 81) 60
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_ Olso Narcotics-Section Police (hief Warns of Drug Situation
(ARBEIDERBLA.~ET, 21 Sep $1) 62
Police Arrest Ten for Smuggling Heroin From Netherlands
(Kathrine Kjelland; ARBEIDERBLADET, 2 Oci 81) 64
Books I7iscuss Youth Drug Environment
(Liv Hegna; AFTENPOSTEN, 21 Sep 81) 66
~ Briefs
Oslo Narcotics Plan Proposed , 68
SWE DEN
Police Begin Nationwide CYackdown on Street Drug Sales
(Per Sjogren; DAGENS NYHETER, 25 Sep 81) 69
TURKEY
Armenians Atlegedly Organize Narcotics Smuggling
(GUNAYDIN, 22 Oct 81) 72
B rie f.s
I~rge Heroin, Hashish Seizures 74
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AUSTRALIA
VICTORIA MP'S SAY DRUG RING IS INVOLVED It~ MEAT SCANDAL
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 12 Sep 81 p 6
[Article by Gre~ Wilesmitii: "Drug Ring Controls Meat, MPs Claim"]
[Excerpts] Two Victorian Liberal MPs claim that an international drug ring is
involved in the meat export substitution racket.
The MPs, Mr Maurice Williams (MLA, Doncaster) and Mr pon Saltmarsh, MLC, believe
that organised crime in Australia and in the United States now controls major
sectors of Australia's meat and transport industries.
Mr Williams said that a director of one of Victo.ria's leading meat companies
has links with the Las Vegas mafia.
According to the MPs meat exports are an excellent way of smugg~ing drugs out
of Australia.
Cartons of ineat stamped Australia Approved are packed into containers on board
ships. Dogs ~rained to "sniff" narcotics find it difficult to detect drugs
concealed in meat.
Neither of the MPs could provi.de the HERALD with any evidence to support their
claims. They said that their information was privileged and sources could not
be identi.fied.
- However, Mr Williams suggested that evidence to the Royal Commission into drug
trafficking should be collated with that presented to Mr Justice Woodward's
Royal (:ommissi.on into the meat industry.
Mr Williams has t~ad a longstanding intere~t in the alleged meat substi_tution
rackets operating in Victoria.
In November 1977 he told the Federal Police that meat processed at abattoirs
- owned by the Melbourne City Cauncil and licensed only for the local market,
t~ad allegedly been il~egally transferred to a meatworks which was licensed
for ttie export trade.
~ 1'he police inve5tigated thc: allegations, but laid no charges.
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On the cartons found to contain horse and kangaroo meats the stamp read 140C.
That was the stamp af Profreeze, a business name registered with Protean (Hold-
ings) Ltd of the inner Melbourne suburb of Richomond.
Protean is a service company--it rents out its abattoirs, boning rooms and
freezing stores to individual contractors and companies in the meat industry.
It says it had been leasing boning room Z40C to Mr Richard Hammond, who traded
as Hammond Wholesale and Retail Meats Pty Ltd.
Mr Hammond appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday on 21 charges
relating to the presence of horse and kangaroo meat in export beef cartons.
No pleas were taken and Mr Hammond was released on $10,000 bail to appear
again on dctober 9.
The company, wtiich operates in most States in Australia, normally employs
between 1,500 and 2,000 people and has an annual turnover of more than $100
million.
It has expanded considerably this year, entering into a share transfer deal
with the Mascot industries Ltd Group, through which it acquired that company's
meat subsidiares in NSW, Western Australia and Victoria.
One of the subsidiaries acquired was Pridham (Aust) Pty Ltd which, among other
interests, operated a knackery at Dandenong, near Melbourne, where horses
were slaughtered for pet food.
The Protean Company is no stranger to controversy. The terms of its lease
~aitti Richmond council have been an issue i.n counciJ_ politics for years.
Mr Williams tol.n tt~e Victorian Parliament in March last year that the com-
pany's highly favorable lease had cost ratepayers "an enormous fortune."
The company is a.l.so involved in litigation with J.A. Dundas Pty Ltd., a suU-
sidiary of Hortico (Aust) Pty Ltd, over plant and equipment at the Newmarket
ahattoirs, owned by the Melbourne City Council and leased to Protean.
CSO: 5300/7507
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AUSTRALIA
HEROIN 'FLOOD' EXPECTED FOLLOWING RECENT POLICE SEIZURES
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 17 Sep 81 p 2
[Article by Paul Molloy: "Detectives Prepare for Busy Heroin Period"]
[TextJ Australian Federal Police Drugs Unit detectives fear a flood of high-
grade Middle-Eastern heroin into Australia following two seizures of the drug
worth nearly $1 million on the streets in the past week.
In the latest operation, detectives from the unit, led by Detective-Sergeant
Trevor Young, raided a house in Hampden Street, Lakemba, investigating a ship-
ment of 420 grams of heroin.
Th~ heroin, which was concealed in a hidden compartment in the soles of two
pairs of shoes, had beeri detected last Friday after a tip-off from Interpol.
A Lebanese couple returning to Sydney from a holiday in Lebanon abaard an Air
India flight were detained at Sydney Airport by the detectives, who found the
number 3 grade heroin which has a street value of more than $600,000.
The detectives said it was~55 percent pure.
Detective-Sergeant Young said the couple were innocent victims of smugglers
who asked them to take the shoes to Australia for friends.
After the shoes were opened, a powder was substituted for the heroin and the
shoes stitched up again. The couple then gave the shoes to a courier.
Police said that when they raided the house yesterday afternoon they found
one of the pairs of shoes in the back of an automatic clothes drier. The
otiier pair were in a bedroom.
A 26-year-old Lakemba man will appear in the St James Court of Petty Sessions
today charged with being knowingly concerned with the importation of heroin
under the Customs Act.
The raid closely follows the arrest of a man at Sydney Airp~rt a week ago who
was carrying 100 grams of heroin in a plastic bag stitche~. into the shoulder
padding of his coat.
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The heroin came from the Golden Crescent area which runs through Turkey, Iran,
Lebanon and Syria. There was a large opium crop there this year, which means
heroin supplies will be larger than normal.
Detective-Sergeant Young said that without good intelligence inside and out-
side Australia it was difficult to detect this ty~e of smuggler.
CSO: 5300/7507
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AUSTRALIA
TWO NAMED IN HE?,RING ON NARCOTICS BUREAU ~LEAKS' TO CLARK
- Sydney THE SYDNEY ~IORNI:IG HERALD in English 25 Sep 81 p 8
~Text~
The judge heading t11e ROyal ~~~if~ T~'uroer ~aid~tde � wilaoa goth wen [ormer pollcemen, be
Commission into Drug Traf� ~Icqed that Clark, a convided mur safd.
ficiting yesterd8y [ntroduCed ~rer and bead ot the ~ir a?sia ~~r Turner then toid t6e rnm-
the names of two officers of the syn,Ucate, was payloR SZS.000 a ">>u~O� tbere were a number oI
former poUcemen fn th~ bureau
former Fedee8l 11~icotics ~~ear for materia! from the bureao. t6roughout 4ustralia
Buresu in the context ot dis� Clark h,d smas6ed ehe arnu aod Later ~tr Turner said '~tr '~tulla-
le~s ot a drug cou~ier wit6 a baae- ~y ynd ~Ir Phfllips were "two fine
- c~icsion about the off~tce[ Al- ball bat sfte~ hearing a tape recocd- officers:' If Were was a leak from
leged to be in the pay ot dni$ ing beh.een ~he courier sod two ~e buresu. "theY wauld be fae
dealer TercenCe Cls[{C. oarcotks egents. ~1r 'ltirner said. from lq the~e two gentlemeo"
?he Roysl CommL/sioo. chalred 'I'be Royal Commiesion was also
~~g~~ e~ ~sobd Wilsoa wib bv ~ir JustEce Stewa~t, o[ t6e NSW told yesterdqy Wat a major poilce.
had been courien for Claric's ~druR Suoreme Court. ie inoesttgat[o8 the operstloo, code�named Cres4 was
9m~ling ri~~ had alle~ed in Juoe. acdvitics ot Clark and 61s aseoc~ undu way w6eu Uarlc and sevenl
1978r t6at a senior bunau officer ates. sasociates were caff~6t� iu Brbbaae
in Sydney, w6o wav ~ e:-police� Disctuelu; tb~ Nilsoot' a11eAa- io JanusrY. 1978.
roan. 6ad been t6e "leak" to Clarl~. tions, ~ir Tta~n~r ~ald Dou(ilns Wil� T3e secret operattou. whlch in�
~1r Justice Steware said in the son claimed: "C1ark ie payinQ ow volred 3tafe aud Federal polke,
Commission YesterdaY that the of your top oarp in SydneS'� t6a bureau, and other eoforcement
bureau's ecda~t commander at the '7t'e either the c6tet or secood- agencks was coocerned wit6 the
rime ~vus a�".~ir titullsly" wd ib io-charge. He's an es�polfceman." yacht carrying a l~d ot drugs
commander ~as RaY Ph~~~P�~ B�th Asked w~ho w^a~ the chkf at tb~ down the east Auetraliao cout.
w�ere ec-policemen, time, ~tr Turner wat tntemipted by Told that Clark 6ad admitted
' He named the ofHcers durln4 ~fr lustlce Stewart, mport8rtg 400,000 Thsi sdcl~s into
e~~idence from Robcrt AI[red Turn� The judge said Mr ~'Iullal~ w~~e Aus~alla on a yacht. ~Lr Jn~Nce
er, a fornxr bu~eau Investi~tor tbe sctin; commaader and apelled Stewart sald it wa~ "a nmuksble
~q,~ ~w� with tne Crlme intcill� tbe name. He dd ~(r Ray P611. colnddence" Clark was in Brlsbane
Rence Section of th~ Au+trall~o Ilps wnr "We actwl canmaoder." r?6en the Anos wa~ olt W~
Queeusland c~t.
CSO: 5300/7508
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AUSTR.ALIA
ROY9L COMMISSION ON DRUG TRAFFICKING HEARS TESTIMQNY
Passpo rt Racket
Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 9 Sep 81 p 1
[Article by Marsali MacKinnon: "Judge Hits at 'Loose' Control of Passports"] .
[Excerpt]
THE Department of For- moves to stop tKe copying of sports to "trade". either by
eign Affairs disclosed yester- P~gPorts as "sriutting the selling them or swapping chem
day about 5000 Australian stab~e door after the horse tor drugs and then reporting
has bolted". them stolen.
passports were lost or stolen The royal commisston, ap- ~2r Justice Stewart said even
each yeac. It admitted painted by the Federal a person on bail on a drug
= people could easily "trade" Government to inquire into charge who had co for.eit tiis
drug crimes after the Mr Asia passport and report regulariy
passports fOP dt11gS Or trial in Britain this year, to police would find iL "~ery,
money and Te-enteC :1US� moved from Sydney to easy' to get another passport.
� Canberra yesterday. ^If that person wanted to. he
tt'alia '`C12an beC3US8 Of ~e commission is inquiring could go to, say, Meibourne
loose passport Controls. inco che accivicies ot drug ring from 3ydney with a false birth
The department said most b~s Tenence John Clarke, certificate, fill in the applica-
passports w~ere lost or stolen in also known as Alexander tion form. have a pksotograph
~outh-~ ast Asia. James Sinclair, and tnto the Laken, and that's all there is to
T21e director of the depart- deatha ot two of his dru� cour- it." he said.
ment's passporc dtvision, :~Ir iers. New Zealand cpuple IL seemed "very stmple" for
Fievin Gray, told the Royal Isobel and Douglas Wilson. peopla to obtain Fassports ille-
Commiss~on into Drug Traf- ~(r (}ra~.cold the commission Kally, even if their names were
ficking that the .'epartment the department did not check llsted on a pnssport register
decec~ed only abouc six p~sport appllcation torms un- outllning criminal convictions,
~ '�recycled" passports a~~ear, less ther~ was some suspicion suspected terrorist activities
.3nd Lhe commissioner, ~Ir about the applicant. 3uch or court orders restraining
Juscice Stewart, satd because checks would be "beyond the movement trom the country.
of the looseness of the pass- phystcal staffing resources of Mr Justice Stewart dis-
port checking system ic would the department". missed evidence by ~ir Gray
be "impossible to know how �~Unless there is a reason [o that the Government had
many illegal passpc~rts there check, the application goes taken steps to make it harder
are". straighc through." he said. to copy passpor~s. ,
He said people were possibly More passports were lost in
using the stolen passports to South-East Asia than in any 1VEWSPAP,ER~ .
tra~~el in the main drug-pro- other region, and "we think He said: "That is shutting
ducing countries. then sub- most are attributable ~o the stable door after the horse
sticuting genuine passports to theft". It seemed the passports h~ bolted.
rc-enter Australia. The genu- w�ere being used for travel be- ~~you have qot to Ro to the
ine passport wouid not have tween other countries, not to source and stop the falsifying
stamps recording entry to and trom Australia.
South-East Asian councries. Questioned by Mr Justice of documents such as birth
He criticised government Stewart, he conceded that certificaLes."
peopie could use thelr pas-
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Sylvester Recommendations
Canberra THE AUSTRALI~,v in English 10 Sep 81 p 1
[Art~cle by Marsali MacKinnon: "Petty Jealousies Hamper New Crime Unit,
Inquiry Told"]
' [Text] PI:"C'CY jealousies and a tormed ABCI, u�as cf~e exis-
t'ack of 1r~:5t 1mon~, tance oi "peccy jealousies"
bptween earious branches of
:lustr3li8'S ~olice' [orCeS police torces.
~~,ece allo�in~ orgarused Altilough the ABCI has been
CClttle f0 aa171 an increastn; set up to trV to ot'ercome the
n3[iondl fnuthold. ttle ~i1i'eC- lack of crust betw�een Austra-
lian police forces. "I can't see
tor o[ the .lustralian B~reau ho~ti~ a crirrunal incetliRence
of l:r~minal IttleL'i~enc~ lOld ur.i~ w�ill git�e or�er its lntelli-
.t I'O~.il rommi~SlOll `:C'5teC- gence to another oranch
- - ~t�iuch can then make Che g;or~�
cid~'. of the arrest".
~ 3ut he said "pians had been
I't;e du~e.~or, ~ir I'rrci 5~:1- formulated" to o~~ercome che
~.e, tiP�,6' ZC1Idi1(1 commisston that 333 drug
~ ~:~iiil~~ i~obe! :~n:i Dou~las hauls had been de~ected b~'
~ti'~l.sun. tt:e dogs in [he past fice ~~ea:s.
>IrS}i:c~>s;~r sutd t!lc bizgest The Federal Dou Detector
,~c~~t~len~ tar;tn~; ctie recencly- Unit, at presen~ used 45 doqs.
in all State capitais. and
c~pected to ha~~e iQ at work b}�
Christmas.
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Continuing Flow ot Heroin
~ieibourne T:IE ~GL in English ~5 Sep 81 p 5
_ ~:~rticle b~� ~ileen Berry: "'~sia' Case Did vot Halt Heroin Flow, Inquiry Told"]
;Textj
The break-up of G'~e ~tr Asia breaking into wuebousea," he ~umbers of armed robberes ior
drug SyndiC3te had a0t h3it- ~~d� drugs, gharmacy burgiaries and
ed the fiuw Of heroin on ~r~nt Bel1 to{d the commis- raids on doctors' ;ars nad
s;on ~.hare were rumors that dropped betlreen 20 per cent a~d
t4 ~1ei~0urne StrzetS, tile people outside chC traditional 30 ?er cens from 1980 co 1981.
Stewar' Roy~l Cummissi0n cr.:wnal element were involved "I believe this indicates t.".at
oz Drug Tra:fiCking heard either directty. or indirectly heroin is freelv available in ihe
through :he injection of money streets of ~[elbourne at che
~ yes:erday. urco drua businesses. But he moment." Sergeant Bell said.
De~eccive ~en~or Sergeanc Gra- scressed that chere was no evid- He told the Royal Commiss~on,
ham Bell told ~tr lustice Donald ence to wpport this. sitting in ~te!bourne for the first
Scewar< i':ac hernin was stilt lree� Around ]0 large groups were ~ime, that ne believed couriers
l,r avai:a5le ~nd that the street importing 'tieroin into Ausualfa, ' not known to ?he ~olice" u�ere
pri~e ~ad remained ,table at :550 Se; geant Beil said, with no "'~ir recruited by the various ~~rgani-
a^aosule since i97~. iie said :he Bi�'' at :he Rop of the pyramid. sations. Thtce couriers usual'v
sl ~:dicace headed by Terrence 'These gr~ups know one anocher had a~�alid reason for visit?ne an
Clark, was ~me nf :7am� ille~sl and if nne group i~ sh~rt ot o~~zrseas country and were pro-
or~sr.isations b:ing;ng heroin into heroin, chey y~et it from annthet vided with a means fo~ concea~-
Ru~cralia. grouo," he said. ine the drurts for !he return tria.
~ergeant Bell has been the of~- ~tr Justice Ste~vart: The Clark ~~e drug addicts .aemse;~�e;
. cer in char~e or the administra- syndicace was ~ust one of many nad to resort ,o s.ealth to ~e- ;he
ti~~e sec:ion~~f che ~'ict~ria Police such organisacions ? monev to suppurc cneir :~abi:s. He
Dn:g Bureau since April 19; b. in Ser3eant Bell: Yse, sir. descrioed tae [ypicai neroin ad-
cha: t:;ne, oe said. !he number ~ir Just;ce Stewart: And the dict as under 3~, and snempioy-
c. dn:~ offences had decreased: fact chat :hls ha~ been broken ed. "He lets his health oo. ;ives
oecause of the for*nacinn ~p ~ues not seem ro nave made ~n squalid conditions and :hieves,"
o; =xcial squads which deal~ with raucn dif~erence so far as the ar� ix sa~d. Aithough addic:s uere
dr:~; uses and cranickers. ri~�al of neroin in this counrty ? Nve times more likely to be~ men
5er eant Bell: That is ~o, yes. ~han women many of the women
.=.siced by Mr Cedric tiamoson, S
,C, assisting the Royal G~mr.;is- Efe said the gro;tps' acti~~[ies a'orking in massage parlors were
- s:on if the break-up ~ir the Clark folluwed,thP conventional pattern : heroin users.
s cicate had contributed to the of or~anised cr.me - a loo~e ~ the past, stclen co]or ~ele-
e vision secs were a popular form
~ om aie ~�anuuslaccas:cns whera ~n(ederacion nther than one o( drug currency ,with one TV
^ody headed by one man. ~ir worth one ca sule of heroln, he
there mav be a shortage uf heroin P
o~ the streecs. ~t appears to be Hanipson asked: "You don said.
readil~ availabel." necessanly have a hit man y~ur- ~fr Hampaon: They a~ert ~s
self, but you ;cno~v where vou negotiable as dollar notes?
Setgean~ Bell said the heroin can get one, is that it?". Ser- Sergeant Bell: Well, $3A was
- Ras markeced in capsules - ~eant &11 agreed. Occasionsily what they wer~ worth.
"Contac 5(~ ~apsules" - oa the ihe groups would "fall ouc" and The Roya! Commission has
atreets for be~ween SSO and 555. violence would erup[, he said. been set up investi~ate the ac~i-
"I have never heard of the price The difticulty with the various ~�i ~es of Terrence J~hn Claric,
going beyond that," he said. The ~rRanisacions, Sergeant Bell said, who is wantM in Austnlia f~or
purity ot the ~ieroin in the capsule ��as that the higher up the the murders of Netic Zealand dr~e
aas becween 5 and 10 per cenc. pvramid a~ criminel got, the mure r.ouriers DouRlgs and Iaa~bel
He described a shift in empoasis q,+;~~~
by orQanised crime in the State, ditficult it was i~~r police to get
a conviction. The top men took C1at'k ia serving a life sentence
tr~m bi~ burglaries :o the more ~PlL'~r risks and were less likely tn Prison in Erteland follov~ itt~
- proticable drug imp~ratir,n. "l ;o nandle the heroin themselves. ~ his conviction, under �he naroa
be~ieve Gtiat some of the b~ttet- He produced iigures on drug A~esander James Sinclair, f~r !he
knmvn crir~i~a;s around ~te~- offences for the Ru~�al Commis� murder r,f his former druas "
bourne decided there u�as :nacn
more money co be made hnn~ing s~on w:uch shoa~ed , ahat the ~r.ner Christapher 1~fartin "'~Ir
Asia" Johrrstone.
heroin into the country� ~han
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_ AUSTRALI~
td:~ OP�OSITION PROPOSES ?~.~fE:1D~tENTS TO DRUGS BILL
- Perth THE WEST ;~USTR-~LI~v in English 9 Sep 81 p 9
``~'{t~ The 13 proposeci Opposition amendments to the W~ Government's
new Misuse of Drugs Bill aim at one ot its most controvenial
pro~�i~ions.
One would change a sach force "as, is neces� The Oppositi~n cor.tin-
prnvisi~m of the Bill ~ui�y in tl~e ctrcum- ued its attack on the
~vhich makt:s it an oL stances." Bill durin~ the secnnd
fen~e t~~ be found on other proposed readinQ debate in the
premises bcir.g used to Opposition amendments Assembly last nigiit,
smc~ke drugs. would: b1r J. I'. Grill (L.ab. Yil-
A pe:son would be ac� � Remove mandatory ~rn�Dundasi said that
- quitteci if he proved that sentences for people con� Mr Hassell was not pre=
he neither believed, sus� victed of ~~rtain oftences ~red .to listen to the
pected or had reason to or ot conspiring to com- awyers, ~ioctors and ro}~-
~uspect tYiat a substance mit offences, al commission and would
was a~rohibited divg or ~ bring down legislation
lant. Require cert.iticates that would be harmful to
P from analysts and botan- ~,VA and its youth.
A n o t h e r amendment ists to be made available The Opposition Whip.
��ould require proof that to the pcrson cha?�ged or Mr T. H. Bateman (Can-
a person caught with a his or her solicitor at ning), said that the Bill
pipe , and other utensils least 21 da~�s before trial. eroded civil liberties.
[or smokin~ drugs had An amendmenC to the
used them or that they g~ll proposed by the Mr B. R. tslaikie (Lib,
had been used with his htinister tor Poiice, Mr Vasse) said that the Bill
permission. Hassell, would require a~hoed the ,entiments of
person to be searched by ~,~a~ un ~ Weat Aus�
FORCE a person o! the same
_ ~Iost of the other ~x or by a medical prac� OppositIon speakers h~d
amendments, moved bY titioner, taken a soft aPproach to
tiie Opposition spokes� Yotice of the amend� drug problem.
- man on police matters, ments Is before~ the ~g� 'I'he ~,ebate is contin-
~Ir T. H. Jones (Colliel. ~slat.lve assembly, uing. ~
dcal with the tise o[
f o r c e by p~licemen
searching fur druEs.
The amendments ~~~ould
require the police to use
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AUSTRALIA
NETHERLANDS DRUG SUPPLY LINK CUT WITH ARREST IN PERTH
Perth THE WF,ST AUSTRALIAN in English 12 Sep 81 p 32
['I'extJ A heroin connection between the Netherlands and Australia was smashed
wtien members of the police drug squad arrested Frank Colangelo (23) in Perth.
As a result of Colangelo's cooperation, the source of the drug was traced to
- the Netherlands and the Dutch supply was broken with the help of Interpol.
Colangelo, a the.rapist, of Selden Street, North Perth,.appeared in the Supreme
Court yesterday for sentence on a charge of possessing heroin with intent to
sell or supply it�
He had admitted the offence, which occurred in August last year at North Beach.
The court heard that. members of the drug squad kept Colangelo under observa-
y tion before stopping him outside a chiropractor's clinic where he worked.
- Syringe
A search was made of his vehicle. When the dashboard was removed, the police
Found a syringe, needles and a package containing heroin.
Colangelo was taken to tiis home, where hewas stripped. More heroin was found
hidden in hi5 underpants.
Mr Justice Smith said that the pre-sentence report contained the all-too-
familiar story of. a person starting on cannabis and progressing quickly to
hard drugs.
As a resulr of treatment, Colangelo had overcome his drug problem.
But thanks to his help, a previously-unknown source of supply of the drug
had been cut off and othex people were arrested and dealt with by the courts.
Colangelo was placed on probation for two years on condition that he report
as necessary to ttie Alcohol and Drug Authority. He was also ordered to do
100 hours community servicE~ work.
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~U STRALI~
FLEVEd ~.RRL�STS, DI:L'GS Sct7.ED I~I ~1~JRTH QV~EidSI~~'~1D Rr1ID
Brisbane THE COURIER-~IL in English 24 Sep 81 p 1
~Test~
CAIRNS. - PO11CC swooped ~~6es. the other an ex-SAS soldier
on communes in north Queens- a'ho had absconded ahlle on bail from
Cairns, ~ere understood to be among
land yesterday, grabbing heroin the people atrested.
worth more than $500,000. Supt ~Iurphy said: "Ta�o drug squad
Eleven geople from Cape Tribula- police were at Cape Tribulation foF the
tlon, Athenon and Cairns ~ere u- last :ew weeks and at one cime bcth of
resced in connection a~ith the posses- the pollcemen avere held at gunpolnt:'
?ion and selling of hard druga in- Both the policemen escaped without
clsdir.g heroin, cocalne, :norphine, in)ury, Supt Murphy said.
hashish and marlhuana. Supt biurphy sald a.45 calibre auto-
The regional superJntendent of the maCic pistol used to threaten police, a
- Far Northern R.e~:on. Supt Tony 31ur- pump-action shotgun and two .22 ca-
phy, ~aid ~}~esterday 388 grams of he- libre rifles were aeized.
roin had been seized by pollce in "Police were unable to recover s.45
Cairns alone and a�as esttmaced to ca~ibre sutomatic gun or a deninger
have a s!reet value of more than. which avas ln the posseseion of s te-
5500,000. male who wat !ct the company of two
Supt Mur,~hy said state and Fedenl other men" he said.
Police and Customs otficers combined Simultaneous to the raid st Cape
forces to obtain evidence cf trsfiicking Trlbulatfon, combined police torce
ot hard drugs 1n Calrns snd Cape Z1ri- ralds aere carrled out. ln the Catrns
bulatlon. urea.
~ie said tc~o men ~nd one woman Supt ~Surphy sald se~~en people were
from Cape Tribulation were expecttd taken ln~o custody in Cairns on
to appesr in the Caims !Kaglstratts cha~ges relatfng to hard drug tzafffck-
C.~urt today. :ng. A.s well as the large smount of lie-
Ta~o men, one who had absconded rotn, pollce selud instrumenta used for
while on bail trom 1~Seibourae. on dzu~ admir?istering hard druaa and lsrge
surts~ ot moneq, Supt .l~furphy sald. _
~Editor's Note; In a follow-up report on 25 September, page 14, THE COURIER-MAIL
said: "Seven people including two women appeared in the Cairns Magistrate's
Court yesterday on drug-related charges following three simultaneous police raids
in far north Queensland on Wed.nesday. Six were remanded in custody and did not
enter a plea. The seventh, James Warwick Ma.nning, 24, gardener, of Cape Tribu-
lation, pleaded not ;uilty to a charge of possessing marihuana and was remanded
on $500 bail ~ntil Janua.ry 11 next year.
["The sis who appeared before ~Ir Scanlan, SM, were: Douglas Richard Jensen, 38,
unemployed, of Cape Tribulation, charged with possession and cultivation of mari-
huana from ~Iay 1 to September 23 this year. He was remanded to appear again today.
Steven Geoffrey Bloomfield, 37, fisherman, of no fixed address, charged with
possession or marihuana and with failing to appear in court after a ber_ch warrant
for his arrest was issued in Cairns on June 9, 1980 on a charge of possession of
heroin for sale. lie was rema.nded until toda~. Wayne Norman Waterson, 30,
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unemployed, of Creedy Street, Cairns, appeared on six separate charges, including
two of selling morphine and cocaine in Cairns on September 8 and 11. He was
remanded until next Monday. Murray Francis Keegan, 29, fisherman, of Creedy
point, Cairns, was charged with selling morphine on September 11 in Cairns and
was remanded until today. Linda Maureen Cardwell, 29, pensioner, of The Esplanade,
Yorkey's Knob, near Cairns, was charged with selling heroin on September 11 in
Cairr~s ~.nd was remanded until today. Stephanie Kerri Willis, 17, unemployed,
of no fixed address, appeared on a charge of attempting to obtain a dangerous
drug in Cairns and on a second ane of possessing $10 for the purposc: of obtaining
drugs. She was remanded until today on both charges.
~"Four other people appeared in court on charges arising from further raids
carried out yesterday."]
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AUSTRALIA
NEW DRUG LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN VICTORIA PARLIAMENP
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 24 Sep 81 p 1
~Text~ Melbourne--Drug traffickers face up to 25 years jail and fines of as
much as $250,000 under legislation introduced in the Victorian Parliament yester-
day .
'I'he llrugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Bill, brought in by the Victorian
Health Minister, Mr Borthwick, also provides for confiscation of assets of traf-
f ickers .
The maximum fine of $250,000 for trafficking in a drug of dependence is $50,000
higher than that recommended by an inter-departmental working party on the drug
problem.
The working party's report provided the basis of the new legislation.
This provision covers na.rcotics such as morphine, opium and its derivatives, such
as heroin, and synthetic drugs stcch as methadone.
Mr Borthwick said the Government had rejected the working party's recommendation
that courts should have the option of imposing a fine or a~ail term, or both.
"The Government takes the view that trafficking in drugs of dependence is such a
heinous offence that the courts should not have an option of imposing a fine in
' lieu of a~ail sentence," he said.
The Bill sets a maximum pena.lty of two years jail and/or $5000 fine for unlawful
possession of a drug of dependence.
~ Trafficking in a restricted substanc~e, such as barbiturates will carry a maximum
10 years jail or $100,000 penalty or both. Possession will incur up to two y~ars
jail, a$5000 fine or both.
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AUSTRALIA
DRUG OFFENSES INCREASING IN QUEENSLAND, COMMISSION TOLD
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 24 Sep 81 p 12~
LExcerpt~ Heroin was readily available throughout Queensland, the Brisbane Drug
_ Squad chief told the Royal Commi.ssion of inquiry into drug trafficking in Australia
yesterday.
Insp. Eric Patrick Deveney told the commission hearing in Brisbane there was now
twice the amount of heroin available o~ the the streets that there was 12 months
ago.
He said fewer drug addicts were registering for methodone treatment in Queensland
this year. The Royal Commissioner, Mr Justice Stewart, said that with more heroin
around, fewer addicts would have to turn to "the crutch of inethodone."
Insp. Deveney said there had been a 20 percent increase this yea.r in offences
relating to hard drugs, including heroin and LSD.
There had also been a"sizeable increase" in the number of offences in the state
relating to cannabis and hashish.
He said cocaine was readily available in Queensland and LSD, which had been scarce
for some time, was "coming back on,"
The commission is inquiring into possible drug trafficking and related activites
of Terrence John Clark, also known as Alexander James Sinclair, and his associates.
(Clark, reputed to be the head of an internationa.l drug ring called the Organisa-
tion, is serving a life sentence in England for the murder of Ma.rtin Johnstone,
the "Mr Asia" of the Australian-New Zealand-British heroin trade).
Insp. Deveney agreed with Mr Justice Stewart that the supposed cessation o�
Clark's operations had not made any difference to the avail~bility of heroin in
Queensland.
The main source of heroin was still importation through overseas couriers--the
method the ~ommission has been told Clark adopted.
"If you knock one down, another one pops up," Mr Justice Stewart said. He supposed
it was because of the enormous profits that could be made.
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~1USTRALIA
HEROIN SEIZED, FOUR HELD; POLICE BELIEVE DRLG RING 3ROKEN
Perth THE ;dEST :~1,'STRALIc~N in English 19 Sep 81 p 5
~Te:ct] SYDNEY: The Federal polfce believe they
, broke up a major drug ring yesterday when
they setzed heroin worth at least Sl milllon
in a rald on a[lat [n suburban Double Bay.
The Ex~lice arrested tw~o others involved, t h e y
men and two women. The po![ce alleged that were unlikely to continue
the group had been the courier system from
The w�omen had ~peratinR between Sout}L South-East ~,sia.
rived at Kingsford Smith East ?~sia and Australia The women, une aged
:~ii�port on a G.30am for about four years. 19 and one in her mid.
!~antas flight Prom 20s, and the men, both
Sin~apore. The ring normally used in their mid 34s. ~ere
- w�omen couriers who
The police said that taped the hemin under taken to federai police
they had a kilogram o1 cheir clothing, it was al� heaciquarters in Sydney
tii~;h�grade heroin taped le~ed. Trips were made for questioninr.
co their bodies. regularly between Aus� The police said they
Customs ofiicers allo~v iralia and a number ol would appear in the Cen-
ed them throug h and the Asinn countriea tral Court thls morning.
polic~ lollowed the pair Customs oificers and A police spokesman said
to the Double Bay flat the police had kept them that ~etecdves took
where they met the t~vo under surveillance tor Special precautlons to
men. some time belore yester� protect the child during ,
The four�yearald son of day's raid. the raid.
one of the women also Detectivea said they ge was allowed to re-
was at the fla~ thouqht that yesterday's main with his mother
ari�ests signalle~ the end after the arrests and was
uf the ring, being cared for by a
_ Thoueh there were policewoman. i
[Editor's N~te: Reporting the same police action, Brisbane's THE COURIER-MAIL
in English on 19 September 1981, page 4, said, "Three people were charged last
night after police seized heroin worth an estimated $1 million. Police said a
:1ew Zealand :~oman, 19, was charged with possessing prohibited imports. The
charge came les~ than two hours after two men of Italian origin faced similar
charges. ~,11 three are due to appear in Sydney's Central Petty Sessions Court
todaya ~ fourth person--another young New Zealand woman--also was arrested after
police swooped on a house in the Sydney harborside suburb of Double Bay yesterday.
She was still being questioned last night by rederal Police."
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~The report added, "A Federal Police spokeswoman said police seized one kilogram
of high grade heroin in the raid. She said police had broken into a narcotics
smuggling ring but belie~ed the ring leaders were still at large and investiga-
tions would continue."]
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
HEROIN CASE SENTENCE--A young woman described as the able lieutenant in a
$1 million heroin ring was convicted yesterday on charges of trafficicing drug.
A Criminal Court jury found Cheryl Joy Cornish, 27, of no fixed address, guilty
of one charge of conspiracy to traffic in heroin, and three charges of traffick-
ing in heroin during 1980. Miss Cornish, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
She was acquitted of two other charges of trafficking. Mr Justice Murray re-
manded her for plea and sentence tomorrow. Three other people accused of
' involvement in the drug business were acquitted. They were Donna Lee Norphett,
24, of Fitzgerald Street, South Yarra; Cheryl Lee-Ann Heinrich, 19, of
Crosvenor Street, Balaclava, and Robert Maxwell McClure, 35, of Summerhill
Road, East Reservoir. ['!'ext] (Melbourne THE AGE in English 16 Sep 81 p 19]
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BURMA
BRIEFS
OPIUM SEIZURE IN MOULMEIN--Acting on information pXOVided bq a responsible person,
station Commander U Tha Sint, area-in-charge Lance Corporal Tin U Lay and a police
squad of Moulmein's Dine-wunkwin police station, together with ward people's
councillors, on 30 September searched two suspects at the corner of Thukha-wadi
- Road, Shwemyaing Thiri Ward. The search party found 2.4 viss [1 viss equals 3.6
pounds] of black opium worth more than 8,000 kyat. The two men--ata, alias Khin
Maung Shwe, 21, of Haw Street, No 1 ward, Kalaw Township; and U Kyaw Zaw, 60, of
Kyaikchin Village tract, Pyinmana--were charged under sections 6.B, 7.B of the
narcotic drugs law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 6 Oct 81 p 6 BK]
- DRUGS SUPPRESSION IN LASHIO--Under the drugs suppression campaign conducted in
Lashio Township from 1 to 20 September 1981, sellers, carriers and users of narcotic
drugs were arrested. A total of 36 persons involved in 18 cases were charged, and
_ heroin weighing 1.8756 kilograms and worth about 230,000 kyat and opium weighing
22.6483 kilograms and worth more than 50,000 kyat were seized. [Text] [Rangoon
MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 13 Oct 81 p 4 BK]
OPIUM S~IZURE AT RAIL STATION--At 1500 on 24 September, over 9 viss~[1 viss equals
3.6 pounds] of raw opium worth more than 30,000 kyat sealed in condensed milk tins
were seized at Mandalay Railway Station from Tin Ma Yin Hwan, Maung Lone and Maung
Yan Chun Yu of No 5 ward, Lashio. The three, who were about to board the Myitkyina
train for Mohnyin, were charged under sections 6B, 7B and lOB of the narcotic drugs
law by the railways police. [Textl [BK161251 Rangoon LOKTHr1 PYEITHU NEZIN in
Burmese 1 Oct 81 p 5]
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GROWING ~1U~IBER OF YOUNG DRUG PUSHERS WORRIES GOVERNMENT
- Narcotics Offenses Double
Hong Kong SOUTH CHI:~1r1 ~IORIVIiVG FOST in English 28 Sep 81 p 15
~drticle by Olivia Sin~
~Text] yesterday of the Central and Government to allocate moro
The Guvernment is Western District anit�narcot- maney to anti-drugs educa-
worried about the dramat- 15 Thn~ceremon in Edin- ~~~n'O epu ulnd of revention
ic increase in the number Y~ P� p
of yuung drug pushers this burgh Place, att~acted an is more impc,rtant than a ton
eat, ~s eciall in the new audience o! about 2.000 pea of cure.
y P Y, P~~, "We necd more money to
~ow�ns, a prom~nent com- p Worrying crend, 'vfr provide good advertisements
munity leader said y'ester- Stur:ipf said, is that drug of. and sell the concept, just like
dd~. fenden are operating in the other successful zonsumer
The increase has been new towns and the ~Iew goods," he said.
aspecially no~iced in recent Territories. "Continuous effort must
munths wich the largc amount Residents uf new towns be made to educate ~eople
ui cheap her~~in available, experiencing adaptation diCfi- about the evjls of drugs. '
said `fr Karl 5tumpt, uf the culties could be vulnerable to He said it was a pity [hat
Action Committee Against drugs, he said. so much more money was
'Varcutics. Some of them who are spent on law enforcement
~tr Stumpi, whu is also frustrated about their piaces than on preventivic eduCacion.
vice-chairman of the t~ong- and job prospects in new ' A Government spokesman
kong Communicy Council. towns might t~rn to drugs as at the opening said the Gov-
said the number of youngsters a means of escape. ernment had set aside about
involved in narcotics offences "And this is causing the 51.4 million for preventive
from January ~o August this Government concern," he education this financial year.
vear had doubled compared said. The spokesman said a
- with the same period last To tackle the probtem. Mr large-scale anti-narcotics
year. Stumpf, chairman of campaign, costin~ 5150.000.
About 250 young people, ACAV s prevenlive educa� will be launched in Sha[in in
aged from I~i to 21, w~ere tion and publicity sub-com- February next year.
found invuh�ed in drug oF- mittee, said ACAN will step Mr Stumpf also urged
fences this yerr. up ics campaign against drugs that a separate department be
~tust uf them sell drugs in the new towns. ut up to deal with all prob-
for thc sakt of "easy money." ACAV has also recruited lems Caced by young people.
but are not consumers them- }pp young volunteers to help "I feel the present effort is
selves, ~1r Stumpf said. with the publicity drive, he too fragmented. It is being
"E3ut their involvement ~~d, split among the Social Wel-
will increa~e thcir chances of He was impressed by the fare Department, the Educa-
taking drugs and becoming large number of volunteers tion Department, the Urban
addicts," he warnrd. willing to give up their leisure Services Department and the
"Besides, their activitics time. Labour Department," he
ma~ lead to more pnople fall- ��We hope they will reach said.
ing prey tu drugs." out to other young people and ~tore would be done iF the
~tr titumpl was speaking show them the right path." responsibility Was held by une
aitrr the opcning ceremuny Ltr Stumpf also urged tfie department, he said.
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School Antidrug Campaign
Hong hong SOUTH Cfil~ '.~1DRNING POST in English 1 Oct 81 p 12
~Test~
The Government is step-
ping up its anti-narcotics
campaign in schools in a bid
to cutb drug trafficking
amung students, it was learn-
cd yesterday.
Officers from che narcoc-
ics division have been making
the rounds in schools to give
ta!ks on the evils of drug
abuse.
The division plans to pro-
duce a tilm warning young-
sters oC the danger of ' selling
drugs for eas~+ money.;'
The division's acting sen-
ior information uffcer. Mr
Peter tila, said the Govern-
ment i~ very concerned about
che increase of young drug
pushers.
He said the number of
youngsters involved in natcot-
ics oFfences from January to
,August this year had doubled
compared with tho same peri-
od last year.
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HOhG KONG
RECORD OPIUi~! SEIZURE SENDS T?d0 MEN TO JAIL FOR 5 YEARS
Hong F~ong SOUTH CHI~ ~IORNING POST in English 13 Oct 81 p 17
~Te:ct]
T'wo men who were arrested with what The walla walla then headed towards
was descrit~ed by the authorities as the largest Yaumati, but instead of stopping as ordered
_ seizure of prepared opium in Hongkong since. by a customs launch, it accelerated.
1969 were yesterday each sentenced to five
years' imprisonment. � When it was eventually intercepted at the
Fung Siu�sun (25), hawker, and Yik Tsz- sauthern approach to the Yaumati typhoon
wai (?3), unemQloyed, plcaded guilt y� befare shelter, the defendants jumped overboard.
Mr Jusnce Babet in thc High Court to Customs officers also jumped into the sea
possasing E10 million worth oF prepured and brought them back to the walla walla.
opium for unlawful'trafficking. On board the boat, customs officers found
Acting assistan~ pr~ncipal Crown counsel th~ canons, the suicase and the hold-aU
G.1. Plowman said at 8.30 am on April 5, t6e containing peckets of opium.
defendants were sun by customs offiars I~r Plowman said the packets contained a
leaving the motor vessel, Lu Chiang, at the total of 82.67 kilos of prepared opium. [t was
_ Western Anchorage, the Iargest seizure of it~ k~nd since 1969.
- The vessel had arrived two days earlier ,q~ the time of the seizure, tho market
_ from Singapore and Korea. value of dehydrated prepared opium was
The defendants'passed down two cartons, about 5125,000per kilo.
a a suitcase and a hold�all to a waiting walla Mr Patrick Yu appeared for the dePend-
walle before boarding it. , anu.
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~~TEW ZEAL~:iD
HEROI:1 H~IULS IN 9 LfONTHS TRIPLE TOTaL FOR ALL OF 1980
- ~Jellington EVENING POST in English 21 Sep 81 p 22
~~rticle by Kaye Calder~
~TeYt~
Amounts of heroln National Drug Intelligence .~iso on the plus side are :bialaysia is a tr_~dicicnal
reachiag New Zegland B~u at Police Nat~onal the considerable benefits in buying :egion for ra'.c iero-
have i~creased dramati- Headquarters, takes up his gat6enng evidence on !Yew in, hocvever. Recent ~a~teras
cally in t6e past nine �e~� ~t. Zealand criminals ~ravelling have seen an ecr.phasis on
months. Alreed ~j~ Police have been pressing through Asia on drug-buying ra:k heroin instead c; c;:�~
Y Pa for a posting to Singapore operations. white powder heroin.
6ave tripled the total for several years. The thre~ This in turn gives an But it is as a re~istr.bu-
seiztue for the whole of year appointment was Einal- added impetus fo investiga- !ion centre for cour:ers :5at
_ last year. ly approved by Government lions preventing the flow of Siogapore comes incu :ts
last month. drugs in New Zealand. own.
For the first siz moaths De~ec~i~e Chief Inspector Police know that several There have been at-
of this year, police seyzed ~~1e Galbra~th is already New Zealanden are well-es- tempts. for example. ;o
770.89 gtams of the illicit b~ in Bangkok, and De- tablished drug operators. port cocaine from 5out :
d r u g, c o m p a r e d t o ~~ve Iaspector Lin Sinton Some are using their con- America through Singaeor~,
219.77gms in the equivalent ~o gydney. tacts Erom the ":~Ir As~a" but would-be oaerators have
period last year. Establlshing liaison posts ring heyday, but new groups come up against tough ioca!
tiiorphine seizures are up io South-east Asia has are constaatly emergtng. controls.
from 72.04gms last year to played, and will continue to As a liaison officer, 31r The Vew Zealand Laison
840.77gms for the period ea- piay, a big part in drug de- Fitzharris does not have any ofiicers ~rill also t+e momtor-
ding June S0. There has also teccion in this country, says powers as such as a p~lice ing the increased ~DIL':n
been one major opium '.V1r Fitzharris. otficer in Singapore. production that EIo~Fs
seizure in Auckland. Not only have police The job revolves around througb Souch�east Asia
The increases piace stopped large quantities ot close ties wit6 local author- from countnes like .afg:;an-
greater slgnificance on che drugs irom reaching New ities and other law enforc~ istan. Iran aad Palc~sr.an.
just-aunounced appointment Zealand but intelligence ment agencies from Austral- Political anrest, partic~-
of Detective Inspector Paul gleaned in the area has aLso ia, the US and Canada. larly in lran, has meant ~hat
Fitzharris to Singapore as meant an increase in the ~~Ir Fitzharris said there some of the drugs have not
New Zealaod's third lialson number ot prosecutions for is a commitment and spirit been comin3 out.
office in South-east ??sia. hard drugs avhich would oth- of intemational co-operatioo `~epal coo is s[ill a major
IntelliRence on illicit erwise 6ave gone un- co sWp the flow of drug9 in so Doe tor cannab~s r~in.
drug traEficking from South- detected. i~� a~~. cl.:.e ...:s..v� ~h^ �~r~;r
east Asia's Golden Triaagle ''Some ot our biggest Responsibae for drug ao- increase could be Fart of the
through to New Zealand will seizures are made not in tivity in Malaysia and Indo- bumper crop harvested in
be stepped up from Novem- New Zealand but in foreign ~~a, he sees Singapore as a the Golden Triangle ~h~s
ber when '.~ir Fitzharris, the c o u n t r i e s,'' s a i d M r d~ lsrather~than a n u chasr siellr f lterir mehrnu
h~nrom
present co-ordinator of tbe Fitzharris. ing p~lace. p India� g g
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NEW ZEALAND
SEIZURE OF OPIUM IN ~UCKIt1ND ONE OF LP,RGEST RECORDED
Drug Source Unknown
= Wellinoton EVENING POST in ~nglish 22 ~,ug 81 p 1
~Te:ct] Auckland, Today (PA)--South Auckland detectives are trying to pin down
the source of more than S250,Q00 worth of opium seized in a Sandringham streeC
;resterday in one of the biggest hauls made in New Zealand.
The team of drug squad detectives headed bu Detectiv~ Sergeant Stu ~fagnall, acting
on a tip-off, staked out a car and house in the atreet and pounced at mid-morning,
seizing two bo:ces containing about 4.6kg of raw opium and arresting two mena
Two middle-aged men were remanded without plea on a charge of aossessing opium
for supply or sale when they appeared in the Otahuhu District Court today.
- Mr 3ruce Laing JP remanded them in custody until Tuesday and granted them interim
suppression of name.
Two ?,rrested Charged
ldellington EVENING POST in English 25 Aug 81 p 30
~Text~ A(,~CKLAVD, Today ~PA).
- Two men charged with Mr Jo6n . Haigh appear-
possessing =500,000 worth of ing tor both, applied for con�
opium for sale or supply tinued name suppression be-
were remanded today m the cause the seriousness of the
District Court at Otahuhu charges would embarrass
until September 17 for a cheir famiiies and the ac-
depositions hearing. cused would defend the
lianu Chhima Gopalj6, 44, ~narges.
market gardene~, oi ~ut ,iudge Uuncan re-
Takapuna, and tiel~on Ed- tused. He said: "The matter
ward Singh, ~1, dye setter, ot is much too serious and the
- Sandringham, were re- fact that it (the charge) is
manded in custody by Judge goiag to be defended is no
Peter Duncan. justification."
Gopatji is also charged Nlr Haigh said application
with allow�ing a car co be would be made in the High
used ;oc a purpose in con- Court later this week for bail
travention of the '.4lisuse of for the two defendants.
Drugs Act.
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NEW ZEALAND
POLICE 'JNCOVER I~IBORATORY ;rf~4`IUFACTURING BROMO-DMA
~uckland :dEW ZF.P,L~l;1D HER~ILD in English S Oct 81 p 1
~Text~
Nawkes Bay detecdves i Large amounts of the c1ruQ
have smasue~l a drug ring ~wert � discovered but~
~shich was manufacturing Dekective Inspectar Holy-I �
and ~upply~ing a hallucino- oake said it was ciifficult to~
gea drug 'n much of ~ew put a price on it ~rntil it hadl
Zealand. been analysed.
_ The class A drug similar ~�e,u we can say is it will
bo LSD and known as Bromo- ~ be worth several hundred.
DtifA, was being manu- thousand dollars." he said.
factured in s laboratory at : The drug is normally sold.
the seaside community of op strips of paper. It :;ells
W6irinaki, north af vapier. for about ~10 a strip.
Tne laboratory, w:uch was '�`The stuff we have," he'
! in a gazage on a residential ~ said, "is very concentrated."
- , propercy, was raided by de- The police alsa found two
- ;!ectives early on Saturday ;bottles of Bromo�D~1A buriecl
~ mornin;. in the ground at an Otane
~ Detective Inspector Ian property
Hol~~oa~e, who headed the , V[ore than 100 "poiice.
~poiice team, said last`night ;customs officers and scien-
i that the laboratory was ; tists were involved in the
~ i u~orking at the time of th
, raid. i operation, which ~cas the cul-
It is the first time the !mination of almast three
I police have uncovered a ~ menths of inquiries.
;laboratorv making this drug .~~e people were arrested;
~in ~aw Zealand. and will face charges in the~
' The police raided a total of {District Court in Hastings~
2,i ptoperties in Hawkes I~Y�
Bay on Sacurday and there Su :non arrests were
, tcere similar raids on proper� ~made ia connection with less
n , r;A~ e?~~..ls: d 3~ :~lroZ;~ ~ seri~w.~ ILn,aa
j ington.
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NEW ZEAIt1ND
EDITORI~L STRESSES EFFORTS TO STOP DRUG TRAFFICKING
Christchurch PRESS in English 15 Sep 81 p 18
(~ditorial: "Destro~~ing Opium Poppies"~
~Test~
T!;e difficultv over stopping the grou�~ng of for a periud and insufficient to alienate in
the upium punpy in Tt,ailar.d does ~ot lte in large numbers the hill tribes which
know~in~ u�here the crop is because cultivate the poppies.
plar.tings can be disco~~ered from the air or
ecen un ~he ground. The technology of The Government of Thailand is
~estro~~ing crops brings no problem either embarrassed by the fact that the opium is
because chemicals ~~r fla?nethrowers can grown in areas more or less under
do that effecti~�elv. The reason that the Covernment control. unlike in Barma and
crop has not been destroyed is politicai. Laos K~here the governments have more or
The Thai a~thorities fear that if an less abandoned [he areas in which the
unrestrained onslaught were made on the ap�m P�PPY ~s grown. The United tiations
omum poppy areas the village populations runs a crop subscitution programme based
would becomN disaffected with the in ~hiang ?~Iai, in the nor[h of Thailand. In
- Government and become insurgents - 41 areas active programmes are being
C~~mmuni~t or otherw~ise - wha would conducted to persuade the local villagers
pose a threat in the north-west of Thailand. to abandon the growing of opil,rn poppies
_ The Thai Army would then be occupied in for other crops, mainly coffee and kidney
Reeping them under control and wo~ld beans. The areas covered are far from
have to deplete,to a dangerous extent, the extensive and although there has been
torces un the border with Kampuchea and some snccess, it has been very limited. Qne
w:th Laos, ~�here chreats to Thailand's way of growing opium has been to clear a
- ~ecuritc are seen. pateh in forest, eultivate opium poppies for
The reluctance of the Thailand one harvest and then to move on. The
G~~vernment to movc decisi~ely against the Governrr.ent of Thailand hupes that its
pop~y areas meets occasional criticism other programmes of dissuading hill tribes
from other countries, particularly the from trQating the forest in this way will
C'nited States, which ~s badly hit by help control this nomadic harvesting.
iiaffiCni7i~ ti~ ficivlG, a i~cil'r3il'rE vi vNiuaTi. juuiE ana:j'~tP. }1Oen Of ~he
Thailand feels the need to respond to this motives ot those who grow the popoies.
criticism from time to timz. According to The younger tribespeople face considerable .
a report from Thailand printed yesterday, pressure to grow the poppies from the
a new move is afoot to take artion against older people in ~the tribe who want the
some pappy areas. L,ke sim~lar moves in opium to smoke because they are addicted
the past, this move w�ill be a finely judged to it. A second reason is that che opium has
action, sufficient. the Thai author~ties will lonR been used by the people oE the area as.
hope, to ward off international criticism
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medicine. The third, and probably the most Laos to control the growing of the poppies
difficult motive to deal w~th. is that the hill is complicated, perhaps made impossible,
tribes want the opium as a cash crop. The by the political difEerences among the
mountainous areas in which the tribes live countries. Although the bulk of the crop is
cannot graw sufficient rice for the needs of grown in Burma. Thailand, because of its
the tribes. The advances in rice-growing relative freedam of travel. is an important
which have improved the yields of rice route for the drugs to reach the rest of the
have been in paddy rice grown in the world.
lowlands. The upland rice has a limited The Thais have argued that if people
~�ield. This means that the tribes have a did not buy drugs then there would not be
rice deficiencv and need money to buy the problem. Tne point is a valid one, not
more. The opium poppy has served as a merely an attempt to shift the blame for
traditional cash crop. The tributes the international drug problem away from
understand the cultivation of poppi~es and Thailand. The ' lIr Asia" trial
ha~�e little experience in other agriculture demonstrated a New Zealand connection
or horticulture. with drug trafficking. The questiun that
The United Vations programme in the remains is one of being practical. Should
area is doin~ its best to cope w~th the New Zealand contribute to the measures of
~�arious aspeces of the culti~�a[ien of opium controlling drugs at their source� Helping
- poppies. The hill tribes get grants and the crop substitution programme is ane
luans to substitute other crops for poppies way. The argument again~t this is that the
and have bridging finance made available programme has so far had onlv a limited
until these uther crops can be harvested. success. that New Zealand already
The programme also trains the hill contributes to sucl~ programmes through
farmers in growing other crops. Even if the t'nited Nations Fund for Drug ~buse
the Thai authonties and ~he lin~ted ~ations Control, and that even if one did contribute
managed to be completely successful, the substantially. Thailand represents only one
growing of poppies would not end because aspect of the problem. There would seem
of the ~hree countries whose borders form to be a good case for makir.g sure thal the
- the "Golden Triangle" - Thailand, Burma, crop substitution programme is kept going
and Laos - Thailand has probably the - no possibilitp should be neglected - but
smallest crop. Of the 600 tonnes believed to that efforts should be concentrated on
_ be this year's crop, less than 100 tonnes stopping the trafficking. This will require a
comes from Thailand. The possibllity of constderable effort because the crop From
Thailand's co-operating with Surma and the "Golden Triangle" this cear is a
bumper one. '
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PAICISTAN
NARCOTICS PACKING F~CTORY UNEr~THED
Peshawar KH~.BER ~S~,IL in English 4 Oct 81 p 1
~Te:ct~
KAR.~CHI. Oct. 3: Contra� are expected in next 2�day and
b;ind :larcotics s~lueci at Rs. 3 this time "we might lny hands
crore ~vere reca~~r�d and two on the actual bosses", re said
persons were arrested on confidently.
Thursday last weel: ~en the The Director General said
excise staff ur.earthed c~aras that this case was detected du-
nackin~ factory in a house in into he f hle~oin
produc nt~~ labo-
Kausa: ~iazi colonr. rltory base dete~etd in north
The e:tcise hounds helped in Nazima~ad arcn a fe~v days
seizing +0 maunds of charas, 20 back.
kilo hashis}~ oil ar.d two kilo of He said tnat contraband
heroin oil of best quality traf� d~gs were being exported to a
iickina of which to as far ~g nuznber of foreign countries,
Europe, North America. Austra� under the cover of onyx, ho-
tia and a number of 9sian coun� siery, elect:onic goods. The con�
n�ies was in operation in tlie traUand stuPP was packed exac-
Q~iise of e~c~~or! of items like tly the same way as the export�
~ny~ ;-osi~~ry 1nd electrnnic ab2e ot~ginal commodities were
~oods. � packed.
Giving de4ails of the whole The narcotics were wrapped
- operation still under investiga� in such a�Nay so as to thwart
tion the Director C~eneral excise the metal detection system.
and taxation, Syed Mohibullah Shah said that investiga-
Shai~ told a P~Jess conference
here today that this case might tions were in progress. The ex-
be of importance equally for cise officials were on the trial
of some other persons whose
the international anti�narcotic arrests ��ere likely any mo�
a~encies. ment.
go ~3;~ r1,ar. some arrests
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
BOGUS AFGHAN PASSPORTS SEIZED--The CIA Staff have unearthed a gang responsible
_ for preparing bogus Afghan Passports in the city and seized as many as 1,000
such passports and visas. One of the members of the gang has been arrested.
On an information that a firm in Urudu Bazar was running a business of printing
b~gus passports and visas, a fictitious customer wa.s sent who confirmed it.
_ The CIA staf� then raided the shop and recovered about 1,000 bugus Afghan Pass-
ports, many visas for different countries and arrested the proprietor. The
accused told the Police that the passports were being made on behalf of a Karachi
firm. The seized passports had been hidden in a bag for despatch to Karachi.
~Text~ ~Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 4 Oct 81 p 3~
CONTRABAND GOODS SEIZED--Karachi Customs yesterday seized contraband goods worth
over Rs. 1.6 million from airport and sea port. The Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC)
impounded 24 bales containing children apparels worth about Rs. 7 lakhs following
the failure of the consignEe to claim them. The consignments came from Hong Kong
by air in the name of Mr Moha~ad Karim Rajabi of Quetta and were awaiting
- despatch at the airport when a request was made to change the route from Quetta
to Taftan in transit. The sleuths of DEC asked the addressee to produce valid
papers but none turned up during the last two months. Hence the goods were seized.
_ Meanwhile, a party of Rummaging Staff recovered eight VCRs, 9 TV sets, Tape
recorders, Sewing Machines and 189 cartons of Foreigh cigarettes worth Rs. 3.5
lakh, from three NSC ships "Aziz Bhatti, Warsak and Padma." which were rumma.ged
on a spy information. The contraband items were found concealed in engine room,
false ceilings and dry water tank. Smuggled goods--four VCRs and 100 kilos of
artificial jewelry worth Rs. 6 lakhs were seized by the Special Checking Squad
from the airport in two different raids from suitcases at the airport. Two
persons were detained and let off on bonds pending investigations. [Text~
~Ka.rachi LIAWN in English 8 Oct 81 p 12~
DRiJGS SEIZED NEAR P~SHAWAR--Islamabad, 2 Oct--Customs authorities today
seize~ several. thousand pounds of opium and hashish being smuggled into
Pakistan from Afghanistan, offirial said. They said 2,816 kilos (6,195
pounds) of the drugs were found }iidden in a Karachi-bound truck officials
had stopped at a border village, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the north- �
western city of Peshawar. The driver and his assistant were both arrested.
Ttie sources said the drugs, bound for distribution outside Pakistan, were
valued at 28,000 dollars in the local market. NAB/AFP [Text] [Rangoon
THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 4 Oct 81 p 7]
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CHARAS SI:IZURE--A party of Pakistan Coast Guards was attacked in Malir following
the seizure of over 1500 kilos of charas in which sepoy Mohammad Hanif received
a bulZet wound, police reported yesterday, adding that their stra nrled jeep
(GP 1790) was later found missing rather mysteriously. Ma.jor Zafar Iqbal of the
Coast Guards reported that after the haul of 'charas' along with accused Ali
Hassan, a party of Coast Guards was returning when suddenly fire was opened on
them from a car as a result of which sepoy Hanif was injured, S ubsequently, the
jeep was stranded due to a tyre-burst near Madam Plaza on National Highwayo
T'he occupants of the jeep shifted to another vehicle and went awayo Later on,
the Coast Gua.rds arrived at the site of the jeep to carry out repairs but were
astonished to see the jeep missingo Police are investigatingo ~TextJ LKarachi
DAWN in English 11 Oct 81 p 8~
KARACHI HASHISH HAUL--Karachi customs officials arrested two customs workers and
seven otl~er persons on 22 October for attempting to export 10 maunds of hashish
_ valued at 10 million rupees. The hashish had been loaded onto a Thai airlines
plane but was discovered before the plane took off from Karachi Airport. [Karachi
MASHRIQ in Urdu 23 Oct 81 p 6 Gr]
HASHISH HAUL--'Itao customs officials and five employees of forej.gn airlines have
been arrested in an attempt to smuggle 390 kg of hashish out of the country. The
drugs were packed in cases labeled electrical equipment. The customs drug enforce-
ment cell is trying to locate the gang's foreign connections. [Kar.achi JASARAT in
= Urdu 23 Oct 81 p 10 GF]
KARACHI OPTUM HAUL--Karachi p~lice seized 21 kg of opium from a house in (Kalakot)
on 24 October. The opium is worth 400,000 rupees. The occupant of the house,
Nazir Ahmad, has been arrested. [GF281835 Karachi JANG in Urdu 25 Oct 81 p 2]
QUETTA OPIUM HAUL--The mobile squad of Ouetta customs nabbed two persons with
3,390 tolas of opium worth Rs.67.8 million in the international market yesterday.
[GF251751 Karachi DAWN in English 22 Oct 81 p 8]
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PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
CEBU MARIHUANA FARM RAIDED--Crack elements from the Cebu Metropolitan District
_ Command (Metrodiscom) raided a Marijuana field in Sitio Tabal-og Bgy, Guinda-
ruhan, Minglanilla, Cebu last Tuesday and seized a sizeable number of young
Marijuana plants numbering to about 2,000 pieces. In his report to Brig. Gen
Beunaventura Casenas, RECOM 7 Commander, Lt Col. Rodrigo de Guazman, Metro-
discom chief, disclosed that operatives of his command led by PC Staff Sergeant
Santos Marmol conducted the raid on the Marijuana field. [Excerpt] [Cebu
VISAYAN HERliLD in English Oct 19,20 81 pp l,ll]
NUEVA ECIJA MARIJUANA FARM--Army agents raided the other day a big marijuana
farm in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija and seized 5,000 fully-grown plants, 10,000
marijuana seeds and two kilos of dried leaves, military reports said yesterday.
A raiding team of the 3rd defense unit of the Army Reserve Command under Cool
Raul T. Aquino earlier placed the farm under surveillance due to frequent
sightings of transients near the farm which is on a slope of the Sierra Madre
ranges. Col. Aquino reported to Arescom commander Brig. Gen. Edon T. Yap that
the armed men tending the farm escaped before the raiders struck. They are
now being hunted by Arescom personnel and PC agents. [Text] [Manila DAILY
EXPRESS in English 9 Oct 81 p 6]
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RESYONSE TO U.S. 'PRESSURE' ON NARCOTICS DISCUSSED
BK020400 Bangkok NAT ION RLVIEW in English 2 Oct 81 p 5
[Article by Suthichai Yun]
[Text] American impatience with the lack of action in the destruction of opium
fields up north may not be c~:.veyed too bluntly to Prime MinistPr Prem Tinsulanon
during his discussions with American leaders in Washington next week. But the
presence of Palice Maj Gen Phao Sarasin, secretary general of the Office of
Narcotics Control Board, Thailand's best-known drug fighter, will certainly
rekindle attention on the problem.
"We appreciate the Thai Government's effort in cracking down on narcotics so
far. But we also believe that the Thai Government could do more to destroy
the opium fields and to seri~usly get the big drug kingpins," a senior American
diplomat told the NATION earlier this week.
There is a touch of uneasiness in his tone. "We have been promised for quite
_ some years that opium growing in 10 so-called opium-free zones would be
dispensed with. But nothing has been done about it. Just take the case
of Chang Sifu (Khun Sa~, the notorious drug kingpin with a private army of
3,000 to 4,000 men. He is known to be in the Thai side of the Thai-Burmese
border at times. But he remains at large," the American diplomat said.
While lleputy Premier Gen Prachuap Suntha~rangkun, who is in charge oc narcotics
suppression in his capacity as chairman of ONCB, will be discussing assistance
from the U.S, authorities during the visit next week, pressure will surely be
_ a~~plied, if subtly, by the American side for the Thai authorities to "do more"
in this respect.
"N~e appreciate, of course, that there has been some progress in this field,
compared witti the blatant growing of opium and operations of heroin refineries
ten years ago. But we would like to see n?ore efforts devoted to the prob].em,
_ particularly with this year's bumper crop of opium in the Golden Triangle where
about 500 to 600 tons are expected to be harvested with the good weather this
- year," the U.S. diplomat said.
When U.S. charge d'affaires Burton Levin told the opening session of a meeting
of the 1981 east Asia regional narcotics conference in Bangkok in early
September that more eff.erts must be made by government to attack big-time
opercitars and eradicate poppy fields, he was certainly referring to Thailand
as well .
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Perhaps because of the "complaint~" from the Americarz side, the office of
the Narcotics Control Board announced on Sept 14--only two weeks before
_ Prime riinister's departure for the U.S.--that a campaign would be launched
in November to eradicate poppy fields in 10 villages in Chiang Mai where
substitute crop programme had been introduced.
Obviously, the heat is on--although Thai officials maintain that it was hard
to follow rigidly the policy laid down since social, political and economic
far_tors tiad t.o be taken into consideration.
"We are not asking for miracles. We realize the complex problems involved in
the anti-narcotics task. But we certainly would like to see more efforts
from the Thai side," the American diplomat said.
The fact that Khun Sa, believe to be a narcotics kingpin of the "Golden Triangle"
with a 500,000 baht prize on his head could roam about freely on the Thai-
Burmese border area has certainly perturbed the American diplomat to a considerable
ext ent .
Pressure From Reagan on Drugs
President Reagan on Sept 28 (Monday) said in New Orleans in an address to the
International Association of Chiefs of Police that one of the major points in
his administration's new nar~otics enforcement strategy would be a"foreign
policy that vigorously seeks to interdict and eradicate illicit drugs wherever
cultivated, processed or transported--this includes the responsible used of
herbicides..." [passage published in italics]
If Reagan carried through that policy, the U.S. bnbassy in Bangkok will come
under severe pressure to get some concrete actions from Thai anti-narcotics
officials to do something drastic up in the Golden Triangle.
Reagan's plan includes the establishment of a special council on narcotics
control consisting of the attorney general and the secretaries of state,
- defence, treasury and others to "coordinate efforts to stop the drug flow
into this country."
Surely, Gen Prem will be informed in Washington of the latest move against drugs
by Reagan. And that could well mean a new phase in the Thai--U.S. cooperation
in th is area.
Prisoner Exchange; Treading on Sensitive Ground
If the drug issue is raised in Washington between 'Phai and U.S. officials,
another related topic may well come up as well--the proposal mooted by
American officials for a U.S.-Thai treaty to return drug offenders to their
- home countries to serve their sentences.
"If the American officials are unhappy over the poppy problem here, we are
equally upset over their proposal to have drug offenders serve their sentences
baclcllome. Is the U.S. Covernment really serious about showi.ng the potential
drug oEfenders that both governments mean business and that the punishment would
be harsh and uncompromising?" commented a senior Thai official,
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Unofficial discussions on the issue have been on for the past two years, accord-
ing to informed sources--but the Thai Foreign Ministry has been somewhat
reluctant to proceed to the point of committing itself to such a proposed
treaty if it was to include drug convicts as well.
Several days before Gen Prem was to leave for the U.S., it was reported that
American officials might try to link the prisoner repatriation issue with
defence assistance to Thailand when Thai and American off icials hold talks
in Washington next week.
When acting U.S. Ambassador Burton Levin was asked in a press conference with
the local press on Tuesday, he admitted that the U.S. Government would indeed
seek approval from Thailand for the repatriation of American drug offenders--
but he flatly denied that the progress of such negotiations would be linked
to American defence to Thailand.
- Levin, apparently aware of the sensitiveness of such a"linkage," told reporters:
"The repatriation would be considered on its own merits and would bear no
relation whatsoever to military aid to this country."
The reasoning from the U.S, side was not unpredictable: Such a treaty would
reduce the burden involved for both parties in rehabilitating foreign prisoners
with language and cultural problems. But the Thai off icials, particularly
tl~ose at the Foreign Ministry knowledgeable about the negotiations, said the
reasons cited by the American side were far from convincing.
- "If potential drug offenders know that they would serve th eir terms back in the
states, the deter:ent effects would be much less--notthat the prison conditions
in Thailand are all that bad. But Thai laws and Thai jails must loom very large
in ttie mental pictures for all foreigners trying to get involvPd in narcotics
one way or the other," said the seni~r Thai official.
But whatever difference of opinion there might be on. the issue, both sides are
expected to try to avoid discussing in detail the topic in Washington next week.
"They pres~unably would agree to disagree, waiting for another more opportune
timing to talk abaut it again," said a well-informed source on the issue.
Refugee Issue: Cutdown in Quota
It appears difficult for both sides to avoid stumbling, during their talks in
= Washington next week, onto the refugee problem somehow, although both sides
, ~ , ~ a ~
llclVC 1:1G1lIlCU t11t1LllCl1 lI1lUCLJ'lGLl4111~ vi. ~uc tjouc.
The latest development in Washington on the issue might not have sparked off a
panic here. But its impact would slowly sink in. The Reagan administration
only on Sept 22 sought to admit up to 120,000 Indochinese refugees in fiscal
year 1982, compared to the current year's quota of 168,000.
- "It is a cutdown, definitely if one looks at the overall quota. And there will
be further cutdowns. But the proposed decrease in admissions for the new fiscal
year was only to adjust the figure to a more realis~ic level--since in fact,
only about 125,000 Indochinese will actually be admitted for fiscal year 1981,"
said a senior American diplomat.
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He explained that the number of refugees coming from Indochina is going down
and the U.S. was only coping with the change in the outflow.
_ The U.S. diplomat said that there are a total of 195,000 Indochinese refugees
in Thailand now, 90,000 of them Kampucheans and th e rest being Laotians,
_ Vietnamese and Hmongs.
"We will continue to take about 8,000 to 10,000 a month from Thailand," the
American diploma.t said.
- Th ai authorities appear to be reasonably assured of that trend although there
are anxious minds that the U.S. cutdown in the future would make resettlement
opportunities for many refugees here shrink--particula rly with the new set of
more rigid rules governing the qualifications of refugees to be resettled in
the U.S.
The Thai leaders are expected to be told in Washington by their American
counterparts ttiat the proposed admission of up to 120,000 Indochinese next
fiscal year is an "upper limit" rather than a"operational target." The U.S.
hopes that it would not nave to take that many refugees to maintain the
principle of first asylum and humane treatment of thos e who have already
arrived in Southeast Asia.
When U.S, undersecretary of state for political affairs Walter Stoessel told the
Senate Judiciary ~ubcommittee on Immigration and Refug ee Policy on Sept 22 that
the State Department would "make every effort" to operate the programme at
"lower admission rates," Thai officials certainly weren't quite appeased by the
statement. After all, the Thai Government has been trying every possible means
to reduce the current refugee population as soon as possible while trying to
apply "humane deterrence" against new arrivals.
Both sides are expected to settle for an acceptable and realistic solution.
~'~}1~I1 U.S. Attorney Ceneral William French Smith testified before the Senate
subconunittee on Sept 22, he did not fail to point out the anxiety expressed
by "countri.es of tirst asylum" in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, which,
_ in his own words, "have borne a heavy burden as a result of the instabilities
in Indoct~ina since 1975. They have not been prepared to do so without an
assurance t}lat the international community intended to continue to provide its
assistance in the onward resettlement of most of these refugees."
When the refugee issue is raised, Thai and American officials will be discussing
additional means of "humane deterrerice" to discourage the departure from their
homelands of those leaving for reasons other than pers ecution.
7'he discussion will also touch on the definition of a"refugee." Thai officials
have accepted the American line that persons who leave solely to seek economic
betterment do not meet the definition of refugae upon departure--but persecution
can 1I1(~, very often, does take an economic form,
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American officials have generally accepted the new tougher Thai policy of not
labellin~; tliose wtlo arrive here af.ter Aug 15, this year "refugees." Their
chancc~ti c~l" being biven resettlement in third countries would be given the
"low~st priority."
Both Thai and American officials said a drastic drop in new refugee arrivals
has been detected--but whether it's tt~e new policy or the monsoon stornis that
has brought this about remains unclear.
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- THAILr1ND
(dOMAN ~RRLSTED WITH HEROIN E:TROUTE TG BEIJING
Bangkok ~:IGKOK POST in English 20 Sep 81 p 2
[Te:tt]
~ n ~ .~..~..,....~.EE.....~ , . , ~
_ :
- AIRPORT Customs of� ' ` ~
ficials yesterday accused ~
a 93-year~old Thai woman "
of try~ng to smuggle stx
kiloqrammes uf :Vo. i
first grede heroin to Pek� UNEMPL~YED
- ing. - , �
The woman. ltiss
Nualsaer?g Lertpae� Offlcials quoted 1111ss
sanawat, was arre~te~by :Vualseang as admitting
Don Aluang o(ticials as chat she used to work as a
she was about to board a waitress in a Bangkok ~
Civil Aviation Ad� gambling den, and
ministration of China became unemployed
tlight to Peking yester� after tNe illegal den wa~
day morninR. closed down.
- Customs otficials said She was a heavy
they fvund the heroin in gambler and was heavily
18 packages, hidden in in debt, so when she was .
specially�made secret told her debt would be
compartments in the two cleared if she smuggled ~ t~ ,-a
- suitcases she was carry the drugs to Peking, she r~ ;
ing. agreed. Hiss Nualseang "'f- � ~
was quoted as saying. ,
' 'Lhe jWtcases.v~ouiil s~rq ` `
claimed ~by an oYher ~ ~
pe~conat PekingAirport~
she reportedly told
Customs investiqa[ors.
The plan was to ailay the
suspicions ot Hong Konq '
- Customs by routinq the
druQs ~ia Peking, poHce
said.
Vliss :~iualseang was In-
itially charged with pos-
sessing the drug with ln-
tent to sell and at�
tempUng to smuggle it ~ '
abroad. She was handed ~+`;;,'~y~ ~ ~ ,
over to Crime Suppres~ Mtsa Nualeeang w~th the 18 packagea she ta
sion Division police for ~~ed nf hauing trted to amuggle to Pektng.
furtherinterrugatlon.
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THAILAND
BURMA DRUG CARAVAN CLASHES WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES
BIC100100 Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 10 Oct 81 pp 1, 18
[tlrticle by Subin Kl~uankaeo]
~'Cext] Chiang Rai.--A suspectecl drug caravan that ran into f.ire from government
fc~rces un Wednesday (7 Uctober] was reported returning to the Burmese border
areas yesterday afLer a 2-day clash that left heavy casualties on both sides.
Informed sources told the BANGKOK POST that the drug caravan of about 200 mules,
believes to be carrying drugs controlled by narcotics kingpin Khun Sa, was
heading back to Burma at tlie area near Khun Mae Kham along with the k.ingpin
and troops of the Shan United Army.
The sources said they b elieved up to 24 rangers had been killed in the battle
in which they came under mortar fire from the caravan guards in the Ban Hin
Taek area.
Fifteen rangers of the fast mobile unit of 153rd Company from Pakthongchai,
Nakhon Ratchasima, survived but six were badly wounded and had to be carried
out in stretchers by a rescuing Iiorder Fatrol Police [BPP] unit.
`li~e sources said a hilltribesman yesterday reported to a BPP platoon base in
I3an Hin Taek, that he had seen "many" dead bodies, believed to be those of
ttie ran~;ers, lyin~; near. the rtae Pok stream, about 100 metres from Ban A-Hai
wlter.c Chc battle tc~ok place.
'llie sources said tl~e actual mission of the ranger unit, which was kept so secret
- that not even provincial internal security operations command officials were
aware of. it, was to captiire Khun Sa for whose arrest the government has offered
a 500,000-baht reward.
According to the 5ources, the 39-man ranger unit was bused from Pakthongchai
llistrict to Mae ~i Distric.t of Chiang Mai where they disembarked and trekked
on foot along the jungle patli for two days toward Ban Hin Taek.
'1'he rsnger unit came across the 200-mule drug caravan in Ban Ko Samakkhi and
was ~.tt-acked by the guards, forcing the unit to flee north toward Ban A-Hai.
Tlie rangers camped near Mae Pok stream in Van A-Hai but durir_g the night,
according to one surviving ranger, they were surrounded by hundreds of caravan
guards.
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The attack came at abo~.t 4 a.m. Thursday and lasted about three hours.
Informed sources said the drug caravan and its guards had been chased across
the Thai border by Burmese Government forces. They added the guards might have
mistaken the rangers as Burmere troops and started the attack.
A BPP platoon which was sent into Ban A-Hai to rescue the rangers Thursday
reportedly found 15 shallow holes of mortar emplacements in the gnounds.
That incidated mortars had been used in pounding the besieged ranger unit.
Informed sources said the mystery surrounding the ranger mission deepened
_ further when border patrol policemen in Mae Chan District here Thursday
intercepted a bus and a pick-up truck carrying about 100 tough-looking men in
plainclothes.
Many wPapons were Cound on the two vehicles.
The sources said the men later confessed to the BPP men that they were in fact
rangers from PaktYiongchai. But they declined to disclose why they had come
to the province witr~ their deadly weapons.
The rangers later set �.~p a rear command at a teak reafforestation plot in
_ Mae Chan,
Three BPP platoons were again yesterday sent into Ban A-Hai to look for any
surviving rangers. Tliey later found the six seriously wounded rangers taking
refube in a village and carried them back to Ban Hin Taek in bamboo stretchers.
Informed sources said all the BPP units had already withdrawn to their bases.
The Supreme Command in Bangkok said Thai troops skirmished with about 700 gunmen
of a drug caravan in Ban flin Taek, but sdded ~.t had no reports of casualties.
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~rxAZL~vv
BRIEFS
CONTROL OF CHEMICAL FLOW--Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prachuap Suntharangkun, in
his capacity as chairman of the Narcotics Control Board, has instructed the
governors of Chian~ Mai and Chiang Rai Provinces to prevent the flow of chemicals
~ used in heroin refining, such as acetic anhydri_de, from getting into the provinces
and then on to the border heroin refineries. Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin, secretary
general of ttie Narcotics Control Board, reported that the governors of the two
provinces had been asked to establish control measures which might include the
setting up of check~oints. TE effective, the move will contribute to the preven-
tion of heroin refining. The secretary general of the Narcotics Control Board
said Thailand must also continue to cooperate with Malaysia to sto~: the flow of
such chemicals from Malaysia into Thailand via their common border. Malaysia is
- considering the enactment of a law for the control of chemicals used in heroin
production. If this step is taken, it is hoped that prevention and suppression
of neroin production would yield a better result, he said. [Text] [BK050927
Bangkok Domestic Service in Thai 0530 GMT 4 Oct 81]
- U.S. PRISONER EXCHANGE--Thailand has agreed in principle to a proposal to sign
a treaty to exchange prisoners with the United States, secretary general of the
Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCN) Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin said
- yesterday. He said the agreement was reached during Premier Prem Tinsulanon's
visit to the U.S. last week. The U.S. Government cited the quality of the rations
and living conditions in the 7'hai prisons as the main reasons to support the
signing of the proposed treaty, he said. Phao said it is also a policy of the
Corrections I)epartment to cut down the numbers of inmates who are crowded in
prisons. 'Clie Interiar Ministry, he said, will be responsible for drafting a law
for the exclianke treaty. llnder the treaty prisoners will be repatriated to serve
the rest of their sentences in their home countries. [Text] [BK160325 Bangkok
~ NATION REVIEW in English 16 Oct 81 p 2]
SONGKHLA HEItOIN RF.FINERY RAIDED--Police yesterday morning smashed what they
described as a major heroin refinery owned by a Malaysian on the Thai-Malaysian
border, police said. Arsian~ Sae Wong, 26, who was arrested during the police
. raid, said that the refinery which had a capacity of producing about 2 kg of heroin
a day be~an operatiotis about 3 months ago with the financial support of a Malaysian.
He said he had rio knowled~e about the identity of the Malaysian owner. Arsiang
was arrested with a shot~un while he was tending the refinery situated on a rubber
plantation in Sadao District, Songklha Province, about 1 lan from the Thai-Malaysian
border. Police also four.d aboi~t 500 grams of heroin during the raid. A senior
police official said that the Thai drug officials would seek cooperation from the
- Malaysian police to track down the owner of the heroin processing plant. [Bangkok
NATION REVIEW in En~;lish 20 Oct 81 p 1~
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HEROIN ARRESTS--Bangkok, 25 Sept--An American and an Italian were Wednesday
found guilty in t}~e I3angkok criminal court on separate charges of possessing
- heroin with intent to sell and were sentenced to jail terms of 25 years and
20 years respectively. Fifty-two-year-old American Jerry Fortenberry was
arrested in December last year at Don Muang Airport as he was about to board
a flight to the States. Customs officials seized 193 grammes of No 4 heroin
hidden in a secret compartment of the bag he was carrying. Fortenberry told
the court he was }iired to deliver the drugs to a man in California, and the
- court heard that after information Fortenberry gave to US Drug Enforcement
Administration agents here, his alleged financier in the States was arrested.
Dominico ~enolini-Loria, who was sentenced to 20 years in jail, was arrested
in P1ay l.ast ~~e-ar in his Bangkok hotel room with his two roommates. Police
s~~ized 34 ~rammes af No 4 heroin. He was refused bail, but his friends were
granted bail in Se~tember last year and fled the country.--NAB/AFP [Text]
[ Rangoon T}iE WORKTNC PEOPLF.' S DAILY in Engli~}i 26 Sep 81 p 5]
DRUG FINANCIER ARRLSTFD--Four men, including an alleged financier of a drugs
smugglin~; ring operating between the north and the south, were arrested yester-
day with over ll k~; oF morphine blocks in Bangkok Noi, Thon Buri. The alleged
financier was identified as Vira Kasempong, 39, reportedly a Songkhla school
owner. '1'tie four men wert found, during a crime suppression police team raid,
packin~; seven blo~~ks of morphine bearing the 9�9 brand. The drugs weighed a
total of 11,34U grams. Yolice alleged that Vira and his gang, wh~:ch included
some norttierners wtio were not in the house during the raid, were responsible
for regularly siiPplying morphine from the north to heroin refineries said to be
located in jungle areas in the south close to the Thai-Malaysian border. They
added that Vira was known to have been operating an illicit drugs trafficking
ring for some time and his name was on police records. He had never been
~irrested, however, until yesterday. The four men were initially charged with
il.l.e~;al possession of morphine with intent to sell and were being held for
furttier questioniri~; ~it the crime suppression division. [BK231132 Bangkok
BANGKOK POS'1 in English 21 Oct 81 p 5 BK]
Bt1NGKOK H[:ROIN SEl'I.IIRE--rtetropolitan narcotics unit police said they arrested
twc~ men ycsterday and seized 2 kg of high-grade heroin in front of an automobile
showroom in the Hua Mark area. Yesterday's seizure brought the amount of heroin
confi.scated in Bangkok by police since the beginning of the month to 13.2 kg,
E>olice said. The two suspects nabbPd yesterday w~re later identified as
Sombc~on K~r.nkam, 33, a n~.itive of Chiang Rai, and Sanan Jaijarn, 26. A third
- incn~, ident i f ied ati 'i'hon~bal A1~lhamarn, escaped the police dragnet and is still
a~ 1~ir~;e. [Bangkc~k IiANCKOh YOST in English 17 Oct 81 p 3 BK)
ON1Uht llI~.ALERS SI:N'I'LNCLI)--'1'he provincial court yesterday stntenced a police
tier~;~~ant and fuur other pc:rsons to jai.l terms of 9 to 40 years for possessing
wi~h intc~nt to s~~7.1 40 kilo~;ranunes of opium. The five men were arrested in
I~chruary last ye�i- by nurcoti.cs suppression police. The gang members, led
b~,~ I'ol. Mtit S};t Pairu.j Yetchnon~chum, were arrested in the act o� delivering
the opium to undercc~ver. police p~sing as drug merchants. 'ihe four others
w~r.e identitied a~ Sumsak '1'liongkaew, Charuek Nokkaew, Mrs Somsri Promsuwan
rlnd Som Suwanchana. [I~an~;kok BANGKOK POST in English 3 Oct 81 p 2 BK]
~ ili~;KO1N ULS'f'll]13U'1'~II:S ~\Itit1:5'fP.U--I~our men, believed to be major heroin distributors
in ~amut Saklic~n Pruvi~icc, were arrested ye5terday afternoon with 5 kilogrammes
uf No. 4 first ~;racic l~eroin alle~edly smuggled from Mae Sai, the country's
northernmost district in Cl~ian~; Rao. Arrested were Seri Niyomphan, a Mae Sai
resi.dent and owner of- a,jewelry shop there, three Samut Sakhon residents--
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1'in I'rinutatsanak;iun, former police private Samphao Hinchasi and Panya Faknikon.
'I'hey pleaded guilty to tt~c charges of possessing the heroin with intent to sell
and were handed over to crime suppression police for further questioning.
Ttie arrests were the result of several months of investigation by a joint
n3rcotics suppressiun and Samut Sakhon police team that large amounts of heroin
_ were frequently smuggled from the north and transited in Samut Sakhon before
being transported to t}ie soutl~. [Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 16 Oct 81 p 2 BK]
rWItIHUANA RING LEADERS SEh'fI;NCF.D--Nonthaburi provincial court yesterday sentenced
an American c1I1(~ four '1'hais, including an army captain and a customs official,
to jail terms of 30 to 45 years after finding them guilty of producing and
possessing over 500 kg of marijuana, 9 kg of hashish and 15 kg of hashish oil
witti intent to sell. Sentenced to 45 years was American Robert Richard Kimba~l,
whom ttie court sai.d was leader and financier of a large international marijuana
smuggling ring. nrmy Captain Somchai Siripong, formerly attached to ~he llth
Infantry Regiment, was sentenced to 30 years. The court said he operated a
marijuana processing factory in his houses in Nonthaburi and at the llth Infant~y
Regiment compound. Soplion Sunalai, formerly attached to the customs investigation
unit at llon Muanfi Airport, had his sentence reduced to 20 years imprisonment
because his confession to police aided the case. The other two men, Arom
Pumpeerapruen and Iamkiang Sae Ian, were each sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.
'Phe men were arrested on 20 October 1980 in a series of raids in Bangkok and
Nonthaburi by teams of crime suppression division police who seized marijuana
and marijuana packing equi.pment. The court was told that the raids were based
on inforct~ation su~pli.ed by police informants and foreign narcotics agents in
Bangkok, [Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 21 Oct 81 p 3 BK]
POLiCE LINK IN SEI'LURE--Chiang Mai--Police yesterday seized 1.9 kg of No 4
first grade heroin here and uncovered a letter implicating a police officer
in a plot to get a drug suspect out of jail. Chiang Mai drug suppression police
seized the heroin at a house on Inthawarorot Road in the provincial town and
arrested rtiss Saisunee Kaewboonruang, charging her with possessing the drug with
intent to sell. Police said they were looking for a Kachin hilltribe man, named
~is Sub-Lt Lakorn, wtio reportedly fled from the house before the police arrived.
Police charged that he was the supplier of drugs to the house. They said they
found an TD card bearing his name, issued in the name of the internal security
operations command, at the house. Yolice said they also found a letter to Sub-Lt
Lakurn from a druk; ;;uspect being detained at Hat Yai police station. The
letter asked Lakorn to se11 the remaining heroin at the house and send the money
to ttie soutti, t}irough a pol ice of. ficer who had promised to help get the suspect
off. the char.ge, pc~lice s~iicl. They said the policeman's name was mentioned in
the L~~tter, but refused to disclose it. [Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English
2U l)c~ 81 p 5 13KJ -
HF;ROIN POSSGSSION SENTENCIs--Bangkok, 3 Oct--Twenty-eight-year-old Italian
Giorgio Consolini ~aas yesterday sentenced by the Bangkok Criminal Court to
25 years in jail for possession of heroin with the intention to sell. Conso-
lini was original.ly sentenced to life imprisanment, but the term was contin-
ued bec~ause he pleaded guilty to the charge. The young Italian tourist was
arrested .in Apr.il this year at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport as he was about
to board a f.light to the Philippines. Customs officials seized 148 grammes
of }leroi.n i~e was carr.ying around his waist. NAB/AFP [Text] [Rangoon THE
idORKINC PEOPLE'S llAILY in English 4 Oct 81 p 4]
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
FATE OF SEIZED COCA--La Paz, 20 Oct (AFP)--The periodical LOS TIEMPOS of La Paz
reported here today tliat peasants from Chapare, Cochabamba Department in the
central repion of the country, are not aware of the f inal destination of the loads
ofcoc:i seized by a~ents of the rlarcotics Control Office. Peasant leaders from
the zone liave indicated that between 10 and 15 loads of coca estimated at 80,000
Bolivian pesos (43,200) ar.e seized daily. They have requested that the officials
responsible for that oCfice to report on the objective and final destination of
the loads which had been seized, because nothing has been said so far in this
r.egard. They also reported that the control agents themselves force the peasants
to sell them their production of coca for 4,000 Bolivian pesos ($160) to resell
them again to other dealers for double the price. [Z'ext] [PY211402 Paris AFP
in Spanish 2222 GMT 20 Oct 81]
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BRAZIL
COCAINE, MARIHUANA TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED TN JARDIM BOTANICO
Tip Leads to Arrest
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 5 Sep 81 p 11
LText7 Rancher Alvaro Marques Luz, aged 24, was caught red-handed and booked at the
Narcotics Bureau for drug addiction and trafficking after being taken unawares with
marihuana and cocaine evening before last at the apartment of trafficker Valeria Lemos
_ Telles, in Rua Ministro Arthur Ribeiro, in Jardim Botanico. Valeria is at large, but
at her home the police confiscated her three memorandum books containing the names of
more than i00 customers.
Alvaro, who resides at Sao Bernardo ranch, in Muri, Nova Friburgo, and calls himself
a self-employed craftsman, said he has known Valeria for at least 3 years and knew
she was a trafficker because he sought her frequently to purchase marihuana. Day
before yesterday, he went with his wife, Simone de Souza Cavalcanti, to Valeria's
apartment and Valeria--having to go out--asked him to take care of her customers.
She told him that, if a stranger came he should try to get rid of the drugs.
Through photographs, Alvaro recognized traffickers Jose Carlos de Souza, or Cacau,
Valeria's supplier, and Mem Xavier da Silveira.
The police went to Valeria's apartment after receiving anonymous tips indicating that
she was supplying drugs to people in society and in the artists' circle. They had
obtained a search warrant to enter the apartment.
Upon seeing the police, Alvaro Luz got rid of a certain amount of marihuana by
throwing it out the window. However, marihuana and cocaine were found on the premises.
Actor's Check
'.rhe rancher said that shortly before the police arrived at the apartment, he sold
c.ocaine to an actor who bought 2 grams with a check for 7,000 cruzeiros and ret~~rned
later to get 2 more grams, then giving a check for 14,000 cruzeiros. At the same
- time, he tore up the first check. The police found the remains of the first check in
- the trash, put the pieces together and submitted the torn check as evidence at the ~
trial.
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In Usina
Trafficker pomingo Maximiano de Oliveira, or Paulo Luneta, aged 46, was arrested
yesterday after a chase which began in Rua Sao Miguel, on the slope of Moxro do Sorel,
Usina da Tijuca, and ended in Avenida Edson Passos, near Estrada Velha da Tijuca.
Paulo Luneta, who was driving a Brasilia with license plate NR Q920, was interceptec7
by patrol 52 0073 of the Sixth Military Police Battalion manned by Corporal Vitor
and Privates Oliveira, Jorge and Carlos Jorge.
According to the military police, Luneta was driving the Brasilia in Rua Sao Miguel
and when he saw the patrol car approaching in the opposite direction, turned his car
- around in the road. He then sped towa~d Avenida Edson Passos where he was stopped.
He was disarmed and in his car which was searched the police found no drugs.
The criminal, who has been sought for some time, says he is a businessman residing
and conductiny business on Presidente Dutra Highway, kilometer 162, in Itatiaia,
Resende. Meanwhile, according to the police,he nad taken on all the drug sales
outlets belonging to his partner, Congo, killed by gunshot at ~aixada Fluminense
- some time ago~ In the opinion of the officers of the Narcotics Bureau where he was
interrogated, Paulo Luneta got rid of the drug in Borel.
Act~r To Explain Check
Sao Paulo O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 9 Sep 81 p 16
Lfiext7 Rio--Actor Lauro Corona, who was to appear yesterday at 1500 hours at Rio's
Narcotics nureau to make a statement, did not appear and will bP questioned by Deputy
Walterson. He was being sought to explain how one of his checks came into the hands
of cocaine trafficker Alvaro Marcus Liuzzi, arrested on 4 September at a Lagoa
upartment in Zona Sul. The owner of the apartment, Valeria Lemos Telles, and Mem
Xavier da Silveir~ are to make a deposition today attended by Attorney Marcio Donnici.
Mem was "courier" for the gang broken up by the golice, acting as contact man between
the supplier and traffickers who distributed the drug.
Lauro Corona did not justify his absence and Deputy Walterson waited for him until
evening. Valeria and Mem Xavier were also supposed t~ make a deposition yesterday,
- but Attorney ~larcio Donnici went to the Narcotics Bureau to explain that his clients
could not appear until today.
Trafficker Alvaro Marcus Liuzzi was arrested .in apartment 402, at Rua Ministro Arthur
Ribeiro 82, Lagoa.
The po.lice arrived on the scene as a result of an anonymous tip. The apartment
belongs to Valeria Lemos Telles and, according to Alvaro, was abandoned to serve for
the distribution of cocaine. The trafficker said that shortly before the police
arrived, actor Laura Corona was at the apartment and bought 4 grams of cc~caine,
paying with ~ check for ].4,000 cruzeiros. The police also found some memorandum books
with names of. the gang's customers. The names were all people in Rio's high society
and art.ists' circles, who are to be summoned for questioning. In the memorandum
books the customers are reterred to by their first names only, such as Ivan, Odilia,
. M~rta, Marcio, Belem, Gil and Chico; the names are being traced.
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,7udge To Question Traffickers
Rio de Janeiro O GLOBO in Portuguese 10 Sep 81 p 11
~ext] ,7udge Mario Ernesto Ferreir~ of the 28th Criminal Court accepted yesterday
the charge of drug trafficking made by Prosecutor Adolfo Borges Filho against rancher
Alvara Marcus Liuzzi and Valeria Lemos Telles who were using apartment 402-5 at Rua
Arthur Ribeiro 82, in Jardim Botanico, to sell marihuana and oocaine.
Charges were also brought against an actor for using cocaine purchased from Liuzzi
and paid for with a check for 14,000 cruzeiros. All will be questioned Tuesday.
The judge also grantedthe prosecutor's request for the Narcotics Bureau to investigate
the involvement of Jose Carlos de Souza, or Cacau, indicated by Liuzzi as a supplier
of drugs to Valeria, and of Mem Xavier da Silveira, accused of being the contact man
with addicts of the artists' circle.
Alvaro Liuzzi was arrested on 3 September at the apartment used for trafficking while
in possession of 18 grams of marihuana and 3 grams of cocaine. According to her
attorney, Marcio Luiz Donnici, Valeria entered the Botafogo Clinic on 8 September
for psychiatric treatment. For this charge the two could b~ sentenced to prison
for 6 to 30 years.
Rancher Arrested for Trafficking
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 5 S~p 81 p 1
LText/ Rancher Alvaro Marqu~s Luz (shown in photo below) was arrested at an apart~rent
in Jardim Bot~nico where the police found marihuana and cocaine. The apartment belongs
to drug trafficker Valeria Lemos Telles who asked Alvaro to take care of her customers
while she was away. Valeria is a fugitive.
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- TV Technician Denies Involvement
Rio de Janeiro O GLOBO in Portuguese 12 Sep 81 p 14
Lfiext] TV technician Mem Xavier da Silveira showed up yesterday at the Narcotics
Bureau accompanied by Attorney Marcio Donnici to oontest charges made against him of
being a druj trafficker and supplier of drugs to actors.
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rk~m Xav.ier ~aas ac~cii5cd hy ranch~r Alvaro Marcus Liuzzi who was arrested last
Thursday with Valeria Lemos Telles at her apartment at Rua Ministro Arthur Ribeiro,
in Jardim ~otanico, in possession of a small quantity of marihuana and 3 grams of
cocaine. Alvaro is ~till being held and Valeria is at a clinic for traatment as an
addict.
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BRAZIL
U.S. CHAR~FS CGNCERNING AMAZQV REGION C(ME AS NO SURPRISE
Sao Paulo O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 4 Sep 81 p 15
LText7 Manaus--The disclosure ma~e by the American DEA CDrug Enforcement Administratio~--
a U.S. organization specializing in the fight against drugs--that the Amazon region
is now a large producer and exporter of cocaine came as no surprise to the Federal
Police authorities in Manaus; it was the Brazilian agents themselves who informed
their colleagues in the United States about the action being carried on by international
traffickers in the Amazon River regi~n, principally after they has3 broken up an
organization operating out of Manaus in July 1980.
What surprised the Federal Police D~partment was finding great quantities of the drug
being cultivated in its native state in the area, not under the name of coca but
under that of "epadu," with the Indians doing the planting and exporting the dry
� leaves and paste to Colambian traffickers who proceed to convert the material into
powder in the Mitu and Miraflores areas of Colombia within a few kil aneters of the
Brazilian border. Epadu is a plant known to the natives and used in their sacred
- rituals, always in small quantities and never for commercial purpose s.
Ivo Americano, regional superintendent of the Federal Police, said yesterday he has
no doubt that Indians of the r4acu and Tucano tribes living in Alto Rio Negro are
the ones who are producing epadu in larger quantities and that they even have the
technical knowledge to dry the leaves and crnvert them into paste, which they sell
at prices ranging froan 20,000 to 50,000 cruzeiros per kilogram. Denouncing the fact
that tt~e Macu and Tucano Indians receive little help from the FUNAI LNa~ional
Indian Foundation7 and are aided only partially by the Salesian missions, Ivo Americano
deplored the lack of funds and interest on the part of organizations connected with
this sector which should be taking stricter action in the area, "not against the
Indians," he said, "who are acting under the influence of third parties," but against
traffickers.
According to area experts, the Indians of Alto Rio Negro do not always receive money
from the Colombians for the paste, preferring portable radios, batte ri~s, weapons and
amm~nitionfor huntiny, and fishing gear.
The criticisms of the regional superintendent of Federal Police were contested hy
- FUNAI's representative in Manaus, who agreed, however, that it was necessary to prevent
the Indians fr~n being induced to abandon their traditional small plantings to plant
only epadu. Another reason for th~ corrective action, according to the officials, is
that such activity could effect serious changes in native culture, since the plant
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should be used only in ri*_uals. The FUNAI officials also said that an agricultural
project has already been nroposed to the Macu and Tucano Indians forbidding the
planting of epadu but that, up to now,the proposal has not become a reality.
The area where the Federal Police discovered large plantings of coca is contained within
a region known as "Boca de Cachorro," bound by the Icana, Tiquie and Papuri rivers,
with about 200 square ki~ orneters of land which is rough and of difficult access due
- to crags as well as the rivers. The federal agents recently discovered another
fact: the traffickers are no longer converting the coca into chlorine hydrate, since
it is a slow and costly process, but just commercializinq the epadu powaer, that is,
the ground and sifted leaves, which are rustic but ec oncmical processes.
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BRAZIL
B RIEFS
POLICE ARREST TRAFFICKERS--Sao Paulo--After receiving an anonymous telephone call,
police of the Western Department arrested three traffickers yesterday and confiscated
1.7 kg of cocaine at a hote~ apartment located at Rua Frei Caneca, in the Bela Vista
district. Those arrested are the driver, Djalma Lopes, aged 28, who lived in the
apartment with his wife and two children; tractor driver Walter do Amaral, who lives
in Paraguay; and realtor Antonio Carlos Alonso, aged 25. The cocaine was in the false
bottom of a suitcase in a clothes closet, mixed with children's clothes. The
suspects said that the drug was to be sold in nightclubs in the so-called "Boca do
Luxo" area among addicts of high society for 5,000 cruzeiros per gram. [1`ext7 /~io
de Janeiro O GLOBO in Portuguese 12 Sep 81 p 57 8568
COCAINE SEIZED IN CORUMBA--Campo Grande--Within :.i~e past 10 days Federal Police agents
in Corumba seized 11.5 kg of pure cocaine in three consecutive operations; the drug
was being i:ransported from Santa C.ruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, to Rome, Italy. Two
Spaniards and one Bolivian couple were arrested; their names are being withheld.
~ D~puty Marco Antonio Lousada said that the three parcels of cocaine were to pass via
Campo Grande to Sao Paulo and from there to Rome. The Federal Police did not succeed
in identifying possible intermediaries inasmuch as the Bolivian couple said they were
to deliver the plastic bags containing 8.7 kg of the drug to an unknown man who was
to be waiting at the Congonhas Airport. The two Spaniards, being held at the Federal
- Police Precinct after being ar.rested on 20 and 23 August each having 1.4 kg of cocaine
- in his possession, already had their flight booked fran Sao Paulo to Rome where they
were to deliver the two parcels. LTex~ /I~io de Janeiro O GLOBO in Portuguese 2
Sep 81 p 8568
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
- PLANE WITH riARIHUANA CRASHES--Tijuana--A six-seater small plane, presumably loaded
with marihuana, crashed on the beach near Ciudad Obregon, with a toll of one person,
_ apparently its pilot, dead. This report was made by the coordinator of the antidrug
:amp~aign in the northwestern part of the country, Aaron Juarez Jimenez, who noted
th�t the accident had occurred last Friday, but that the incident was kept confiden-
tiaZ to facilitate the investigation. The official explained that one of the patrols
carried out by Federal Judicial Police agents at about 1100 hours on the morning of
that day, discovered the remains of the plane on the edge of the beach, and the body
of an individual who has not yet been identified, floating in the water. Also in
- the water, they found a box containing 18 kilograms of marihuana, apparently part
of a shipment which may have amounted to a ton of that drug. The results of the
investigation thus far appear to indicate that the plane experienced some malfunction,
and when the pilot tried to land in the water and ease the fall, he lost control of
the aircraft which crashed on the edge of the beach. In the opinion of the authori-
ties, the rest of the shipment was lost in the sea, and the aircraft was discovered
at least 4 hours after the accident had happened. The public authorities of the area
were notified of the incident, and the investigations on the part of the federal
entity are continuing, to determine the origin of the shipment and the identity of
the corpse. [Text] [Mexicali LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in Spanish 28 Sep 81 Sec B p 12]
2909
HELICOPTERS SE~1T TO TAMAULIPAS--The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic
has sent several helicopters with special equipment to the northern zone of Tamaulipas
For the purpose of making reconnaissance flights in this area, which will help to
- combat the drug trafEic. The intervention with aireraft will last for several days,
and is an activity that is part of the permanent Operation Condor. Yesterday sfter-
noon, one of those helicopters arrived at the local airport, and others are due to
arrive between last night and this morning. They will number no fewer than 10, plus
some small airplanes provided with fumigating equipment to destroy drug plantations.
The action will take place from the northern coast of Tamaulipas to Nuevo Laredo, and
will be headed by Carlos Aguilar Garza, regional coordinator of the Federal Judicial
Police. In making the foregoing announcement last night, Comdr Victor Manuel Mar.tinez
Guerra, of the Federal Judicial Police group detailed to Matamoros, said that they
would be working intensively for several days, with the aid of the helicopters sent
by the Attorney General's Office. With this assistance, they will attempt to find
all the pattss in the rural area used by the drug trafficking rings to transport the
drugs, in order to curb this illegal activity insofar as possible. He also indicated
that a detailed search is being made of the entire northern section of Tamaulipas,
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in order to discover ciny possible marihuana or poppy plantations. [Text) [H. Matamoros
EL BRAVO in Spanish 24 Sep 81 Sec A p 14] 2909
CUCAINE FROM CUZCO SEIZED--Mexico City, 18 September (NOTIMEX)--The North American
Ramiro Vazquez Salazar was caught by Federal Judicial Police agents as he was attempt-
ing to bring into the country over half a kilogram of pure cocaine worth more than
10 million pesos. Vazquez Salazar was coming from Ecuador to the capital's aiiport
with several packages attached to his body, but t~ie Federal Police succeeded in
discovering and capturing him. When questioned, he said that he was taking the
drugs to the United States, and that he had purchased them in the town of Cuzco
from an unknown person who had been recommended to him. The federal agents put the
presumed drug trafficker at the disposa]. of the agent of the Federal Public Ministry.
and the pertinetit action will be taken against him. [Text] [Piedras Negras EL DIARIO
DE PIEDKAS NEGRAS in Spani.sh 19 Sep 81 p 1] 2909
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PARAGUAY
BRIEF5
DRUG TRAFFICKERS--It has been reported that 11 alleged drug traffickers have been
arrested in Concepcion. They are: Segundo Davalos, Jose Prieto, Teodoro Quinonez,
Isidro Bogarin, Simeon Fernandez, Luciano Cubillas, Victorino Morel, Genaro Morel,
Jose Cordeiro de Moura, Mercedes Rodriguez Dominguez and Maria dos Santos.
[Asuncinn ULTIMA HORA in Spanish 9 Oct 81 p 30] A marijuana trafficker has been
arrested by personnel from the Investigations Department. His name is Derlis
Sanabria and he was arrested in Fernando de La Mora. [Asuncion ABC COLOR in
Spanish 29 Sep 81 p 20J Personnel from the Dangerous Drugs and Narcotics Department
have captured Ildefonso Insua Audisio in an area close to the Bolivian border.
His brother, Osvaldo Incua was able to escape. It has been reported that cocaine
paste, ether, acetone and a single side band transmitter were seized. [Asuncion
LA TRIBUNA in Spanish 9 Oct 81 p 19]
CSO: 5300/2032
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VENEZUELA
- BRIEFS
NARCOTICS SEIZURE--Officers of the Judicial Technical Police, PTJ, confiscated a
shipment of drugs valued at half million bolivares. The suspects, identified as
(Haydee Coromoto Gonzalez), (Carlos Daniel Gualipa Lazaro) and (Humberto de Jesus
- Padilla), were captured by PTJ agents as they traveled on the highway between the
cities of San Cristobal and San Antonio, in Tachira. A search of the automobile
- led to the discovery of secret compartments containing bags of marihuana, cocaine
and opium, according to the PTJ source. [PA010241 Caracas Radio Rumbos Network
in Spanish 2100 GMT 30 Sep 81]
CSO: 5300/2029
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IRAN
BRIEFS
TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH HEROIN SEIZURE--The Torbat-e Heydariyeh Islamic Revolution Guard
Corps has seized 500 grams of heroin from one person. [GF192023 Mashhad Domestic
Service in Persian 1430 GMT 19 Oct]
TORBAT-E E~;YDARLYI}I QPIUM SEIZURE--The Torbat-e Heydariyeh Islamic Revolution Guard
Corps has seized 8 kg of opium during the past week. [GF192023 M3shhad Domestic
Service in Persian 1430 GMT 19 Oct 81]
SHIRAZ OPIUM JUICE--The Shiraz Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 1.5 kg
of opium juice and has arrested three persons in this connection. [GF211620 Shiraz
Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT 20 Oct 81]
_ TORl3AT-E H~YDARIYEIi DRUG DEALER--The Islamic Revolution Court of Torabt-e Heydariyeh
has sentenced Mrs Haqdust, daughter of Heydar, to 10 years in prison for possession
of 2.25 kg of opium juice. [GF211620 Mashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT
20 Oct 81]
_ TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH OPIUM JUICE--The Torbat-e Heydariyeh Islamic Revolution Guard
Corr~s has seized 350 grams of opium juice and one bar of opium from two persons.
[GF2].1620 ::ashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 21 Oct 81]
TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH OPIUM--The Torbat-e Heydariyeh Islamic Revolution Court has
sentenced one person to 15 years in prison for possession of 6.3 kg of opium.
[G1~211620 Mashhad Uomestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 21 Oct 81]
SHIRAZ HEROIN SEI7.URF.--The Shiraz Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 29 grams
of heroin from one person. [GF211620 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT
21 Oct 81]
MASfiFiAD HEROIN :LI7.URE--'fhe Mashhad Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 625
grams of. heroin from one person. [CF221539 Mashhad Domest:ic Service in Persian
1430 cM~r 22 oct 81]
MASHHAll AIRPORT DRUG SEIZURE--The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 138
_ grams of heroin, 9 grams of hashish and 98 grams of opium from two persons at
Mashhad Airport. [Gr221539 Mashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 22 Oct 81]
GACHSARAN DRUG SEI'l.URE--The Gachsaran antidr.ug squad has seized 3 kg of opium, 1.4
kg of hashish and 1.00 grams of heroin during the past 2 days. [GF221539 Shiraz
llomestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT 22 Oct 81]
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Of'lUM .;U1C1? llnUl.--Hu:;cyn Sr~f~i'! hzs been :~entenced to 1 year in Jail for. posses~ioii
of 330 grams oI oPium juice ~ind opium addiction. [GF251703 Mashhad Domestic Service
in Persian 1430 GM'I' 24 Oct 81]
MEISHHAD DRUG HAUL--In a clash between a number of drug traffickers and Mashhad drug
squad personnel near S3rakhs region, one drug trafficker was killed and another
arrested. As a result of the operation, 21 kg of heroin, 44 kg of opium, 1
Kalashnikov with 120 pounds of au�nunition and 1 G-3 with 40 rounds of ammunition
were discovered. [GF251703 Mashhad Domestic Service in Persian 1430 GMT 24 Oct 81]
BORAZJAN UPIUM HAUL--The Borazjan Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has seized 1 kg
of opium from two persons. [GF251703 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT
24 Oct 81]
DRUG SEI'GL`RES--Tehran, 24 Sep--Iranian police seized over 184 kilos (405 pounds)
of narcotics and arrested 762 people in the one-month period between July 23
- and ~1u~ust 23, the PARS news agency, quoted by Radio Teheran, reported today.
1'}~e haul included over ].4~i kil.os (319 pounds) of opium, 20 kilos (44 pounds)
of hasl~ish and =l3 lcilos (20 pounds) of heroin, the agency said. It added that
l_,94'~ kilos (4,27'L pound~;) of "ather substances" had also been seized, but
gave no details. NI~I3/AFP [Text] [Ran~oon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in
English 26 Sep 81 p 7]
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LEBANON
~ BRIEFS
DRUG SMUGGLER ARRESTED--At Beirut airport, the security services have arrested
the Palestinian 'Ali Hasan Iskandarani while trying to smuggle 1,500 grams of
- heroin to East Berlin. [Text] [NC141752 Beirut Voice of Lebanon in Arabic
1215 GMT 14 Oct 81]
CSO: 5300/4702
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LIBERIA
SECURITY OFFICER ARRESTED FOR MARIHUANA TEIEFT
Monrovia NEW LIBERIAN in English 2 Oct 81 p 6
[Article by J.N. Elliott]
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ftobc,rts Intcrnational Air- Ward denied the allegation.
E~orr Yias Lecn arrested for '1'}ie suit case was taken into
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