OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN GLENN ENGLISH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2008
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 14, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN GLENN ENGLISH.
This is the first in a series of hearings to clarify for
the Subcommittee the extent, efficiency, and impact of
drug-related intelligence- collection efforts in support of the
drug interdiction programs. We will also be reviewing the
process by which intelligence is disseminated to interdiction
agencies, with special attention placed on the dissemination of
tactical intelligence.
It might be helpful at this point if I define what
I feel is the essential need that tactical intelligence must
meet. Tactical intelligence must provide interdiction agencies
with prior information which allows those agencies to place
their limited resources in the right place at the right time in
order to increase the probability of an interdiction.
I am aware that there is useful information that falls
outside of my narrow definition, and I recognize the value of
strategic information. However, if we are unable to provide
time-sensitive information to the user in sufficient time to
catch the smuggler, we are deficient.
The Subcommittee is also very interested in developing a
better understanding of the role that intelligence agencies
play in support of the Drug Enforcement Administration,, the
agency with primary drug intelligence responsibility. This will
give us a more accurate picture of what is and isn't being done.
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In recent months, the Subcommittee has spent a considerable
amount of time investigating what "tactical" intelligence is
available to the U. S. Customs Service in support of its air
interdiction operations. We have reached the conclusion that
the intelligence available to the Customs Service is inadequate
and we expect, as a result of these hearings, to have a better
understanding why.
Today we will hear from David Grief, National Intelligence
Officer for Narcotics for the Central Intelligence Agency, and
from National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics,
Signal Intelligence, National Security Agency.
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