MEETING WITH JOHN RICH AND PAT HOLT OF THE STAFF OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300230050-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: July 27, 1972
• Content Type: MFR

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27 July 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with John Rich and Pat Holt of the Staff
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1. The morning of 20 July 1972, (Deputy
Chief, DDP/_ and I, accompanied by John aury, Legis-
lative Counsel, met'in one of the Senate office buildings
with John Rich and Pat Holt, members of the staff of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Rich recently accom-
panied Senator Spong on a trip to Italy, France, Turkey,
Iran, and England during which they looked at the narcotics
problem.
2. Rich indicated interest in our view as to whether
the attack on the supply side of the narcotics problem had
a real chance for success. In a rather long discussion, we
provided him a general review of the world opium situation
and patterns of trafficking in opium and opium deriviatives.
Pat Holt, who works on Latin American affairs on the staff,
expressed interest in names of any specific Panamanian of-
ficials involved in narcotics traffic. We were also asked
how long the agency has been working on the narcotics question,
and an apparently pointed question asked by Holt had to do
with whether our work on the narcotics problem was diverting
our attention from other matters. The session was very
friendly throughout.
3. At Mr. Maury's instruction I took to this session
a set of our intelligence memoranda on international nar-
cotics matters. These were given to Mr. Rich, and Mr. Maury
reiterated to Mr. Rich the general ground rules for such
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with Mr. Maury's office to determine whether the classi-
fied material can be declassified or sanitized or put to the
desired use.) A list of the classified documents lent to Mr.
Rich is attached.
4. Also provided Mr. Rich at this session was a copy
of the newly printed World Opium Survey 1972. This is an un-
classified document being published under the CCINC label.
Rich was informed that he was getting an advance copy. (On
21 July Walter Minnick of the White House Staff told me that
they would like to hold up distribution of the new World
Opium Survey until the next meeting of the CCINC; this-CCINC
meeting hadbeen scheduled for 24 July but was now put off
for about two weeks. I asked Mr. Maury to inform Rich that
the distribution of the Survey was being delayed and that
Rich should keep his copy close. Mr. Maury undertook to do
this.)
DDI Coordinator On
International Narcotics Matters
Attachment: A/S
Distribution:
Orig - Congressional File
1 - Chrono
1 - DDP4 P1
1 - ADDI
1 - D/OCI
1 - OLC (Mr. Maury)
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BGI GR 71-4
BGI GR 72-1 ?
BGI GR 72-2
ER IM 71-102
ER IM 71-155 it
ER IM 71-166
ER IM 71-212
The Illicit Production and Movement of Opiates in
Latin America, January 1971
Opium Production and Movement in Southeast Asia,
January 1971
Opium Production and Movement in the Near East
and South Asia, July 1971,
Smuggling and Other Illicit Cross-Border Movement
in South America, December 1971,
Recent Trends in the Illicit Narcotics Market in
Southeast Asia, May 1971,
nternational Narcotics Series No. 1)
Chemical Requirements for Opium Refining in South-
east Asia, August 1971,
(International Narcotics Series No. 2)
Paraguay - Heroin Crossroads of South America,
August 1971,
(International Narcotics eves o.
The Cocaine Situation in Latin America, October
(International Narcotics Series No. 4)
1971
Opium Poppy Cultivation
in Northern Thailand,
(International Narcotics Series No. 5)
October 1971,
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ER IM 71-236
ER IM 72-4
ER IM 72-34
ER IR 72-4
ER IM 72-57
ER IM 72-74
ER IM 72-75
ER IM 72-90
ER IM 72-105
The French-Turkish Connection: The Movement of
Opium and Morphine Base from Turke t France,
December 1971
(International Narcotics Series No. 6)
Overseas Chinese Involvement in the Narcotics
Traf-
fic, January 1972,
(international Narcotics Series No. 7)
Reduced Production of No. 4 Heroin in the Golden
Triangle, March 1972,
(International Narcotics Series No. 8)
India: Opium Production and Control April 1972,
(International Narcotics Series No. 9)
Afghanistan: Opium Production nn Trade,
1972,
(Internationa arcotics Series No. 10)
(International Narcotics Series No. 11)
Opium in Pakistan, May 1972,
April
The French-American Connection: The Movement of
Heroin from France to the United States, May 1972,
(International Narcotics Series No. 12)
Narcotics in Iran, June 1972,
(International Narcotics Series No. 13)
South Asia: A Potential Source of Illicit Onium r
the US Market, June 1972
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