JPRS ID: 9296 WEST EUROPE REPORT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: JPRS
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
• Release Decision: RIF
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 71
• Document Creation Date: November 1, 2016
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: REPORTS

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
JPRS L/9594
_ 10 March 1981
Woridwid~e Re ort
p
, NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 1 1 /81) -
FBO$ FOREIGN BRU/~DCAST fNFORMATION SERVICE
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000304090016-2
NOTE
JPRS publications contain information primarily from forei~n
newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency
transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language
sources are translated; those fr.om English-language sources
are transcribed or reprinted, ~,~ith the original phrasing and
other characteristics retained.
Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets
are supplied by JPRS. Prucessing indicators such as [Text)
or [Excerpt] in the first line of each item, or follow.ir~g the
last line of a brief, indi_cate how the original informat~ion was
processed. Where no processing indicator is given, the infor-
mation was summarized or extracted.
Unfamiliar names rendered phor.etically or transliterated are
enclosed in parentheses. Words or names preceded by a ques-
tion mark and enclosed in parentheses were not clear in the
original but have been supplied as appropriate in context.
Other unattributed parenthetical notes within the body of an
, item originate with the source. Times within items are as
given by source.
The contents of this publication in no way represent the poli-
cies, views or attitudes of the C.S. Government.
COPYRIGHT LAWS APTD REGULATIONS GOVERNING OWNERSHIP OF
MATERIALS REPRODUCED HEREID? REQUIRE THAT DISSEMINATION
OF THIS PUBLICATION BE RESTRICTED FOR OFFICIAL USE ODTLY.
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
, JPRS L/9594
10 March 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 11/81)
CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Customs Officers Unprepared for Scope of Drug Tnflux
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 16 Jan 81) 1
Government Plans Coordina.ted War on Heroin Trade
(THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 15 Jan 81} 2
Four NSW Policemen on Trial for Drug Conspiracy
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 6 Jan 81) 3
_ Victoria Police Raid Sought Illicit Drug Growers
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 13 Jan 81; TIiE COURIER-MAIL, 13 Jan 81)....... 5
Swan Hill Targets, by ,7i11 Baker
Security Leak
~riets
Ship Marihuana Haul 7
Air Smuggling Prevention 7
Police Shed Thef t 7
Cannabis on Yacht g
Lenient Seutences 8
BURMA
Briefs
Man Arre~ted With Heroin 9
Opium Raid in Wundwin 9
Kutkai Search Finds Opium 9
Drug Smuggling Gang 9
~ HONG KONG
Briefs
Drug Seisure Statistics 11
~
- a - [III - WW - 138 FOUO]
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
INDIA
Briefs
_ British Nationals Arrested 12 ~
INDONESIA
Articles on Drug Crimes, Law Enforcement
(HAR.IAN UMUM AB, 26 Dec 80; MERDEKA, 29 Dec 80) 13
Zight Sentences Criticized
Forced Addiction
IJrug Arrests
NEW ZEALAND
British Report on Antidrug Po].ice Powers To Be Studied
(Ken Coates; THE EVENING POST, 7 Feb 81) ...e............ 16
Authorities Fear Upsurge of Heroin Imports This Yeax
(Various sources, various dates) 17
Intelligence Reports Cited
Police, Customs Alerted
~Brown Rock~ Heroin Rumors
Police Expect I,arge Cannabis Harvest Soon
(THE PRESS, 16 Jan 81; THE NEW ZFAZAND HER,AZD, 15 Jan 81). 19
Appeal to Public
Smaller Plots Grown
Hard Drugs Being Imported Through Mail
(THE NEW ZEAI,AND HERAI,D, 7 Feb 81) 21
Heroin Suppliers Seen Behind Armed Robbery Increase
(THE NEW ZEAI,AND HERALD, 11~ Jan 81) 22
~ PAKISTAN
_ Narcotics Control Law To Be Promulgated
' (Editorial; THE MUS~IM, 10 Feb 81) ........o 2~
Briefs
S~nuggling Attempt Foiled 25
Chaxas Seized 25
' Opium Seized 25
~ PHILIPPINES
Briefs
Benguet Marihuana P3antation Destroyed 26
- b -
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
SRI LANKA
Air Raid on Ganja Plantation
(Ranil Weerasinghe; SUN, 16 Feb 81) 27 .
- Task Force Destroys Ganja
(Ranil Weerasinghe; SUN, 17 Feb 81) 28 _
Briefs
- Swiss Arrested With Narcotics 29
Hashish Overdose 29
West German Held 29
Ganja Plants Detected 29
Swiss National Held 30
Possession of Ganja 30
LATIN AMERICA
~
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Buenos Aires Drug Bust 31
BAHAMAS
Renewed Call for Reform of Bail System for Drug Suspects
(Etienne Dupuch; THE TRIBUNE, 7 Jan 81) 32
Five Arrested in Bimini, Granted $20,000 Bail Each
(THE TRIBUNE, 13 Jan 81) 34
Rriefs
- Marihuana Seizure at Sea 35
BARBADOS
Editorial Calls for Strict Police Control of Drugs
(Editorial; ADVOCATE-NEWS, 6 Jan 81) 36
BOLIVIA
Briefs
Antidrug Campaign 37
Armed Forces Fighting Traffickers 37 �
Minister's Plea Against Drugs 37
Cocaine Seizure 38
Cocaine Seized 38
Bolivian, Peruvian Coca Leaf 38
BRAZIL
Briefs
Results of Antidrug Operation 39
Bolivia-Brazil-Italy Drug Connection 39
~ Police Seize Cocaine 39
- c -
_ FOR OFFT~~IAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
COSTA RICA
Briefs -
1980 Drug Haul Figures 40
r,UBA
Bolivian Drug Traffickera Called Power Behind Throne
- (Carlos Mora Herman; PRISMA LATINOAMERICANO, Nov 80) 41
GUATEMALA
~ Briefs
- Drug Arrest 43
JAMAICA �
Government Asked To Inveatigate Increase in Drug Use
(THE DAILY GLEANER, 20 Jan 81) 44
Future of Ganja in Nation, U.S,-Link Diacussed
(Barbara Blake; T:~iE DAILY GLEANER, 8 Jan 81) 45
Plane, Van, Six Men Held for Ganja Smuggling
(TIa~ DAILY GLEANER, 6 Jan 81) 50
MEXICO -
Bolivian Prisoners Continue To Control Drug Ring -
(Rafael Medina Cruz; EXCELSIOR, 13 Dec 80) 51
PANAMA _
Briefs
_ Conviction of U.S. Drug Trafficker 53
_ Cocaine 5muggler 53
Cocairie Arrest 53
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
_ Eighteen Narcotics Traffickers Sentenced in Msahhad
~KEYHAN, 25 Jan 81) .............o........................... 54
Briefs
Narcotic Distributors Sentenced . 56
Narcotics Confiscated 56
ISRAEL
~ Briefa
Heroin Dealers Caught 57
- d -
- FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONI,X
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
NIGERIA
Briefs
Arrest for Hemp Planting 58
WEST EUROPE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
- Expert Finds Cocaine Nearly as Dangerous as Heroin
- (SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, 24, 25 Jan 81) 59
= Briefs
- Drug Ring Smashed 60 ~
FRANCE
Briefs
Drugs Seized 61
NORWAY
- Oslo Po?.ice Seize Firat Large Amount of LSD in Yeara
(Inge D. Hanssen; AFTTSNPOSTEN, 20 Jan 81) 62 _
TURKEY
Turkish Connection Seen Vi~tal to Opium Smuggling
(KEYHAN, 9 Feb 81) 64
- - e -
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
AUSTRAF.,IA
CUSTONS OFFICERS UNPREPARED FOR SCOP~; OF DRUG INFLUX
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 16 Jan 81 p 3
[Text] Sydney.--Australian customs officials are ill-prepared for an expected
inf lux of illegal drugs into Australia, according to the Customs Off icers' Associ-
ation New South Wales president, Mr Peter Bennett.
- He said yesterday the number of trained law enforcement customs off icers was 33
percent down on the established number set by the Business and Consumer Affairs
Department in the face of a bumper crop in south-east Asia's "golden triangle."
He said: "If the smugglers decide to hit Australia in large numbers the customs
officers will not have the capacity to look after the problem."
Mr Benne.tt said that the number of custoans prevention off icers had dropped steadily
over the last three years as officers who left were not replaced.
"Morale is very bad," he said. "This is partly because of a new d~partmental
, policy of training all customs staff in detection methods, which iG neither effi-
cient nor effective.
"Some staff do not want to work as prevention officers while other enforcement
staff are being forced to work in clerical positions.1�
Mr Bennett also criticised the recently announced increase in the number of
Australian Federal police who will be engaged exclusively in combating drug
traff icking.
"The Government appears to be creating enormous sectional bureaucracies to combat
smuggling and other customs offences simply because the customs off icers are
unable to do their job properly," he said.
"It appears that the government's philosophy has changed, with the emphasis now
being on detecting contraband once it has entered the country rather than stopping
it at the borders."
CSO: 5300
1
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
AUSTRALIA
GOVERNMENT PLANS COORDINATED WAR ON HEROIN TR.ADE
Sydney THE S7DNEY MORNING HERALD in English 15 Jan 81 p 2 .
[Text] Canberra.--The Federal Government is trying to head off the threat of
intensif ied heroin traff icking in Australia.
The Minister for Administrative Services, Mr Newman, yesterday outlined upgraded
Federal police, customs and liaison action to meet the threat.
He said authorities had reported that the continued favourable weather could
improve opium crops and double heroin producti~n from the infamous Golden Triangle
area where the borders of Thailand, Burn~a and Laos meet.
Australia would be the marketplace f or some of the increased supply, and the
Federal Government was determined this should be tackled.
Protection moves included:
An increase in Australian Federal Police numbers exclusively engaged in combating
drug traff icking, including overseas placements;
- Upgrading liaison with overseas drug enforcement agencies;
A greater concentration of policing at points of entry into Australia. This would
include greater cooperative action between police and customs and use of police
drug intelligence with the Coastal Surveillance System. -
"I don't want to alarm people, but we must face the situation realistically," Mr
Newman said.
"The Government has recognised the threat and is taking action."
CSO: 5300
2
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
AUSTRALIA
FOUR NSW POLICEMEN ON TRIAL FOR DRUG CONSPIRACY
_ Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 6 Jan 81 p 1
[Text] Sydney.--Four New South Wales policemen charged with conspiracy to pervert
the course of ~ustice appeared in court here yesterday at the beginning of com-
mittal proceedings against them.
The magistrate, Mr R. Henry, SM, banned publication of names and evidence whic:h
could identify witnesses, other than police and government officers, in the hearing
at Sydney Court.
He gave the instruction, he said, because if their identity was known, they could
be reluctant to give evidence.
The four policemen, who are still working are Det. Sgt Arthur 0'Sullivan, Det.
Sgt John Ellis, Sgt Brian Borthwick and Det. Sen Constable John Robins.
With Antonio Sergi, they were charged with having conspired with each other and
others unknown to pervert the ~ourse of justice on or about February 1, 1974 until
November 24, 1978 at Griffith.
Mr Roger Court, for *h~ Crown, alleged that Sergi and two other men were associated
with the cultivation of indian hemp at a property at Griffith and that the police
officers charged had turned a blind eye to the operation.
In his opening statement, Mr Court alleged that the conduct and various statements
of the def endants showed an agreement between themselves and persons unknown ~o
protect people involve3 in cultivating and selling Indian hemp in the Griff ith
area.
The police def endants had allowed people engaged in cultivating and selling In3ian
hemp, including Sergi, to remove quantities from where it was cultivated for
illegal purposes after the place had, or should have come under police control.
He sa id, the def endants, af ter crops of Indian hemp had come to their attention,
r_onducted their inquiries so as to limit improperly the involvement of some people
and they had tried to protect Sergi in carrying out their investigations.
The police defendants collated and gave evidence in the New South Wales District
- Court on the appearance of two men so as to mislead the court with the intention of
improperly protecting the men, Mr Court claimed.
3
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
He said the police def endants pretended to carry out inquiries into the cultivation
of Indian hemp in the Griffith area. This had been done to present a false picture
_ that they were carrying out a proper investigation of ~crimiiial activity.
Det. Sgt Ellis, Mr Court said, tried to further the conspir.acy by giving evidence
before the NSW royal commission on drugs which he knew to be false and designed to
_ mislead.
Each of the f our policemen had done what he did, or omit~ed. to do what he should
have done, for same personal, financial or other re~ard, he added.
The proceedings, which are expected to last two wee~cs, were adjourned until today.
CSO: 5300
4
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
AUSTRALIA
VICTORIA POLICE RAID SOUGHT ILLICIT DRUG GROWERS -
Swan Hill Targets
Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 13 Jan 81 p 3
[Article by Jill Baker] ~
[ Text ] A POLICE task force v.ested around 8wan Hill and Detectives found most
raided farms and vineyards on the Munay Va11ey FIigh- marijuana plantations were
in northern Victoria yester- wgy hidden between vines and
day in a bid to stamp out "~ur task force visited a�-. other cro*~s so they could not _
illicit p~yjn ]arge number of farms be easily detected froni
~8 which we regard as primary nearby roads or the air.
Code-named "Operation ~'Bets before movittg on to YesCerday's raids followed
Leo", the raids were aimed the secondary ones. a long inv,sstigation into
at the growing and harvest- "This raid is basically a .properties in the Swan Hili _
ing of marljuana and other prevention preCess to. stamp distribt.
drugs. oat dr~g growing " More than 50 properties
The head of the Victorian Superintendent Bennett were seaxched during the
CIB, Detective Chief-Super- S~~ pp~~ from t~e Inde- operation, wtiich was plan-
intendent Phil Bennett, said ndent Patrol Grou the ned after an aerial survey
yesterday no arrests were p~ had given police a detailed
made, but several people' cra~k Special Operations ~ ~~map" of likely growing
were being questioned about Group, motorcycle branches spots for drugs:
- other cricninal offences. ~d uniformed officers left Superintendent Bennett -
"Drugs are th2 most insid- Melbourne at 2~m yeaterday said the vast majority of
ious protilem ~hat we have, ' for $wan Hill. near bhe Vic- marijuana that was farmed
and we are using every ~~g"NS~W border. in large quantities in Vic-
- means at our disposal to More than 80 police were toria came from the State's
stamp them out and bring ~volved. � northern fruit and grape-
Lhe drug `barons' in this Previous raids netted mil- grov~dng areas.
State to justice; ' he said. lions of dollars' worth of He said raids of this type
~~This is the time of year marijuana crops and' led to had been praised in the
when certain drugs are har- several. drug-related arrests royal commission into drugs
in the border region.
Security Leak
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 13 Jan 81 p 7
- ['rext] MELBOURNE. Vieto~ian police will investigote an inforonation leok after
the biggest drug hunt operation in~ the s'tate's hi~tt�ory failed` b find one leaf
of ~narihuana.
Police believe marihuana growers in the $wan Hill
area, about 340 kilometres north-west of Melboume,
were tipped off obout the rcids.
5 -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
I n t e 1 1 i g e n c e police had PoliCe consldered cancelling heQding to a"diversioiiary tar-
worked in the area cor more the reids aPter tkley learned of Bet" in an effort to protect se-
than twa years gstherinq in- the leak. They deCided to carry curity.
formatlon on the illegal marl- out the operatlon !n the hope Members of the force were
huana industry. that msrihuana~growers would told oP the true destination
destroy their owA cmps. only when they stopped at
The raids, which im�olved 75 V1cCorfa's edeletpnt commis- Laite Bo a
poltce trail-bike ;lders and spe- sioner (crimel, Mt' Roci Hall, ~u g~ 14 ktn from ~wan
cial operations ~roup members, snid police inforn~ation ,was
�~ere carried out on 50 vineyard strong enough to believe mafi- Mr Hall said police would in-
= and orchard pronerties 1n the husna would be found on the ~estigste the leak when final -
area which ie known as the p~~rti~ reporis on the rald hsd been
state's marihuana capital, campleted.
When the t~ek force arrtyed� He s d it was obvious t
Pollce also had aircraft in at 8wnn Hill, a televiaion crew ~ ~391~
the area to detect any growers was paitittg outedd~ the police ~curlty lapsed. Hut he said he
att~mpting to burn marihuana station for them. was not satisfled that the leak
crops. came from withln police rank;. -
Mr Hall eaid yeaterday'S raid, ~~perha the
_ Police received informatioR code-named' "Operation Leo," 1~ people who
la,st week that there had been a wss claseified sa "hlghly con- 8uPP11ed po1lce with informa-
leak over ttie top security drug fldent.lal" tion alsb paeRed it on to oth-
~operation. ~ ers;' Mr Hall aaid.
He aatd members ot the task
Tlze raids were carried out force were not told their desti-
after' originally having been nstion and were told they were
scheduled for tomorrow.
'l
. CSO: 5300
6
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
SHIP MARIHUANA HAUL--Marihuana =~rith an estimated street value of $30,000 was
seized aboard an overseas freighter docked at Hamilton wharves, the Magistrate's
Court was told yesterday. Klaus Di~ter Heiden, 24, unemployed, of Balfour Road,
- Rose Bay, Sydney, and Ludwig Robert Fieger,30,fitter, care of MV Columbus New
Zealand, were remanded in custody when they appeared in court yesterday. Ea.ch
was charged with having a traff~ckable quantity of marihuana on January 5. No
plea was entered, and no application for bail was made. The Crown Prosecutor Mr
I. W. Bates, said it would be alleged Heiden admitted to Australian Federal Police
he travelled f rom Sydney to Brisbane to collect 7.5 kg of marihuana from Fieger.
Mr Bates said the estimated street value of the marihuana was $30,000. He said
it would be alleged Heiden had lived in Australia since 1978. He had a portion
of the marihuana when Fieger was intercepted by customs offi~ers as he Ieft the
ship at Hamilton. Heiden allegedly admitted having received in Sydney four mor.ths
ago a previous import of about 5.5 kg of marihuana which he sold for $11,80Q,
- Mr Bates said. He said a substantial amount of the money had been recovered by
Australian Federal Police. Fieger was a crew member of the Columbus New Zealand,
which arrived in Australia from Panama on Monday. Mr Wyvill, SM, remanded both
men in custody until January 16. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English
7 Jan 81 p 11]
AIR SMUGGLING PREVENTION--Melbourne: The Customs Department is installing new
equipment to detect smugglers flying drugs and other contraband into outback
Australia. The remote control airport surveillance equipment will warn customs
_ off icers wher. planes land at unused airfields. A Customs Department spokssman said
yesterday that it would be impossible to monitor all outback airstrips. i'he
equipment, wh ich can be easily relocated, raises an alarm at the nearest Customs
Dept off ice when a plane lands at a monitored airstrip. Later this month the
~:~ctoms Department will talce possession of its third leased Nomad aircraf t to -
pacrol Australias unprotected north. [as published] Two Nomads were leased last
year and are stationed at Townsville and Darwin. The third plane will be stationed
at Port Hedland. [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALtAN in English 7 Jan 81 p 3] 1
1
POLICE SHID THEFT--Cairns.--North Queensland detectives are investigating the
= th ef t of marihuana from the police station at Mareeba, 50 km west of here. The
marihuana was in a wool bale stored in a shed behind the police station. It- had
been in the shed about 12 months. It was a court exhibit. It was stolen between
December 31 and yesterday morning. A padlock on the shed was cut with bolt cut-
ters. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 8 Jan 81 p 3]
7 -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
CANNABIS ON YACHT--A man appeared in the Port Hedland Court on Monday charged with
attempting to import a quantity of cannabis and cannabis resin on a yacht which has
been impounded at Port Hedland. Wayne Alexander Beckett (28) originally from New
Zealand, was arrested on I~ecember 20, and has spent the ~ime since his arrest iri
Roebourne Prison, because he was unable to raise $2000 surety. He is believed to _
- have been arrested after the customs launch "Jerboa" intercepted the llm yacht
- "Shadow Fax" off the coast on that date. Beckett was not required to plead, but
was remanded to appear again on January 2.7 at the same court. [Text] [Perth THE -
, WEST AUSTRALIAN (NEWS OF THE NORTH) in English 8 Jan 81 p 4]
LENIENT SINTENCES--The Federal Att~rney-General, Senator Durack, has appealed
against sentences imposed on three people convicted on heroin charges. He says
the sentences were far too lenient. In notices of appeal lodged at the Victorian
Supreme Court, Senator Durack has asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to increase
the jail sentences imposed on Salvatore Zampaglione, David Jewell and Helen Margaret ~
Barnacle, who received sentences last month after a long trial. Senator Durack
says the sentences were manifestly inadequate and that the trial judge failed to
- give proper weight to the need for deterrence. Antonio Zampaglione was sentenced
to 25 years' jail with a non-parole period of 21 years, Salvatore Zampaglione was
sentenced to 20 years with a non-parole period of 16 years, Jewell received 15
years with a non-parole period of 12 y ears and Barnacle received 12 years with a _
minimum of eight. They were sentenced by Mr Justice Gray. [Text] [Melbourne
THE AGE in English 14 Jan 81 p 5]
CSO: 5300
8
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
~URMA
BRIEFS
MAN ARRESTED WITH HEROIN--Acting on a tipoff, police personnel of Mergui -
city police force raided the residence of Maung Myint U in Kanpya ward,
Mergui, on 19 January and arrested a guest at the house--Aung Naing,
alias Pashu, of Shwe Hintha ward, Kawthaung--after 14 small packets of
heroin, a hypodermic syringe and needle were found on him. [Rangoon
MYA.NMA ALIN in Burmese 4 Feb 81 p 6 BK] _
OPIUM RAID IN WUNDWIN--Wundwin, 9 Jan--Acting on information that opium deals -
ar~e being made at the residence of U Myu Maung and Daw Than Tin in Shawpin
village, Ywadan village tract of Wundwin township, Subinspector U Tin Tun,
private Ko Aung Tint, village council secretary U Mya Than and council
member U Tin Ohn yesterday raided the residence of U Mya Maung and Daw Than
Tin and found four persons--U Toe Pwa of Moulmein's Dinewunkwin; Ma Cho,
houseowner Daw Than Tin and her daughter Ma Sit To--making heroin deals.
, When a search was conducted 18,000 kyat was found from U Toe Pwa and Ma Cho
and four packets of opium weighing 5 viss [i viss equals 3.6 pounds] were
- found buried beneath a tree. The sellers--Daw Than Tin and her daughter
Ma Sit To--and buyers U Toe Pwa and Ma Cho were charged under sections 6.B~
and 10.B of the Narcotic Drugs Law by Wundwin police station. [Text]
[Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 17 Jan 81 p 6 BK]
KUTKAI SEARCH FINDS OPITJM--Kutkai, 27 Jan--Last week, a joint search party
of customs, people's militia and other personnel, acting on information,
- searched at A.T. gate jeep No Ka/6405 driven by Ko San Maung and carrying
passengers from Hsenwi to Lashio. The party found hidden under the bonnet
of the jeep four balls of raw opium wrapped in a jute bag, weighing 4.40 viss
[1 viss equals 3.6 pounds) and worth 6,750 kyat. Ma Pyone Kyi of 4th ward,
Hsenwi, Ma Aye Ngwe, 24, of Pein Hon village of Hsenwi region and driver
Ko San Maung were charged by Police Station No 2 under Sections 6.B, 7.B,
10.B and 11 of the Narcotic Drugs Law in connection with the opium seizure.
[Text] [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Bunnese 11 Feb 81 p 6 BKJ
- DRUG SMUGGLING GANG--Rangoon, 6 Feb--Inspector U Tha U of the Crime Prevention
Division of Ranpoon Division People's Police Force, Station Officer U Kan Myint
and police personnel of Hlegu township smashed a gang smuggling drugs into
Rangoon and otYeer big cities, arresting seven persons and seizing 51.5 grams
~
9
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000304090016-2
of heroin worth over 10,000 kyat. At 1900 on 2 February, acting on a tipoff
that heroin is being sold, police together with witnesses, searched the
res idence of Myint Lwin, alias Zimbo, 23, on Setyon road, Yedwingon, Mingala
Taungnyunt township and found 1 gram of heroin and two hypodermic syringes.
Maung Myint, 21; Hla Sint, 18 and Maung Saung, alias Aung Thein, 28, of west~rn
market ward, Meiktila, who were found at the residence were interrogated.
Fifteen empty penicillin bottles used as herain containers were seizec: from
the.zn. While the search was being conducted, Zaw Zaw, 22, of Shwebontha
road, Pabedan township, and Myint Thein, 24, of 27th Stree.t arrived at the
house. The two wera interrogated and searched and .5 gra:n of heroin was found
on Myint ihein. Maung Saung later confessed that his heroin had been handed
over to Maung Aye Tun, a spare dritrer of truck No Klia/1840 for distribution
to Meiktila and other cities. Police found the car in Hlegu township and when
the car was ;earched 10 penicillin bottles, each containing 5 grams of heroin,
were found hidden on the truck. The heroin seized was handed over to Hlegu
township police station. [Text] [Rangoon BOTATAUNG in Burmese 7 F~b 81 p 6 BK]
CSO: 5300
10
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
HONG KONG
~ BRIE FS
DRUG SEI'LURE STATYSTICS--The police vice dragnet resulted in 33,587 raids on illegal
gambling establishments, drug divans and vice dens throughout Hongkong last year.
A total of 19,845 people were subsequently charged and brought to court on various
charges, a police spokesman said yesterday. On the anti-drug front, the spokesman
said that 4,741 people were rounded up during 12,972 raids on premises and search
operations in the streets. Drug seizures included 40.1 kg of heroin, 16 kg of
o~ium, 139 grams of morphine, 48.7 grams of barbitone and 25.7 grams of cannabis.
/Excerpts7 /Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 26 Jan 81 p 227
CSO: 5320
11
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
- INDIA
BRIEFS
BRITISH NATIONALS ARRESTEI}--New Delhi, 24~Feb (APP)--The narcotic wing of the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today clsimed it had busted a narcotic ring
operating i.n the Indian capital with the arrest of two British nationals yesterday.
Robert John Pavitt and David William Milla were apprehended in front of a hotel
here and heroin worth RS one million (about $125,000) was recovered from bheir
possession, a CBI official said. The trap to nab them was laid following infor-
mation that they would pass on heroin to an unidentified person. CBI claimed
that this was the second biggest catch made by its narcotic wing. In January
the wing had seized heroin worth RS eight million (about one million U.S. dollars)
in the western port city of Bombay. [Text] [BK241336 Hong Kong AFP in English
1330 GMT 24 Feb 81]
CSO: 5300
12 -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
INDONESIA
AKTICLES ON DRUG CRIMES, LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Light Sentences Criticized ~
Jakarta HARIAN UMiJM AB in Indonesian 26 Dec 80 pp 1, 8 - f
[Excerpts] Jakarta, Monday--The head of the Police Information Service, Police
~ Brigadier General Drs Darmawan, criticized the fact tha.t law enforcement agencies
~aere not yet spea king with a single voice in f ighting narcotics crime in Indonesia.
It is feared that the mild nature of sentences imposed by the courts will provide
' greater opportunity for illegal distribution of drugs in our country.
Answering reporters' questions Saturday afternoon in the police headquarters Press
Room, Gen Darmawan Sudarsono said that according to statute no. 9/1976, narcotics
crimes in Indonesia are punishable by stiff senter.ces, death being the maximum
penalty for the criminal. Yet, the fact is that up till now those tried and con-
victed in narcotics cases obtained only light sentences.
He gave the example of the capture on 1 June 1979 of a Singaporean, Lim Teng Phieow, _
who was carrying 1.9 kg heroin. It turns out he received only a 10-year sentence.
At f irst the public prosecutor wanted the accused to be given the death penalty.
But the judge decided on life imprisonment. In the following appeal the Jakarta
Appelate Court finally determined that Lim Teng Phieow would be sentenced to only
10 years imprisonment. -
There was also another case, the Medan District Court sentencing of Amir Hamzah on -
21 June 1980. At that time the accused was discovered carrying 31.7 kg marijuana,
but the court sentenced him to only 4 months imprisonment and imposed a fine of
50,000 rupiahs.
Gen Darmawan is of the opinion that the moderate nature of sentences given to those
convicted is due to several law enforcement instrumentalities not--or not yet--
appreciating the dangers that would arise from narcotics crime. For that reason he
considers it necessary for law enforcement agencies to speak,with a single voice in
f ighting narcotics crime
If the illegal distribution of narcotics goes on continually in Indonesia, it is
feared that in the future this country can be turned into a zone for drug consumption.
Till now, Darmawan said, Indonesia has only been a transit area for illegal drug
trafficking. But if this is not quickly checked by stiffening the punishments of
those convicted, then it is very possible those fears will be realized, the -
destruction of Indonesia's younger generation possibly being the result. -
13
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
~ According to Police Lieutenant Colonel Sudhiro, an officer of the police headquarters
Narcotics Bureau, there are around 34,870 drug addicts in Indonesia. This calculation
is based on the available data, that 3,874 drug addicts ar.e registered by the police.
Of this confirmable number, 10 percent are repeat off enders.
WHO estimates that when a state has a verifiable number of drug addicts, then the
total number of addicts in the country will be 10 times that sum. This UN calculation
~ means that the total number of addicts in Indonesia is 10 times the verif iable
number, after subtracting the repeat offenders. Or 3,874 less 387 (recidivists)
times 10 is 34,870 addicts.
Gen Darmawan took the opportunity to counter an AFP report that stated there are
- only 10,000 drug addicts in Indonesia. At the same time the report mentioned that
Indonesia is in last position in the number of addicts in ASEAN.
"We are not happy when it is said we have the least number of addicts among ASEAN
nations, for we fear that vigilance towards narcotics traff icking could ease up
because of the supposed small number of drug addicts in Indonesia," he said to
reporters.
The AFP, which quoted a report to the Thai Narcotics Control Board last week,
stated that Indonesia has only 10,000 drug addicts and is in last position among
ASEAN nations. Further, it was stated that Thailand has 500,000 addicts, followe3
in turn by Malaysia with 300,000, the Philippines with 15,000, and Singapore with
13,000. Meanwhile in Hong Kong there are 35,000 addicts. Generally, most drug
addicts in Asia are under 30.
Forced Addiction
Jakarta MERDEKA in Indonesian 29 Dec 80 pp 1, 8
[Text] Bandung, Sunday--There are indications lately that children of wealthy parents
in the city of Bandung have become targets for the city`s drug gangs. These
children are cruelly forced to become morphine addicts who later are expected to
become the customers of the gangs.
According to information that could be gathered by PAB [expansion unknown], the _
methods these gangs use in forcing their victims to become addicted are similar to
criminal practices usually depicted in scenes on the movie screen, like, among
others, kidnapping the victims, then forcibly injecting morphine into them.
Em, 16, resident of Haji Kurdi Lane, Bandung, Sunday afternoon was carried off by
five youths or his same age riding three motorc:ycles. Em, who was powerless to
act due to the threat of several knives, was taken to a secluded spot in the
eastern part of Tegalega, Bandung. This was the place where morphine was forcibly
injected into the victim.
Before the victim was abandoned in that delirious state, the gang warned him not to
report to the police. But when the victim needed morphine, he could obtain it from
one of the gang who would wait in that place--as long as he paid 2,500 rupiahs for
each shot.
14
~
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340090016-2
At the same time also Sar, 18, resident of Sadakeling Street and student at
Margaluyu High School, Bandung, was violently set upon by f ive youths of that
gang, who stuffed morphine pills into his mouth.
0~ these two victims, only Sar could be rescued from morphine addiction. Now Sar~s
parents have placed him in a religious boarding school in Suralaya [sic] for -
recuperation.
Supposedly the number of victims of the Bandung gangs has already reached the
hundreds. It is hoped that the authorities will quickly take the matter in hand, so
said the victims' parents to PAB.
Drug Arrests
Jakarta MERDEKA in Indonesian 29 Dec 80 p 3 -
[Text] Bengkulu, Sunday--The 621st Police District Command, North Bengkulu, some
time ago was able to capture an opium peddler and a marihuana peddler in the city
of Bengkulu.
According to the report of the 621st Police District vice coumiander, Major Edwin,
to ANTARA on Friday, the two peddlers of opium and marihuana respectively are RBN,
40, and KYM, 30 [expansions unknown].
First, the District Command picked up the trail of someone named RBN who came to
Bengkulu from the island of Bangka carrying 192 kg opium. His intention was to
f ind a market, and he had already repeatedly come to Bengkulu.
After members of the police had set the bait by making a purchase and establishing
a mutually agreeable price, the apprehension operator was started, led by the vice
commander, Ma~ Edwin. .
He promised to go by taxi to make the exchange near Amarin, Ltd., an obsolete -
rubber processing plant approximately 10 km from the city of Bengkulu on the way
to Curup. There RBN was seized together with the op ium he carried, which was =
brought in as evidence.
- The opium was taken to the police headquarters laboratory in Jakarta for analysis,
and the results were positive. RBN is atill being held in the continuing investi-
gation.
9792
CSO: 5300
15
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
NEW ZEALAND
BRITISH REPORT ON ANTIDRUG POLICE POWERS TO BE STUDIED
Wellington THE EVENING POST in English 7 Feb 81 p 1
/Reporr from London by Ken Coates7
/Text7 New Zealand's Ministry of Justice will be asked to study a new British re-
port recommending r.ougher police powers for investigating suspected drug offenders
to see whether proposals could be of benefit in New ~ealand.
The chairman of the Gov- simplify procedures so there In :+ew Zealand, xecord- obtain support from, Mr
ernmenYs Misuse of Drugs is a toughening up. Le~isla- ing to Mr Thompson, Thompson said. -
committee, Mr Geoffrey tion would be involved.' barbituratea and am- "They still maintain there
Thompson, interviewed near " phetamines are sold on the is value in a methadone
the end of a 10-day visit to Qr~anised gtreet as a result of doctora' maiatenance Qrogramme
Britain, said a report from Mr ompson, MP for , ~d chemists' being conne~, whereas there ~s little sup-
the royal commission on gorowhenua, said he dld not or premises being burgled. port for this in New Zealand.
criminal procedure could be 'But 50 percent of our At home we seek to in-
"of considerable interest to know what the British Gov- drug problem ~s mia~e of troduce a withdrawal pto-
us in New Zealand." ernment's attitude to the licit drugs and it could get gramme without drugs
He said it deals with Qo- recommendations was, as worse because of increased which Is preferred, whereas
lice procedures for dealing the report hab just been availab[lity. here they don't seem to think
with those suspected of drug presented, but after talks "I will be looking at se- that tt?is could be sustained."
ottences. with Home Office officials it curity in relation to dis- Mr Thompson describes
"It refers to powers of ar- seemed as though they tributora' and makers' pre- New Zealand as more open- _
rest and detection - wheth- Would be well received. mises, as if there is money ir minded about heroin addica-
er you pull people off the After talking to legisla- it, you can expect organised tion treatment because it has
street and detain them while tors, police and Government crime to be interested." coir~e to the problem later
a gang suspected of a drug officials in Britain and the M r T h o m p s o n i n- and learned from ~other's
consp(racy is picked up, or a United States, he notes in- vestigaCed the use of heroin miatakes.
search is made for drugs; ' creasing concera over mis� for addiction treatment ln In Britain and the United
said Mr Thompson. use~ of prescriptiop drugs. Britain. He found it ie ac- States it did not have the
The recommendations This goes beyond phar- cepted but declining. The same profile as previousiy
generally strengthened the macy break-ins, bad pre- general opinion is that it is and was not seen as such an
powers of the police, and script~ons or even mis� not something they ~would accelerating and difficult
made lhem mon~consistent. behaviour by doctors," he produce as new.' problem.
said. In New Zealand the prob-
With a lot of New Zea- goth countries are in- lem was serious, but not get-
land police powers, such as creasin 1 concerned at the Methadone tin out of hand. ~
thoae used in the drugs field, g y.
- and derived irom common growing ev~dence of well-or- There was nothing in rom all sources have
law or statute, there is in- ganised robberies of drug Britain that proponents of its come reports of more effec-
consistency as to how far manufacturers or dis- use for heroin addicts in tive police action against il-
you can go with them. The tributors and trading in pills New Zealand should seek to licit supply of drugs.
whole idea seems to be to costing a few cents, but
which sell on the street for
- E~ to 510 each.
CSO: i320
16
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
- rr~w z~~rm
AUTHORITIES FE41R UPSURGE OF HEROIN IMPORTS THIS YEAR
Intelligence Reports Cited
Wellin~,ton THE EVETIING POST in English 4 Feb 81 p 1
/Text7 NEW Zealand caild fa~ce ~an ep~urge Qf 6eroin
importa trft year.
That is the; poesibWty suggeited by the co-6rdl~tor oi
the National Dtug Inteltigence Bureau, DeteCtilre Inepec-
tor Paul Fitzharris.
Speaking at the lYational 3ociety of Alcohol and Drug
Abuse's sumnier achool at Heretaunge today, Mr
Flfshsrris said lntellig~tfce teports from South-east A~ia
suggested tbia year's crop oi op(um oould be a bn~per
one.~
"July to October would be the time we coiild aee thia
being mazketed in New Zealand," 6e eaW. , -
It has been estimated that ebout 800 Wnc~es were
belag grown this year, compared wlth 150 to Z00 tonaea
_ last year.
Drought
Mr F~~zhanis said that one of the reasons for tde drop
in seizurea and arresta for 6eroln-related offencea ~ince
1978 6ad been the loW South-east Asian output of opium
after two aucceesive dro~ts in the growing ~c;eas.
Among other reasons or t4e drop were:-
~ Police pressure on the drug tcene.
� Wide publicity about the "Mr Asia" syndicate after the
death of Marty Johdstone. �
� Increased powers to the police end Cnatorm.
� Higher penaltiea for drug otiences.
Also at the summer school tEls mtlrning, Goverument
MP Ian MeLean, a member oE the caucus committee on
- drugs, called for Court povaera to allow forfeiture et the,
proper~y ot convicted ac~ug dealers.
"After any person has beeo convleted oT a serious
drug-dealing offence, the onns oi proof. should be on them ~
to est~blish whicA part of their property was earned
through legal means, the preaumQtton that the balance is
~ derived from drug dealing."
That prceedure would be llttle diHerent from that
- already used for income tax, said Mr McLean.
' 17
,
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
Police, Customs Alerted
Auckland THE NEW ZE~ILAND HERALD in English 10 Feb 81 p 1
/Excerpts7 New Zealand poli ce and customs officers are preparing for a difficult
~ year in the fight against he roin trafficking as the narcotic "harvest" in South-east
Asia reaches record levels.
The New Zealand police~ Even if only half of one per Britain, and ~be United
liaison officer in Thai- ~ cent of the anticipated "gold� States. ~
land, DeteCtive Chlef Inspec- en triangle" harvest this He said t~e harvest had
tor Brian Duncan, told the year were landed in New horrendous implications.
Herald from Bangkok yester- Zealand it would have a 1~ere was an increased
day that hhe huge harvest street value of well over ~300 6hreat to New Zealand be-
could spell serious trouble million. cause t}?e European market
for this country. fihe D~LP for Hotowhenua was now largely supplied
Intelligence reports indica- Mr G. W. F. Thom{~son, sai~ and the extra was likely to _
ted tfiat the raw opium har- from Waeduag~on~ United come to the Pacific area.
vest from the region's "gold- States nai+~o~s. ageots were. -
en triangle" would be the deeply concerned at the im-
biggest for at least three plicataons. ~
- years. Horrendous
A kilogram of pure heroin Thom~pson, who is
- bought for just a few thou- chairman of the Govern-
sand dollars in Bangkok - ment caucus committee on
brings more than $1 million of ~,~s~ yS on a
when diluted and sold oa study tour of South~east Asia,
New Zealand streets. -
'Brown Rock' Heroin Rumors
Christchurch THE PP,ESS in English 15 Jan 81 p 1
/Excerpts/
T'resh supplies of heroin The Christchurch drug Auckland was the main
frum Sou~h-Easl Asia's >yuad heard rumours point of entry for the he-
"Golden 7~rianglt" will hi~ recently that "brown roin which had surfaced in
the streets ~~f Christchw~ch rock"'heroln waJ al~sdy Hamilton, but the narcotic
before lonr. drug squad on (;hri:stct~ultTi' titreets, was imported in niarty
detectives f~clieve. buc found noihing to aup- other ways; including
Part of tlie record ~~rop port the rumours. ' through South lsland
~ of op+um ~n 7hailand is "Brown rock" heroin ports.
already filtering into Ham- has not been broken down Senior-Sergeant Letica -
ilton anci surrounding to the stage of becoming a said that police drug
areas, ~~'fiere heroin is ~+~hite powder. Too "dirty" squads were stepping up
~elling fur between $14U for injecti~n into addicts' surveillance of known
_ and ~1~0 a gram. veins, tt is used for smok- drug users.
'The head of ihe Iiam- it~B 8nd "snorting."
- ilton police druq squad, A spokesman for the
Detective tiergeant M. tiia� Police Drug [ntelligence
lone, fear�s a lieroin im� Bureau, Seniar-Sergeant A.
portation pr~iblem '�of M. Letica. said tha[ the
_ alarming prnportions" heroin problem~ could esca-
witPzin tl~e next few late throughout I~ew Zea-
~ land.
nit~nths.
- CSO: i320
- 18
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
, NEW ZEAZAND
' POLICE EXPECT LARGE CANNABIS HARVEST SOON
- Appeal to Public
Christchurch THE PRESS in English 16 Jan 81 p 1
/Text7 (;annabis Krowers will Most ot the p?ots were makariri ~"~'v'~rs ::~:were
soon start to reap the~r oit the beaten track and fawourite� gEOoy-
illicit harvest in the river� were well concealed ers.
beds and forests ~f among other foliage. ~Ttiay The bigges~ ~'~iplind
= Canterbury and it is likely were sometimes stumble@ recently had 'b~en ohe on
to be a record season. on by people such as' pic- '^~~f , t,~''.Rear Kui
7'he cultivation o( "pot nickers, campers, fish- ~c, ~e ctive~
lantations" had reached ermen, and farmers. � z ~14~ ts in
an ~mprecedenced scale Detective Sehior-Ser- ~;~~Y ~4t" ~~~eaa>;
And level ot sophiatication, gpant Muddiman ap~,aaled M ~t~�"Af b~fvvee~
said the ofPicer in charge for anybody ~vho found ~00 and 40a ptants had
of the Christchurch police cannabis in country areas been discavered in Canter-
drug squad, Detective ~en- to report it to~ the nearest bury.
ior�Sergeant ~rt. J. Muddi- police station as soon as "One plant ~an have a
man, yesterday. possible. Any informati~n street yalue of up to $400,
Some of the commercial would be treated in the dependmg on its size;'
growing ventures wouid stricte8t Confiden~Ce. The s~d. IAetective� Senior�Ser-
yield cannabfs worth police wo~lc~,- appreciate 'S~nt MUddiman: ' � ,
many thousands u~ dttUars even an aitonyraous tele- Grow~rs �used some so-
to drug dealers attee it phone call. ' phisticated methods to
had been proc~ssed and Members o! the public ~avoid ~detectioh of . their
packaged. couid help drug squads by � ctoQs. The poliGa ha~l had
The police knew Lhat noting the regis�ration much success in spotting
- some of the muney madc numbers of cars parked in the distinGti've bright-
by growing cannabis for remote azeas - the plants Rreen ~ canhabis plants
supply was used to ' fin- hed to be wateftd regu- trom helicopters and light
ance big deals in "hard" lariy - and by noting the aircraft and some growers
drugs. descriptions n! people had re~orted to ,usmg
T'he cannahis is ex- seen nearby. grpen bird netting to cam-
pected to reach maturity Anybody wha found ~ s ouflage tHeir plantations
in the next few K~eeks. cannabis plot in x riverbed irom above. "
= Detective Senior-Ser� or in the bush should Some plot~ were s~r�
- geant Muddiman said that leeve thd plants and try~~Co rounded by chicken wire
the palice were most con- make a sketch map of ~he to keep aut opossums,
cerned about the scale and area. Several times detec- which apparently regarded
_ sophisticatoin of the grow- tives had gone out in cannabis as a delicacy.
ing ventures in Canter- search of plantat4ons. but One of the most sophis-
bury and on the West had been unable�`~to 'find ticated ventures had been
Coast and ~~'ere keen to them usin6 verbal desorip� fouiid in the Rolleston
enlist the aid of the public tions alot?e. � ;~s area where the fi*OWe1'
in findin lants and ~
8 P 'Che b~s `a1! :!l~:~C~y,; had dr' led a well and
~ installed a, pump to pro-
growers. Selwyn, Ra~taia, and VVai- vida reRulRr watering for
19
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
G
his crop, "Country store�keepers ~aaU~ ~#hW~ld.he able to
Some growers were cul- who sell tertiliser, cl~icken �~j~, ;t eabily, apart
tivating smaller, plots, ��~~h, an!!' so ' ot~ ta,: a s
. scattered up to ]00 metres stranger must have a tair from;,~ .f'the pultivated
apart, in their effOrts to idea what is going on but gcound,
- evade detection. unfortunately some mem- The plant coutd grow �
In aome cases tiai( ~rs of tha public seem a~ two melres or more hi~h
motor�cycles were used to little reluctant to get in but was usually shorter. 1t;
travel ~sp riverbeds and tpuch with us." said De-
into ~emote areas where tective Senior�Sergeant. W~o ~a distinctiVe bright .
cars could not~go. Muddiman. "We are glad~ green, brighttr than most
The police were keen to {a heer ~com anyone.~ New 2ealand flora, and
hear from farmers or yyJ~thcr the intot'matton' _
others who saw anybody turns out to be ri ' had �n~rrow, pointed, ser-
, Fa'~f , ot.
carrying a waterinR-can, a n~~ rated~dge , leaves which
hoe, wire, or any such prtective Sen~or-Ser-~ grew ' in odd-numbered
equipment in remote geu?t Muddiman aaid that~ clumps, '
areas. ~bypdy;who~~cakne across ~ ~
Smaller Plots Grown
Auckland THE NEW 2EALAND HERALD in English 15 Jan 81 p 1
/Text7 Macijuana~ growers ar~e Detective Kerry Hodg- your own." Police in
culti~-atinh ~mallee plots in son, of the Hamilton drug Nortliland had arrested
their e[t~~~~ts to out~~it squad, said that marijuana many people who were un-
policemen. growers Nere tending not employed and were supple-
Detecti~~e~ in ~Viiangarei "to put all their e~gs in menting their income by
and Hamilt:,n say that one basket" by having all growing marijuana.
grnwers seem to hope tk:~t their plan~s in one spot. The northern half of the
smaller nl~nlat.i~ns dotted He sa~d that some plant- North Island is not the-only
ers seemed so worried area,., ~wbene~ canpabis is
around thr c~�~~,tryside will about police in helicopters flourishit~.
escape detcction. finding their illicit crops Police recently un-
There are indicatic,ns that theq had resorted to ~~ered a 1400~plant crap
t6at g~rowers of the drug c~~ e~m �n the 'PVest Coast of the
8~ Sc?ath Is~and and a further
will reap a bumper harvest ~painted fences and netting. 1000 ptants near Dunedin.
around New Zealand in the The police had noted an ~
- next month or two. apparent trend to ptant
Detective Sergeant John their mazijuana s~eeds in
Carr, the head of the Wl~a- the bush rather than scat-
_ n~arei drug squad, said tered in maize crops. -
~~esterdaY that in rec~ent Like their northern
weeks his officecs �had countPrparts, Hamilton de-
found dozens of 20 to 30- tectives had found dozens -
plant plots - instzad of the of p}ots azound the Wai~ �
normal 3on-plant plots - kato in recent weeks.
raund Northland. Mr Carr said t4~ere had
The smaller plots were ~en an upsurge in the de-
b~eing spread around, mak� mand for qanaabis seeds.
in~ them h~rder to find. The trend waa to "grow
CSO: >"320
~ 20
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000304090016-2
NEW ZEALAND
}i~IRD DRUGS BEING I~IPORTED THROUGH MAIL
Auckland THE NEW 7.F.~lI,AND HEItALD in English 7 Feb 81 p 1
/Text/ Hard drugs arc being imported into New Zealand through the mail~
Yolice and customs ofFicers Impregnated do~vn the drug seene, and he- felt, or picl,�ed up by s�ray
are struggluig to control thc roin is~fa~ scar~er - arreste machine. ~
mail drug trafGc, which is a But many other d1o~ f~. ~gsessiotl .are d4wn ~
woridwide problem. including heroin. cucaine aild ~ Custor~s officers ~nd drug
cattnabis are coming ~~0ut g0 , per 'cent on ~last ~o~ ~ based pt tbe Chief
The Customs Department r..
lias had one ot its bueiest through the mail. ' Po~t Oft ce at Auckland.
weeks for interce tin t,SD police and cus[oi~+are noC' ;'~t~ arris st~d,that
p~ finciiug it easy t0 tl,~ht the, ~~n7 inA'~~`;bf mai111pj.~~9D ~CCOgri1t1011
an~ llMA - both cass A inail t.affic. : and DMA ~vas probabty'~'not The sort throu
controlled drugs - in ~~ncom~ rela `~;We are ta Y~ gh incom-
ing mail. . Une custome~ ofticer t~! a~~~~,ent dr ~g ~ mail and rely on touch,
D7i~A; an amphetai ,~S the Herald ttk'~t hla~:de~p~'t� ~ t~,~ fi'�~ the dogs' sense of smell,
is~milar to ISD - bv~il iro~ ment caught only 8 sm6y~1 P Of the'wo~ld. x-rays, or just recognising a
- duce hallucinations. p percentage of mailed drugs Y ot.eq4~te the t~ro. p~~e and address on a
erha s less than oau~ p~ ~r~ ~say the mailed i~~r.
HaUucinogenic drugs -ue~ - p ~ tir~ets `ea~',be sold an .
very powerful - and easy to thicd. w, Qhe street ~or bet 5 and They are not allowed to
conceal. Detecfive Ins-gector 1'sul ~10 , open first-class ma~, by
T h e medical super~ Fitzharris, the co-ordiaa.or C2nnabis ~tldts'cost lOc in "'hich most of the drugs are
- lntendent of Oakley- Hosp~tal. of the National Drug I[rtetli- ~hai}a~ey are sold here sent. If the officers are sure
Dr P. P. E. Savage, said an ~ence Bureau in Wellittgton, or ~~,y a letter contains drugs, they
amount similar to a micro-~ sa~d mail was a ma~or ~ Hashish sQlls here for.~7000 must seize it from the Posl
dot put on a piece of paper method of drug imporcation, a~ogram. Ft can be boAght Office.
the size of a soap flal~e particularly of the ISll-,ype in Nepal for ~350. If drugs are found, a war-
would be enough to produca , druR. ! Mr .Hartle~~ d~?e was rant, is pre ared, to searcfi
efSixts arrests have been~ IAmerican beuta ~t~`t~ amount therecipient~saddress.
made. this ~veek in connection Almost all ~he ISD and ~ ~-r �P~'ticular- The drugs go to the Ae-
Svith the importation of hallu-~ ~ DMA was coming ~ number of st~'ea d itnwas Cndustrial ~ Researchc for
cinogenic drugs, The norm is ;�`~merica, he said. ' difficnlt ~ to rtco
tw~o a tiveek. ~ Sometimes the drugs &r- gnise the analysis. They are destroyed
rive unsolicited, but del~Ver�I Sheets or tick~ by the Health Department
The chief customs investi� ~ ies were usually nlanned. ' The "paper"~ druga can be after the tiourt ease.
~ations officer, Mr Stuart i"We have found Ie
Hartley, said lhat more ~�'P
drugs than before are being~ I Who have organi~ed quite a
series of conslgnments, Mr
~ent by mail. ' ! ' .
The drugs are being postedj ~ Fit~harr~ said.Y
as sheets of paper impreg�! norta t whentyoa compare~it
uated With LSD and D.MA. ~4ith tne amount peopie bring
and, tickets, ' which ~~~pt~e ~ in at airports, buE the
about A third of the size ai a i~~~~~veries have to be small
ac piece. because of their natu~e."
- ' Police have quietened
CSO: 5320
21
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000304090016-2
NEW 2EAIAND
HEROIN SUPPLIERS SEEN BEHIND ARMED ROBBERY INCREASE
Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 14 Jan 81 p 14
/Excerpt/ Wellington (Press Association)--The shooting of Petone publican Mr Rick
Bullock has intrnduced a trend police ha.ve feared since they successfully quietened
down the New Zealand drug scene in 1979.
Criminals and drug eddicts .-"Some of fh~eae guys ti~ed
who had an easy life d~ing to think nothifi$ to going to a .
the prosperous years o[ the fanCy restaurant'and apend-
Chrlstopher Johnstone drug ing ;5b0, shouting their
syndicate and othec. groups raates the best wine."
are now desperate for money B1118
to sustain either� lifestyle,
drug habit or both. Mr ~Bihika recalls visit-
This is the view of the ing one hero~a dealer's house
head of the Wellingtan rob- ~~inding 12 ~uitcases fWl
bery squad, Detective In- of ~ leather' jackets aad fur
spector Rangi Rangibi~Ca, caats which �the dealer and
who says robberies have his girlfriend had bottght,
given these groups ~e ~rn once or twice and dis-
access to money. . ~
As heroin availability has Inside one of the coat ock-
become increasingly small, found a;100 not~e~ for-
with arrests for possession in ~
Wellington down 80 per cent Botte~.
on last year, these groups of Tfi$t was when the money
crlminals have become des- W~ good and the heroin
perate. � plentiful.
Now there is little heroin,
- ~ Best Wine but the criminals still main-
Mr Rangihika says crim- tain the lifestyle, and many
inals in the good ctrug years also maintain the drug habit.
were used to having $900 to The little heroin around
$1000 a week to live on. does not go far enough ta
That money, up from about cover both the habit and,
- $500 in 1975, was ~ust fo* liv- j~'�ugh reselling, to pay the
i:ig expenses. biils.
"Anything fancy - like ~sts are not covered, and
buying cars - was on top of ~~'e ia pressure #rom the
that," according to Mr major suppliers to "pay or
Rangihika. else" -~~`and the'else' is in
capitals, Mr Rangihika
~says.
CSO: 5320
22
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
P AK I S'I'AN
NARCOTICS CONTROL LAW TO BF PROMULGATED
Tslamabad THE MUSLIM in English 10 Feb 81 p 4
[Editorial: "Narcotic Control"]
[ Text ] THAT a comprehensive narcotics control Taw is soon to be
promulgated to eliminate the confusion that multiple legis-
~ lation in the form of four Prohibition Ordinances, a Pro-
hihition Act and a dozen or so of other Acts on the subjects,.
will be widely welcomed. Most of thesG laws have been
lupsided lea~ling to the award of equal punishment to persons
u~ possession of tons of opium and those found to be carryung
a gram of the abhorrent stuff. If effecrively implemented
with due measure of discrimination between clandestine
wholesalers of nazcotics and the casual consumers of stupe-
i'ying drugs, and promoters of the business are subjected to
exemplary pen~lties commensurate with the magnitude of
- their crime, it should be possible to ractify the imbalance that
liad escisted in the previous regulations. Besides, the law, now
c,n the anvil, will also }iave to evolve a fool�proof system to
net racketeers wlio have been building up fabulous fortunes
tlirou~li organised smugglir?g of charas, hashish, marijuana ,
and the more sophisticated and propordo,~ately more lethal
heroin.
- Widespread addiction to narcotics within the country has
been undermining the health of those p}ven to these dxug,~.
That some young men and even youthful girls in their teens
from the iiiglier echelons of our social set up have been visiting
Cricndly phaimaceutical establishments for shots of morphine -
is too well known to warrant mention. As these drugs are
hahit-fom~ing, it is difficult to wean ihe addicts away by
mc~e persuasion on an individual basis or even by repeatedly
publicising the deleterious effects of the many natcodca and
dieir by-products. !f total prohibition of the more common
narcutic like opium is ordered and stricdy enforced, as was
~one some time earlier, it may result in fatalities of tho3e
addicted to it for a number of years. It may be recalled that
when a complete ~ban was placed on it and addicts hospital-
ised for grievous illness oii account of withdrawal symptoms
because of its non-availability, they began to die. Thereafter -
opium was suppliad to hospitals to be sdmi~tered �in smal~
doses to be gradually made smaller and smaller wlth the
passage of time till the addict overcame the habit.
23
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
Periodical reports appearing in the Press to convey the
happy tidings that vigilant Excise officiala had succeasfhlly
trapped smuggiera of narcodcs and recovered massive quan-
tlties of such contraband stuff may have sounded overly~
encouragjc?g on every such occasion. But that does not.
however prove that ev~ery attempt at acnuggling was foiled.
The misfortune that corruption is rampant in ttie land - as
the surprise raid on the L4lamabad airport the other day to
conduct personal check of the Gtistoms Staff on duty clearly
indicated - the possibility of officials being made to ahut
~ their eyes in return or graft cannot be ovemilsd. Tho legis-
_ lation now being c~ntemplated will alao' have to provide
stringent ~Ehalties for those who show indulgence not only
to scnugglers but also to dealers in naccotics.
The correlation between drugs and crifne is universa'lly
acknowledged. In America, increase in thenumberof robberiea
in recent years has been attributed to widespread drug addic-
tion. Other countries of the world like Malaysia, Singapore and -
Japan have also held that drug addicts often take to crimes
of various descriptions unmindful of conse quences. With
his power of reasoning sapped while in a state of stupefaction,
a man is likely to commit crimes which he normally will not
have committed when sober, It is fervidly hoped that't}ie
formulaters of the new law on nazcotics will bear all fac�ora
in mind and take every neceasary step to ~ ensure its total
implementation. The legislation will have to be wholly free
from every conceivable loophole.
�
CSO: 5300
24
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
~
SMUGGLING ATTII~IPT FOILED--One hundred and twenty kilogram charas worth Rs.3
lakh was seized by the Baghbanpura Police on Tuesday. The charas would have
cost Rs. 10 crore in foreign market, if smuggled abroad. ~ao persons,
Shabbir and Nazir of Misri Shah were arrested. The charas packed in export-
ab le carpets was being transported in a rehra for booking at the Moghalpura
Dry Port. The police intercepted the rehra at Bund Road and seized the
carpets and contraband charas concealed in it. The police were also looking
~ for one Hafiz Khan, a carpet manufacturer at Fateh Garh, Moghalpura, the
owner and sender of the carpets. [TextJ [Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English
4 Feb 81 p 5]
CHARAS SEIZED--CIA staff seized 60 kilograms of charas worth Rs, two lakh
from an under-construction house in New Garden Town on Wednesday. Three
persons, Mushtaq of Shahdara and Gul Nabi and Gul Rehman involved in the
traf~icking of charas from tribal areas were arrested. Cases have been
registered against these persons under the Prohibition of Narcotics Act.
[Text] [Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 5 Feb 81 p 3]
- OPIL~`1 SEIZ~D- Cuu~rauanci opiu~ w~igh~ng a~ouc :~00 kilo5 was seizeu b~ an
Excise Police party in a lightning raid on Bara Market on Super Highway
yesterday morning. An Afghan national, identified as Nazar (35), told the
ra iding party after his arrest that he had brought the opium stacked in
gunny bags for purposes of "export" to Egypt. The value of the opium is
assessed to be about Rs. one million (Rs. six million in the street market
ab road). Further investigations are undezway. [Text] [Karachi DAWN in
English 5 Feb 81 p 6] -
CSO: 5300
25 .
~
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS -
BENGUET MA.RIHUANA PLANTATION DESTROYED--Camp Aguina.ldo, Quezon City, Feb. 16--
A newly-harvested marijuana farm situated atop a mountain at barangay Napsong,
Kibungan, Benguet was destroyed by government agents recently, it was announcedo
- The discovery of the two-hectare illegal plantation came after the seizure by a
joint Constabulary anti-narcotics unit (CAIVLJ), Baguio and Benguet PC-INP and the
Finance Ministry intelligence bureau (FMIB) of 3,500 full grown marijuana. plants
at the foot of the mountain. FMIB "Task Force Claw" commander, M/Sgt. Vic Am~to
told Counnissioner Pelagio A. Cruz that they suspected another marijuana. farm -
elsewhere after they stumbled upon a creek coming f rom the mountain. The same
team scaled the rough and treacherous mountain terrain until they found the farm
which was supposedly harvested of the prohibited crop.--(Sel Baysa) ~Text~
_ ~Manila BULLETIN TODAY in English 17 Feb 81 p 11J
CSO: 5300
26
~
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
SRI LANKA
AIR RAID ON GANJA PLANTATION
Colombo SUN in ~n~lish 16 Feb 81 pp 1, 8 ~
~Article by Ranil Weerasinghe~ �
~Text~
'I'wo mililon ~upces wurth of ed by tha InSpector Gene. was virtually the size of a
cannahis saliva (ganial has ral of Police Ana Sene~ bi iard table and made all that
' i?een uprooted and des~troyed ln virafie following last week'e m~e dangerous by the burnt
the first two days of a masalve rescue of Sve officera lo~It and charred trees around ~t.
Joint operation carried out In in this same area while an a
the Galge area by the 1'oliee raid on a gaaj~t plaetation. The pilots sutfered several
and the Air Force, p'tthough no arrests have heart stopping moments when
aperation Airlift whict~ got been made the police teams have on take off they found that
undeway on Friday morning come across a nwmber of hastily the belly of the chopper had _
commenced with the detection abandoned shelters and nuse- been holed by a stump. This
- from the r,ir of a concentration rics. T'hese included a watch was noted only after the chop-
of seven ganja chenas situated h~t in which items uY clothing per had climbed back into the
in thick animal infested jungle and provisions were found aban- air with the uprooted stump.
on the border of the Yala sanr doned. This watch hut had Following emergency repair
tuary. been canopied with green plas- work the red and white chopper
Within hours of tha rescue tic sheeting in an apparent was once more back in the air,
operation Fl, Lt. Sunil Cabraal effort to avoid detection from ferrying the men and eq~ipment
and Pilot Officer Roger Weera� the air. back and forth.
- singhe had completed over 20
sorties to land and drop over The two air force pilots who In view of the success of the
~0 ofticers and men in the have completed over 110 sorties two day operatian the Inspector
chenas, in the two days have not only General of Police has directerJ
The teams led by ASP Narco. airlifted and brought out the that the operation be continued
tic, ~Iema Weerasinghe and team b~t also kept them sup~ and has rushed the Police para ~
R�I~tara SY G. B. Dissanaike had P1ied with food and water. military unit, the task force,
t~y Sat.ur~ay compieted the task into the area.
uf uprooting and burnin~; over According to Fl. Lt. Uliver
'1.00,~~0 plants in the rhenas. Guruge who was in charge of The original helicopter used
'I'lie scizure estimated ~t co-ordinating the ground and in the first two days of opera-
around '10,000 pounds has $ aerial operation the flying by tion has been sent back for re- `
titreet value of two millioq his two fellow Air Force oPfice;s haulin~ and a replacement sent
rupees at the prevailtng prices. Was of an exceptionally high in its place.
The lightnirlg ofteasive standard. The units engaged in the _
ng:~nst the cannibia cultivators This point was driven home ogerations have been assisted
in what has been termed Sri as the ilots took off from ato by the Galge game ran~er J. A.
Lanka's ganja belt was launcl?~ p p Weerasinghe while Hambantota
a rocky o~tcrop and then des- District Judge Cyril Hunukum-
cendeci to drop us in a chena. bura was flown into the area of
TU~e landinR zone at this site operation to view the exercise.
CSU: 5300
27
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
SRI LANKA _
TASK FORCE DESTROYS GANJA
Colombo SUN in Enfilisli 17 Feb 81 p 1
~Article by Ranil Weerasinghe~
~Text~
'~Opention A1rlilt" eatend inrther hundred handpicked ofR-
it's s~eond pMse yeatetd~y wi~ cera and men had been placed
Police retnforceme~ts fndnd- DIG Lao P~'era, to he
P i~the
Ing theirp~ r+ ~ raids.
unit the 'i'aslc Force movfns 1a
tn s~ssist in t~he int~asiflM ope- A~~ingtq Mr, Perera !n
rations. raids conducted P~~' ~
The red and white Bell Je~ ~,~n~~ ~veral million
Ranger of the Air Force ~hich -
had returned to KatunaYate� rupee: worth o,f g9ania had been
for overhauling on Saturday seized in hi~ rante over . the
was oncg more back in the paet taro mattha. Qner hundi~ed
area liftins the me~? to the persons had alao been arr.eslsd
new fields of gan9a disc~overed by Polfce aho 1~ad cartlecl �~1t
following reconnaissance opera- ralda ~n , the iungl~s of Welta-
tions conducted in the mora� May
a~~ottntll, . BiDile ~n1~d
in~� h
Meanwtule Police staUnna !n
One of the chenas visited had the snn'ounQing areas have
- already been hatveated a1� baen aIerted to look out for
though the San~a had not beett a~p~ ~lnB made to move
removed. the harvested Sanja out of thi~
Several bags of this narcotic a~a
were found by the Police stack� ~8 alert came. after the
ed away on tree tops. Embilipitiya Poltce detected 20
As the crackdown on the bags, wei$hing 1224 pounds
gan~a gathered momemWm a Colombo. ~as being brought to
c:so ; 530U
?_8
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
SRI IANKA
B RIEFS
SWISS ARRESTED WITH NARCOTICS--Trincomalee--A young Swiss woman who was attracted
by the charms of a young man disclosed to him a secret little realising that the
charming young ma.n with a fixed smile was a police officer. Sub-Inspector Upali
Kumarasinghe, who had his suspicion ab out the female tourist cultivated her
acquaintance and was not surprised when she asked for his help to dispose of the -
hashish and ganja she had with her. She wanted Rs. 7000 for the lot but he
offered her Rs. 5000. When the deal was to be clinched, instead of giving
her the money he flashed his police identity card. The tourist, Miss Hanna.
Hanziker, was produced before the Sub-Collector of Customs K.K, Subramaniam who,
after further investigations produced the suspect before Mr No Pathmanathan.
Additional Collector of Customs, Trinc omalee, who fined her Rs. 3000 for possessing -
28 grams of hashish and 312~ grammes of ganja, which were forfeited. Sub-Inspector
Kumarasinghe was also responsible for the arrest of German tourist Gunther Ernst
: Czizikowski who was in possession of 235 grains of ganja. He was produced before
the Tricorimalee Ma.gistrate V.P. Sunderalingam and fined Rs. 200. ~Text~ ~Cclombo
THE CEYLON LIAILY NEWS in English 13 Feb 81 p 5~
HASHISH OVERDOSE--A youn~ Italian woma.n suffering from an overdoes of hashish has
been warded at the General Hospital Co lombo, Police said yesterday. The woman was
p icked up by patrolling policemen on Wednesda.y and produced at the Borella Police
Women's Bureau, as she was behaving in an odd manne~ and had been intoxicated,
Police said. Taken to hospital and questioned, she is reported to have admitted
that she had taken hashish. She is presently receiving treatment in Ward 47 of the
General Hospital. ~Text~ ~Colombo SUN in English 20 Feb 81 p 3J
WEST GERMAN HELD--A West German national was taken into custody by the Trincomalee -
Police in connection with the alleged possess ion of 235 grams of hashish. He was
- produced before th~ Trtncomalee Magistrate who rernanded him till February 6. '[Text]
[Colombo THE CEYLGN DAILY NEWS in English 7 Feb 81 p 1]
GANJA PLANTS DETECTED--Pottuvil Police have detected o'~Ler one lakh of illegally
cultivated ganja plants in the thick j ungles of Henda-Oya on Saturday, police said.
Over 50,000 plants were produced at the Police Station. Police said one person has
been taken in for questioning. The de tection was made by the OIC of the Pottuvil
Police, a Sergeant and six PC's. [Colombo THE CEYLON DAILY NEWS in English 5 Feb 81
p 5]
29
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
SWISS NATIONAL HELD--A Swiss national who had in her possession 28 grams of hashish
and 312 grains of Cannabis was arrested by the Trincomalee police on Saturday. She
was produced before the Customs and fined Rs 3,000. She has been detained pending _
payment of the fine. [Colombo THE CEYLON DAILY NEWS in English 9 Feb 81 p.l]
PO5SESSION OF GANJA--Three young men, who were alleged to have carried three parcels
containing 117,124 grains of ganja, were taken into custody by a police party led by
Sergeant Samarakoon of Galagedera police recently. The police produced the young
men and charged them with possessing ganja before the Kandy Magistrate Mr V. Mapa.
All three pleaded guilty. The magistrate orderesi the police to destroy the productions
and the culprits ~:*ere fined. [Text] [Colombo THE CEYLON DAILY NEWS in English 9 Feb
81 p 7]
CSO: 5300
r
30
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
ARGENTINA
BRIEFS
BUENOS AIRES DRUG BUST--Five members of an international drug trafficking
organization have been arrested by the federal police during a raid on a
downtown Buenos Aires Hotel. Five kg of pure cocaine was found in their
possession. It was established that the traffickers controlled the movement
of cocaine from Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, to the United States.
The names of th e arrested traffickers have not been disclosed, b ut they are
Colombian and Uruguayan citizens and one of them is a woman. [PY242011
Bueno s Aires CLARIN in Spanish ].9 Feb 81 p 16 PY]
CSO: 5300
31
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
BAHAMAS
RENEWED CALL FOR REFORM OF BAIL SYSTEM FOR DRUG SUSPECTS
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 7 Jan 81 p 5
[Ar ticle by Etienne Dupuch] ?
[Excerpts] One of the many activi.ties that is now destroying the whole charac-
te r of the Bahamas is the unchecked traffic in dru~s in our islands. This has
be en going on for a long time, but it has now reached a point where Prime Minis- -
ter Pindling recently took panic. _
He tried to blame America for this activity and requested aid in the sum of $25
million to clean up the situation. It was later revealed that some time earlier
_ the US government had offered to use the facilities of its Drug Enforcement De-
pa rtment to clean up the situation in the islands. The government did not take
up this off er...apparently they o~anted Uncle Sam to put the money in their hands
- to do the job!
Around this same time the Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands was vis
visiting Nassau. He 'cold THE TRIBUNE that they had had a serious drug problem
in the Turks that the iJS Drug Enforcement Department had cleaned up for them in
a very short time.
How serious is gove rnment about cleaning up the drug traffic in these islands?
So far it seems they have done little to ti~hten up on the situation. They have
no t taken any steps to stop men engaged in this trade from being granted bail in
the courts. Indeed, many feel that ba~l collected from dope smugglers is now a -
calculated part or the public revenue!
~ I get the impression that there is a great deal of hypocrisy in this whole affair...
a lot of talk, but no action. The government is too busy trying to drive foreigners _
o ut of the Bahamas so that they can get control of their lands and their busi-
_ nesses that they have no time to th.ink about a small thing like dope smuggling.
Attorney Ortland J. Bodie Jr made a profound statement on the danger of the drug
traffic when Magistrate Van Sertima recently refused bail for three Bahamians
charged with multip le crimes of violence. He protested that "a Colombian will
get bail for drugs which could kill a whole nation, but a Bahamian cannot get
bail."
32
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
It is interesting to know that he is aware of the danger of the traffic in drugs,
but it is difficult to reconcile this statement with the fact that he is probably
more active than any other members of the Bahamas Bar in trying to get Colombian
drug smugglers off the hook!
One of the few persons in an official capacity in court circles who seems seri-
ous about doing something positive to check the drug traffic is Mrs J. Henry
Bostwick. When she was recently sitting on the bench as an Acting Magistrate
she refused bail for six men charged with smuggling drugs.
The lawyer representing the alleged smugglers appealed her ruling to a Supreme
Court Justice who overruled her decision and released the men on a bail of $12,000
each. This will probably be another $72,000 for Minister of Finance Arthur Hanna's
revenue ca lculations!
I know that I have printed Mrs Bostwick's observation on the drug traffic in this
_ calumn only recently but it is a declaration of fact that needs to be printed over
and over again until some definite action is taken by government to clean up the
_ situation.
I will believe that the government is seriously concerned about cleaning up the
traffic in dope and stopping piracy in Bahamian waters when legisZation is passed
refusing bail to dope traffickers and makin~ the penalty so severe that it would
act as a deterrent to drug activities in the Bahamas.
CSO: 5300
33
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
- BAHAMAS
FIVE ARRESTED IN BIMTNI, GRANTED $20,000 BAIL EACH
Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 13 Jan 81 p 1
[Text] Bail in the sum of $100,000 was ~ranted to five men arrested in Bimini
' Thursday when their DC-3 aircraft landed there allegedly loaded with marijuana
and cocaine.
The t~�~ Americans and three Cuban Americans, arraigned before Magistrate George
Van Sertima yesterday, were arrested at 2.45 am Thursday by Sgt Fyne and severai
other policemen, lying in ambush at the Bimini airport, when a quantity of drugs
and the DC-3 aircraf t were seized shortly af ter it landed .
Jose Camino, 20, Raul Pal, 28, Primitivo Pree z, 38, Allan Kaiman, 38, and John
Johnson, 53, were charged with possession of two blocks of hashish weighing
three and a half pounds and possession with intent to supply. _
They were further charged with possession of thirty three and a half pounds of _
cocaine at South Bimini on January 8, and pos session with intent to supply.
Camino, Pal, Preez, Kaiman and Johnson were a iso charged with possession of 73
plastic boxes containing marijuana and possession with intent to supply.
The men pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The court prosecutor did not object to bail, but said, "I would have liked to
have been in a position to object to bail bu t the court calendar so dictates
- that we cannot afford the defendants early da tes ~or trial."
Instead he asked Magistrate Van Sertima to set bail at a substantial amount con-
sidering the large quantity of drugs with wh ich the men were charged. The prose-
cutor asked for bail to be set at no less than $25,000 cash for each defendant,
and added that there should be no question on the part of the defendants if bail
was set at this amount. -
Lawyer Arlington Bu tler, representing all f ive defendants, argued abouL bail
set at this sum however, saying he had hoped the sum would be slightly less and _
in any event, the sum should be one that is not impossible.
Bail was granted in the sum $20,000 cash ea ch and trial was set for July 8.
CSO : 5300
31~ -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
BAHAMAS
- BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SEIZURE AT SEA--About $112 million worth of marihuana--the largest to
be seized at sea--was picked up by HI~IBS Mar~in off the Berry Islands at midnight =
Monday. Thirteer. Colombians have been arrested. The Mi:~istry of Defence, in _
an off icial press release, said "Cordoba" was heading for land to make a cargo
transfer when she was seized by Marl.in about two and a half miles off Little
StirrLp Bay in the northern Berry Islands. [Excerpt] [FL211605 Nassau THE TRIBUNE
in English 17 Feb 81 p 1]
CSO: 5300
35 `
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
BARBADOS
EDITORIAL CALLS FOR STRICT POLICE CONTROL OF DRUGS
BridRetown ADVOCATE-NEWS in English 6 Jan 81 p 4 _
[F.ditorial: "ProEits From Drugs Are Very Tempting"]
[Text]
Our Customs men have to be congratulated on the how the drugs might have been spirited away. _
vigilance they have been displaying in ferreting out yyher~, however it becomes known that somewhere
attempts to bring drugs, especially marijuana, mto along the line.drg~gs in the custod~ orpossession of
the island. Within recent months the Customs .men the pohce~ ~.1a`~~
e~decl up;on ~he street~, the.inevitable
have managed to foil a number of efforts, some scandal b~`e~i~s~:'~7~e quest~on we ~ust~therefore ask
bordering on genius, to boost the growing drugs ourselves is whether we in Barbados have managed
- market in the country. It is one thing Eo-b~ ~able to to come up. w~th a~ystem that wilLprevent that kind�
keep an eye on or trace the local pushers and ~f seandal in our country. , _
growers of cannabis. It is a lot more ~Fialle~~ging to Not so~long ago, for example the New York Police
be able to stoo drugs from coming in~o ~he island at were not able to explain how several kilos of heroin
the various points of entry. with a street value to USSI million had disappeared
The challenge is two-fold. It detnands sharpness on from one of ttieir prec~ncts. Nearer to home there
the part of our Customs men while encouraging the was also th~ charge that pollcemen in Port-of-Spain
pushers to attempt ways and means of negating zhat we~re unable to account for ~ q~~antity of cannabis
sharpness. Part of the crux of the problem is that known to have been ~in theirposs ession. ~Here in
there is money to be made in pushing drugs. These Barbados rumours.have ~iitered throuBh from time
will always bepeople willing to take the chance of to time but we do not get the imQreasion that these _
not being caugF~t. And this ra~ses another matter. are taken seriously.
It is whether or not we have a tight enough system How~I~r t~ere. is nee~l for reassurance about our
to ensure that after our Customs men manage to systead'sincp;~more and niore supplie~ of ~irug,s. are.
ferret out the drugs these same drugs do not fintling ~theit ~.N~sy~'inte palice custody. It would be
somehow manage to find their way back on the most ironic if our CtL~lbms men through their
market. After the drugs are turned over to the police diyigeci~e i~at~~~ ~tiM~d~ to pUt wha~ mig~t be -
nothing more is heard of them after the due process regarded~as'e number of dents in what cart seem to
of law has had a chance to operate. The usual be the impervimus structure of ~n internatio~nal drugs
practice is that the drugs in the possession and racket, only to find thak eomplacency at home leads
custody of the police should be destroyed. But this to these drug supplies finding their way back on the
i,as not atways been as simple an operation as we market by an even more subtle route.
might imagine. What we have to bear in mind at all Eimes is t}iat
Myriad are the cases where drugs the police had in the street'value arid demand for drugs remain hi~h. -
- custody at some stage in a number of countries Added to this, it is no secret that with our expanding
eventually ended up on the street without anyone tourism there are many peopte now coming to our
being able to say exactly what went wrong or who shores with "tne habit" not to mention those who are
should take the blame. In fact, so embarrassing can local consumers. The growing drug culture in fhe _
be the circumstances at times that the police are island is a problem. The money to be made remains
themselves most reluctant to give any details about a heavy temptation. We need say no more.
- CSO: 5300
36
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
BOLI~IA
BRIEFS
- ANTIDRUG CAMPAIGN--Leaders of the Bol~.vi3n National Peasant Workers Con-
federation [CNTCB] have instructed all their constituents to avoid all
contact with drug traffickers. CNTCB representatives asserted in a docu-
ment that they will cooperate at all times with the m~bers of the armed
j forces to exterminate the drug traffickers. Another paragraph says that
the peasant class gives strong and determ3ned support to the measures
taken by the supreme government to combat drug trafficking. The struggle
will be hard, but we feel certain that we Bolivian peasa: ts will win the
final battle together with the armed forces, the document concludes.
[Text] [PY240230 La Paz Radio Illiman3 Network in Spansih 0100 GMT
- 24 Feb 81] '
_ ARMED FORCES FIGHTING TRAFFICKERS--La.Paz, 18 Feb (AFP)--The B~livian Government
has announced that the National Directorate for the Control of Dangerous
- Substances, an organization in charge of fighting drug addiction, is now
under the jurisdiction of the armed forces. The Interior Ministry, which has
had jurisdiction over the control of drug traffick, released the resolutioa
transferring this responsibility to military units of the entire nation for
the control and repression of illegal marketing and production of dangerous
- substances. President Luis Garcia Meza announced last week that the armed
forces have declared an all-out war on national and international rings of
_ drug traffickers. [Text] [PY191305 Paris AFP in Spanish 1421 GMT 18 Feb 81]
_ MINISTER'S PLEA AGAINST DRUGS--La Paz, 17 Feb (LATIN)--The Bolivian Air
Force (FAB) today called on the peoplP to report drug traffic activitie~
so th~y can be repressed and eliminated "no matter who may fall." The FAB
command today relea.sed the text of the speech delivered yesterday by the
= air minister, Gen Waldo Bernal Pereyra, at the inauguration of a military
institute's academic year. General Bernal, who is also FAB commander, re-
- stated and confirmed the intervention of th~ Bolivian Armed Forces in the
_ repression of drug traffic, considered one of the '4aorst ills" affecting the
country. Gen Luis Garcia Meza, chief of state and army commander, last
Friday ordered armed forces intervention in fighting drug traffic. The air
force commander labeled a"duty" the actions to be carried out against "this
apocalyptic scourge." He justified the military intervention "because the
police efforts to fight these criminals, armed better than ever, were not
sufficient." He reported that the pxocessing and trafficking of drugs in
Bolivia are "supported from abroad with large capital and amazing means of
communications to move, armed, by surface and air." He went on to say that
"the whole contingent" of the armed forces will be used "to defend and pre-
serve national honor," General Bernal said that "every officer must consider
himself a guard and fighter "in the struggle against the drug traffic."
[Excerpt] [PY191556 Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish 2326 GMT 17 Feb 81]
~ 37 ~
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
COCAINE SEIZURE--The Chuquisaca Prefect has reported that the police have
seized 82 kilograms of cocaine base in Monteagudo, 350 kilometers from
_ Sucre, He said that this is the largest amount of cocaine seized in
Chuquisaca. Several drug traffickers have been arrested but their names
were not given. The cocaine was deposited i.n th e State Bank. [PY242011 La Paz
Radio I11 imani Network in Spanish 1130 GMT 24 Feb 81 PY]
COCAINE S EIZED--La Paz, 24 Feb (LATIN)--The armed forces have reported that
they were able to break up two rings of drug traffickers and seize 20 kilo-
grams of cocaine in two operat~Cons, one in the Titicaca Lake area and the -
other in Santa Cruz Department. The commander of the Tarapaca regiment
reported in La Paz that it has arrested 16 individuals and discovered a
cocaine factory in Achacachi, seizing 20 kilograms of cocaine. The chief
of army intelligence also announced that during a confrontation with drug
traffickers in Santa Cruz, one soldier was killed and another wounded.
[PY251154 Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish 0222 GMT 25 Feb 81 PY]
BOLIVIAN, PERWIAN COCA LEAF--La Paz, 23 Feb (AFP)--A report published here
today by the Commission .for the Fight ~gainst Drugs states that Bolivia and
Peru produce 100 percent of the coca. leaves from which cocaine is extracted.
The repor t adds that the coca leaf is legally cultivated in the two countries,
which leads to an ever larger production. It is said that attempts to
justify this legal status are made both in Peru and Bolivia with the argument
that coca is used as a sedative agent to control the appetite, a stimulant
and an antidote to ttie effects of altitude. The co~?ission admits that those
= arguments are true to a certain point, because two-thirds of the population,
specifically in Bolivia, are poor and undernourished. It clearly states,
however, that while Bolivia needs only 6,000 tons per year for the consumption
of its farmhands and mineworkers, it is producing over 25,000 tons, explaining
that the balance is used by the cocaine manufacturers. The commission says
that this fact led to a 1,400-percent increase in the price of coca leaf in
the last 2 years, so that its cost has become prohibitive for the Bolivian
poor classes. [Text] [PY240014 Paris AFP in Spanish 1524 GMT 23 Feb 81]
CSO: 5300
38 � -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
BRAZIL
BRIEFS
RESULTS OF ANTIDRUG OPERATION--A number of Bolivian citizens were arrested at
(Corumbao) airport when they were caught carrying 5 kg of cocaine. This arrest
was carried out under *.he "Carnival Operation" by federal police on the Brazilian
borders, which has already resulted in the seizing of 23 kg of cocaine and other
drugs. [PY221825 Sao Paulo Radio Bandeirantes Network in Portuguese 1000 GMT 21
Feb 81] -
P.OLIVIA-BRAZIL-ITALY DRUG CONNECTION--With the arrest of three cocaine
traffickers, the Sao Paulo Federal Police have discovered a new inter-
~ national drug trafficking route: Bolivia-Sao Paulo-Rome. The police
_ arrested Brazilian Joao Magalhaes da Silva in a downtown hotel in Sao Paulo.
He is the owner of one of the largest cocaine refineries in Santa Cruz de La
Sierra, Bolivia. They also arrested Bolivians Carmen Tapia de Fernandez and -
Rubens Flores Roman and seized 3 kg of cocaine, estimated worth 12 million -
cruzeiros. Magalhaes said that Tapia de Fernandez and Flores Roman would
travel to Rome to show a kg of cncaine-base to Italian traffickers who are
very much interested in cocaine. The cocaine was brought to Sao Paulo in
plastic bags taped to the legs and stomachs of the traffickers. The police
also announced the arrest of Bolivians (Luis Arias Gimenez) and (Carlos -
Campelo Gimenez) and of Brazilzan student (Arthuro Ribeiro Tonante), 22.
They wgre carrying 101 grams of cocaine. In Santos the police arrested -
(Ivo Alberto Danillei) who was carrying cocaine estimated worth 100,000
cruzeiros, wh~.ch was to be sold during the carnival celebrations. [PY242011 _
Sao Paulo Radio Bandeirantes Network in Portuguese 1000 GMT 24 Feb 81 PY]
POLICE SEIZE COCAINE--During the past 20 days the Mato Grosso Do Sul Federal _
Police have seized more than 24 kg of�pure cocaine in Cnrumba and Campo ~
Grande. So far the largest amount seized was 13 kg at Corumba airport, but
the trafficker managed to get away from the police. Another 4.8 kg of pure
cocaine was seized at the same airport. It was being carried by two -
Bolivian couples who were leaving for Sao Pa~i1o and Rio de Janeiro. [PY251157
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 21 Feb 81 p 6 PY] -
CSO : 5300
39
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
COSTA RICA
' BRIEFS
1980 DRUG HAUL FIGURES--Narcotics and crime prevent.ion officials seized drugs worth
532 million colones during 1980, according to an official report. The report said
that coordination with Interpol allowed the dismantling of a drug traffic connection
in Costa Rica. [San Jose Radio RELOJ in Spanish 1730 G~IT 3 Jan 81 PA)
CSO: 5300
~
1~0
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
CUBA
F
BOLIVIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS CALLED Pa+IER BEHIND THRONE
Havana PRISMA LATINOAMERICANO in Spanish Nov 80 p 2 _
[Article by Carlos M~ra Herman] ~
[Text] Roberto Suarez, Alfredo "Kutuchi" Gutierrez and Jorge Nallar are the visible
heads of the three principal groups controlling the narcotics traffic in Bolivia
under the orders of the international mafia.
A revealing report published in the Peruvian magazine MARKA last August exposes all
the maneuvers of the military men who have taken over that Andean country, where _
coups d'etat are almost a national sport. _
And it is interesting to find that semicolonial dependency still holds sway in the
sordid world of the narcotics traffickers, through powerful ties which cross
several countries to converge in the world center of that traffic: the United States.
MARKA's revelations unfold a story which could very well become the script for one
of those films that producers make from time to time to exploit the sensational _
aspects of that criminal traffic, of which tens of thousands of people in several
~ countries, especially children and youth, are the victims. Before the Bolivian coup
d'etat headed by Luis Garcia ~izza, the so-called "San Javier operation" was organized
and carried out by the Santa Cruz Division of Narcotics under the command of Police
Major Carlos Fernandez Navarro. San Javier is a. village located in the eastern -
part of Santa Cruz, where there are two big ranches belonging to Hugo Banzer and
Widen Razuk. Those ranches, supposedly, are for raising cattle, and since they are
qui4:e far removed fram the traditional coca-producing zones, they have never been
connected with the drug traff ic. =
It was, then, a surprise when men from the Narcotics Division appeared in the area.
And not only did they appear: they had an armed confrontation with the traffickers,
and took by surprise two aircraft-~one of them Colombian--which were transporting
cocaine and seized the drugs after taking over several houses located on Banzer's _
ranch. -
On this occasion it became obvious that some air force officers were implicated in
the traffic and that the people working with them were using military uniforms,
which made it easy for them to cover their movements.
1~1
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
Curiously enough, several days after this operation in San Javier the press
reported that more than 300 kilograms of drugs had been seized after a prolonged
armed confrontation and that the action had taken place because of a personal "tip"
from General Banzer.
From that moment on, the military people connected with the drug traffic were aware
that the authorities in power, with their democratic leanings, represented a danger
to their activities.
For Jorge "Pipi" Selum, the brilliant int~rior minister in Lidia Gueiler's admin-
istration, the San Javier operation was his last. His men discovered important drug
factories and modern weapons destined for paramilitary groups and reported the
accident in E1 Beni involving an aircraft which carried a large shipment of drugs
belonging to a f irm owned by Col Luis Arce Gomez and Col Norberto Salomon. They
also impounded several Colombian aircraft on various clandestine airstrips located
near the banks of the Rio Grande. Selum was dismissed and Luis Garcia Meza was
named army chief. Garcia Meza, after appointing himself to the rank of division
general, spent his time preparing the coup, usingthe plentiful resources placed at
his disposal by the drug mafia. On 17 July the military coup took place, the 189th
coup in Bolivia's history. '
The superficial investigations made durtng the brief democratic administration of
Lidia Gueiler led to the discovery of German mercenary groups from Paraguay installed
in two houses in Santa Cruz and armed to the teeth.
These groups were led by a sadly celebrated man, Klaus Barbie, alias Klaus Altmann,
a former Hitler Gestapo agent and a war criminal wanted by French authorities.
. Three principal groups have been accused in the MARKA report: those led by Roberto
- Suarez, Alfredo "Kutuchi" Gutierrez and Jorge Nallar.
The first is extremely active and operates uuder good military cover. It is
supparted by Colonel Lara, by the Montero Rangers and by the II Army Corps based in
Santa Cruz and headed by Gen Hugo Echeverria. This group produces about 20,000
kilograms of cocaine paste annually.
~ The second group, under "Kutuchi" Gutierrez, was very active in the �inal years of
Banzer's administration, to which it was closely allied.
Finally, the Nallar group is the biggest producer, putting out 30,000 kilograms of
cocaine paste per year. Its operations are centered in the Okinawa, Monteverde and
Perseverancia zones, all in northern Santa Cruz.
- Nallar's shock troops are famous in the area. They are commanded by Omar Cassib
and investigations superintendent Abraham Batista.
Something happened to the planners of the new Bolivian coup headed by Garcia Meza,
something similar to what happened to Banzer in the 1978 elections, when he though
he could manipulate the results througti fraud and install his protege, Pereda.
When Garcia Meza's calculations proved wrong, he decided to overthrow Lidia Gueiler
and save the interests of the narcotics traffickers, who are the real power behind
the throne in that countr�~.
- 8735 ~
- CSO: 3010 1~2
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
GUATEMALA
BRI EFS
DRUG ARREST--Interpol agents have arrested Roger Ceballos Robles for possession of
880 grams of cocaine, worth 150,000 quetzales. Ceballos, a Bolivian, was arrested
at the airport when he arrived from Colombia. [Guatemala City Radio-Television
Guatemala in Spanish 0400 GMT 21 Jan il PA]
CSO: 5300
43
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
JAMAICA
GOVERNMENT ASKID TO INVESTIGATE INCREASE IN DRUG USE
Kingston THE DAILY GLEANER in English 20 Jan 81 p 1 ,
[Excerpt) The Public Health Committee of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation
would like the Ministries of National Security and Health and the Church to investi-
gate what it described as the increasing use of hard drugs by young people.
In this the International Year of the Disabled Person, the committee would also
like both ministries and the Church to make public the dangers of using hard drugs
so that young people can be protected.
A resolution to this effect was passed yesterday by the Committee at its monthly
meeting at the KSAC's head office, King Street, downtown Kingston.
In moving the resolution, Councillor George Headlam spoke of the prolif eration of
. hard drugs and ganja in the society and the harmful effect that they were having _
on young people who were increasingly using them.
Young people, he said, were also increasingly becoming involved in thP selling of
- hard drugs and, according to reports, this practice was prevalent in certain areas.
Councillor Headlam said the drugs destroyed and disabled young people. He noted
that any move to curb the increasing use of hard drugs by young people in the
society would be very timely as this was the International Year of the Disabled
Person.
Councillor Headlam said also that he would like to see cigarette boxes carrying the
message that cigarettes were a health hazard, regardless o~ the effect that this
- might h~ve on cigarette sales and the revenue to be derived.
Councillor A. Dobson, who chaired the meeting, and Councillor Samuel Dreckett also
supported Councillor Headlam on the need to curb the increasing use of hard drugs
in the society.
CSO: 5300
44
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
JAMATCA
FUTURE OF GANJA IN NATION, U.S.-LINK DISCUSSED
Kingston THE DAILY GLEANER in English 8 Jan 81 pp 6,10
[Article by Barbara Blake: "The Ganja Controversy"] `
[Text] It is said that Marcus Garvey smoked 'special
cigaret.tes' for relief of his asthma.
]3y this time next year, substantial oil deposits will have been located off-
shore Jamaica, and the burnin.g issue of the legislation of ganja for economic
reasons, will have sufficiently cooled for some rational discussion to have
taken effect. ~
The Jamaican ganja issue fascinates me, and viewed from the perspective of an
~ American sojourn, it takes on an importance which made it inevitable that I
retained a close interest while there--for the destinies of Jamaica and America
- are inextricably intertwined...as some discovered to their cost.
If one were to identify the moment of total world awareness of the Jamaican
ganja issue, it would certainly be when it seemed to me that the U.S. Govern-
ment framed a media trap into which our new Prime Minister stepped--when Asso-
ciated Press deliberately misquoted his views on the ganja issue just so that
he would take time out to specifically clarify the fact that he did not intend
to legalise ganja.
Nevertheless, one must admire his calm statement of fact that without importers
there would be no exporters, and that he was not yet convinced that the scare
claims about ganja were merited. In any case, he truthfully admitted, he was
only a servant oE the people's will. His candour is to be admired. -
What is more to be admired is th~ admission of trr~th that the ganja industry _
was not only the number one source of foreign exchange in Jamaica over the past
year or so, but that it provided an economic lifeline without whi~h there would
have been sheer starvation across much of Jamaica.
So Entrenched
This statement proves many important points about ganja, one of which is that
given the right circumstances, ganja can take its place in the economic recovery
45
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
Jamaica so desperately needs. Moreover, I wonder whether gan~a has not become ~
so entrenched in the Jamaican and American societies, that wiping it out will =
be rather like mice trying to bell a cat.
Whether or not the cat needs to be belled, was the subject of a very interesting _
legal hearing presented by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsay Clarke on behalf
of the Coptic Church in Miami last June. The Hearing was to challenge the U.S.
Government's classification of ganja as a Schedule One substance: extremely _
dangerous to health and with no medicinal value or application. Coming from
Jamaica, I was aware that this was a harshly inacr_urate description. However,
I was surprised at the weight of scientific, psychiatric, medicai and spiritual
~ evidence which the Coptics presented at that three-day hearing to corroborate
the beneficial claims for ganja.
I hope the Coptics will publish a transcript of the hearing, so that all this -
info~ation will reach people, becausQ I was astonished by the fact that this
important test case in U.S. legal history was unattended and ignored by the U.S.
media--a fact which shawed me the enormous power against which the Coptics are
fighting to justify the removal of negative thinkin~ about Ranja.
In that Miami courtroom, a judge, court officials, a few curious, and several -
- plainclothes police heard a succession of leading figures present thei:- scho-
lastic credentials in psyctnatry, medicine, social behaviour and religion, to
- testify that on balance, ganja is indeed a beneficial herb which should no
longer be prosecuted, but investigated to unearth its full values.
Two Witnesses
Two i.nteresting witnesses were, first, a glaucoma sufferer wearing very thick
glasses, who had successfully fought the U.S. courts and won the right to smoke
- the herb, when he found that using it eased the glaucoma and retained his sight--
which doctors had predicted he would already have lost. The second was a young
ex-cancer patient, who now looked so heal*_hy--and, frankly, Christ-like--as he
testified that smoking the herb was the only way he could overcome the depres-
sion, fatigue, nausea and loss of appetite which he had to suffer while under-
going chemotherapy treatment~
~ As he spoke of his treatment, I beRan to envision something that may strike a
chord in our new Minister of State for Tourism--turning some hotels into chemo- ~
therapy treatment centres where people can come and have treatment in a benefi-
cial environment where the medicinally-best herb is available. The young wit-
ness seemed not to think of herb except as a part of his medicine, and said that
he did not get a'high' while using it with chemotherapy.
There was another witness, a female Doctor of Sociology, who had studied the
St. Thomas Coptics as part of a thesis on Rastafari, and who held the court
quietly spellbound as she spoke of. the special feeling of living close to the
Bible and rightous ways that she had observed among the Coptics. _
Most riveting of all testimones was that of Brother Wally, a Jamaican elder of -
the Copti:. Church, who answered questions from both the defence and the prosecution
46
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
on his spiritual beliefs. One could see each person present looking into him-
or herself to see if their spiritual beliefs were as strong, and coming up
short in the assessment.
However, despite a brilliantly-conceived and quietly-delivered summary by
Ramsay Clarke, which demonstrated the deep feelings of humanity and justice
which have made this man a still-respected international figure, the Cuptics
' proposition that ganja be reclassified was rejected after months of delibera- ,
tion by the judge.
Not Surnrisin~
This was not surprising, thou~h disappointin~. The prevailing U.S. ganja laws
were made in America in the 30s, when the Depression had eroded America's high
puritan moral values with poverty and decline. Ganja became one of the thrills '
of a thrill-seeking unde rworld, and was associated with black peopl2, leading to
the claim that it w~uld make 'decent white people' become like black people,
and lead to prostitution, female depravity9 drink, and eventually to heroin
addiction.
Though the evolution of time has exposed this attitude as naive and hysterical,
the ganja laws have never been changed, especially since ganja became a counter-
culture symbol of the anti-war generation.
~ Ganja had no powerful legislative lob~y, such as th~se which supported the big
chemical drug firms which flourished on the profits of mass-produced barbiturates
which, after alcohol, now constitute thp second-most-widely abused drug in
A~nerica and the world. Yet, barbiturates, according to the same analysis which
places ganja in Schedule One, are classified Schedule Three, and alcohol is not
listed as dangerous at all.
What is bugging America is that a lot of young children are breaking away at an
e~:rly age from the expect ed stereo-type, in ways that upset their television-
conditioned parents. Some of these children start s~r~oking pot, lose interest
- in school, become uncontrollable, and eventually end up hooked on a variety of
the widely-available chemical drugs and pills. The herb is blam?d as a source
~ of this, but we in Jamaica know that this is not the norm.
In fact, the hearing aired the fact that alienation from parents caused by methods
of upbringing, is often the main cause of delinquent behaviour in children, who
turn to the herb and then other drugs in search of panaceas for their serious
psychological problems caused by the society in which they live.
'Social break'
Yet at another level, the herb is an accepted 'soci.al break' in America at all
_ levels of society. Mid-Mannattan workers buy their after-lur.ch smoke in nearby
parks, and people smoke ~penly all over that city, per'~aps even more openly than
~
in Jamaica.
47
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
~
I was never tempted to try New York herb, especially since most ii it is mixed
with something called 'angel dust'--a vicious chemical which the kids love, but -
which makes them try to f ly off ghetto roofs. In this sub-culture, it would -
seem easy to point a fin~er a t the herb and blame it for these social ills, -
but on the other hand one may perceive the wisdom of the Holy Word when it
instructs one to avoid the herb that is not blessed *_o God. -
r
In ttie United Star_es there are already government farms where ganja is grown and -
processed into the extract, as well as neatly-packaged cigarettes for medical
~ application. One wonders how long it will be before the U.S. wisely controls
the growing of its sizeable herb cultivation, and there seems no logical reason ~
why we should not do the same and produce it for economic benefits--even if we
never smoke another fragrant leaf. One in ten Americans is estimated to be
touched by cancer, and ganja's beneficial properties is widely discussed among
cancer surferers.
So, when all the above-mentioned facts are revealed, it comes as a point of inter-
est to many Jamaicans who respect their works, that the Coptics will go on trial
shortly for allegedly bringing into America tons of this 'dangerous substance'
which has 'no benefic ial medical value,' and it goes without saying that the case
~ will be followed with interest. The man pinpointed as the God-father of the
ganja man, is Niah Keith, an interesting and surprisingly wise person whom many
consider God in man, and their spiritual father. He is a soft-spoken man,
who expresses the truth and wisdom of Rastafari elders, and he receives the
respect and admiration of a large group of strong individuals in all sectors of
Jamaican life.
' Acknowled~ed
Niah Keith is confident that the herb will not only become legal in Jamaica, but -
in the world. "The people of Jamaica know their rights. They know their right
- to the herb in righteousness, for they know that when they rake in the herb, they
take in righteousness. The economic power of the herb has been acknowledged by
even the Prime Minister. So I don't see how they are going to stop it, and I
' don't see why they should want to stop it. The herb is our God-given gif t to
keep man in toucli with God. Only those who are not of God fight the herb," he
says.
Our new r-tinister af Agriculture, Broderick, first earned my respect as the only "
member of the Parliamentary Commission on Ganja ~aho had a sensible attitude to
legal~sation based on carefully researched facts. I am certain that he also sees
the possibility of a controlled ~anja industry which could not only produce
medicine, but clothing, paint, rope, oil and paper as agri-products of a crop
of proven economic value.
At the Miami Hearing, on e court witness--a Jewish-European ref.ugee scientist
living in America--produced evidence of tests conducted by him which proved
that ganja caused brain, foetal and reproductive damage. On cross-questioning,
he was forced to admit that amounts of the medicine administered to lab animals
48
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
were sometimes three and ten times the normal human dose--proving .at you can
prove anything if you try hard enough.
This, of course, will be small comfort to those Jamaicans wno fear that
legalisinp ganja will harmfully expose their children to its use, anymore
than their walking past betting shops and rum bars makes them gamblers and -
drunkards. And suppose ganja exposure addicted one to nothing more harmful
than an absence of cancer and an abundance of righteousness,--to say nothing
about 'special cigarettes' for the relief of asthma.
CSO: 5300
e
.
t
- 49 -
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
JAMAICA
_ PLANE, VAN, SIX MEN HELD FOR GANJA SMUGGLING
Kingston THE DAILY GLEANEP. in English 6 Jan 81 p 2
[Text] Police seized a ligh* airplane, two vans and over 1,000 lbs of ganja
and arrested six men on ganja charges in two operations in Tre.lawny over the
weekend.
The plane, an American registered twin-engine Cessna with markings N2716F,
crashed while ?_anding at the Braco airstrip Sunday afternoon and the pilot
left the scene shortly after, police said.
During a search of the area police accosted two men who were seen sitting in
a Transit van near the airstrip and during a search of the ~Tehicle about 500
~ lbs of cured ganja was found. The plane was apparently on ganja mission,
police said.
Robert Scott, 26, driver of Dome Street, Montego Bay, St James, and Michael
Francis, 28, of Hopewell, Hanover, were subsequently arrested and charged with
possession of ganja and preparing ganja for export.
In an earlier incident, on Saturday, police on mobile patrol intercepted a
' Transit van on the main road at Salt March and arrested four men after over
- 600 lb ~f ganja was found,in the van.
Eddison Garner, 29, Aahley Gooden, 29, and a 1,7-year-old boy, all of Bogue
~ Heights, Montego Bay, and Roxrr~y Williams, 24, electrician of Ironshore,
Montego Bay, were arrested and charged with possession of ganja and traffick-
ing in ganja. All six men arrested have been remanded in custody to be taken
before the Falmouth R. M. Court tomorrow.
- CSO: 5300
~ 50
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
MEXICO
BOLIVIAN PRISONERS CONTYNUE TO CONTROL DRUG RING
Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 13 Dec 80 p 8-D
[Article by Rafael Medina Cruz] ~
[TextJ The case of the arrest of a drug deal~er with 100 million pesos worth of
- drugs, in Tapachula, Chiapas, has been clarif ied. ~
Bolivians arrested for narcotics laws violations continue to control foreign drug
traffic from their confinement in the North Prison.
This became evident yesterday when Federal Judicial Police officers under the
command of Gen Raul Mendiolea Cercecero arrested Medardo Cuellar Chavez, a Bolivian
citizen, in Tapachula, Chiapas, who had over 100 million pesos worth of gure
_ cocaine in his possession. The cocaine was schedt~led to be delivered~ by Eduaralo
Aguilera Echazu, who is defending the Bolivian incarcerated in the aforementioned
- prison, to Attorney Ricardo de la Garza y Garza.
In addition, two Mexican brothers, Armando and Rodolfo Ontiveros Sandoval, who.have
also been arrested for drug traffic law viola.tions, are presumed to be invoived in
the case of the drugs conf iscated in Tapachula, Chiapas.
The ir_vestigation points out that Ricardo de la Garza y Garza was scheduled tq
3istribute c~ocaine to international drug dealers.
M~~~rdo Cuellar Chavez was contracted by Richardo de la Garza y Garza to transport
the drugs from Bolivia to Guatema.la, and from there to Tapachula, Chiapas, following
which, by foiling security safeguards, he was to transport it to the Federal
District.
Cuellar Chavez planned to check in at the Hotel E~ecutivo,.on Viena Street, upon
landing in Mexico City, where a person was to come to make "contact" with him.
Because Medardo Cuellar had been arrested in Chiapas and ha.d revealed the foregoing, '
the Federal Judicial Police staked out t,he sfte and arrested Salvador Ontiveros
Sandoval, the brother,,.of Armando and Rodolfo, who had been sent there by Ricardc
~e la Garza y Garza. -
. 51
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
Salvador.Ontiveros said that attomey de la Garza y Garza had sent him to the Hotel
Ejecutivo to inform Medardo Cuellar that "the attorney would come by ta pick up the
consignment" within the next several hours.
- With this information in hand, the Federal Judicial Police arrested de la Garza y
Garza as he was leaving his residence, at Maauel Gutierrez Zamora 134, Colonia Las
Agu ilas .
Ricardo de la Garza y Garza was also imprisoned for narcotics law violations for 3 ~
years and a few months in the Western Prison. _
Both the attorney for the North Prison drug traffickers and Salvador Ontiveros -
Sandoval were sent to Tapachula, Chiapas, where Medardo Cuellar was imprisoned.
9661
CSO: 5300
52
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
PANAMA
BRI EFS _
CONVICTION OF U.S. DRUG TRA.FFICKER--Collin Gregory George, a U.S. national and master -
of the vessel Roondipe of Panamanian registry, has been sentenced by a Panama City
court to 40 months in jail in the Coiba Island prison for drug trafficking. The
Roondipe was caught carrying between 20 and 25 tons of marihuana in international
- waters and was detained in October 1980 by the U.S. Coast Guard on instruc*_i.ons from
the Panamanian Government. In addition, the sentence adjudicated the t~.tl~ to the
Roondipe to the Republic of Panama. [Panama City CRITICA in Spanish 28 Jan 81 p 3
PA]
COCAINE SMUGGLER--Panama, 19 Feb (ACAN-EFE)--Panamanian police disclosed today that
narcotics agents arrested U.S. citizen John Hargis Skaggs at Tocumen airport over
the�weekend when a package of cocaine was found in his briefcase. He was en route
from Bogota to Nassau. The police did not disclose the amount or the value of the -
drug found. [Panama City ACAN in Spanish 1323 GMT 19 Feb 81 PA]
- COCAINE ARREST --On his arrival from Bogota, Colombian .Tose Herminsul Varon was ar-
rested by narcotics agents at Tocumen airport when he tried to smuggle cocaine into ~
Panama in the heels of his shoes and in a small envelop in his wallet. [Panama
City CRITICA in Spanish 19 Feb 81 p 17 PA]
CSO: 5300
53
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
IRAN
EIGHTEEN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED IN MASHHAD
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 25 Jan 81 p 9
[Article: "Opium Dealer Sentenced to Death in Mashhad"]
[Text] Mashhad--PARS News Agency--By order of the Islamic Revolutionary Court
of Mashhad 18 narcotics traff ickers were tried and sentenced during the last
5 days at the Islamic Revolutionafy Council af Mashhad. .
1. Gholamhoseyn Nasseri, son of Ali Madad, was sentenced to death for selling
3 kilograms of opium and for distributing opium. The sentence can be carried
_ out after confirnoation by the Tehran Supreme Court.
2. Aqa Shir, son or Nazar Mohaumad, was sentenced to 15 years in first degree
crim'~nal prison for concealing and transporting 180 grams of heroin and
- 3 grams of hashish .
3. Sardar Moh ammad, son of Ghalam Ghavas--an Afghani--was sentenced to
10 years in fir~t degree criminal prison for unauthorized importation inta
Iran and the transporting and concealing of 145 grams of heroin.
4. Yosef Shirin Su'i, son o~f Baba Mohammad, was sentenced to 1 year in second
degree criminal prison for opium addiction and for pcssession of 1,900 grams
of opium.
5. Ali Asghar Jana'i, son of Hoseyn, alias Asghar Sheitan, was sentenced to _
10 years in second degree criminal prison for possessing and transporting
50 grams of heroin.
- 6. Mir 'Abbas Kolateh'i, son of Mir Mohammad, was sentenced to 10 years in
prison for possession of ~,500 grams of opium residue. -
7. Mohammad 'Ali Mahmudi was sentenced to 8 years in second degree criminal
prison for possession of 18 grams of heroin.
8. Gholamhoseyn Kolateh'i, son of Mohammad Ja'far, was sentenced to 5 years
in second degree criminal prison for selling 1 kilogram of opium residue.
9. Asghar Ne3ati, son of Gholam Sakhi, was sentenced to 5 years in second
degree criminal prison for transporting and possessing 13.3 grams of heroin.
54
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
10. Ali Yazdanpanah, son of Hosey~; was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment,
2 years of which were converted to a 26-month suspension, for possession
of 87.5 grams of heroin and 13 grams of opiwm.
11. Mohammad Molla 'Aliakbari, son of Nasser, was sentenced to 5 years in
second degree criminal prison for using opiates and selling 20 centigrams
of narcotics. ~
ll. Gholam'ali Yavari was sentenced to 5 years in second degree criminal
prison for possession of 80 grams of heroin.
13. 'Ali Afzali, son of Hoseyn, was sentenced to 10 years, 3 ot. which were -
suspended, for possession of 435 grams of opium residue and the use of
narcotics.
14. Hoseyn Afkhami, son of Darvish, was sentenced to 10 years in second
- degree criminal prison for possession of 32.3 grams of narcotics and for
addiction to opiates.
15. 'Alla Akbar Qasemi, son of Hoseyn, was sent~nced to 5 years in second
de~ree criminal prison, 3 of which were suspended, for possession of i48 grams
- of opium, 20 grams of b urnt opium residue, 960 grams of opium resin and for _
addiction to narcotics .
16. 'Ali Akbar 'Abdollahi was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in a second
- degree criminal prison for acting as a go-between in the sale of opiates.
17. Ma'sumeh Morshedlu was senteaced to 1 year in correction.al prison for
concealing 80 grams of heroin.
18. Hajji Ahmadshah, son of Gholam, was sentenced to 3 months in correctional ;
prison for possession of 1 gram of heroin. ~
o Vali Valizadeh son of He dar was sentenced to 5 years in second degree I
Als , , Y ~ ~
prison, 3 years of which were converted to a 2-year suspended sentence, for
possession of a G-3 rifle and a Colt caliber 32. -
t
I
9310
CSO: 5300 � '
i
- i
~
i
~
i
. I -
55
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340090016-2
C7
IRAN
- BRIEFS
NARCOTIC DISTRIBUTORS SENTENCED--A revolution court in Stii.raz on I4 February
reviewed the cases of three drug distributors and sentencec; them to between -
5 to 15 years' imprisonment and hard labor. [GF161916 Shiraz Domestic Service
- in Persian 1530 GMT 15 Feb 81]
NARCOTICS CONFISCATED--The LAR police and drug squad has arrested 11 individuals
for sexual and drug offenses in the past 3 days, confiscating 17 grams of heroin.
In the same period the police arrested two Afghans for possessing 17 grams of
hashish. [GF011838 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1530 GMT 1 Mar 81]
CSO: 5300
56
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
ISRAEL
BRIEFS
HEROIN DEALERS CAUGHT--The Tel Aviv police caught 26 suspected heroin dealers yester-
day after prolonged surveillance. The police say that some of the suspects are
"very big fish in the drug business," and that thei:: arr~sts will land a body blow
to the Israeli drug trade which has reached epidemic proportions. A significant
number of the suspects are key figures in the Tel Aviv and Jaffa underworld. Some
of the suspects have been canvicted in Western Europe and the United States for ~
drug dealing. [TA201351 Jerusalem THE JERUSALEM POST in English 20 Feb 81 p 1]
CSO: 5300
57
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
NIGERIA -
BRIEFS
ARREST FOR HEMP PLANTING--A middle-aged man believed to be the brain behind
the planting of the three hectre land of Indian hemp in Offia-omu near Ohafia
Agba in Ishielu I,ocal Government Area, has entered the net of the Ishielu
Divisional Police command. He gave his name as "James Igweh." Sources close
to the Police headquarters at Ezzangbo, said the man was arrested after a
rigorous investigation ln the area. The Police has earlier helped the suspect
to harvest the hemp valued at I~2 million and taken the custody of the danger-
ous weeds. The suspect was said to have made a c onfessional statement to the
police claiming that he had been in the business f rom the western parts of the
country. When contacted the divisional police off icer for Tshielu, Mr N. E.
Oji, confirmed the arrest of the suspect ad~iing that a two count charge of
"planting and harvesting Indian hemp" might be preferred against him very
soon in the law court. [Text] [Enugu WEEKLY STAR in English 1 Feb 81 p 10]
CSO: 5300
; 58
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMAI~Y
- EXPERT FINDS COCAINE NEARLY AS DANGEROUS AS HEROIN
Munich SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG in German 24/25 Jan 81 p 17
[Text] The state attorney's office Munich I is now in possession
of an opinion concerning the danger of cocaine, an opinion which
was commissioned in connection with three actions currently being
conducted by this enforcement agency concerning the trade in this
South American drug. According to this opinion cocaine ranks
only ~ust behind heroin, which is derived from the poppy. In two
~ of the pertinent investigations in Munich, as the SZ reported in
detail, we11-known actors and directors and a~usician have been
named as users.
The first investigation began ire susrnner 1980. The two suspected dealers are now in
custody, while, according to the most recent report, investigation proceedings
had to be instituted against 12 of their customers. In late fall three more
arrests were made, According to police f3ndings a bar in Schwabing was involved,
~ where cocaine had been handed out under the counter.
The third suspected coca3ne dealer, who was put behind bars some time ago, had
passed the drug out only to twv interested parties. One of them was a police in-
former who masqueraded as a buyer. Since the drug, obtained from the South
American coca plant, is relatively new on the Munich market the state attorney's
office had to have its dangers examined scientifically. Two opinions were commis-
sioned, the first of wh3ch has been submitted to the state attorney's office in -
the last few days. If one uses a danger scale from 1 to 10, on which hashish is
at 1 or 2 and heroin at 10, cocaine would occupy 9th place. In the words of a
judiciary spokesman, the dangers of cocaine could be classified in a simpler fashion
on the basis of the expert opinion.
9581
CSO: 5300
59
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
~ FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
~
BRIEFS
DRUG RING SMASHED--German and American customs investigators and the U.S. criminal
police (CID) have smashed a drug ring in the rural kreis Garmisch-Pa~te:~kirchen.
Fifteen young men between the ages of 16 and 25 were arrested, and drugs worth DM
400,000 were seized. Those suspected have been under observation since November
last year. Forty kgs of hashish, 250 L3D tablets, 10 grans of heroin, 5 grams of
cocaine and 180 packages of marihuana were found in their apartments and cars.
Among the 15 arrested were 3 American soldiers and 3 American civilians. [Text]
[Munich SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG in German 15 Jan 81 p 17] 9581
_ CSO: 5300
60
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
FRANCE
BRIEFS
DRUGS SEIZED--Drug squad po lice seziad 1.8 kilos of pure white heroin, enough for
50,000 doses worth FR 1.4 million when resold, in ~'itry-Sur-Seine in Val-de-Marne
- on Wednesday. The two Algerian trafficker~, who bought the heroin in Bangkok,
were arrested. [LD242126 Paris Domestic Service in French 0700 GMT 22 Feb 81]
CSO: 5300
61
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPR~VED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
- NORWAY
OSLO POLICE SEIZE FIRST LARGE AMOUNT OF LSD IN YEARS
Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 20 Jan 81 p 14
[Article by Inge D. Hanssen]
[Text] For the first time in several years the Oslo police have seized LSD.
When searching the home of a 26-year-o].d m~?x~ the police found 85 LSD drips hidden
- in the freezer of the parents. "The polic.e consider each case where LSD is found
very serious because LSD is one of the most dangerous ~arcotics we have. The
danger of inenCal illness is great with the use uf LSD and the police therefore wish
to clarify this case," says police officer Christian Christiansen to AFTENPOSTEN.
~
The 26-yea:r-old was put in jail for 3 weeks yesterday in the Oslo interrogatory
c~urt. He is charged with conspiring *_o smuggle L5D into the country and storing
the substance. In front of the police the accused has said that the substance had '
been sent to him from Amsterdam, but the police want to investigate this somewhat
- more closely.
As mentioned above se~veral years have passed since the police last seized LSD in =
~ such large amounts. The s ubstance was more widespread at the end of the 1960's and
in the beginning of th.e 1970's. LSD comes in pills or in so-called drips. The
, lacter means that the substance in liquid form is dropped on a paper which is -
chewed by the user. The p rice of one drip has va.ried very much on the Oslo market.
Earlier up to 500 crowns could b e paid for one drip, but the police know also that
the price has been down in the range of 50-60 crowns. ~
LSD is easy to smuggle both in the form of pill~ and as a liquid from one country to -
another since the pills are no bigger than the head of a pin. The 85 drips were
on a very small piece of p aper.
"The police pay special attention to this substance since it is so dangerous. Even .
~ one initial use can cause significant mental confusior~ and permanent disorder. The
= disorder can recur a long time after the substance fias been taken," says police
off icer Christian Christiansen to AFTENPOSTEN.
LSD is produced chemically and there is vast international police collaboration in _
= order to figl~t the praducers of the substance. Same time a~o a circu]_ar was sent
from Scotland Yard to the narcotics police of several countries requesting that
LSD samples be sent each time when it was conf iscated. There is a suspicion that
_ Dutch interests are behind a large part of t~e illegal production.
62
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300094416-2
The 26-year-old r~fio is ~ ai.led i.n this LSn case I~.as also earl~,ex heen condemned for
narcoti,c crimes accordi.ng to ttie Drug La~t. He fias admitted that he himself used
two drips on top of tize 85 tfiat ~zers se~,zed. Hoor mucIi this man has b.rought into
t~te country is not c~urrently Iaio~r?. The pbl~ce do, hoc~r~ever, hope that furtlzer
investigations will clarify this matter.
9662
CSO: 5300
63
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2

APPR~VED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2
TURKEY
,
TURKISH CONNECTION SEEN VITAL TO OPIUM SMUOGLING
Tehran KEYHAN in English 9 Feb 81 p 3
_ ~Text~
~ ANKARA, Turkey (Dis-
patches) - Across Turkey's for- -
b~dding, high , mountainous borders ~key, while still a main East-
;ies an "unWnited supply" of tht West transit ~otnt for morphine
'~um opium, the stuff trom whic6 and heroin, ~s no longer also a
- heroin is made. Most of that chief supplier.
illegal praiuct will eventually Undet U.S. pressure, poppy
cross Turkey on its way to West- ~~�~g w~ outlawed hen bet- ficult for border o~aals. _
- ern markets. ween 1971 and 1973. Now the While no one can estimate hov~
Informed sources herr claim p~~s are growing again but much heroin or morphine base
_ Afghanistan and Paldstan, in the under snict ernaxnt crosses T'urkey annuallY, statisucs
last two opium poppy growin8 y~~ ~d in on~ly seven provin~xs. indicate Pakistan and Afghanistan
_ seasons alane, have harvested Most of the opium goes to the prodaacl 1,600 metric tons of -
enough opium to satisfy American Turl~sh pharmaceuticals ;~.,dustry gum opium in the 1978-79 growin8
and West European heroin or is ezported to other counn~�s season and an equal amount last
addicts for the next 40 years. for the same year. That ma{ces 3,200 metric _
Wtule Turldsh narcodcs po6ce p~~~ ~
tons.
~ claim they are malang big gau~s in 'Ihe drugs move out of Turkey ~at translates inco 320 metric
catching smugglers, other obser- by several routes. By boat from tons of pure heroin. The U.S. ~
vers here doubt the current Tur- the south or west coastc, south mazket is about 4 tong annually
lcish effort will be able to stanch throitgh Syria to Beirut, Lebanon ~d the West Europeans are
. the flow from the enormous or Aaunan, Jordan. or northwest thought to use nearly that much.
reserves across the border. fmm IstaabW toaard Germeny. The temptadon to get into the
_ "Apparendy we fail to prev~nt The heroin problem in Enrope ~g b~~ ~s huge. Sourcxs
this because the smu~1ers 6ave is espxially seno:is in West Ger- here ,sid a heroin uafficker in
grtat imagination and-skill, and many, where 410 persons died last I~y, for example, sould buy 100
we have an extreme shortage of year from heroin overdoses - of morphine base for about
skilled men and equipment to nearly double the U.S. rate. gpp~~pp do~, qher proassing
_ track them down", complained Sourcxs hen ~d ~~1ority and shipping the heroin his =
Istanbul naroodcs section chief of heroin reaching West GermanY laboratory produced, the drug
Ahmet Altan. arrives stashed in the baggage and would be arorth 20 miliion dollars
. cars of Turldsh guest workers on the mxts of New York.
recurning from vacauons at home. ~~~g for the cosc
.'Rien are 1.5 ~nn~liort 'Ilulash of the morphuie base, the ~roces-
_ veoilceis and chea families living in sing into heroin and the stupping,
West Germa~y. The heavy,flow ot ~t v~,~Wd leave a pra6t of 18.5
the aorkers makes detecnon dif� ~on dollazs on an investment
of about 1.5 million.
While the huge stocks remain
- east of Turkey, the price of heroin
stays low aad its supply abundant. _
CSO: 5300 END
6L~
APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300090016-2