GAO REPORT ON DRUG CONTROL EFFORTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

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28 February 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: I
FROM:
SUBJECT :
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GAO Report on Drug Control Efforts
in South America-
The pr?pose ' GAO report on "Drug Control
Efforts in South Amorica....." has been reviewed by
PCS/NAR and LA Division officers and we have no
major problems-,with. the (unclassified) text.
2. The report e-hasizes. the paucity of
usable tactical narcotics intelligence information
and the lack of analysis of the information that is
collected. The report gives the impression that DEA
and CIA share equal responsibility for the collection
of tactical narcotics information. This is not the
case. CIA, as I explained to the GAO prior to the
field investigation, emphasizes the collection of
strategic intelligence information, e.g. trends,
sources of supply, corruption, etc., and collects
and reports tactical information generally as a by-
product of our operations which are designed to
gather information of use in the formulation of
narcotics control policies. A sentence or two
clarifying the CIA :role would help place the GAO
review in proper perspective.
3. With regard to the lack of analysis of
narcotics information, CIA and DEA are currently
working on a joint effort in Washington to produce
a series of in-depth profiles on major cocaine traf-
ficking networks. The first of these studies, done
on prominent nets operating in Peru and Colombia,
have been sent to the field. I believe that mention
of this project would again give the GAO a more
balanced estimate of the overall effort.
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Y Some of_the cocaine eS_ iYCtate5 Cited i)l the
SUBJECT: GAO "Report on Drug ton-c.rol. Efforts in-
GAO, report (page U of the IDigest and page 10 of the
report itself) 'either leave- t ao. wide a range or. are
.seemingly inaccurate. I wou) d. Bi ggest that the GAO
with,
the best available e3t3.m&t.eS he 1LS,Ga has t work
heroin consumption and produt:tio3a that are probably.
. together in Aecembe,.1c. 77 est: ma.t a of cocaine and
contact the Offloe or Drug Ab i'e Policy which. pulled
A minor point, but -bc: .iesTe that on page
16, line two, the word "Cola abed" should be used
rather than
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