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Worldwide Re ort
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NA~COTlCS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 2~3/80)
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28 May 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 23/80)
CONT~NTS
ASIA
AUSTRALI~.
Drugs Agents Point to Deficiencies in Detection
(Michael Sinclair-Jones; THE WEST AUSTRALIAN,
19 Mar 80) 1 ~
Royal Drugs Commission Report Presented in Parliament
(Various sources, various dates) 4
~ Minister's, Opposition's Remarks, by Russell Barton
Recommendations Summarized
Marihuana Study Urged
Coastal Surveillance Scored
- Cost to Economy Given
- i:astern Tnfluence NoCed
Worries Over Legal Opium
: 'Ethnic' Label Questioned
Federal, NSW ~teports Compared
Recommendations Questioned, Editorial
taarning Against 'Obsession', Editorial
Williams Concludes Drug Hearings in Queensland
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 21, 22 Mar 80) 17
Denial of Police Involvement
Final Hearing in Brisbane
jdest Australians Comment on State's Drug Problems
(TH~ WEST AUSTRt1LIAN, 20 Mar 80) 19
Marihuana Cultivation
Call for Drug Education -
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Magistrate Sees Evidence of three-State Drug Ring
(THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, 18 Mar 80) 21
lloctor, Judge Discuss Problems of Drug Addiction
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 21 Mar 80} 22
Brief.s _
+ Phurmnci.Ht Flned Zl,
- Heroin Offender Sentenced 24
Marik~uana Cultivation Control 24
A1leged Heroin Importer 24
Heroin Smugglers Charged 24
Huge Marihuana Crop 25
Victorian Drug Squad 25
s Offender on Probation 25
Drug Smuggler EscaF~es 26
Marihuana Syndicate Member Dead 26
Drug Agents Charged 26 =
HONG KONG
Briefs _
Morphine Possession Pl~a 27
Heroin Seizure 27
JAPAN
_ BricFs
Heroin Smuggling 28
MALAYSIA ~
Hussein, Mahathir Address Dange.r of Drug Abuse
(Kuala Lumpur International Service, 24 Apr 80) 29
PAKIST.AN
Briefs
Opium, Marijuana Sei~ed 30
PHILIPPINES
35,000 Marijuana Plants Uprooted
(PHILIPPINES DAILY F.XPRESS, 13 Apr 80) 31
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'PHAILAND
OfficiaJ. Interviewed on Narcotics Suppreasion Program
_ (Ph~~ Sarasin; Bangkok Domestic Service, 26 Mar 86) 33
- Thai-U.S. Raid Smashes Heroin Refinery Near Chiang Mai
(BANGKO~ POST, 28 Mar 80) 35
Briefs
Two Sentenced for Heroin 36
Australian Smuggling Ring Revealed 36
Australian Arrested 36
LATIN AMERT.CA
BRAZIL
IIriefs
Drug Traffickers Arrested 37
COLOMf3IA
Briefs
_ llrug-Related Death 38 "
Cocaine Haul gg
Coca Plantation 38 -
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- Traffickers Arrested With Cocaine, Marihuana
(EL tTNIVERSO, 21 Mar 80) 39
" M~XICO
Sicilia Falcon, Accomplices Sentenced
(EXCELSIOP., 7 Ma.r 80) 41
Foreign Cocaine Traffickers Arr.ested
(Rafael Medina Cruz; EXCELSIOR, 25 Mar 80.) 42
Gocaine Seized in Durango, Five Traffickers: Arrested
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 11 Mar 80) 43
Brief s
Psychotropics Dealer Seized 44
Highway Police Training 44
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NICARAGUA
- Briefs
Drug Arrest 45
PARAGUAY -
~ Briefs `
Drug Traffickers Arrested 46
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Heroin Smuggling From Iran to West Europe Increases
(Ake Ringberg; DAGENS NYHETER, 13 Apr 80)........... 47
Briefs
- Drug Dealer Arrest 52 -
ISRAEL
Heroin Haul at Airport
(Yoram Bar; JERUSALEM POST, 20 Mar 80) 53
Arreses in Gaza Floating Hashish Case
(JERUSALEM POST, 5 Mar 80) 54
_ JORDAN
� Briefs
tiut~-:rities Seize Hashish 55
WEST EUROPE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Large Amounts of Heroin Smuggled Into Berlin Prisons
- (Gabriele Weber; STERN, 24 Apr 80) 56
Ten Turkish Kurds on Trial for Smuggling Heroin
_ (DER TAGESSPIEGEL, 22 Apr 80) 61
- Briefs ~
Heroin Confiscation 62
- Heroin Dealers Sentenced 62
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FRP_NC E
Drugs, Arms Smuggled Between Netherlands, Italy
(Jean-Michel Eulry; T~E FIGARO, 25 Apr 80) 63
GREECE
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Narcotics Lectures for Students Reported
(EPIKAIRA, 17-23 Apr 80) 65
Brj.efs
Heroin Seizure 6~
- NETHERLANDS
Briefs
Mid-East Imports Increase 68
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AUSTRALIA
DRUGS AGENTS POINT TO DEFICIENCIES IN DETECTION
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 19 Mar $Q p 7
[Report by Michael Sinclair-Jones]
[Text] Policemen generally avoid the 1'ress like the plague. Coaxing informa-
tion from then can be like trying to wring blood from a st~ne.
- So it was remarkable last week that narcotics agents shed their cloak-and-dag-
ger mantle of secrecy ~o "spill the beans" on wha,t they claim axe serioud de-
ficiencies in drug detection in Australia.
Their desperation was underlined by further leaks from the Williams royal com-
mion into drugs, which criticised customs checks in WA.
- The agents, and sour:,~s close to hem, claim that morale is at an all-time low,
that important sources of ove~seas in~;elligence have dried up and, perhaps
, worst of all, for the agents, they fesl they have become the laughing stock of
the drugs underwcrld.
The Naxcotics Bureau hit the headlines last May after the Federal Government
, launched an inquiry into alleged leaks from the bureau to a multi-million dol-
lax drugs sydicate.
- A New 2ealand couple were said to ha,ve been murdered after a dispute with dxug
ring lea.d.ers. Police alleged tha,t the couple had previously supplied them with
information leaded from the Naxcotics Bureau computer.
Then in October a confidential police report described the N~,rcotics Bureau as
corrupt and ir~effic3ent. It claime~i that the burEau offered lavish rewards to
info~rnants which, in some cases, had encouraged drugs traffickir~,.
Z`ransfer
Z'en days later, Fed.eral Cabinet abolished the bureau and transferred its drug
detection operations to the newly-created Federal Police.
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The Federal Police had been in existence for only two months. It replaced the -
former Commonwealth Police and the ACT police. The aim was to restructure
Aus+.ralia's po]_ice def.ences against terrorism and interstate crime in the wake
of ~he 1978 Sydney Hilton bombir?~. '
Vlrtually ovornight it also became an antidrugs forces with the addition of
138 narcotics agents from the Customs Bureau.
The age nts, including 13 from WA, were hast~.ly sworn in as "special member.s"
of tho Federal PolicQ aftor it wa~ discoverad that exi~tin~; Fecier.al legisl~,i;ion -
did not a'llow them to become fully-~fledgecl federal policemen.
Now, five months later, the Federal Guvernment is understood to have approved
a recommendation from the Federal Police Commissioner, Sir Colin Woods, to a-
mend the Police Act to enable 84~ narcotics agent~ to accept invitatlons to be-
come federal policemen.
_ A further 34 a~ents have been offered public service posts in cri_me intelli-
gence operations. .
- Eu�t this alone will not solve problems raised publicly by nascotics agents `
last we ek.
When their operations switched f`rom the Customs Bureau to the Federal Police~
the narcotics agents 7.ost the ir rights to use powerful open warrants availab~e _
to customs men under the Customs Act.
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Inetead, like any o�thex State or federal pol.icemen, the agents musi: apply fox
individual seaxch wasxants From magistra~tes or JPs before they can enter pre-
� mises to seaxch for illegal drugs imports.
_ Tha Federal Police say they prefer it this way because it places their opera-
tions above suspicion and. pr4tects people's r9.ght to privar.y.
However, the narcotics agents say tha,t the ordinary warrants are too severe a -
restr~.ction in their particular field of work.
One agent claimed recently that it could take up to a day and a half for Fede-
- ral Police warrants to be approved, _
They claim that FederaZ Police red tape has interfered ~with the narcotics in-
- te111gence network. Working liaisons with other government departments have
broken down.
- More sexiously, important overseas law enforcement agencies no longer trust
drug tntelligence information to nascotics agents in Australia.
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~ a./V8d'S@G~ m: af,'} irSVW t~e13 t11@~~{e'~e ~ poF"'
~ ~ ' ~ ~ Moe," an agent aald ~
"'We malntaln th~ ' I�~e agente sald ~
oh'ty overaens c~ntacta 1 ' thelr lnvestlfintl~~ns of ~
with pollce and law ~~s~nall dealera In dru~a
� enl~.rcement agencies � had revealed connec-
, ' other than Interpol," ~ tions to people higher
~ ane ~gent said. , _ , 1i up the cha~n who had
�"Our investigatlons ~ ; obvious sour y but no
lnto a bi~ amuggling � ces of in�
opcration ui ~VA in the : come. `
pe9t 12 months result� . "T'tiere are people like
e~ in several arrests � ~ this In WA," an agent ~
and drugs seizures in , suid. ''They desi main-
: ovecseas countriea. ~ r 1y .in heroin, which ia
'"But the U.5. DruP~ ~~the WS moneyspinner.
Er.forcement Agency ~ry{fiat might be ~
_ has dropped us be� �~worth only a couple o!
cause it no longer "th~usand dollars in
- i trusts Australlan ~'~(tt ~n be warth up
agents. The Canadlans to ~1 mflllon a kilo�
~ and the IYew 7.ealand- 3 gt-am after it Is dllut�
' era have dropped ua w.~~h arsenlc and
~ too. other compounds.
- ""What can you ' ez- "The stuff !s diluted
~ ' pect when n' royal to a!most nothtn b~
a commtsslon calls yoit the .ime it hits the
corru~t and inef�ef- stre~ts. " "
; ent? � � '~We�, estimate that
"~fVe cannot say that th3g year the Middle
~ every memhe~ is not Eest eountrIes will pro- ~
cnrrupt-there is an bably -produce about :
' ~ element nf corrupt!on 1(,;,p tonnes of opiuin :
In every police forc^-- -enough to supply 75 �
but the allegations in �per�cent oP the world's ~
that report were ~:n- heroin market. ~
_ erally untounded. '~Most ot the stutY in .
"Because o( it, ~ our ~lustralie comes from -
sources of information ~ the Gotden Trian le oi
- are shot.' ~ ~ ~ South�East ~Asia. g
The agents say they "It is easy tor a
still mafntain fairly amuggler's yacht to"~
good contacts with :.slip away fmm the
drug squad detectlves ; northern coast, pick up .
. In the State police, a blg consi~nment of
thouQh some were re� drugs and then return
~ luctant to paas tnfor- ~ to its home port with
- matlon to n~arcotics e story that the crew '
~ aYents. had be~n on a tishing i _
Thou~h narcot~ce trip tor a cou~ile of "
- . � agents arrests-deal� ' daya.
� Sng only with drugs ":There are no cus�
. imports-were iewer toms checks, no police
; than State police ar- searches, nothin
rests, shared inlorma-
- � tion had led to several ~ "About 60 per cent oi
_ ~ State police arrests ot : ihe heroin used in Aus-
people us[ng, possess- . tralia is landed on the
~ 1ng or cultivatin~ . WA coast.
~g8� ; The narcotics agents
~"Jl we lnvestt~ate belleve that more _
premises and find drugs are entering
: cx~nnab~a helne �rown, . Australia than ever be- �
~ fore. , ~
. cso: S3oo ~
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- t~USTRALIA
ROYAL DRUGS COMNIISSION REPORT PRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT
Minister's, Opposition's Ftemarks
_ 3ydney TF~ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 19 Mar 80 p 1
� [Report f`rom Russell Barton, Political Correspondent~
[Taxt] Canberra.--The groblem of drug abuse is a natiional emergency requiring .
, a na~ional strategy, accordSng to the Austx.alian Royal Commission of Inquiry
into ITrugs, tabled in Fed.eral Parliament ,yestexdaye
The five-volume report took two and a ha.lf yeaxs of investigation by the Com-
missionPr, Mr Justice Wi~liams, :formerly of the Queensland Supreme Caurt. It -
covesed a11 dxugs, including alcohol and tobacco.
- It maps out a strategy for nat~ional actiony involving new legislation, new ~
or~anisations, and. increased survei7.lance, requiring greater Government
spendinge .
The pcroblem of drug abuse in Australia contains ma,ny elements of a wartime
situation, the report says, warning that "penx~,y-�pinching accounting" must be
avoided.
- But in tabling the report, the Minister for Health, Mr MacKellax gave Govern-
ment support "in princip~.e" for anly a hand.ful of the Commission'~ 246
recommendations.
" He announced thaf the Prime " ""declined in effectiveness in recent _
Minister,Mr Fraser, had written to years," it says.
~'ttmiers suggesting that the Na- �In 19C~9, the creation of the =
tional Standing Control Com- ~ National Standing Control Com- r
. mittee on Drugs of Dependance be mittee was an appropriate init-
the appropriate forum for initial iative, but its constitution and
discussion or~ ths report's recorn- ~ functions have n~t changed to -
mendations. - ~ meet public expectations in a very ~
_ ' Yet the report comes out strong- ' much larger and different 1979
ly against the use of the NSCC as a: � situation. ,
vehicle for actior~. ' "In consequence, the Com- -
"The evidence had convinced ; mission is of tho view that the
the Commission that the National ~ deveiopment of the proposed stra- - -
;.Standing Control Committee has tegy towa?ds a,national . policy .
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~r agairist ~drug abuse should not be
~ a~::ar,opriately left to th~ National ~'~r examplr, shoul~annabi9
~t,i~:i~ng Controi Committee." ~~5e be peemitted'1 A strategy! -
. i,he i.eadcr of the 0 ~+host worth is not being con- ,
' 11~r Hayden, attacked the Go ern- stantly measured cannot, after a
ment for dzaling with the massive ~ap5e of some years, be accurately -
, report in a perfunctory 10 m:nutes. cvaiuated."
"It's ,.like trying to cook an '~1ie~tY~d~lla$@o ~ '
elephant in a cr~ck pot. ~c ~~5c r~is~d~reeted~ ~ !
won't do," he said. _ ;
- INr Hayden said there was Mr MacKeilar put the fate of
nothing ai'tirm~tive in what Mr the all-important Dcug In- -
MacK~llar had to say, apart from ~ fonnation ~entres in the hands of
app~ovals in principle for some of , the Nati~nai Standing Controi ~
. the recommendations. Committee, listing the subject as a
'May weli ~j ~~aJor item for the committee's
talks.
be forgotten' ?he Commission slates a~
The report would go tp the ~ n'~mber of aspects of past and
- bottom of a Parliamentary notice ' present aspects of die Cgi t against
paper aiready containing *nore d~g abuse, labe!ling the coastal -
than 80 items. "It may well be surveillance effort as "inadequate
becalmed and forgotten forever," and misdirected", with the majori-
- he said. � ty of detections being fortuitous. '
Mr MacKellar agreed with the ~ ~t rtcommends that the present -
report in th~t any strategy to limit fragmented surveillance work be
the abuse of drugs must embrace centraliscd with the Australian .
all drugs, including alcohot and Coastal Surveillance Centre. ~
tobacco. It says there has been a large
He announced that there would ~ degree of inefficiency 'in law
be no relaxa[ion of the present ~nforcement operations.
nati6nal prohibition on cannabis, ft?e Commission sees futur: law
while acknowledging that the Fed- ~ enforcement strategy comprising
eral Government has limited pow- the harrassrnent of organised
ers. This was in line with the , grbups by che scizure of drugs and
report's recommendations. convictions and the identification
~ Ccntral to thc Commission's . of users and street pedlars and
- ~recommended national strategy is, drawing them into a�'treatment
the establishr~~ent of a network of ~ net" rather than concentrating on
Drug Information Centres to mon- convictions as in the past.
itor the cost of drug abuse, the cost But it warns that sympathy for
of law enCorcement, the cost of tE?e user should be tempered with =
treatment, and to fill the present the realisation that he may be -
gap in drug-related statistics. , involved in encouraging othera to
- 7'he report liscs the aims of the ~ use his dtugs.
Drug Inf~rrnation Centres as de- ~e Commission says any con-
ter;nining whether drug abuse is a victions recorded against juvenilt.
victimless crime, whether the pre- "experimenters" should be ex-
sent crime/medicai approach is ~~unged after a period of good ~
too expensive, and whether money behaviour.
= spent tn education is achieving ~an urg~d on ~
results. � ~a~dC~X
'7heir work will be of in-~ ~
estimaule value in a review, ~:fter a Turning to tl~e "Iega1" drug problem
= decade, of a number of social and ~ the commission first recommends the
legal problems connected with ~ `banning of imports of Mandrax - the'
dru$s,;.' the report says. ' dNg methaqualone or "mandies" as
. . ~they are known in the d~ug scene. , . , _
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1'b�e Commission indcriti~cd ~ ~fi"e',
:drug in the form of A+4andrax ns tha
_ most abused prescribed drug in Ans-
;4ralia. '
' ~ The Commission says alcohol
~hould be treated as a drug oP
dependance fac all purposes, hut its
6istorical placa in our society mcans
that logic must give way to practical
considerat~ons. � -
, On tobacco the report recommends
- that its use should be monitared by the
Drug information Ccntres and con-
- , timis should be introduczd undor dru~s
; of dependance legislation which
' should bo limited init~ally to pro- , i
- . hibiting the distribution of tobacc~ to ,
. ;Aeople undsr the age of 16. � , _~i ~ ,
Recommendations Summa.ri.zed ~
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORN]NG HERALD in Engliah 'i~ Mar 80 n 10
_ [~'rom the feature, "Williams Urug Repor-t"]
[Text] [SYDNEY MORNI~tG HERALD Editor's Note: "Copies of the five-volume _
1,608 pa~e Williams Repoxt ~rill be available t`rom Australian Government Pub-
' lishin~ 5ervice bookshops from about noon today for $35.40."]
Mr Justice Williams ma~.e 246 recommendat~ons which would transform the en-
forcement of clrug laws, the detection of dxug offenders and pushers, and the !
traatment of addiCts. ~narcotic maintcnance to etimin-
~ey includc: ate the qiving of multiple doses.
MARIHUe~NA: No rclax- The rcgistcrs would bc con-
fidenull to a specinl section of
ation oE !he present prohibi- ~e Statcs' Hcalth departments.
tion on cannabis should be r F D E R A L POLICE
madc for 10 years from th~ ~~~g~ g~ould be widened to
opening of a series of a new mAke them responsible for en-
type of D[ug lnformation ,~orcing Commonwealtti drug
Centre across thc country. ~aws bcyond Customs barriers,
- ,After the 10 years ~ the ~ at present.
' Commoawea(th and State pOLICE FORCTS in general
= Governments should jointly, ahould co-ordinate their actions
~ revtew the legal prohibition against drug-related crimes -
against cannabis. , according to a national strategy :
- %''-MANDY~AX: The drug on drug abuse. �
~nLthaquaione, ~r T4andrax, ~ TERS shouRld be su je~t
t~o 0 w
or any olher preparation _
containing it should be abso- ~ Customs' la~~s dealing severely
_ lutely prohibited from import v+ith anY attempt to alter, bceak
.into tl.ustrulia, and its use or or tamper with a now type of _
ssession affer June, 30~ seal to be used on containers.
~ uld be absolutely pro- BODY SEARCHES at
- liibited in any part of . the GUstoms b~rriers should be con-
ductcd under reviscd proccdures
~'ommonwealth. normally startii~g with an ut-
' ~?DAICT REGISTERS: F.ach trasound e~amination using an
5tate should register all persons external device, and procceding -
� who havo been trented for nar- to a physical cxamination of
~ ~ cotie use, or who are teceiving body cavities by an authorised
doctor if reasonable suspicion _
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' "~of druQ~conccalment remained. " !'b~pp~TATYUN: "I'he~
~Suspects could be detained hiigrsuon Act should tw ~ ~ TA7UTION: C6anges in tho~
for up to thrco d~ys for ~he amendal to put all persons who 1aw shwld be madt ro enable-
r purposes of :;r internal bod~ ~o not Australian citizcns on Tsucation officers to report
~ seazch, and 'r-!~~cht before a ~ pcople who appear to Ue im-
tho samc footing in relation to
. maQistrate ~fte~ threa days if deportation and to abolish the ?n ~t~n d~ S ducing or traffick-
� un ordcr for a further exacn�, ~ovision that an immi ant
inntion wus sought. , P. T}ie police officer receiving
wzth fiva yeacs IaH~ful residonco the informution could claim nh-
COttRUI'.'!'lUY allegations in Australia cnnr;ot be de- yo(ute privilego aaainst dis-
; madc against police shouid bo ~ poKcd. ~ cloeing his sourca of informa-
invcstigaled whcre possibie by a
polire tc;im incluciing clcmcnts ~~~'I~ RECOR'+~5: The tion. �
- trom anuthcr police forcc. Commonweslth Governmcnt CUSTO~TS or POLICE offi�
T'ho desirabili~y of havin an shoold study thc pouibility of
~ colleCtin on u selectivc basis, cers should be ablo to read mai!
ombudaman to monitor investi-' s~ whan ostal items are u
'Qationa by policc ot' ailcgations. records of travel and residcncc P pcncd
ot misconduct or corruption of inembers ~f an~ groups of for inspection but the contents _
ahould be reviewcd. An ombuds- :~~on ot6nic origin known or should not be uszd or disclosed
man shou!d be used if desirable suspected to be ~avolved in illic- extept in the investigation oc
prosecution of drug offences, ~
- for roasons of effectiveness or carats and a
v~lue oE J..S million Fr.ancs in his sock.
~n that train, or ratlier on those trains, a1.1 kinds o� passengers are mixed
to~eth~r: diplomaty on Cheir way to tl~e headquarters of the Eurapean com- -
mun9.ties in Luxembour~, or going to the Strasbour~ Parliament, Asiatic to~.~r- _
tsts riiscoverin~; l;uro~e, student~ returning from America or f.rom the rar T:ast. -
Tiit~ hetero~eneous cro~aci o� passengers cre3tes an ideal hunr.ing ~r,round f.or ~
~ver~ ki.nrl oP trafficker, as far as the Frencli customs a~ents are concerned.
The prostitutes h~zve disaPpeareri, or almost disappearecl from the sleeping cars
or t:ie corr.i~lor:, and tlie ~'godfathers" have ta~.en tlleir place.
- Tristead of beinQ called tlie "I:delcaeiss," tlie "Zris" or tiie "Italia 3:xpress," -
tlte~e tr.ains W~1tC11 are really not like other trains :sliould be callecl "dru~,''
"iorei~n excl~ange," "gold," "precious stones," "arms."
If the Amsterdam-~-filan is More commonly called "the dru~ tr~in," it is simply
because tlic directors of t11P_ cu~toms don't say anything about the otYter tr.a�- -
fic. T}iose ottler matters are more often tlie sub ject of transactions, ~ohicti
ar.e f.uthermore cori~letely legal.
~'f'tie cu~toMS inspectors have a hard joh. The four to six inspectora wbo get on at
. Luxembour.g or at rasel }iave onl~ about 20 miniites to inspecE a train of eight to
15 cars carryinp l~n to 30J persons, depending on the season.
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So Ct1IIC Che Cl13tOfl1.3 inspector`s chief ~~eapon is h~s intui~ion. It is cer-
tairily impossible, as we all knocv, to cievise a stereotype o� a traffielcer,
but moet often and in contradiction to a certain legend, the passer does not
have l.ong hair. He does not use perfume and he does not wear ~eans. Iie is
more likely to be a man 35 years of a~e, ~aell dressed and of good appearance,
of any one of several nationalities: Italian, lielgian, Austrian.... -
Several years ago the Mul.house customs insPectors apprehended, after conaid-
~ erablo hesitn[ion, nn I~,n~liehman dressed in ~n ele~ant dressing~gown, apPar.-
antly ~ lorc] o~i n business trip rathc~r tiian a traf.i�icker. Ilowever, he was
carrying c]iamonds ~aei~hing 4,000 carats around hig waist. And at the same
time hiq protestations had almost convinced the inspectors, caho were careful ~
not to cormnit too many hlunders. The inventiveness of. the tr~ff.ickers passes
- all underetanding. Unscrewed restroom signs, suitcases with false bottoms,
dolls, heels of boots and shoes, an innocent neighbor among whose effects a
package is hidden. Thus an unfortLUiate student was arrested in P~Iulhouse a
few months ago �or drug possession. She served several days in ~ail before
- being released. It was her traveling companion, a Swiss, ~aho had hidden a
comnromising package in her clothing.
No Illusions
It is obvious that it is impossible for the customs agents to inspect all the
paclcages and suitcases lined up in the corridors. ror the traf.Eickers, tlle -
- simp].est and most ef�ective procedure is to put the packa~;e down, watch over
it and fiercely deny that it is theirs if it ie discovered. Recently a young -
mr~n who wns srretched ouC a~leep on a Uencli wttli his tiead on his ~~ck~t, which
wrts e~rencl ov~r r~ large quanCity of hashi9h, ctenS.ed knoc~inr, where it cnme
from. }Ia was r~ccused ~.nd then relensed by the court. llowever, Z11ere ar.e the
other times wlien. the trafficker's frightened appearance is greaC help to the
inapectors.
However, their succeas is essentially based on e:~perience. It is utinecessary
to insist on the fact that you can't expect them to discl.ose tll~ir tricks.
There are also those agents in plain c1ot11es who mix wit}i t~e passengers on '
the 25~-km stretch of French territory that the trains cross. Ir was their
pers~iclcity which was at the bottom of the last arrest to date, tliat of: the
American ~~ith tlie emeralds. ~
Tlie customs of.f.icials don't work under any illusions. T'rie balance on arrests,
even. if it is specCacular--seizures in 2 weeks of one kilo of cocaine, 8Q0. grams
of her.oin, 8,!~~~ dc~ses of T,SD, 3,750 of tiiem at a time, 1.5 mil~.io~t francs
in emeralds--unfortunately amount to onl_y a sm~ll samnle of. tlic~ tr.a.ffic tliat
thoge �unny pt.l~rims on the Amster.dam--?tilau express carr.y on u:~d~r tlieir
noses every ~lay.
~ziir
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GR~ECE
NARCOTIC3 LEC~'URES FOft 3TUDENTS fi~PORTED
Athen~ ~PIKAII3A in Greek 17-23 Apr 80 p 76
~fext] ~'he Secondarq Education Supervision C~enter /-I~fE7 agreea that the
propo~al to erlighten the atudents on the dangers og narcotics should be
broadened. Thus, in a memorandum to ~he Ministry of Education Which asked
for a atuc~? of the 9ub~ect and for clearly deYining the methods for such -
an enlightetment program' KEME subauitt,ed ths folla~ng recom~n.endations :
- 1. Ae concerna the echication of etudents on the dangers oY narcotica, it
would be axpedient to limit it at least for the present only to secondary
education schoola. In the secondary education schoola the cultural courses
arr.i eepecially the eub~ect on narcotica as mentioned in varioue ooursee
(the one on anthropologq, for instance) can have poaitive reaulte if
proper~y exploited. The aultural couraes and activitie~ muet meintair~
the abillty and the possibility of coeering a large apectrum of cultural
- aub~eat$ xhile the approprial:e teachera ahould be encour~gsd to deal with
= aub~acts related to narcotica--sub~ects Which the students consistently
hr~ng up--~nd in organizing anti-narcotic lectures.
2. The chapters on narcotics ~.n schoo3 handbooks should be axpanded so
that a new emphasis would be given on enlightenang the studenta on the
dan~ers oP nercotics. -
3. The teacherp ehould be supplied With bibliogragh3.ca1 da~.a and neceaaarq
- aids for copin~ Wi.th the needs they ~ri1:L be facing in teaching the sub~ect. _
4. Special programs should be telecast ay educational television and appro-
priate and responaible persona ahould be invited into schools for analyzing
the aub~sct and ansxerjng the students' questione~
5. During ad hoc I~iE congresaes or at c:~ther opportunitiKa the aeriousnese
of the sub~ect should he underacored and t~h9 cultural activities and the
specinl chepters of the handbooks ~n tY~ sub3ect7 ahould be aystematical.ly
pro3~ct,ed so sa to protect youth from ~'ie danger it is facing.
With regard to the sub~ect nf aocial ed~ ~.cation, KF~1E proposes that it be
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put to good uae ar~ything relevant to the students' social behevior. It
- is cone~:d~red exp~client that the course on L'lements oi' the llemocretic -
Po1:Itical 9yatem be maintained unaltered.
Rsgardi.ng K~?~SE propoaals one could observe the folloWing:
a. 'i'hey refer to "generalitiee;" they fail to point out clearly the
implementation methods for such enlighteiunent of the studente on narcotics
and soc~al behavior, nQr do they mention the agents (miniatries, schools,
higher education instStutiana, ete.) which could cooperate to~rard this ett3. -
Undoubtedly these general KII~1~, proposals need still greater stu~ before -
they are implemented.
b, OrLl,y tWO means are being recommended for the students~ enlightenQnent: ~
booke (and the teaching in the classrooa~) and educational TV. But it ia
lrncn~m that classroom teachiro is tiresome and does not help the student.
As for educational TV, ~?hat positive result can it hawe Nith its limited
rtumber of viexers ? ~
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t3R.EECE
BRIEFS
H~tOIN SEIZURE--The largest quantity of heroin ever ae3zad by IDiropean
authoritiee--8 kiloe irorth 30 million (3es~nan marka and enough to eatisf~
the German market ~or mar~ =nonths--had traveled on a truck loaded with
orsnge~ through Thrak~. and Makedonia to Yugoslavia xhere ~t Was seized by
the Cevgeli border poat guarde. The truck, driven by txo Germans, had ~u+st
paesed the 4reek border poat ~t Ei.doaneni where the guard8 failed to notice
"the load of death." A reliable eource in Salonica said yesterday thst
Interpol had advance information about the movement af the 8 kilos and had
. eent ita beet agenta into Turk,ey where the heroin ~as to be loaded. Indeed
the heroin, xoll packed in pleatic baga, was loaded in Daliks ~ranalitera-
tion~ on a truck belonging to a German compar~ and ~ae covered yrl.th 20 -
- tone of fresh orangea destined for Lindau ~ransliteration7 of Weat
CermAr~q. Interpol rrss able to trace the travel echedule of the truck on
the baaie of advance information it had gathered. The ta-uck had entered
Greece at Kipoue of Evroe, traversed Thrald and Malcedon3.a and reached
GevgeLi in Yugoslavia ~here it xaa searched by the xaiting goliceabene
Th~ drivers ~nere arreated and an inv~estigation 18 alreac~ underFray to
discover tha "big ahots" Who ars hiding beh:ind the arrested. Te~ct~
rjt~~ AKROPOLIS in Greek 21~ Apr 80 p~7 7520
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NETHERLANDS -
BRIEFS
MID-EAST IMPORTS INCREASE--The Hague, May 6--Holland will consult the Turkish
Government on the possible stationing of a Dut~:h police official in Turkey
- in an attempt to curb heroin imports from the Middle East, Health State
Secretary Els Veder told the Second Chamber today. In a written reply to
queations she said heroin imports from the Middle East had increased and
were twice as large as imports from Southeast Asia by the end of last year.
Holland already has a police official stationed in Bangkok who is cooperating
with the Thai authorities in the fight against drug trafficking. ~Text~
- ~The Hague ANP in English 7 May 80 p 4~
csa: 5300
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