JPRS ID: 9312 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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APPROVE~ FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-R~P82-00850R000300030032-0 i~ ~ L~ ~~i~ .L~~~ ~ ~ ~ i..~~ ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 I~UR OHFI('IAI. USE ONI.I' JPRS L/~312 25 September 1980 VO/orldwide Re ort p NARCOTICS AND DANG~ROUS DRUGS (FOUO 40/80) FBIS FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE FOR OFF(CIAL U5E ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 NOTE JPRS publications contain information primarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency ~ transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are translated; those from English-language sources are transcribed or reprinted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets are supplied by JPRS. 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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 W...r.r. . , . . ~ FOR OFFICTAI, US~ ONLY JPRS L/9312 � ~ 25 September 1980 _ WORLDWIDE ?,EPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS (FOUO 40/80) CONTENTS A3IA BURMA Commonwealth Meeting Propoeea Meaeurea Against Drug Menace (THE WORRING PEOPZE'S DAILY, 7 Sep 80) 1 Study Group Set Up Drastic Measurea Ca11~d For Briefs Heroin, Syringe Seized From Three Men 4 HONG KONG Auatralians Probe Failed Bank's Drug World Ties (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 28 Aug 80) 5 MALAYSIA Continuing Nar^^tic Drug Trafficking Reported ~ (Various sourcea, 25 Jul 80) 6 Addicte Convicted of Murder Sentenced to Prieon Drug Peddler Arreated Two Malays Ar~eated Police Arrest Threa More NEW ZEALAND - Briefa Cannabis Shipment Unlocated 10 Customa Agent Sentenced 10 - a - [III - WW - 138 FUUO) FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ~NLY PAKISTAN Briefs Contraband Opium Seized 11 CANADA Briefs Thai Convicted on Heroin Charge 12 LATIN AMERICA BOLIVZA . Further Reportage on Military Drug Connection (Various eourcea~ various dates) 13 - Cocaine Threat to United Statea, by Gregorio Selser ~ Bolivian Connection Poesible U.S. Meseurea, by Gregorio Selser Cocaine and Bolivian Regime, Editorial CRILE - Briefs Arrest of Drug Traffickere 24 ~ COLOMBIA Justice Minister: Guerrillas, Traffickere Cooperate (EL ESPECTADOR, 4 Aug 80) 25 Police Unita Claeh, Traffickera Captured (EL TIEMPO, 12 Aug SO) 28 Binci Peraonnel, Civilian 3eiaed With�Cocaine (EL ESPECTADOR, 9 Aug 80) 30 _ Governor Refutes Police Charges (EL ESPECTADOR, 24 Jul 80) 32 Army Arresta 15 in Variou~ Aaids (EL TIE1~0, 27 Jul 80) 35 Clandestine Airfield To Be Dqnamited (Pedro Lara Castibl8nco; EL ESPECTADOR, 7 Aug 80) 36 Briefe Navy Employee Seized With Cocaine 3g - b - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONI.Y MEXICO Trafficking Among Prisonere Increases ' (EL SOL DE MEXICO, 15 .iul 80) 39 Sicilia Falcon Triea Another Eacape (EXCELSIOR, 27 Jul 80) 41 Four Traffickers Captured~ Heroin Seized (EL SOL DE SINALOA, 23 Aug 80) 42 Long Jail Sentence Sought for Large-Scale Trafficker (EL MANANA, 16 Aug 80) 44 Bri~fs Police Collusion Charged 46 Heroin Laboratory Found 46 Entertainer Arrested With Cocaine 46 Mexican Antidrug Effort Lauded 47 Marihuana Destroyed in Morelos 47 PERU Briefs Police Identify Cocaine Area 48 Drug Traffickers Fort 48 VENEZUELA Gen.eral on Drug Cfiarge Confueion ~AFP, 10 Sep 80) 49 NEAR E~AST AND NORTH AFRICA SUDAN Feature Article on Bango Drug Trade (SUDANOW, Aug 80) 5Q SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA KENYA Police Action Against Bhang Growers, Poase~sora Noted (DAI~.Y NATION, 2, 5, 10 Sep 80) 54 Fine for Growir.g Bhang Four Charged With Posaession Bhang Seized, Smokera Arrea~ed - c - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY WEST EUROPE FRANCE - Asian Drug Traffickers Active in France (Irinia de Chikoff, Lucien-James Meteye; LE FIGARO, 21 Aug 80) 56 Drug Trafficking Increasing Qn Riviera (Marie-7.'hereae Guichard; LE POINT, 25 Aug 80) 59 Majority of Drug 'Paesers' Found To Be Turka (Roger Colombani; LE MATIN, 13 Aug 80) 61 ICELAND Briefs Hashish Smuggled From Denmark 65 NORWAY Cuatoms Service Reports Increase in Heroin Seizures (CaCo Guhnfeldt; AFTENPOSTEN, 5 Aug 80) 66 PORTUGAL Yaeht Carrying Hashish Diacovered by Police (Luis Godinho; A TARDE, 30 Jul 80) 68 SPAIN Six Tons of Hashish Confiecated During Firet Half of 1980 ~YA, 24 Jun SO) 70 Malaga Police Capture Hashiah Traffickers (LA VANGUARDIA, 18 Jun 80) 7i - Briefs Persona Arrested, Haehish Confiacated 72 TURKEY 'MILLIYET' Examin.es Narcotics~ Arms, Terror Triangle (Editorial, Orean Oyman; MILLIYET~ 31 Aug 80) 73 Briefs Hashiah, Heroin Seizurea Reported 76 - d - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY UNITED KINGDOri Britain Reported To Be Key Market for Drug Smugglers (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 31 Jul, 13 Aug 80) 77 'Major Heroin Market' Heroin Smuggling Riees, by T. A. Sandrock Record Hard Druga Seizurea, by T. A. Sandrock ~ Editorial Calls for Action, Briefs Record Opium Find 81 Cocaine Seized by Yard 81 Car Chase Yields Druge 81 Heroin Sentence 81 ~ -e- FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 BURMA COP4IONWEALTH MEETING PROPOSES MEASURES AGAINST DRUG MENACE _ Study Group Set Up ~ Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 7 Sep 80 p 3 L T ex t ~ ~Dj!IBARTA. 6 Sept-~iembers of Parlisment cf ffie five As~oci~tdon of So~tb-$sst Asisa Ns- tioas ~(ASEArT) ma~tbers decid~d on s pro. y~ame li~; c~aqp~oa 3a oombatin~ den~~ sbuso ia ffie sej~ost-~ooe ~of tbe ceatres of the woeld's lltepl mrooNcs ts~da - - '1'~'se g~eneral asaembly tica ' aad theu ....a'buse, ASEAN, reaffimxd their of the :,'ASEAN I~ter- smd al~o have bilata - Parliameatary Orgn~izr~- ral prog with other commitment to atc+tagthea tioa (AIpO) ag3rcd tQ ~et non-ASF~ couatria economic links betweea _ up ~~dY S~P, eo ~to the ' trafficlcing the two communities a~aidec commott leg~la fron? tha regian of mati- aad w increase iheir tion on narootica? ~8 .luant aad opiuan-b~aed dialogue. sbuse aiid relsab~ita- dru~ w~c~ at herain, At the same time, t}iey _ tion of add~, and to I~uion vuies ~ in ur8ad ASEAN's econonuc formulate ~ractical guide- the Sv~e eauairies~ tninuteis to adopt a col- 1'mes- for ~mpleanentaaon witb wja~ ewmtriea ~ve approach w foreiga of future cantroT mea- like 8ingtpoe+e aad Thai- t~trade p wzt ~h a~~ sutts: . lmd u~po~~ tlae dath This a~a~ one of a eeries ty {or -ieriow hxffic- ~'~Y heavily balai~eed in $avair of the japanese. of cooperative endea- 'ng aad~ othera leeser esUed for a wurs agrad upon b'9 P~~~� ~tePp~, up of ASEAN delegateu from Malay- The delegates aLo . s~, '~i hailaad. In dvneaia, agrad. that action mwt on in ~ vprio~s 3in~apore snd U~donesia be taken to apad up fi~~e~. Particularly the at thar third we~ek-long impkmsniadon of the ~abliahmeat af' agricul- 3 anmial ineeting~ which eoo~o~nic cooperatioa tural-based industries witb eaded here Wday. agreetneat botaroea the private uctor puticipa- _ Al~ ~ve have bas~ wor- Europeaa~ F.coaomi~ tion to provide more _ employmcnt and incoma ]cimg on oontrol of nuco- Community (EEC~ aad N~ J~~~ '1 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 Drastic Maasures Called For Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 7 Sep 80 p 3 ~ T ex t] N~W DELHI The Cbmmoawealth t~e~d's af governzne t~ gioaal meeting . todey considered s seport cat~ing for drastic ~neasuree to combat the grou*iu~� menace o~'ck~ kaHio~iqg ~a thc Aaia~:?~ci~rc regloa. ~ The heads of govern- Property and assets that legislatiunprovidesfor ment asked the Drafting ~uired by offenders ~ p~~ of perwos Committee to giv~e the ~n other countriea ~~a report a final ehape so b ~o~~ ~h~; Lo be a,piraciee ta cotnmit of- that countries in the ra- g- fencea a ainat dru laws. gion could legialate pn of thie legie'satioa so that ~e ge ca !s far Me ba~is of the recon~l- these could be cpnfiecated. P�rt - The expert group kS~~~on goveming tha At the same time, the agreed that there was esaminatian of inembee~ docided to dis- ~~perative necd for ~~ntries' tYwils that do a basic common attitude not have such legielation b~nd the expert group and ~ roach in le ~slative w'ere urg~d to take appro- l~eaded by Malaysia, set pp g riate ~easures to enaet it. up at the firat CHdGRM and judicial action for a P~~re ehould also be meeti in S dne in concerted drive and for - ~ y y effective preventive and necessary legislation ena- ~97g' suppressive action against bling tranamiasion of A few countries, parti- arug ~.~~ing in the do~umen!s and a1y other cularly Australia and evi3ence for the euc~:ea- New Zealand, were Asia-Pacific region. understood to have ex- It recommended that ful inveatigatiocs and trial member-countri~ should of drug trafli;.kers in their pressed some reservations enaure that effective trea- hom� country, - about the drastic m;asures ties exiat for the extr~- The repurt atressed the recommended by the need of a comm~n atti- ' rou which the sus ct dition of otk~dere from g p ' y ot6er member-ngtione. tude con:ernin~ ths abuie might be chattenged in They sbould aleo press a~j traffickiag of canna- �OU~' for the eatablishment of b~g� The highlight of the re- treaties with' any country Apparently coneerned port is a recommendation q,~re auch treatiea do not over the move in som : for the confiacation oE countries to liheralize assets add properties ac- lawa verni the uired b ereone throu h In the interim there S� ~B q y~ g ehould be an exchaage of us; of cannabes, it re- drug trafficking. comm~n~ed that m:m- - The re ort said such offendere by mutual agrce- P ~,~n ber-countries should op- legislation ehould ia- deten'enk po;e any move towarda _ - cludc , proviaions for for- the "decriminaGzation of . feiture even without the P~~ ba Appli- ~ ~ ~ t~~m cultivation or poasession mandatory nquirement of ~ ettied b the of cannabis or legisla~ion - a com~ictiori relating to ~ Y ~ of its non-medical uae". the cha e for which the system of the reapective ~ countria, NCember-coun- Member-countries sho- forfeitvre is sought by ~p ehould also etteure uid improve their com~- the authorities. Z APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 munication system for disrupt the dem3nd the rapid exchaage of side while there must operarional. information, be a ooncerted effort _ Particulnr attention should in the treata~ent and be paid to compatibility rehabilitation of dru~~ of equipment m thia dependenta. field. A planned prograr~me They snould also de- for preventive education velop their o~vn intelli- yras' also suggested. _ gence organization with '~j committee will be a clearly designated cen- set up to monitor the tral autiority in ord~r proercas of the imple- that op~rational intelli- ~e~tirion of the decieio~t. gence could b~ exchang- Drag lawa vary coqsi- e3 e~:peditiousiy~ bilate- derably from cuuntry to rally and multilaterally. country in the region. Due to the wicte d~s, In Singaporo, where parities in the ~degrce o~f the lawa are tha dwg problems in. each toughest, death sentence country it is considered ia maadatory for tra~ck- necessary that eachshauld ing in tg grammea of develope ite owa training heroin or niore. Matayei$ facilities. considers possession of The repoi~t.streasea t6~at g~~~es of heroin effective atr,aek oa . the as tra~cking an~ a drug problem makes it conviction could mean imperative that a tv~o-fold life sentence. objective be~ adopte3 to NAB'~jFP CSO: 5300 3 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 BUxMA BRIEFS HEROIN, SYRINGE SEIZED FROM THREE MEN--Rangoon, 6 Sept--Police seized a packet of heroin, a hypodermic syringe and an ampoule of distilled water from a ma,n in a car on Wayzayanda. Road, Thutwainggyi Ward, Thingangyun Township, at about 3 am today. Po13.ce and Ward People's Council members seized the heroin, hypodermic syringe and the distilled water �rom Maung Maung Myint (25) of Ka.ba Aye who was in the car, No Nga/3249. Police arrested Maung Ma.ung Myint, Ma.ung Hla Tun of East Wireless Road, Kaba Aye, who was at the wY,eel and another man, Ma.ung Tin Ohn, and booked them under Sections 6(b) (possession) and 14(d) (failure to register fo: treatment) of the Narcotic Dru~s La.w. (052) ~Text~ ~Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S ilAILY in English 8 Sep 80 p 8] CSO: 5300 4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 HONG KONG AUSTRALIANS PROBE FAILED BANK'S DRUG WORLD TIES Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 28 Aug 80 p 13 /TeXt7 Four Awtrali~n invad~a The four men have ban ton ue in Honjkon~ bokin~ buuy ~ince they 4rrived last. into the tan~ed at[aus of the week. 0�~'P~� �f N~� They have sporen to ~n8 ~?PT0 1�0' detectivai fmm the Commer- �~iOA cisi Crime ~raup and polia Tho team hat beea here ~uarters st well u W the f~ a weelc: y NMch it 'Rnd~'mv n~a number T6a men are onl t6e lat- au in a stream ad' Auuralian of A1upn Haad oompanies, ime~ti~ws who bne � bean aad W people in the buainess an~a ~ collap~ee bank world. . in Aprii. Their prerenx here ooia- The praent team com- jK~~~ M~~ priia an aorouaw~t from tba Fra~r tor a joint Fedenl and C'ammi~ttiaa~aNew ~ Wta pabe iato tbe NuQan ' W~la, Mr Johu WWi~, a Haad dny link. (}~~py Tbe SCM Pat di~laeed mo:e thaa thrce months tbat Avitraliin a ad N e~w Fraad ~uad, Mr 3tare Den- i T.aLa~d dru~ oouriers an~i . nett and r Roa 51~w. ~ naraotia ruanen bad been "washin~ their money" thrauQ6 b~nb in Hon~kong. CSO: 5320 5 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 MALAYS IA CONTINUIP~G NARCOTIC DRUG TRAFFICKINs REPORTED ' Addicts Convicted of Murder Selangor SIN CHEW JIT POH MALAYSIA in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 13 [24 July News report from Ipoh] [Text] Three narcotic drug addicts have been sentenced to 6 years each in prison by the Ipoh District Co~.zrt a.fter pleading to guilty of killing a _ drug peddler, who died of head ~n~uries caused by a flying brick thrown by one of the defendants in a dispute over drug prices. The three defendants are 2~+ year-old youth Huang Tsung-hung L78o6 135~ 7703] - of Ipoh City and 2~+-year-old Li Yang-hua j2621 7~+02 5~+78] and 23 year-old Lo Ping-hua ~5012 3.521 5~+78~, natives of Kampar Lumut. They were found guilty of killing a 21-year-old Malay youth in Ipoh City at approximately 3 PM on 12 August 1979. The victim was a nascotic drug pedcll.er a.nd the three defendants were drug addicts. At about 2 PM on 12 August 1979, another drug addict of Chinese origin named Chiu Ming [6726 249~+] arrived to meet the victim on a street where he usual~y plied his trade. The former left the scene of crime immediate],y after a brief ineeting with the victim, promising to return as soon as he got enough cash to purchase the stuff he wanted. Forty-five minutes later the three defendants, plus another suspect who is still at large, arrived at the place w3iere the victim peddled his "white powder." The first defendant, Huang Tsung-hung, wanted to b~r two doses of heroin, which cost him M$13 each. After ha.nding them over to him, the victim received only M$10 from the purchaser, and �so he wanted to return the money and get back the two doses of heroin, for which he h~,d to be paid M$26. _ Meariwhile, the second defenda,nt also wanted to b~ two doses of white powder, for which the seller asked M$20. After turning them over to him, the victim . got anl,y M$16=-M$~+ short of the asking price. 6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 � This dispute soon led to a scuffle and violence. One of the defendants ~ picked up a broken brick from the ground and threw it at the victim, while others hit him with tree limbs. The victim eventu~,lly yelled for help when he saw G`hiu Ming return. The four fled the scene immediately after seeing Chiu Ming try to intervene on behal.f of the victim, Chiu Ming called a taxicab and accompaniea the victim, who was bleeding profusely, to a hospital ~ for treatment. After receiving meclical ~;reatment at an ~utpatient clinic, the victim was sent home. Upon arri.ving home, he told his father what happened to him, on Old Tpoh Street. As soon as [the son] finished, the old ma.n s aw blood vomit from his son's mouth and the son passed out. The - father called an ambulance to carry his son to a hospital, who was pro- nounced dead sometime befr~re midnigh~t because of serious head in~uries. On 22 August, the three defendants were arrested and brought to justice by the Ipoh police. Sentenced to Prison Selangor KIN IiZ~OK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8 [ 2~+ July news report from Ipoh] [Text] A Mal~ay youth was beaten to death by four youths of Chinese origin in a dispute over narcotic ~.rug transactions. 'I'hree of the four defendants were sentenced by the Ipoh District Court to 6 years in prison after they were found guilty of manslaughter. The three defendants are 2~+-yet~r-old youth Huang Tsung-hung of Ipoh, and 2~+- yeax-old Li Yang-hua and 23-year-old Lo Ping-hua, natives of Ka.mpar Lumut. They were accused of manslaughter in violation of the penalty law, provision 30~+, for a crime which took place at 3 PM on 12 August 1979. The three defendants pleaded guilty as charged by the pr.osecution at the court. Police inspector Kao Hsiu-yu [7559 ~~+23 3768] said on behalf of the prosecution that the victim was a drug addict who usual],y peddled white powder. Knowing that he did not have enough cash on hand to btipr what he needed, he asked the Malay youth to wait for his return with more money. No sooner had he left than four other youths--one of whom is now still at large--arrived to buy white powder irom the victim. The first defendant - wanted to buy two doses of heroin a� a price of M$26. As soon as he received what he wanted, he gave the victim only M$10. The victim refused to take it, insisting that he should be paid no less than M$26. _ At this time, the second defendant also wanted to bt~}r two doses of heroin at the asking price of M$20. But he paid the seller only M$16--M$4 short of the price. This dispute over prices immediatel,y touched off a fight between the four youths of Chinese origin and the drug peddlero The iour youths beat and 7 ~ _ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 hit the victim with bricks and tree limbs which they picked up off the ground~ At approximately 15:15, Chiu Ming returned and saw four youths take turns beating the vict~im until his head was heavil,y in,jured, with blood soaking ' his hair and staining his hands which he ~.ised to protect his head. As soon as the victim saw Chiu Ming, he yelled for help. The four hooligaii: iled when C'hiu Ming was about to intervene on behalf of the victim. Chiu biing then hu~�riecl],y called a taxicab and sent the victim to the Central Tiospital for emergency treatment. The doctor� advised the victim ~o go home for recuperation, after giving him - treatment to stop his bleeding. When he arrived in his home at 16:15, he told. his father wh~~.t had happened to hi.m. A few minutes later, he passed out and fell to the ground with blood vomiting from his mouth. His father immediate],y summoned an ambulance to carry his son to a hospital for ~ emergency treatmer.t. Noticing this, a police guard then on duty at the hospital reported the case to his hea~iqua.rters, At 00:~+5 AM on 13 August, the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital because of heavy head in,juries . At 20:15 on 22 August 1979, the three defendants were arrested and brought to ~ustice by police. In depositions taken at the police headquarters they a11 confessed their guilt of ine.nslaughter. Their defense lawyer said: "N~y clients were drug addir_ts without ~obs. Their low education and poor ~udgment of the effect of narcotic drugs and the influence of bad friends were ma~or factors th at drove th em to become drug addicts. One of the addicts must take care of his mother, wife, and a child who depend on him for survival. For this reason, I plead that Your Iionor h and down a lenient sentence for each of ~}r clients.'~ , But the prusecution replied that the three accused absolutely had no reason - wfiatever to take the law into their own hands. The three defendants were sentenced to 6-year prison terms each by the court. Drug Peddler Arrested Selangor KIN K~K DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8 [l~+ July news report from Sembilan Island] [Text] Today, an adult of Chinese origin was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months by the court on the charges of three cotints of narcotic drug trafficking. The accused, na.med Chen Chen-fu (transliterated name), is a 36-year-old resident of Sembilan Island. 8 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 He was accused of illegally possessing 57 grams of heroin and 38 grams of processed opium that police found at his home at 12:50 on 26 March 1980. _ He was also charged with illegally possessing 0.06 gram of heroin when walk- ing across the Liming Street Bridge, Sembilan Island, at noon on 25 June 1980. He pleaded guilt,y to the aforementioned three counts of crime. After hearing presentations by the p-:~aecution, the court sentenced him to - 3 years and 6 months in prison--1 year a.nd M$600 in fine in lieu of 6 months for the first count, and 1 yeax each for the second and third counts. As a result of a search of his hame at noon on 26 March 1980, police turned = up 7~+ doses of heroin and a bag of opium. After he was released on proba- _ ~ion, a search ~~f his boc~y by police turned up some "heroin" at noon on , 25 June 1980. - The accused was imprisoned in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago on charges of extortion and narcotic drug trafficking. Two Ma,lays Arrested Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY :TEWS MALAYSIA in G'hinese 25 Jul 80 p 8 [2~+ JuJ,y news report from Sembilan Island] [Text] On the afternoon of 2~+ July, the Sembilan Police Narcotic Drug Annihilation Group arrested two Malay youths living in a shantytown in an . industria.l zone on Sembilan Island, and chaxged them with illegally possess- ing 28 doses of heroin. Police made this axrest at 1~+:30 on 24 July after being tipped off by an informer. The two Malay youths under arrest are 25 and 27 yeaxs old, respectively. A further investigation of this case is stiJ_1 underway. Police Arrest Three More Selangor KIN KWOK DAILY NEWS in Chinese 25 Jul 80 p 8 [21+ Ju~y news report from Kuala Lumpu-r] [Text] On 23 July, police in Petaling Java arrested three persons suspected of selling naxcotic drugs, Police arrested a couple after a search of their Petaling home turned up 7 sma,ll bags and 11 doses of clrugs believed to be heroin, along with M$512 in - cash. At 12:15 on the same day,the police took a man into custoc~y after a search of his hame turned up 17 dcses of drugs also believed to be heroin. , 957~ CSO : 5300 9 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 NEw zEALAND BRIEFS CANNABIS SHIPMENT UNLOCATED--None of a reputed $1 million consignment of Thai cannabis sticks has surfaced in Auckland. Police now feel there may be a less sinister reason f or the disappearance of three large wooden - crates from the Auckland waterfront last month. When the crates vanished from a shed on Captain Cook Wharf, customs officers and police said it was likely that they contained drugs shipped from Thailand. They had been consigned from Bangicok to an Auckland company which had been out of busi- ness for about a year. The crates weighed a total of 260 kilograms and were labelled as containing copperware. Polic~ and customs officers esti- mated that the crates could have contained between 100,0U0 and 200,000 cannabis sticks, worth $1 million or more. The head of the Auckland po- lice drug squad, Detective Inspector B. J. Rowe, says that if such a quan- tity had got into New Zealand much of it would have been on sale on the streets before now. "The fact that nothing has turned up makes me very doubtful the crates did contain cannabis," he said. /TextT ~Auckland ~ THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 25 Aug 80 p 4/ CUSTOMS AGENT SENTENCED--Boyd Napier Roberts, 26, a customs agent, was sentenced in the High Court yesterday to 6 months' nonresidential peri- odic detention and fined $1,000 on two charges of supplying heroin, a class A drug, to Wayne Roger Eggers on April 29 and May 1. Roberts was also placed on probation f or a year. LChristchurch THE PRESS in English 26 Aug 80 p 4/ CSOs 5320 = 10 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 PAKI STAN BRIEFS CONTRABAND OPIUM SEIZED--Contraband opium worth several lakhs of rupees in foreign currency was seized by the CIA followir.g arrest of two drug traffickers in the city, it wa.s reported. According to the police reports, one Shahid, who used to run the racket of opium in the Preedy Police Station area was picked up by the CIA a few days ago and four kilos of opium was recovered from his possession. After he was closely interrogated, Shahid led to the arrest of Su1Can, who used to operate in the Graden area and 24 kilos of opium was seized from him. The police also recovered a revolver from the possession of the accused which he had obtained illegally. ~Text~ ~Ka.rachi MORNING NEWS in English 3 Sep 80 p 4l CSO: 5300 11 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 CANADA - BRIEFS THAI CONVICTED ON HEROIN CHARGE--Vancouver (CP)--A 32-year-old Thai has been convicted of importing more than 2.2 kilograms (4.8 pounds) of almost pure heroin, which police said would have been worth $19-million on the street. A County Court jury also found Charan Rumruem Ning guilty of possessing a narcotic for purposes of trafficking. He will be sentenced on Sept. 4. The ~ury rejected the man's defence that he was an innocent dupe set up by wealthy drug dealers in Thailand. [Text] [Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION in English 16 Aug 80 p 12] CSO: 5320 12 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 BOLIVIA � FURTHER REPORTAGE ON MILITARY DRUG CdNNECTION Cocaine Threat to United States Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 5 Aug 80 p 11 [Article by Gregorio Selser: "Drug-Junta Threatens to Flood United States ~ With Cocaine"] [Text] In an interview granted to the Bolivian daily newspaper ULTIMA HORA, which that journal published on 30 ~uly, Minister of Interior Luis Arce Gomez - warned, speaking in Spanish: "The full responsibility for the problem involved in drug trafficking and the increase in the export of drugs will fall to President Carter, since currently, having eliminated aid, he will be solely responsible for the increase in cocaine consumption in the United States. This suggests that the moti~~es are purely~ political. This aid (to combat drug traffic) is regarded as more important than military aid, which means nothing. The ` military junta will have to reorganize the Narcotics Office, since there aXe no resouxces to sustain it in iCs former position." $2 Million Less Colonel Arce Gomez is, in the full sense of the term and with well-earned fame as such in Bolivia, a two-legged beast. A torturer and murderer since the days of Gen Alfredo Ovando Candia, he is best kaown as a psychopa*_h. In recent months it has been his duty to head section 2(military intelligence) and in that capacity, duly advised by the Argentine experts whose names were provided when the occasion arose by Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, he prepared the mechanism for extreme re- pression which he put to use in April, with the murder of the priest Luis Espinal, whose weekly AQUI had become the most critical means of _ : reporting on the smuggling and drug trafficking processes in which civilians - and the military were involved. It also denounced the escalating violence ~ and the preparations of the armed forces to attack the regime. Arce Gomez is moreover the inspirer and implementar of the plan, already put into practice, to establish pseudo-independent bodies of 13 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-00850R040340030032-0 ps~udo-civilians in the pseudo-military fashion, the purpose of which is - to caixse the "disappearance" through arrest justified by police or military credentials of political or crade union opponents. This "disappearance" is followed by torture and dea~:h. Only in exceptional cases does it develop that the victim is being detained in a public prison. The mechanism for this development is based on the fundamental concept that the armed forces as such are innocent of such practices. In no way would the gentlemen in the armies, navies and air forces besmirch their hands or consciences with such crtmes or the theft of the belongings of the victims which customlrily goes with them. War booty, these thefts are termed. Thus the specialized bodies in which the military personnel of the three armed branches or the pol~ce abandon their uniforms for the time it takes to carry out the chore of kidnaping, torture and murder, for which - they wear civilian clothing, can be ambiguously termed "para-military" or "para-police." A variation already traditional in Guatemala and E1 Salvador (and now in use in Bolivia) involves calling these bodies "ultra-rightist groups," Arce's "Gestapo" The fact that these bodies are made up of mil.itary and police officers does not prevent the dregs of the pr3son population from participating in them, thus enjoying a guarantee of impunity as valid as that who give the orders. '!'h,~ sho~k Croops o~ the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) were always basically lower-class, and ~.t is their amorality which gives a , 3ecent appearance to zhe presumablq political outrages. The most typical example is found in a famous FSB gunman, Fernando "Mosca" Monroy, a relative of the cocaine-rich colonel who headed a rebellion in Trinidad on 17 July. "Mosca" has now reappeared as the head of execution squads carrying out the ~.nstxuctiozs of gestapo head Arce, who like his comrades, Cols Alberto Natubch Busch and t;arlos Estrada Estrada and Gen Juan Pereda Asbun, alternate between their drug addiction and their _ dipsomania. What Arce told the United States bea.ts a11 records ~or impudence and cynicism. The thr~at of flooding that nation with cocaine paste in ` reprisal for the suspension of economic and military aid provides a just measure of the tru~e aspect of the seizers of power in Bolivia, Arce, as is known on the high plateau, takes greater pride in his personal efficiency as a torturer than i~ his limi~ed appetite for. power as such. He is a psychopath--as we have already said--with a ne~rophiliac perversion which is revived daily thanks to the omnipotent power he has been enjoying in recent years. This does not prevent him from simultaneously seeing to _ his pilot training business, which, as is the case with his comrade Col Norberto Salomon, who owns an air taxi company, provides him with a front for the transport of drugs. 14 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 The Bolivian Connection The magnitude of this traffic cannot be understood without having an idea at the same time that it is only possible to pursue it thanks to the hundreds of secret landing strips in E1 Beni and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, _ the centers for the production and processing of the coca leaves into cocaine paste. A~ong the first steps Ge~ Luis Garcia Meza took was the removal of his peer, Gen Hugo Echeverria, commander of the VI Division, headquartered in Santa Cruz, when it appeared that he had a mefia affilia- tion other than the "Bolivian connection." It is really laughable that gestapo chief Arce should come forth to announce a resurgence of drug trafficking--which will be possible precisely because the military involved in the business have been assigned to key posts in the state security apparatus, justifying it on the pretext that if the United States eliminates its $2-or-$3-million-a-year subsidy for the battle against this crime, the Bolivian Narcotics Office will not have the _ economic resources to function. It is laughable, we say, because the volume of the coraine traffic in Bolivia, in comparison to this ridiculous sum, annually exceeds $1 billion, and as a recent cable report by the France Presse agency said, has now surpassed $1.5 billion. To give some idea, if only approximate, of the magnitude of this fabulous business, let us quote the following text carried in the weekly APERTURA ("The Cocaine Magnates," La Paz, Year 1, No 7, 11 July 1980, p 11): - "Bolivia, already known throughout the world as one of the leading world centers of supply of the rak materials for the production of cocaine, is linked with the increasingly powerful drug smuggling network made up of Bolivians of seeming respectability and others, less reputable, making up the 'new family' functioning in the United States and Europe. "Recently a cable report datelined Miami told of the arres t of Bolivians Jose Roberto Gasser Terrazas and Alfred Gutierrez, mainly responsible for the largest lot of cocaine to be smuggled into the United States. The two were trying to bring in no less than 530 kilograms of cocaine, the sale of which on the black market in the United States would have brought income far in excess of the entire legal Bolivian national trade, in other words more than $1 hillion. After being charged by the prosecutor of the state of Florida, Gasser Terrazas was released on bail after paying $1 million, without blinking an eye, while bail for Gutierrez was set at $3 million." The Military Connection The existence of this traffic, the volume it has reached and even Colonel Arce's threat to the United States itself, which, if he is in a position to carry it out, can only be explained by the links between the Bolivian drug mafia and the military, who since the Banzer era have been willing to enmesh themselves in it. The provisional list which we will 15 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 subsequently provide, obtain.ed from various reliable sources, is in itseif _ illustrative. Equally so is the fact that this Gasser Terrazas, who paid $1 million without blinking, is a member of one of the richest families in Santa Cruz. ! Bolivian Connection Mexico City EL DIA in Spanish 17 Aug 80 p 11 [Text) 1. Generai Hugo Banzer Suarez, former dictator. Operates through his son-in-law, Fernando "Chito" Valle Urena and his nephew, Guillermo "Willy" Banzer Abastoflor, who has a recozd as a drug trafficker in the United States. 2. Gen Juan Pereda Asbun, former dictator, drug addict. Operates through his relative Jorge Nemer Chavez, among others. 3. Gen Luis Garcia Meza, present dictator, chosen to guarantee greater operational efficiency for the drug traffic in E1 Beni and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. His contac~ with the cocaine-paste underworld is Jose Abraham Baptista, a former chief of polir_e. 4. Col Luis Arce Gomez, former head of Section 2(iKilitary Intelligence) and currently minister of interior. Responsible for the murders of the two main figures who denounced the thefts, smuggling and drug traffic involving a sector of the military hierarchy--the priest Luis Espinal and Marcelo Qui.roga Santa Cruz, leader of Socialist Party-1. The light air- craft of his "civil aviation" schoo2, one of his private businesses, engage in drug trafficking and smuggling indiscriminately. ~ 5. Air Force Gen Waldo Bernal Pereira, air force commander. His appoint- ment will make the operations of the hundreds of aircraft and light planes smuggling contraband from Paraguay and cocaine paste to the department of Caqueta, Colombia, much more efficisnt. 6. Cul Ariel Coca, the man with the "predestined name." Curren.tly minister of education, no less. He was involved i~ the smuggling of 100 kilograms of cocaine paste into Panama in 1979. 7. Col Norberto "Bubi" Salomon, military attache at the Bolivian embassy in Venezuela, a post which enables him to take action in the event of "accidents" to the planes and pilots coming into this country with cocaine paste. As owner of an air taxi company, he was involved in drug trafficking and smuggling charges. 8. Col Mario Oxa Bustos, former prefect of La Paz, charged with dealings seriously threatening the sta~e, smuggling vnd drug trafficking, and with defrauding the sports club The Strongest. 16 - APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 9. Col Oscar Angulo Torne, coffinander of the Colorado Division in La Paz. 10. Col Carlos Mena Burgos, former chief of intelligence under Banzer, currently co~anding one of the military groups functioning as "para- military" civilians active in political repression, while at the same time serving as a middleman in the drug traffic. 11~ Col Saul Becerra, publicly accused of drug trafficking and smsggling weapons by police informer Ricardo Dip Garcia in Santa Cruz de la 5ierra. 12. Gen Hugo Echeverria Tardio, coummander of the VII Division, headquarterei in Santa Cruz. On 11 June he facilitated the takeover of the city by members of the Bolivian Socialist Falange and local drug trafficking elements, who seized the records concerning drugs at the prefecture and the mayor's office and b+irned them. As the representative of one of the drug- trafficking mafias, he rejected the orders of Garcia Meza replacing him at the time of the cocair.e-dollar uprising. 13. Police Col Hugo Benavidez, man in the confidence of Colonel Arce Gomez, presumably personally responsible for the murders of the priest Espinal and trade union leader Quiroga Santa Cruz. 14. Col Arturo Do ria Me~ina, commaLder of the Tarapaca Regiment, an alcoholic and a psychopath, mainly responsible for the machine-gunning of _ civilians in La Paz during the Alberto Natusch Busch uprieing at the _ beginning of November 1979. As a participant in another "wing" of the drug trafficking mafia, he was about to be relieved by Garcia Meza. - 15. Col Francisco Monroy, commander of the E1 Beni garrison, a key position in the drug traffic. 16. Col Rafael Loayza, a member of the intimate circle of Arce Gomez through his involvement in drug trafficking. 17. Cpt (or Maj) Rudy Landivar, who headed the 17 June operation in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, authorized and supported by Gen Hugo Echeverria Tardio, whose main goal was to get rid of the police records on drug trafficking and smuggling in the department, the location of the paste "factaries" and the secret landing fields. He is one of those most embroiled in drug ~ trafficking in the eastern part of Bolivia. 18. Gen Edmundo Sanabria, former commander of the VI Division. 19. Cpt Carlos Fernandez, former minister of agriculture and campesino affairs. 20. Col Walter Seleme and~fa3 Moises Chirique, of the VI Division, head- quartered in Trinid ad, the capital of the department of E1 Beni. They headed the first "c ocaine-dollars" uprising on the night of 10-11 October 1979. 17 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 . 21. C~?. Rolando Canido. 22. Ma~ Rolando Landivar. _ 23. Maj Daniel Clavijo. 24. Col Otto Lopez, of the Tarija garrison. 25. Col Pablo Caballero, former police commander, affiliated with the team of Col Alberto Natusch Busch, who, as far as can be learned, is now but a hopeles~ alcoholic. ~ _ Possible U.S. Measures Mexico City EL DIA in Sp anish 17 Aug 80 p 11 [Article by Gregorio Selser: "Can the United States Prevent the Bolivian Junta'~ Cocaine Flood?"] [Text] This reporter b as been warning since the end of 1979 that smuggling and drug trafficking were an important part, although not the only or the priority one, of all the efforts at institutional destabilization which have followed otte upon the other in Bolivia since the 1979 elections, in which the candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo won by a narrow margin (despite the fraud perpetrated by the military ~.n favor of Victor Paz Estenssoro). These rebellions--that of 10-11 October, that on 1 November, and others of lesser importance, which were frustrated during the first half of 1980-- finally culminated in what we have taken the liberty of giving the name which fits it best--the cocaine-dollar mutiny, in which the smuggling and drug trafficking mafia placed three dubious individuals in whom it has confidence in key positions. For the moment. I'or now the inevitable period of "adjusting" commands and positions wil]. come. These individuals are Gens Luis Garcia Meza and Waldo Bernal Pereira and Col Luis Arce Gomez. Bravado on the Part of Arce Gomez The latter, consistent with h3s well-earned notoreity as a very macho fellow, made an improb able threat to the United States which was reported _ in the world press: if the Carter govemment suspends economic aid to the drug junta, it wi11 flood its chastiser in massive reprisal with cocaine " paste. In statements published by the newspaper ULTIMA HORA on 30 July, Arce Gomez emphasized: "The full responsibility for the problem involved in drug traffic and the increase in the export of drugs will fall to President Carter, since currently, having eliminated aid, he will be solely iesponsible for the increase in cocaine consumption in the United States." If there remained any doubt about the awareness of the Bolivian military of the role drug traffic p lays in the damestic and international life of the 18 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 country, these irresponsible words dispel them. In the case of Arce Gomez, he had already been indicated as one of the key figures in this traffic ~ before the series of rebellions in 1979, since the days when he created a pilot training school, which provided him with a suitable front for the trips his fleet of planes made in smuggling operations from Paraguay and drug trafficking to Colombia, which is one of the stops en route to the final destination in the state of Florida, in the United States. In the same fashion, a fleet of air taxis has been facilitating similar _ missions for Col Norberto Salomon, who was strategically assigned as milit~ry attache in Venezuela, while the more profitable activities of his light plane rental business were publicized. In one of them, which crashed "accidentally" on 2 June, presidential candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo was a scheduled passenger, and the crash caused the death of crew members and passengers and seriously wounded the vice- presidential candidate, Jaime Paz Zamora. The DEnunciations by Father Espinal During the electoral campaign, and months before Che July 1979 elections, a supposedly "para-military" organization, one of the many invented by the FSB, a pseudo-political shock grouF inade up of gunmen involved in smuggling and drug trafficking, threatened to kill candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo if he announced his candidacy in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. This city is one of the focal points for both illegal activities, and at its head was the commander of the II army corps, Gen Iiugo Echeverria Tardio, who was for the eastern part of Bolivia what Arce Gomez is for the high plateau. "No cocaine-smuggling mafia will frighten this candidate," a spokesman for the People`s Democratic Union (UDP) said. However, on learning that the mafia had offered $50,000 for "whoever kills" Siles, the then-minister of - interior, Col Raul Lopez, persuaded the candidate not to travel there be- ~ cause adequate safeguards could not be provided for him.l Only the smuggling and drug-trafficking mafia could afford such a sizable reward. Siles Zuazo won, as is known, although the post-election machinations, in which the regime of Gen David Padilla Arancibia and candidate Paz Estenssoro were implicated, falsified the results and compelled the parliament to appoint Walter Guevara Arze as provisional president. Then came the attempted coups of October and Nove~nber and the later appointment - of Lidia Gueiler to replace Guevara Arze. Under this government the preparations for rebellion intensified and the crimes ordered from the office of Arce Gomez, then head of S-2, against those who denounced the military, began. The priest Luis Espinal was the most notable victim during these months, but not the only one. 19 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 Cocaine and the Para-Military In the weekly publication AQUI, headed by Fr Luis Espinal, an item entitled "Cocaine and the Para�-Military" was published on page 7 of the 23 February 1980 issue. It read: "Curiously, in the zone in which Genera]. B ang Bang (a reference to Hugo Banzer Suarez) has his hacienda in San Javier, in the province of Nuflo Chavez de Santa Cruz, i~Yinistry of Interior agents seized 89 kilograms of cocaine ba.se and two light planes w3th Colombtan registration, and arrested the occupants. "The operation, the result apparently of an anonymous call, has to do not - only with the internal mafia struggles but also is linked with the para- military gangs of the ADN (Nationalist Democratic Action] (Banzer's party) and the international cosa noatra. "Minister Jorge Selum e:Yp lained, al~hough few details about the operation _ are known as yet, that the drug is being excl~anged for military uniforms - and automatic weapons. This information should surprise no one in the eastern part of the couz~try. It is common to see individua.ls .~.n downtown Santa Cruz. or Trinidad whom everyone knows to be drug traffickers. "Not only are they left in peace, but they are respected because 'they have he~vy money.' Thinking iy a crime for which Banzer made us pay very dear, but being a high-fl.y3ng criminal earx?s a reward, and if this can be said of Edwin Tap ia Fror.tanilla or the young men who ended up in the United - States and are now parading alon~ E1 Prado, it is even truer of a relative of the dictator.2 "Under repression, the media--apart from the fact that many of them are linked with this profitable business--can do mothing but print a five-line report in a newspaper, which is then thrown away, "Where is Hugo Estenssoro, who carried two suitcases full of dum-dum bullets? Where is Mosca Monroy? Where are the Alarcon brothers? Where are those responsible f or the attack on AQUI? You, Mr Minister, know who they are or how they operate. You must answer the people."3 Minister Jorge Selum res3gned shortly afterwazci under pressure from the army. And as for Father Espinal, as is now known, he was the victim of an - atrocious murder the month after this article was written. Permanent Assembly on Human Rights In June o~ 1980, many weeks before the cocaine-dollars mutiny, the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights (APDH) of Bolivia published a statement in PRESENCIA, in La Paz, listing the names of military and police- officers and civilians involved equally in smuggling, drug trafficking and the terrorist 20 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 - attacks ordered by Arce Gomez ~or the purpose of creating the atmosphere needed for the cocaine-dollars mutiny. The list included a number of milirary and police officials named on the list we are providing separately, but also Abraham Baptista (who has now been named by Republican Senator De~is de Concini of the United States as a middleman between the drug traffickers and Garcia Meza), "Coco" Bsllvian (a forn3~r member of the ELN [Army of Natiunal Liberation] guerrilla force and later tortured under the Barrientos and Banzer regimes), Melquiades Pamo, a certain "Jemio," - Victor Barrenechea, "Dany" Cuentas, Raul Fuentes, Alberto Camacho, Teofilo Mendez, Luis Peredo, Carlos Valverde Barbery, Alfonso Dalence, Widen Razuc, "E1 Mosca" Monroy, Mario Jordan, Guido Alarcon, Gary Alarcon and many others . The diffi cult local political circumstances made it more than unlikely that Lidia Gueiler's government could taka steps against all those mentioned, two of whom, Valverde and Dalence, were FSB candidates. In any case, Arce Gomez is already taking his revenge against the regime. The elderly priest Julio Tumiri, president of the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights, was arrested in the premises of the COB [Bolivian Labor Federation], in the same incident in which Juan Lechin was seized and Marcel Quiroga Santa Cruz was treacherously wounded, to be tortured and : murdered later in the premises of the Miraflores barracks. What Will the United States Do? - The Carter administration is concerned about the threat by Colonel Arce Gomez, and the Congress has already asked for an urgent investigation of the drug traf fic originating in Bolivia. - In Decemb er 1975, the Banzer government asked for United Nations aid for a multi-disciplinary program to control the improper use of drugs, with the cle ar purp ose oi supervising the production and sale of coca, combating 111 e gal traffic in cocaine and other drugs and treating and rehabilitating drug addicts. In February of 1977 a new agreement in this regard was signed.4 The United States for its part agree.d to assign sums annually to contribute to the prevention and punishment of traffj.cking in drugs, but in p ractice these allocations pr.oved laughable ($2 to 3 million) in compari- soii to the volume of cocaine dollars changing hands in Bolivia in just ly ear, which the AFP [Association of Port OfficialsJ estimated at almost $2 billion. Can the United States really face up to the announced cocaine flood? Has it b een possible to do anything in the similar Colombian case? It s uffices to mention two other facts to indicatP our skepticism. There are 24 nations on the American continent and in the Caribbean involved in the Single 1961 Convention on Narcotics (signatories and ratifying parties), while ZO nations are involved in the 1971 Agreement on Psychotropic 21 , APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 Substances for the same region. Bolivi~ is not a signatory of either of these two international regulations.5 What m~re can be said? FOOTNOTES 1. "Siles Zuazo Defies the Death Threat Received From Rightist Forces in Bolivia," UNO i4AS UNO, Mexico, 20 May 1979, p 9. 2. Tapia Frontanilla (then nicknamed "Cocainilla") was arrested in Toronto, Canada, with one of Banzer's private secretaries, named Canedo, for _ trafficking in drugs. Other relatives of Banzer referred i:o are his son-in-law Fernando "Chito" Valle Urena and his nephew Guillermo "Willy" Banzer Abastoflor, who were also arrested in the United States with various kilograms of cocaine in their suitcases. 3. All of those mentione~ in these paragraphs are known common criminals used by the Bolivian military dictatorship to torture and/or murder political prisoners. 4. "The United Natians and Control of the Improper Use of Drugs," the Jnited Nata.ons, Narcotics Division, Geneva, 1977, p 57. 5. "Status of and Trends in the Improper lise of and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics Throughout the World," in C.ARTA DE INFORMACION, Narcotics - Division., United Nations, No 4-6, April-June 1980, table on page 4 pertaining to the American continente CocaiZt2~ ~nd Boliv:Lan Regime Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in 5panish 16 Aug 80 p 2-A [EditorialJ [Text] The American nations and the whole world must open their eyes to what is happening in Bolivia, where the evidence that the surprise attack by General Garcia Meza had as its main goal the bold conversion of the government into the most prosperous and efficient agency on earfih for promoting, processing and developing coca prodTSction is increasing day by day. The corruption in the regime is no :.ew pheriomenon, and has been noted repeatedly, but the singular scandal in the Boli~vian case demands that preventive and housecleaning measures be take�, such as those being adopted by the State Department itself, despite the stubbonl short-sightedness of many of its of�icials and its "experts." The United States, according to reports, will suspend all kinds of aid to the strong-arm regime and will maintain only extremely cool relations with it. Indeed, the government of - Garcia Meza certainly does not merit any cordiality or respect from those who--without being perfect--have some decent origins and intentions. L ~L APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/48: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 The attack on the regime by Garcia Meza and his vandals was so coarse that it can only serve as a categorical indication of the presence of cocaine dealings interlining the events. The case was not and could not be merely political, because had it been thus, there would have been no lack of arguments to maintain the military supremacy. But a gamble was taken on the elections. And simply because the results were honest and would lead. to the installation of a clean government under the guidance of the most illustrious of the Bolivians of this era, Dr Hernan Siles Zuazo, the cocaine dealers and their agents in uniform--who are bringing dishonor to the noble military career--abandoned their last inhibitions and the "cocaine-dollar coup" occurred. President Lidia Gueiler was forced out of the Quemado Palace in La Paz in infamous fashion, and the additional precaution of killing the man who was the socialist candidate, Marcelo Quiroga, was taken, because he relied on the broad coverage of democratic guarantees in making devastating accusations about the financial-military axis of the coca business. With heavy documentation, the Argentine writer Gregorio Selser has synthesized the drama of immorality in Bolivia in the following terms: "Officers in the three branches of the armed forces are involved in the business of smuggling and drsgs. The smuggling developed in the era of Gen Rene Barrientos. The drug business gained impetus as soon as Gen Hugo Banzer seized pawer with the help of the mafia in Santa Cruz." And today the determination of the imposter Garcia Meza to serve as a screen for the drug traffic in which an organization headed by Gen Hugo Echeverria, co~ander of the garrison in Santa Cruz, is engaging, is obvious. In addition to the displeasure of the United States with this kind of - "partner" with such an evil aspect, the governments in the "Andean group" are showing their unease at the strong-arm attack on the Bolivian regime, which only pleases Argentina, and to a lesser extent Brazil, so long as they have a docile neighror wrapped up in its own plundering and incapable of a gesture of national independence and therefore easy for them to - manage. But within the framework of the OAS itself there is a rising wave against Garcia Meza and his gang, against the institutionalization of _ cocaine as the central objective of a government. Intervention? It is prohibited, it is not advisable, and it is usually counterproductive. But a regime with such repugnant characteristics must give rise to general re- vulsion, and the maintenance of any legal or diplomatic relations with it must be reduced to a minimum. This mixture of cocaine with the regime surpasses anything previously knawn in the realm of governmental i~orality throughout the world--which is saying a good deal, and therefore the moral sanctions by the peoples and governments preclude any hesitation, ambiguity or extenuating circumstances. 5157 CSO: 5300 23 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 CHILE BRIEFS ARREST OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS--Police have reported the arrest of a gang headed by a physician who sells a drug called (debutal 15). The gang is made up of (Jorge and Guillermo Espinoza Ibarra), (Raul Cardenas Alvarez) and (Emilio Enrique Villa Blanca Sanhueza). [PY031216 Santiago Chile Domestic Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 3 Sep 80] CSO: 5300 24 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 COLOMBIA JUSTICE MINISTER: GUERRILLAS, TRAFFICKERS COOPERATE Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 4 Aug 80 p 11-A [Text] Minister of Justice Felio Andrade Manrique denounced the existence in the country, especially in Cauca department, of a coalitic+n of inembers - of guerrilla movements and of persons involved in the trafficking of drugs and said that the government must do everything in its power to prevent subversive forces from coming to an agreement with cocaine traffickers, since this would constitute a serious and delicate situation for Colomb:ia. National Militia Speaking for the "Technicians and Politicians" program of Toledar, the minister said that since narcotics trafficking is one of the most serious problems that confronts the country, in spite of the efforts made by the preaent and previous governments to eradicate it, the creation of a specialized military-type unit has been considered, not only to fight against that criminal activity, but also to fight in two other very important areas--customs and prisons--a unit that could be part of the national militia and whose formation is envisioned through the constitution. Corruption In Prisons Andrade Manrique also said that it is a good idea to require graduates with a degree to do their military service in the prison branch, because a review of the life histories of the 4,700 prison guards in the country (there are 188 prisons, containing 36,000 inmates) has indicated that some undesirable personr, are working in that branch--and that some of them have warrants out for their arrest. He added that in the prisons additional pay is asked for everything, with the argument that salaries are low, but that in any case there is no plan for that. 25 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 Investigation Is Necessary Upon being questioned concerning the charge recently made by an official with re~pect to a presumed infiltration of congress by members connected with narcotics, the minister said that nothing has been ascertained in this regard, but that everyone shoul.d be investigated. "Here everyone must be investigated. A public official must set aside his resentments. We cannot continue in this sea of national c:orruption; we must face Che problem," he said. The Judicial Emergency Andrade Manrique also said that thexe are emergency situations in the country. "For egample, it seems serious to me that we currently have 3,058,849 cases ~ in the courts; that the penal courts have 1,000,753 indictments; that the civil have 1.2 million cases; and that the labor courts have 90,000 cases. It is a complex situation. Therefore when the government offers the judicial emergency law, it is trying to expedite proceedings, since its aim is to clear out the majority of these cases and to implement more - prompt and complete justice. The law was fortunately approved by the House and it will be sanctioned within a week. Then the government has 90 days to creatA positions fur assistant magistrates and assistant ~udges. ~ In addition, the law urill make it possible to handle the accumulation of ~udicial and prison clearances. Tt is estimated that at least 30 percent of the present arrested persons would be dischargede" The minister defended the security statute and said ~hat he has examined it carefully, and that he realizes that it is a question of a compilation of measures previously suggested to this government. "The steps that have been taken in the matter of security," he added, "are moxe effective ~rhen harsher sentences are part of the handling of delinquency. I believe that a decrease in kidnapping and a harsher penalty for extorsion-- crimes which, along with other heinous crimes, are excluded from the ammesty plan that we have presented to the congress--jmake it possible to indicate that even if abuses have been committed in indivi3ual cases during the exercise of these powers, the balance is favorable. I have always said that the penal standaids have no connection with people who do not violate the law. One who does not violate the law has no reason to worry about the increased severity of sentences." Amnesty In ano~her part of the br.oadcast interview, the official said that the crit- icisms that have been made of the amnesty plan that has been offered by the government for the considerati~n of congress, even though very worthy 26 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 of consideration, do not seem at all convincing to him. "I believe that the plan is good because it includes the handling of the most touchy pro- blems of the country, inasmuch as those who have revolted are the most delicate part of the situation. It is not a law that grants pardon, but ~tmnesty. The can8titution says that the congress can grant general amnesties when there is a two-thirds favorable vote of i~s members." 8255 CSO: 5300 27 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 COLOMBIA POLICE UNITS CLASH, TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 12 Aug 80 p 8-A [Text] A clash between units of the ant~narcotics squad of the National Prosecutor`s Office and of the F-2 of the Judicial Police, during which a machinegun was fired, very nearly caused the failure of an operation in which 11 persons were captured and 8 tons of marihuana were seized. The encounter occurred in Bogota, near the location of the meeting place of the members of th~ gang that was headed by lawyer Leonel Montanez, sar- castically known as "Doctor Xylophone." Access by the police of the Office of the Prosecutor to the site where the gang was captured (No 53-35,7th Street) was obstructed by F-2 police, with~ the consequence that one of the former was obliged to use the crew's - machinegun. ~ The incident did not develop i.nto anything more and all of the members of ~~he gang were arrested and handed over to the appropriate authorities. Contraband _ The operation against the gang of narcotics traffickers began this past Saturday on a farm located within the 3urisdiction of Vistahermosa, Meta, . where a tank truck was prepared for the transportion of the grass. The upper part of the body of the truck was removed from the vehicle in order to make room for the marihuana. - The tank truck left Vistahermosa wi.th two drivers, who took turns driving, with an escort of four persons in a camper. 28 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 _ The secret servicemen of the Prosecutor t s Off ice followed the vehicles as far as Bogota, on a trip that took 20 hours. The cargo was taken to apartment 11-03 of the building located at No 53-35 on 7th Street. It was when the police who were following the cargo tried to enter the building that the incident with the F-2 occurred. In the above-mentioned apartment, the antinarcotics squad captured the fol- lowing persons in addition to lawyer Montanez: Orlando Silva, Medardo Valencia, Carlos Freddy Gomez, Victor Murillo, Roberto Pinto, Marco Landinez, Miguel A. Rangel, Juan Carlos Garavito, and Jose Montanez. Most of the narcot3cs traffickers are natives of Cesar department. A large sum of money, apparently for the purpose of bribing the police of the jurisdiction, was confiscated from the four persons asQigned to convoy the cargo. According to sources in the Prosecutor's Office, the gang had been carrying out its illicit operations for several months, and it was not until now that it was possible to prove its drug trafficking connection. On the other hand, some well informed sources indicated yesterday that the shooting encounter was a consequence of an old rivalry--not at all positive, of course--between the two units. The source indicated that apparently the radio cammunications of the antinarcotics squad are intercepted by the Judicial Police for the purpose of furthering their own operations. As a matter of fact, yesterday, when the men of the Prosecutor's Office arrived at the above�mentioned building, they were hindered by the F-2. As a consequence of the above, a machinegun Was fired, but the incident did not develop into anything more. The police of the Prosecutor's Office then entered the building and captured the gang. _ The grass and the arrested persons were placed at the disposition of the _ criminal examining magistrate. 8255 CSO: 5300 29 . APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 COLOMBIA BINCI PERSONNEL, CIVILIAN SEIZED WITH COCAINE Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 9 Aug 80 p 13-A [Article: "Another Strike at Narcotics Trafficking"] jText] A club employee of the Southern Operational Command with headquar- ters in the port of Leticia, was arrested this past Thursday in the Eldorado airport. He had in his possession approximately 1 kilo of unadulterated cocaine. - The narcotics trafficker was identified as Abdenago Andrade. He fell into the hands of inembers of the Antina_rcotics Squad of the Prosecutor's Office, who operate in the airport, at 1700 hours on the above-mentioned day, a little after arriving on Satena flight KH-851, having proceeded from the above-mentioned port near the Amazon. The cocaine was found in a manila envelope that Andrade was carrying in his travelling bag and, as previously mentioned, weighed about 2 pounds and was unadulterated. Andrade was taken to a section of the Security Administrative Department, where he will be placed at the disposition of a criminal examining magis- trate for the purpose of investigation. F-2 in 8 Days This strike is the second that the officers of the Prosecutor's Office dealt in 1 week against narcutics traffickers. As will be remambered, Carlos A. Martinez Perez was captured when he arrived from the capital of Bolivia with a suitcase in which he was carrying 25 kilos of cocaine. As was announced previously by EL ESPECTADOR, in connection with this most recent case, a lieutenant and three army se~gearits who were assigned to the Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence Battalion were also arrested. 30 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 These persons had gone to the sirport to meet Martinez Perez on the pre- text that they had orders to seize him. - The action of the four officials was ascribed to a strategy to seize the Eldorado narcotics trafficker , together with the travelling bag in w:~ich he was carrying the alkaloid, before members of the Prosecutor's Office could examine the baggage. 8255 CSO: 5300 31 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 COLOMBIA ' GOVERNOR REFUTES POLICE CHARGES Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 24 Jul 80 p 12-A [Text] Barranquilla--The departmental governor, Pedro Martin Leyes Hernandez, today asserted that the charges made against him by the fiead of the antinarcotics section of the regional attorney general's office in this city were based on ill-~founded i:nformation; fie said that he had at all times complied witfi tFie provisions of decrees 402, 2,144 and 1,188 on fines=, ~riolati:ons, and confiscated property. The governor said tfiat after tlie arrest of two Cuban citizens who were held at tfie orders- of tfie ministry of government, in accordance with Co lombian law, the appropriate proceedings were initiated and fines were levied as provided by decree - 2,144. Upon payment of tfie fine, the appropriate authorities were notified so that the obligatory proceedings could take place; in this case, this would have meant a transfer to the DAS [Administrative Department of Security], with a later re- lease of thA prisoners . _ Release The governor said that the Cubans, Rafael Lineros and Pedro Diaz, were released upon gayment of their fine, after the judicial and intelligence authorities were notified that the case was being closed 3nsofar as tfie ministry of government , was concerned. From that point forward, tfiat is, upon rece~ept of this notification, it was tfie responsibility of these authorities to investigate any charges against the two Cubans, but the ministry of government was not authorized to hold them under arrest. 32 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 ; i' t ~4 Y i ~ , ~~,r..~ . : ~ > ' x ~ , . ~ & , , ~ ~ ~ a< t 4'.� ~N'`,V~-.. / tf ~ fU ~ r.,~:' . n , ''tt~�.A' ~t~ ifi>:~i ~ . .~.,i~ ~ 'jviy,: ;'i Pedro Martln Leyes - Mr Leyes Hernandez said tfiat tlie head of the antinarcotics group is confused about tfie amount of the fines, as each of - the two men a.rrested was fined 2.5 million pesos, totalling ~ 5 million; this is tfie~~largest fine that has been levied for violati:ons of decree ~2,144. He maintained that he did not know if drugs or arms were confiscated. According to the official report, some mari- huana seeds were found in their possession. "If there were another charge against tfie Cubans that would have given cause for holding them under arrest, the governor should have been _ informed when the fine was paid and the case was closed by the ministry of government, so that the two could have been transferred to the appropriate authorities." The attorney Jesus Quiroz, in statements made to reporter Caracol de la Costa on Tuesday evening, said that he would ~ be filing suit with the office of tbe attorney general of Colombia against Governor Leyes Hernandez, ac:cusing him of havinq released the two Cubans who had been charged with drug traf f icking . - 33 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 Current Contact with the Attorney General's Office The governor of the Atlantico departsnent claimcd to be unaware of any charges being filed against him by the - prosecutor for ac~ministrative vigilance; such charges were filed on 14 November 1979 by attorney Adolfo Maria Manotas in a similar case . "I have been in current contact with the attorney general' s _ of f ice, " said the governor, and he said he had received no information about tfiis~ ~matter. ~ 7679 CSO: 5300 ~4 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 I COLOMBIA ARMY ARRESTS 15 IN VARIOU5 RAIDS Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 27 Jul 80 p 9-A [Text] The army has arrested 15 persons in raids designed to block the activities of drug traffickers. During these raids weapons, vehicles, and marihuana were confiscated. A bulletin from tfie Ministry c.f Degense reported that the follc~ring persons~ we~e ar~es~ted ~f~ La Guaj ira : Abdaul Ovalle Campuzano, Hermes Gamez Barr3os, Jorge Chole Rivadeneira, Florenfiino Antonio Sierra Fuernnayor, and Maria Rincon Celis. Confiscated dnring tfi2~t raid were: one dou3ile-barreled shotgun, two revolvers, one 30-caliber carbine, one van, three containers of ~marihuana, nine radios, a Toyota four- wheel drive ve~iicle, 133 cartridges of variaus calibers, and - two anmtunition clips. I~n another raid in the same department a B-80 aircraft was seized. _ _ The following persons were arrested in Magdalena: Dario Henao Restrepo, Ciro Jose Cubillos Diaz, Antonio Garcia ~ Hernandez, Hernando Vidal Ocampo, and Jorge Rodriguez Esguerra. in that raid two 9-mm pistols and two revolvers were seized. Also taken were a van, 176 cartridges of a variety of calibers, and four ammunition clips. Jaime Maria Mendoza and Tomas Fragozo were arrested in the Atlantico department. A van and a pound of marihuana seed were confiscated from them. Finally, in Bogota the following persons were arrested: Jorge Enrique Rojas Hernandez, Francisco Roberto Arroyave Vasquez, - and Guillermo Salazar Paipilla, with 43 kilos of cocaine and a drug processing laboratory. 7679 CSO: 5300 _ 35 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 COI~OML~I~ CLANDESTINE AIRFIELD TO BE DYNAMITED Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 7 Aug 80 pp 1-A, 14-A [Article by Pedro Lara Castiblanco] - [Text] Barranquilla, 6 August-- The second brigade command tociay reported tfiat the landing field for the "Cari Cari" farm, in the jurisdiction of La Guajira department, will be dynamited this week; tfie same thing will be done to any other airfields whicfi are found to be used for the takeoff or land- ing of aircraft involved in the drug traffic. The commander of tfie unit, Srig ~en Carlos Guillermo Narvaez Casallas, reported this to EL ESPECTADOR, adding that this step was adopted in coordination with the departmental gov- ernment of La Guajira, whose head, Eduardo AbuGhaibe Ochoa, has issued a resolution authorizing the destruction of the a~.rf ield. Immediately afterwards he said that investigations in the area are now proceeding, in accordance with the governor's _ orders; the governors generally have sufficient powers to authorize the destruction of any airfield that is used for drug traffic. _ The destruction of the "Cari Cari" airfield will take place this weekend by means of dynamite. It is expected to be totally unusable. It was also reported that upon the dis- covery of clandestine airfields by the civil aviation agency, airfields which will then be destroyed, permits will be suspended by the aviation agency and strict vigilance will be employed to prevent their reconstruction. i _ 3b - APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 This replaces an earlier regulation which had called for the mining of marihuana fields and roads leading to them. This regulation was suspended because it was felt that it would endanger the lives of innocent peasants. - This is the first airfield to be destroyed in the campaign against the dr~sg traffic. Next week twa or three more fields are expected to be dynamited; investigations are now proceed- ing in those cases. For the dynamiting of the field, the military unit has sent special agents to the area in order to avoid mishaps with the residents of that area. 7679 CSO: 5300 37 - APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 COLOMB,[A BRIEFS NAVY EMPLOYEE SEIZED WITH COCAINE--An employee of the navy department was captured this past Thursday at the Eldorado Airport while transporting a kilo of cocaine. T'he individual, identified as Abdenago Andrade, was pro- ceeding from Leticia in "Aeronorte" Company airplane HK-851 and was carry- ing the alkaloid concealed in a manila envelope in a small executive-type travelling bag. Andrade, who works in Leticia as an employee at the officers' club of the navy department, said that he did not know what was in the envelope. He added that the package was to be claimed at the airport by a man who was to take it to the Southern Unified'Command of the navy, located in the CAN Administrative Center. The employee will be placed at the disposition~of the criminal examining magistrate within a few hours. [Bogota EL TTEMPO in Spanish 9 Aug 80 p 3-A] 8255 CSO: 5300 38 ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 MEXICO TRAFFICKING AMONG PRISONERS INCREASES Maxico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 15 Jul 80 p 3-F [Text] Guadalajara--Instead of decreasing, trafficking in drugs among inmates at the Guadalajara preventive prison (the former Oblatos penitentiary) and at the state prison facilities in Zapotlanejo is constantly on the increase due to lack of vigilance by the guards--50 of them have been relieved of their duties within the paat 90 days. In addition, two prisoners escaped under the eyes of the policemen. This series of irregularities, detected by the technical staff of the Co- . ordinated Prevention and Rehabilitation Services Department of the State, is being studied to find a quick solution and to achieve the goals of the administrative branch of the state government, namely, to improve prison conditions to a maximum and to seek a complete rehabilitation of inmates to make them useful persons when they are returned to society. Tt has been proved that drug consumption has been on the increase lately at the former Oblatos penitenciary that houses more than 1,400 inmates, especially the consumption of psychotropic pills that are easi.ly obtained, This shows that there is a failure in maintaining vi.gilance, since there has to be someone "helping" to bring in the drugs. There must be a stop to this situation or else there will be a return to the difficult times that led to a series of murders. The increase in the consumption of pills and marihuana cigarettes can be ob- served without much effort, according to persons who visited the facilities - yesterday; they found in the middle of the day many drugged inmates sleeping in the streets. The inmates told their relatives who were there on a visit that it was very easy to obtain a pill or a joint and that all it takes is some money. Other drugs are so expensive that only inmates who have a great deal of money can obtain them; among such people are notorious traffickers who are still in confinement. - 39 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 In the middle o f last month the inmates Jaime Ramirez Martinez, alias "E1 Capetillo," and Arnulfo Preciado escaped from the former Oblatos penitentiary and reached th e streets using a rope made of sheets and bed covers. They came out very close to one of the sentry boxes where guards who were on duty failed to notice them and the escape was not discovered until the following day when the prisoners did not answer the 0700 hours roll call. Everything was kept secret until the fourth criminal court judge ordered the - release of "El Capetillo" and then it was found out that he and his accomplice had escaped a long time before. 9674 CSO: 5300 40 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 MEXICO SICILIA FALCON TRIES ANOTHER ESCAPE Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 27 Jul 80 p 32-A [Text] After it was learned that narcotics trafficker Alberto Sicilia Falcon was planning to excape "by murder and fire" from the Oriente ~rison in Mexico City "if ~udge Vicente Munguia Diaz hands down an unfavorable sentence," prison authorities ordered his transfer to the ~ail in Santa Marta Acatitla. The transfer of the Cuban narcotics trafficker was made last Thursday in total secrecy and under heavy security and he is at present in Santa~Marta under constant vigilance. The authorities at the Oriente prison discovered Sicilia Falcon's plans while listening to a telephone conversation bett~een him and an acquaintance; in it ; he stated that "before I leave I'll take care of Maj Florentino Ventura Gutierrez and federal government attorney Ramon Herrera Esponda." Sicilia Falcon, impatient with the "slow judicial process in Mexico," again became involved in a purchase and sale transaction of cocaine in Aspen, Colorado, where Yolanda Verduzco, his fiancee--as she called herself when she visited him in prison--was arrested for possession of 1 kg of the drug. He had told her where to sell it and to whom. Furthermore, Mexican and U.S. authorities were able co determine that from in- side the prison the drug trafficker has controlled drug purchase and sale operations abroad, principally in the United States. Regarding the threat again~t Florentino Ventura and Ramon Herrera Esponda, the authorities explained that it was made gossibly because Major Ventura arrested him after he had escaped from Palacio Negro in Lecumberri and it was Herrera who ~ailed him. Sicilia Falcon, on the other hand, denied any knowledge of the charges made against him. He is being held incommunicado in Santa Marta Acatitla. , 9674 CSO: 5300 41 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 MEXICO FOUR TRAFFICKERS CAPTURED, HEROIN SEIZED Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 23 Aug 80 p 8 [Text] The Federal Judicial Police won another victory against the drug traffic upon seizing 1 kilogram and 820 grams o~ heroin, and capturing four individuals who had processed the drug and were ready to sell it to the highest bidder. This morning, ~he agency of the Federal Public Ministry announced the cap- ture of Vicente Quiroz.Parra, aged 54, married, a miner and farmer by occu- pation and a resident of Otatillos, Badiraguato; and Ignacio Perez Valen- zuela, aged 50, married, a mechanic by trade, a native of the village of E1 Saldo, Durango, and a resident of Quila, Sinaloa. - Also apprehended was Manuel Morales Bustamante, aged 25, single, a day laborer, and both a native and resident of the La Huerta ranch, in Cosala; - and, finally, Marco Antonio Davila Trejo, aged 42, married, a native of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, residing at Estacion Fonseca, Guasave. In April, the aforementioned individuals went to a farm called Agua Caliente, located in the vicinity of Cosala, and from there to the foothills known as E1 Vichi, where there was a poppy planta~.ion, the product from which was processed by Quiroz Parra. They packed the product from that crop in four plastic bags, containing 816, 29b, 406 and 302 grams, respectively, and gave them to Perez Valenzuela for safekeeping. Using a PVC pipe measuring approximately 50 centimeters by 5 inches, he buried the drugs in the yard of his house, from which they were retrieved when these individuals were captured. In his statements, Quiroz Parra said that, about 7 years ago, he had learned - from someone named Ignacio Lopez ($ince deceased) how the ogium gum was processed to be converted into heroin and hence the chemical process was carried out in 2 days, on the aforementioned foothills. As corpus delicti, the Federal Judicial Police turned over to the Public Ministry a 22-caliber Mendoza brand rifle, a PVC pipe containing four plastic 42 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2047102108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 bags holding a dark substance with a pervasive odor, presumed to be heroin, and a 1977 Dodge pickup truck, with Guana3uato State license plates GK-4543. Upon remanding the four individuals presumed to be responsible to the first district judge, located in Culiacan, the office of the Federal Public Minis- try also sen4 the items which had been confiscated as evidence of the crime committed, accompanied by the charge that the laws pertaining to crimes against health had been violated. 2909 CSO: 5330 43 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 MEXICO LONG JAIL SENTENCE SOUGHT FOR LARGE-SCALE TRAFFICKER Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 16 Aug 80 Sec B p 6 [Text] Taking into account the dangerous nature of the drug trafficker Luis Guillermo Gonzalez Velarde, alias "E1 Memo," the agent of the Federal Public _ Ministry brought charges against him, req.uesting therein that the second district ~udge sentence him to the maximum term of 15 years in jail, and impose a fins of 1 million pesos for his full liability in committing a crime against health categorized in Articles 193.and 197-1 of the Federal Penal Code. In short, the second district judge will hand down a final decision in the case of Gonzalez Velarde, who is subject to proceedings No 93-979, in which charges were brought against him for presumed guilt of committing a crime against health in the degrees of possession, transportation and trafficking of cocaine, heroin, morphine and novocaine. The federal prosecutor, Nicolas Martinez Cerda, told EL MANANA that, when the charges were brought ag~inst the accused, there was included a request for application of the maximum penalty, in view of his "maximum" dangerous nature, which has been fully borne out in many records of both native and foreign origin. Gonzalez Velarde has a record for cocaine trafficking because, on one occa- sion, while using the alias of Gustavo Garza Velazquez, he was arrested in Hidalgo, Texas, as he.was driving a 1969 Ford car in which he had concealed - a shipment of that type of drug. He was subsequently associated with the seizure.of 40,500 toxic pills. In other proceedings (150-974) held in the first district court of M~onterrey, Nuevo Leon, a warrant was issued for his arrest, as a person presumed guilty of committing a crime against health. A federal court in Mazatlan arraigned him, in proceedings No 52-978, for crimes of the same type. 44 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 On 23 January 1976, the Federal Judicial Police arrested him in Monterrey with half a kilogram of cocaine and 68,000 toxic pills of the type known as "Qualude" in his possession. On that occasion, he was also using the names Gustavo Garza Velazquez and Gabriel Garcia Vega. In the conclusions, Martinez Cerda submitted a detailed report on the con- duct of the majority of Gonzalez Velarde's relatives, because they have been tried for drug trafficking on countless occasions. The capture of the dangerous drug trafficker, who is considered to be a "fat fish" in this type of business, took place on 23 April 1979. First, agents of the Federal Judicial Police under orders from Comdr Marga- ' rito Mendez Rico arrested Jose Alberto Vazquez Castillo, alias "E1 Marciano," and Ernesto Diaz Reyes, both of whom were intercepted in Villa Aldama, Nuevo Leon, while traveling in a 1977 Ford.pickup truek. Upon being questioned, the former stated that he was engaged in cocaine trafficking, and that the one supplying him was Luis Guillermo Gonzalez Velarde,a resident of No 35 Santo Domingo, in the "Satelite" development in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. _ 2909 CSO: 5330 45 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02108: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 MEXICO BRIEFS POLICE COLLUSION CHARGED--A severe blow was dealt to the organized drug traf- fic when several well-known persons from this town were arrested, and a large quantity of marihuana was seized from them. This information was learned unofficially from an unauthorized spokesman for the Federal Judicial Police, who claimed that the investigations being conducted resulted in the identification of several individuals from this town. They were immediately cap tured and the grass was confiscated.from them. They are now being ques- tioned, since they have ties with persons who have good connections in this business. It was learned earli~r that g,roup chief Narciso Estudillo Cerezo _ has instructions from the Office of the Attorney General c~f the Republic to ~ exterminate the smugglers of illegal immigrants and traffickers currently operating with the consent of Federal Judicial Pol.ice Comdr Manuel Espindola Martinez. The criminals were over.ly brazen, boasting that they could do whatever they wanted because they en~oyed the protection of this unworthy individual, paying large amounts in order to "work." The Office of the _ ~ Attorney General of the Republic should call Commander Espindola to account benause no good�work has been noted since his arrival at this border, much ; , less a battle against the traffickers and smugglers. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 19 Aug 80 Sec B~p 9] 2909 HEROIN LABORATORY FOUND--Mexlco City--Federal agents in Culiacan, Sinaloa, discovered a clandestine laboratory in which hard drugs such as cocaine, _ heroin and others were being mant~factured. The owners of the premises, . Roque Hernandez `Jalenzuela and Antonio Pina Garcia were arrested, and the police confiscated from them 1 kilogram of pure heroin, and some vats, wash- stands, bottles, test tubes and other implements, on the site located at Rancho Viejo, There, the federal agents obtained the clue to the where- abouts of a drug traffickers' eneampment located.in the village of E1 Triste, in the municipal~ty of Otaeza,. Durango; but, upon their. arrival at that site, the drug distributors had already fled. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 23 Jul 80 p 1] 2909 ENTERTAINER ARRESTED WITH COCAINE--The singer, Nino Nahmad, who has been performing in Nogales for several days, was arrested by Federal Police officers in this town when he was discovered making a purchase and sale 46 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 - transaction involving cocaine at the E1 Recreo nightclub, in the middle of Elias Street. The aforementioned federal officers, under orders from Comdr Victor Manuel Martinez Guerra, first arrested Victor Manuel Nahmad Garcia, better known as Nino Nahmad, who was found to have a paper envelope in his possession containing a considerable amount of cocaine. Upon being question- ed, the singer told the Federal Police that he had purehased the drug for $lOQ from Ernesto Acuna Gutierrez, alias "El Pitos," who is the brotY~er of the notorious car thiEVes, Roberto and Armando Acuna Gutierrez, alias "E1 Charol," and "E1 Charolito," who are serving sentences at the Rer,abilitation Center. Shortly thereafter, "E1 Pitos" was arrested, and confessed to having sold the drug to Nino Nahmad, who declared himself an addict to the Federal Police. Also seized from "E1 Pitos " was another enveloped containing cocaine, and a 1973 Chevrolet car. Both of the individuals under arrest, the addict - and the drug seller, are a;. the disposal of Federal Public Ministry Agent Manuel Francisco Delgado Duran. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE NOGALES in Spanish 13 Aug 80 pp 1, 2] 2909 MEXICAN ANTIDRUG EFFORT LAUDED--Today, in this town, the district assistant of the United States customs patrol, Jerry L. Paladino, declared that the - intensive campaigns against the drug traffic carried o.ut with great effi- _ ciency by the Mexican Government have reduced the.distribution of these products in the United States to a large extent. He stated categorically that, since 1976, the drug traffic in the latter country has declined con- siderably, as a result of the effective campaigns being eonducted in a coordinated fashion by the governments of both countries. He said that it _ may almost be claimed that most of the drugs coming .to that nation from the leading producing countries in Central America are confiscated on the Mexi- can borders, and only on very rare occasions are they successfully brought ~ into the United States. [Text] [Nogales DIARIO DE.NOGALES in Spanish 12 Aug 80 pp 1, 2] 2909 - MARIHUANA DESTROYED IN MORELOS--Acapulco, Guerrero--In unprecedented action taken by the government attorney general's office and the Mexican army, 17 plantations of marihuana have been destroyed in Morelos, as reported yester- day by attorney Cesar Augusto Monteverde, an agent of the federal government attorney's office in this city. Interviewed at the Cuernavaca center, Monteverde pointed out that the attorney general's office has been conducting similar operations for the past 4 months in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla and Morelos. At the same time that efforts are being made to discon- tinue plant growing, measures are being taken to eliminate drug traffickers who, it seems, come from the northern part of the country, even by small air- planes, to obtain supplies of the pernicious "weed." [Text] [Mexico City EL SOL DE MEXICO in Spanish 2 Aug 80 p 7-F] 9674 CSO: 5300 47 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 PERU ~ BRIEFS ~ POLICE IDENTIFY COCAINE AREA--Lima, 5 Sep (LATIN)--The local police hzv~ reported that Cachicupar, a remote town in the Andes Mountains in south- eastern Peru on the border with Bolivia, has become a stronghold of drug traffickers who are guarding the town with small arms and iarge-caliber weapons. Hugo Tello, chief of the Peruvi~n Investigations Police (PIR), has reported that the area is the main supplier of cocaine base (PBC) for "export." He disclosed that Cachicupar produces the largest part of the 2-ton weekty average of cocaine base "exported" to the United , States from Peru through Colombia. Luis Hers, chief of the International Airport Customs Police, said yesterday at a press conference that so far this year they have confiscated 1,200 kg oi drugs, including cocaine hydrochloride, cocaine base and other halucino genic drugs. Hers explained that on the international consumers market these drugs would be valued at $10 million. [Excerpts] [PY061846 Buenos Aires LATIN in Spanish 0243 GMT o Sep 80] DRUG TRAFFICKERS FORT--Lima, 5 Sep (AFP)--The Peruvian investigations police has announced that with the help of the Peruvian navy and air force, the police will destroy a fort belonging to some drug traffickers in the Puno Department, near the Bolivian border. The police reported that drug traffickers set up a stronghold in the peasant community of Cachipur near the Titicaca Lake. [PY102208 Paris AFP in Spanish 1824 GMT 5 Sep 80] CSO: 5300 " 48 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 ~.ZUELA GENERAL ON DRUG CHARGE CONFUSION PA110215 Paris AFP in Spanish 1943 GMT 10 Sep 80 [Text] Bogota, 10 Sep (AFP)�--Because his diplomatic d;;cuments were stolen, Gen Evelio Carreno Florez, a former air attache at the Venezuelan Embassy here, was confused with a cocaine trafficker, it was leariied today. In Caracas, Carreno has made a statement for a Bogota newspaper, explaining ' that 5 years ago he traveled to Bogota with the rank of colonel to serve as his country's air attache. After concluding his missior., he returned to the Venezuelan capital to - continue his activities as a general. Some time later, he went on vacation to the Colombian port of Cartegena. His documents were stolen there in a local hotel, an incident that he duly reported to the authori- ties at the time. As a result of the confusion, several Colombian papers announced late last week that an intense search for General Carreno was on in connection with a case of cocaine traffic in Ca~ica, near Bogota. Venezuelan Embassy spokesmen have described the reports in connection with General Carreno as a"deplorable mistake." ~ CSO: 5300 49 " APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 SUDAN - FEATURE ARTICLE ON BANGO DRUG TRADE Khartoum SUDANOW in English Aug 80 pp 28-29 [Text] Bango is said to alter one's perceptions. grass pushing up through the surface of For the police, bango is a problem of the soil. The entire peasant family parti- enforcement; for tl:e street retailer, ii is cipates in production with, as usual, the an easy, wel!-paying anc~ sometimes, the women undertaking most of the labour. onlv avaitable job; for the peasant The field, planted in June, needs to be ~ producer, usually trapped within the cleaned only once, and three months later traditiona! agricultural sector, it is a is ready for harvest. f:eaven-sent opportunity to escape sub- At this juncture, three forms of the sistence. The consumption of bango has drug may be produced from the crop: the sanction of tradition and of hashish (with a THC - the active customary practrce - but not of the law ingredient - conterit of ten per cent), .Sudanow contributor Abde! Rahman hash oil (90 pe- cent THC), and bango Abde! Rahim reports on the bango scene (with a THC c~~ntenr of only two per in Sc~dan. cent). `Fortunately,' nc::s Police Brigadier Hakirn Abdel Rahman Hakim, iQ EGIN at the beginning and conti- a member of the National Committee for ia nue on until the end,' the Red Narcotics Control, `people here only Queen advised Alice during the latter's know how to produce the latter drug.' trip through Wonderland. Not bad advice The crop is thus harvested as bango, for an ardcle on cirugs. The be~nning, placed on straw mats under the sun for a naturally and as regards the economic whole day, and then tightly wrapped in impetus that propels bango as a brown paper. Tluee days later the paper commodity, lies in the areas of is removed and a solid, oval-shaped cultivation. These span the fertile soils of gandool - an easily merchandtsable ` Southern Darfur, Bahr el Ghazal, package - is placed in plastic bag~ to Equatoria, the southeastern landscapes of preserve its humidity, and thus its Kassala and Damazin, and stretches of the potency. The bango is now ready for the Blue Nile. market, and it is time for the urban-based As a crop, bango is a delight; it is hardy dealers, with their brand-new landrovers, and insect-resistant, highly productive (1- to come and collect it from the field. 1~i kantars a feddan). It requires little The economic and social realities which labour, and brings a high return. It is underlie t?us production are somewhat grown on fertile land which renews itself less natural ar d problem-free. Most bungo through annual rain-floods and is is grown within the traditional sector - fert~ised by the burning of the trees and where production of any crop is limited - 50 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 by extremely ~nn~afive teclin~.~lc>gy, lach fvlercl~ants I'roin hhartuwn, Wa~1 uf access to governnient services and tlie Medatu, Gedaref, E1 Ubeid and Kosti great distances hetween areas of cultiva- arr~ve in the tttlds, where the price tbr tion and thc final iT~arket. Bango, the crop is quite low, S,s3 a pound. '1'lus liowevcr, escapcs this last barricr, though price will risc to perliaps Cs15 in January. at c~~nsiderable cust in tl~e difference though its shn~l re~ayment priee will betwcen produccr and c;ensurncr prices, remain in thc .�sl-3 margin. In urban because it is sold in the field. In this areas, ttus same pound will fetch �s70, context, legal cash crops frcquently bring according to Police Nfajor EI Khair a srnall return against labour. particutarly Medani of lhe Central Criminal lnvestiga- when the pro~lucer price is hept arti~- tion Departmeni. cialiy low. The total val~:e of the drug traffic is Added to tlie problems of the tradilion- ?,mpossible to determine. Pol}ce sources, ~l sector and of low producer prices is perhaps with an eye for round numbers, that of t}ie shail system. Sllai/ is a form of put the annual value at �sl million to usury, in which peaaants borrow money or producers, and estimate that organised - boods from a local merchant ~~:llllSt lI1C gangs have annual incomes of �s50,000- futurc liarvest. Tl,e key to thc system is �s100,000. In the Three Towns, the the nianipulation oi valuation - that is, average annual inFlow of bango is Uic loan (most often of f~od or other estimated by Major El Khait to be 50 necessities) is usually contracted during kantars. Of this, perhaps ten per cent is the rainy season, ~vh:ch isolates whole intercepted by the police, claims a senior. communities from t}te outside world and police offcer. Additionally, large thus permits tt e merchant to clrive up his quantities are lost to the market when prices; while repayment is calculated they are huniedly dumped to escape against the immediate ~ost-harvest, when police detection. But just to show the crop prices are at tlieir lowest. Such a potential value of the business, police in system encourages the production of Southern Darfur last December burnt one crops with t1~e highest rnarginal return million kilogrammes of raw cannabis against labour, and appeals against such a w'~ich, at a street price of �s70 a poiind crop on grounds of `illegality' are - not weighi, was no sma11 fortune. surprisingly - ignored by poor peasant '1"he retail system is complete witl~ producers. `People are caught in tlie crush oudets, staff an~l }'unds for bribery. 11ost of the shuil system,' observed Yousif bango merchants will own, an~ less Ahmed Adam, who recently conducted a frequently, roanage, k{raiias small. survcy on the bango business in Soi~thern illegal retail stures wherc bango, hruken Darfur. `Beriveen the need for cash to into merchandisable sues, is sol~ each reproduce themselves and their environ- of whicti may bring in up tu ~s100 a clay. _ mental handicaps, they are ~rag~ed into W~thin the Tl~rce Towns, there are bango production.' perhaps 100 ~;ha~ras, most of them con- Unlike the `Colden Triangle' of Burma, centrated in the mushrouming sliauty Laos and Tliailand -~~vhere the first rank regions on the outskirts uf the main of drug users is filled by opium farmers urban area. and their families few cannabis growers Well�know~n locally, these h/ra�u.s a~c are consumers. Mustafa Abdel Kahman of well-protected in more ways than une. the Econamic and Social Research since they could liardly cscape thr, notice Cuur.ci (ESRC) estimates that as few as of the police buildings of 30-50 sq one per cent of the growers conswne metres. The only door is w~ell padlocked, d~eir own pr~duct. If this f~guce is thc bango bein~ sold throu~;ti a small accurate, poverty may well be a major wir:~ow. Generally, yuunb nien ,~rc liired cantributory factor. For although bango to run the hha~rus. ~ brings the higher rewards of illegal '[t really pays to sell dopc.' saie! "I:?lia. production, `Tlie producers are not the aged 23. `You are prc~videJ wilh fou~l, real beneficiaries from cannabis,' argues drugs and a persuasive salarv.' Indee~l, he Mustafa Abdel Ra1u;~an. This brings us wishes no more, and views his involvc- back to the wliolesale drug dealers, ment in the business as a step forwaril. `l S1 I APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 wantecl to gu to Saudi Arabia, but since i 7'his matter may take on greatcr had nc> ~raft or specialisation, I couldn't.' urgency as there is some evidence to Outside ttus drug castle, dealers keep suggest tha~ the consurnption of hango their alert watchmen (kishiJ). 1'l~e kishif is is on t}ie increase. Reliable statistics are, usuaUy a pavement-based barber, an of course, difflcult to come bv. But Dr elderly man selling snuff or a youth who Hassabu Si~lieman, who in 1977 is apparendy just hanging around the conduCted a Survey on Cannabis Use in street comer: F.arning as much as .�s5 per Sudan", found that 30 per cent of ltis day, this is lucrative work. Wl~en the respondents admitted using the drug. kishif passes tt~e word, "Government's with the figure rising to 47 per cent come", the searched-for bar.go is hidden, ~ongsturbanresidents.Particularlynote- if necessary by being abandoned down worthy ln his view was the trend towards the water closet. consumption by young people. _ The kishif are not the only problem for A solution to the present situation thc police, who in any event have ?nore seems far off, indeed utopian. Among the serious crime's to solve. Brigadier Hakim recommendations of the Tlurd Arab Cou- stressed the lack ofany personnel trained ference for Alcohol and Narcotics in combatting the drug trade, whIle First Control, Khartoum, in December 1977, Lieutenant Awad Wida' talla spoke of the was a call for all concerned international 'tinder-equipped, undermanned police and Arab organisations to assist d~e forces in the areas of cultivation, who Sudanese authorities in the development chase drug merchants along hidden of altemadve crop production in the trails.' U?~e of lus colleagues, Major Hamid cannabis-growing areas, as a measure to Mohamed el Hassan of the Interpol ofRce combat the illicit traffic. `Crop replace- in Khartoum, holds a rather different view: "Given only five cars and an ment seecns the most practical solution to adequate numt~er of soldiers, ! can ~e drug problem. By introducing a c~sh assure you that no one would be smoldn crop that is }ust as profitable as cannabis, 8 and educating tlie public about tfic a reefer." dangets of the drug, we are sure we arc The Hashisli and Opium Ordinance heading f~r the total abolition of thc 1928, which fonns the legal basis for the illegal traf6c,'said f3rigadier Hakim. suppression of the drug trade, is not widely adnured by those required to Yousif Ahmed Adam argues an even enforce it. "Its barely of use at all, since less likely scenario: "This, and other it rnakes no distinction between major problems of tlie traditional sector, will dealers, peasant cultivators, and not be remedied until a more comprehen- occasional users," noted Major Hamid. sive and continuous attack is launched The maximum penalty under the law is against backwardness and underdevelop- only seven years detention plus a fine of inent. The weapon for such an attack is �s5,000. `I would advocate a severe democratic agrarian reform, which will deterrent punisfunent. In Egypt, for liberate niral populadons from ex- erample, drug trafficers are sentenced to ploitative relations . . By revising fife i,-nprisonment. The big dealer, the patterns of tand ownership, establishing owncr of the kharar, is alway5 out of state-owned farms and cooperatives, and sight. When raided, his salesman will by crop replacement we can overcome claim ownership of the confiscated drupYs. t}us problem." Their bosses are never reached,' argues If this is inaeed the solution to Major F,l Khair. 17iere is some pressure Sudan's `drug problem' , then rve may for a reform of this leg~slation. As Briga- rxpect ba�go to be witli us for a long, uier Hakim observed, "Sudan was among long dme. the sig~atories of the International Sin~e Convention for Harcotic Drugs, 1961 and we now need a Urufied IYarcotics Control Ordinance as soon as possible." CSO: 5300 52-53 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300030032-0 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02148: CIA-RDP82-44850R000300034432-4 ~ K I.NYA POLICE ACTION AGAINST BIIANG CROWi;RS, POSSI:SSORS NOTLU - Fine for Growing Bhang Nairobi LIAILY NATION in L'nglish 10 Sep 80 p 21 ~~OXt~ A MAN hn~ been tined'l,5(Nl/- or '1'he mx{;ivlrutc cnremi~ndr~1 I'l m~mthri . jail fbr havinK und i he pulice Cur the g~Krc! wurk 1lu~~~ Kr~rwinK bhanK. were 'dt)in~ tn rid t he erea ~~I Beli~re KiFii arnior re~;ident bhenK growinK,,,and chank'He maKistrate D. K. S. ARanyanya brewing. He urged Lhecp to, con� wa~ OnKan OmanKf, charKecl tinue in thexamespirit. Ihat, on Sep(emt~er 6,' he had 127 Mr. A~anyanyn ~aid 1 hn~ kk. ul' bhapK and wati also K~~~Wiqg u1t h~~uKh the accused was a lir.l I ~dl planlti nf ~ he drug. � ~d'I'ender who lcx~ked cdd, he de~er He admilted the twocharKes. ved such yunishment eti wuuld b~ Chief (m~. .1. Shiundu'~eid a wnrninK tu other putentiel ~Hdii�e, aclin~; nn a tip f~um the