JPRS ID: 10482 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/ 10482
27 Ap~il 1982
Woridwid~ Re ort
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~IARCOTICS AND DANCEROUS DRUGS
(FOUC 19/82)
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JPRS L/10482
27 April 1988
WORLDWIDE REP4RT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS .
l~'OUO 19/8 21
CONTENTS
~ ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Connnission on Drugs Told More Narcotics Police Needed
(Aileen Berry; THE AGE, 18 Feb 82) 1
Melbourne on Aid to Thai Drug Suppression Efforts
(Melbourne Overseas Service, 29 Mar 82) 3
Drug Conviction ir. Thailand Raises Legal Questions
(Garry Sturgess; THE AGE, 20 Feb 82) 5
Support for P'hone Tapping by Federal Government in Drug
Cases
(THE WEST AUSTR,ALIAN, 27 Feb 82) 7
Alleged Indian Hemp Grower Makes Court Appearance
' (THE SYI~JEY MORNING HER,ALD, 26 Feb 82) 8
Briefs
Heroin Import Charge 9
BANGLADESH
Brief s
Opium Smugglers Arrested 10
INDIA
Briefs
~ Palam Heroin Arrest 11
~Notorious~ Narcotics Slnuggler 11
Mizoram Drug Connection 11
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MALAYSIA
Bri ef s
Drug Trafficking Syndica ~es 12
. Kedah Drug S'yndicates Smashed 12
PAKISTAN
Brief s
Trafficker Cheated by Supplier 13
Charas SSnuggling Bid Foiled 13
Charas Seized 13
PHILIPPINES
Bx~i ef s
Marihuana Finances Corrmiunist Arms Purchases , 1!~
Cavite Narcotics Campai.gn 1!~
GRI LANKA
Briefs
Ganja Plantation Destrc~yed 15
THAILAND
Heroin Trafficking Patterns Described
(Jonh Hail; BANGKOK POST, 29 Mar 82) 16
Australia May Base More Drug Agen~s in Bangkok
(BANGKOK POST, 26 Mar 82) 17
Prasong Wants More Development, Less Suppression of Hill
~ Tribe Poppy Growers
(SIAM RAT, 9 Mar 82) 18
Crop Substitution Chi ef Cormnents on Programs
(Narong Suwannapiem Interview; MATICtiON, 22 Feb ~32) 20
SUA, Ethnic Minority Traffickers Relationships Noted
(SIAM MAI, 20 Mar 82) 26
SUA Forces Flee Burmese Attacks, Return to Thailand
~ SIAM RAT, 8 Mar 82) 29
Post-Raid Locations r~f SUA Described
(SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN, 14 Mar 82) 30
Controversy Continues Over RTA Relations With HI~IT 93rd Division
(MATICHON, 7 Mar 82) 33
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Chinese Haw Villages Growing Poppy in Chiang Rai
(MATICHON, 8 Mar 82) 36
,
IflKT Division Trafficking, Military Activities Noted
(SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN, 21 Feb 82) 38
n.
Brief s ~
French Narcotics Official Visi~bs ~,5
CANADA
Prosecutor Cites Various Means Used To ~nuggle Hashish
(THE VANCOWER SU1~, 10 Mar 82) 46
, ftQKP To Pursue Drug Profits in New Tack Against Illegal Trade
(THE GLOBE AND MAIL, 17 Mar 82) 1~7
LATIN AMERICA
MEXICO
Traffickers Captured With Heroin From Qruerrero
~ (EL DIARIO DE NtTEVO I,AREDO, 26 Mar 82) !t8
N~',AR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Hrief s
Shiraz Smuggler~s Executiori 50
Hashish, 4pium Seized 50
UNITED ARAB II~IIRATES
Bri ef s
Hashish Frc.n Pakistan 51
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
CONGO
Briefs
. Marihuana Traffickers Arrested 52
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WEST EUROPE
DENMARK
Paper Says Law Against Hemp Raising Would Be Flitile
(Editorial; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 3 Apr 82) 53
Briefs
Police Warning on Kill er Heroin 55
GREECE
Bri ef s
Portuguese Smuggler Arrested 56
SWEDEN
Poll on Attitudes of Youth Toward Drugs Reported
(Pia Estmer; DAGENS NYHETER, 31 Mar 82) 57
Second Poll Confirms Decline of Youth Interest in Drugs
(DAGENS NYIi~TER, 1 Apr 82) 59
Police Conducting Offensive Against Dalarna Province Drugs
(Matts Dahlstrom; DAGENS NYHETER, L~ Apr 82) 60
Briefs
Cannabis-Smuggling Gang Broken
TIJRKEY
Bri ef s
Morphine Base Seized 65
UNITED KINGDOM
SeizurP of Convicted Traffickers~ Assets Urged
(Stanley Goldsmith; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 27 Ma,r 82)..... 66
University Laboratory Used as Student~s Drug Factory
(Colin Randall; THE DAII,Y TELEGRAPH, 27 Mar 82) 67
Drugs Squad Detectives l;leared of Drugs-Related Offenses
(Stanley Goldsmith; TI~ DAILY TELEGRAPH, 6 Mar 82) 68
Briefs
Jail for Cannabis Smugglers 69
Heroin Supplier Jailed 69
Customs Drug Seizures 69
Heroin Seized 70
Cannabis Seized 70
Arabs Jailed for Drug Smuggling 7p
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AUSTRALIA
COIrIl~IISSION ON DRUGS TOLD MORE NARCOTICS POLICE NEEDED
Melbourne Tf~ AGE in English 18 Feb 82 p 15
[Article by Ai.leen Berry]
[Text] Sydney--More Federal police narcotics officers should be poated to
the woi�ld's main drug centres, the Royal Comm~ission on drug trafficking was
told yesterday.
Detective Station Sergeant Brian Bennett of the Federal Police Sydney drug
unit said that drug liaison officers based in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok
travelled frequently throughout South-East Asia to cope with the huge volume
of work.
In his three-year term in Kuala Lumpur, he said he had visited Singapore
about 30 times on various narcotics investigations. When he atarted there
in January 1978, he was responsible for liaison throughout Malaysia, Singa-
pore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Indonesia was later dropped, but
Brunei included. "I feel the net has got to be apread a little bit," he
said. "It's ~ust impossible."
Sergeant Bennett told the Royal Commissioner, Mr Justice Stewart, that the
placements would need to be dealt with on a Government policy level, given
present Public Service staff ceilings.
He said the optimum locations would be Hong Kong, India and the eastern
Mediterranean. A strong Federal Police presence in Hong Kong would deal
with other types of illegal activities as well, he said, while the officer
based in India would cover Afghanistan and the recent upaurge of Pakistani
opium on the world drug markets.
The eastern Mediterranean posting would take in Lebanon, Turkey and Iran--
where hashish frequently originated.
Sergeant Bennett said that, while posted in Kuala Lumpur, he dealt with
off icers of the US Drug Enforcement Agency and Singapore's Central Narcotics
Bureau. He said he had become familiar with the names and activities of
several members of the 'Mr Asia' international heroin syndicate, although he
did not believe he had met any of them.
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The joint Federal-State Royal Commission was set up last year to investigate
the 'Mr Asia' syndicate, with particular reference to its head, T_errence
John Clark, also known as Alexander James Sinclair. Clark is serving a life
sentence in England for the murder of his drug partner, Christopher Martin
Johnstone, known as 'Mr Asia', in October 1979. Clark is also wanted in
Australia in connection with the murders of New Zealand drug couriers,
Douglas and Isabel Wilson at Rye, on the Mornington Peninsula, in May 1979.
Sergeant Bennett said he had first heard of Douglas Wilson in I972 when
Wilson was suspected of trafficking in LSD in New Zealand. "It was not
until the Press reported the finding of the Wilsons' bodies in Melbourne
and said that he had served two years that I realised it was probably the
same fellow," he Gaid.
Yesterday's hearing later turned to the subject of "petty jealousies"
between State and Federal law enforcement bodies--a recurring theme in its
public hearings. Questioned by counsel assisting the Royal Commission,
Mr pon Grieve, Sergeant Bennett admitted his coAaaents could make him
unpopular, but agreed that these ~ealousies hampered the flow of informa-
tion between the various police forces.
He said the situation had improved considerably over the past few yPars and
he was optimistic that the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, which
was established recently, would help overcome the lack of co-operation
betraeen State and Federal bodies.
He agreed with Mr Justice Stewart tihat as well as jealousy there could be
distrust between the forces, based on a lack of knowledge. He also agreed
that this distrust detracted from the efficiency of the forces.
The Royal Commission, which ad~ourned into private session to hear more
sensitive evidence on Sergeant Bennett's term in Kuala Lumpur, will resume
in p ublic this morning.
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AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE ON AID TO THAI DRUG SUPPRESSION EFFORTS
BK291407 I~ie2bourne Overseas Service in English 1110 29 Mar 82
[From the "Australian Insight" prdgram] -
[Excerpt] This is "Australian Insight" and I am (Judith Hinckey). The Austra-
lian Government is looking at ways of providing further assistance to Thailand
in the fight to stop the distribution of drugs, such as opiwn, from the so-
~ called Golden Triangle region. This announcement follows a visit to Thailand
by the Australian minister for administrative aervices, Mr Newma.z. As poli-
tical correspondent (Bill Nicholl) reports from Canberra:
The Australian Government has for the past 10 years or more been providing
help to Thai authorities aimed at preventing the growth and distribution of
narcotics from within Thailand. Most help so far has been in the form of an
. Australian overseas aid program designed to get rural communities in Thailand's .
north to substitute cash crops, like coffee, for traditional cropa, like
opium. So far Australia has provided 3ust under A$2 million, that's around
U.S.$2.2 million, for work in developing substitute crops.
The earliest program was a~iversity-based project which researched possible
crop alternatives. But this has since given way to what is called an agricul-
tural extension program designed to actually get altemative crops growing and
then sold in the marketplace. ,
According to officials in Canberra, this work will take years to have any
real impact on the farmers who rely on opium for their income. One official
believes it could tal~e 20 years or more before any tangible results are seen.
In the meantime, more and more emphaeis is being placed on improving the .
effectiveness~~mf police narcotic agents in Thailand.
Some 10 nations are providing help to Thai police involved in this work.
Australia is one of them. Since 1977, we have had, what officials in Canberra
- like to call, a drug liaison presence in Thailand. At present there are two
full time Australian police officers stationed in Bangkok to liaise with
Thai narcotic agents. In addit3.on, Australia has, in the last year or so,
contributed equipment worth $250,000 to the Thai police to help in their anti-
drug campaign. This includes some 18 motor vehicles, plus communications and
surveill.ance equipment.
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Thai police have also been brought to Australia for training, including two
- senior officers--one from the Bangkok metropolitan police and the other from
the border patrol police-the group responsible for the recent paramilitary-
Atyle clash with opium warlord Khun Sa.
Judging by reports of the ~ust completed visit to Thailand of the Australian
minister for administrative services, Mr Newman, the Australian police effort
in Thailand is to be further upgraded. There is talk of providing another
full time lisison officer and also providing an Australian expert to help
set up a computerized drug intelligence operation in Thailand.
Mr Newman is reported to have made these con~ents while in Hong Kong after his
visit to Thailand. Details of such an offer from Australia to the Thai Govern-
ment are, at this stage, still sketchy. Radio Australia has not as yet been
able to confirm them through Mr Newman's office, and the Austr~lian federal
police say that they are unsure of exactly what their minister may have of-
fered to the Thai authorities. About all a palice spokesman was prepared to
concede when I spoke to him a short time ago, was that Australian authorities
are aware of the need for close cooperation with Thai officials since Thailand
must, out of necessity, be in the forefront of drug prevention.
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AUSTRALIA
DRUG CONVICTION IN THAILAND RAISES LEGAL QUESTIONS
Melbourne THE AGE in English 20 Feb 82 p 15
[Article by Garry.Sturgess]
[Text ]
Williatn Sinclair, 68~ Thai dntg �~nce against Sinclair is put to '~ywar8,. apd Fellows could
ofte~nder~ is far frarri a model the test in the aetting of the just as easilY, have stood trial 1n
~Character. The kindest de~crlp- Australian legal system. On this Australta ,(the Australian Em-
test. three legal eaperta who ex
tion you can get from family baasy had'`.; their return t~?ght
� amined the Thai )udgm~ht, ibr'
and close..~riends is - a dia- ~e�' Age' doubt that Sinciair t?umbers).and..Slnclair, who made
mond~ but,~a rough one." would have been convicted here. regular trips' to 'Auscralia, coutd
But� selddm is the subject of in time have been marched be-
a cause celebre, with deep con- '~e relevance of comparln fora a local court. '
s uences for civil libertie! and the� bperation of the two �1
human rigi~s. withoutc flav0~. , sYstems goes beyond cultural m~ p. Queen's Counsel contacted
pedalism. A key issue In the by The� Age' �pat� it crisply when
Few, for retample, claimed that Sinciair cese is the responsibftity he � said ihe Government would
1toN~1d RyaD~'
(hanged in 1967 for ot the :Australien Govemment to-' f nterfere . to convict, but not to
the~rrfnrder of a warder) wqs the;, ward~ nationals who cun foul at help, one of its citizens� It is a
nlcest of inen, merely that they a'foreign legal system. double standard and a dangerous
had profound disquiet 'about~ his. The Goverament has a tteat~ one: It means that Australian of-
convlction and hanging. answer to this. It says that Aus- fictals can choose the jurisdic-
in Slnclairs case there is ,also , trallans abroad take the larv fu' �tioa in which to launch a prosecu-
disquiet about his conviction�=-. tiuy flnd it. If they flnd it draoob-, tion. .
and 33 years in a Thai jail is~~ 1an or lA other nspects not ~up '"~'l ~course, Australian offloials
perhaps comparable with the are loaked in co�operation with
death sentence, to expectations they have ondy, ~e ~8~s_for, the best of all pos-
Other people say that Sinclair~ '~emselves to blame. Clear:wern- 8�.~~e. moiives - to sto the r-
ings were issued in their pass- p ~
deserved what he got. Often their port literature and ln the 'publie ~tciou~ flow of heroin out of '~7~ai-
reaction is as much ahaped by atatements of several Ministers. lend ar~d more particularly on to
a powerful emotional symbol as ' ' tf~e ~ streets of Sydney and Mel-
the merlts�of the case. That sym- In Sinc!air's case, the AtWr- bourne.
bol is heroin and the sbAorrence neyrGeneral~ Senator Duraek. has ~e acrest of Siaolalr~ Hayward
felt for thbse v~?rio:tr~de in it. said that the Government will not 'And Fellows was co-operative fe-
SinciPir ~ was charged`~in' Octo- lnterfere with a foreign legal deraHsm tnd lnternational~sm par
ber 1978 avitfi qeing ~ln pos~ssion sy?stem where the lawa sad,.pra excellence. The New South Wales
of 8554 grammes of herofe. He cedures are appHed without dhH; p61ke a�lerted the Federal police
was some� mites from where the crimination a3alnst Australians. who alerted the Austrelian .Em-
heroin was , found ' in the actual Dut there Is anothec side to ~ ~sy, ~rho alerted the Thais.
possession ot his co-accused Paul the Governmcnt's poticy ot ncn- ~en all four corrrbined at the
Hayward and Warnn Fellows. interferance. Sinclair apd his...co- ~1a1 ~o .secure the convfctions.
Nearly three yeers later he accused toun:l themaelr~e$.en~nar-~
was tound .~uilty ot the charge. ed In a toreign legal syatem be- ~Sut thia burst ot �o~o~peratlon
His lawyers main argument in czuse of the co�operation of Aus- otiscures bath Irony and principk.
the present review of his case !s trc.lian ofticia~s with the Thai ~e irony comes from iVlr Justice
that he was clearly not in pos� authorities. Australian oHicials ~yo~ward in his report of the
session. So there are problems then , also piayed a leading part Royal Commission on drug trat-
, with his convictlon under ?hai ~n the presentation ot evidence ~cking delivered ,'on October
~8~'� before the Thai; , court~ much ot lg~g, a yar stter the attests.
But these problems are mapjni- which woukl ~fo~ hN+a beei~ ac=,
fled several fold when thc evid- ~p~ble In an Australlan courQ.
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The judge critic3sed the Com-
monwealth - in paKicular the
T~ ederal Narcotics Bureau, now in-'
tegrated with the Federal polloe
- for its failure to' co-operate.
,He wu invesdgating tfie tratHck- �
fng of heroin in New Soutiti
Wales. .
"Few better ways of avofdtng
. g{ving assistance to an investi-
gating' Royal Commfssion than
that offered could be devised.
Nevertheless, attempts were
made ~ to obcain . assistance by
writina letters to the nominated
Commonwealth Solicitor and
framing questlons, in writing.
about persons and accivitles then
under investlgatlon," the nport
said. .
"Some of these questions were
briefly answered. Many were not
answered. At no time was fuil
information ever supplied as
soughG Despite many requests, I
~vas never chown a sinRle flle.
nor did I lnterview a single Com-
monwealth officer.
"No effective lnformatton was
ever received from the Narcotics
Bureau and this gravely hamper-
ed and restricted thls Commis~
sion's inquines .lnto heroin traf-
flcking. . .
"F3ut I did receive first hand
experience of the unfortunate eF-
fects of a total failure of inter-
agency co-operation," Mr Justice
Woodward aaid, "
So while . Australian otlicials
were engaged ln .a surfeit of co- ~
operation with the Thais, vita4
information w~ being kept from .
an Austr~lian Roy~nl Commission
leading Khat ~Com~nisslon by de-
fault to wrong conclusions.
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~ AUSTRAL~A
.
SUPPORT FOR PHONE TAPPING BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN DRUG CASES
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 27 Feb 82 p 3
[ Text ] The Federal Govern- � '
ment is studying a pro- Telcphone !n'terceptton
posal to Rive State pol- ~'ould'' be�used only un-
ice forces powers to tap der proper controls.
telephone conversations ~e WA . police would
in moves to combat il- ~ike to;be able to inter-
legal dru~ trafficking. cept calls in cases of .
Currently only the Aus- ~dru~ trafticking, extor-
tralian Security Intelli- ~tion, terrortsm and kid~
gence Organisation anci napping, he said.
the federal police are em- The W,A. Government
, powered to intercept tele� cnlled last April for
~hone calls. ' police powers to t~p tcle-
ASIO' requires a war- Phones. _ :
~rant irom the Attorney-
General and federal
police Investigators have.
to get a warrant from,a
judge. �
The . Federal Attorney-
General, Se,nator Durack,
confirmed yesterday that
the Government was
carefully~ examining the
proposal. �
However, ~ no decision ~s
expected before the fed-
eral law reform commis-
sion reports on the issue
` late this year.
`~A/elcomed ,
In PER,TR yesterday.
thP VYA Minister for. ~
Police, Mr ~ Hassell, wel-
comed the move. , ~
I He said he could not see
why the public got so up-
set at the police inter- �
cepting ~ telephone calls
when the police had ac-
ccas to all other sophlsti-
cated electronic survell-
lance equipment.
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AUSTRALIA
ALLEGED INDIAN HEMP GROWER MAKES COURT APPEARANCE
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 26 Feb 82 p 9
[Text; A 33-year-old man haa hemp ne had boughc eo obtain
li;~iian hemp with a street ~ds to plant his crop.
Mr Oreg James, for Parket, aaid
valut of $10 ntillion on the his client expected to make about
properiy he owned near Inver- a3op,opp fron, ~hc druBs.
ell, police alleged in Ceutral He .aid this clicnt developal thc
Court yesterday. nropcrty with a vicw to ~elling it
latcr but, bccause of the market, fie
Erich Parker, a property owner. Was tempicd tu ~row Indian hemp.
of Upper Whitelaw Road, via Bin- Hc s~id his client denied aupply-
gara, aurrendercd himself to Drug inc the drug, and did not admit he
Squad detectivcs on Tuesday after- had marketed the drug.
n~n. Air Bricse Franted Parker
Parter appeared before Mr C. S~ 8.0(10 bail on thc aundition he
Briese, GSM, charged with allow- surrencler thc ti~le deeds of the
ing Indian hemp to be cultivated Property, report to police daily,
on a property, and with cultivating, and surrendcr his passport.
supply and possessing Indian ~e matter was adjourned to
hemp. htarch 2S.
The potice prosecutor, Sergeant
Bcnnett, alleged that at S pm on
Tucsday, police frum Invcrcll and
Tam~+�orth went to a property at ~
Bingara and found two acres of In-
dian hemp plants, ranging in ~
~ height from 1.S to 2 me~res.
' Police afso found approxim~te-
ly half a tonne of lndian hemp
drying out in a aool ahed," Scr-
geant Bennett said.
5ergcant Aenr~tt eatimatcd the
strcet value ol ..~e Indian hemp on
the property at S10 million.
He said one man was urested at
the pr.~erty and charged widi cul-
tivating and supplying tlic druF.
Sergeant Bennett said Parker
surrendered himsetf to the 1)rug
Squad, where he was interviewed
and allegedly made a fu11 admis-
sion and signcd record of inter-
vie~v.
"fhe court was told poliee went
to a house ~~'here Parker occasion-
allv livcd an~l found rem~ins of .
some Indian hcmp in a teachest.
Parker alle~cdly eaid it w~s the
remain~ of S~.(100 worth of Indian
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
HEROIN II~ORT CHARGE--Sydney--Police yesterday arrested four people and
seized an estimated $300,p00 worth of heroin following a raid on a house at
Gosford on the central NSW coast. A man and his 18-year-old daughCer from
Warner Vale on the outskirts of Gosford were both charged with importing
heroin. The man, 45, was also charged with possessing heroin and his
daughter with using the drug. A 25-year-old man from The Entrance and a
23-year-old woman from Canton Beach were charged with administering heroin,
possessing amphetamines and possessing Indian hemp. [Text] [Melbourne THE
AGE in English 18 Feb 82 p 5]
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BANGLADESH
BRIEFS
OPIUM SMUGGLERS ARRESTED--Huge quantities of amuggled liquor and narcotics,
including opium and worth taka one lakh, were seized yesterday. Four
persons were arrested from different areas of the city in this connection.
The personnel of Dacca~Commissioner's off ice of Narcotics and Liquor
P,epartment seized 41 bottles of liquor, 91 cans of beer, 12 seers of
opium and 11 seers of gan3a. ['t'ext] [Dacca THE NEW NATION in English
_ 20 Mar 82 p 8]
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~ INDIA
BRIEFS
PALAM HEROIN ARREST--About 170 grams of high-grade heroin valued at Rs 3.5
lakhs was seized by the Palam police when they arrested Judy Gaylefehn, a
US national on Sunday. Police said that the suspect, was to board a
Lufthansa flight for her ~ourney to the US, was nabbed soon after she
reported at the search and frisking counter at the sirport. She had report-
edly concealed the heroin in her bra. According to UNI, DPC T R Kakkar
said the woman, herself a drug addict, was in possession of two passports
with different names. She was also carrying 4000 US dollars. She had
arrived in India on 6 March an3 had received the heroin from one Ra~ Kumar
on payment of 3000 US dollars. The woman was contacted by three persons,
including two Americans, outside the American Express Building soon after
her arrival. They took her to an hotel at Pahargan~ when 168 grams of
heroin was delivered to her three days later. It is suspected that the
persons who had contacted her in Delhi had links with an international
smuggling syndicate. Efforts are undeYway to track them down. [Text]
[New Delhi PATRIOT in English 23 Mar 82 p 1]
'NOTORIQUS' NARCOTICS SMUGGLER--The most notorious narcotics smuggler of ~
the Capital, Balram Kishan, twice detained under the National Security
Act by the Delhi Police, was arrested by the special staff of the West
District police on Sunday from Ra~ouri Garden following recovery of more
than 5 kilos of charas from his posseasion. Earlier, Balram who, according
to police was wanted in about 50 cases of charas and opium smuggling, had
been released from NSA detention--once, after the order was quashed by the
advisory board of the Delhi High Court, and on another occasion, sources
say, because the Delhi Administration had ordered his release on the grounds
that the detention order contained aome 'loopholes'. [Text] [New Delhi
PATRIOT in English 30 Mar 82 p 10]
MIZORAM bRUG CONNECTION--New Delhi, 9 Apr (AFP)--Police in Mizoram today spoke
of the poesibility of an international syndicate of narcotica smugglers oper-
ating in the tiny northeastern state on the border with Burma. Reports from
Aizwal, capital of Mizoram, quoted police officials as saying that they sus-
pected the possibility in the wake of the recovery of 200 kg of contraband drugs
from a private house in that city last Tuesday. Deputy ~hief of Mizoram
Police Babar eaid a vigorous hunt was on to smash the racket. It was not
known whether any one had been taken into custody in connection with the aei-
zure of the drugs. [Text] [Hong Kong AFP in English 1709 GMT 9 Apr 82 BK]
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MALAYSIA
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKING SYNDICATES--Four international drug trafficking syndicates
have been identified following ~oint investigations by drug enforcement agen-
cies of Thailand and Malaysia. lfaenty seven other big time traffickers have
also been positively identified. The Malaysian criminal investigation depart-
ment and Thailand's flffice of Narcotics Control Board are taking action agains':
them. The Malaysian CID director said this at a news conference in Penang
today. He added, the ONCB had also disrupted the activitfes of poppy growers
in the Golden Trianglearea and eliminated many clandestine heroin laboratories.
~ With these suc~esses, the illegal flow of drugs into the country and Thailand
had been reduced. [Kuala Lumpur International Service in English 0800 GMT
11 Apr 82 BK]
KEDAH DRUG SYNDICATES SMASHED--The police in Alor Setar in the northern state
of Kedah in peninsular Malaysia have smashed five well-organized drug traf-
ficking syndicates and arrested 13 persons. The Kedah chief police officer
told a news conference today that apart from seizing a large quantity of
assorted Dadah, about 640 people had also been detained on suspicion of being
Dadah dependents and pushers since the beginning of this year. The police's
success was due largely to public cooperation. The officer disclosed that
various types of Dadah were smuggled into the country from across the border
by the traffickers using fast cara, motorcycles and, on a few occa~ions,by
boats and by rail. [Text] [Kuala Lumpur International Service~in English 0800
GMT 12 Apr 82 BKJ
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
TRAFFICKER CHEATED BY SUPPLIER--One narcotic pedlar in Lyari area in �
Karachi was cheated of Rs 1,500 which he paid to a bogus supplier of the
narcotics. He had refused to lodge the complaint with police. According
to details in recent campaign against the narcotics dens in the area police
almost sealed all the dens which created a"shortage" of the "stuff" and
as a result a number of cheaters have entered the field who collect the
money from pedlars on the falsz promise to suppl.y them with the required
goods. In its campaign the police have so far recovered 310 kilos of haras,
one kilo heroin, eight kilo bhang, two kilo opium and 265 bottles of liquor,
it also arrested 26 suppliers and pedlars of narcotics during the campaign.
Mearnahile it is learnt that known smugglers of narcotics and suppliers of
mandrix in Lyari area following the police campaign have promised to
collect substantial sums for the rehabilitation of the addicts. But they
have put a condition that police should stop its interference and allow
them to carry out the rehabilitation work themselvea. It is not known
whether the police have accepted their offer.--PPI. [Text] [Rarachi
BUSINESS RECORDER in English 30 Mar 82 p 3]
CF~,RAS SMUGGLING BID FOILED--PESHAWAR, April 1--The Paki3tan Customs and the
Mazdan police today foiled an attempt to smuggle 220 kilograms of charas and
50 kilograms of opium to Europe via Karachi. The narcotics would have fetched
over Rs 50 lakh in the foreign market. The contraband qoods were hauled out
- of a car on Sawabi Toapi Road. All the three occupants of the car, including
its driver, were arrested. [Karachi DAWN in English 2 Apr 82 p 7j
CHARAS SEI2ED--PESHAWAR, April S--The Abbottabad Police seized 587 kilograms
of charas from a Karachi-bound truck near Najibullah in Abbottabad district on
Sunday. Accordi.ng to the district authorities, the charas which wara being
smuggled from Bara, for Karachi, was concealed in secret cavities of the
truck. The value of the charas is estimated at Rs 1.12 crore. The contraband
item and the truck were taken into custody i,y the police and the cleaner and
driver of the truck were arrested. The SSP, Abbottabad, has announced cash
award and one step promotion for the police officers who foiled the smuqqling
attempt. [Karachi DAWN in English 6 Apr 82 p 12j
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PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
MARIJUANA FINANCES CQMMUNIST ARMS PURCHASES--The government has uncovered
several private houses being used as armories by terrorists operating in the
South. The armories were discovered during a house-to-house search in two
barangays in Zamboanga City. Government operatives seized assorted high-pow-
ered guns and bullets cleverly hidden in several houses. Also confiscated
were munitions supplies, including bayonets with scabbards, modern transceiv-
ers, magazine pouches, boxe s of assorted medicines, firearm belts and hol-
sters. The searchers were made in barangays Sta. Barbara and Baliwasan Grande
last Wednesday, military field commanders said in a declassified report yes-
terday. Among the high-powered guns seized were M16 rifles or armalites,
M562 baby azmalites, carbines, caliber .45 revolvers, and M14 rifles, thomp-
son submachineguns, all fully loaded with bullets. Government troopers have
earlier discovered two gun factories in two renate baranqays at the outskirts
of Cebu City. Operatives captured two suspected rebels in that raid. The
two broke down during investigation and admitted the factories have been pro-
ducing guns to be sold to terrorists. According to report$, the New People's
Rrmy, the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has resorted
to marijuana farming to finance their buying of guns and other munitions sup-
plies. [Manila PHILIPPINES SUNDAY EXPRESS in English 28 Mar 82 p 1]
CAVITE NARCOTICS CAMPAIGN--A stepped-up drive against drug addiction has
been launched by police authorities here in the wake of some reports that
drug pushers have been operating with impunity in this city even in public
places. Lt. Col. Jose V. Martin, newly-installed city police chief said
the no non-sense drive against drug pushers and users will go on without
letup until these menaces to the society are all locked up in 3ai1.
Earlier, police operatives arrested f ive drug users in a series of raids
conducted in several parts of the city. In order to keep track of the
activities of suspected drug pushers in the city, several police teams
were organized by Colonel Martin who will also be assisted by the conatabu-
lary antinarcotics unit (CANU). [Text] [Manila BULLETIN TODAY in Englieh
4 Apr 82 p 18]
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SRI LANKA
BRIEFS
GANJA PLANTATION DESTROYID--On a tip-off, Sub-Inspt. M. K. Wi~edasa with
seven other Police officers detected recently two acres of gan3a in a
chena at Bogahawewa, Tanamalwila, in the Wellawaya Police area. [Text]
[Columbu THE ISLAND in EnRlish 25 Mar 82 p 2]
CSO: 5300/5714
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THAILAND
HEROIN TRAFFICKING PATTERNS DESCRIBED
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 29 Mar 82 p 4
[Article by John Hail: "Into the Shadowy World of the Heroin Smuggler"]
[Text] �
HONG KONG ot heroin lef: over irom laet year In Although pHcea and pudties fluctn�
THE batUe tor the Golden Triangle's order to drive up pricea. They worry ate wildly, Hong Kong Cuatoms agents
bumper harveat haa moved outotthe about a poaaible tlood tn the heroln report the current atreet prtce of a
Jungle and Into the ahadowy world ot market when thie year'a crop hite the ~~{~x" o! number three heroin is HK=35
internationai drug ayndicates, Chlnese atreeta. �(about 120 baht), with dlaVibutto�
secret societlea and smaU�fry amug� ~"~e street price of heroin hae handled by Hong Kong'a trlada, or
glers hoping to make one big acore. Boae up 100 per cent elnce Mu+ch 1;' secret aocietlea.
At atake is an estimated 90 tona of aald K.S. Tong, head ot HonQ Kon~'a Import and esport la handied by
pure heroin now beginning to trlckle Custome Inveatigatlon Bureau. "One ayndlcatea ranging from multlmllllon
down the fkllclt dietributlon network aure algn that atreet supptlea are down dollar operations auch aa the ao~a~lled
to Europe and America. is the big tncreaae In addlcU comin~ to ~~Chineae Connectlon," belteved to be
Drug experts say 30 tona of heroln our methadone cllnica. We h~ve a tunnelling Southeaet Aalan heroln to
is more than enough to supply all the dally attendance ot about 8,b00 ad� Amaterdam, to amall�time and often
world's addlcta tor a year. dlcta." ~short�Ifved aaaocladona ot two or three
Deaplte an unprecedented mllltary Ton~ attrlbutea the ehortage not eo courlers trying to strtke It rich.
campaign by Thailand to root out much to the Thai miiit~ry campai~n aa ~~Typically the .emali�tlme courter
opium warlord Khun Sa from hla iun� the wave ot~ fear that awept throuQh ~,~,~~1 make e euceeeatul trfp a�d then
gle lair near the tri�border iunctlon ot Hong Kong s underworld after two he'll get greedy and try lt eeeln,"' Tong
Thailand, Burma and Laos, narcotlcs epectacular buata in February ra $atd. "It he makea it enough Umea he'll
e:pects belteve thls year's opium ccop eulting In_ the aeizure of Yl k11a be able to eftord to hlre other couriere
in the Gofden Triangle will prove even Brammes of heroin baae. to do the dirty work - ueually people
richer than last year's masetve har� The aucceasea were tollowed by the who are deep in debt. That's how aome
veat. ~ dlscovery ot an illlGlt laboratory in of the drug ayndicatee get atarted."
To prevent the raw upium irom Hong Kong converting heroln base - The smugglera uae a bewqdering
being refined into deadly heroin, the a hlghly ~concentrated heroin grade array of ruaea to tranrahlp the drug
Thal Covernment and the US Drug preterred by amugglers - into ;a through Hong Kong and on to marketa
Enforcement Adrninlstration (DEA) called number three or "brown suQar" in the Weat. �
are going atter the crooked chemists heroin. ' ' Random Cuatoma searchea indicete
who operate In aecret iungle laborato- Accordfng to Tong, number three that hollowed out machlnery parta are
riea in the Golden Triangle. herofn tormerly was inhaled by ad� now among the moet popular means of
Thai enforcement ottlclala sey the dlcts In a ritual known aa "Chaaln~ the ahlpping and afr frelghting large
chemfcals neceaaary tor the retlning dragon" or "playing the pl~no." Bnt amounta o[ dope in and out of the
procesa are now etricUy controlled. Aa now lt generally is lniected because colony.
a result, ahortagea of retined heroln moat uaers do not have the tlme or the Other hlding plecea familfar to Cus-
have appeared in Bangkok and other privacy to amoke It tn Hon~ Kon~'s tqma agenta are canned tooda, turnl-
trans�shipment pointa. teeming high�riae alume. ture and talae-bo~tomed aultcaaea.
Ironle~lly, whlle the price of rpw Ton~ aald the recent ttend o! ln� For amaller amounte, courlera are
opium in the Golden Trlangle haa iecting number three la espeel~lly d~n� reeo~ting to conceeling herotn In body
plummeted due to the bumper har� gerous becauae the druQ is adulterated cavltles.
veat, police IntelUgence reporta indf- to about 27 per cent puHty wlth caiteln An amendment Introduced In early
cate the price of heroin is akyrocketing and other more toxic eddltlvee. March to Hong Kong'a Dangerous
all over Southeaat Asia. According to Amerlcan dru~ pollce, Druga BIII permfta government doc-
Narcc ~tica agenta believe the big the purity ot heroln aold on the eteeeb tora to conduct body eearcha of airline
druq dea:era are hoarding huge stocka ot New York ahd other Ameelciti bt~ Paaaengere without fear ot being aued
clties averagea about two per cent i[ no druga are found. - UPI
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THAILAND
AUSTRALIA MAY BASE MORE DRUG AGENTS IN BANG:COK
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 26 Mar 82 p S
[Text] AU3TRALIA may coneider lncreasing the number oi
narcotlce agents baeed v~ its Bangkok Embassy, the
Australian F,ederal Government's Minleter !or Adminis-
trative Servlces, Mr Kev1n Newmaa, said yeaterday.
Mr Newman, whoae BE$'T rdaed the, poealbllity of
porUollo covere Federal futura couraee being
narcottca affalre, told s ~~yye are determined to heid In Thailand.
Preaa conference at the make rure the front llne He wld the equlpment
embaeay th~t the poael- . ~a manned to the beat.of ~+'hlch Auetr4lla had
bility of increasin~ the our ablltty," he aald in ~ven Thaflpnd. for nar�
number oi Australlan thea4tement. cotica auppreeaion work
drog ~~enta In Thailand 31nce arrlvinQ in Ban~� had ' inclu~fed vehlclea
woutd be examined by kok on Monday for a aix� And radloa. Auatralia
hla department after he day vtalt, Mr Newman alao helped Th~lland
returna to Auatralla. has attended the ESCAP tight the heroln problem
Mr Newman aaid~there meet and held talka on ' by eupporting' crop aub~
were about three Aus~ ~aauea lnvolving both atltution ~and upland
tralian Federal Police druga and Auatraliana rehabllltatlon proiecb.
narcotica agenta baaed in aervin~ eentencea in Mr Newman aatd
Bangkok. ~ Thai ialla for drug of� P~~ne~ exchanQea and
Thta comparea wlth repatrf~tlons had not
tencea.
the United St~tee which Mr Newman ~oea to been mentioned In talka
h~s at leaet 90 DrnQ En� Chiang Mal today where he hat~ held aince hla
torcement Adminlatra� he wlll have a helicopter arrivsl..
tlon a~enta In Thaltand, tour ot crop aubaUtutlon But he aald that the
baaed in both Bangkok proiecta and oplum aubiect of remlaaions
and Chiang Mat. growlnQ areaa and will had arlaen and he
In a book on Auatra� also vlsit the Thai�Aur had ..been told that
lla a illicit dru~ problem, trAlia World Bank Land P~~ners who maintatn
Charles McCoy (author Development Proiect. a record ~t good conduct �
ot "The PoUtlca of Her� In responae to a quea� could expect to have
oln tn South�Eaet Aela"), tlon, Mr Newman ruled thelr aentencea reduced
clalmed that Th~l�baeed out any poeaibillty of by up to two�thirds.
druQ eyndicatea had puatrall,n Involvement Mr Newman aaid on
awitched to Auatralfa aa in druQ suppreealon cam� this baaia a priaoner sen-
a market because of the pA~~ne, ~uch aa the re- tenced to 2S yeara ~afl
aucceaa ot the DEA'a cen~;,opeeation aRa1n t� Who had a record ot
operatlon. ` '~Chu~,S~'~ etrori~fiol~'~ Baod conduct mlQht ex�
In a wrltten ~tatement Chlan~ Mal Province. ' p~t to aerve betweeq alx
handed out yeeterday, , �~~�hei,~ald..that.hta. toel~htyeara. .
M~ Newman aatd Thal� dep~rtment ptanned to Ne eaid an Auetralian
land w~s re~arded aa one (urther examine the pid ~+'ho broke the law in
ot the trontlirte areu In Which Auatralla provldes '~'hdland had to be pre-
Auatralia'a battle a~alnst to Thalland to help druQ Mred to run tlie tull
druga. auppreaalon etiorta ana Bamut of the Thd leQa!
- sold apeclal attentEon :,~'9~~~p� f ~t'
would be Qiven to train� ~!Mt~~,~~~~14.,~�; wer,e
ln~ programmea oftered ~veq "a c ear warnln~"
toThdpollce. ~whatt� tl?eY �aPPlled'Tor
Thai pollce have al� paasporta that the penal�
ready under~one anti� tiee for druB oftencea In
narcotlca tralning in Aua aome foreign countriea
tralia and Mr Newman wers har~h, he aAid.
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THAILAND
PRASONG WANTS MORE DEVELOPMENT, LESS SUPPRESSION OF HILL TRIBE POPPY GROWERS
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 9 Mar 82 p 5
[Article: "Increase Hill Tribe Development to Stop Poppy Cultiation Instead
of Suppressing [the Growers]"]
[Text] Squadron Leader Prason Sunsiri, the secretary-general of the National
Security Council, was interviewed by a reporter on the subject of implementing
a suppression policy to keep the hill tribes from growing poppies in Thailand.
He said that we must develop their villages and areas. more because development
will bring benefits in the long term and will bring greater results than
using weapons to suppress them. We must provide jobs for them by having them
abandon poppy cultivation and instead turn to growing substitute crops. Correct
village order must be established and we must given them a feeling of love
for the land that they are living in. When we have developed things in this
way, they will be Thais and we will not have any conflicts.
The Secretary-general of the National Security Council also stated that,
besides this, language and culture are being used to assimilate them. However,
this will take a long time; it is not a simple matter to reach this goal.
And the officials who work with the hill tribes will reach the goals too.
Squadron leader Prason said that, at present, the officials who haye gone
to work in the mountains have encountered many obstacles. For example, there
is a duplication of operations. Concerning this, an attempt will be made
to reduce the conflicts. At present, there is no work coordination. We must
correct this by discussing things.together in order to solve this problem.
Squadron Leader Prasong Sunsiri also said that we realize the necessity of
having the hill tribes stop growing poppies. But when they stop growing poppies,
what will they do to make a living? We must implement a crop substitution
and animal husbandry program so that they will be able to make a living.
Many of these villages earn an income from growinq substitute crops but
there are many others secretely growing [poppies]. Speaking honestly, they
consume the opium that they produce and so even if they did not grow poppies,
they would have to use part of their income to purchase opium for consumption.
Their traditions have been preserved a long time among the elderly. We must
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allow them to continue to do so. We must concentrate more on the younger
generation. The way to get them to stop growing poppies is to give them the
feeling that they can survive. As for the opium, they can use some of it
as a medicine because they live far from medical facilities. When they are
sick, they can use the opium to treat themselves. We must show some sympathy
for them, said Squadron Leader Prasong in conclusion.
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THAILAND
CROP SUBSTITUTION CHIEF COMMENTS ON Pf:OGRAMS
Bangkok MATICHON in Thai 22 Feb 82 p 3
(Interview with Mr Narong Suwannapiem, the chief of the crop substitution
program and the head of the Northern Narcotics Control Board Coordination
Center,by a MATICHON reporter between 18-20 February in Chiang Mai Province]
[Text] On 18-20 february, the office of the Naroctics Control
Board took a group of reporters to see the crop substitution
program at the Royal Headquarters Development Project
Center at Thung Cho in Chiang Mai Province. On this occasion, a
MATICHON reporter interviewed Mr Narong Suwannapiem.
[Question] I would like to ask about the main tasks that the center is responsible
for. What are its main tasks and is it involv~d in suppression operations too?
[Answer] As for my responsibilities at present, I now wear two hats. First,
I am the chief of the United Nations Thai Crop Substitution and Highlands
Market Program, that is, the opium crop substitution program. This program
is concerned with development totally.
Second, I have been entrusted with the task of watching over things at the
Northern Narcotics Control Board Coordination Center. The center is responsible
for 17 provinces. The center is responsible for carrying out tasks in three
spheres: First, we coordinate suppression activities. We do not make arrests
or make inspections concerning narcotics. It is our duty to coordinate activities
concerning information that has been given out. If it is asked who is directly
responsible for suppression activities in the field of the Narcotics Control
Board in the north, we have a special narcotics control unit but it is not
subordinate to the center. It receives its orders directly from the centr.al[~board].
This unit is fully responsible for gathering information and carrying on
suppression operations just as in Bangkok.
This second aspect concerns coordinating activities in the field of narcotics
control, disseminating information to various groups concerning the dangers
of drugs and taking part in giving lectures at the training seminars that
the various units have arranged jointly with the central ONCB. Third, we
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coordinate activities concerni~g the rehabilitation of drug addicts. We view
this from the standpoint of a rehabilitation institute.
There is a northern rehabilitation center located at Kilometer 27 halfway
between Chiang Mai and Fang. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Public
Health. With 100 beds, it is able to receive up to 100 addicts.
(Question) Concerning the problems that we are presently experiencing in
the three fieids of activity that you mentioned, how are things?
[Answer] First, we are the coordinators in these three spheres and do not
use people to carry out things. We have only five people while our area of
responsibility covers 17 provinces. The work in each province is different
depe~ding on the narcotics problems that have arisen in each province, and
the severity of the problems is different in each province. With our present
strength of only five men, we cannot keep up with the problems that arise
in all 17 provinces. Thus, from the standpoint of actual operations, we are
trying to work in Chiang Mai Province more than in other provinces because
the work is different everywhere here and Chiang Mai is a large province.
Also, there is more work for us to do here.
[Question] Are you giving more atter.tion to things here becaUSe this is a
large production area? ~
[Answer] Oh! With the number of inen that we have, we are doing as much as
possible. If we had 20 or 100 people, we could do much more. We are not depressed
by the fact that we have only this many men, which is one of our limitations.
(Question] Coordinating activities also refers to gathering information,
doesn't it?
(AnswerJ Yes. We gather various types of data and information. Even though
we cannot obtain all the information that we should at present, I am concentrating
on the drug addiction problem in the 17 northern provinces. What is the problem
like .in Chiang Mai? As for the percentayes concerning the addicts who are
addicted to opium, heroin, amphetamines and so on in these provinces, if
-e do not understand and know about the people's addiction problems, the
_ measures taken to solve the problems will be useless; we will not know what
- to correct. But we are trying to send our officials to all the provinces
in order to learn about these problems. We want to know what percentage of
the people in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phayao and Lamphun are addicted. If
we can obtain such data first, we will be able to coordinate the tasks and
make plans with each of the provinces.
IQuestion] Concerning the various data, does the control sector make it easy
for you to collect the data?
IAnswer) As for the control sector, I think it is very easy to co?lect the
data because this does IlOt pose any danger. There is no reason for them to
conceal things from us. The things that they would want to conceal from us
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because of a lack of trust have more to do with suppression operations. Concerning
the information that they obtain, if they think that they can handle things
themselves, they do not like to disseminate this information to us out of
fear that we will go double check it or something. But from our standpoint,
we do not need to do that; when we get information, we evaluate it. If we
can collect much information, this center will become a narcotics information
center.
[Question] As for what has been done up to now, do we have any data on the
movements of the various groups engaged in the narcotics trade in Chiang
Mai ?
[Answer] Concerning this, it is my understanding that both the police and
the suppression sector of the ONCB have to date gathered much data on this.
But our center does not have such data because it is not our duty to go into
things that deeply. I cannot answer you if you ask how many cases there are
in Chiang Mai or how many suspects there are. Such matters are secret, top
secret. Normally, they do not disseminate such information to those who do
not have a need to know since these are very important secrets.
[Question] Concerning the policy of controlling certain things such as halting
the flow of chemicals [into the area], has this had any effect on our control
~ plans and how have things been coordinated?
[Answer] We have to look at the matter of supply and demand. As for cutting
supply, this can be done from the very beginning so that there is no opium.
This means growing substitute crops, which cuts supply at the very beginning
so that there is no supply. As for the existing supply, we will try to reduce
it by growing substitute crops. This is cutting supply at the source. As
for cutting supply in later stages, this refers to suppression activities
to intercept the opium and keep it from coming down from the mountains or
to intercepting the merchants and making it difficult for them to reach the
mountains. The forms of such suppression activities are a matter of cutting
supply.
As for the chemicals that we want to intercept, chemicals that are used to
produce heroin and morphine, this is directly related to the matter of supply.
If we can intercept these types of chemicals and keep them from reaching
the narcotics producers, they will not be able to produce narcotics.
If opium stays in the mountains and is not brought down [into the plains]
and iE it is not refined into some other substance, it is of very little
significance by itself and is of almost no value. The hill tribes may keep
~ it and smoke it themselves or use it as a medicine. But it will stay in the
mountains unless someone goes and gets it. Thus, announcing various chemical-free
zones as we have done, setting up interception points and obtaining information
in order to seize such chemicals has a very great and direct effect on cutting
supply in the mountains and preventing the opium from being refined into
other substances and reaching the users.
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[Question] Of the 17 northern provinces, which province has the greatest
problems?
[Answer] That is difficult to say. Let's say that at present, officials are
facing the most serious ?roblems in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces.
However, the situation [in these provinces] is rather different. Chiang Rai
borders both Laos and Burma. There is a serious problem of cross-border smuggling.
Intercepting the chemicals and keeping them from entering the border area
here and keeping the chemicals produced abroad from entering teh country
are very serious problems. This is because the border is very very long and
people can cross at many places without our knowing. It is thought that
this is the starting point for the transport [of narcoticsJ. But as for the
situation after Khun Sa was suppressed, security problems have arisen. Besides
the narcotics problem, security problems have arisen in Chiang Rai. Looking
at this, things will probably get worse for Chiang Rai now because the Khun
Sa affair was not just a matter of narcotics but was also a matter of security
and sovereignty.
As for Chiang Mai, it can be thought of as a center or as a transit zone
for shipping [narcotics] to other regions and even to foreign countries.
Furthermore, it is a junction [for goods] coming from Chiang Rai and is like
a trading center. As for the situation at present, officials have thrown
most of their forces into Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.
[QuestionJ Concerning the cultivation of substitute crops, at present, how
much has poppy cultivation declined among the ;ill tribes?
[Answer] Concerning this, things have evolved and it can be seen that in
1973 when the United Nations helped carry out a poppy survey in Thailand,
it was learned that poppies were being cultivated here and the yield reached
approximately 114 tons that year. Then in 1975-1976, the Public Welfare Department
conducted a poppy cultivation survey and found that approximately 62,000
rai were cultivated in poppy. If we estimate roughly that 1 rai can produce
about 1 kilogram [of opiumJ, then the yield is approximately 60,000 kilograms
or more than 60 tons. The latest survey conducted in 1979-1980 showed that
the area planted in poppy has declined to about 37,000 rai. As for the 1980-1981
:~rvey that is now being conducted, the results are not yet in. We do not
know whether the area has decreased further or increased. I understand that
we will know the results by May or June.
[c~uestion] ':his matter also involves our neighbors since some [of the narcoticsJ
come ir~ Erom abroad. Will this bias our data? I am referring to heroin.
~Answerl No. Looking at the matter of self-consumptionor of using [the opiumJ
as a medicine, we estimate that these 37,000 rai do not produce more than
40 tons. There are approximately 300,000 hill tribesmen throughout the country.
Based on the figures collected by the northern drug rehabilitation center,
approximately 12 percent of the hill tribesmen are addicts, which amounts
to tens of thousands of people. These tens of thousands of people consume
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a~roximately 50 tons of the amount they have produced. Thus, as for the
opium that is refined into the morphine and heroin that intoxicates people
here and abroad, only a very small percent of this is produced in Thailand.
Most of this opium comes from our neighbors.
Actually, our problem is much smaller than that of our neighbors. Here, because
the domestic supply is small, if we can intercept the opium coming in.from
abroad, [the problem] will decline even more.
[Question] Concerning this problem, is this because Burma is not carrying
on suppression operations like us, while at the same time, they do not think
tht we are carrying on suppreGsion operations seriously? And aren't there
high-ranking people involved?
[Answer] The reason that we mentioned Burma is that we have very little information
on Laos under its present system of government. As for Burma, speaking frankly,
they have carried on stronger and more resolute suppression operations than
we have. They have taken much stronger action than we have in cutting down
the poppy plants. They destroy tens of thousands of rai of poppy plants every
year because they have a strong policy. They have implemented a crop substitution
policy too. But their leading measures are suppression measures and they
destroy whatever they can.
As for Burma's problems, we have to sympathize with them because most of
the poppy growing area is located in minority group zones where the minority
groups are fighting against them. The government is not able to enter these
areas. If it sends people into these areas, it means that they must fight
the minortity groups. And so they cannot suppress the cultivation of poppies
or the production of morphine in their area. After these narcotics are produced,
they do not go anywhere else but all flow into Thailand. But actually, they
have made a great effort.
[Questionj What is their view of Thailand? Is a real effort being made?
[Answer~ It is difficult to say how they view Thailand because if we ask
them, they will not tell us. But I think that, at least, based on what we
did with Khun Sa, concerning our seriousness and resoluteness, Burma now
feels that we will not permit this. This was not simply a matter of narcotics.
It was also a matter of the country's security. But we still dared to take
action. I think that Burma will understand us better.
[Question] Now that Khun Sa has been suppressed, what do you think the possibili-
ties are for solving the narcotics suppression problem in our country?
[Answer] I think that there will be a long slow down or halt in supply. But
how long this will last I cannot say. At present, they have virtually ceased
production and other activities. It is true that they may have raw materials
but they cannot get chemicals and their equipment has probably been destroyed.
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Thus, at present they probably cannot do what they had intended to do. It
may be several years; I cannot say. I am sure that there will be a great
slow down in production.
We don't know hqw long it will take them to recover. They may go and coordinate
activities with someone else. We don't know.
[Question) Where is Lao Su now?
[Question] I do not have any information on this.
[Question] Concerning Police Colonel Niran Withayawuthikun, there have been
reports that he has joined Khun Sa. Is this true?
(Snswer] I do not know where he is. There is still a warrant out for his
arrest. Whoever knows his whereabouts can go capture him.
[Question] There have been charges that certain MPs are involved in the drug
trade.
[Answer] I don't known anything about this. This is a matter that is beyond
my knowledge. Such a matter as this is a sec~et matter. I have no knowledge
about such matters.
(Question) Concerning the cultivation of substitute crops, has the qovernment
provided a sufficient budget for this?
(Answer] We are re5ponsible for carrying on activities in approximately 51
villages. Our primary budget from the U.N. is enough to carry out our tasks
each year. But concerning the other areas and other units, their budgets
are too small for them to be able to achieve results like our program, which
receives help from the United Nations. This is because the other units are
allocated a very small budget as compared with ours and they do not receive
any support from abroad. Thus, few results�can be achieved from these activities.
Because if we plant only 10 or 20 rai while the hill tribes need hundreds
and thousands of rai under cultivation, this cannot satisfy the demand or
~~olve the problems.
[Question) One of the sectors that you are refering to is the Forestry Department,
isn't it?
(AnswerJ The Forestry Department is one element. It does not have a budget
for the cultivation of substitute crops. It receives money for afforestation
work and the administrative budgets in its units are very small. The same
thing is true for the Department of Public Welfare. It receives very little
money for work concerning the cultivation of substitute crops, even less
thar~ the Forestry Department. What people expect to see happen in this area
cannt happen quickly. If the hill tribes wanted 109~rai and we could give
them all the necessary help, the results could be a~hieved quickly.
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THAILAND
SUA, ETHNIC MINORITY TRAFFICKERS RELATIONSHIPS NOTED
Bangkok SIAM MAI in Thai 20 Mar 82 pp 23, 24
[Article: "Khun Sa, Cha-Erh and A Bi, a Mountain Top War"]
[Text) The imposing "Doi Lang" mountain r~nqe r~ns peacefully along the Thai-
Burmese border, running from Mong Yawn in Burma to as far as Mae Chan District
in Chiang Rai Province, Mae Ai District ir~ Chiang Mai and some areas of Fang
District, [Chiang Mai Province] in Thailand. These hiqh peaks covered with
dense green forests are an ideal hiding place for the heroin refineries of
the various ethnic minority groups, refineries that bring such great
~ profits thatthese groups have fought and died for them.
It is on Doi Lang that Lao Su, an international hEroin kinqpin who on 25 October
1977 fled and amazingly escaped execution by the fihai government, has built
a strong heroin refinery.
Officials who have worked in this area have stated that, in addition to Lao Su,
many other groups have builr heroin refineries in these mountains too. The
most prominent groups here are the LNLA (Lahu National Liberation Army) and
Khun Sa's group.
From reports by officials, it has been learned that the important area of
Doi Lang, which is the location of ~rany refineries, is located mostly in
Mae Ai District in Chiang Mai Province. The group with great influence in
; this area is the LNLA. This is the armed force of the Lahu hill tribe. It
is led by Cha-erh, who is an international narcotics trafficker. Because
he has forces that are armed with modern and powerful weapons, he has widespread
influence. Even Lao Su has to pay protection money to the LNLA of Cha-erh
reyularly. It is the great profits, compara,ble in size to these mountains
themselves, that have tempted various groups to come here and occup,~ the
area.
Then at the beginning of last December, another armed Lahu group led by A
Bi carried on activities quietly in this area. People were sent to contact
Police Major General Phairot Putsayanawin, the cot~miander of the Region 3
Border Patrol Police, Chiang Mai province. They offered to go capture Lao
Su in exchanqe for the 300,000 baht reward that has been offered for the
capture of Lao Su.
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A few days later, the quiet of Doi Lang was shattered with the sounds of
various types of weapons. The heroin refinery of Lao Su, which was under
the protection of Cha-erh, or the LNLA, was heavily attacked by forces of
A Bi. More than 10 of Lao Su's men were killed. Lao Su and some of his men
barely managed to escape.
The forces of A Bi quickly seized the refinery. Much raw opium that was being
readied to produce heroin and the supplies and equipment'~ at the refinery
were seized. As for the supplies and equipment, A Bi later left them near
the camp of the Thai border patrol police in order to show that he had successfully
attacked Lao Su's forces. But A Bi kept the raw opium. Thai officials found
out about this later.
The news of this small war was reported to Supreme Command Headquarters in
detail. A news source in the Region 3 Border Patrol Pulice division has revealed
that this case has led to Police Major General Phairot Putsayanawin, the
commander of the Region 3 border patrol police, being severely reprimanded
by General Saiyut Koetphon since Supreme Command Fieadquarter's intelligence
has confirmed that the forces of A Bi belong to the united front of the White
Flag Burmese Communist Party, Chinese faction.
Supreme Command Headquarters does not want Thai officials to contact or get

_ involved with triis communist united front out of fear that it will grow larger
and pose a danger to Thailand's security in the future. The border patrol
police insist that it was A Bi who made contact; the Thai side did not get
involved at all.
Concerning the background of A Bi's group, a high-level intelligence official
^,~a hhat "wE learned about A Bi's forces only a few years ago. He has always
carried on activities quietly. At present, we still know very little about
him. We only know that he has relations with the Burmese communists. This
group does not have a histroy of being involved with drugs. It does not have
even one heroin refinery. As for weapons, it is understood that this group
is being supported by the Burmese Communist Party." He also said that the
Thai side, especially Supreme Command Headquarters, is watching the movements
of A Bi closely.
After heavily attacking Lao Su, the forces of A Bi began to expand their
influence greatly. Instead of paying protection money to the LNLA of Cha-erh,
Lao Su had to switch and instead pay A Bi in exchange for being allowed to
carry on his operations in safety. Thus, Lao Su built a new herion refinery
under the protection of A Bi. This made Cha-erh very unhappy since this had
formerly been his area. At the beginning of March, Thai officials received
a new report that said that Cha-erh's group has joined with Khun Sa's group
in order to prepare for a new war against A Bi and completely eliminate A
Bi's influence in the Doi Lang area.
"Cha-erh and Khun Sa have a common interest and a common enemy and so they
have joined together. They both hope to return and have influence in the
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Doi Lang area," said the same intelligence source. This means that there
is a great possibility of a war for influence over the mountain area between
Khun Sa and Cha-erh on one side and A Bi, whose forces are expanding, on
the other. As for Khun Sa, after the Thais launched the attack against ~8an
Hin Taek, his forces were very weak but he was by no means "done for'."' Doi
Lang is a new spot where Khun Sa is making preparations to restore [his insluence).
However, all of this is being watched very closely by Thai officials. Finally,
concerning who will have influence over poi Lang in the end, particularly
A Bi's group whose background is quickly being studied, we will probably
have to wait and see how the government decides to handle this problem and
what methods it uses. We must see whether it launches a military operation
against Doi Lang as it did at Ban Hin Taek or whether it has learned the
lesson that such a method does not bring any results at all.
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Photo caption: Cha-erh (far right) at a meeting with KMT soldiers at Doi Lang,
a meeting arranged by Mr Aram Yiemarun, the deputy governor of Chiang Mai
province.
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THAILAND
SUA FORCES FLEE BURMESE ATTACKS, RETURN 'PO THAILAND
Bangkok SIAM RAT in Thai 8 Mar 82 pp 1-12
[Article: "Khun Sa's Forces Flee Burmese Troops and Return to Thailand"]
[Text] The forces of Khun Sa are fleeing into Thailand after beinq heavily
attacked by Burmese troops alnnq the border.
A report from the Chiang Rai Commissioner's Office of the Provincial 3 states
that approximately 120 soldie~s of Khun Sa with 50 mules [ma tang] re-entered
Thailand from Burma at the end of last month. They entered the country near
Doi Putao Bansansaimai in Ponq.pha.Connnune, Chiang Saen District, Chianq Rai
Province.
This police report also stated t:hat these forces have stopped and rested
at an Akha hill tribe village at Doi Sango in Chiang Saen District. Their
goal is to proceed on to Mong Wa in Burma,but they may hot be able to proceed
any farther.
The report said that the Burmese have established death squads in order to
completely suppress the forces of Khun Sa. Approximately 200 men have been
stationed along the Thai-Burmese border.
Mr Sakda Aphonq, the governor of Chiang Rai Province, has confirmed a report �
from the province's operation center in Phan District. He said that terrorists
have made preparations and are harassing Thai officials aqain and that a
major operation will be launched in April. The plan is to burn down Wat Nong
Phakchit in order ta exert pressure on [government] soldiers to leave their
bases. The province has made preparations to counter this.
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THAILAND
POST-RAID LOCATIONS OF SUA DESCRIBED
Bangkok SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN in Thai 14 Mar 82 pp 4, 5
[Article: "The Smell of War Is Still In the Ai~; Khun Ss~ Is Still Active"]
['^extJ Since the Sua, or Shan United Army, of international heroin kit~gpin
Khun sa, which had a secure base at Ban Hin ~aek.,~waS heavily attacked and
dispersed by ground forces in coordination ,with ai~' foxces in January, the
remaining SUA forces have had to look for a"new secure base" along the Thai-
' Burmese border. These forces have not been sm~shed completely.
As for the losses suffered by the SUA in the "B~n Hin Taek" operation, only
the soldiers guarding "Chang Si Chuan," or Chao Fa Lan, and the soldiers
guarding the position were lost. As for the com~m~ttee-level units, including
Khun Sa, the leader of the SUA, and Chang Si Chuan, the secretary-general
who has been in countless battles, these all escaped and gathered the forces
together again. Also, most of the Haw Chinese bases are still in existence
and were not affected by this operation.
The main headquarters in Burma is the Sieu Lasang camp, which is only 4 kilometers
west of Ban Mae Moh. This has again become an assetnbly point for Khun Sa.
Thus, Ban mae Moh, where Khun Sa is staying according to initial reports,
has become a lively place once again since SUA forces of more than 3,000
men have come from their base in Tha Yang District in Rasieu Province, Burma,
to provide support. The aim in gathering these forces together is to show
their influence over the other minority groups by attacking [these groups],
expanding their influence and [setting up] secure bases.
A news source has stated that Khun Sa's main base camps this time are at
Doi Lang in Chiang Mai Province and at a base camp of the Wa National Army
near Mon Yawn opposite Fang District in Chiang Mai Province, which is the
route used to go from Chiang Rai Province'~to Mae Hong Son Province. If Khun
Sa is able to establish new base camps at these two locations, it is believed
that this will lead to closer coordination of activities between the SUA
and the Shan States Army, whiah is led.by Khun Saeng. Khun Saeng is t;.e uncle
of Khun Sa. He has about 3,000 armed soldiers.
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These movements of Khun Sa have caused great worry ior the Region 5 border
patrol police and the Commissioner's Office of the Provincial 3 because the
smell of war has again arisen in the Golden Triangle area along the Thai-
Burmese border, a place where the state power of Thailand does not yet reach,
which has qiven rise to many free forces and narcotics trafficking. And the
SUA has announced that it will definitely wipe out the Wa National Army.
The reason is that this group has worked for the Americans and for the narcotics
suppression units by providing information for the attack on Ban Hin Taek.
And it has refused to join the SUA in liberating the Shans. Thus, this is
in retaliation for old debts.
The leader of the Wa National Army is Pha Pokang Su. He considers himself
to be a Shan, and he established a Shan army. He fought against Burma until
he was wounded. He then joined forces with Ang Sieng Chu and Sieng Su and
the Maha Sang and Lo Wu Chu groups.
The thing that is worth noting is that the Maha Sang and Lahu groups at Doi Lang,
which are the tarqets of attack by the SUA this time, are groups that have
turned and joined the Burmese Communist Party. In particular, the Lahu group
moved its forces and attacked Lao Su, who was living under the protection
of Cha-erh. Lao Su':~ group was dispersed and two of his heroin refineries
were burned down. This has led people to suspect that the SUA is considering
joining the "united front" of the Burmese Communist Party after having already
purchased narcotics. Because it is well known that the area that they will
live in is a zone of influence where the Burmese Cammunist Party wants to
expand its influence.
Pha Pokang Su is thE � ader of the Wa National Army. He is a person who firmly
intends to liberate the Shan State from Burma. His army has fought fiercely
against. the Burmese government but he does not have adequate forces. He once
seized Mong Tang Yan, the center of the narcotics trade, but he was later
driven out by the Burmese. He is opposed to communism and to the Burmese
Communist Party, which has 30,000 armed troops and which is the largest group.
If the SUA can destro~~ Pha Pokang Su's forces, this will mean the elimination
of another "enemy" of the communist party.
The Golden Triangle is an area where the power of the state cannot reach
and administer things efficiently. This is because this is a border area
where three countries, Thailand, Burma and Laos, converge. In addition, the
terrain here is composed of jungles and mountains. Thus, it is difficult
to send in forces to provide support or carry on suppression operations.
Gven aircraft cannot harm the free forces that live in this border area and
use it as a hideout. Dropping bombs cannot succeed because the mountain ridges
provide good shelter. The borders between the countries are not as clearly
dPmarcated as they should be. The rivers change course depending on the season.
~ven though it is not the policy of these minority groups to use weapons
against the Thai government, there is clear evidence that the Chinese that
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have entered and settled down in Thailand are involved in selling opium in
order to obtain money with which to purchase weapons and establish forces
to protect the shipment of raw opium to the heroin refineries located along
the Thai-Burmese border, where there is no state power. S ome hill tribes
have been induced to take up arms against the government. The great profits
from the narcotics trade have created loopholes and led to corruption. Governmen
officials have been bribed, and they are an "element" of the narcotics trade
that helps these minority groups smuggle narcotics out of the Golden Tr'angle
to world markets.
Reports of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board state that the number
~ of hill tribesmen who are involved in the opium trade in the golden Triangle
area along the Thai border reaches 245,000 men. There are Hmong, Yao, Lahu,
Lisu, Akha and Karen tribesmen and Haw Chinese. Of this number, the tribe
with the largest number is the Karen tribe with 150,000. Next come the Hmongs
with approximately 50,000. The Haw Chinese are the smallest group with
approximately 1,500 men, but they are the ones who control the economy and
who can generate profits of 30-100 percent of the price of the goods by trading
with the hill tribes.
However, these figures are not completely reliable because the hill tribes
live dispersed here and there. Villages have not been established and there
are no administrative regulations. The National Security Council has stated
that this figure represents only about 30 percent of the total number of
~ hill tribesmen who live here. As for the other 70 percent, officials have
not been able to go and conduct a complete survey. Thus, it is thought that
there are about 1 million hill tribesmen in the Thai-Burmese border area.
For all of these minority groups, poppy is the primary crop in earning a
living. The lack of state power and the implementation of unclear policies
have ensured that the disorder in the struggle for opium profits will continue.
The golden Triangle is threatened by a war between forces that are vying
for influence. And the sound of guns and explosives �rom suppression operations
will continue unabated.
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THAILAND
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER RTA RELATIONS WITH KMT 93RD DIVISION
Bangkok MATICHON in Thai 7 Mar 82 pp 5, 6
[Article: "The Collapse of Headquarters 04 Because of Opium"]
[Text] "Recently, General Saiyut Koetphon, the Supreme Commander, established
a headquarters for the security of and the improvement of the living conditions
of the people living along the Thai-Burmese border in the three provinces
of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son. This new headquarters is responsible
for 12 border villages. Among these villages are Santikhiri Village (Doi
Mae Salong) and Ban Thoet Thai (Ban Hin Taek)," said Colonel Somsak Sis�uphandit
to MATICHON.
The name of this new headquarters is the Northern Border Development and
Defense Center. It is directly subordinate to Supreme Command Headquarters
and the Ministry of interior. It has been divided into two sections in accord
with the responsibilities: The Border Development Center, which is engaged
in development activities, and the Border Defense Center, which coordinates
suppression activities.
This amounts to the Northern Border Development and Defense Center replacing
Headquarters 04.
Colonel Somsak also stated that Headquarters 04 was established in accord
with a cabinet resolution in 1970 in order to control the 93rd Division,
disarm the Haw Chinese soldiers and conduct surveys and compile biographical
records. When the military tasks were completed, matters were to be turned
over to the Ministry of Interior. At present, things are in the stage outlined
by the 1970 resolution. Thus, the name of Headquarters 04 will be changed
in accord with the responsibilities.
Z'he 93rd KMT Division was a force of the nationalist Chinese who opposed
the expansion of communist influence. Its headquarters was located in Yunnan
Province [in China]. When Mao Tse-tung seized control of China, the nationalist
Chinese soldiers had to withdraw to Taiwan, where they built a country. The
93rd Divisi4n was the only force that did not get away in time. The larger
part of this force withdrew and fled south, seizing control of Burmese territory
at Ban Tha Khi Lek. The Burmese government appealed to the United Nations
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and in the end the United States and Thailand provided help by having the
93rd Division settle down along the border from Chiang Rai to Mae Hong Son.
The aim was to have this force serve as a buffer against the expansion of
communist power. It was also to gather info~mation and cause disturbances
in China.
In one period, the Thai government arranged to send soldiers of the 93rd
Division to Taiwan if they wanted to go. But most are still living in the
border area. There are two main headquarters. The one at Tham Ngop in Fang
District, Chiang Mai Province, is the headquarters of the 3rd Army under
the command of General Li. The one at Doi Mae Salong, which has now changed
its name to Santikhiri Village, in Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province,
is the home of the 5th Army of General Li Ui Thien, who took over from General
Tuan Si Won, who died in 1980.
~ A high-level military news source has told MATICHON SUTSAPDA that the 93rd
Division was given both money and weapons by the CIA in order to harass the
. Chinese communist government. But the financial support gradually declined
and so the 93rd Division turned to earning money by selling opium and illegal
goods in order to support the army. It governed itself and the state power
of Thailand had no meaning in the zone of influence of the 93rd Division.
' And so the Thai government had to pass a resolution establishing forward
Headquarters 04.
The same news source said that the relations of the 93rd Division with high-
ranking Thai military officials went very deep. The high-ranking military
officers of the 93rd Division had comfortable houses in the plains and were
given Thai citizenship in accord with the law. And the 93rd Division trusted
General Kriangsak Chamanan so much that [it built] a guest house called
"Chamanan House~~ at Doi Mae Salong.
"Before you enter the villuge, you will see a sign that clearly expresses
[the group's] loyalty to General Kriangsak," said this news source.
During the time General Kriangsak was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
he was in charge of forward Supreme Command Headquarters. It was to look
after the 93rd Division. Several occupational development plans were made.
But both domestic and foreign news reports have made serious attacks, saying
that General Kriangsak is one general who is known to be involved in the
narcotics trade of the 93rd Division.
Another military news source stated that the 93rd Division serves as a narcotics
distributor. It purchases narcotics from international narcotics traffickers.
Even Lo Sing Han and Lao Su are regular customers of the 93rd Division. And
this division is still involved in the narcotics trade today. Then in the
- raiddle of last year, General Prem Tinsulanon, the prime minister, announced
at a cabinet meeting that government officials were forbidden from helping
the 93rd Division and Khun Sa because they were engaged in the narcotics
trade. In addition, a resolution was passed entrusting the Ministry of Interior
a~d the Ministry of Defense with the task of solving the problem quickly.
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Besides this, some military of.ficials of forward Headquarters 04 have been
involved in the narcotics trade too. This has stimulated General Prem to
find a way to solve this problem. Also, there have been reports that part
of the income of one opposition political party comes form the 93rd Division,
said this military news source to MATICHON SUTSAPDA.
At present, the Haw Chinese at Santikhiri Village are openly earning a living
by growing cold-weather fruits,and the item that has made the village well
known is tea, which is first sent to Chiang Mai Province before being sent
on to Hong Kong and Taiwan. The tea from Santikhiri is not sold in Thailand.
At most, [a person] can buy a small quantity when he visits Santikhiri.
Colonel Somsak talked about the plans of the Northern Border Development
and DeEense Center. After the government sup~ressed Khun Sa at Ban Hin Taek,
that entire remote border area became unsafe and foreign forces may enter
again. Thus, there must be forces to defend the border. Military forces,
local border patrol police and thahan phran irregulars are being used to
provide protection. As for the development plans, the Ministry of Interior
will establish special Self-Defense and Development Volunteers villages.
At present, the details are being worked out.
This is the second step in the struggle by General Prem's governm~t to defeat
the drug trade in the Golden Triangle using clever stratagems. The problEm
is whether the people who carry out the operations are strong enough to withstand
the temptations of the "black-hearted lords." Even a police colonel who was
a superintendent with the Commissioner's Office of the Provi_ncial 3 became
a slave.
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~HAILAND
CHINESE HAW VILLAGES GROWING POPPY ZN CHIANG RAI
Bangkok MATICHON in Thai 8 Mar 82 pp 1, 12
[Article: "Two Chinese Haw Villages Discovered Followinr~ In the Footsteps
- of 'Khun Sa'"]
[Text] Two Chinese Haw villages in the Thai-Burmese border area in Mae Suai
and Wiang Chai districts, Chiang Rai Province, with a popul~tion of over
1,000 people have been discovered to be carrying on activities that probably
violate Thai laws. It is suspected that they are growing poppies and producing
heroin. They have set up a zone of influence and have resolutely prohibited
outsiders from interfering. This may be another serious problem for the government
just like Khun Sa.
A MATICHON reporter has reported from Chiang Rai that, at present, in Tha
Ko Commune in Mae Suai District, Chiang Rai Province, which borders Phrao
District in Chiang Mai Province to the north of Khun Nam Kham, about 1,000
Haw Chinese have seized the area ~nd built houses. This village does not
even have an official name,
The reporter reported that, from following the reports, it has been learned
that these Haw Chinese entered and settled down in this area in 1978. More
have been arriving all the time. At this village, extraordinary safety measures
have been ~..mplemented in the village and surrounding area. For example, there
are large village rice granaries similar to the rice banks of the government
development villages. This village is trying to keep other villagers not
concerned out of the area.
The report stated that this Haw Chinese village is engaged in several suspicious
activities. For example, they may be trying to establish an expanded zone
of influence just like Ban Hin Taek in the past. And besides the fact that
they are felling trees nearby, they may also be growing poppy and producing
heroin. Neighboring villagers have confirmed that behind this village next
to Ban Mae Tam, at least 100 rai are planted in poppies.
At the same time, in Wiang Chai District in Chiang Rai Province, there is
another village of the same type at Ban Mae Bo~g in Pasang Commune, Wiang Chai
District. As at the other village, over 1,000 Haw Chinese have bui?t houses there.
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_ "It is possible tt~at these Haw Chinese are part of the same young military
forces that came to live in Thailand during the period when the government's
policy helped this group to come in and settle down and establish villages
- and zones of influence. This will be another problem for the government in
- the future when it becomes necessary to expel this group," stated the same
news source.
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. THAILAND
KMT DIVISION TRAFFICKING, MILITARY ACTIVITIES N03'ED
Bangkok SIAM RAT SAPPADA WICHAN in Thai 21 Feb 82 pp 18-22
(Article: "The 93rd Division, an Independent State In Thailand"J
[Excerpts] AFter General Prem Tinsulanon, the pxime minister, sent border
patrol forces to attack Ban Hin Taek in Mae Kham COmmune, N~de Chan District,
Chiang Rai Province, which was a narcotics praduction center and a place
where the armed forces of Khun Sa, or Chanq Si. Fu, an internatianal narcotics
trafficker, were gathered, he announced that he would resolutely suppress
and eliminate the other narcotics production centers and the armed forces
of the other groups that have entered and carried on operations in Thailand
just as was done (in the case of Khun SaJ. He said that there would be no
exceptions. This is to be done because it is believed that this poses a danger
to the nation's security and it is a violatiQn of the country's sovereignty.
Because of this, people in general have become interested and wonder who
is to be the target of the government's next supFression campaign since there
are other minority groups with their own armed forces that have settled down
in Thailand and make a living in the narcotics trade. Khun Sa's was certainly
not the only such group. There are several other such groups and some of
them are larger than Khun Sa's group.
One such groug is the 93 KMT Division that is ~aw living in several localities in
~ the northern provinces of Thailand. But their mczst important position, or
the location of their main force, is at poi Mae Salong in Mae Chan District,
Chiang Rai Province, which is only about 13 kilometers from Ban Hin Taek.
Almost 3,000 people live here. Almost 2,500 people live in Ban Nonguk in
Chinag Dao District and in Ban Thangop in Fang District, Chiang Mai Province.
When other members of this group are added in, the total number is about
10,000. And this does not include those living here and there in small groups.
The Actions of the 93rd KMT Divison That Chall.enge the Law
The actions of the KMT forces that have been summarized can be divided as
follows:
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1. They have engaged in the narcotics trade. That is, they have transported
opium from the Shan State in Burma into Thailand or Laos in order to sell
it to the dealers who come to the border area in order to purchase it. And
they hire themselves out as guards to escort the opium caravans for the dealers.
Concerning this, the dealers have great trust in them because the KMT forces
_ have greater forces and more weapons than the other minority groups.
Later on, when the government made a greater effort to suppress the opium
trade, the KMT forces found a new way to make money by building refineries
to produce heroin or morphine. They built these refineries in the Thai-Burmese
border area. They did this because they felt that such activities would be
easier to defend against government suppression drives than the opium trade.
This can be seen from the fact that border patrol police carried on a suppression
operation against a heroin refinery at Doi Huai Mak in Mae Chan District,
Chiang Rai Province, near the Burmese border in August 1981. During this
operatior.~, there was a clash with KMT soldiers of the 93rd Division who were
guarding the refinery. But there have been reports that this was an opium
refinery of Khun Sa since it was located far away near Ban Hin Taek. Concerning
this refinery, it is said that there were many more KMT soldiers there than
forces of Khun Sa. But government officials showed little interest in this
and, for this reason, some people have suspected that the KMT soldiers of
the 93rd Division have played a part in suppressing Khun Sa, who is a competitor
in narcotics trading and production.
2. Concerning the smuggling of weapons and ammunition into Thailand, with
the trading point located at Ban Houei Say in Laos, which is opposite Chiang
Khong District In Chiang Rai Frovince, besides engaging in this constantly
in order to increase their own strength, [the KMT forcesJ have sold weapons
to the minority groups in Burma. It is said that the number of weapons that
the border patrol police seized at Ban Hin Taek is very small as compared
with the number of weapons in the possession of the KMT forces at Doi Mae
Salong or Ban Tham Ngop.
3. They have aided the minority groups in Burma in carrying out hostile acts
against the Burmese government. That is, they have sold weapons, or pxchanged
weapons,for opium because some Burmese states are important poppy cultivation
,-reas. The KMT forces have thus relied on these minority groups, who are
enemies of Burma, to produce opium and supply it to their narocotics refineries.
It is believed that Burma is well aware of this. When Thailand suppressed
Khun Sa, who is the leader of the SUA or national liberation forces of the
Shans, Burma was probably very pleased by this because this Shan national
liberation group does not have any great power to protect it. But concerning
the KMT forces, if they did not have a strong ally, they would certainly
not have been able to survive to the present.
4. They have smuggled foreigners into the country. Most of these foreigners
are Chinese from the southern part of China who are dissatisfied with the
communist system of government or Chinese from Burma, which includes those
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known as Haw Chin~se. Concerning this, it is understood that they have engaged
in this because these people are relatives or they have wanted these Chinese
to serve in their military forces or wanted to make a profit from their labor.
But in practice, after bringing these people in, the first thing done is
that the KMT forces select the young men to serve as soldiers. As for the
elderly, the women and the children, they allow them to stay in safe areas
such as in the headquarters area or in the jungle nearby for 6 months to
a year or even longer dependinq on the situation. After that they send them
to live in nearby Haw Chinese refugee villages, having them live with Haw
Chinese families that came before them. They then try to contact the Thai
officials concerned with overseeing [the refugees] in order to obtain documents
showing that they are refugees. Concerning this illegal smugqling of people
into the country, they smuggle in groups ranqing in size from 10 to more
than 1,000 people. For example, Supreme Command Headquarters received a report
in 1964 that stated that KMT soldiers had smuggled approximately 1,800 Ha~
Chinese and their families into Thailand in the area of Ban Bang Nun in Mae
Chan District, Chiang Rai Province. This group came from Mong Kwan in Burma.
As for the routes regularly used by the KMT forces to smuggle people into
the country, actually, they use the same routes used to transport opium. For
example, there is the route from Yunnan Province [in China] which runs through
the northern part of the Shan State in Burma and then into Thailand in the
area of Napiengluang, Tham Ngok and Tha Ton in Fang district, Chiang Mai
Province, or in the area of Doi Tung in Mae Sai District and Doi Mae Salong
in Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province. Otherwise, they leave the Shan
State, travel through the Lao province of Hua Khong and enter Thailand near
Ban Hat Pai in Wieng Commune, Chiang Khong District.
More Dangerous Than Khun Sa
Concerning the violation of Thai laws by the KMT forces, besides what has
been metnioned already, there are many other things too. For example, they
have set up schools to provide military traininq and primary and secondary
schools to teach Chinese. These schools accept hill tribe children and the
children of the Chinese in Thailand. There are such schools in the area of
the 3rd Army Headquarters at Ban Tham Ngok in Pongtam Commune, Fang District,
Chiang Mai Province, and at the Doi Mae Salong headquarters in Pasang Commune,
Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province. As for the school at Doi Mae Salong,
besides teaching Chinese, it also provides funds for [studentsJ to study
in Taiwan. Thus, this school is so popular that people go out of their way
to send their children to study at Doi Mae Salong.
Concerning the schools of the KMT forces, later on after the KMT forc~s were given
the status of refugees and allowed to build homes here, two schools were
built: the Santikhiri school at Doi Mae Salong, which took its name from
the name of the village, and the Santiwana school at Ban Tham Ngok in Chiang
Mai Province. As for those schools that had been teaching Chinese, they were
allowed to register as private schools.
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Another matter concerns the establishment of tax collection points, such
as that at Ban Nonguk in Chiang Dao District, which is the refugee village
of the 3rd KMT Army. It seems that KMT soldiers set up an illegal tax collection
point at Kingphawok abcut 1 kilometer inside the border with Burma. At this
tax collection point, there were two storehouses. When merchants from Burma
came to buy goods in Thailand, the KMT soldiers forced them to purchase goods
only from them. And they collected a tax of 4 percent on the goods sold.
If a merchant went and purchased goods in Muang District, Chiang Mai province,
and returned with these goods past this checkpoint, he had to pay a tax of
10 percent and there was no guarantee of his safety.
The matter of KM T~oldiers setting up a tax collection point in Chiang Dao
District is well known among the villagers because, along this route, another
illegal tax collection point has been set up by the Free Mussuh. There have
been reports that the disputes between the KMT soldiers and the Free Mussuh
over collecting these taxes in Thailand have led to violent disputes to the
point where weapons have been used to settle the matter. But the important
thing is that there have been reports that Burmese troops from the Pong Pakhaem
camp once travelled, in uniform and with weapons, to the illegal tax collection
point of the KMT soldiers, held discussions and then left.
The establishment of an illegal tax collection point by KMT soldiers, or
the refugee KMT soldiers' cooperative store as it is called, at Ban Nonguk
has caused trouble for the local people and for the buses. This is beCause
the vehicles have had to stop picking up passengers and they have lost income.
And people who made a living bringing in and selling goods have been affected
because the KMT soldiers have resolutely prohibited them from bringing in
goods. They have complained about this and appealed to high-ranking officials
of Supreme Command Headquarters, asking that it provide help and solve this
problem. They have complained that the government has treated the legal residents
of the country unjustly, making them pay taxes to the government, which uses
the taxes of the people to help the KMT soldiers and Haw Chinese by providing
houses and jobs for them and even increasing their well-being by improving
sanitation. For example, water pipes several kilometers in leagth have been
laid for the KMT soldiers at Ban Nonguk so they will have water for consumption.
But the Thai people who live near Ban Nonguk lack water and live a marginal
ccistence. They must struggle to support themselves while the government
does not yive any attention to them at all.
Some people have charged that some government officials such as border patrol
policemen and officials from Headquarters 04 have benefited from the establishment
of this illegal tax collection point of the KMT soldiers. It is said that
tt~is tax collection point makes an income of 30,000 to 40,000 baht per month.
Supreme Command Headquarters Requested That They Be Given Refugee Status
EvPn though the KMT forces entered Thailand in 1961 and have been living
here ever since, action, or stipulating a policy of action, on the matter
of these KMT soldiers waG taken only in 1970 after long negotiations between
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the then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Air Chief Marshal Thawee
Chunlasap, and the Chinese ambassador to Thailand, negotiations that began
in 1967. And the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff had to travel t~,Taiwan
to negotiate with officials of the Republic of China in 1970.
But the result of these negotiations was that some elements of the KMT forces
were not willing to return to Taiwan, particularly General Li Won Fan, the
commanding general of the 3rd Army, and General Tuan Si Won, the commanding
general of the Sth Army.
The reason that neither of these two Chinese generals wanted to return t~
Taiwan was that, first, neither one had anjr interests or relations in Ta~iwan.
Second, they could not abandon the soldiers whom they had been with for so
long, many of whom were relatives. And third, returning to Taiwan might have
been dangerous since during the war with the Chinese communists, they had
killed many communists and many of the relatives of these people were living
in Taiwan. They might have carried a grudge and tried to harm them.
Thus, they proposed to Air Chief Marshal Thawee Chunlasap, the chairman of
the joint chiefs of staff,that they be allowed to stay in Thailand as refugees.
It was up to the government to grant them alien status or some other status
in the future. As for the men in their command and their families, it depended
on whether the government felt that it was proper to let all of them or some
elements stay or whether they would not be allowed to enter as refugees.
All of them would have to obey all orders and all Thai laws and not do anything
contrary to Thai customs.
After that, Supreme Command Headquarters proposed to the cabinet, through
the National Security Council, that:
The KMT forces of the 3rd and 5th armies and their families should be given
permission to live in Thailand with the status of "refugees," with most of
them being al~owed to remain in the areas where they had been living. One
force was to go live in the Doi Luang and Doi Phamon area in Chiang Rai Province�
These people were to be allowed to live and work in areas stipulated by the
government and projects that would enable these people to become ordinary
citizens were to be implemented step by step.
After this had been done, the position was to be that there were no longer
any armed KMT soldiers in Thailand.
The cabinet at that time issued a resolution approving this proposal on
6 October 1970. Supreme Command Headquarters acted in accord with this resolution
by establishing the Headquarters for the Movement of Refugee KMT Forces,
or Headquarters 04.
As for General Li Won Fan and General Tuan Si Won, they were given alien
cardG and were allowed to enter the country legally. They later changed their
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citizenship and became Thai citizens. But unfortunately, General Tuan died.
General Lui E Thien took over and became the leader of the refugee KMT forces
at Doi Mae Salong. His Thai name is Mr Arun Charoenthangchanya.
Is There Really an Armed Force?
As for the present situation of the KMT forces at Doi Mae Salong and Ban
Tham Ngok, a tourist who goes there will be allowed to see only what resembles
an ordinary village. That is, he will see fields planted in tea or cold-weather
fruits. But in fact, this is only one aspect because, in reality, on one
side of Doi Mae Salong and Tham Ngok, there is still a headquarters, or military
forces. Because if they were really engaged only in growing tea and cold-weather
fruits, they would certainly not have enough to live on. Thus, trading in
opium, or producing narcotics, and trading in smuggled goods such as jade
is still the main occupation of the KMT soldiers, an occupation that they
certainly cannot give up. This can be seen from the fact that when the border
patrol police attacked and destroyed the heroin refinery at Doi Huai Mak,
which was said to belong to Khun Sa, there were KMT soldiers quarding the
refinery and they opposed the operation of the officials. Besides this, some
KMT soldiers have been employed to guard road construction and some even
fought against the communist terrorists at Khao Kho. Even at some of the
places where the KMT forces live, there are bunkers and armed soldiers on
guard.
A reporter for the newspaper THE NATION who recently went to cover the suppression
of Khun Sa at BAn Hin Taek and who by chance went to Doi Mae Salong in order
to see the "Kriangsak House" that the KMT soldiers had built as a memorial
and quest house related that when he raised his camera to take a picture
of this house, an armed man in uniform signaled him not to take the picture.
But when the man saw that the reporter was going to go ahead and take the
picture, he took his rifle and acted as if he was going to aim it at the
reporter. But what is certain is that he was a Chinese soldier since he could
not speak Thai and his facial features were Chinese.
Concerning the matter of the "Kriangsak House" at Doi Mae Salong, General
"riangsak Chamanan, the former prime minister and presently an MP from Roi
~t Province, told a reporter that this is not his house. Rather, the KMT
soldiers of the 93rd Division built it as a memorial or in memory of the
work that he had done that concerned the 93rd Division and that had given
them a chance to live in Thailand as refugees, with almost all of them now
having become Thai citizens. He stayed at this house only once. But by chance,
this house was built while General Kriangsak was prime minister and so some
people have made various criticisms. Besides this,it seems that both the
KMT forces and Headquarters 04 are still trying to keep people from visiting
this house and this makes people even more suspicious since the KMT soldiers
of the 93rd Division have long been known for their involvement in the opium
and narcotics trade and it seems that they are even more well known than
Khun Sa since the KMT forces were once an army. Concerning the narcotics
trade, it is well known that this trade can generate huge incomes much faster
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J� �
than other professions, with the exception of politics for some politicians.
In particular, if a politician or powerful person can protect and support
the narcotics trade and keep it from being suppressed, he will have a chance
to become very wealthy.
General Prem Tinsulanon stated that he would resolutely suppress the narcotics
trade and the foreign armed forces that have entered Thailand.
Khun Sa was not suppressed because of pressure from any great power. This
was his [Prem's] own decision after everything had been prepared. And this
was not done just to "scare" them, or something else of this nature.
_ The thing that everyone is now watching and wondering about is: When will .
the government be ready to suppress and eliminate the other narcotics traders
or other armed forces that are living in Thailand?
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
FRENCH NARCOTICS OFFICIAL VISITS--Bangkok, 2 Apr (AFP)--The chief of the
French central narcotics bureau, Jacques Franquet, today completed a week-
long visit to Thailand, which was part of an international campaign against
drug trafficking. France is the only Europefin country which is supplied
mostly with heroin from the "golden triangle" of Burma, Laos and Thailand.
Mr Franquet said he was impressed at the efforts being made in northern
Thailand to encourage the hilltribes to cultivate coffee, vegetables and
fruit.instead of opium--a multi-million dollar campaign financed with he?p
from the United States, West Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. During
his visit, Mr Franquet met the head of the Thai narcotics control board,
General Phao Sarasin, and Tha~ police chiefs. He also traveled to the north
of the country where he saw the effects of a Thai drive in January on the
principal heroin producer of the golden triangle, Khun Sa. French narcotics
officials said that in the last few months there had been a reduction in
the seizures of drugs from Thailand and no arrests of French drug addicts in
Thailand. Mr Franquet emphasized that whole sectors of the drug trade
totally escaped the police. About 60 tons of heroin reach the world markets
each year and only around one ton is seized. [Text] [Hong Kong AFP in
English 1333 GMT 2 Apr 82 BK]
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CANADA
PROSECUTOR CITES VARIOUS MEANS USED TO SMUGGLE HASHISH �
Vancouver THE VANCOUVER SUN in English 10 Mar 82 p A14
[Text]
VICTORIA (CP) - Crown prosecutor washing machines that were ahlpped to
Gordon Macdonald told a B.C. Supreme Toronto, and in a Jeep shipped to Lon-
Court jury Tuesday that 10 persons don.
used washing machines, champagne Macdonald said he also expected evi-
bottles aad television sets to smuggle dence to sbowth ~t a large quantity o,f
has}ush inW Canada. hashish waa hlddea ip backgammoa
Macdonald outlined the procedures boards which were seized in'.North
duriag bis opening remarks in the trial Dalwta. '
of the 10 charged a?it6 conaplring to im- ~e jury was excused until st lea~t
port the drug into B.C., between Feb. l, Friday atter ~dacdoneld~ tQld Mr. Jus-
1979, and Oct.16,1980. tice Joha Bouck the prosecution d~anted
The 10, including a former Saskatoon to try to clear up a nnm~er a! legal
policeman, his wife and son, all are , arguments.
frnm Canada. ~
Macdonald said that In oae case, liq- Charged in the conspiracy Are: Peter
uid hashish was hiddea in a champagne Cameron Newal~, 61, his wife Frances
bottle which was carried In a basket of Newall, 50, and aoa Peter Nfwall, 26,
fruit on an airplane from Austria to all formerly of S~ekatoon and Auetrta;
Seattle. It was then brought to Victoria Bruce Erven, 29, Den~nia Frbner, 26,
and;10,000 was sent to persons in Aus- MB~e Peppy, 29, and Martin Winatan-
ley, 28, aU of VicWria; Vicfor Khoury,
tI''a. 30, of Mqntreal; Douglas Baker, 28, of
Hasltish wa~ also hldden in a televi- Timmins, Ont.; and Her.bert S�bneider,
sion set, in hot water bottles inaide. 31, of Toronto.
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CANADA
RCMP TO PURSUE DRUG PROFITS IN NEW TACK AGAINST ILLEGAL TRADE
~ Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL in English 17 Mar 82 p 3
[Text]
EDMONTON (CP) - Specially and the Maritimes. Some units, by
trained teams of RCMP financial drawing on investigators irom the
sleuths will soon be tracking down the force's commercial crlme section
high-mliers in Canada's lllegal drug with backgrounds in drug entorce-
: trade~ in what Supt. Rod Stamier calls ment~ could be in operation within a
"a new line ot attack on drug trattick- month.
ers." He said U.S. enforcement agencies~
, "We're going after the money," backed by tougher financial laws~
Supt. Stamler~ the senior oHicer in the have been successful at selzing funds
force's drug enforcement branch, said directly connected with the lilegal
in an interview fmm Ottawa. In a sale of drugs. "They've proven this �
strategy that has already proved approach, works.. But with the U.S.
successful in the United States, inves- moving heavily in this direction we
tigators will concentrate not on seiz- have to do the same In order to ensure
ing the drugs themselves but on the we don't get the criminals heading
flow of money from their illegal sale. this way:"
"They will be specially trained in Canadian chiefs of police decided
~ accounting~ finance and business ~~t summer to back legislation that
matters to enable them to trace laun- woeild give pollce the power to freeze
~ dered funds through varlous institu-
~ tions." . and selze the assets ot people involved
. The program will attack the drug ~ organized crime. They said stron-
kingpins where it hurts most - their Ser legislation ls necessary because
pocketbooks~ he said~ and "I feel the illegal sale of drugs is the single
that's the key. That's what motivates most lucrative criminal activity ta
- these individuals. If you take away day.
the profits it wili have a tremendous Supt. Stamler said drug use is on
effect. the rise in Canada and the United
. States as a result of back-to-back
"Historically we've looked at the bumper crops ln the worid's drug-
: drugs and the couriers and lhe people producing areas. As larger qu~ntities
who handle it. We're now trying to get of illegal drugs hit the street~ he said,
the very highest level ot the drug the crime rate wiU rise.
syndicates - the people who are actu-
ally controlling it."
The new twaman units will b2 es-
~ tablished first In seven centres: Van-
couver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winni�
peg, Ottawa~ Toronto and Montreal.
Units may later be set up in Regina
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MEXICO
TRAFFICKERS CAF'~URED WITH HEROIN FROM GUERRERO
Nuevo Lared"o EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 26 Mar 82 S~ec C p 5
[Text] Federal Judicial Police agents seized 150 grams of pure heroin worth
several thousand pesos, and also succeeded in capturing the members of the
trafficking ring.
The federal agents undex the command of group chief Jose Manuel Fernandez
Castaneda learned from investigations which had been conducted that several
individuals were engaged in a~arge-scale heroin sale operation.
The investigations led to the arrest of two presumed suspects, who gave their
names as Roman Perez Jara and Cleotilde Roman Salgado; and upon being questioned
closely they turned over the 150 grams of pure heroin to the authorities.
During the interrogation, Cleotilde Roman Salgado claimed that the drug had
been brought to this border port from Iguala, Guerrero, and that they intended
to put it on the black market among addicts with money.
She gave *he name of..another subject who, upon being arrested, claimed that his
name was Candido Salgado Diaz. He admitted to being the owner of the heroin,
and said that it had been procured in the settlement of Tlacotepec, Guerrerq.
Candido Salgado said that the drug had been provided to him by Roman Perez Jara
'and another individual named Rodrigo Guzman Barragan; and the latter was arrest-
ed in the aforementioned Guerrero settlement.
It was also learned that a group of federal agents from this to~,m left for
Chilpancingo, where the subjects in custody claimed there were two laboratory
workers responsible for processing the drug.
To date, it is not known whether the two chemists have been captured, and
whether they have more heroin which has already been processed in their
possession.
This has been a tremendous blow to the~drug traffic dealt by the Federal Judi-
cial Police, and it is anticipated that this ring will supply information on
other individuals who are engaged in poisoning the youth.
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Roman Perez Jara was arrested by Cleotilde Roman Salg~do was also caught
Pcdt~ral Judir..ial Police agents with by federal agents and placed at the dis-
c~vcr 150 grams of pure heroin worth posal of the acting Federal Public Ministry
tievE~ral thousand pesos in his Agency for her prasumed guilt of .:ommit~t-
pos~ession. ing crimes agair~st health.
Candido Salgado Diaz, when questioned by the federal police, claimed to be the
uc.mE~r ot the 150 grams of pure heroin seized from Roman Perez and Cleotilde
Rc~m~in, at the same time identifying two laboratory workers in Chilpancingo who
,~rc~ currently being sought by the federal jurisdiction's authorities.
29O~)
CS~: 5330/75
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IRAN
BRIEFS
SHIRAZ SMUGGLER'S EXECUTION--The Shiraz Islamic Court has convicted one person
for possessing 2,134 kg of opium which he had concealed in an oil tanker. He
was denounced for "corruption on earth" and was sentenced to be executed.
His tar~ker was also confiscated. [GF171759 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian
1530 GMT 17 Apr 82]
HASHISH, OPIUM SEIZED--According to a central news unit report the public rela-
tions department of the Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran fighting against
narcotics announced: The hardworking and vigilant brothers from the central
headquarters of the antidrug squad succeeded in seizing 1,231 kilograms of
hashish from a smuggling band in Gilan. The officials of the antidrug squads
in Bandar 'Abb~~, Fasa, Yazd, Estahbanat and (Bakhtaran) seized 169 kilograms
of opium from a number of smugglers. The smugglers were arrested and were
sent together with the seized material to the Islamic Revolution Court of
Tehran. [Text] [LD190216 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 1630 GMT 18 Apr 82]
CSO: 5300/5390
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
BRIEFS
HASHISH FROM PAKISTAN--A man has been sentenced by Abu Dhabi Court to three
years' imprisonment followed by deportation for tryirig to smuggle hashish into
the country. According to the prosecution, the accused, Moha~nad Asghar
Rahmatcallah, was found carrying 12 kilograms of hash3sh hidden in vegetables
whi~h he had brought with him on~a flight from Lahore. fle is alleged to have
confessed his crime. Re said he had paid Rs 3,000 for buyino the hashish.
[TexC] [Dubayy KHALEEJ TIMES in English 31 Mar 82 p 3]
CSO: 5300/4714
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CONGO
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Drugs are gaining ground and illicit production
is increasing. The market seems to be flourishing. Recently the public security
services seized Sita Basile, seller and conswmer of Indian hemp and two of his
associates, Mandat Kamouanga and Rapeya Bantoukoud3ika, both of Zairian nati~n-
ality. According to Lt Ngouele Massala Dieudonne, in charge of social protec-
tion at the CUSP [expansion unknown], the three defendants were surprised and
caught in ~he act of taking drugs at home. During a search the police dis-
covered a large quantity of Indian hemp wrapped in small packets, commonly
called "bunches." Sita (55 years old) who is a smoker and seller of Indian
hemp, gets supplies from businessmen from M'Bamou Island and Pool Region. When
interrogated, Sita acknowledged the facts. "I have smoked hemp, he confessed,
since an early age and I supply fishermen and traffickers who need it." It .
should be borne in mind that Sita had been previously arrested for the same
reason, and gave the excuse that he was selling hemp to feed his family. To
put an end to this shamef+il traffic and to help him to meet the needs of his
family, the municipality had hired him at the highways department. But for
� personal reasons, Sita deserted the department to resume his hemp trade. The
three defendants are waiting only to be se:1t to prison. [Text] [Brazzaville
MWETI in French No 544, 2 Mar 82 p 4]
CSO: 5300/5716
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DENMARK
PAPER SAYS LAW AGAINST HEMP RAISING WOULD BE FUTILE
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 3 Apr 82 p 8
[Editorial: Hemp and Hashish"]
[Text] The provisions of the Danish narcotics legislation are unmistakable. The
problems are associated with the interpretation put on them by the authorities and
the practice which gives ample possibilities for making mistakes. Christiania is
still the best example of how the highest legal authorities, through misinterpre-
tations of clear rules, create uncertainty throughout the system. This is being
underlined, once more, through Minister�of Justice Ole Espersen's doubts regard-
ing the right position on the issue of hemp cultivation in this couiitry.
There have, through several years, been rumors that there was a considerable pro-
duction of hashish in Denmark ce~the basis of home-grown hemp. Already in 1978,
four persons were fined and sentenced to imprisonment by the court at Nakskov
for cultivation of hemp in that the court established that the claim on the part
of the persons charged that the crop was to be used as fodder for goats, for
rug weaving or as binder in paints, had not been substantiated. Last summer,
Ole Espersen started an investigation in all of the police districts of the
country to collect material which would either strengthen or weaken the claims
regarding widespread hemp cultivation presented to the minister of justice by,
among others, Inge Krogh (Christian People's Party). Nothing has come out of
that yet. Howe~�er, in concert with the Judicial Committee of the Folketing, the
minisi;er decided, last Thursday, that he would let the size of the crop of the
summer~ form the basis for an evaluation whether an outright ban on hemp growing
ou~t to be imposed. So far, he has not found such intervention necessary.
This decision fits naturally into the chain of vacillating positions which have
been characteristic of the treatment of the drug problem. It ought to be clear
that intervention in respect of hemp cultivation cannot be justified by the size
of th~ crop. If it is possible to establish that hemp grown in this country is
beinf; misused for production of hashish, the prohibition under the present
le~islation against production, traffic in, and possession of euphoriants must,
of course, apply. However, the issue is more complicated than that.
A ban on the cultivation of hemp is illusory because it is impossible to check
whether such a ban is being complied with. Hemp is used widely both as an
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ornamental plant and for fodder. Seeds are sold in large quantities, not least to
hunters who sow these seeds in game fields as fodder and cover especially for
pheasants, and there does not seem much sense in preventing this practice.
Methylated spirits may be purchased freely, but it is illegal to remove the
denaturants. People are allowed to make fruit wines for their own consumption
but not to distill them. Many other examples of a similar nature may be men-
tioned, and they indicate that it ought to be possible to introduce similar pro-
visions, as far as the use and misuse of hemp are concerned. As hashish is al-
ready included in the legislation, intervention must be regaxded as superfluous,
whether the crop becomes big or small.
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Cso: 5300/2255
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DENMARK
BRIEFS
POLICE WARNING ON KILLER HEROIN-='We must assume that some amateurs put the drug
on the market in the course of the past month," says Kaj Foged, police inspector
of the Trouble Spotters, who, again yesterd~y, struck the alarm in respect of the
killer heroin in Copenhagen. The Trouble Spotters have foiznd heroin of a concen-
tration of 52 percent. This is five times the concentration usually found in the
drug used by drug addicts who take drugs by injection. Kaj Foged: "Quite acciden�
tally we last week seized a hypodermic needle case containing 0.5 grams of heroin,
~ on a drug addict at Vesterbo. As a link in the tests which we have the Medico-
Legal Institute carry out on drugs seized, we sent the 0.5 gram in for analysis.
Yesterday, in the early afternoon, we got the result: 52 percent heroin. This
may be fatal to a drug addict taking such a strong drug if he has not been warned.
We have again questioned the drug addict from Vesterbro, but he is only able to
tell us that he bought the drug from an unl~own pusher for 1,000 kroner." This
is the second time in the course of a couple of weeks that the Trouble Spotters
strike the alarm,through the news broadcasts on the radio and the TV as well as
through the daily newspapers,on the killer heroin. Recently, a drug addict at
Frederiksberg died during the very days when heroin containing 44 percent heroin
was found. Last summer, at least three drug addicts died from an overdose, con-
taining 56 percent heroin. CText7 CCopenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 30
Mar 82 p 2] 7262
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GREECE
_ BRIEFS
PORTUGUESE SMUGGLER ARRESTED--1fao kilos of hashish of excellent quality, valued
at 500,000 drachmas, were confiscated bq the police aatinarcotics squad of
the Piraievs police directorate. The hashish was in the possession of Portu-
guese seaman (Konsega Manuel Antonion), aged 31. He was arrested in Piraievs
by a security police member to whom he was trying to sell the hashish, which
he had brought from Bombay, where the ship on which he was working has sailed
from a few days ago. [Text] [NC152126 Athens Domestic Service in Greeek 1130
GMT 15 Apr 82 ]
CSO: 5300/5389
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SWEDEN
POLL ON ATTITUDES OF YOUTH TOWARD DRUGS REPORTED
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 31 Mar 82 p 28
[Article by Pia Estmer]
[ExcerptsJ The number of students who drink alcohol has declined. The group
of heavy drinkers has also shrunk markedly.
That is confirmed by a nationwide study of student use of alcohol, narcotics,
and tobacco that was carried out by the Board of Education (SO). In all, about
18,000 students nationwide took part in the anonymous po~l.
A similar nationwide study last year also showed that students were drinking
less than before, but the SO did not dare publish those results.
School adviser Lars Nyren explains: "We were afraid that the decline was only
a chance occurrence. But this year's figures give us reason to believe that
the trend is continuing."
The SO report confirms that narcotics use by schoolchildren has not changed.
About 9 percent of the boys and girls in the ninth grade say that they have
taken drugs at some time, and 2 percent say that they still do.
On the other hand, the report shows that the attitude of the students toward
narcotics has changed.
Smoking More
Lars Nyren says: "A few years ago, 4 or 5 percent reported that they wanted to
start taking drugs. Today, according to the survey, only 3 or 4 percent want
to."
Tobacco use by schoolchildren has not declined--quite the contrary. In the
sixth and ninth grades, smokers number from 2 to 3 percent more than before,
and the girls top the list.
The shift in student attitudes toward alcohol and narcotics is attributed pri-
marily to the schools by Lars Nyren. Much.more attention is paid to those mat-
ters now than was the case in the early 1970's.
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But according to the SO report, parents should not take the credit for the new
positive figures.
Lars Nyren says: "If anything, the report shows that parents have increased
their 'bootlegging' for their children by a few percentage points."
On Friday evenings, Ulli and Per, who are both 15 years old, take a turn around
the small city of Orrefors in Smaland. They are looking for a place that is
"PF" (parent free). If they are successful, there will be a party--with beer
and chatter as its main ingredients. It sometimes happens that the community's
quiet neighborhoods do not remain quiet after 2000 hours.
Ulli and Per protest: "Some drink more. They get loud and may stagger a little
and bu~ap into a piece of crystal. But they don't destroy things on purpose.
They don't get mad and use kt~ives, the way they do in Stockholm."
Never Narcotics
At Ulli's and Per's school in Mades3o in the municipality of Nybro, a great
deal of instruction time has been devoted to "ANT" (alcohol, narcotics, and
tobacco) matters.
"The biology teacher has told us about all the junk that gets caught in your
lungs when you smoke. We also found out that the brain's nerve cells are dam-
' aged when people--especially young people--drink liquor."
During a recent special-sub~ect week at the school that was devoted to drugs,
a former drug addict was invited to speak. He described his former dope hell
so graphically that the cheeks of his young listeners still flush with agita-
tion.
Ulli and Per promise: "Uope? Never!"
The current SO report indicates that there are still more girls than boys who
drink and smoke. The scene outside the Mades~o school does not contradict
the survey's f.indings.
In the smokers' circle, three girls but only one boy are sitting and smoking.
Why?
Ulli hazards a guess: "Probably because the guys are less grownup than we girls
at this age. We go out and have fun and meet older friends, and we take after
them."
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CSO: 5300/2257
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StdED~EN
SECOND POLL CONFIRMS DECLINE OF YOUTH INTEREST IN DRUGS
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 1 Apr 82 p 6
[TextJ Only 1 day after the Board of Education announced the results of its
survey of young people's drinking habits (showing tt~at consumption is decreas-
ing), SIFO [Swedish Institute for Public Opinion Polls~ is able to report on a
public opinion poll that shows the same trend.
The attitude toward drugs is becoming increasingly negative among both young
people and parents.
The poll was conducted at the request of Action Against Drugs--a campaigning
organization in which several government agencies participate. The questions
asked were the same as those asked in a similar poll 2 years ago.
Of the young people between 12 and 15 years of age, 51 percent say they have
drunk alcohol. Two years ago, the figure was 68 percent.
The same young people were also asked how they thought their parents would re-
act if the son or daughter drank alcohol, and $3 percent answered that their
parents would "strongly disapprove." In the previous poll, the corresponding
figure was 68 percent.
In all, ~ust over 1,400 young people between the ages of 12 and 24 were inter-
viewed on their attitudes toward alcohol and cannabis. The trend is completely
obvious in all age groups: more and more are becoming increasingly negative in
their attitude toward drugs. The clearest change, however, is occurring ia
the lower age groups.
11798
CSO: 5300/2257
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POLICE CONDUCTING OFFENSIVE AGAINST DALARNA PROVINCE DRUGS
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 4 Apr 82 p 5
[Article by Matts Dahlstrom]
[TextJ Mora, Saturday--Widespread concealed drug abuse in southern and northern
Dalarna Province was uncovered during the 1980-1981 police offensive against
dope.
Drug abusers in Borlange and Mora are at least three times as numerous as was
previously recognized on the basis of surveys by the National Council for Crime
Prevention (BRA). This is shown by an investigation by the narcotics squad that
was completed on Saturday.
"White-collar abusers" is the name given by police to the solid citizens between
30 and 40 years of age who abuse cannabis and have managed to conceal that abuse
until fiow.
Physicians who uncritically prescribe habit-forming drugs for drug abusers by
telephone have also been discovered.
Reports to the narcotics squad about the disappearance of narcotic preparations
from the hospitals are being investigated.
All of this is shown in the recent survey of narcotics abuse in Borlange and
Mora that was conducted by detective inspectors Stanley Akerlind of Borlange
and Leif Naas of Mora.
Investigation
They claim that it was the stepped-up police drive against drug offenses in
Dalarna that uncovered the widespread concealed drug abuse.
Detective Superintendent Sune Bodeby, head of the Dalarna Narcotics Squad, says:
"That account is correct."
In 1980 and 1981, the narcotics squad engaged in a ma3or offensive against drug
offenses in Borlange and Mora.
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Its efforts led to the assumption that the BRA's figures were totally mislead-
ing, and this has been confirmed by the new survey.
According to the BRA report, there were a total of 197 known drug at~users among
Borlange's 66,000 inhabitants in 1979. The investigation file now lists 635.
Akerlind and Naas estimated the actual number of abusers in Borlange at 1,025,
consisting of 25 addicts, 300 who use drugs extensively, and about 700 who
abuse cannabis with some regularity.
That is six times more than the BRA figure for Borlange.
Seven Hectograms
During 1981, 3ust over 79 people were prosecuted for drug off enses in Borlange.
According to the survey, they handled nearly 7 hectograms of cannabis a week.
During 1981, 55 people were arrested and 27 held for trial, while 13 kilograms
of cannabis and 4 hectograms of amphetamines were confiscated. The turnover
was estimated at 845,275 kronor.
Now a big new narcotics tangle has come to light with the seizure of 1.7 kilo-
grams of amphetamines having a sales value of 1.5 million kronor. The dope was
found in an apartment in Borlange.
The authors of the report note that Borlange has a large transient population
and, relatively speaking, little informal social control.
Mora is the district in Dalarna where drug abuse is best charted. ~It has
35,000 inhabitants and is the provincial center for northern Dalarna. The pop-
ulation is stable, and there is a high degree of informal social control.
Commi tmen t
A big police effort went into combating drug abuse in Mora during 1980. The
authors of the report point out that other. community organizations and the pub-
lic in general counnitted themselves to the campaign.
The BRA report indicated a total of 70 narcotics abusers--all hashish users--in
Mora in 1979. During the 1980-1981 police offensive, the police registered 219
abusers, and it was discovered that a full 196 of them had been abusing drugs
as early as 1979--in other words, when the BRA was making its survey.
This means, according to the Akerling-Naas report, that the BRA missed two-
thirds of those making up the true total.
According to the new study, this is how dope arrived in what had been a gener-
ally dope-free Mora-Orsa area.
Ten young abusers made up the first homogeneous group. They had started by
sniffing glue. One of them had contacts in Stockholm and learned to smoke
hashish there.
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He took his knowledge back to Mora. Cannabis very quickly became the most com-
mon drup of abuse among the young people. As soon as cannabis was introduced
into the gang, the latter's homogeneous core split up, and abuse spread into
wider and wider circles.
Study Grant
The cannabis was bought with study grant money, and some of it was resold to
other young people, in most cases to finance the seller's own habit.
Narcotics abuse brought the new abuse~s into contact with dope addicts who were
already known to the police and who also abused stimulants of the central nerv-
ous system, opiates, and hallucinogens.
The young people were offered amphetamines, but did not accept them. In the
summer of 1980, they were offered LSD. That drug was then accepted by 12 young
people: 8 boys and 4 girls. One developed a severe psychosis and received
treatment at a mental hospital.
The abuse of LSD continued as long as the drug was obtainable, even though none
of the young people had a positive experience with it.
During that time, the previously unknown drug Psylocybin also existed in Mora
and was used within a very limited circle of abusers grouped around a person
who had previously been convicted of serious narcotics offenses.
About 30 drug abusers in Mora were prosecuted during that first police drive.
City Children
The second police off ensive began at the start of 1981. About 35 young people
were prosecuted. The abuse originated with young people from big cities who
had been placed in Mora-Orsa by the social welfare authorities--for the precise
purpose of weaning them away from drugs. Akerling and Naas write that those
young people from the city had a decisive influence in spreading narcotics
abuse in that small locality in the police district.
The young people were able to produce the drug mescaline by growing cactus.
I'ive of them had also abused amphetamines.
Of the 219 known drug abusers in Mora, 41 are women--that is, about 19 percent.
There is reason to assume that the number of unknown drug abusers is higher
among the girls than among the boys, according to Akerlind and Naas. The boys
try to protect their girl friends during the drug investigations.
Boy Friends
Several cases have been discovered where girls who previously had not used
drugs very quickly established a drug habit at the same level--from the stand-
point of the drug used and the method of use--as their older boy friends who
were drug abusers.
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The authors of the report write that such behavior does not f~llow the tradi-
tional pattern of progress by drug abusers in more ordinary gang circles.
During the firs*_ rolice drive, only four of the young people were unemp~.oyed..,
Most of them were students or had jobs. Six have relapsed into drug abuse,
and four to].d the police that they had continued the:?.r drug aliuse in the insti-
tutions.
Most of the young people who were sent to prison have been hired in relief work,
found some other job, or managed to return to their studies after serving their
sentence.
The authors of the report go on to say that in both Mora and Borlange, the in-
vestigation has turned up tips indicating that cannabis abuse is occurring
among people who are well established in the community.
The ag,~ of those "white-collar abusers" can be estimated at between 30 and 40.
Akerlind aad Naas write that from the standpoint of their position as opinion
molders and standard setters, those people are probably a factor to be reckoned
with.
Widespread abuse of habit~forming sleeping pills and tranquillizers has also
been uncovered. From conversations with abusers and as a result of tips re-
ceived, it is well known which physicians prescribe sleeping pills and tran-
quillizers in an uncritical manner.
Physicians
According to the abusers themselves, prescriptions are often issued over the
telephone by physicians in another locality.
The police investigation also reveals that according to information received,
it appears that the preparations in question are also disappearing from our
hospitals.
From several places in northern Dalarna, includ ing Sarna, Alvdalen, and even
places farther north, citizens have reported seeing low-flying private planes.
The Mora detective force's narcotics officers have received several such re-
ports over a long period of time.
People suspect that drugs are being dropped from the planes and picked up by
courie~~. But police investigations have not turned up anything.
Detective Inspector Leif Naas points out that reports of "ghost flights" in
northern Dalarna are an indication of the people`s thorough commitment to the
drive against drugs.
11798
CSO: 5300/2258
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. SWEDEN
BRIEFS
CANNABIS-SMUGGLING GANG BROKEN--Helsingborg (TT)--Police in Norway, Denmark,
and Sweden have ~ointly broken up a cannabis-smuggling gang. T~ao Norwegian
women were arrested in Helsingborg for trying to smuggle in 4 kilograms of can-
nabis. And a man is sitting in ~ail in Norway as the one behind the smuggl:ing
operation. He is also suspected of having persuaded others to smuggle nar.cct-
ics in through Helsingborg. In all, about 10 kilograms are involved. [Text]
[Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 2 Apr 82 no page number given] 11798
CSO; 5300/2257
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TURKEY
BRIEFS
MORPHINE BASE SEIZED--Ankara, 21 Apr (AFP)--Morphine base with a market value
of 30 million dollars was seized by police in Midyat, in Turkey's eastern
Mardin Province, official sources said here today. Three men and one woman
were arrested when they tried to sell the narcotic to a policeman. Narcotics
officials said the four had brought the morphine base from Syria and were
planr.ing to forward it to Marseilles, France. They said the drug base had
ori~inated in Asia's "Golden Triangle"--Laos, Burma and Thailand. [Text]
[NC212251 Paris AFP in English 1903 GMT 21 Apr 82]
CSO: 5300/5391
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UNITED KINGDOM
SEIZURE OF CONVICTED TRAFFICKERS' ASSETS URGED
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 27 Mar 82 p 9
[Article by Stanley Goldamith]
[Text]
INTERNATIONAL mea- �25m boast Eastern resoonsibility
sures to halt thc illicit Intcrnational interest in thr. 11~ir Peter Cutting, chief in�'
drugs trade ~by seizing thc measure was sparked off by vestigations officer for the
assets of convicted traffic� last ~�ear's ".handless corpse" Customs and F�.xcise, said thn
kers are ~being ur~ed by triai at Lancaster when. a drugs ~bundance of international will
senior poliCe and Custott~s gang was brokon up, 'but its ~o deal with the problem ea-
officers. ' fnnds are believr.ti tb havo ~re� tended even to the Eastern binc,
mained largcly intact. ' who now recognis~ed their re-
The proceeds of dri~gs tr~ffic� Det. Su t )~a.y Rimmer, sponsibilities as �transit coun�
�king should be taken fror~r such P�
nre~�iously safe havens as num- deput,y head ~F Lancashire trics for shipments of deadl.y
C 1 D, ��ho c�: �acked thc gan~ drugs. .
bered 5~viss bank accounts, it and snlvcd thc murder of onc
~~~as agrecd at a three�day con� Last year, for the first time.
ference in Lancashire which ~f ils' leaders, Christopher the Swiss gavernment had
ended yesterday. ' AAartin .lubn:�ionc, said� th:~i acted on representations from
Alexandcr James Sinclair, 35, i3ritain bY seizin cash assets
Specific pledges of co�opera� said to rhe ruthless mast~r- of convicted drugs criminals.
tion ~~�crc madc by lnterpol and mind bchind thc syndicatc, has
law enforcement representa� ~~~~~ed to complv with an ord~r "The money went to the
fi~�es from Britain, Europe and P~Y tl million tor~ards 5wiss government and not to
America, n~ho ~vill re ort back Prosecution costs, although he us, but previously Swiss
~ has boasted of possessin~ �25 accounts used to be jealouslY
to tl~eir Gavernments. million. FIe is serving a life sen- guarded " said Mr Cutting.
, The movc, to be raiscd at thr tencc for murder. }Icroin seizures last year in
Home Office .~nd Ministr,rial \~ir Oxford said: "It is now Britain totalled 88 kilogrammes,
level in Britain within t�hrec !or the ~politicians to frame the morc than double that in 1980,
~veeks, is aimed at preventing appropriatc lc~islation. lt he said.
the handing�on of funds to new �~uul