NARCOTICS WARNING ASSESSMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 28, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE DIRECTOR OF
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
28 June 1983
NOTE FOR DISTRIBUTION
FROM : NIO for Narcotics
SUBJECT: Narcotics Warning Meeting
Attached is the assessment prepared on the
basis of the Community views expressed at the
23 June Warning Meeting.
You or your representative are invited to
attend the next warning meeting scheduled for
1400 hours, Thursday , 21 July, in Room 7E62,
A Hea quarters. P ease provide your
representative's name and clearances to our
office by COB 20 July
Distribution
White House
State
DIA
Treasury
NSA
NSC
USCG
DEA
FBI
INS
USAF
Customs
- Philip Hughes
Jon Wiant
- Art Long
- Philip Our Michael a
Admiral Venzke & James Haas
- Gary Liming
- John Stone
- John Camp
- Maj. Roger H. Hill
- E. Richard Atkinson
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
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NIC #4677-83
28 June 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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SUBJECT
David Y. McManis
? National Intelligence Officer for Warning
David D. Gries
? National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics
Narcotics Warning Assessment
The following topics were discussed by Community representatives at the
23 June Warning Meeting.
1. Warning
CIA noted that recent DEA reports of the 25X1
availability of cocaine at a lower price in the Miami area may be the result
of previously established increases in production. Representatives were asked
to be alert to the indications of a glut in other market areas.
II. Regional Developments
A. Burma -- Implications of Cabinet Changes for the Anti-narcotics
Program
Jon Wiant of State reported on the forced resignations of the
Minister of Home Affairs, Bo Ni, and General Tin Oo, the principal
military adviser to the President, and their reported involvement in
narcotics trafficking. Mr. Wiant briefly reviewed DEA 25X1
reports of the first known evidence linking senior off is
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to the illicit drug trade and to the use of the security service
facilitate trafficking. He emphasized the serious implications of
such evidence for US policy, and reported that FY 83/84 funds for
Burma's narcotics suppression campaign are on hold.
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Implications for Collection: During the discussion, the
NIO/Narcotics, Mr. Wiant, and CIA representatives raised the question
of why this information has surfaced so suddenly. Reports over the
past 8-10 years have shown wide-spread low-level corruption but no
known evidence to implicate more senior levels of the government.
B. Mexico-Belize: Status of Cooperation in Crop Eradication
Brian Stickney of DEA reported that the joint eradication campaign
is necessary to prevent Belize from becoming another Jamaica in
marijuana production and transiting. Cottage industry cultivation in
the northern half of the country is currently estimated to be between
2-300 metric tons per year with a monetary value roughly equivalent
to Belize' GNP of $100-125 million.
The first eradication program, in late November of 1982, is
credited with the mid-harvest destruction of more than 500 fields
with an area of about 223 acres. The effect of that eradication
appeared to be substantial enough to diffuse momentum for
cultivation, however, sufficient quantities of marijuana exports
continue to keep the industry alive. Successful eradication will
hinge on the continued availability of trained Mexican assets and a
more complete crop destruction during an operation scheduled for
early September 1983.
C. Panama -- Indications of a Possible Shift in Trafficker Financial
Laundering Operations
John Glover of Customs reported that records of reported financial
flows to Panama from the US between 1980 and 1983 indicate that
Panama has become the primary Caribbean laundering center.
Mr. Glover presented a graphic display of US cash flows to Panama to
illustrate a 90% increase in financial transactions during the past
two years, and the illegal transfer of approximately $2.2 billion.
Implications for Collection: Mr. Glover will distrubite a report to
the NIO/Narcotics on changes in financial flows to Panama.
III. Interagency Work
CIA reported that a late May seminar on disrupting 25X1
heroin supplies to the US market concluded that an interdiction effort is
valuable as a signal to foreign governments, but that there is only a small
,chance of reducing available supplies. said that constraints25X1
against supply disruptions include cultural use o i legal drugs, the degree
of foreign government control over areas under cultivation, economic
considerations, and potential growing areas available for the diversion of
crops to new areas.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
NIC #4199-83
National Intelligence Council 9 June 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
FROM : David D. Gries
National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics
SUBJECT : Proposed Agenda for 23 June Narcotics Warning Meeting
1. The following agenda is proposed for the 23 June meeting at
1400 hours in Room 7E62, CIA Headquarters.
I. Warning -- Representatives may propose discussion of any
significant topic.
II. Regional Developments
A. Implications of cabinet changes for Burma's anti-narcotics
program - State.
B. Status of cooperation between Mexico and Belize in crop
eradication campaign - DEA.
C. Indications of possible shift in trafficker money laundering
operations - Customs.
D. Report on interagency seminar on the implications of
possible disruptions of heroin supplies to the US market -
CIA.
III. Interagency Work -- NIO/Narcotics will review the status of work
in progress.
IV. Regional Policy Issues -- Representatives are encouraged to
initiate discussion on new issues which may confront US
policymakers.
2. Please call by COB 21 June with the na@feX1
of your representatives for this meeting. verification of cTearances is
requested.
David D. Gries
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