INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO NARCOTICS INTERDICTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84M00127R000200040083-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: November 24, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
DCI/ICS 82-3042
24 November 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Rear Admiral John L. Butts, USN
Director of Naval Intelligence
SUBJECT: Intelligence Support to Narcotics Interdiction
1. Initial efforts have demonstrated that the Intelligence Community
is capable of providing considerable, unique support to the interdiction
of illegal narcotics imports into the United States. While illegal
importation of narcotics is indeed a threat to our national interests,
it is not the type of threat with which the Intelligence Community is
used to dealing. Valuable initiatives have already been made, but
further Community-wide coordination may be necessary to identify and
develop the assets that can be brought to bear on the narcotics problem
and to employ those assets effectively and efficiently. Equally important
is sufficient coordination between the Intelligence Community and other
elements of government to facilitate the sharing of information, to see
that Intelligence Community support is tailored to consumer needs, and
to ensure that all Community actions are within legal guidelines.
2. I have asked my Deputy, Eloise R. Page, to undertake this
coordination role. In the near future, she will convene a meeting of
senior officials with responsibilities related to narcotics intelligence
from each organization concerned. The purpose of this session will be
to identify specific areas where additional coordination is required and
to establish the mechanisms to accomplish it. Miss Page will be responsible
for facilitating coordination on narcotics intelligence matters to the
extent required, and for as long as required, until new procedures and
relationshi-ps are regularized. Let me emphasize that this undertaking
is not intended to inhibit or complicate the several new interagency
relationships which have already been established.
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SUBJECT: Intelligence Support to Narcotics Interdiction
3. Your support in this coordination effort will have an important
bearing on the nation's success in dealing with the illegal narcotics
problem.
cc: Admiral Daniel J. Murphy, USN (Ret.)
Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Mr. Robert C. McFarlane
Deputy. Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
CONFIDENTIAL
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