NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00158R000300040025-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2009
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 27, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

. CONFIDENTIAL
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The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
2 7 APR ~~~3
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. William von Raab
Commissioner of Customs
Department of the Treasury
SUBJECT: Narcotics Intelligence Collection Program
1. Of the broad range of global issues which have strategic impact on US
interests, the international narcotics question urges the closest interaction
between the Intelligence Community and the law enforcement community--both of
which have legitimate functions with regard to monitoring and countering 25X1
international narcotics trafficking and production. Over the past months,
both communities have made steady progress in developing recommendations for
bridging intelli ence gaps and for more effective management of intelligence
resources.
2. Nevertheless, considerable work remains to be done, especially withir
the Intelligence Community, if we are to ensure that the several analytic 25X1
components involved in the narcotics intelligence process receive all
information available in a consistent and systematic manner. Nowhere is the
question of dissemination more vital than in the complex ~d difficult area of
illicit financial flows related to narcotics activities. As you know,
elements of the Central Intelligence Agency are 25X1
increasing eir emp asis on narcotics-related illicit financial flows and on
he ray economies supported by narcotics activities in producer countries. ____.
3. I wish personally to add m encoura ement to the efforts of the US
Customs Service to reinforce rel ti n hi ith25X1
the Central Intelligence Agency,
I am also aware of your personal commitment to this endeavor and of
Customs' direct participation in the interagency intelligence fora concerned
4. I can only underscore the importance which I attach to the
development of a routine and integrated mechanism to ensure the timely
dissemination of all foreign positive intelligence obtained by the US Customs 25X1
Service to the Intelligence Community. I understand that consideration of
practical recommendations to resolve these questions is already underway and
want to assure you of both my encoura ement and stron su art.
John N. McMahon
CL BY Signer
CONFIDENTIAL DECL OADR
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