IS THE GOVERNMENT A PARTNER IN RED CHINA'S 'DEATH TRADE'?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200300011-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 1, 1972
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Lion ends up in the United' States to sun -
OW MUCH of. President ply its estimated 600,000 heroin addicts.
Nixon's re-election was en- Y t
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trade?" This is the question that niany UGrry [Liu UAISLU11CU u1 ialgv, ruipvi(s,
observers are asking as they speculate especially from China.
about the sources of the large sums of Noteworthy also is the fact that while
money contributed to Nixon's campaign official pronouncements are made de-
committee whose donors were not pub- ploring the "evil" from President Nixon
licly identified. down, the Nixon Administration has as-
The informed guess is that these sums signed only ten agents to all of Asia to
were payoffs from those who control intercept shipments. As one expert put
the traffic in opium. Several Washington it, "If lie's I Nixon] really interested in
correspondents pointed out that the stopping the flow lie would see that the
"missing item" not discussed by Presi- CIA, F13I and other agencies assign 500
dent Nixon and Chinese Communist to ]long Kong, 500 to Bangkok and
leaders during the meetings earlier this 500 to Saigon. These are the major
year was the question of stopping the trans-shipment points to the U.S. This
deadly shipments of heroin and its would make a dent in the supplies
Source material, opium, from the China reaching the U.S."
mainland. See No Evil, Hear No Evil ... .
The rapidly growing number of dope Preposterous as it may sound, the
addicts is considered by experts to be Administration's official policy is that no
the number one danger to this country's heroin or opium comes from. Red China.
health and internal security. Why this outright lie in the face of what
all experts and foreign government of-
.Extremely suspicious also is the repe- ficials know is not so?
tition of statements about stopping the Red China's involvement in the
flow of opium from Turkey. This coun- opium traffic has been known to in-
try grows only a small part of total formed people, both in and out of gov-
world production, about 400 tons, com- ernment, for years. One of the first gov-
pared to 1,000 tons in Southeast Asia ernment experts to point out the exist-
and an estimated 10,000 tons in Red cnce of the "death trade" was Harry J. B au of China. Approved For Release 2004/ otics Clbl' cl ' ~ l Or( Q2 0011-9
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A substantial part.of world produc- lie told the Senate Judiciary Committee
hi, f rogn Red. Ci2i11a
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