INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 21, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
October 21, 1987
vNeBASSTrTEIT-UPON REMOVAL OF
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-Mr.
Donald Gregg
NSC
-Mr.
Grant Green
Agriculture
-Mr.
Floyd Gaibler
CIA
Commerce
-Ms.
Helen Robbins
DOD
-Col.
William Matz
Education
-Ms.
Julie Cave
Energy
-Mr.
William Vitale
HHS
-Mr.
James Delaney
HUD
-Mr.
David Turner
Interior
-Ms.
Ramona Burch
Justice
-Mr.
William Bradford Reynolds
Labor
-Mrs.
Ruth Morgenstern
OMB
-Mr.
Wayne Arny
DOT
-Mrs.
Ruth Knouse
Treasury
-Mr.
Robert Zoellick
SUBJECT: International Narcotics Control Strategy
Executive Summary
Attached is the Executive Summary of the International
Narcotics Control Strategy which should be forwarded to all
principals in preparation for the National Drug Policy Board
discussion of the strategy on October 23 at 10 a.m. The
summary is classified SECRET/NOFORN.
Melvyn Levitsky
Executive Secretary
Executive Summary
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International Narcotics Control Strategy/Implementation Plan
The International Narcotics Control Strategy/Implementation
.Plan addresses all aspects of the international narcotics
control problem, with special emphasis on cocaine. Eradication,
enforcement, development assistance, training, and public
diplomacy are the key elements of the strategy/implementation
plan which features regional and country-specific plans, where
appropriate.
The vast supply of narcotics available on a worldwide basis is,
unfortunately, growing. As supplies increase, the global
demand for drugs - shows - a concomitant increase. Unless the
supply of narcotics is significantly reduced, the world will be
forced to struggle with the attendant problems of violence,
corruption, decreases in productivity, and the erosion of
social institutions.
The cocaine situation is particularly severe. An estimated
170,000 hectares of coca are under cultivation in South America
today. Moreover, the crop level is increasing faster than
cur-rent eradication efforts; therefore, it is incumbent upon
us, in preparing a U.S. Government-wide strategy, to propose
realistic means for halting the rate of coca expansion. Manual
eradication simply has not, and will not, reduce the
availability of coca. Consequently, the International
Narcotics Control Strategy/Implementation Plan relies heavily
on negotiations with governments of countries where coca is
produced for the purpose of reaching bilateral agreements on
eradication methods and targets. The intention is to begin
discussions immediately concerning the application of
aerially-applied herbicides for large-scale coca eradication
beginning in 1988. These negotiations are now possible
because, for the first time, the U.S. Government is able to
support wide-scale aerial eradication programs in Latin
America.
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Until negotiations are completed, the projections contained in
this plan should be considered as estimates of the levels of
eradication needed to achieve the objectives sought by the
United States. As emphasized in the strategy, agreement must-
be reached on the use of herbicides and the narcotics
assistance required to deliver both manual and aerial
applications. Eradication, however, is not the complete answer
and will not be possible in the Andes without parallel
enforcement efforts, development assistance, training, and an
effective public diplomacy campaign. Real progress in
eliminating coca will require substantial economic assistance
to Andean countries over the near term, in an effort to
strengthen their legitimate economic infrastructure. Moreover,
the United States leadership must be enhanced by more vigorous
efforts at home to reduce domestic demand, to ensure that
United States exports of precursor chemicals are more tightly_
controlled to prevent diversion and to eradicate the domestic
marijuana crop.
Heroin and marijuana supplies also continue to be major
concerns of the U.S. Government, and the strategy/implementation
plan therefore suggests that current eradication, enforcement,
and development assistance programs, where appropriate, be
continued and expanded. Heroin and marijuana control programs
are also bolstered by enhanced training and public diplomacy
initiatives.
For the first time, a public diplomacy/demand reduction
timetable of activities has been developed, coordinating the
resources and expertise of several U.S. Government agencies.
In the past, this important planning element has been
approached on an ad hoc basis, and its value has not been fully
appreciated nor incorporated into strategic narcotics control
plans.
The International Narcotics Control Strategy/Implementation
Plan for FY 1988-89 builds upon past successes and identifies
those areas with the largest potential for increased progress.
The strategy's six policy goals, respective program objectives,
and supporting budget estimates follow.
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Reduce the amount of cocaine shipped from Latin America to the
United States through an integrated program of narcotics
control.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
1. Reduce the amount of coca cultivation in the Andean region
(Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador) by decreasing the net
production of coca leaf in the Andean region by 50% by 1993 and
preventing other coca producers from growing more coca. To
accomplish this objective, agreements must be reached with the
several governments of the region, an effective coca herbicide
must be identified and found environmentally acceptable,
eradication programs must be carried out simultaneously in all
coca-producing countries, and more accurate crop estimates are
required for purposes of targeting illicit crops and verifying
their destruction.
2. Identify and destroy coca paste, base, and cocaine
laboratories and clandestine airstrips in coca-producing
countries (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), as well as in Latin
American cocaine trafficking countries, through increased
cooperation with host country law enforcement agencies,
enhanced law enforcement training, better intelligence sharing,
and tighter controls on precursor chemicals.
3. Aid host governments in the development of effective and
efficient domestic law enforcement capability in cocaine source
and transit countries through training, professional exchanges,
and intelligence sharing.
4. Prevent processed cocaine from coming into the United
States by sea, air, and land routes through enhanced
interdiction operations.
5. Provide additional economic support and military assistance
to Latin American and Caribbean countries to strengthen their
legitimate economies and to promote local acceptance of the
U.S. Government's cocaine control efforts.
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FY 1988: $68,656,000
FY 1989: $160,910,000
Reduce the amount of heroin shipped from Asia and Mexico to the
United States through an integrated program of narcotics
control.
1. Reduce the amount of opium cultivation in the Golden
Crescent and Triangle regions through more accurate crop
estimates, improved eradication programs, and continued
development assistance for farmers, who forego traditional
opium production.
2. Decrease the amount of opium cultivation in the Mexican
Tri-state area (Durango, Sinaloa, Chihuahua) and in the states
of Guerrero and Michoacan through the development of more
accurate crop estimates and improvements in the opium
eradication program.
3. Build regional and country-specific law enforcement and
support capabilities through training, intelligence sharing,
and professional exchanges.
4. Identify and destroy heroin refineries, intercept caravans
in major opium-producing countries; and work with the
governments of other countries, and their respective law
enforcement agencies to improve intelligence sharing, to
introduce tighter controls on precursor chemicals used in
heroin processing, and to encourage regional initiatives to
inhibit trafficking.
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5. Prevent heroin from coming into the United States by sea,
air and land routes through enhanced interdiction operations.
FY 1988: $50,166,000
FY 1989: $51,078,000
Reduce the amount of marijuana entering the United States from
worldwide sources through an integrated program of narcotics
control.
1. Reduce the amount of cannabis cultivation in major producing
countries by developing more accurate crop estimates, improving
eradication programs utilizing herbicides, and preventing
secondary cannabis producers from becoming major marijuana
producing countries.
2. Prevent marijuana from entering the United States by air,
land or sea through effective and efficient interdiction
programs.
FY 1988: $20,672,000
FY 1989: $25,363,000
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Increase intolerance for illicit drugs and stimulate focused
support for effective narcotics control worldwide through
public diplomacy initiatives which incorporate concepts of
public awareness and demand reduction.
1. Raise international public awareness by sensitizing
government and opinion leaders, as well as the international
general public, to the global scale and consequences of drug
production, trafficking, and abuse; provide information on why
and how the United States and other nations are confronting the
drug abuse problem; and develop broad national and
international support for narcotics control through public
awareness campaigns.
2. Assist countries reduce the demand for cocaine, heroin, and
marijuana through the effective adaptation and use of knowledge
gained and disseminated through prevention and treatment
research, applied science, and public information programs;
provide technical assistance through consultation and training
with host countries and international organizations.
FY 1988: $7,557,000
FY 1989: $4,127,000
POLICY GOAL
Eliminate major trafficking networks and cartels through
increased seizures and arrests, prosecutions, and forfeiture of
assets.
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1. Motivate and assist foreign governments in their efforts to
identify, investigate and immobilize major drug trafficking
organizations.
2. Increase the difficulties for traffickers attempting to
launder narcotics profits by securing international cooperation
on financial investigations, asset seizure, and forfeiture.
3. Assist nations to strengthen their legal and judicial
systems to eliminate narcotics trafficking organizations.
4. Develop and maintain a corps of high-quality informants to
penetrate the leadership structure, operations, associations,
and financial aspects of the major drug trafficking
organizations, and provide monetary rewards as warranted.
FY 1988: $84,241,000
FY 1989: $104,217,000
Secure increased international cooperation in worldwide
narcotics control matters through diplomatic and program
initiatives.
1. Gain consensus through the diplomatic process for European
and other developed countries to condition their foreign aid on
positive performance in narcotics control by producing and
trafficking countries.
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2. Increase European and other developed countries'
contributions to the Latin American and Asian narcotics control
efforts.
3. Increase Asian
control.
regional
cooperation on opium and heroin
4. Increase Latin
control.
5. Increase international
diversion control.
regional cooperation on cocaine
cooperation in worldwide narcotics
6. Enhance the United Nations' ability to deal effectively with
the narcotics problem.
FY 1988: $3,438,000
FY 1989: $5,338,000
In addition to the above goals, objectives and resource
estimates, this strategy/implementation plan has established
targets of performance, milestones of activity, and measures of
effectiveness for each objective, so as to facilitate oversight
by policymakers and management of program implementation by the
country-team in our affected U.S. missions.
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