DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DRAFT TESTIMONY ON THE DEA'S DRUG PROGRAM.

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September 29, 1989
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_ _ . .....,.. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 WM 5 tu..........6?.........e_------------ OrC(y EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHiNGToN, D.C. 20503 September 29, 1989 er 6-1 TES ONY ,(1447 LEGISLATIVE REFERRAL MEMORANDUM TO: Legislative Liaison Officer: Department of the Treasury - Carole Toth Office of National Drug Control Policy - (673-2615) Central Intelligence Agency - National Security Council - G. National Security Agency - CA 3362-89 (566-8523) Frank Kalder (482 Philip Hughes (456-2224) (688-7246) SUBJECT: Department of Justice draft testimony on the DEAss drug program. The Office of Management and Budget requests the views of your agency on the above subject before advising on its relationship to the program of the President, in accordance with OMB Circular A-19. A response to this request for your views is needed no later than 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 2, 2,89. Questions should be referred to Brendan Blum (395-3454), the legislative attorney in this office. Enclosures cc: R. Bacherman J. Duke a. Cunningham STAT ILLEGIB s J. or istant ire tor for islative Reference B. Hannon STAT STAT STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 St*timent of JOHN C. LAWN Administrator Drug Enforcement Admstration before the CoOmittee on the Judiciary United States Senate Conwiting DEA's Role in Drug Supply Reductien Effcrts OR October 3. 190 !eV 3tidet GOSS 'M. J?i:J 'V31 i+k:14 2. e --- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 ? Chairman Bide? end Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: 1 4111 pleased to be here today to discuss DEA's role in reducing the supply of illicit drugs in this country. As you ere aware, the Metional Drug Control Strategy emphasizes enforcement, international aid, interdiction. education and prevention, and treatment in combatting drug abuse and drug trafficking. The goal of the plan is to cut drug use by SO percent over the next ten years. DEA's mission and objectives are consistent with the national Strategy. In the initial development of the plan, we participated in a national security review of the drug situation, providing input in the areas of intelligence, international Operations, interdiction, and law enforcement. We also reviewed cid provided input regarding the national strategy, as well at documents involving U.S. drug control policy and strates4es. and Inibe specifically, the Andean Strategy that targets the countries of Bolivia, Colombia. and Peru. The National Drug Control Strategy does nnt explicitly address the roles of specific agencies, including the Drug EtlfOrCement Administration. However, under th;s strategy. each agency is required to develop implementation strategies and output Measures and Submit them to the Office of National Orug Control Policy by November 1, 1089. DEA is currently fullfilling its responsibilities in this arta. Our implementation 4tro1Pay Draft 1. CAGI'lf?rA 685% ti3(1 5' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R0011nninnnm_n Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 and Output Measures will reflect the continuing role that we have always played in combatting both domestic and international drug trafficking and mat aeitures. Under the National Drug Control Strategy, agency act!vitias will be coordinated through a Supply Roduction Working Group, chaired by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. DEA will continue co conduct drug control activities in cooperation with Other federal as well as ttate, local, and private sector entitles in the areas of enforcement, intelligencs. diversion control, training, and foransic science. The National Drug Control Strategy requests $5.3 million and 15 positions for OECto implement the An dean Strategy. This is In addition to OCA's 1090 budget request currently before Congress which will provide the agency with program enhancements Of 334 positions (of which 164 are Spocial Agents) and 168.7 million. DEA'a 1990 budget contains four initiatives; to expand and formalist DEA's foreign drug suppression program -- 157 positions and $22.8 million, to formalize a National 114,401tiCS Intelligence System -- 47 positions and $8.4 million, to immobilize major traffickers and their trafficking organizations by enhancing DA's domestic operationS in major trafficking areas 72 positions end gls,7 ond to espand DEA's support services in key areas of shortage -- 8 positions and $21.9 million. Draft 2. POCA:Vd se;; ./2,1 6a..404 oclit 69. 4-; Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Combining the Notional Drug Control Strategy and the OFA requests, Ina's funding level will total $US million for 1990 (thIS includes funding for the Organized Crime Enforcement Task Force Program, which will be returned to DEA an a reimbursable basis). This total represents nearly a 20 percent increase over funds directly appropriated in 1489. 1 would now talk a little about the initiative for which additional funds are requested -- the Andean Strategy. The objective of the Andean Strategy is to reduce the amount of Maine from the three Latin American source countries that are responsible for the vast majority of the world's supply. The pier' calls for isolating major coca-growing areas, blockin? delivery of Chemicals used for cocaine processihd. destroying Cocaine hydrochloride (NC1) processing laboratarieS, and dismantling trafficking organizitionS. This stretegy Is essential to the success of our nation's Overall drug control program. The Andean Strategy enables us to disrupt the drug trade from cultivation to arrival in the United States, rether than merely confrontifto it on Our streett. As you are aware, Operation Snowcap is now fully operational In the coca source areas. It has the potential to curtailthe supply of coca reaching the cartels for processing and shipment to the United States. Snowcap operations art conducted with law enforcement officials in the host country. OCA personnel act as Draft 3. .1Vvo SOSS 11E1 a D.41 to3a iz ? , 62 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 - - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 ? advisors, and INN provides support and U.S. mission coordination with tne host government. Other U.S. agencies also participate. The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Border Patrol act as adv!tors for riverine 400 road operations.: The Department of Defense provides training and logistical support. The strategy is designed to extend to other Latin American countries a variety of interrelated aerial, waterway, and ground tnfOrcellitht/reduction programs that were proven to be highly succtileful during late 19416 in Coca reduction efforts under Operation Stop Prop/Blast Furnace in Soiivia. The tremendous production Cepebilities and the critical need for effective drug law enforcement in the AndeAn region are reflected in Snowcap statistics. For example in the firSt two years of the operation, there were 30 cocaine MC1 labOratoried destroyed in BoliVie and 83 COCAIN* base laboratories destroyed In Peru. Also, over 1.2 million solions of chemicals were However, Operation Snowcap is not an exercise to accumulate Impressive statistics; such more importantly, it is an operation to reinforce the resources, resolve, and confidence of source law enforcement seencies to attack cocaine at the narrowest point in the supply chain and to eliminate Significant processing capabilities. Additionally, foreign police depertMeht$ ere now being encouraged and assisted by the resp*ctive DA office& to Draft 4. 200'no,:c SeS2 e Acuo t'11 GS. C2 421 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 _ . Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 ? pur4ud conspiracy type Investigations against the owners and operators of these laboratories. Another way OtA is targeting the cocaine producing countrieS of the Andean region is through our Special Enforcement Oporations (SO) firogram. Under the uMbrella of these long-term operations, hundreds of individual cases are being conducted, Substantial amounts of drugs are being seised, and numerous indiviouals are being arrested. It should be pointed out thdt these StOss do not end with a "round up"; rather, they are highly dynamic operations that continue and develop until a specific drug problem has been solved. Cp'eration Bolivar targets the Medellin Cartel. Bolivar Involves IS countries, 51 DEA offices, 201 investigations, and 80 informants. Operation Calico targets ith4 Cali Cartel and involveS ten Countries, 94 DA office*, 170 investigations, and 84 informants. The cadres of SE0 informants supply information concerning cartel members operating at ell levels in South America, Europe, and the United States. In foreign situationS. DEA relies upon 4 close working relationship with the host country 9OverAMORt to pursue drug law enforcement activities. The success of these strategies is substantiated by arrest and seizure statistics generated by Operation Bolivar inc Operation Calico. As of July 1989, SE0 Bolivar has been responsible for the seizure of over g8,(500 kilograms of cocaine Draft - S. t .11! ,!,. :?!r: - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 NCI, almost 16.000 kilograms of GACAilit bag!. and over 63,000 kilograms of coca leaves. Ala seised were almost 900,000 gallons of precursor Chemicals and 123 million in U.S. currency. To date, 749 members and associates of the Medellin Cartel have been arrested. At the beginning of this year, as a result of SCO Bolivar, 25 bast and cocaine HO lebdratories 'Oro sei2ed and destroyed in c010mbia. The solvents confiscated from these laboratories would have sanufaCtured approximately 88 metric tons of cocaine Mel. And, more recently, five major laboratory complexes were seized and destroyed in Colombia. Over 1,900 kilograms of cocaine Wel were confiscated as well as one-half million gallons of chemicals, enough to produce about 125 metric tons of cocaine As of July 1989, SE0 Calico has been responsible for the &OW* of over 43,000 kilograms of cocaine MC1 and over 1,300 kilograms of cocaine bast. Also seized were $58.7 million in U.S. currency snd property valued at $7.11 million. To date, 384 mgMbers and associates of the Cali Cartel have been arrested. The arrests, Seizures, and the destruction of processing facilities are believed to have had an impact OA the cartels. Most importantly. Operations Salival. and Calico have been responsible for the indictments agsinst the cartel heads which will make it possible to bring these criminals to justice when 6. Draft SOO 1Ola lociSS 964 a 'deo t43.: w.:?wg 7CM se. g: - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 they are apprehended and extradited. Increasingly, we ere also taking measures to strike at the heart of the cocaine cartels by.confiscatinp their money and goods. for exaMplit. earlier this year. OCA, working with tht rederal Oureau of Investigation. the Internal Revenue Service. the U.S. CuiteslAS Service, and elements of the Department of JuStiCe, With the assistence of numerous state, local. and foreign law enfOrOement agencies, concluded what Attorney 6eneral Thornburgh termed "the largest money-laundering crackdown ever Carried Out by the federal government.* Operation Polar Cap led to the destruCtiOn of a *Ohit/-leundering enterprise called "Le Mine that handled $1.2 billion in iilleit drug profits belonging to the Medellin Cartel. "La Mina" sptnned nine cities across the United States, as well as England and several countries in Latin America. Operation Pol.,' Cap resulted in the seizure of sore than one ton of COcaine; the confiscation of $92 million in cash, Jewelry, and real estate; and the indictment of 127 Individuals. One of those indicted, Eduardo Martinez Romero, was recently captured ind extradited to the United States by Colombian authorities. He is Charged with moving drug profits out of the United States through the use Of almost instanteous electronic transfers between bank accounts in this country and abroad. WO are attacking the Andean rey4on cartels on eAather front 7. Draft EQQA:44 lieS1it..-JeZ wiu WUtli CC;11 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/05/01 : CIA-RDP92M00732R001100030003-0