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

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• Publication Date: September 29, 1989
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHiNGToN, D.C. 20503
September 29, 1989
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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