PROJECT SUMMARY: PROJECT 9083

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001100650002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: SUMMARY

SG1H
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Tasker JT4-081-90 (26 Jul 90) SG 1 A
Target: M/V 500 fioot freighter (NFI). Last sighted at 1326N 8032W.
EEI:
1. Is it carrying contraband drugs?
2. What does the vessel look like?
3. What are its intentions?
4. Provide any additional information available.
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Feedback on JT4-$1-90 (26 Jul 90) SG1A
OOG: (261130 JUL 90) The has black lower sides and an orange stem. Its
acitvity is simply transportation. It is carrying a minimal amount of drugs for pleasure and
not business purposes. Juice can be found aboard this vessel.
SG1A
OOB: (261108 JUL 90) The M/V is a large vessel with black hull, bordered
by a brawn or honey-brawn band along the top of the hull, and a white superstructure.
It has at least two interior "floors" of storage space, possibly three. It is carrying at least
three individual shipments of contraband drugs (possibly more, but only three were
detected). They are:
1. On the 2nd "floor", approximately 100 ft from the front of the ship, a shipment of black
55-gal drums contains an estimated 5 drums which contain drugs. The contents of these
drums appear to be (estimated from indistinct image) plant cuttings of some type (NFI).
The drugs are in plastic-wrapped packages in the bottom of the 5 or so drums. The
contraband, itself, looks like light brown blobs of "cactus candy".
2. On the same floor, much further to the rear of the ship, and on the right side, a
shipment which contains tar paper, woad, and other standard building materials also
contains drugs which appear to be in solid "whipped foam" form, and is believed to be
mixed in with the insulation portion of the shipment.
3. On either the bottom or 2nd floor is a shipment of typewriters which contains a small
shipment of drugs poorly disguised in the typewriter cases.
There are indications that the shipment of typewriters is the one which the smugglers
expect to have found, should the ship be boarded, and will be used as a decoy to still get
the other shipments processed through to their individual destinations.
There are further indications that, although same people aboard know of the
shipments, the entire crew is not aware of their existance.
OOD: 261325E July 90
Target vessel is large, dark blue and has a deep hull. There are two curved, tall,
rectangular, solid objects (like smokestacks) protruding upwards, near the rear of the
superstructure, and three smaller rounded things an deck (see sketch page 9C). There
are some portholes an the side of the hull.
This vessel is carrying drugs, possibly marijuana. They are located in the
superstructure, towards the front of the ship under one of the rounded things. The people
on this vessel need cash. Their intensians are to take the drugs into port, sell them and
"get rich". They are heading northeast with a possible destination of Jamaica.
OOF: (251340 JUL 90) The target is an extremely large freighter. There is something
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odd or unique about the stern. The hull is two-tone; a red lower section and a light gray
upper section. The super structure is light gray ar dirty white, as is the smoke stack. The
stack is slanted and/or aval in shape. It also has a red ban pained midway. The
characters "30" ar "BO" appear somewhere on the vessel. The super structure is either
a split bridge type or a fore bridge with a large object on deck near the stern. The vessel
has twa self-contained cranes ar support/loading systems midship. The vessel is rather
old. The vessel is carrying a large quantity of marijuana. The contraband is located in
two areas of the ship (see diagram). There will be a transfer at sea. The contraband will
be aff loaded via a large side door onto smaller metal hulled vessels. This transfer will
occur within sight of land and in an area of numerous small islands. Nearby beaches or
exposed sand bars are extremely white and of an extremely fine grained sand/soil. This
is a very professional operation. The words/terms associated with this operation are
DOTSA, DOBSA, SAN DOBOSO, DOBASO, SANTA DE BASA ar DE BASO and de
Muellar.
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