NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION DIRECTIVE (NSDD) ON NARCOTICS AND NATIONAL SECURITY

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 8, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS
April 8, 1986
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
ADMINISTRATOR, AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DRUG ABUSE
POLICY
SUBJECT: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) on
Narcotics and National Security (C)
The President has signed the attached National Security Decision
Directive on Narcotics and National Security. (C)
FOR THE PRESIDENT:
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NSDD-221
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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April 8, 1986
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NATTONAL SECURITY DECISION
DIRECTIVE NUMBER 221
Narcotics and National Security (U)
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Purpose. To identify the impact of the international narcotics
trade upon U.S. national security, and to direct specific actions
' to increase the effectiveness of U.S. counter-narcotics efforts
to enhance our national security. (C)
Background. The expanding scope of global narcotics trafficking
has created a situation which today adds another significant
dimension to the law enforcement and public health aspects of
this international problem and threatens the national security of
the United States. (C)
While the domestic effects of drugs are a serious societal
problem for the United States and require the continued
aggressive pursuit of law enforcement, health care, and demand
reduction programs, the national security threat posed by the
drug trade is particularly serious outside U.S. borders. Of
primary concern are those nations with a flourishing narcotics
industry, where a combination of international criminal
trafficking organizations, rural insurgents, and urban terrorists
can undermine the stability of the local government; corrupt
efforts to curb drug crop production, processing, and
distribution; and distort public perception of the narcotics
issue in such a way that it becomes part of an anti-U.S. or
anti-Western debate. (S)
While these problems are endemic to most nations plagued by
narcotics, their effects are particularly insidious for the
democratic states of the Western Hemisphere. Moreover, the
expansion of narcotics activity creates a regional, as well as a
country specific, problem. (C)
A recent National Intelligence Estimate, "The International Drug
Trade: Implications for U.S. Security" (NIE 1/8-85) examines the
dangers from drug trafficking and highlights the following
points: (S)
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The narcotics trade threatens the integrity of democratic
governments by corrupting political and judicial
institutions. The effect on U.S. interests from such a
situation can range from a regime unwilling or unable to
cooperate with counter-narcotics programs to a government
that is unable to control key areas of its territory and
elements of its own judiciary, military, or economy. (S)
In key drug-producing nations, trafficking organizations
have used control of local media to influence public
attitudes and impede the ability of local governments to
cooperate with U.S. counter-narcotics programs. (S)
Narcotics activity is inevitably accompanied by a rising
rate of violence. This includes crimes, by and upon those
seeking to buy drugs, against innocent bystanders, between
competing trafficking networks, and violence against public
officials associated with narcotics control, including U.S.
personnel. (S)
In many countries, the same networks used to smuggle drugs
are also employed to bring in illegal weapons. (S)
Some insurgent groups finance their activities through
taxing drug activities, providing protection to local
criminal traffickers, or growing their own drug crops.
Access to money available from narcotics can have a major
impact on the capability of the insurgent forces. (S)
Some terrorist groups have been linked to drug smuggling
primarily to finance their activities. The profits from
even one consignment of narcotics could provide small
terrorist cells with substantial operating capital. (S)
Several sovereign states -- Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bulgaria,
for example -- have supported or condoned international drug
trafficking for financial or political reasons. (S)
Policy. The international drug trade threatens the national
security of the United States by potentially destabilizing
democratic allies. It is therefore the policy of the United
States, in cooperation with other nations, to halt the production
and flow of illicit narcotics, reduce the ability of insurgent
and terrorist groups to use drug trafficking to support their
activities, and strengthen the ability of individual governments
to confront and defeat this threat. (C)
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Implementation. To implement this policy, the departments and
agencies of the United States should perform the following: (U)
The Secretary of State and the Administrator of AID should
ensure that narcotics control objectives are fully
integrated into foreign assistance planning efforts. The
planning process should include consideration of programs
designed to assist foreign governments achieve effective
control objectives and should be guided by the principles of
controlling crop production and targetting trafficking at
the source and in transit. Proposed assistance should be
linked to a foreign government's willingness to develop and
implement effective narcotics control programs. (S)
The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, in
conjunction with the Secretary of State, should develop and
implement any necessary modifications to applicable
statutes, regulations, procedures, and guidelines to enable
U.S. military forces to support counter-narcotics efforts
more actively, consistent with the maintenance of force
readiness and training. U.S. military activities in support
of counter-narcotics efforts should include, but are not
limited to: (S)
o assistance to other U.S. government agencies in the
planning and execution of large counter-narcotics
operations. (S)
o collection, analysis, and dissemination of
intelligence. (S)
o participation in coordinated interdiction
programs. (S)
o small-scale combined exercises to enhance planning,
intelligence, mobility, and communications. (S)
o training to assist foreign military forces in planning
and conducting counter-narcotics operations. (S)
o technical and materiel support to enhance the ability
of a foreign government to combat drug production and
trafficking. (S)
The Vice President and the Secretaries of State, Treasury,
Defense and the Attorney General should strengthen
international support for counter-narcotics initiatives by
raising this issue in high level discussions with
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counterparts in producer and trafficker nations as
appropriate. They should also raise narcotics as an inter-
national security issue with U.S. allies, urging these
nations to increase their assistance and cooperation and
encouraging them to also raise the issue as a high priority
in their own relations with producer and trafficking states.
(S)
The Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with
the Attorney General and other relevant agencies and acting
in accordance with E.O. 12333, should enhance, where approp-
riate, support of the drug enforcement effort targetted
against international drug traffickers, particularly those
with known or suspected ties to terrorist or insurgent
groups. Such enhanced effort shall be in accordance with
applicable Presidential Findings and the National Security
Act of 1947. (S)
The Director of Central Intelligence, in'conjunction with
the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the
Secretary of the Treasury, should ensure that existing
provisions of E.O. 12333 and related implementing procedures
which permit the collection and dissemination of information
on U.S. persons concerning the foreign aspects of inter-
national narcotics activities to appropriate law enforcement
agencies are fully and expeditiously adhered to. (S)
The Director of Central Intelligence should ensure that the
intelligence community gives special emphasis to collecting,
assessing, and disseminating foreign intelligence on all
aspects of the international illicit drug trade. In pursuit
of this goal, the intelligence community shall continue its
efforts to target specific drug source and transit regions
for in-depth analysis of the links between drug trafficking
organizations, insurgent groups, and terrorists. (S)
The Secretary of State, in collaboration with the Director,
USIA and the Administrator of AID, should assist in
developing drug abuse prevention and education programs
within drug producing, transit and consumer nations. Public
diplomacy aspects of these efforts shall be reviewed as
appropriate by the International Information Committee and
the International Political Committee. (S)
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The U.S. Chief of Mission should assure the necessary
coordination of all assistance, intelligence and
intekdiction activities of U.S. government agencies toward
specific countries as a priority responsibility. The Chief
of Mission should periodically report his efforts to bring
the full range of U.S. resources to bear to engage the
cooperation of producer and transit countries. (S)
The Secretary of Defense, as Executive Agent for Communi-
cations Security (in accordance with E.O. 12333 and
NSDD-145) and the National Communications System (in
accordance with E.O. 12472 and NSDD-97), should coordinate
with appropriate agencies and departments to ensure that a
secure and interoperable interagency telecommunications
capability is available for drug-related operations and
intelligence collection and dissemination in support of
interdiction and other counter-narcotics activities.
Existing national communications system (NCS) assets, U.S.
Government-owned and leased, will be used to the maximum
extent possible. (S)
The Attorney General, as Chairman of the National Drug Enforce-
ment Policy Board, shall submit a report to the President by
September 30, 1986 giving the status of plans and accomplishments
for all actions directed herein. (C)
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