NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00885R000100030091-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: June 17, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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1 7 JUN 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Intelligence Community Staff
FROM: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Narcotics Intelligence Collection Program
I fear the attached misses the point. I find it hard to believe
that with all of the contact between our military people and foreign
military personnel who are often up to their ears in narcotics traffick-
ing, that DIA cannot come up with more helpful intelligence in the
narcotics arena. It appears obvious that DIA is not seized with the
priority that the President places on narcotics. Would you please
follow up on this and ensure that they are exploiting all possible
information for intelligence on the important topic of narcotics?
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DIA review completed.
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1E.ANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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SUUECT: Narcotics Intelligence Collection Program (U)
I. (U) Executive Order 12333 outlines the primary responsibilities of DIA as
the collection, production, or provision through tasking and coordination of
"military and military-related intelligence for the Secretary of Defense, the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, other Defense components, and, as appropriate, non-
Defense agencies." Unlike the Services, DIA has no specific responsibility
under Executive Order 12333 for "information on the foreign aspects of
narcotics production and trafficking." At DIA, the collection and production
of military intelligence therefore take precedence.
2. (C/NF) While concentrating on its primary mission, DIA reports promptly
any information of interest to non-Defense agencies collected as a by-product
of DIA operations. Several years ago, DIA established a close working
relationship with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to which our .
Office of Security passes information under provisions of DoD Directive
5525.5, "DoD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials." The DoD
Directive encourages DoD components "to provide to federal, state, or local
civilian law enforcement officials any information collected during the normal
course of military operations that may be relevant to a violation of any
federal or state law within the jurisdiction of such officials." (Emphasis
added.) DoD Directive 5525.5 "does not permit the planning or creation of
missions or training for the primary purpose of aiding civilian law -
enforcement officials ...." Considering the responsibilities assigned to DIA
by Executive Order 12333 and the requirements of DoD Directive 5525.5, I
believe DIA now cooperates with the law enforcement community on matters
relating to narcotics intelligence to the maximmi extent permitted by
Executive Order, DoD policy, and the priority DIA must give to the collection
and production of military intelligence in support of the national security.
3. (C/NF) DIA recognizes the urgency and global implications of the problem
of narcotics and illicit drugs. We support efforts of the Intelligence
Cod:e'unity to improve narcotics intelligence collection and production by the
more efficient use of available community resources. We have initiated
changes reflecting the higher intelligence collection priorities of DCID 1/2
in a revision of our worldwide Continuing Intelligence Requirement (CIR D-RSS-
49431). Our CIR on narcotics establishes specific requirements and provides
guidance to Dog collectors. We have also taken action to establish a new
requirements category in the Intelligence Priorities for Strategic Planning
(IPSP) concerning the effects of narcotics and illicit drug production and
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tra;ficking on military preparedness in target countries. Our Attaej!e
Trainine Department at the Defense Intelligence College since. early 193k has
invied guest lecturers from DEA to address students on the subject of
narcetics and illicit drugs. In a reciprocal program, DEA invites Members of
the Attache Training DepartmenL to DEA-sponsored seminars, at which DEA
officials are made aware of the capabilities and limitations of the Defense
Attache Offices as collectors of narcotics intelligence.
4. (C/NE) I am concerned that recent efforts to intensify narcotics
intelligence collection and production by DIA could degrade or divert
resources from DIA's primary mission. ,Much interest is focussed on attaches.
Considering their representational duties, they are able to devote only about
50 percent of their time to collecting and reporting intelligence. They must
therefore. pay careful attention to the priority of each collection requirement
assigned to them for action.- In this regard, I note that Priority 3 is the
highest assigned to any narcotics topic in the current version of "U.S.
Foreign Intelligence Requirements Categories and Priorities," prepared in
response to DCID 1/2. The total number of Priority 3 and 4 scores assigned to
narcotics-related topics is leS-than two percent of the total number of
Priority 3 and 4 scores worldwide.
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5. (C/NF) I doubt that establiShing an analytical element within .DIA, as you
propose we do, would improveediracontribution? to the Intelligence Community
effort. During 1932, DIA received only 91 reports concerning narcotics and,
illicit drugs. Sixty percent ofthose reports came from the Services; forty
percent from DIA collectors. Considering the low volume of narcotics '------
intelligence reported by these collectors, the expenditure of resources to
establish a narcotics intelligence analysis element is not likely to result in
any measurable advantage and toUld not be fiscally justified. Other agencies
and departments more directlYtOncerned? with combatting narcotics andill-lett
drugs have a much broader base of reporting to analyze. Besides, the focus of
narcotics-related priorities is primarily on Third World areas, where DIA
analytical capabilities are limited.
6. (C/NF) As to thesuggestion that a DIA analytical component could
investigate "implications of the narcotics threat for the security of NATO
military installations, and the military effectiveness of NATO troops,"
analysts in the Western Division of our Directorate for Research are already
hard-pressed to respond to requirements for analysis of military intelligence.
The low volume of reporting on narcotics and NATO ("almost nothing"), and our
reluctance to divert resources from more urgently required analytical projects
militate against the proposal. The narcotics threat to NATO is not so great
as to require the diversion of resources and personnel from other analytical
efforts more vital to the national security.
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7. (C/NF) DIA will continue its active participation with other elements of
the Intelligence Community to improve the efficiency of narcotics intelligence
collection end production and to enhance our collective support to the law
enforcerr.ent community. We have accepted a portion of the National_HUMINT
Collectin Plan (NHCP) that we consider appropriate for Defense Attaches to
undertake within their capability. We intend to continue our close
cooperation with DEA and other non-Defense agencies directly involved in the
struggle against narcotics. We will continue furnishing promptly and to the
appropriate agency narcotics intelligence acquired as a by-product of military
intelligence collection.
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Deutencint General, U.S, Army.
Director
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