JPRS ID: 9943 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 40/81)
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRI;GS
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~ ASIA
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~ B URMA
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~ Briefs
Mandalay Officials Seize Heroin 1
~ Opium Smuggling Gang Arres ted 1
Rangoon Police Arrest TFao 1
~ Heroin Seizure in Namhkam 2
Bhamo-Mandalay Ships Arrests 2
Heroin Seizure in Lai-Hka � 2
INDIA
Indian Entry Into International Drug World
( THE WORK~NG PEOPI.L' S DAILY, 2 Aug $1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 3
PAKISTAN
Briefs
Heroin Seizure 5
- Narcotics, W~apons Haul 5
THAILAND
Thai Prison for Narcotics Offenders Described
(Armand Lerco; LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR, 11-17 Jul 81) 6
Use of Vapor Inhalants on the Rise; Student Heroin Use Noted
(Various sources, various dates) 17
Most Students Use Heroin
Bangkok Addi ct Population
Popularity of Vapor Inhalan~ts
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Hilltribe Traffickers Arrested in South; Marihuana Seized in
B an gkok
(DAO SIAM, 9 May 81) 20
Marihuana Enroute South Seized
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Briefs
Heroin Seized in Raid 23
VIEINAM
Can Tho Drug Traffickers Sentenced
(HANOI MOI, 24 Jun 81) 24
LATIN AMERICA
JAMAICA
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Raid on Illegal Airstrip 25
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Briefs
Marihuana Confiscation 26
NEAR EAS~.T AND NOR~i AFRI CA
IRAN
Briefs
Arcned Clash Over Opium 27
Heroin, Hashish Seized 2~
Drugs Seized z~
ISRAEL
Briefs
Hashish Seizure 28
Hashish Seizure in Gaza 28
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' Stricter Measures Against Drug Dealers
(Klaus Hartmann; BAYERNKURIER, 27 Jun 81) 29
Drugs Smuggled by Unwitting Tourists
(DER TAGESSPIEGEL, 26 Jun 81) 32
GREE CE
Hashish Cache Discovered in Rhodes
(Giorgos Zakhariadis; TA NEA, 16 Jim 81) 34
TU~EY
B rie fs
32 Kilos of Heroin Seized 37
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BURMA
BRTEFS
MANDALAY OFFICIALS SEIZE HEROIN--Mandalay, 8 Jul~~"Mandalay Division Drug Suppres-
sion Committee member Police Station Officer U Nyunt Shwe and members of Dawna Baw
ward people's council U Maw and U Aung Thein and others yesterday arres~ed seven
persons and seized over 10,000 kyat worth of heroin in their crackdown on heroin
dealers." The seizures made were: 16 grams of heroin from Maung Myint Thein of No 8,
Thushamma Zayat Tan; a penicillin bottle containing heroin and worth 300 kyat from
:~fa San San Aye, also of No 8, Thudha~a Zayat Tan; 20 penicillin bottles of heroin
from t:~e residence of U Tin Maung of Pyidawaye ward and from a guest--Maung Tun
Naing--at that house; and 1 ounce of heroin from Ma Ar Yin, alias Ma Lan Ying, of
Haymar Zala ward. Police Station No 8 has ~iled charges under the Narcotic Drugs
Law against those arrested. [Summary] jRangoon LOKTHA PYEITHU NEZIN ~.n Burmese
11 Jul 81 p 5 BK]
OPIUM SMUGGLING C~9NG ARRESTED--Lashio, 8 Jul--On 30 June, Lashio Township people's
- council members, township police commander and police personnel, who were keeping
a secret watch on the residence of Phaya Htan, alias U Tun Lu, stopped a jeep head-
ing for Lashio and driven by a man who had left U Tun Lu's house. The man was
questioned and on information supplied by him, "the combined raiding team searched
the residences of U Tun Lu and his followers. "Thirteen opium sellers and carriers�
in U Tun Lu's housQ were arrested. More raids were conducted on the houses within
a radius of 100 yards from U Tun Lu's house. The raids uncovered 36 balls of raw
opium from Ngo T~aan's residence, 16 balls of raw opium from Yi~o Jingmeng's house
and 2 packe*.s of opium sample from U Tun Lu's house. The total opium seizure was
worth 107,520 kyat. A total of 110 persons connected with 45 opium and heroin
cases were arrested between 1 3anuary and 1 July 1981 in Lashio Township. A total
of over 200,000 kyat worth of drugs were seized i~ the suppression campaign." [Sum-
mary] [Rangoon LOKTHA PYEITHU NEZIN in Burmese 15 Jul 81 p 5 BK]
RANGOON POLICE ARREST TWO--Rangoon, 14 Jul--Police personnel from the Rangoon Divi-
sion Crime Prevention Division at 1800 yesterday arrested Kyaw Win of Nabekyu ward,
Saingdan, Mandalay, after he was found cdrrying 25 grams of heroin at the gate of
"C" Block in Theingyi Maricet. Police further uncovered 20 grams of heroin when Tin
Win, who was accompanyin~ Kyaw Win, provided the information that the heroin was
hidden in a vacant lot on 25th Street, behind the Theingyi Market. Pabedan Police
Station has filed charges under Sections 6.B, 10.B and 11/14.D of the Narcotic
Drugs Law against Kyaw Win and Tin Win. [Text) [Rangoon MY.ANMA ALIN in Burmese
_ 15 Jul 81 p 7 BK]
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HI;ROiN SEIZURE IN NAMHKAM--Acting upon information received, a police squad from
Nlmhkam Township people's police force led by station officer L' Ni and subinspector
U Ye Myint at 1100 yesterday searched the house of Ma Hla Kyi of Pauk Long ward.
A penicillin bottle containing heroin was found wrapped in two old handkerchiefs
in a suitcase. Maung Tha Htay and Ma Say of Welant village, Mu-se Township were
also arrested from the house of Ma Hla Kyi; two penicilli.n bottles containing
heroin, 216 kyats and a bicycle were confiscated. Charges have been filed against
Ma Hla Kyi, Maung Tha Htay and Ma Say. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 16 Jul 81
p 6 BK]
BHAMO-?~1ANDALAY SHIPS ARRESTS--Bhamo, 10 .Jul--At 0900 on 10 July, subinspector U Mya
Hlaing o~ Bhamo Township people's police force and a port authority search team
composed of U Chan Myint, U Than Sein and Maung Saw Win, with assi~tance from pas-
senger Ma Khin Tint, conducted body search on passengers Nia Htay and Ma Than 5hwe
of Tag~ain ward in Hopin, Ma Bauk of Hopin and Ma. Kin Shwe of Pinweya in Ka.tha Town-
ship on pasaenger ship "Pyithu" which was travelling from Bhamo to Mandalay. Ma
Htway and Ma Than Shwe were each found with 1 viss [1 viss = 3.6 lbs] of raw opium
in their possession; 50 ticals [1 tical =.036 lb] of raw opium was found on Ma
" Bauk's body and 35 tical~ of raw opium were found on Ma Khin Shwe's body. The
four women have been handed over to Bham~ Township people's police force which
filed charges against them under S~ction 6.B [of the Narcotic Drugs Law]. At 0730
on 11 July, a search was conducted on Bhamo-Mandalay passenger ship "Paungde" by a
port authority search team composed of U Than Sein, U Tun Ryaing, U Ohn Shwe and
U Khin Maung and constabTe Maung Sein Pe of Sanhkam people's police force. They
found a package of raw opium in a food basket of Daw Labya Lu, daughter of U Labya
Naw of Kungyangon Township 9.n Rangoon Division, and her son Ma.ung Naw Gya. Tt:e two
have been handed over to Bhamo Township people's force and charged under Section
6.B. [Text] [Rangoon LOKTHA PYEITHU NEZIN in Burmese 20 Jul 81 p 5]
HEROIN SEIZURE IN LAI-HKA--Acting on 3nformation received, a police squad from
Lai-Hka in southern Shan State arrested Than Tun, Aik Mann and Aik Tun of No 3 ward,
Lai-Hka, as they were reported to have sold heroin on 25 June. Three thousand
kyats worth of heroin, which were kept in a bottle, were seized from them. [Rangoon
LOKTHA PYEITHU NEZIN in Burmese 7 Jul 81 p 7 BK]
CSO: 5300/4642
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INDIA
INDIAN ENTRY INTO ZNTERNATIONAL DRUG WORLD
Rangoon TF~ WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 2 Aug 81 p 7
NEW DELHI, 3i July-Iadia is fast burgeon-
iag into a major transit couatry for aarcotics
aad even a pos~ible source of opium-based
narcotics w the drug-dazed Westera world.
From a rriodest transit when Government sleuths
country in the early ~os wcre tipped off that a farge
and a harmless fua-time ~~~g~ent of cocaine
destination for soft drug was due to pass through.
addicts, India, has now Agents in the Westem
found a place in Interpol's pty oE Bomba~ stum-
con5dential Intelligence bled on a consignment
Bulletin, a major source of of Bolivian handiCrafts
intelligence on world drug- ~fi~PPed fiom La Paz, z.z~
- ~n~~� ~ilogrammes of cocaine
The Bulktin says:"Even o~ued at siac crullion rupees
India is said to be a major (about 75a,ooa US dollars)
ea;porter of opium-based w,ag recovered. The sei-
drugs. It i~ believed by ~re was the biggest in
maay that considerable ~a_~~t three times
amounts of Indian ~ the annual cocaine hauI in
Pakistani heroin, through ~y g~~1e y~r.
Nepal, are reaching Aus- In Apri: an alert cus-
tralia and New Zealand." official in Bombay
This is the first time seized 2.26 kilogrammes
that Interpot has said that of heroin from a Bangkok
India might be making its P~Benger.
mark though ~n its own In the Hindu holy city
~ humble way in the world's of Benaras (Varanasi), anti-
estimated Loo-biliion- narcotics sleuths seized
dallar narcotics business. L~,o kiios� of morphine
The Indian entry into and discovered a morphine
the international drug ~b
world i3 very recent. In prime ~Iinister Indira
United tiations Inter- Gandhi's Government is
- narional Narcotics Controt w,omed over the increasing
Board reports of ig79 m~olvement of India in
and igSo India was st;ot the international drug
mentioned at all. racket. To streamline
The Indian connection an.ti-narcotics agencies,
started unfolding at the the Covernment recently
beginning of this year, organized a two-week se-
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minar-cumtraining course off smugglera on bail and
~ here. personal bonds. In many'
~Irs Gandhi is incro- cases they just jump thc,
ducing a new anti-narco- bail.
tics bill in the cr,;ning "What _worries e.i-
session of the Parliament forcemcnt agencie3 even
to increase the rnaximum more are several poten-
prison term to i.~ years tially cxplosive trends
against ~ the existing three notir,cd 'in recent years...
years. TherE is an incre~sing t�lt .
The bifl aims a* ending towards more harder and
the confusion that exists in refined drugs...The big
the present statutes in catches 1n ~i977-~8 were
which upium' is dealt with hashish This year s
separately from morphine, sr.izures are of different
heroin and cocaine~ with dimension; record-break-
nothing to covec synthetic ing hauls of heroin and
narcotics. cocaine, which figure at
the top of the killer lists
The Government also �
~roposes toincrease the 50- of narcotics, a recent
million-ru~ee(about 6.25- study by the popular
US-million-dollar) annual Indian news magazine,
budget allocation- for the India Today, said.
anti-nazcotics operation Official data confirn~s the
which is considered trend. In iq~8 and ig~q
inadequate. � the agencies seized 250
What lures the. smug- and z2o grammes of
glers to operate through heroin respecuvely. But the.
India is the laxity of laws catch suddenly jumped to
here. While Iran shaots i.$ ]cilogrammes in iq8o
drug offenders and South and the last A~ril haul in
- Asian countries achieve Bombay had tossed the
the same resu(t by court- score into an altogether
room death sentence, in new d'amensioi?, the maga-
India they' are let off zine'said.
with just six months or Ohly two kilogrammes
three yeir3 of impcison- of morphine were seized
ment and a paltry fine of }n i977, but seizures
i,ooo rupees (about izo jumped dramatically to
US dollars). Over and almost t3 kilogrammes,in
above the Indian judges let i978 before se~tltnq down
to six in rq~g and P~j8o:�
CSO: 5300/4961
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_ PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
HIItOIN SEIZURE--Customs flying squads in predawn simultaneous raids on two ships
docked at the Karachi port yesterday seized foreign currency, scotch whisky and
heroin worth over RS6 lakhs yesterday. In a raid conducted by the customs drug
enforcement cell on "Chenab," contraband heroin we3.ghing 190 grams valued at
about R53 lakhs was found on the person of a crewmember, Abdul Ghafoor. Incidentally,
it was the first ever seizure of heroin from a ship. [GF131S22 Karachi DAWN
in Er.blish 11 Aug 81 p 10]
NARCOTICS, WEAPONS HAUL--As many as 160 antisocial elements, including 25 notorious
thieves and burglars, were rounded up during the week by the central division
police, who had committed 23 thefts and burglaries. The central division police
_ also recovered (i revolvers/pistols with 25 live cartridges and 18 knives/daggers
from 25 persons and recovered 6 kg of charas, 6 bottles of scotch whisky, opium
and ma.ndrix tablets from 17 narcotics peddlers. [Karachi DAWN in English
11 Aug 81 p 10 GF]
CSO: 5300/4639
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THAI PRISON FOR NARCOTICS OFFENDERS DESCRIBED
Paris LE NOWEL OBSERVATEUR in French 11-17 Jul 81 pp 14-18
- [Article bq Armand Lerco)
[Text] After spen3ing 1 year in the Thai prison of Mahachai,
where he experienced the hell oF the "darkrooms" (see our pre-
vio~is issue), Armand Lerco was transferred to the Bund Bud
Medical Rehabilitation Center, where he remained for 6 months
and a~as then finally tried. Thus it was only at the end of
1.5 years that he learned of his sentence for heroin possession,
of which he was informed when arrested in August 1977. He risked
going to prison for 15 years. By bribing the judge, he got off
with 3 years--a relativel~ light sent~nce: Thai courts, hounded
by the American llEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), readily
hand down sentences of 60 or even 100 years in prison. He was
transferred to the Lardyao central prison. Heroin traffic,
carried on by the guards, flourished there even more than in
his 4wo previous jails. This is the sequel to the story of this
young 25-year-old Frenchman, today miraculously detoxified
Lar~dyao is a vast 4- or 5-square-kilometer camp surrounded by a double electrified
� wall--with a tower every 100 meters--and a nauseating outside moat. Each tower is
_ .manned 24 hours a day by a guard addicted to mekong (Thai whisky). It of ten happens
that a prisoner who gets too close to the wall is shot. Most of the time, the guard
is too drunk to aim correctly and someone else gets the bullet.
'The prison is divided into dan (sections) of 2,Ofl0 prisoners. Each section has a
well-defined job. Section 3 is assigned to the kitchen, section 6 to the carpentry
shop and section 2 is a holding section for many types: mechanics, extra cooks .
While awaiting their final transfer, however, they make leather travel bags, hand-�.
sewn foot cushions
- In the center of this vast complex, the kingpin is building 5, known as Chiang-Mai:
the prison's heroin wa.rehouse. There were kilograms of heroin there. Number 5 was
supposed to be the darkroom building, but in reality it was a veritable hotel in-
habited by kai hai (highbrows), individual cells, radios, stoves, good chow, servants
creature comforts.
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Section 4 was an entirely different matter: an ~solated building near the garage,
which the American Embassy in Bangkok had renovated at its own expense and which it
was entitled to inspect. At that time we were right in the middle of Carter's moral-
izing period: above al.l, American public opinion should not be aroused by repatriating
its totally addicted boys A building without heroin in a Thai prison was a big
gamble: we will see how it was lost....
As for the shock of the transition between the "excess of dope" in the Thai section
and the "absence of dope" in future building 4, to mitigate a withdrawal period that
could be dangerous (the guys were so addicted that they almost croaked when they were
taken off the stuff), the Americans had f inanced a 1-month methadone rescue program
for all foreigners of all colors. The guards assigned to this new section were also
carefully selected after an investigation of their morals. In general, they were some-
what naive provincial, lower-middle-class sons of tradesmen who spoke English ~nd had
become guards to pay for their studie~. The building chief, Vichit, had a brilliant
past--a captain who had risen from the ranks--as being incorruptible.
Thus everything was perfectly arranged. No dope in the foreign section!
That lasted a certain time, as well as could be expected. When I arrived in section 4,
1 year after it was established, there was dope of course, but nut very much and it
was expensive. The terrified Thai dealers had to be enticed: they were ruthlessly
punished for selling to foreigners. Every time that a Thai got into the section, he
was systematically searched: ears, mouth, nose, spaces between the toes, anus. The
"blue tunics"--cooperative prisoners who wore blue shirts and shorts and were generally
the lackeys of the guards, cops who had been arrested for murder or former noncommis-
sioned army officers--handled the job.
Every time that a foreigner went to the hospital, he was invariably given declassified
or expired antibiotics and aspirin, escorted by a guard and a"blue tunic" who never
left him for an instant.
Despite this constant surveillance, we organized "Banzai" operations. Singh, a
Malaysian, an incredible individual who was both Jesus Christ and the devil at the
same time, with his hooked nose, his excessively long hair and his innocent eyes, was
our ace in the hole. While the guards ate, he slipped out for about an hour, carrying
. with him all-the combined available cash in the section. For a 10-percent commiss~.on,
he slipped through the forbidden gates with impunity. He spoke Thai perfectly, was
familiar with all of the guards' weaknesses, knew how to flatter them, make them laugh,
pat them on the back like brothers, invent the most outrageous explanations to justify
his presence.... Singh was the greatest magician, the most ingenious manipulator,
a sort of Asian megalomaniac. If the Thais called him Kai, which means both "great" ,
and "clever," if they trusted him and often extended him credit, when he didn't have
a cent, it was not without reason....
Always, 1 hour after he left, Singh came back with the heroin. Always. If he was
searched, the "blue tunics" found nothing. Once back in the section, behind the
building, we grabbed Singh's long carcass by the ankles and the "balm," small con-
tainers of heroin, fell miraculously out of his mouth. Only a few Thais were, like
him, capable of this feat, which consisted of blocking, by contraction, the containers
crammed into the esophagus while still being able to speak.
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'Unfortunately the ~uards, although unable to prove it, were sure that Singh was
"scoring." They isolated hi.m in building 2. Singh's isolation heralded a new era.
The student guards departed, their contracts e~ired, replaced by the building chief's
trusted men. They were much less honest and the heroin began to turn up in larger
anounts as a result....
~.Until ~he day that Vichit, the building chief, got mixed up in it himself, for he was
naturally less incorruptible than the U.S. Embassy thought. His "transformation" was
gradual, planned. He was attracted by the money of the falang (foreigners)--there
�were veritable fortunes in the section: one prisoner had put aside $500,000, while
another owned an air-cargo company--and he organized his own operation little by little.
:At first indirectTy among Asians, through the Hong Kong Chinese with English passports,
who were in our section. At that time we didn't know where the ~eroin was coming from.
Then on~ day, shortly after the prison warden, a friend of the Americans, died in an
automobile accident, Vichit revealed himself. The new warden was a native of the same
village as he....
Vichit sent for an old prisoner, Shaffmann, who haa been there for 10 years. He was
a rich American Jew and a pathological liar, a junkie through and through, and Vichit
reques*_e~i his direct services. Shaff was sent to present Vichit's plan to the foreig~rs:
1. Vichit's future customers would no longer be subject to compulsory work. 2. The
buildi.ng chief promised to recommend his customers for the annual amnesty in his report.
- 3. He promised his protection against any guard who was too inquisitive. 4. To avoid
�excessively large sums of cash being brought in, we were obliged to have an account
at the Bank of America, where Vichit's wife worked.
Onc~ a week on Monday, when the doors were opened, Vichit went around the building,
yelling: "Checks! Checks!" We gave him our checks, he left to cash them and,
2 hours later, came back to pass out the doses. He dealt only in large amounts.
In the beginning, an ounce (31 grams) of pure heroin was sold for $500. The business
~ran very smoothly. A guard, an "addict" himself, who was in charge of the coffee shop,
, ~~~ould go ta a nearby pharmacy anytime we wanted to buy new syringes in return for a
packet of smack (heroin).
Life went on. The foreigners stayed in a stupor 24 hours a day like doped lizards.
Dope ~�ras the perfect solution. It suppressed hunger and the administration distributed
a total of one i+.:,te of brown rice, stinking with vermin, a day to everyone.... Even
the Thais, caho we~t~ used to eating anything, wouldn't touch it. At least they were
- Zn their own country and their families'brought them food on visits.
But as for us, even with money, even at 3 times the outside price, it was impossible
to get anything to eat. The guards agreed to buy the dope (big profits), but not food!
=.Ihey c~er~ forbidden to bring food into the clink under any circumstances. No one had
anything to eat, with the ~~_ception of an American army sergeant, who sat in front
of a padlocked chest, a veritable safe, all day long. Obsessed with the idea of ~eing
attacked and robbed by the jackals that c~~e were, he always had a baseball bat within
reach. He received boxes of rations from his captain, who came there especially to
brin; them to him. The others--all of us--went hungry.
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We were so h;~ngry that most of the foreigners in the section who were not hooked on
dope, and who were sometimes even fiercely hostile to it, ultimately ended up sticking
a needle in their arms to avoid the pain of hunger after being tortured by sleepless
nights as a result of stomach cramps....
This lack of food was part of the building chief's inhtunan plan. A scientifically
conceived plan.
When I arrived at Lardyao, we received 2 sardines and 2 cucumbers once or twice a week;
we were also permitted to receive staple foods during visits. If we had the money,
it was even possible to buy meat and rice at the coffee shop when it was available.
After the building chief took over, all of that disappeared. As the height of cynicism,
the reason given was that dope could be hidden in the food.
In this situation, it was impossible to do without the heroin, since it was a miraculous
remedy for the short term. It depressed the metabolism and thus the need for food.
It eliminated physical and mental discomfort and neutralized amoebas. It even had
an antibiotic effect. We had no choice
I am not exaggerating when I say that heroin saved my life, as paradoxical as that
may seem. I made a deal--a modus vivendi--with heroin. I gave it my future, a future
in which I would be so addicted that I could no longer kick the habit--and in exchange,
it gave me a tolerable present.
- During that 9-month period, which I found both eternally long and incredibly quick
at the same time, we were 83 shipwrecked men on the same raft. We were as numb as
we could be, unconcerned, recumbent spectators of that indifferent universe which we
comprised.... Living corpses, our teeth fell out, but it didn't matter. At first
they became loose and then later, they dropped out. I lost 2 in the front and my
molars decayed. Other prisoners lost all their teeth Then our ha.ir went, in
two stages. First it turned white; we became old men. Then it fell out. Some
- prisoners lost all their hair....
Every morning at 6 am, when the gates were opened, ghosts went down into the yard on
the ground floor, trying to find somethi.ng to eat. Sometimes in the morning, the Thais
from the nearby garage would come in groups, guarded by a"blue tunic," to take showers
in our tank, since they had no water. They would bring rice which they would sell
to the highest bidder or for a pair of "Wrangler jeans only" or Rayban glasses, to
look intelligent.
After the deais were made, those who were unable to get anything to eat, to console
themselves, would crouch down and stick a finger into their anuses to remove the
stock and gun, which was well wrapped in plastic, and ~repared their fixes witln a kind
of quiet despair. After the in,jection, they would rewrap everything very tightly and
stick it back up into their entrails. At any time a guard interested in either dope
or money could turn up suddenly, searching them and using the report as blackmail.
In general, the guard was reluctant to search the anus. We were so filthy
We would lie down and then give ourselves another fix 2 hours later. One gram a day,
2 grams a day, sometimes even 3. The days went by, not slowly, not quickly they
merely passed and we were not even aware of it
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On Mondays, feeling energetic, we would give Vichit our checks. We touched, tasted
and discussed the quality o� the dope, which was getting worse and worse We
tasted it again to be sure We had to shoot up a little mo~y, always more and
more, to make up for the rnissing heroin. The ounces declined in size, finally weigh-
ing o;ily 20 grams We had to be careful to keep enough until the following
Monda~
Suddenly one Monday, the price of the dope doubled. Vichit explained: "The price
of heroin has doubled outside. The risks are greater. At the time, we remem-
bered that there was an outside. Vichit himself, an officer, had been searched
by the C~D (Crime Suppression Division) when he had entered the prison. We remem-
bered that there ~aas a prison
The day was spent in negotiations. Vichit said: "I'll compromise": 1. The ounces
would be sold at his quoted price but would weigh 25 grams; 2. he would "apply
pressure" so that we could obtain food during visits; 3. For those who wanted to
stop using dope, he would ha.ve a doctor issue prescriptions for valium and even
methadone
Tt's true that at that time the U.S, Embassy, which had been accupied with the boat
people for some time, was again sending letters to the prison.
From then on, the situation improved, at least for the most part. We had our valium
and our methadone and in return for payment from the entire section, we again
had the regulation rice and sardines. The administration must have been moved by
our condition. My ass.
Despite that, however, no one was able to kick the habit. The smack had penetrated
us too thoroughly. I myself, using methadone, tried but of course faii~d. It was
impossible.
It is impassible to kick the habit when someone is shooting up in front of you every
half-hour, so close that you smell l-he odor, so insistent, of the melting powder
Uncontrollably, you turn your. head and your 2yes fall on a syringe drawing
the blood in and out. A wink a call When you refuse, you are told again
with exasperatiag kindness: "Don't be so hard on yourself. If you stay alone,
you'll go nuts The needle's hypnotic presence, a kind of silent fraternity
iz dope, that ~:;::stant, piercing call. One day you know you're going to ask for
it and :h~y'll gi_ve it to you
It's impossib.le ta kick the habit among junkies, that's for sure. But how can you
get away from your "former hrothers" and become their mortal enemy? In jail, there
is no room. At the end of a few days, you give in you return to the family.
Nevertheless, I managed to shoot up 1ess. Sometimes less than a gram a day, which
was already an enormou:~.~chievement.
Despite the drawbacks of the building chief's new policy, with the narcotic state
of. equilibrium into wh:ich t~e had settled, that flight of fancy, that "crystal tower"
besie~~_~.~ by times ttie situation was more pleasanL-, more human.
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As the Vietnamese approached, the Thai army toured the prisons to obtain cheap blood.
We were not allowed to refuse. Nevertheless, we went up to the milking devices
enthusiastically. Subversively! Actually, our blood level of heroin was so high
that the Thai army would be addicted before long. How happy we were! The standard
l.ine was: "Hot damn, the recruit who gets my blood is going to be treated to an
overdose!" And despite the laughs, we were serious, for we were pro-Vietnamese.
We knew that everywhere the Vietnamese ~aent, their first concErn was to open the
gates of the prisons.
Some of us had become fanatically pro-Vietnamese, pledging that when they arrived,
"in just a matter of days," they would join the party and would have all those
~ bastard addicts shot! They forgot that they themsel�ves were addicts
During the period of the Thai-Cambodian border skirmishes, some prisoners sen~enced
to 30 years or more--the Vietnamese were their last hope--would listen to the Bangkok
English-language station on the makeshift radios built by the Chinese and sold for
- high prices.
One night, we were all awakened by hysterical shouts: "The Viets are coming! Two
divisions! ~Jith armored vehicles! The Thai army has been routed! They are 33
- kilometers away!" (Bangkok is about 200 kilometers from the Cambodian border.)
It was ecstasy. Everyone was euphoric, hanging on the bars--at Lardyao the cells
are huge cages of crossed bars, without walls, to facilitate surveillance--the volume
of the clandestine radios turned up as high as possible, and we all stayed awake,
- excited, with tourist maps of Thailand spread open. We estimated and calculated:
"They'l1 be here tomorrow morning at 8 am at the latest." (In 1941, it took the
Japanese 4 hours to reach Bangkok, take the city and force the Thais to surrender.)
As far as we were concerned, Thailand's fate was sealed. As soon as the gates were
opened, each one of us was going to hit the guard of his choice, i.nventing the most
exquisite tortures What pleasure! That lasted such a long time
At 5 am, a terrible disappointment! The Vietnamese were retreating! It was not
an invasion They announced that they had only carried out a clean-up operation.
The bo doi who had broken through the Thai lines, creating a diplomatic incident
about which they were totally unconcerned, were only pursuing a unit of serei Khmers.
The Chinese Government had issued an ultimatum to the Vietnamese and they had re-
treated immediately. There were shouts of disappointment and rage.
In 2 weeks, the seckion's morale deteriorated again. The opium harvest had been
poor due to the rains and the price of smack had gone up. The Mahach~i warden and
his deputy warden had just been azrested for corruption. And to top it all off,
- Thailand was having problems with galloping inflation. The Ministry of Justice
was cutting into its 1982 budget--and it was only 1979 As a direct result,
the price ~r dope in jail doubled once again.
To ge~ us into the right mood, Vichit did not come around for 2 weeks. He had taken
his vacation sure that when he returned, with us siclc as dogs from a week without
dope, we would be ready to pay any price for it.
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Once he was back, he told us that he had been reprimanded for the state of physical
deterioration of the section and ourselves (it was true that everything was a mess
and that we were in such weak r_ondition that it was beyond our strength to go to
the shower and shave). Vichit was also afraid of the police. He wanted to stop
the dope traffic.
, Was this a ploy to put more pressure on us? He nevertheless agreed to provide us
with kapsoun one last time.
Kapsoun is brown sugar (a poorly refined type of heroin), terribly impure, red in
color, sold in 25-gram quantities, not very expensive and very toxic.
After heating it to make it melt and filtering it for a long time, it must be shot
very quickly while it is warm, otherwise it will congeal and block the syringe.
Very dangerous once it is in the syringe, it must be injected quickly while making
sure to hit the vein, otherwise an abscess will definitely form. Shortly before
I arrived at Lardyao, a black American died from it. The abscess was not treated
in time. An Australian had had to have his arm amputated.
But this time there were no mishaps. The abscesses were treated immediately. During
this "kapse::n week," the building chief decided to make us work. Rehabilitation
through labor. We refused en masse. He had us chained up. From that day on, I
wor.e chains for almost the entire 10 months which I had left to serve. Others like
myself wore them Others paid Others worked. The "uncooperative" ones
like mqself were sent to section 6, the plum of the sections!
� During that troubled period, section 6 well expressed the Thai people's acute para-
noia concerning the communists. In that paramilitary section, there was not a single
gram of heroin, which was extraordinary in Thailand.
Number b was composed of 4 bluish-green, military-looking buildings arranged in
a square around a hu~e area of bare land. In the center, the Thai flag was resplendent
in the sunshine. From 6:30 in the morning, following the report, until 3:00 in
tlie afternoon, thousands of prisoners devoted themselves to the cult of war, marching
over the almost grassless area to the cadence of whistle blasts. In very orderly
groups, hundreds and hundreds marched past, singing war chants. They clicked their
heels and stopped. Attention! Whistle blast. Fall in! And over and over again
all day lon~;.
Another group, crouched down farther away, attentively followed a course in guerrilla
- warfare. The instrur_tor, an army colonel arrested for murder, with his officer cap--
which he was allowed to keep in order to look more authentic--praperly cocked on
his head to maintain his authority, would yell after each demonstration: "Understood!"
And everyone replied: "Understood."
On this drill field, battalions, units and commandos acted out the war against the
reds, crawling on their elbows, glued to the ground under the fire of invisible
machineguns, getting up again and charging through a veritable obstacle course
The late arrivals, including myself and 3 other Foreigners among 300 Thais, were
marched off into a Lr~e corner by 3 former noncommissioned-off icer watchdogs to
be put through the most terrible tortures.
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Deprived of dope, feeling sick enough to die, our hearts pounding at 200 beats a
minutp, chains on our feet, gritting our teech under a grueling sun, in a semi-
comatose state, to the faster and faster cadence of the whistle blasts, we had to
perform a whole series of exhausting physical exercises for 6 hours. I thought
that my heart would burst, t.hat my bones would break, that my blood vessels would
pop and that my head would explode, all at the same time During a series of
stretching exercises, my bowels tortured with diarrhea--a withdrawal symptom--suffo-
cating from stomach cramps, I collapsed face down in my own vomit, unconscious.
They threw a pail of water on me. Hallucinating as though I were on acid, I opened
my eyes to see Andre, a friend. "That's better. Don't you have any methadone?"
I swallowed 2 pills which he handed me. "Where are they?" "Brian is in the hospital;
he's dislocated his arm. Mi~hel flipped. He went into hysterics and wanted to
see the building chief. The guards hit him over the head and took him off somewhere
the Thais have gone to eat. That bunch of bastards!"
Things were better after a half-hour. The methadone took effect and I was able
to walk; the nightmare was over We went to meet the others in the hangar that
served as a mess hall. Not having the heart to eat, we found the colonel with the
cap and explained the situation to him he wasn't as stupid as he looked
he went to talk to the building chief at 1 pm we could have kissed hi.m!
He kept his word. About 1:30 pm, a guard came to get us to take us to see Michel,
who was a little messed up, still bleeding from the nose and waiting for us. "I
saw the colonel with the cap; they are putting us all in chains together and the
building chief has given us 3 days to get better." I couldn't believe my ears
As planned, we spent 3 days doing nothing, but it was forbidden to sit down. We
had to march all day long, that is, with each step we had to lift our 3 legs at
the same time and put them down at the same time 50 cm ahead. It took us an hour
in the morning to get to the mess hall where, wonder of wonders, if we got there
early enough, about 11 am, some Thais would be selling rice fried with eggs for
20 bahts. Then we'd make a pass at the kathoi (transsexuals) and accompanied them
back, sauntering laboriously, kling-klang, to their building, which was located
on the other side of the drill field just opposite our own.
The kathoi shared their building with the lunatics. In Thailand, mental patients
who have not committed any offense are imprisoned, often for life, as well as
one-legged people and the blind. They spoil the landscape for the tourists.
As for the transsexual offenders, who were actually women since most had had opera-
tions, "they" were still confined with the men. There were about 100 of them at
Lardyao. Some very attractive, others less so. In this fringe building of section 6,
they were under the medical supervision of a former military doctor who had fallen
into disgrace for some unknown reason (h~ was very secretive) and who gave them
their daily injection of hormones. They lived in the luxury of a high-class bordello.
Always very excited, they took their little walk to the mess hall every morning
about 9:00 am in a group, glittering in silk and rolling their hips with their breasts
jutting out to show that they had them, while flashing languid smiles.
In Thailand, and more generally in Asia, transsPxuality is quite commonplace whereas,
paradoxically, homosexuality is only more or less tolerated. In Bangkok, the number
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of kathoi is enormous. Half of the hostesses of the famous Grace Hotel are trans-
sexuals and a good number of Westerners would be surprised to learn that the puying
(prostitute) with whom they have been living for 6 months is actually a man.
- If primary homosexuality (exclusively intermale relations) is tolerated outside
prison, the same is not true in prison: in section 2, guys who "committed" nocturnal
sexual relations were dragged in front of the building chief's desk in the morning
and ordered, under threat of being beaten and before a jeering crowd, to have public
sex. The pigs And depending on the builaing chief's mood, following the per-
formance they were beaten and of*.en chained
The kathoi are considered women. They are not harassed, on the contrary. With
guards acting as their piu~ps, they prostitute themselves for a carton of cigarettes
a throw ($4). They sometimes r_ame to see us, the falang, in section 4 on Sundays.
We all had our own kathoi sweetheart. It was also good form for them to have a
"lover" with light-colored eyes, of whom they were jealously possessive. It was
perfect. And we would wait for them on Sunday mornings they would bring food.
~ Our month of rehabilitation over, we were in such good physical shape, off dope,
glowinb, that the idea of going back to section 4 to find that filthy heroin again
made us nervous. We had submitted a request to the deputy warden to remain in this
buil.ding, but it had been rejected. We were sent back to section 4. Back into hell
Building 4's system was still the same. Vichit was still bringing in the dope,
but not very much, and selling it to the highest bidder. In this instance, it was
Antonio, a young Italian neonazi caught at the airport with a kilogram while he
was on a mission: the mo~iey fYOm the dope was to have replenished his organization's
treasury! His father, a Roman senator, had died shortly after his arrest, leaving
him a fortune, which he squandered on smack. Antonio obtained a rare royal pardon
and was released.
' The atmospn.ere of the section was more sordid than ever: there was no dope .
a veritable wave of insanity broke loose. It first knocked over one of the pillars
of the section, an American known as Henry Kissinger. Kiss was an enormous 45-
year-o1d man weighing 300 pounds and 1.90 meters tall. He was wanted in about 10
countries (for holdups in Saudi Arabia, Iran , but in the United States he was
wanred for a total of about 13 charges, including 2 murders). One night, he was
visited by Gou ._t~e father
Kiss had cash, a!ot of cash, and acted as a banker. At 80 percent interest, he
lenr_ moiiey to ar.ycne ~~ho coLld pay him back within a reasonable amount of ti.me.
Sorae ot~y5 handed h~_M incred.ible stories. If he liked the sweet talk, if the guy
was ta?er,.ted, Kiss wo~ild tell him: "Listen, man, I'm sure that you're trying to
put one over on me, but you're talented; I've just spent 2 pleasant, enriching hours
because of you that's certainly worth $500, and even if you don't intend to
; pay it back, I swear to you that you will
Kiss lent money hal.f out of self-interest and half out of sport. Perhaps it was
even a form of modest generosi~y A complex individual, that Kiss: intelligent,
cultivated, he had spent long years studying in order to end up at Lardyao by whatever
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unlcnuwn turns, twists and bends. Above all, he was playful. In Vietnam, to be dis-
~harged froar the service, he had had "Fuck You" tattooed on the edge of his hand
so that every time he saluted his superioYS, they got his message. He was sent
to the brig and discharged at once from the U.S. Forces.
Then one morning, Kissinger went around to his debtors, proclaiming that he had
discovered God. "We are all brothers We're all in the same crappy fix
You no longer owe me anything And with tears in his eyes, he embraced us.
At first we thought it was a joke. But since he came back every half-hour to tell
us his story again, someone told him impatiently: "Yes, you know, the angels came
and carved you a pipe." Kiss said: "Angels don't carve pipes," and went off. At
1:00 pm, when the mail came, there was a new revelation: Kiss had received a letter
from his embassy. He was going to be released from prison. His request for a pardon
had been granted. Knowing his past, someone asked skeptically if he had requested
a royal pardon. Kiss said: "Not yet." We were relieved. Kiss had lost his mind
and the section rubbed their hands. Practically everyone owed him money. Myself
alone, and I was not his largest debtor, I owed him $1,400
One week after Saint Kissinger, it was Benjamin, an Israeli. Benjamin no lon~er
had a cent and had gorten all the credit possible from the Chinese. Since Kissinger
the banker no longer existed, he couldn't buy his two doses of dope, one in the
morning and one in the evening, so to get used to doing without it, he decided to
kick the habzt. He couldn't stand the shock. Endless hallucinations his head
couldn't take it and he f inally lost his mind.
At night, he tJOUId see the Syrian army hiding behind bushes in the yard, holding
his daughter hostage. Benjamin was in the cell next to mine and I would hear him
yelling in Yiddish at the Syrian soldiers all night long. When the gates were opened,
he would rush toward the so-called bushes like a madman and would find his father
there, with whom he talked for hours, with tears in his eyes.
After Benjamin, it was a German. He had just been put in jail, good and fat. ~ao
weeks later, he was skin and bones. Havir.g rejected the magic solution of heroin,
he went hungry. He went crazy. He ate his own excrement and attacked the men,
trying to bite rhem. The guards, skilled in providing therapy, found the solution
to his problem. They chained him up and hammered his teeth out.
On the day that I returned, Vichit removed my chains in exchange for my promise
to work and, later, to pay him. I was in good health and decided to work to pr.e-
serve my strength (I was going to be released in 6 months) and not to touch dope
(at least not too much, anyway). The creative work consisted of digging a trench
in which to bury the prison garbage. Since there had been nothing to eat, and thus
no garbage, Vichit turned the hole into a fish pond. And we had to carry the dirt,
like ants, in bamhoo baskets on our heads The work in the sun was as boring
and as exhausting as it could be, but I did it until, fatally, I got hooked again
and became an underfed junkie again. I again refused to pay. I was put back in
chains and sent off for another round
My last 6 months in,prison were definitely the longest No Ionger able to sleep,
I became irritable, dreaming up a typical happy future to make up for the terrible
fear of the outside, which characterizes a convict about to be released. At night,
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_ I would make statistical calculations about how fast time had gone by over the last
_ 3 years
~
It didn't work, dammit. The days dragged by anemically. You ass, you're sick .
_ "I've got to relax." "Give yourself a fix!" "No, I've got to kick the habit; it�
will soon be time I heard a 747 take off from Don Muang, the nearby airport.
It passed over our heads in less than 3 minutes. I wondered for the millionth time
whether the passengers could see us. Whether we existed. Recognizing the word
Lufthansa, I yelled at one of the guys who was slouching in the sha.de: "Lufthansa,
what time?" "11:43 13 kilos." (In his opinion, there were 18 kilograms of heroin
on that plane, destined for Frankfort.) The guy was referring to the DEA statistics
published in the BANGKOK POST I said to myself: "Those poor bastards, they'll
never get out of here. They'11 spend their lives in jail; dope is the only thing
that really matters for them. But I'm not stupid. I'm free I despise them,
all of those bastards And with that, I went off to give myself a fix.
I got out one day; it was 20 May. I slipped on some pants and a shirt and I was
a different man. In the corridor, I ran into Kissinger's angels, who looked tired.
Relaxed, I went downstairs, being careful not to display any emotion or impatience,
lookir~ the jug over a little to leave a good impression.
A guard arrived from the Clerk of Court's office; I clenched my fists. All of us
pretended not to be nervous, despite our quivering voices when we gave our respective
- false addresses, but no one bel3.eved it.
I left like Humphrey Bogart, without turning around. Z~ao days later, I was in Paris.
Intoxicated, my brain on fire, and never freer. Unless
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THAILAND
USE OF VAPOR INHALANTS ON THE RISE; STUDENT HEROIN USE NOTED
Most Students Use Heroin
Bangkok TAWAN SIAM in Thai 18 Apr 81 pp 1, 16
[Text] Ninety percent of all narcotics addicts are addicted to heroin.
, The deputy under-secretary of state of the Ministry of Education on measures to pre-
vent students from becoming addicted to "the death powder," at the opening of an
interdepartmental conference studying how to marshall investigative forces to find
the sources of narcotics disbribution, said that all educational institutions should
be on the alert.
At the Ministry of Education on 17 April Mr Somchai Wuthipricha, deputy under-secre-
tary-of-state in the Ministry of Interior (sic), in the status of chairman of the
Sub-committee to Prevent Drug Addiction in Places of Education, disclosed the results
of the conference, saying that experts from several fields had proposed to solve the
problem of expediting the establishment of student narcotics addiction control zones
by finding the places where it is spreading, both within and outside the capital, so
that forces can be concentrated there especially.
The Education Ministry deputy under-secretary-of-state also disclosed that research
conducted by narcotics experts indicates that the reason students become addicted is
that they want to try it like their friends. Up to 90 percent of narcotics addicts
are heroin users and the vast ma~ority are cigarette smokers. A study of secondary
school students who have been suspended from school shows that out of 160 students
suspended 24 were suspended b ecause of narcotics addiction.
Mr Somchai said that in its policy of requiring [drug] prevention the Ministry of
Education must make administrators of educational institutions understand and must
encourage their support and sincere interest in solving this problem. It must be
implemented along with operati.ng guidance which the Educational Techniques Department
has prepareu in model form. In addition the Education Ministry must review its
current actions and its methods of promoting the campaign to prevent drug addiction
to determine whether they might be a two-edge sword because they might encourage
children to try drugs.
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Bangkok SIAMRAT in Thai 25 May 81 pp 1, 12
[Text] The youth of Bangkok who are addicted to narcotics in the "vapors" class
number not less tnan 100,000 and most of them are between the ages of 10 and 20 and
come from families with economic problems and lacking in warmth according to a survey
by the Drug Prevention Division of the Drug Prevention and Narcotics Control Board
(DPNCR).
The DPNCB report expresses the fear that the number of youthful drug addicts will
increase since economic and family relations problems are rapidly increasing in
Bangkok.
As a way of correcting this situation, the Drug Prevention Division suggests that
fhe government should foster more sports-related outlets for youth in the city by
builaing athletic fields and recreation centers which would serve as places for youth
to congregate. In addition parents and government officials must cooperate in exer-
, cising ~reater supervision.
The "vapors" that these young people become addicted to are mostly gases used in
industry.
Popularity of Vapor Inhalants
Bangkok BANMWANG in Thai 4 May 81 pp 1, 16
' [Text] Mr Pricha Champarat, Chief of the Drug Prevention Division of the DPNCB, says
; that the problem of drug addiction is widespread among the population, with many
types of drugs involved including gases which vaporize rapidly called "vapors" which
can be found everywhere in the markets and in daily industrial use. They include
benzine, paint thinner, lacquer, lighter fluid, kerosene, varnish, nail polish, and
sprays. At the same time if vapors are introduced into the body ragularly in ex-
cessive quantity, as by regular inhaling, they are very dangerous.
Currently large numbers of young people are misusing vapors by intentionally inhaling
them. This is ~onsidered to be a problem for society which must be solved urgently
before the poisui:ous vapors destroy the future of our youth, the strength of the
nation.
The effects of inhaling vapors are intoxication, head spinning, blurred vision and
ha]uciiiations. If inhaled repeatedly in large quantities they will cause loss of
consciousness, coma an~:i possibly death because the vapors, when inhaled, enter the
lungs where they enter th~_ ulood stream and are carried directiy to the brain where
they supress the central nervous system, particularly the respiration control center
causing respiration to stop. When ingested in large quantities they also affect the
heart making it speed up arythmically. Finally it stops beating and death occurs
due to heart failure. The danger of regular use is destruction of health, which in
the ct~ronic stage causes brain, liver, kidney and other damage.
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A survey revealed that a large number of youth in Bangkok are addicted to vapors.
For the most part they inhale them in groups. Their average age in between 10 and 20.
Young people can protect themselves by not trying vaporous drugs and not giving in
to the urgings of friends. When they have a problem they should seek an outlet by
playing sports, reading, or working at hobbies. Parents and guardians should
supervise children closely and store any vaporous gases in the home carefully. If
they find out that their children are using drugs they should rush them to see a
doctor at any haspital in order to start prompt medical treatment.
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~ THAILAND
HILLTRIBE TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED IN SOUTH; MARIHUANA SEIZED IN BANGKOK
~ 'Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 9 May 81 pp 1, 2
[TextJ Ztao Musur hill tribesmen trafficking in heroin and morphine that they carried
from the North to the South have been arrested. Police burst into the house where
they were to rendezvous with their customer and arrested them. A search turned up
58 via]s of heroin weighing 58 grams and having a value of five million baht which
' had been hidden in a stuffed bear. Also one gram of morphine was found on the person
of one of the two hill tribesmen. The suspects admitted that they had been doing
i business for a long time with a Malay whose name they would not reveal.
A DAO SIAM reporter in Hat Yai District of Songkhla Province reported that at 1130
; hours on 8 May Police Major Manot Kraiwong, Chief Inspector of the Hat Yai Provincial
; Police Station, along with Police Ma~or Thawat Butsau, an inspector, and a number of
other officers entered and searched house number 71/21 Chai-akhan Road in Hat Yai
District because they had information that that house was a place where illegal nar-
cotics were bought and sold. The search turned up 58 vials weighing 58 grams of
, whit~-powder type of heroin hidden in a stuffed bear. It was valued at five million
baht.
Then officers arrested Ulatha Leusew, age 22, of house number 20, vill�age 20, Maesai
Canton, rtaesai District, Chiang Mai Province and Amu (last name unknown), age 30,
of house number 136, village 19, Maikham Canton, Maechan District, Chiang Mai Pro-
, vince, both of whom are Musur hill tribesmen. Officers also discovered one gram of
morphi~e while searching Amu and confiscated it for evidence. Then they took the two
suspects and the evidence and turned them over to police lst Lt Sarawit Phadungchai,
the duty officer at the Hat Yai Provincial Police Station, for questioning. During
questioning the two suspects admitted that they had brought the heroin from the
North to sell in the South to a Malaysian man, whose name they would not reveal, and
had done so several times. At the conclusion of the questioning officers jailed the
suspects for trial.
~ Another report said that at 1400 hours police Lt Col Somchai Muangdaeng, Inspector
; at the Bangkok Noi Metropolitan Police Station, and Police Sargeant Manat Sarasa-at
were on duty at the intersection at the foot of Phrapinklao Bridge when a Datsun
pickup truck bearing red license plates came across the bridge heading for Charan
Sanitwong Road. It was travelling in the right lane while normally small trucks use
the left lane. The officers considered that its behavior was suspicious and ordered
; it ~o stop. But the driver of the truck sped away. Lt Col Somchai used a radio car
j to follow the truck and spotted it at the entrance of the land leading to Wat
; Dongmunlek because it had crashed into the rear end of a rice truck.
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Police officers arrested two persons who were riding in the truck: Suradet Sirisawat,
age 28, and Kreutsada Watthanawari, age 27. Another person, the owner of the truck,
got away. When officers looked in the trL:.k ;ahich was covered with canvas they dis-
covered 389 kilograms of marihuana cigarettes worth 1,167,000 baht. Under question-
ing the suspects admittied that they had brought it from ~akon Nakhon Province. All
of the accused reside in Sakon Nakhon Province.
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THAILAND
MARIHUANA ENROUTE SOUTH SEIZED
~ Bangkok BAN MUANG in Thai 9 May 81 p 16
[Text] At 1500 hours on 8 May as police 2nd Lt Wirasak Thanupun, in a radio-control-
' led patrcl and special operations car, patrolled along Charan Sanitwong Road approach-
ing the area in front of the Southern bus terminal he observed three men in a brand
new pick up truck with a red license plate number 00366 and covered with a tarpaulen
who were acting suspiciously so he ordered them to halt for a search. But the truck
would not stop and sped away but only for 50 meters where it crashed into the rear
end of a ten-wheeled truck. The occupants of the pick up split up and ran away but
officers chased and caught two of them: Suradet Sirisawat, age 25 of house number
500, village 6, That Cheungchum Canton, Muang District, Sakon Nakhon Province, and
Kreutsada Rattananawikun, age 25 from Korat. Meanwhile the pick up was searched and
was found to be full of marihuana packed in plastic bags, wei~hing a total of 389
kilograms, and valued at nearly four million baht.
' Under interrogation Suradet stated that he works as a painter in Sakon Nakhon but
that the driver named Sak (last name unknown), who got away, had been hired to drive
the truck into Bangkok. He knew neither the route nor what was in the truck. Then
he was arrested as reported above.
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZED IN RAID--Bangkok, Thailand, July 26 (AP)--Anti-narcotics police at-
tacked a gang of heroin smugglers near the Thailand-Burma border Friday and seized
14 kilograms (30.8 pounds) of highly refined heroin, a police spokesman said Sun-
day. He said three policemen were wounded in the 10-minute clash with three heroin
smugglers, after the smugglers had crossed into Thailand's Chiang Rai Province, 450
miles (7?.0 kilometers) north of here. Police said one Burmese national was ar-
_ rested and charged with heroin trafficking, but two others managed to flee into the
jungle after the fighting. The heroin was estimated to be worth 150,000 U.S. dol-
lars, but could fetch 10 times that amount in major U.S. cities, police said.
Police said the heroin was produced in the Golden Triangle, where the borders of
Thailand, Burma and Laos meet. [Text] [Taipei THE CHINA POST in English 28 Jul 81
p 6]
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V IETNAM
CAN THO DRUG TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED
Hanoi HANOI MOI in Vietnamese 24 Jun 81 p 4
[Text] The People's Court of Can Tho City, Hau Giang Province recently tried
Nguyen Phu Huu and Nguyen Van Giau for the possession of and trafficking in
- pornographic and reactionary cultural items and ;tor the sale and use of heroin.
The activities of Huu and Giau were discovered by the people who assisted the
responsible agencies in arresting them with the evidence. Huu and Giau acknowl-
edged all their crimes before the court and were each sentenced to 24 months in
prison and confiscation of all the evidence and means [related to their criminal
activities].
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JAMAICA
BRIEFS
RAID ON ILLEGAL AIRSTRIP--Police in a raid on an illegal airstrip at Hill Run
district, in St. Catherine on Friday seized uncustomed goods along with ten
pounds of ganja, and arrested and charged f ifteen persons. Police Information
Centre reported that the airstrip, complete with a makeshift control tower for
landing aircraft was raided at about 11 a.m. by the police in St. Cathertne.~
'I'hey seized two aircraft transceivers, two VHF radios, ten CB radios, four
"walkie-talkies", 24 signal lamps for landing aircraft, 300 batteries for the
lamps, four aircraft tyres, 13 fuel pumps, a scale believed to be used for
weighing ganja, a television set, and~a pair of binoculars. Those arrested
including two womer,, are being held in custody to appear in court at Spanish Town
on Tuesd3y to face charges of breaches of the Customs Act and possession of
ganja. They are: Donovan Perrier, 23, Roy Samuels, 44; Joseph McLean, 65,
Alphanso Green, 31; Gerald Hutchinson, 21; Henry Rowe, 49; Sylvester Bartley,
19; Glenford Anderson, 24; Danny Morrison, 32; Terrence Serrigan, 20; John
Walters, 17; Leroy Gordon, 22, and Denzil Bartley, 20. The women are May
Bingham, 56, and Cynthia Senior, 42. All 15 were held at the airstrip. [Text)
[Kingston THE SUNDAY GLEANER in English 19 Jul 81 p 2]
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MARIHUANA CONFISCATION--Police seized an estimated $1 million worth of compressed
' mariju~na in raids carried out at Belmont and Morvant, early yesterday. Two
; men and a woman were held for questioning in connection with the seizure, which
; Police said was the result of "Operation FAN". Maurice B:own's picture shows
members of the Flying Squad sifting through the confiscated mari3uana at Police
Barracks in St. James. [Photo not reproducedJ Meanwhile three suitcases,
~ containing mari~usna ~=ith an estimated street value of $1.5 million, were
: seized by officers of the Preventive Branch of the Customs and Excise Division
during the past week, at Piarco International Airport. Officials of the division
reported however, that no one was held in connection with the seizure. The
marijuana, described as ~ompressed and cured, was seized in the baggage claim
area of the airport. Officials said the shipment originated at Kingston,
Jamaica. Surveillance of all points of entry into the country is continuing,
in attempts to halt the illegal importation of marijuana, according to officials.
; [Text] [Port-of-Spain TRINIDAD GUARDIAN in Er_glish 24 Jul 81 p 3]
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IRAN
j BRIEFS
ARI~IED CLASH OVER OPIUM--During an armed clash with three notorious smugglers last
night, personnel from the Mashhad Antinarcotics Headquarters, in cooperation wi~h
the Islamic Revolution Committee of Torbat-e Jam, seized 143.8 kg of opium which
had been concealed in 20 bags. The smugglers were arrested as they were travelling
from Tayyebat to Mashhad in three vehicl~s. One of the smugglers took advantage
of the darkness ax?d fled. This morning the officers o� the antinarcotics head-
! quarters, in cooperation with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Mashhad,
; seized 4.6 kilograr,?s of heroin and 7.4 kilograms of opium from an Afghan smuggler.
The Afghan national was handed over to the judicial authorities. [LD130407
Tehran Domestic Serv3ce in Persian 1630 GMT 12 Aug 81]
; HEROIN, HASHISH SEIZED--During a series of daring operations over the past week,
400 kg of pure heroin and 1,800 kg of hashish were seized and impounded by the
antinarcotics police officers. These operations came in the wake of the discovery
! of 716 kg of heroin the week before. [Excerpts] [LD050202 Tehran Domestic Service
' in Persian 1000 GMT 4 Aug 81]
~
; DRUGS SEIZED--PARS News Agency reports that according to an announcement by the
Public Relations Office of the Islamic Republic of Iran's state genda~rmerie, the
~ gendarmerie guards at Nosratabad in Zahedan seized 72 kilograms of heroin, 700 grams
of hashish and one 45 calibre firearm 2 days ago. These were seized from a jeep;
~ the driver was arrested and handed over to the authorities. Another report says
that member~ ~f t::~ Corps ~f Revol.utio:: C~:~ds i:. Torbat-e He;a..riveh, wh~~e
; searching a car this morning, seized 14 kilogrmas of opium. [Text] [LD090254
Tehran Domesti~ Service in Persian 1630 GMT 8 Aug 81]
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HASHISH SEIZURE--The Gaza District Police managed to seize 733 soles of hashish
weighing 173 kg in a week-long operation that ended on 9 August. The hashish
; arrived by sea, apparently from Lebanon. Khan Yunus and Rafah fishermer. are sus-
pected of having brought in the drug. The police believe that this is one of the
; largest seizures of hashish in Israel in the last few years. [Tel Aviv ITIM
j in Hebrew 1430 GMT 9 Aug 81 TA]
~ HASHISH SEI?.URE IN GAZA--The largest ever quantity of hashish was discovered
~ in the south this week, in the Gaza Strip. The captured hashish is worth
' 10 million shekels and a total� of about 750 soles. In the course of the
I investigation, the police arrested more than 40 drug dealers. Our correspondent
i says that, because of this discovery, shortage of the drug is being felt among
~ its suppliers and the prices have increased. [TA150547 Jerusalem Domestic
~ Television Service in Hebrew 1830 GMT 15 Aug 81 TA]
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
STRICTER MEASURES AGAINST DRUG DEALERS
Munich BAYERNKURIER in Germ.~n 27 Jun 81 pp 5, 6
~
[Article by Klaus Hartmann, member of the FRG Bundestag, chairman of the GSU national
committee's study group "Social and Society-Policies, Culture aiid Research," and
deputy chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Youth, Family and Health: "Drug
I.egislation: Measures Against Drugs."]
[TextJ On 26 May 1981 the German Bundestag unanimously adopted a law on the reform
of drug legislation. Under it, the control of the legal narcotics traffic is
tightened; as compared with the hitherto prevailing drug law, the control is ex-
; tended over 27 additional substances and about 55 preparations, according to the
1971 international addictive substances agreement. Penalties for criminal viola-
tion of drug laws were increased. But in this connection special attention was
paid to the affairs of addicted minor to middle-of-road drug law violators, in
whose cases social-therapeutic rehabilitation assumes primary importance.
The initiative for these legislative measures emanated from the CDU/CSU which, as
' early as October, 1979, was the first parliamentary party to submit to the Bundestag
; a legislative proposal for the alteration of thP drug laws. The present legislative
; proposal for the reform of drug legislation was newly submitted by the SPD/FDP
coalition in November, 1980. Since this is a law that requires agreement, the
matter called for a compromise among the parties. This was prepared in the proper
consulting le~i.slative committee and was transferred to the underwriting Committee
for Youth, Fam{ty and Health.
Drug Abuse and addiction have in the past increased dramatically in our country:
623 drug deaths in 1979, still 494 in 1980, 50,000 drug cases in 1980 with 6,000
firsc offenders and 10,000 repeat offenders in drug criminality, an estimated number
of 6,000 tc, 90,000 addicts--this is the reality of the drug scene. Abuse and
addiction are a scourge with frightening consequences: social decline, immeasurable
personal suffering up to the final excruciating death, relatives and friends who
~ suffer along, not to speak of the considerable economic damanges for society as a
whole.
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, By present judgment, no decisive change for the better was recognizable in 1979/80
either. The hard core of heroin addicts still appears to be growing, a shift
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than before, they start directly with heroin. The "scene" has become established
in a dangerous manner. There are no supply problems with any addictive substances.
The price of heroin has remained unchanged; in some areas it has even dropped. The
fact of a still relatively high concentration of heroin and an adequate supply
covering~the entire spectrum of the drugs in demand, has led to a worrisome illu-
sionary geace of mind in the scene. Drugs are available even in small towns and
villages. The costs of daily drug doses can continue to be covered by shop lifting,
dealing, prostitution and bank loans. Pharmacy burglaries, prescription forgery
and other offenses in the area of procurement criminality have clearly diminished.
This is not a result of intensive control but, on the'coritrary, a sign of failure
to curb the drug market a..d its supply.
The CDU/CSU succeeded in supplementing the new drug law with considerable, very
substantive improvements, as compared with the present legal status and also with
the law which last year got stuck in +-he Bundesrat.
1. The penalty for evidence of criminal acts in the area of drug laws was increased
to 4 years. This is directed first of all at those culprits who, without being
addicted themselves, take advantage of the addictic,n of others. For especially
severe cases, the maximum penalty ~aas increased from 10 to 15 years.
2. In the case of drug addicted law violators who have been sentenced to no more
than 2 years imprisonment, the sentence can be set aside for up to 2 years if the
convicted is under treatment aimed at his rehabilitation or agrees to submit to such
treatment, and its beginning is guaranteed. The therapy time can be counted as part
of the sentence.
In these special regulations, the principle f inds expression that under certain
preconditions of therapy, indictment and implementation of penalty must not stand
in each other's wa~*. What matters is to break through the vicious circle of addic-
tion, criminal action, prosecurion, and implementation of penalty back into the
scene, and to give those drug addicts who are able and willing to undergo therapy
a chance for rehabilitation into society.
3. In the future, the court can reduce the sentence or forget about it altogether
iF the culprit voluntarily turns state evidence so that the crime can be solved
beyond his own contribution to it, or grave criminal acts in the area of drug
criminality can still be prevented ("minor chief witness regulation").
These new stipulations, which bear the CDU/CSU imprint, amount to a renunciation of
the misleading slogan "therapy instead of sentence." In science also, this placating
confrontation was labeled as an inappropriate narrowing of the problem. One does
not do ,justice to the complexity of the problems if the drug addict is classified
either as sick or as criminal. Therapy and punishment must be flexibly usable
tools in the fight against drug abuse. But it must be weighted in favor of therapy
in so far as measures of penal prosecution and implementation of sentences must
nc,t be allowed to stand in the way of promising therapy.
Although the new drug law contains considerable improvements, those who believe that
it can offer patent medicines must be cautioned. True, the law wants to reduce
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the availability of drugs, scare people off by threatening increased sentences,
and enhance the possibilities for social-therapeutic rehabilitation. But this is
not enough; rather, far-reaching preventive measures in the area of education,
culture and scientific and social policies need to be introduced. The drug problem
can be solved through halting drug suppll.es or halting utilization of such supplies,
as well as through combating drug demand and its individual motivation.
Whence Drug Susceptibility?
, The motto "War on Drugs" entails an obligation to consider the question what drives
~ a young person to use mind-altering drugs? What are the f actors in state, society
~ the professional world, school and family which promote drug susceptibility? What
are the defects in our system of order and values? Where do the structures no
longer fit and how can we repair them?
There never has been and there never will be a congruity between young people's
expectations and reality. Whoever makes promises to the youth that cannot be
realized is an irresponsible seducer. But how can we prevent young people from
, ~ foundering on reality and taking refuge in the illusionary world of hallucinations,
in the void of total escape? These are questions for every responsible citizen,
not just for the politicians. We must all seek ways of prevention and immunization.
Part of this is more intensive research into the causes of drug problems and in-
tensified educational work. The federal government's action program and also the
drug-combating program of the Laender must in this respect be supplemented and
- implemented.
The Bavarian state government's drug combating program of 30 September 1980 is
exemplary in this respect.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
DRUGS SMUGGLED BY UNWITTING TOURISTS
West Berlin DER TAGESSPIEGEL in German 26 Jun 81 p 20
[Article by ddp: "Tourists as Drug Smugglers: Heroin Hidden in the Car of an
Unsuspecting Driver."]
[Text] Bonn. More and more often, unsuspecting drivers are involved in illegal
drug traffic. At the beginning of vacation time, Federal Minister Baum warned
vacationers on Thursday in Bonn not to let themselves be misused as courier services
by unscrupulous dealers who use cunning tricks. He pointed out especially that in
many Southeast Asian, Near East, North African, and South American countriea, draconic
punishments under "hardly ima.ginable imprisonment conditions" await the drug owner
or smuggler. The accused is frequently unable to make his unawareness credible.
On the basis of knowledge acquired by the Federal Criminal Bureau and to German
- representations abroad, Baum described some tricks used with particular frequency.
For instance, the luggage, unnoticed by the tourist, is "enriched" with drugs for
- the return trip. Most frequently, the dealers use the car parked by the vacationers
- as means of transportation. The tourists are invited to bring the car to a nearby
parking lot, fill it up, or even have the oil changed or vital repairs taken care
of either free of charge or very cheaply. This can present an opportuniCy to hide
the drugs in the car without difficulty.
How risky such "favorable offers" can be for vacationers was shown in a case last
summer. In the car of German tourists who had entered Greece from Turkey, 60 grams
of heroin were found. Although the driver expressed the suspicion that the drugs
were hidden in the car when he stopped at a repair place in Turkey, he was sentenced
to 12 years imprisonment.
According to Baum, younger tourists in particular try to finance their vacation in
the Near East or in North Africa by selling their car. Seemingly helpful inter-
mediaries, often filling station owners, offer their services. In the course of
the negotiations the drugs are hidden in the car, then the sale allegedly does not
work out and the returning tourist becomes, quite unawares, a drug carrier. Cam-
ouflaged drug smuggling is not infrequently concealed behind a request to take
letters, small packages, or other small pieces of luggage along on the return trip
to the FRG, as "a favor" or for a small remuneration.
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Sometimes, tourists are also recruited by drug dealers directly as couriers, with
an offer of "good pay." In doing this the dealers often use a dirty trick. They
themselves notify the police about the deal to prove their apparent readiness to
cooperate. In reality, they want to cash in on the valuable "capture reward" at
a loss of qualitatively inferior stuff. Baum advised tourists who come into contact
with dealers in such a manner, or who have a suspicion of this kind, to ask German
embassies and consulates to help them.
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GREECE
HASHISH CACHE DISCOVERED IN RHODES
Athens TA NEA in Greek 16 Jun 81 pp 1, 4
[Article by Giorgos Zakhariadis) ~
[Text] Rhodes--A deep mystery continues to spread over the case involving
the discovery of about 3 tons of hashish, hidden within inner tubes, in a
desolate area on the island of Rhodes. And although the island's port
authorities are continuing their intensive investigations to get to the bottom
of this serious affair, they are optimistic that they "will clear up this case,"
as the harbormaster of Rhodes stated to TA NEA.
At the same time, the discovery of a foreign pleasure-boat which had run aground
2.5 miles away from the point where the inner tubes were found is giving rise
to even more questions, since neither any crew member nor any other passenger
was found on this boat. In any case, four Swedes have been arrested, two men
and two women who were sunbathing a few meters away from the cache containing
the 3 tons of hashish.
The disclosure of this case began at midday last Saturday, when the fisherman
~ Osman Angas telephoned the Central Port Authority of Rhodes and reported that
an inner tube containing hashish had been found along the desolate coast of
Kattavia, 110 kilometers from the town.
I~nediately the deputy harbormaster, Lieutenant Ioan. Fournarakis, and Chief
Warrant Offic~r Aim. Makodos ~aent to this area. After taking delivery of the
inner tube with the hashish, the two officers boarded a boat and began to
search the seashore.
At a distance of 3 miles they spotted a makeshift tent on the coastal rocks.
They took off their unifor~ms and pretended to be fishermen, and at that time
they saw four persons sunbathing nearby.
The deputy harbormaster went towards the tent, while the warrant officer stopped
to keep an eye on the foreigners, because they considered them suspects. When
_ Fournarakis pulled aside the blanke~t of the makeshift tent, he was startled
to find 77 inner tubes, which when weighed later were found to have contained
nure hashish valued at around 3 billion drachmas.
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Immediately the four foreigners were regarded as suspects and were arrested.
And two pick-ups were called for, which came and took delivery of the hashish
so as to transport it to the Rhodes Port Authority, where it is being guarded.
Foreign Gang
There is no doubt that this affair is the work of an international gang of
narcotics merchants, but it is still unknown whether this refuge in a deserted
area of Kattavia was a regular hangout or was used incidentially for the first
time. At the sam~ time, the role of the pleasure-boat is being examined--a
phantom which was found smashed up on the rocks a short distance away from
the cache. The only extenuating circumstance for the pleasure-boat is the fact
that it is a small boat which would have trouble transporting such a large
quantity of hashish. There are basically two interpretations of these
circumstances:
First: A smugglers' boat which was loaded with the inner tubes either was
spotted or suffered mechanical failure, or even was advised by the boss of the
operation to approach this desolate coast, where it unloaded the merchandise
onto the shore by means of small boats. Next, they hid it in the makeshift tent
with the idea of another smugglers' boat showing up to take delivery of the
inner tubes. This work was surely done at night, and it seems that during
the unloading one inner tube fell into the sea and was found later by the
fisherman.
Second: The smugglers were using this hideout on a regular basis. And later
another boat would show up and take delivery of the inner tubes. In this case,
it is possible that there was also a local agent who would see to the safe
unloading and loading of the merchandise.
Optimism
"We are making progress, and we hope that finally we will be able to clear up
this case, stated the chief harbormaster of Rhodes, Lieutenant Commander Kostas
Khartofylis, to TA NEA late in the evening. Throughout the day, he had
conducted searches in the area where the 3 tons of hashish were found.
Khartofylis added that it is almost certain that the pleasure-boat which was
found smashed up on the rocks was connected with the inner tubes.
According to journalists' reports, this pleasure-boat is the "Lena," sailing
under the Greek flag, with a Piraeus ship's register, a capacity of 2,780 tons,
30 register tons, and a length of 13 meters. It was leased out from Glyfada
- by two foreigners, but it was supposed to have returned on 6 June. Since then
the boat has been sought, and the last time it was spotted was on 25 May at
Karpathos, where it remained only 1 hour for reprovisioning. And the two people
on board stated that its destination was Rhodes, but it never arrived at the
port of this island.
From the investigations which were made it was found that the inner tubes had
as a protective cover a door belonging to the pleasure-boat "Lena." Also
found nearby was an outboard motor boat, and it was discovered that this too
belongs to the Lena. In light of this, the port authorities do not have any
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doubts that the hashish was transported by this pleasure-boat, but it remains
unknown whether the smugglers deliberately ran it onto the rocks or whether
this running aground happened because of clumsy maneuvering. Also uncertain is
whether the merchandise was removed by the outboard motor boat so that later
~ the ~ame people or others who were participating in this fraud could show up
and take delivery of it.
Furthermore it was learned that on Saturday morning two foreigners had arrived
on foot at the only coffee shop which is open in the area, a few kilometers
from the point where the boat had run aground, and that these had asked for
food. And in fact, as was testified, they had a great deal of money with them,
and on leaving they asked the coffee-house keeper where the city of Rhodes was.
The authorities believe that these two people are the wanted smugglers.
Those Arrested
Also four Swedes are being detained in connection with this case. These are
the people the port officers found sunbathing at a distance of about 30 meters
_ from the cache. When interrogated, they replied that they had not come close
to the cache and they did not know what was there. Another characteristic
fact is that the approach by car to the point where the four Swedes were found
is very difficult.
The four Swedes had arrived there by Jeep. Now they are being detained at
the Port Authority and are to be brought before the public prosecutor today,
Tuesday. The people in question are (Stefan Siomblon), 24 years old, (Ikvar
Eriskson), 28 years old, (Giette Andersen), 20 years old, and (Ourlika Rouket),
23 years old. All work as group guides in Rhodes on behalf of the Scandinavian
tourist office "Spis."
12114
- CSO: 5300/5585
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i ,
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TURKEY
BRIEFS
32 KILOS OF HEROIN SEIZED--Gaziantep, (THA)--Acting on a tip, police in Gaziantep
seized 32.630 kilos of heroin worth 150 million lira placed in secret compartments
in a truck. Upon receiving a warning that heroin would be sent out of the country
through Syria prior to the holiday, narcotics office teams placed Diyarbakir-born
Sevket Soytas under surveillance. Determining tha*_ Sevket Soytas had arrived in
Gaziantep with his truck--licence 21 DC 999--police conducted a search and found
32.630 kilos of heroin in 64 bags in a secret compartment of the gaso.line tank.
~ [Text] [Istanbul MILLIYET in Turkish 4 Aug 81 p 3]
CSO: 5300/5590 END
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