Y 4.NI6:95-1-14 SOUTHEAST ASIAN NARCOTICS 95-1 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS CONTENTS Prepared statement of Hon. Louis Frey, Jr‒‒‒ Testimony of Dr. Peter Bourne, Director, Office of Drug Abuse Policy; accompanied by Charles O'Keefe, the White House, and Lee Dogoloff, Letter from Thailand concerning effectiveness of narcotics enforcement Testimony of Robert B. Oakley, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, accompanied by Jon Wiant, Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and Richard Gibson, Office of International Narcotics Control__ Prepared statement of Robert L. DuPont, M.D., Director, National Prepared statement of Hon. Mathea Falco, Senior Adviser to the Secre- tary of State and Coordinator for International Narcotics Matters-- Letter from J. G. de Beus, executive director, U.N. Fund for Drug Prepared statement of Joseph L. Nellis, chief counsel, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control__ Testimony of Peter B. Bensinger, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; accompanied by Charles Wilson, Special Agent in charge of Chiang Mai; Gordon Fink, Assistant Administrator for Intelligence; and John Doyle, Special Action Office for Southeast Asia, Deputy Chief of Operations for Prepared statement of Peter B. Bensinger, Administrator, Drug En- forcement Administration, Department of Justice_-- 1. Analysis of hearings by Robert Schwab-A View of Anti-Narcotics SUBMISSIONS-Continued 1. Analysis of hearings by Robert Schwab-Continued IX. Conclusions Appendix I. Legal background_. Page 206 207 2. Letter to Congressman Wolff concerning Southeast Asian narcotics policy 3. Analysis of hearings by NASDAP_ 215 217 4. Reprint from Opium Production in Southeast Asia, Report of the Select Committee on Narcotics___. 222 SOUTHEAST ASIAN NARCOTICS TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1977 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON NARCOTICS ABUSE AND CONTROL, Washington, D.C. The Select Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 2322, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Hon. Lester L. Wolff (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Representatives E (Kika) de la Garza, Charles B. Rangel, Billy L. Evans, J. Herbert Burke, Robin L. Beard, Benjamin A. Gilman, Mario Biaggi, Cardiss Collins, and Stephen L. Neal. Staff present: Joseph L. Nellis, chief counsel. Mr. WOLFF. The committee will come to order. Today, the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control begins 2 days of hearings concerning the control of approximately one-third of the world's illegal opiates which are grown in the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia. Two years ago, the International Relations Subcommittee on Future Foreign Policy held 2 days of hearings on the so-called Shan proposal-a plan which was delivered to me that offered to the United States or to any international agency approximately 400 tons of opium from a consortium of opium traffickers who control the armed mule caravans which bring opium and morphine base from the farmers' fields to the Thailand/Burma border, where the opiates are refined. That proposal was rejected by the State Department at that time. In April, the Select Committee discussed a new proposal with a group of insurgents who represent the various groups out in the area. These are minority groups that are also engaged in the business of narcotics trafficking. Traffickers want to leave open, as you will see from a film that we are going to show, all aspects of the proposal subject to further discussions. Today's hearings will focus on this proposal along with whatever other policy proposals and alternatives that the State Department and the Office of Drug Abuse Policy can offer to us. The interest of our Select Committee is the reduction of heroin on the streets of the United States. I want to stress that I, as chairman of this committee, have no ax to grind for the minority peoples of Burma in their struggle with the central government. However, we must keep in mind the larger issues that are involved. It should be underlined that the leaders of the major trafficking groups have |