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10 A Narcotics Part I MONDAY. MAY 6. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Red China Uses Narcotics Trade To Increase Flow of Foreign Exchange By HARRY FERGUSON , Washington - rtJPD - Red China's newest strategy in the cold war is to try to Hood the world with narcotics. Before things become loo melodramatic It should be ex plained there are no Red Chi nese agents lurking in the White House bushes trying to slip opium tablets into ' President Kennedy's break fast coffee. What the Chinese Reds are after Is foreign exchange -money from other countries which can be used to buy such things as tractors and bull dozers. They have vast farms on which the poppy is culti vated, and from the poppy comes opium. From opium, in turn, comes morphine and heroin and from them stem most of the trouble the Uni ted States is having today with drug addiction. It works like this: Not long ago an agent of the Federal Bureau . of Narcotics . tipped off government officials in Thailand that if they would go to a certain place at a cer tain time they would find something interesting. What they found was two tons of opium which they seized. Takes Devious Route "The source of this," says Henry L. Giordano, U.S. com missioner of narcotics, "is primarily from Yunnan Prov ince of Communist China. Some of it comes from Bur ma - the Shan states of Bur ma - but most of it is moving out of Yunnan Province through Thailand, through Laos, Vietnam into Hong Knng, Singapore, Japan and SOBBING SIMS SAYS Are You I'imT" ; a Jhole?' SIMS We'll Gef You Out! ' Let Us REPAIR . REBUILD SHARPEN Y0UR LAWN MOWEft Parti for CLINTON, BRIGGS STRATTON, LAUSON.nd POWER PRODUCTS tnsinei. Crankshafts . Straightened Cycle & Hobby Shop 23 North Fir ' 772-2472 some of It eventually reach' ing the United States in the form of heroin. America is the top-prior Ity market for drug smug glers. No opium i produced in this country and there are a sizeable number of addicts with money to spend to ease their craving and pain. Agents of the Narcotics Bureau and the customs men are wise and vigilant in catching smug, glers, but they are like per sons trying to push back the ocean tides with their bare bands. To dry up narcotics smug gling the clothing of every person and every piece of bag- gage that goes through the nation's ports and airports would have - to be searched. Everybody - airline pi.ots, stewardesses, tourists, sailors from all ships and even for cign diplomats - would have to be considered guilty until proved innocent. Every piece of mail from abroad would have to be opened. It is small wonder that the Treasury De partment estimates only five per cent of the drugs smug. gled in this country are seiz ed at the port of entry Small Federal Budget The Federal Narcotics Bu reau has an annual budget of about $5 million, and that practically makes them pau pers in a city where an agency dealing in millions instead of billions automatically becomes a second class citizen. It can deploy only 287 agents in this, country and abroad, although it works closely with state agencies, local police and the customs agents.. The fantastic profit to be made out of narcotics in this country enlists the best brains of the underworld. Recently the bureau broke up a ring that had been smuggling drugs into the United States I I II I II you'll have a Beautiful, Green Lawn soon with . . ORGANIC Wishing won't make your lawn green ... but Lilly's Organic Morcrop-containing slow-release multiple nitrogen-does it with ease. 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Sometimes he is dealing with men half crazed by drugs. His assignment is not only to investigate but bring in the evidence, and that means he has to infiltrate the under world and stay underground until he can get a peddler to sell him some narcotics. Some agents stay underground for as long as 18 months. ' Spectacular Results Sometimes the results are spectacular as in what the bureau calls "The Case of the Guatemalan Ambassador." 'It resulted in the largest single seizure of heroin in the his tory of the Narcotics Bureau. George H. Gaffney, now as sistant to the narcotics com missioner, was in charge of the New York office and led the agents who finally smash ed the ring. He started out on a tip from Marseilles, France, where agents regularly re ported large shipments of heroin were en route to New York. The problem was that the shipments never seemed to arrive, or at least not through i all channels the agents checked. Somebody started going over the passenger lists of the planes and ships arriving in New York from Europe. It developed that a man named Mauricio Rosal had been making frequent flights to New York. It also develop ed that he was fully accredit ed as the Guatemalan ambas sador to Belgium and traveled led on a diplomatic passport which made him immune to search and seizure. Trailed Suspect On Oct. 30, 1960, Rosal landed at Idlewild Airport from a Pan-American jet lin er. Gaffney watched him do it and found out that the am bassador was in transit to Guatemala. ' "When he cancelled his ticket to Guatemala and bought one back to Belgium," Gaffney said, "I decided he was not on diplomatic busi ness and that I would take a chance." Rosal got into a taxi with another man. Two men in a station wagon followed the cab, and Gaffney and his men followed all four. They made the arrest on the lower East Side, and in the three suit cases Rosal was carrying they CITY TREES' . Buffalo, N. 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