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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
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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
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since 1949; and there was evi
dence to show that the total
over the years was 2.200
pounds of pure heroin.
Charles Siragusa, deputy nar
cotics commissioner, comput
ed the retail value of it at
$360 million.
Next 'to a Central Intelli
gence agent operating behind
the Iron Curtain, a Narcotics
Bureau man is in more peril
than any employee of the fed
eral investigative bureaus.
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
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found 160 pounds of heroin
worth about S4 million. A
court ruling that diplomatic
immunity did not apply in
this case because the ambas
sador was not accredited to
the United States made It pos
sible to indict Rosal and ha
now is serving IS years in
prison. Gaffney found some
thing else in the suit cases -$26,000
which was Rosal's fea
for a transatlantic flight.
(Next: The addict and how
he gets that way.
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