CIS Microfiche Library 1970-2002 (CIS Asia Pacific Collection)

 CIS NO: 75-H382-15
 TITLE: Narcotics Situation in Southeast Asia: The Asian Connection.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Print                     COLLATION: ix+51 p. il.
 DATE: Apr. 3, 1975
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 94-1              SUDOC: Y4.In8/16:N16
 LC CARD NO: 75-601787               MC ENTRY NO: 10093(75)

 Report of the Ad Hoc Subcom on International Narcotics Control on the
 special Dec. 27, 1974 through Jan. 12, 1975, study mission to SE Asia led by
 Representative Lester L. Wolff (D-NY), to investigate narcotics production,
 refining, trafficking, and consumption patterns. Identifies known drug
 smuggling networks, focusing on the opium harvest emanating from the "Golden
 Triangle" of Burma, Thailand, and Laos, and eventually entering the
 continental U.S. illicit heroin market.
   Includes outline and commentary on the Shan opium proposal (text, p.
 11-12) to arrange U.S. Government preemptive buying of the Shan opium crop.
 Also evaluates Southeast Asian nations efforts to monitor and control
 illegal drug trafficking at its source.
   Appendices (p. 37-51) include tables summarizing U.S. international
 narcotics control activities and expenditures.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Opium production and trafficking from Southeast Asian
     connections, rpt
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL
     NARCOTICS CONTROL, AD HOC. HOUSE; WOLFF, LESTER L.; NARCOTICS AND DRUG
     TRAFFIC; STATISTICAL DATA: LAW ENFORCEMENT (Intl narcotics trafficking
     control, US activities and expenditures); BURMA; THAILAND; LAOS