U.S. Narcotics Control Programs Overseas: A Continuing Assessment : Report of a Staff Study Mission to South America, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and Southwest Asia, March 1986-January 1987, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives |
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agencies aid program airport Alfaro Vive areas asset seizure assistance Bahrain bank secrecy laws Bekaa valley Belize Bulgaria cocaine controlled deliveries cooperation corruption cotics customs Cyprus DEA agent DEA's domestic drug abuse drug enforcement drug trafficking drug transit drug transshipment Dubai Ecuador Ecuadoran effective Egypt fickers foreign Gadoon Guatemala hampered hashish heroin illicit increased India Indian Government involvement Iran judicial system Karachi kilos Kuwait labs lack law enforcement officials Lebanon licit opium major traffickers marijuana ment Middle East military Minority Staff Consultant modest narcotics control aid narcotics enforcement narcotics issue narcotics problem narcotics trade narcotics traffickers Nations Nepal Nepali officials Nigerians opium production Pakistan PNCB police poppy precursor chemicals production and trafficking projects RECOMMENDATIONS role Southwest Asia Syria tion TIR trucks tive transit country transit point transit trade Turkey Turkish U.S. EFFORTS U.S. Embassy U.S. Government U.S. narcotics control UNFDAC United Uruguay
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Page 13 - ... Lebanon, production, processing, and trafficking are on the rise, and a great deal of hashish production in the [Biqa] Valley has been supplanted by opium, in recognition of the more lucrative heroin trade. It is estimated that up to half the land available for drug cultivation in the [Biqa] Valley is now being used for opium, where previously only marijuana was grown for hashish, largely destined for the Egyptian market. Numerous processing labs are known to exist, both in Lebanon and to a lesser...
Page 23 - It would appear premature at this point to make a judgment as to whether or not Bulgaria has truly changed its policy.