Drug Control. Impact of DoDs Detection and Monitoring on Cocaine Flow

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Label

Drug Control. Impact of DoDs Detection and Monitoring on Cocaine Flow

Contributor

• GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV
• Marshall, James B
• Pendleton, John H
• States, Edward W
• Stolba, Roberta J
• Weeter, Gary K

Subject

• Bolivia
• Cocaine
• Control
• Detection
• Domestic
• Drugs
• Flow
• Fragmentation
• Interdiction
• Law enforcement
• Leadership
• Missions
• Monitoring
• Peru
• Reduction
• Sociology and law
• Sources
• Strategy
• Supplies
• Threats
• Warfare

Language

eng

Summary

The National Drug Control Strategy calls for fighting the war against illegal drugs on many fronts. DOD's detection and monitoring mission is part of the supply reduction effort to interdict drug shipments between source countries and the U.S. borders. Cocaine produced in Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru is the main drug threat to U.S. security, according to the strategy, and therefore has been the focus of DOD's efforts. Other supply reduction initiatives include domestic law enforcement and assistance to source countries to disrupt and dismantle operations where coca leaf is grown and cocaine is produced. DOD had been involved in efforts to reduce cocaine and other drug supplies before fiscal year 1989, primarily by supporting civilian law enforcement agencies' interdiction efforts. However, the fiscal year 1989 National Defense Authorization Act gave DOD leadership of all federal efforts to detect and monitor drugs smuggled by air and sea. The congressional action followed reports of rivalries, fragmentation, and duplication among the civilian interdiction agencies

Cataloging source

DTICE

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult