(Budget Authority in Millions)
Drug Resources by Goal	1996 Actual	1997 Enacted	1998 Request
Goal 4	$4.000	$7.500	$7.500
Goal 5	130.955	185.500	206.500
Total	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000
Drug Resources by Function
International	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000
Total	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000
Drug Resources by Decision Unit
INL	$114.955	$193.000	$214.000
Economic Support Fund	20.000	-- -- -- --	-- -- -- --
Total	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000
Drug Resources Personnel Summary
Total FTEs (direct only)	121	121	121
Information
Total Agency Budget	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000
Drug Percentage	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
(Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.)

II. METHODOLOGY

• All Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs programs, except those appropriated for international crime and criminal justice activities, are scored as 100 percent drug-related.

III. PROGRAM SUMMARY

• The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) has as its mission to develop, implement and monitor U.S. international counternarcotics strategies and programs in support of the President's National Drug Control Strategy. INL functions also include foreign policy formulation and coordination, program management and diplomatic initiatives. The Department's drug control programs are listed below by the National Drug Control Strategy Goal they support.

• INL supports participation by some 20 transit zone government enforcement agencies in a cooperative interdiction intelligence project with the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC).



• INL conducts narcotics law enforcement training in cooperating countries to improve the technical and investigative skills of drug law enforcement personnel and to increase the cooperation and coordination between U.S. and foreign law enforcement officials.

• INL Country Programs address the unique counternarcotics issues in Latin American and Asia/Africa/Middle East source and transit countries. These include programs to improve foreign government institutional capabilities to implement comprehensive national drug control plans that reduce cultivation of crops destined for illicit drug use; prevent, control or punish traffic in illicit drugs or related crimes including money laundering; and reduce demand for drugs through prevention and treatment.



• Interregional aviation programs support agencies of cooperating governments to eradicate drug crops by aerially applied herbicides or manual destruction; provide mobility for operations against drug processing and reconnaissance in support of these missions; and transport goods and persons to support drug control activities.



• INL international organization programs provide funds to international organizations such as United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP), the Organization of American States' Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) and the Colombo Plan's Drug Advisory Program. These programs help to foster increased international cooperation in counternarcotics efforts, including drug control activities in certain source countries where U.S. bilateral access is constrained.

IV. BUDGET SUMMARY

1997 Base Program

• The 1997 base program includes $7.5 million for law enforcement activities which support Goal 4 of the National Drug Control Strategy. These resources fund programs that assist cooperating governments adjacent to U.S. borders and in the transit zone to maintain enforcement organizations that provide information to, and operate cooperatively with, U.S. interdiction authorities.



• The FY 1997 base program contains an estimated $185.5 million for drug-related international programs which support Goal 5 of the National Drug Control Strategy. This includes $116.2 million for Latin American country programs, $10.5 million for Asia/Africa/Middle East country programs, $31 million for interregional aviation programs, $10 million for international organizations, $6 million for systems support and upgrades and $8.3 million for program development and support activities.

• The total FY 1998 INL drug control budget request is $214 million, an increase of $21 million over the FY 1997 enacted level.

• The total drug control request for Goal 4 activities for FY 1998 is $7.5 million, sustaining the program at the same level as FY 1997.

• The drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 1998 is $206.5 million, a net increase of $21 million over FY 1997. This additional funding will support the following enhancements:



• Country Programs. This additional funding will enhance support to disrupt illicit drug traffic and provide legal alternative crops or income to farmers, to continue reduction of illicit coca cultivation. Included for FY 1998 is an increase in funding for country programs in Peru from $23 million in FY 1997 to $40 million in FY 1998.



• Systems Support and Upgrades. Increases funding to enhance interregional aviation capabilities from $6 million in FY 1997 to $17 million (net of adjustment in other activities) in FY 1998. This will improve performance characteristics of existing fixed-wing and helicopter systems supported by INL for enforcement, interdiction, eradication and related counterdrug activities in Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and other countries, to fully utilize system capabilities, extend useful lives, and increase effectiveness of aircraft mission performance and supported host government activities.

V. PROGRAM STATISTICS

	1996 Actual	1997 Estimate	1998 Projected
INL Funding by Functional Activity (in millions):
Law Enforcement Assistance and Institutional Development	$59.185	$85.735	$99.425
Alternative Development	42.521	66.208	77.800
International Organizations	7.710	12.000	10.000
Drug Awareness/Demand Reduction	3.610	3.550	3.095
Law Enforcement Training	5.300	6.700	5.200
Program Development and Support	16.629	18.807	18.480
Total	$134.955	$193.000	$214.000

VI. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• There has been progress in many countries to reduce cultivation of illicit drug crops, disrupt illicit drug trafficking through enforcement and interdiction, and enhance legal and institutional capabilities to act against drug production, trafficking, abuse, and related crime. Positive outcomes from this program included the following:



• Significant reduction (18 percent) of coca in Peru, from 115,600 hectares in 1995 to 94,400 in 1996 (lowest since the U.S. government began estimates of this crop in 1986);



• Aerial eradication of coca in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama estimated as equal to or exceeding 1995 levels (more than 9,000 hectares), manual compensated eradication in Bolivia of 7,000 hectares, and opium poppy and marijuana eradication in Mexico have constrained drug crop cultivation in those countries;



• Rigorous application of the drug control certification process stimulated political will and practical measures from major drug source and transit countries worldwide;



• Creation of the High Level Contact Group with Mexico provided a framework for more systematic and extensive drug interdiction and enforcement cooperation;



• Colombia (most of the former Cali Cartel), Mexico (including several extraditions to the U.S.), Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador and others have jailed more major drug traffickers than ever before;



• In December 1996, after two years of discussion, all Summit of the Americas governments signed an Anti-Drug Strategy in the Hemisphere for the 21st Century;



• Extradition, mutual legal assistance and maritime agreements with many Caribbean governments enhanced interdiction cooperation in the transit zone;



• A new Coast Guard in Haiti, activated with INL assistance, seized nearly a ton of cocaine in its first year;



• With U.S. government support or encouragement, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, the Cayman Islands, South Africa, Taiwan and Turkey adopted or reformed laws against the laundering of criminal proceeds;



• Worldwide training enhanced institutional capabilities of drug enforcement agencies, emphasizing organizational management, asset forfeiture programs and financial investigations, with particular attention to countries concerned in heroin production, traffic or abuse; and



• Drug awareness, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities enabled host governments to develop demand control institutions that are essential to efforts to reduce worldwide demand for illicit drugs, and provide substantive and clinical experience valuable to U.S. domestic programs in this field.