II. METHODOLOGY

• Secret Service's drug control budget estimate is based upon actual staff hours expended in the sample year FY 1990, plus an additional 54 FTEs specifically earmarked by the Congress in FY 1992 for drug enforcement activities incidental to work with task forces targeting West African criminal organizations.

III. PROGRAM SUMMARY

• The Secret Service drug-related investigative activities support Goal 2 of the National Drug Control Strategy. The Secret Service's employee and applicant drug testing, protectee drug-related speeches, and protection for protectees involved in other drug enforcement related activities support Goal 3 of the National Drug Control Strategy.



• The mission of the Secret Service includes the authority and responsibility to:



• Protect the President, the Vice President, the President-elect, the Vice President-elect, and members of their immediate families; major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates; former Presidents, their spouses and minor children; and visiting heads of foreign states/governments.



• Provide security for the White House complex and other Presidential offices, for the official residence of the Vice President, and for foreign diplomatic missions in Washington, DC metropolitan area.



• Detect and arrest any person committing an offense against the laws relating to currency, coins, obligations, and securities of the United States or foreign governments.



• Detect and arrest those persons violating laws pertaining to electronic funds transfer frauds, credit card and debit card frauds, fraud involving federally insured financial institutions, false identification documents or devices, and computer access fraud.

IV. BUDGET SUMMARY

1997 Base Program

• The FY 1997 base program includes $75 million for investigative activities which support Goal 2 of the National Drug Control Strategy and $5.2 million in prevent activities which support Goal 3 of the National Drug Control Strategy.

• The Service's FY 1998 drug-related resources are $90 million, an increase of $9.8 million over the FY 1997 enacted level. This increase reflects the Service's shifting of additional FTEs from its Protective Operations associated with the 1996 Presidential Campaign back to Investigative activities, all of which support Goal 2 of the Strategy.

V. PROGRAM STATISTICS

• The following chart details the number of drug-related arrests, reflecting the number of defendants rather than cases, that have been or will be made for FY 1996, FY 1997, and FY 1998.

VI. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• In July 1996, as a result of information provided by a Secret Service informant, the Panama Judicial Police arrested three Colombian nationals who were in possession of $110,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency and 450 kilograms of cocaine.



• Earlier this year, after a one-year investigation, Secret Service agents were able to identify two locations where counterfeit U.S. currency was routinely being manufactured. Undercover contact with the targets revealed a plan to deliver $7 million in counterfeit U.S. currency and 200 kilograms of cocaine to Miami. Six search warrants were executed in Bogota and additional searches were conducted in several other Colombian cities. Over $4 million in counterfeit currency was seized and three people were arrested.



• Also, in FY 1996, the Secret Service conducted a counterfeit investigation in Oklahoma that targeted a known drug trafficker. The investigation revealed that the main target intended to produce counterfeit currency for the purchase of narcotics in South America. The narcotics were destined to be smuggled into the United States. The Secret Service arrested the target and seized over $30 million in counterfeit currency.



• In a case recently adjudicated, a Nigerian National residing in New Jersey was convicted of receiving the wire transfer proceeds of advance fee fraud and laundering those funds through the purchase of luxury automobiles for export to one of the largest car dealerships in Lagos, Nigeria. The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized the entire contents of this dealership on charges related to the laundering of the proceeds of narcotics.