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Agency Budget Summary
Department of State
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- All Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) programs, except those appropriated for international crime and justice activities, are scored as 100 percent drug-related.
III. Program Summary
- The mission of INL is to develop, implement and monitor U.S. international counternarcotics strategies and foreign assistance programs that support the Strategy. Two of INL's primary mandates are Presidential Decision Directive 14, the Andean Strategy, which provides the focus for drug control in the major coca producing countries, and Presidential Decision Directive 44, the heroin strategy, which addresses global aspects of the problem. INL functions also include foreign policy formulation and coordination, program management and diplomatic initiatives. The Department's drug control programs support Goals 4 and 5 of the Strategy as described below.
- INL conducts law enforcement training in cooperating countries to improve thetechnical and investigative skills of drug law enforcement personnel and to increase the cooperation and coordination between U.S. and foreign law enforcement officials. INL also supports participation by some 20 transit zone government enforcement agencies in a cooperative interdiction intelligence project with the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC).
- INL country programs improve foreign government institutional capabilities to implement comprehensive national drug control plans that reduce the availability of illicit drugs and address other drug-related crimes, including money laundering. INL supports interregional aviation programs to assist cooperating governments' drug crop eradication and attacks on drug processing sites, and supports international organization programs that promote increased international cooperation in counternarcotics efforts. INL also provides training and assistance to governments, NGOs and international organizations to support the development of prevention and treatment programs aimed at increasing public awareness of the drug threat, and strengthening the international coalition against this problem.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The 1999 base program includes $6.8 million for law enforcement activities, which support Goal 4 of the 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.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The 1999 program consists of $461.8 million (including FY 1999 Emergency Supplemental funding of $232.6 million) for drug-related international programs, which support Goal 5 of the Strategy. This includes $375.0 million for Latin American country programs, $12.1 million for Asia/Africa/Middle East country programs, $51.0 million for interregional aviation programs, $9.2 million for international organization programs, $8.0 million for law enforcement training and demand reduction activities, $4.5 million for systems support and upgrades, and $8.8 million for program development and support activities.
- INL country programs address the unique counternarcotics issues in Latin America and Asia/Africa/Middle East source and transit countries. These include programs that improve foreign government institutional capabilities to implement comprehensive national drug control plans that reduce cultivation of crops destined for illicit drug use; prevent, control orpunish traffic in illicit drugs or related crimes, including money laundering; and reduce demand for drugs through public awareness, 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 provides funds to international organizations such as the 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.
2000 Request
- The total FY 2000 INL drug control budget request is $265.0 million. Excluding the Emergency Supplemental funds, this is an increase of $29.0 million over the FY 1999 enacted level.
Goal 4. Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The total drug control request for Goal 4 activities for FY 2000 is $6.9 million, which sustains current programs and supports the following program enhancement:
- An increase for additional regional training requirements aimed at improving local law enforcement capabilities in transit zone countries.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The total drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 2000 is $258.1 million. This supports the following enhancements:
- Country Programs. The requested funding will support new or augmented law enforcement and judicial programs designed to disrupt illicit drug trafficking through identification of trafficker groups, arrest and subsequent prosecution. Requested funds will also provide alternative crops to farmers in Bolivia and Peru, while increasing eradication activities to continue the net reduction of illicit coca cultivation. Assistance to Colombia will concentrate on discouraging cultivators or would-be cultivators through aerial eradication, and the initiation of limited alternative development programs. Comparing FY 2000 to FY 1999, excluding Emergency Supplemental funds, the following increases are included for Andean countries in FY 2000: $10.0 million for Colombia, $8.0 million for Bolivia and $3.0 million for Peru. Mexico program fundingwill increase by $2 million in FY 2000 for a total of $10.0 million to concentrate on judicial sector training, law enforcement activities and the Southwest Border initiative.
- International Organizations. The FY 2000 request is $2.8 million above the FY 1999 level, for a total of $12.0 million. The request level will bolster the U.S. pledge to the UNDCP, which will help to start or strengthen a number of programs, especially in Asia. Many such programs demand reduction, alternative development, judicial reform and chemical controls are critical to the success of U.S. anti-drug efforts.
V. Program Accomplishments
- INL programs have had a significant impact on strengthening international drug and crime control efforts. Much of this success is due to focusing on the "center of gravity" of the drug and crime threats: the drug crops of narcotics kingpins and crime bosses who plot to eviscerate the rule of law, and the authorities and institutions struggling to uphold it. Countries that have historically blamed the drug and crime problems on the U.S. market are increasingly focusing on the dangers drugs and crime pose to their own people and their democratic and free market institutions. As a result, cooperation with the United States is improving and efforts are producing positive results.
- Coca production is declining and is now at the lowest level since INL began keeping statistics in 1987. Net cultivation is down 53 percent in Peru alone since 1994. Recent statistics in Bolivia indicate a 17 percent net reduction in coca cultivation for the calendar year.
- Colombia, faced with especially challenging geographic, topographic and security challenges in the drug cultivation zones, is implementing a massive aerially-applied herbicide spray campaign, the most immediate and visible response to burgeoning cultivation. The program has succeeded in stabilizing the poppy crop and reducing coca cultivation by over 25 percent in the areas where eradication operations are conducted.
- Colombia's notorious Medellin and Cali cartel trafficking organizations have been completely dismantled and authorities are now focusing on Mexican traffickers seeking to replace the Colombians. Thailand continues to follow up on a major heroin investigation it began in 1994 that resulted in arrest and extradition of 14 major traffickers associated with the notorious Khun Sa.
- INL has expanded its drug control programs in Asia, and opium poppy cultivation is declining everywhere that the United States is supporting comprehensive alternative development and enforcement programs.
- INL has encouraged and assisted governments in strengthening their judicial and banking systems resulting in modernized laws, improvements in court systems and progress on extradition.
- The Department has developed and funded an extensive training program to combat international financial crime. In conjunction with the Departments of Justice and Treasury, INL has provided training to law enforcement investigators, financial regulators and court officials in vulnerable money laundering countries in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Newly Independent States.
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