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IV. Agency Budget Summaries

BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS


  1. RESOURCE SUMMARY

  2. METHODOLOGY

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

  3. 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 support Goals 4 and 5 of the National Drug Control Strategy as described below.

      • 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 also conducts 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 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 also conducts drug prevention and treatment programs, 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.

  4. BUDGET SUMMARY

    1998 Program

    Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.

    • The 1998 program includes $7.4 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, and for training of narcotics control officials.

    Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

    • The 1998 program contains $202.7 million for drug-related international programs which support Goal 5 of the National Drug Control Strategy. This includes funding for Latin American country programs, Asia/Africa/Middle East country programs, interregional aviation programs: international organizations, systems support and upgrades, program development and support activities, law enforcement training and demand reduction.

      • 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.

    1999 Request

    • The total FY 1999 INL drug control budget request is $255 million, an increase of $45 million over the FY 1998 enacted level. This funding level will expand crop eradication and alternative-development programs to reduce illicit coca cultivation.

    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 1999 is $6.8 million, a decrease of $0.6 million from the FY 1998 enacted level. This decrease is due to projected lower support costs for maintaining transit zone enforcement organizations and a reduction in narcotics control training programs.

    Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

    • The total drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 1999 is $248.2 million, a net increase of $45.6 million over FY 1998. This increase supports the following enhancements:

      • Country Programs. The additional funding will enhance interdiction support to disrupt illicit drug traffic and provide legal alternative crops or income to farmers to continue reduction of illicit coca cultivation in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. Included for FY 1999 are increases in funding for country programs in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. Mexico program funding will concentrate on air, land, and coastal interdiction activities.

      • Interregional Airwing. Interregional aviation funding will increase by $3 million to a total of $41 million for FY 1999. Activities will continue to focus on key programs in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, with temporary deployments of aircraft and personnel elsewhere in the Andean region and Central America. INL will exploit all opportunities for aerial eradication while maintaining aggressive interdiction activities.

  5. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    • Aerial and/or manual eradication of illicit drug crops during 1997 prevented hundreds of metric tons of coca, opium poppy, or cannabis from being processed into illicit drugs and transported to the United States;

    • For the second year in a row, a significant reduction (27 percent) of coca in Peru; from 94,400 hectares to 69,000;

    • In Colombia, a total of over 48,000 hectares of coca and opium poppy were aerially-fumigated during 1997;

    • A significant reduction (24 percent) of opium cultivation in Thailand;

    • An estimated 36 percent decrease in India's illicit opium crop;

    • Tough use by the President of the annual narcotics certification process, mandated by law, is exacting stronger political will and unprecedented measures in the major drug-producing and transit countries;

    • Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico and others are jailing more notorious criminals than ever; creation of the High-Level Contact Group with Mexico marks serious potential for cooperation;

    • Agreement by Laos, the world's third largest producer of heroin, to initiate eradication of its opium crop;

    • INL, working with DEA and other U.S. agencies, supported the creation of specialized and highly-vetted anti-drug investigative units in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico to enhance the ability of those governments to dismantle major international criminal organizations;

    • Administration experts are pressing countries to step up their efforts against money laundering; Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Jamaica, Paraguay, South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey have adopted vital legal reforms;

    • Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, and Venezuela signed maritime cooperation agreements with the U.S.; Brazil signed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty;

    • Guatemala, Mexico, and The Bahamas adopted new laws or regulations to control chemical diversion;

    • Progress in establishing international law enforcement academies to further regional cooperation against crime; and

    • 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.