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nade. Acetic anhydride was a banned import into Hong Kong, and all of the substance which comes into the colony for heroin refining purposes was illicit. I suggested that consideration might be given to using dogs for the purpose of detecting the substance, which is strong smelling, and I said that I would follow this up in London. It was agreed that there should be an exchange of information between the Kong Kong authorities and the BNDD Regional Office on known heroin chemists.
Heroin export
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The The sixth working .session was on the export of heroin from liong Kong. Hong Kong Government reported 19 cases since 1970 in which persons with Hong Kong connections had been arrested for illegal exportation. So far as they were aware, there was no syndicate controlling export from Hong Kong; financially it was too much of a risk to the syndicates and they were on a good enough thing in the colony. So far as they knew, people came to buy heroin in Hong Kong and took it out on a "cash and carry" basis, There was no formal customs check, since this was a free port. The substance was taken out by seamen in small amounts going to the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Holland and perhaps the United States. Mr Huntley made reference to the Gerrard Street case and Mr Jordan explained the activities of the Customs and Excise, referring to the increase in staff and their policy of concentrating on charter flights, The Americans said that they had made ten siezures in the last year, totalling about 150 pounds. largest so far, of 48 pounds, had been in Miami. It was mostly number 4. heroin and was carried by Chinese seamen in body packs. It was certainly at present not organised on a very sophisticated basis. However, Asian heroin was becoming ản increasing problem in the United States and they were concerned about it.
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25. The Hong Kong police referred to a recent case that had given some cause for concern; tins of meat packed in China with Chinese labels had been found in an opium divan to have been tampered with in such a way as to extract the meat and insert heroin. The consignment was destined for Holland. This was confirmed by the experience of the Hong Kong Preventive Services that opium and morphine was often found in cargo in cardboard packs marked "Produce of the People's Republic of China" The Americans and Hong Kong officials stressed that they had no evidence that the People's Republic were involved in this practice. The pro-China lobby in the United States had tried to make something out of so called "eye witness" accounts of traffic from China which had been mentioned in Taiwan, but the Americans thought there was little in this.
Future cooperation
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26. The final working session was devoted to liaison and cooperation. now developed the proposal which they made at the end of the previous day, They explained that when they had first come to grips with the traffic from France to the United States they had set up a Working Group composed of France, Canada and the United States. This group had met in rotation in the three capitals concerned every three to six months in plenary session for one day. At these meetings the heads of the drugs enforcement services of each country discussed and established policy relating to drugs enforcement matters. Following these plenary meetings there were three-monthly working meetings at an operational level for two days at which operations were planned; there was a follow up of the activity over the last three months and an exchange of information. The Americans were now suggesting that the United Kingdom and Hong Kong should join them in similar organisation for
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