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countries for their efforts up to now, but they may very quickly become insufficient. I am pleased that the Swedes have decided to send a policeman to the Embassy, but I understand the Danes concern about taking this step
as long as the problem is not so great in Denmark.
However I am afraid that this is just round the corner, if it has not already arrived. One only knows, of course, as much as one can discover, and the system is built up in such a way that one more or less all the time catches the small fish and very seldom the large. There is no doubt that the market is about to move away from Amsterdam, where the police and the authorities have set in motion such a large apparatus that the fight has become really effective. It is probable that London will take over, but Copenhagen is also a probability. Both cities have attractions for the narcotics maffia; London has a large Chinese colony and Copenhagen a milder penal system, and an easy border crossing to other Scandinavian countries and to the Common Market countries, and a not too thorough customs control.
The Chinese colonies in the large cities of the west have always played an important role in the smuggling of narcotics, because the Chinese maffia in Asia has always had connections there, often family ones, and the Chinese in this branch have an almost impenetrable system of Free Masonry, so that we seldom catch any of the big fish, and they always look after the families of the small fish that are caught, while the sinners are in prison. In this way they can be sure that they will not talk. This method does not make it any easier for us to penetrate to any depth. An ordinary man is stopped by chance in the street in Bangkok, a man without much chance in life, but who perhaps dreams of one day owning his own store.
He gets an offer of being established, a free return ticket by air to Europe with his hotel bill paid, and perhaps Kr. 100.00 in cash for himself, if he just takes a modest little packet with him on the journey. It will be fetched after his arrival and he will be contacted. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and he knows it. And who can withstand the temptation to suddenly gamble a little and win from poverty to riches? Kr. 100,000 is a fortune here. The same courier is never used twice, even if he succeeds the first time, which most of them do. So when we eventually catch one such poor soul, there is not much information to be had from him; in fact it is really useless to imprison him except as a preventive measure, because he will never again have the opportunity to act as a bigtime smuggler of heroin.
Earlier this autumn I did a round-the-world journey for discussions with police colleagues on how best we could slow down the traffic, but the problem is, as we said when we destroyed the "French Connection", they just move the centre and change the routes, and we have to begin at the beginning again to infiltrate. Even the laboratories