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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

Hon. THOMAS E. MORGAN,

WASHINGTON, D.C.,

January 11, 1973.

Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.C.

There is transmitted herewith a report of a staff survey which was conducted per your instructions between August 16, 1972, and Sep- tember 3, 1972.

The purpose of the survey was to gather information pertaining to the production and smuggling of heroin in Southeast Asia and to ascertain the steps that the governments of Southeast Asia are tak- ing to help control illegal international narcotics trafficking.

During the course of the study, the survey team met in Washington with U.S. Government officials involved in the international aspects of the narcotics control problem, including representatives of the De- partment of State, the Department of Justice, including the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Department of the Treasury, the White House, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the field, the survey team met with U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and narcotics control officials; with foreign law enforcement and other government officials responsible for narcotics control efforts in Japan, Hong Kong, South Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and Thailand; and with representatives of the United Nations Special Drug Abuse Fund, for- mer military leaders, and private citizens.

The survey team would like to express its thanks and appreciation for the assistance, advice, cooperation, and hospitality extended during the course of its investigations.

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JOHN J. BRADY. ROBERT K. BOYER.