(ii) Exchange of information on heroin trafficking from Hong Kong. It was agreed that the DEA would inform Hong Kong (and the UK, if appropriate) of any cases of trafficking from Hong Kong which came to their attention, in full detail. Knight has been, I understand, visiting European countries, suggesting to them that they should be more ready to use the Interpol net to give case information to Hong Kong, and I undertook to discuss informally with Det. Supt. Kendall (UK liaison officer at St Cloud, and the Head of the Drugs Group there) the possibility of Interpol stimulating the passage of all such information.
This might be pursued at the General Assembly.) The UK police and Customs undertook to check on the working of the arrangements for sending information. to Hong Kong on cases in the UK where Hong Kong Chinese were involved, or where there was a significant seizure of heroin from that source.
(iii) Exchange of information between Hong Kong and Thailand. Rolph undertook to arrange for a list of Hong Kong heroin chemists and the known major traffickers to be passed to the Thai Metropolitan Narcotics Unit and to pursue with Mr Law the possibilities for exchanging information on the movements of traffickers between Thailand and Hong Kong.
(iv) Scientific development. It was agreed that the UK and the US would informally ensure that they were kept mutually aware of the progress of the development of scientific aids in this field, with particular reference to the develorment of scientific intelligence I mentioned the possibility that our research work on 'target drugs' might be translated into an operational effort. If this vore so, there seemed to be some advantage in an exchange of experience in this field, and the Head of the proposed laboratory might possibly arrange to visit the US to see what they were doing. In the development of scientific aids, the possible benefit for Hong Kong should be kert in mind, especially with reference to the detection of Hong Kong heroin laboratories. Rolph undertook to arproach his forensic scientists to see whether there might be any benefit in their undertaking more detailed analyses of street heroin seizures in Hong Kong, both with a view to detecting sources of supply in general and to identifying possible means of importation. They would be locking more closely into means of searching freight sheds at Kai Tak, using dogs trained to detect morphine.
(v) The DEA undertook to make available their network analyses of trafficking and trafficker profiles when they were completed.
(vi) I undertook to pursue, when and as appropriate, with the UN Division of Narcotics and in the Commission, the Ad Hoc Committee's recommendations on training and on the establishment of central bureaux.
(vii) I undertook to pursue, from the UK point of view, the implications of the overlap between the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Far East and the operations of the Colombo Plan Drug Adviser.
MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR VANCE
14. On the morning of Wednesday, 3 July, I met Ambassador Vance to discuss UN matters. I had asked for this arrangement to be made, partly out of courtesy, but also (and this was before I knew of the plans for the Eangkok Conference on the Colombo Plan) to sound the US on their attitude to the continuation of the Colombo Plan involvement in this field In the event, on the day that we arrived in Washington, the Turkish resumption of production of the orium poppy was announced, and this issue was very live in the informal conversations that went on outside our meeting at the DEA, and
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