SUBJECT: WOLFF CALLS FOR STATE DEPARTMENT ACTION ON GOLDEN TRIA NGLE HEROIN
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF PRESS STATEMENT RELEASED BY CONGRES- (SMAN WOLFF ON JAN. 16.
1. TEXT: I HAVE CALLED THIS PRESS CONFERENCE TO ALERT YOU TO A NEW SOURCE OF HEROIN FOR THE AMERICAN ADDICT, WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL OF SUPPLYING OR CREATING A MARKET OF EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS - SIMILAR TO THE SIZE OF THAT WHICH EXISTED BEFORE WE CURBED THE FLOW OF OPIUM FROM TURKEY. I AM SPEAKING OF THE TRI-BORDER AREA OF BURMA, LAOS AND THAILAND THE INFAMOUS GOLDEN TRIANGLE, ALWAYS KNOWN AS A SOURCE FOR THE WORLD MARKET, BUT HERETOFORE NEVER CONSIDERED TO BE A MAJOR DIRECT SOURCE FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY. I ALSO WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT DUE TO THE ACTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE COOPERATION OF SEVERAL NATIONS IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD, THE TRAFFICKING OF HEROIN IN SOUT HEAST ASIA HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED FROM THE PATTERNS THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED.
IT IS NOW ESTIMATED THAT 10 TO 15 PERCENT OF THE 700 TO 1,000 TONS OF OPIUM WHICH IS GROWN IN THE GOLDEN
TRIANGLE WILL BE SMUGGLED INTO THE UNITED STATES. THE CONSTRUCTIVE EFFORTS OF THAI NARCOTICS OFFICIALS AND THE REMOVAL BY THE THAI GOVERNMENT OF SEVERAL HIGH-RANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO WERE INVOLVED. WITH DRUG TRAF❤ FICKING HAS BROUGHT AN END TO THE OPIUN-CARRYING MULE CARAVANS WHICH BROUGHT RAW OPIUM FROM THE-GOLDEN FORMTRIANGLE THROUGH THAILAND. THEFTUM WAS THEN BROUGHT,
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