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...Administration, which has more than 20 agents in Thailand. "He pays his men well and has won surprising loyalty from them." In 1978 he even tried to make a deal with the U.S. to sell it 500 tons of raw opium over a five-year period for $30 million. DEA officials convinced the Carter Administration that such preemptive buying would be futile, since Khun Sa could still flood the market with opium. Officials now estimate that about 600 tons of opium is harvested each year in the area, most of it in the vast poppy fields of northern Burma...
...Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely around the world. Says one DEA agent: "I can't think of a major investigation involving hashish, heroin, cocaine or marijuana smuggling in the past five years that hasn't involved passport fraud or false drivers' licenses...
...providing protection for State Department officials and visiting dignitaries and investigating colleagues for security clearances. As a result, the department's 450 security agents investigate only about 200 of the 1,000 or so fraud cases detected annually. The rest are farmed out to other investigative agencies-FBI, DEA, Customs Service-or not investigated at all. Thus a potentially effective law enforcement weapon is left halfcocked. Says one State Department agent: "In every case I've done in years, the guy was involved in something other than just a passport violation...
Steinberg and friends were South Florida drug dealers. Big ones. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, at Steinberg's peak in 1978 his group imported one-sixth of all marijuana entering the country. Steinberg accepts the DEA'S estimates of his business ($100 million annual revenues on 500,000 Ibs. of marijuana) but not his exalted rank. Says he: "There are hundreds of outfits like mine. Certainly there are scores...
...made his way to San Pedro, Calif. There DEA agents caught him, despite a suitcase full of fake IDs and passports, because of concern for his dog: he had given a veterinarian his home phone number and the real name of his St. Bernard, Sasha. Special Agent Richard Mangan, a resourceful DEA investigator, recognized the name...