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Appendix
The attached two charts represent the preliminary cost estimates to
implement the preceeding proposal to combat organized crime. The first
chart details the costs for one of the Task Forces proposed in point
one. A brief description of the basis for the costs of each point of
the program follows.
The cost estimates related to the Regional Task Forces (point 1)
were based on information available within the Justice Department and
the other agency costs were developed from information available from
the Treasury Department and the U.S. Coast Guard. Most of the resources
included for non-DOJ agencies will be required by the U.S. Customs
Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. These resources
represent approximately 60 percent of the amounts identified for non-DOJ
agency participation.
The DOJ's costs also include a number of indirect and generally
one-time costs required to adequately support our overall enforcement
effort. These include such items as Air Wing Support for the Drug
Enforcement Administration's (DEA) intelligence operations, (particularly
in view of the current military involvement), FBI voice privacy systems,
and prison expansion at existing institutions.
The preliminary estimated cost of a White House Conference on
Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking (point 2) was based on the ex-
periences of the White House Conference on Aging. The estimate for the
Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Commission (point 5) was based on
the experience of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee
Policy. Points 3, 4 and 6 will not require additional funding in order
to implement them.
In order to implement this program in 1983, an amendment of approxi-
mately 1,000 full-time equivalent workyears and $200 million will be
required. Of this total, approximately 722 full-time equivalent workyears
and $103.7 are included in the Department's 1984 budget request.
EIGHT POINT PROGRAM TO COMBAT CRIME
(Dollars in Thousands)
Activity
Estimated Amount
1. Regional Task Forces
$110,000
DEA Intelligence (Air Wing
Support)
6,000
DEA Intelligence (EPIC)
1,200
DEA (Automation)
4,600
FBI (Automation)
21,000
FBI (Voice Privacy)
12,000
USMS (Cooperative Agreement
Program)
10,000
FPS (Construction)
24,000
2. White House Conference on
Organized Drug Trafficking
6,000
3. Federal Training Assistance to
Improve State and Local
Efforts
4.
Legislative Reforms
5.
Organized Drug Trafficking
Commission
5,000
6.
Interagency Coordinating
Committee
7.
Fifty-States Project
100
8.
Annual Report to the President.
100
TOTAL
$200,000,000
PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATE FOR
PROTOTYPE TASK FORCE
150-MEMBER
52 Investigators
$2,582,736
20 Prosecutors
984,000
20 Clericals
370,000
8 Paralegals
179,200
Undercover operations
800,000
Purchase of Evidence and Purchase of Infor-
mation (PE/PI)
390,000
Travel
120,000
Permanent Change of Station
720,000
Communications
40,000
Space
400,000
Supplies and Equipment
190,000
Other (Vehicle leasing etc.)
312,000
State and Local Costs (over-time and other)
326,000
Non-DoJ Participation (50 members)
3,586,000
TOTAL
$10,999,936
Costing Assumptions:
1. Staff--Investigators-GS-14, Clerical GS-7, Paralegal-GS-9
2. PE/PI-$7,500/Investigator
3. PCS-40 permanent change of stations @ $10,000 each
4. Communications-$400/position
5. Space-200 sq. ft./position @ $20.00/sq. ft.
6. Supplies and Equipment (including word processing, etc.)--
avg. $1,900/pos.
7. Non-DoJ Agency Participation - Estimated at 50 percent of DoJ
participation exclusive of undercover operations. Assumes
participation by Customs, Internal Revenue Service, Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, and others based on area of country and
type of investigation.
DELPA STREET PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA OF
Office of the Attorney General
Washington, D. C. 20530
*
September 28, 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
was
SUBJECT: A PROPOSAL TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING AND
ORGANIZED CRIME
Man originally formed government to enjoy protection against
invaders from without and predators from within. Thus, national
defense against foreign powers and domestic defense against the
ravages of crime are the two principal reasons for the existence
of government.
Sadly, most Americans today would agree that our government
has failed in discharging the second of these two primal functions.
Our nation's splendid achievements are mocked by the dark but
undeniable fact that crime plagues the United States on a scale
intolerable in any free society.
Crime, moreover, has become particularly pernicious in recent
years, for two reasons. First, criminals have become increasingly
organized. They have learned that they can achieve more through
disciplined organization than they can by acting alone. Second,
criminals have begun to exploit the enormous clandestine market
for drugs.
Our observations during the first half of this Administration
leave us with the firm conviction that drug trafficking and
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organized crime are the most serious crime problems facing the
nation today. These problems directly or indirectly affect
every person and institution in the nation; they threaten the
very fabric of our society and the very future of our country.
This Administration has already undertaken several major
initiatives designed to combat the problem of organized drug
trafficking. We have established a Law Enforcement Coordinating
Committee (LECC) in each of the 95 federal districts, bringing
together federal, state and local law enforcement officials in
a cooperative effort designed to assess and attack the crime
problems in every district. All over the country, the LECCs
have identified drugs as the chief crime problem facing their
communities. The Attorney General has increased the resources
available for this fight by assigning to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) jurisdiction concurrent with that of the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) over drug offenses. We
have stemmed the flow of drugs into South Florida by forming,
under the Vice President, an interagency task force to fight the
staggering problem in that region. We have implemented Adminis-
tration-supported amendments to the Posse Comitatus Act, so that
the resources of the Department of Defense are now available to
aid drug enforcement.
Our efforts against organized crime have never been more
substantial. The FBI devotes a great percentage of its resources
to the fight against organized crime. It has penetrated the
secretive organized crime societies to a greater extent than ever
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before. This effort has paid handsome dividends. Federal
prosecutors, notably those assigned to our Organized Crime Strike
Forces, have obtained convictions of top racketeering bosses all
over the country. In some cities, the Department has convicted
entire hierarchies of organized crime families.
Clearly, we have taken many steps to combat the problems of
drug trafficking and organized crime, and we have enjoyed many
successes. But just as clearly, we have by no means solved these
problems.
We now propose an eight-point program to supplement our on-
going efforts. The first point attacks the threshold issue of
organized drug trafficking. A more effective effort against that
problem will enable us then to go forward, through our seven other
points, to attack the broader problem of organized crime generally.
The program as a whole draws upon the lessons learned through
the LECCs and the South Florida Task Force. It builds upon the
foundations established by our existing enforcement programs.
The program calls for:
First, task forces comprised of experienced investigators
and prosecutors, which will, in strategically selected regions,
supplement our ongoing efforts against organized criminal
groups dealing in drugs;
Second, a renewed effort to achieve legislative reforms
necessary to attack drug trafficking and organized crime;
Third, a White House Conference on organized crime,
chaired by the Vice President;
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Fourth, a Presidential Commission on Organized Crime
to study the problem of organized crime and to make recom-
mendations for improving our enforcement efforts;
Fifth, a supplementary training program for state and
local law enforcement personnel;
Sixth, a Cabinet level committee to enhance interagency
coordination;
Seventh, a project to enlist the assistance of the
states; and
Eighth, an annual report on organized crime.
I. The Problem of Organized Drug Trafficking
Despite our efforts to date, drug trafficking remains at
alarming levels. In 1980, illegal drugs generated an estimated
$79 billion in retail sales; organized criminal enterprises reaped
most of these profits. These ill-gotten gains allow organized
criminals to infiltrate legitimate businesses and to establish
themselves in their own ostensibly legitimate enterprises. In
large measure, therefore, drug trafficking and organized crime
distort our national economy.
Drug trafficking spawns staggering amounts of related crime.
Money laundering and bank fraud inevitably accompany organized
drug trafficking. Large-scale corruption of public officials
greases the wheels of the organized drug trafficking enterprise.
Further, drugs make victims not only of those addicted to
them, but also of the countless persons assaulted, robbed and
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burglarized by addicts seeking to obtain the enormous sums of
money necessary to feed their habits. Organized drug traffickers
use violent "business tactics" against each other as they compete
for the lucrative drug trade. Unquestionably, drug trafficking
causes acute misery and, in many instances, death.
Drug dealing is only one of organized crime's activities.
Organized crime, particularly the syndicate known as La Cosa
Nostra (the LCN), is still involved in the traditional rackets --
extortion, loansharking, gambling, prostitution and pornography.
Changing economic and urban conditions have added arson-for-profit
to their list of illegal services, as well as murder-for-hire,
weapons trafficking, robbery, fraud, bribery and many other crimes.
A major effort against organized drug trafficking is important
both in its own right and as a springboard for a redoubled attack
on organized crime and its multifarious criminal activities.
II. The Administration's Efforts to Date
A. Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees
To insure a coordinated national effort against drug
trafficking and other major crime problems, we have directed
that each of the 95 United States Attorneys form a Law Enforce-
ment Coordinating Committee (LECC) in his district. The members
of each LECC include the local heads of the federal law enforce-
ment agencies, as well as state and local law enforcement of-
ficials with significant responsibility in the district. Com-
mittee members meet regularly to identify the major crime problems
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in the district and to devise strategies for the most effective
use of their limited resources.
LECCs assure that federal law enforcement priorities are
responsive to state and local needs. Not surprisingly, despite
local variations on other crime issues, nearly every LECC has
identified drugs as the chief crime problem in the district.
This further underscores the national importance of the drug
problem and the need for an additional federal effort.
B.
FBI-DEA Coordination
In light of the preeminent need to assure a healthy economy
by limiting government spending, federal law enforcement agencies
have not received any substantial additional resources. Neverthe-
less, within current constraints, certain management initiatives
have permitted more effective use of existing resources.
Under current law, DEA bears principal responsibility for.
investigating violations of the drug laws. However, because
organized criminal enterprises have become more involved in the
drug business, the FBI, earlier this year, was given jurisdiction
to investigate drug crimes. The FBI's expertise in investigating
organized crime and financial crime, and its experience with
sophisticated investigative techniques, such as court-authorized
electronic surveillance, has augmented significantly the arsenal
of weapons available against drug traffickers. The new unified
approach is producing some of the most significant investigations
in history, and holds tremendous potential for long-term impact
upon the problems of drug trafficking and organized crime.
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C.
South Florida Task Force
The South Florida Task Force has demonstrated that several
Departments and agencies can work together to achieve positive
results by targeting a specific geographical area and applying
additional resources there. As part of the Vice President's
Task Force on South Florida, established in the spring of 1982,
the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Customs
Service committed more than 200 additional agents to the task of
stemming the flow of drugs into South Florida.
This operation has enjoyed many successes. In the past
months, law enforcement personnel have made more than 600 arrests,
seized more than $7.9 million in assets -- including 45 vessels --
and removed more than 1600 pounds of cocaine, more than 900,000
pounds of marihuana and 77,000 dosage units of methaqualone.
The Task Force has slowed the flow of illegal drugs into South
Florida, and equally important, has galvanized the community to
a new sense of optimism about the drug problem.
D.
Posse Comitatus Amendments
Recent amendments to the Posse Comitatus Act have aided the
fight against organized criminal enterprises dealing in drugs,
in South Florida and elsewhere. The Administration supported
this important legislative reform, which clarified the law to
permit limited involvement of the military in civilian law
enforcement activities. Such involvement, primarily in the
form of airplane and vessel tracking, has provided inestimable
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help in interdicting foreign drug shipments bound for the United
States.
E.
Efforts Against Organized Crime
The Department's efforts against organized crime began in
earnest more than two decades ago. Within that time span, we
have learned about and penetrated organized crime "families" to
an extent never anticipated. Through the use of informants from
within organized crime, and bold use of undercover agents, we
now know the workings of virtually every such group. Furthermore,
we have convicted top bosses in New York, Chicago, New Orleans,
Detroit and many other cities. In some cities -- notably, Los
Angeles and Cleveland -- the entire hierarchy of the LCN family
has been convicted. These efforts have laid the groundwork for
a final effort against this underworld society.
III. A Proposal for New Initiatives
There is no simple answer to our enormous crime problem.
But control of drug trafficking is the most important first step.
Our efforts to date have taught us the ways in which we can
succeed. We now propose a program designed to supplement our
ongoing efforts against organized drug traffickers. The program,
however, does not stop there. Rather, it permits us then to
turn to the broader problem of organized criminals generally, for
whom drug dealing is simply one source of income.
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Point One - Regional Task Forces
We should establish regional task forces, sufficiently
flexible to be tailored to regional needs. Each task force
would direct its efforts against organized criminal groups dealing
in drugs. The Attorney General will select the targeted regions
after careful study of the latest and best available data on the
organized drug trafficking presence throughout the nation.
The task forces would supplement on-going law enforcement
efforts. They can have a significant impact on organized criminal
enterprises by building upon existing efforts. Additional teams
of investigators and prosecutors can concentrate manpower in key
areas. Such an approach has proven effective in the past.
This project will draw upon the resources and personnel of
many federal agencies, although the Department of Justice will
provide much of the personnel and resources. Prosecutors from
the Department's Criminal Division and its United States Attorney's
Offices, and investigators from the FBI and the DEA will be
involved in the task force effort. Certain task forces will
require support from the Immigration and Naturalization Service
and the United States Marshals Service. Many will also require
personnel from the United States Customs Service, the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Internal Revenue Service
within the Department of the Treasury, working under the direction
of investigators from the Department of Justice. Some task
forces will also require the assistance of the Coast Guard within
the Department of Transportation. In some regions, Department
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of Defense tracking and pursuit capabilities will be crucial
in combatting organized drug trafficking. Where appropriate,
state and local law enforcement personnel will participate.
The Attorney General will provide leadership and control of
the task force effort. Experienced FBI and DEA officials with
special training in team management will direct the investigative
effort. Prosecutorial responsibility will remain with the
United States Attorneys and state prosecutors, unless a particular
operation requires the designation of a particular prosecutor.
The Attorney General will request funding for the task force
initiative in the Department's budget for FY 1983 and FY 1984.
An appropriate employment ceiling would be allocated to the partic-
ipating federal agencies outside the Department of Justice. The
Department of Justice will reimburse those agencies for expenses
related to the task forces. State and local agencies will continue
to pay base salaries for state and local participants. However,
the Attorney General will enter into agreements with participating
state and local agencies to fund certain extraordinary costs of
participation.
Point Two - Legislative Reforms
A critical component of our program to attack organized
crime and drug trafficking is the package of legislative reforms
supported by the Administration. Under our proposal, the Adminis-
tration would redouble its efforts to secure passage of its
criminal justice proposals in this Congress and, if necessary,
the next Congress.
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The legislative proposals include the following:
*
Bail Reform -- to assure the appearance at trial of
defendants who present a high risk of flight and to
allow a judge to consider the danger a defendant may
pose to the community if released.
*
Forfeiture of the Crime-Related Assets of Racketeers
and Drug Traffickers -- comprehensive legislation
developed to facilitate forfeiture of assets in
organized crime and drug cases, SO that we can deprive
these criminals of their vast sources of economic power.
*
Sentencing Reform -- incorporates comprehensive sentencing
changes to ensure penalties are appropriate in all federal
cases, particularly organized crime and drug cases.
*
Exclusionary Rule -- to assure that evidence of a crime
is not excluded if obtained by an officer acting in the
reasonable good faith belief that his actions were in
conformity with the Fourth Amendment.
These legislative reforms will give our prosecutors the tools
they need to assure that organized criminals and drug dealers are
removed from society and their operations crippled or seriously
impaired.
Point Three - The White House Conference
on Organized Crime
A White House Conference on Organized Crime would provide
an important forum through which we can heighten public awareness
of the problem. The Vice President would plan and conduct the
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Conference in cooperation with the Department of Justice. We
would invite federal, state and local officials, law enforcement
personnel, representatives of citizens' groups and interested
academic figures. The White House, the Department of Justice,
the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State would
appoint some of the delegates. Governors and mayors would be
asked to appoint others. The Conference delegates would serve
on various committees, which would prepare reports and make
recommendations after the Conference. The Vice President would
transmit to the President his recommendations for new legislation
and administrative action based on the Conference's work. These
recommendations could serve as a valuable starting point for the
Organized Crime Commission.
Point Four - The Presidential Commission
on Organized Crime
There is a need for a Commission to examine the problem of
organized crime. The Commission would sit for a three-year term.
It would develop data on organized criminal enterprise participants
and activities in each region and in the nation as whole, and
would evaluate existing law enforcement efforts in order to make
recommendations for refinement and improvement.
The Commission would be composed of 15 members appointed by
the President. Four members would be chosen from law enforce-
ment officials in the Executive Branch. Four members of Congress
with a demonstrated interest in law enforcement would also be
chosen on a bi-partisan basis, two from each House. Other
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Commission members could include, for example, a retired federal
judge, a State Attorney General, a State Governor, a writer or
journalist familiar with organized drug trafficking, a police
officer and two other individuals from the private sector or
academia with expertise in relevant fields. The Commission
would be supported by consultants and a highly qualified staff,
located in the Department of Justice.
The Commission would gather the best available information
about organized crime. It would hold hearings to analyze and
debate the data and to review studies and conclusions of Commission
staff. The Commission would also hold hearings to publicize the
penetration of organized criminal enterprises in the region.
This will focus public attention on organized drug trafficking,
and help mobilize public support for the Commission's ultimate
recommendations.
Point Five - Federal Training Assistance to
Improve State and Local Efforts
To prevail in the fight against organized crime, the federal
enforcement agencies must be able to share the techniques, methods
and strategies they have developed with their state and local
counterparts. Training is thus an important component of the
offensive against organized crime.
For many years, the FBI has been training state and local
law enforcement officers at its Academy at Quantico, Virginia.
It has trained nearly 150,000 such officers from around the
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nation. Similarly, the DEA offers many training courses for
state and local personnel. Last year alone, some 5,000 state and
local police officers received DEA training.
The Departments of Justice and Treasury currently sponsor a
pilot program designed to supplement the existing federal training
effort. The Justice-Treasury State and Local Law Enforcement
Training Program offers advanced specialized training for state
and local law enforcement officers at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia. An increased level
of professionalism is an indispensable ingredient in the fight
against drug trafficking and organized crime. These programs
will help impart that professionalism to state and local law
enforcement.
Point Six - Cabinet Level Interagency
Coordinating Committee
On January 29, 1982, the President announced the creation of
a Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, chaired by the Attorney General.
The Cabinet Council reviews the interdepartmental aspects of
narcotics control, drug abuse prevention and treatment, civil
rights, immigration and other matters.
Part of the Cabinet Council is a Sub-Council on Drug Supply
Reduction, chaired by the Attorney General. The Sub-Council
reviews critical drug enforcement issues requiring interagency
cooperation and serves as a forum for the discussion of operational
problems. The President should designate the Sub-Council as
the focal point for coordinating the task force program. The
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Attorney General will consult with the Sub-Council to determine
the locations, goals and activities of the Task Forces. Of
course, the Sub-Council and any Working Groups it may need will
have no operational responsibility. But it will have an important
role to play in establishing policy and in resolving problems
framed by those at the operational level.
Point Seven - The Fifty States Project
Through a Fifty States Project, the President could reach
out to the state governors to enlist their support for the
national offensive against organized crime. The project would
supplement the LECCs in spurring state law enforcement officials
and agencies to improve their own efforts against this problem.
Point Eight - Annual Report to the
President and the Congress
An important component of our program to fight organized
crime will be an annual report by the Attorney General to the
President and the Congress. This annual report would explain
and reinforce all of the other points of the program.
The annual report would provide an overview of our efforts
and identify critical unresolved issues. In addition, the annual
report should review our progress in the permanent campaign
against organized crime.
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The foregoing program is essential if this Administration
is to make a lasting impact upon the problems of drug trafficking
and organized crime. The program would imprint the stamp of
this Administration on law enforcement for years to come.
Implementation of this program, of course, would require addi-
tional resources for the participating Departments and agencies.
As set forth in the appendix, we believe that the entire proposal
will cost $200 million. This figure is modest indeed in relation
to the problem we face. In fact, it amounts merely to approxi-
mately one-quarter of one-percent of drug revenues in 1980.
Appendix
The attached two charts represent the preliminary cost estimates to
implement the preceeding proposal to combat organized crime. The first
chart details the costs for one of the Task Forces proposed in point
one. A brief description of the basis for the costs of each point of
the program follows.
The cost estimates related to the Regional Task Forces (point 1)
were based on information available within the Justice Department and
the other agency costs were developed from information available from
the Treasury Department and the U.S. Coast Guard. Most of the resources
included for non-DOJ agencies will be required by the U.S. Customs
Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. These resources
represent approximately 60 percent of the amounts identified for non-DOJ
agency participation.
The DOJ's costs also include a number of indirect and generally
one-time costs required to adequately support our overall enforcement
effort. These include such items as Air Wing Support for the Drug
Enforcement Administration's (DEA) intelligence operations, (particularly
in view of the current military involvement), FBI voice privacy systems,
and prison expansion at existing institutions.
The preliminary estimated cost of a White House Conference on
Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking (point 2) was based on the ex-
periences of the White House Conference on Aging. The estimate for the
Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Commission (point 5) was based on
the experience of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee
Policy. Points 3, 4 and 6 will not require additional funding in order
to implement them.
In order to implement this program in 1983, an amendment of approxi-
mately 1,000 full-time equivalent workyears and $200 million will be
required. Of this total, approximately 722 full-time equivalent workyears
and $103.7 are included in the Department's 1984 budget request.
EIGHT POINT PROGRAM TO COMBAT CRIME
(Dollars in Thousands)
Activity
Estimated Amount
1. Regional Task Forces
$110,000
DEA Intelligence (Air Wing
Support)
6,000
DEA Intelligence (EPIC)
1,200
DEA (Automation)
4,600
FBI (Automation)
21,000
FBI (Voice Privacy)
12,000
USMS (Cooperative Agreement
Program)
10,000
FPS (Construction)
24,000
2. White House Conference on
Organized Drug Trafficking.
6,000
3. Federal Training Assistance to
Improve State and Local
Efforts
4.
Legislative Reforms
5.
Organized Drug Trafficking
Commission
5,000
6.
Interagency Coordinating
Committee
7.
Fifty-States Project
100
8.
Annual Report to the President.
100
TOTAL
$200,000,000
PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATE FOR
PROTOTYPE TASK FORCE
150-MEMBER
52 Investigators
$2,582,736
20 Prosecutors
984,000
20 Clericals
370,000
8 Paralegals
179,200
Undercover operations
800,000
Purchase of Evidence and Purchase of Infor-
mation (PE/PI)
390,000
Travel
120,000
Permanent Change of Station
720,000
Communications
40,000
Space
400,000
Supplies and Equipment
190,000
Other (Vehicle leasing etc.)
312,000
State and Local Costs (over-time and other)
326,000
Non-DoJ Participation (50 members)
3,586,000
TOTAL
$10,999,936
Costing Assumptions:
1. Staff--Investigators-GS-14, Clerical GS-7, Paralegal-GS-9
2. PE/PI-$7,500/Investigator
3. PCS-40 permanent change of stations @ $10,000 each
4. Communications-$400/position
5. Space-200 sq. ft./position @ $20.00/sq. ft.
6. Supplies and Equipment (including word processing, etc.)--
avg. $1,900/pos.
7. Non-DoJ Agency Participation - Estimated at 50 percent of DoJ
participation exclusive of undercover operations. Assumes
participation by Customs, Internal Revenue Service, Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, and others based on area of country and
type of investigation.
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CABINET COUNCIL ON LEGAL POLICY
Fischer
September 30, 1982
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PARTICIPANTS
The President
The Attorney General
Secretary Weinberger
Secretary Watt
Secretary Block
Secretary Donovan
Secretary Schweiker
Secretary Pierce
Secretary Lewis Trent / Deputy Secretary
Secretary Edwards
Edwin Meese III
James A. Baker III
Edwin Harper, Assistant to the President for Policy Development
Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President
Loren Smith, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the U.S.
Deputy Secretary Dam
(Representing Secretary Shultz)
Deputy Secretary McNamar
(Representing Secretary Regan)
Deputy Director Wright
(Representing Director Stockman)
Chairman Feldstein
Richard Darman, Assistant to the President and Deputy to the
Chief of Staff
Elizabeth Dole, Assistant to the President for Public Liaison
Kenneth Duberstein, Assistant to the President for Legislative
Affairs
Craig Fuller, Assistant to the President for Cabinet Affairs
Richard Williamson, Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental
Affairs
Michael Uhlmann, Executive Secretary
Becky Norton Dunlop, Director, Office of Cabinet Affairs
For Presentation:
Rudolph Giuliani, Associate Attorney General
Jonathan Rose, Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy
William Webster, Director, FBI
Additional Attendees:
Sherman Unger, General Counsel, Department of Commerce
(Representing Secretary Baldrige)
2 white White House Fellow from Doj
VP staff member
Timy Dolam / Ken Cribb / Jim Cicconil Bill Barr
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MEMORANDUM
6726
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 29, 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
WILLIAM P. CLARK wf
SUBJECT:
Photo Session with US Outgoing Ambassadors
Thursday, September 30 -- 3:50 p.m.
Oval Office
Attached are 3x5 cards with pertinent information for your
photo session with:
Ambassador Everett Briggs - Panama
Ambassador John Blane
- Rwanda
The Ambassadors and their families are most appreciative of
your taking the time to meet and be photographed with them
prior to departure for their respective posts.
PHOTO SESSION
AMB. EVERETT ELLIS BRIGGS (PANAMA)
PARTICIPANTS: FAMILY - WIFE: SALLY
SON: ALLEN (22)
DAUGHTER: LUCY (21)
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WILLIAM P. CLARK
NSC
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ROGER FONTAINE
-- CAREER FOREIGN SERVICE SINCE 1956
-- SERVED IN OAS; WITH EMBASSIES IN BOLIVIA,
PORTUGAL, AND ANGOLA; AS DEPUTY CHIEF OF
MISSION IN EMBASSIES IN PARAGUAY & COLOMBIA
-- DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS, 1981-1982
PHOTO SESSION
AMB. JOHN BLANE (RWANDA)
PARTICIPANTS: FAMILY - WIFE: DIANNE
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- WILLIAM P. CLARK
NSC
- FRED WETTERING
-- CAREER FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER SINCE 1956
-- EXTENSIVE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE; WAS
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS
-- MOST RECENT ASSIGNMENT: REOPENED
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN CIVIL WAR-TORN CHAD
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
INFORMATION
September 29, 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
WILLIAM P. CLARK
SUBJECT:
Meeting with the Commission on Broadcasting
to Cuba, September 30, 1982
Issue
To provide necessary background information for your scheduled
meeting with the Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba.
Facts
The Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba was created in September,
1981 to provide to you recommendations on the establishment of
a radio station specifically intended for broadcast to Cuba.
Its chairman is Clif White; membership includes Charlie Wick,
California Republican Party Chairman Tirso del Junco, Richard
Scaife, Jorge Mas and, on the democratic side, former Senator
Richard Stone. The Commission will present to you its final
report, its last official act before going out of legal existence.
Discussion
The Commission, working closely and harmoniously with the Administra-
tion, has done much of the necessary spadework for the establish-
ment of Radio Marti, including (apart from the name itself)
public hearings and Congressional consultations on technical,
legal and programmatic aspects of broadcasting to Cuba. It has
made a major contribution to securing favorable consideration of
the Radio Marti legislation in Congress. Although the Commission
has offered to continue in existence to complete preparations
for Radio Marti if this seemed desirable, the proposed legislation
was amended on the Hill to require that Radio Marti be placed
under the aegis of the Board for International Broadcasting.
Frank Shakespeare will therefore take over responsibility for it
as soon as authorized funds are made available.
CC Vice President
Ed Meese
Jim Baker
Mike Deaver
SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS FOR MEETING WITH
THE COMMISSION ON BROADCASTING TO CUBA
SEPTEMBER 30, 1982
-- As one who has some experience with radio broadcasting,
I fully appreciate the importance of the task I assigned
to the Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba one year ago.
International broadcasting is a vital -- and too often
a neglected -- link in our national security posture and
strategy. Broadcasting to peoples who are systematically
deprived of knowledge of the world around them by their
government is a powerful weapon favoring the forces of
liberty.
-- In the case of Cuba, the Castro regime has made every
effort to deprive the Cuban people of the most basic
information concerning the economic condition of the
country, the nature of its relationship to the Soviet
Union, and its brazen military adventures in the Third
World. The truth -- not propaganda, but the truth --
about these matters will, I am convinced, have an enormous
influence for the better on the attitudes and beliefs of
the Cuban people and their tolerance for the policies of
the current government.
-- I am also aware of the formidable obstacles that exist
in our own country in the way of any attempt to engage
ourselves actively in the international war of ideas.
All the more, then, do I appreciate the skill and perse-
verance you have used in developing and supporting the idea
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of Radio Marti. You have given tirelessly of your own
time and energies to conduct discussions with the public,
the Congress, and interested private citizens and commercial
broadcasters to solicit a spectrum of views regarding the
establishment of Radio Marti and to develop your own. Your
report to me, which you have shared with the Congress, lays
out the issue in a clear and sensible way, and I am sure
will provide the basis for whatever further work is needed
in implementing this project. Once again, I want to thank
you for your efforts, and I am sure we all look forward to
the day when they bear fruit in a functioning operation.
MEETING WITH COMMISSION ON BROADCASTING TO CUBA
Thursday, September 30, 1982 - 4:15 - Cabinet Room
William Bourne Bayer
The President
Tirso Del Junco
William P. Clark
Jorge L. Mas
Carnes Lord, NSC
Patrick E. O'Donnell
Richard M. Scaife
George Jacobs
Senator Richard B. Stone
Earl E. T. Smith
Clifton F. White
Charles Z. Wick
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 30, 1982
MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE CLINT ROBERTS
(REPUBLICAN - SOUTH DAKOTA)
DATE:
Thursday, September 30, 1982
LOCATION:
The Oval Office
TIME:
4:30 P.M. (three minutes)
FROM:
Kenneth M. Duberstein
KMD
I.
PURPOSE
To honor Clint's request to have a photograph with the President
commemorating the enactment of H.R. 4347 (South Dakota Water
Resource Development).
II.
BACKGROUND
H.R. 4347 authorizes the construction of a water pipeline in
South Dakota, determines the feasibility of various water resource
projects in the state, and makes available electricity from Fed-
eral hydropower facilities to five irrigation districts within
the state. Congressman Clint Roberts, a freshman Republican from
South Dakota, has been a prime force in moving this legislation
through Congress. He has requested a brief photo session to
commemorate approval of the bill.
Due to the 1980 census, South Dakota now has one instead of two
House Districts. This has had the effect of pitting Clint Roberts
against incumbent Democrat Tom Daschle in the November general
election. By all accounts the race is extremely tight at this
point. Clint has been a strong and consistent supporter of Admin-
istration policy initiatives throughout the 97th Congress; and he
has closely associated himself with the President during his re-
election campaign.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
Congressman Clint Roberts (R-South Dakota)
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Ed Rollins
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IV.
PRESS PLAN
White House Photographer
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
No set agenda.
Attachment: Talking Points
TALKING POINTS FOR MEETING
WITH REPRESENTATIVE CLINT ROBERTS
(REPUBLICAN - SOUTH DAKOTA)
--
In welcoming Clint to the Oval Office, recall that you just
saw him yesterday (Wednesday) during the photo session with
other House Republicans.
--
Tell Clint that you wanted this additional meeting to congratu-
late him on his leadership during Congressional consideration
of H.R. 4347 (South Dakota Water Resource Development). .
--
Acknowledge that this measure is of great significance to the
people of South Dakota and probably would not have become law
without Clint's stewardship.
--
Emphasize that you wanted Clint to be the first to know when
you had signed the measure into law; and give Clint a signing
pen.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Congressional Barbecue
Thursday, September 30, 1982
FROM:
Muffie Brandon
mp/r2 Brnda
5:45 p.m.
Guests begin to arrive the East Gate and are led
by Social Aides into the East Entrance, out into
the First Ladies' Garden, then onto the South
Lawn.
Guests may find their seats at picnic tables on the
lawn, then begin to serve themselves immediately at
the barbecue tables.
6:10 p.m.
THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. REAGAN arrive the Lower
Cross Hall via the elevator and proceed through
the Diplomatic Reception Room, across the drive,
and to one of the barbecue tables where they
serve themselves.
They then proceed to their reserved table and are
seated.
6:55 p.m.
Mr. Roger Williams is escorted to THE PRESIDENT
AND MRS. REAGAN'S table for a photograph.
7:10 p.m.
Social Aides begin to encourage guests to be seated
in the chairs in front of the bandshell.
THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. REAGAN take their seats in
the front row for the entertainment.
7:20 p.m.
The Army Chorus proceeds down the center aisle
singing as they mount the stage and perform.
7:25 p.m.
The Army Chorus exits the stage, and Mr. Roger
Williams proceeds on stage for his performance
at the piano.
7:45 p.m.
Mr. Williams' performance concludes and he exits the
stage (he will leave immediately for his dressing
room and departure for the airport).
7:47 p.m.
Miss Tammy Wynette proceeds to the stage to perform.
During her performance, she will come into the
audience and sing to THE PRESIDENT "Stand By Your
Man."
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8:10 p.m.
The Army Chorus proceeds to the stage to join
Miss Wynette for a final ending chorus of
"God Bless America."
8:15 p.m.
At the conclusion of the entertainment, THE PRESIDENT
AND MRS. REAGAN mount the stage via the right stairs,
facing the stage, and THE PRESIDENT makes thank-you
remarks to the entertainers.
Following his remarks THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. REAGAN
depart the South Lawn for the Residence via the
Diplomatic Reception Room.
All guests depart.
(Rohrabacher/AB)
September 29, 1982
4:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: CONGRESSIONAL BARBECUE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1982
Good evening and welcome to each of you. I want to thank my
old friend, Jim Herdman, for putting together this splendid
barbecue. Jim, thank you very much, everything's great.
Also, thanks to Roger Williams. He had to catch a plane so
he may be gone by now. But we appreciate his talent; and we also
appreciate Tammy Wynette.
Tammy, every time I hear you sing, "Stand By Your Man,' " I
get goose bumps. At times, I've felt like sending a copy of it
over to a few of my friends on the Hill. Tammy, it was beautiful
and thank you so much for being with us.
And, finally, the Army Chorus: It's always an inspiration
to hear you. Thank you for your magnificent contribution.
Nancy and I are more than happy to have all of you with us
tonight. One of the pleasures we've had over these last
20 months is getting to know many of you on a personal basis.
Now that's not to say that we've always agreed, but even when we
found ourselves at odds and the rhetoric a little thick, we
managed to maintain a level of debate that reflects well on the
American people and our system of government.
I'm sorry Tip O'Neill couldn't join us today because there's
a nice glass of ice water for him that I poured
right out
of my veins.
But seriously, Tip and those of you on the other side of the
aisle have been worthy adversaries and I want to thank you
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personally for being the kind of opponents with whom one can
disagree yet respect at the same time.
And for all of you on the Republican side, your support and
your guidance has been my most valuable asset as President. It
is something I do not take for granted and, when this is all
over, I'll look back on the battles we've fought and remember
each of you. You've demonstrated a dedication to those
principles which make us Republicans, but at the same time you've
displayed an independence that belies the notion that you are
anybody's rubber stamp -- I found that out with this last tax
bill.
No matter -- even members of the same family have
disagreements now and then, yet their affection remains strong.
Speaking of families, I suppose you've all heard that David
Stockman is getting married
it appears his toughest budget
battles lie ahead.
Somebody told me David is so budget-conscious that his
wedding cake will be a cheese cake -- made of surplus cheese.
But, on a serious note, this Congress, the 97th Congress,
will be looked at as an historical Congress. And whatever side
you were on, each of you were part of a basic philosophical
change of direction that has taken place in our country. Change
of this magnitude is never easy for any society, but it is a
tribute to our form of government, and to each of you, that we
can move from one basic economic and social perspective to
another without a threat to the political freedoms we all love so
dearly.
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And one other observation about the change we've set in
motion: History will note the bipartisan nature of what has
happened. In 1980, millions of Democrats crossed party lines to
register their support for a new approach to America's problems.
And during the tax and budget battles of these last 20 months,
although party affiliation has undeniably played a role, we found
ourselves in changing alliances. If there were ever any doubts,
this Congress made it clear: Yes, we are Republicans and we are
Democrats, but first and foremost we are all Americans.
So, again, thank you for being here and best of luck in the
coming months.