Narcotics research, rehabilitation, and treatment. Hearings, Ninety ...

;;92Locating illicit opium cropsDetecting illegal material at ports of entryDeveloping drug network vulnerability data ; andImproving resource management.The important aspects are (1) the need for a total systems approach;(2) the need for an accelerated research and developmenteffort ; and (3) the need to get started now.Thank you very much.Chairman Pepper. Mr. Jaffe, I want to commend you on your magnificentand comprehensive statement, that you have given as to howthis whole problem should be coordinated in an effective and comprehensiveprogram.Mr. Perito, do you have any questions ?Mr. Perito. Mr. Jaffe, you have had some contact both with theFederal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and U.S. Customsregarding your presentation ; is that correct ?Mr. Jafft:. Yes.Mr. Pertto. Could you estimate what it would cost the Governmentat this point to put together the type of research and developmentprogram which you have suggested ?Mr. Jaffe. It is very difficult to answer that on a short-term basis.On a longer term basis, and comparing it to the existing budgets asI have been able to reconstruct them, which is difficult, I would guessit runs something on the order of $10 million over a 5-year period;something like that.Chairman Pepper. Excuse me.You mean $10 million for 5 years ?Mr. Jaffe. Distributed over a 5-year period.Mr. Perito. Mr. Jaffe, do you know how much is now being spent onsuch efforts by the Federal Government ?Mr. Jaffe. No ; I do not know precisely. I have some bits and piecesof information about what particular subagencies are spending, butthat is all.Mr. Perito. I assume then, based upon your contacts, vou wouldconclude that the Federal Government is spending something minimal,at best ?Mr. Jaffe. Oh. very minimal.Mr. Perito. If you were assigned the responsibility of policing aninternational narcotics treaty, wherein all the signatories would agreenot to Arrow poppies, do vou believe this technological approach couldbe used by the International Narcotics Control Board, for example,to police throuflfh satellite surveillance the cultivation of poppies?Mr. Jaffe. The use of satellite surveillance may not be available tous in the immediate future. But high-flying aircraft, and ultimatelythe use of satellites, will provide that kind of capability. It would significantlvcontribute—in fact, it is difficult to imagine how such atreaty would be enforceable without such surveillance or somethingequivalent.Mr. Perito. At the present time, do you know of any accelerated researchconcerning an international data bank?Mr. Jaffe. I don't have anv specific knowledge about that; no.Mr. Perito. Do you envision that a data bank could be set up sothat you could have input from several countries and protect the disclosurefrom those people who should not get disclosure ?