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

352their farmers who have been growing opium could ^row somethingelse and not sustain any reduction in income, would it be possible toget those governments to enforce efi'ectively a prohibition against thegrowing of the opium poppy ?Mr. Ingersoll. I think that would be the ideal solution. I think wecould achieve that in Laos. I doubt that we could achieve it in Burma.And I think that proposition is part of the arrangement or part of theprogram that will develop with time.Chairman Pepper. Now, how much money have we offered and howmuch have we put up so far toward such a program as that?Mr. IxGERSOLL. "VVe have not made an offer yet, because we are stilldeveloping the program, but I should say that the Thai Governmenthas permitted the United Nations to do a survey of opium productionin Thailand and it has produced a report which will call for a programwhich, over a period of 4 or 5 years, will be regarded as a pilotproject and several of the Meo villages where opium is produced inan effort to do just that. This program is presently funded at a rateof $5 million. I do not think that the funds now available are goingto be enough ; additional money will be needed.Chairman Pepper. As I understand it, we have a United Nationsspecial fund to deal with this problem. We committed $2 million tothat fund and we put up $1 million. Germany has put up, I believe,$20,000. Have we put up $1 million?Mr. IxGERSOLL. We pledged $2 million and we already contributed$1 million.Chairman Pepper. Now, what other nations have pledged or madea contribution?Mr. Ingersoll. Well, I understand that Sweden has made a contributionin the neighborhood, as I recall, of about $30,000. Turkey hasmade a contribution of $5,000, and the Holy See has given $1,000.Chairman Pepper. How about West Germany ?Mr. Ingersoll. West Germany has not yet made itscontribution.They indicated to me that they are going to contribute a millionmarks, about $280,000.Chairman Pepper. We were up at the United Nations the other dayand conferred with these United Nations narcotics representatives, thepeople that are directing this special fund, and they advised us thatthey are preparing a program now. You are our representative on thatCommission ; are vou not ?Mr. Ingersoll. Yes, sir.Chairman Pepper. Are you going to press for a larger appropriationso that we would be prepared to offer to these nations where thepoppy is grown, substitute crops and equivalent income ?Are you disposed to press for that program and ask the Governmentand Congress for more monej' to press for the adoption of thatprogram ?i\Ir. Ingersoll. Yes, Mr. Chairman. The special fund was establishedat the U.S. initiative and certainly, we have a deep and abidinginterest in seeing that the fund not only grows but that it is usedeffectively.Next October, at the meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs,one of the matters to be considered will be the short- and long-term