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370improvement as far as the ability of the police departments to dealwith this problem.But law enforcement agencies, except maybe on the west coast or inNew York, for the most part, didn't have either the expertise or thestaff to engage the drug control situation until the late 1960's in anysubstantial way.Mr. Sandman. In 1965, for example, I know my own State, in thewhole State of New Jersey, they had less than 10 agents in the wholeState. We are right next to the "big source of supply in New York. Doyou know whether or not, for example, that State has increased thenumber of people it has working in conjunction with your agents?Mr. Ingersoll. Yes. Wlien you include the State police and all ofthe municipal and county and borough police together, it has increased.I couldn't tell you how much.Mr. Sandman. Are they taking advantage of your trainingprogram ?Mr. Ingersoll. Yes, sir.Mr. Sandman. They are ?Mr Ingersoll. Yes.Mr. Sandman. Thank you.Chairman Pepper. Before I call upon the next member, ]\Ir. Murphyof Illinois, I think note should be taken of the fact that he has beento Asia and made a very careful study of this subject and has filed areport with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.Mr. Murphy, would you like to question the witness ?Mr. Murphy. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will follow your suggestion.I will file a report with the Select Committee on Crime aboutour recent tour and factfinding trip to Southeast Asia.(The report referred to is a matter of public record and was retainedin the committee files.)Mr. Murphy. Mr. Ingersoll, you mentioned on page 10 that immediateactions have been taken. I am very interested in your firstnotation. You say President Thieu has appointed a special task forcereporting directly to him.Now, I talked directly with Vice President Ky when I was in SouthVietnam. He recognized that the heroin addiction problem amongtroops was of epidemic proportions. Contrary to what my colleaguesfrom New Jersey just mentioned about the one out of 10. 1 have Armysurveys, though I will not reveal the name of the individual who gaveme tlie survey, which notes that in some units the percentage of usageis as high as 50 percent ; in other miits, 30 to 35 percent. I agree withyou that it is very low among officers, but it is, nevertheless, very highamong E-5's and below.As far as the question of Mr. Sandman is concerned regarding whenthe fellows are approached when they get into Vietnam, we talked toliterally hundreds of privates and corporals, who assured us theywere not in Vietnam 15 days when they were contacted by a fellowAmerican or some member of the South Vietnamese population as tothe availability of heroin and where they could obtain their sourceof heroin.