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Hashish Smuggling and Passport Fraud : ''The Brotherhood of Eternal HASHISH SMUGGLING AND PASSPORT FRAUD: "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love" HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTEATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 3, 1973 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary DOCS U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 23-638 WASHINGTON : 1973 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (searcfl Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $1.15 ibraryryjJ franklin pierce law center Concord, New Hampshire 03301 ON DEPOSIT JAN 4- 1974 'Z HASHISH SMUGGLING AND PASSPORT FRAUD: "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love" HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTKATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 3, 1973 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 2»-638 WASHINGTON : 1973 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing OfBce rch Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $1.15 ry FRANKLIN PIERCE LAW CENTER ^^^^^^^ Concordt^ ,^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J TSIpwVT HamnchifaTT - 02Jnln - -. ~ • Boston PubUc Library Boston, lyiA 02116 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN L. McCLELLAN, Arkansas ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska SAM J. ERVIN, Jr., North Carolina HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii PHILIP A. HART, Michigan HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts STROM THURMOND, South Carolina BIRCH BAYH. Indiana MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky QUENTIN N. BURDICK. North Dakota CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, Jr., Maryland ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia EDWARD J. QURNEY, Florida JOHN V. TDNNEY, California Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Intebnal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN L. McCLELLAN, Arkansas STROM THURMOND. South Carolina SAM J. ERVIN, Jr., North Carolina MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky BIRCH BAYH, Indiana EDWARD J. GURNEY. Florida J. Q. SouRWiNB, Chief Counsel Raymond Sifly, Jr., Minority Counsel John R. Norpel, Director of Research Alfonso L. Tarabochia, Chief Investigator Resolution Resolved, by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, that the testimony of John R. Bartels, Jr., Gene R. Haislip, Lloyd Sinclear, and Ernest Donald Strange, all of the Drug Enforcement Administration; and the testimony of Miss Frances G. Knight, AVilliam E. Duggan, and John O'DoAvd, all of the Passport Office, Department of State, taken in executive session on October 3, 1973, be released from the injunction of secrecy, be printed and made public. James O. Eastland, Chairman. Approved December 10, 1973. — CONTENTS Page ^ , ^^ Enforcement Ad- John^R. Bartels, Jr., Acting Administrator, Drug ministration _ ' Lloyd Sinclair, group supervisor, DEA_ » Ernest Donald Strange, special agent, DEA ^'^ Gene R. Haislip, Counsel, DEA Afternoon Session Testimony of , -^ _ „ --v ^ * of* Miss' Frances G. Knight, Director, Passport Office, Department QiX- ^ OiJ Duggan,' Chief,' Legal Division, Passport Office 43 William" E.' o^ John O'Dowd, attorney-adviser. Legal Division, Passport Office Appendix (III) HASHISH SMUGGLING AND PASSPORT FRAUD "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1973 U.S. Senate, SuBCX)MMi'rrEE To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act AND Other Internal Security Laws OF THE Committee on the Judiciary, Washington^ D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 11 :30 o'clock a.m., in room 1318, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator James O. East- land, presiding. counsel ; David Martm, senior Also present : J. G. Sourwine, chief analvst: Ravmond Siflv, minority counsel; John R. Norpel, Jr., re- search director; and Alfonso Tarabochia, chief investigator. The Chairman. The purpose of this hearing is to look into the re- lated problems of international drug trafficking and passport fraud— both of which have a direct bearing on the internal security of our country. will focus It is my understanding that the testimony this mornms: primarily, but not exclusively, on the activities of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, an organization founded by Dr. Timothy Leary which has combined a mystical fanaticism with criminal activities, and which has been massively involved in passport fraud and in the production, smuggling, and distribution of various drugs, LSD, and hashish in particular. The Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security held extensive hear- ings last September and October. 1972, on the international drug traffic and its impact on U.S. security. The subcommittee appointed Gen. Lewis W. Walt, retired assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, to head up a staff investigation. General Walt's investigation covered some 20 countries, and the report which he made to the sub- committee, I think it is fair to say, played a major role in bringing about certain structural improvernents in our national drug control machinery, and his recommendations are closely reflected in some of the legislation now pending before Congress. Our hearings last vear focused primarily on the heroin epidemic, although General Walt's report did deal briefly with the interrelated problems of cocaine, hashish, and marihuana. We also took the testi- monv of Dr. Olav Braenden. the distinarished Director of the U.N. Narcotics Laboratory in Geneva, on the current status of cannabis research. (1) : In today's hearing we shall be dealing with the past activities of Timothy t^ary's associates as the prime international manufacturers and distributors of LSD, and with the role his organization, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, has played in the rapidly expanding problems of hashish smuggling into the United States. I anticipate that this hearing will provide us with some useful information on the relationship between the increasingly widespread use of hashish and the extensive use of marihuana--which is really a weaker version of hashish—before the current hashish epidemic got underway. In addition to establishing the basic facts about the rapidly mush- rooming problem of passport fraud, it is my hope that this hearing will also i^roduce certain concrete recommendations pointing to im- provements in passport security. The witnesses we have with us today are divided into two groups. From the Department of Justice, we have : John R. Bartels, Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration ; Gene R. Haislip, counsel. Drug Enforcement Administration; Lloyd Sinclair, group supervisor, Drug Enforcement Administration; and Ernest Donald Strange, special agent. Drug Enforcement Administration. From the Passport Office of the Department of State, we have Frances G. Knight, Director, Passport Office, Department of State; William E. Duggan, Legal Counsel. Passport Office (in charge of investigation of passport fraud by brotherhood members) ; and John O'Dowd, Attorney-Advisor, Legal Division, Passport Office. I want to thank the witnesses for coming. In order to expedite the hearing, I would like to ask that you all rise and be sworn in simultaneously. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give the subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Mr. Bartels. I do. Mr. Haislip. I do. Mr. SixcLAiR. I do, Mr. Straxge. I do. Miss Knight. I do. Mr. Duggan. I do. Mr. O'Dowd. I do. Mr. SouRwiNE. Mr. Chairman, we will begin, if it is agreeable with you, with the testimony of Mr. John R. Bartels, Jr., the Acting Ad- ministrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Depart- ment of Justice. TESTIMONY OF JOHN R. BARTELS, JR., ACTING ADMINISTRATOR, DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, ACCOMPANIED BY GENE R. HAISLIP, COUNSEL, DEA; LLOYD SINCLAIR, GROUP SUPERVISOR, DEA; AND ERNEST DONALD STRANGE, SPECIAL AGENT, DEA Mr. Bartels. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the subcommittee. I am pleased to appear before you this morning in connection with this subcommittee's continuing investigation into the illicit drug traf- you lie. In addition to other matters, you have asked that we inform of the particulai-s of our investigation of a drug-oriented cult known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. This is one of the most fascinating investigations of recent years, and I have brought with me today for the pur^wse of recounting it, two of the officers who were responsible for its success. These are the gentlemen on my left, Mr. Lloyd Sinclair, presently a group super- visor in our Los Angeles Eegional Office; and next to him. Mr. Donald Strange, one of the resourceful agents who worked under Mr. Sin- clair's direction. I would also like at this time to recognize Special Agents Terry Burke, Douglas Kuehl, Gary Elliot, Donald Monier, and William"^ McKelvey, who also played an important role in this investigation, although they could not be with us today. To avoid any subsequent confusion of terminolog}-, let me explain from the outset that these gentlemen were at the time of this investi- gation serving within the former BNDD. This agency has since been merged with other units to form the new Drug Enforcement Adminis- of tration, or DEA, which I now head ; and this more current means identifying the Federal Government's enforcement arm will be used hereafter. Before Mr. Sinclair begins his narrative, I would like first to deal with some of the broader implications of the case about which you have also asked to hear. In many ways, the evolution of the drug trafficking activities of the members of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love is a tragic illustration of the cynicism into which the youthful drug revolution of the mid-1960's has fallen. It also underlines the development of new trends in the drug traffic of which the Nation np^ds to be aware. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was founded on the basis of Timothy I^ary's exhortations to "Tune in, turn on. and drop out"' with LSD. Leary's preaching consisted of a combination of mysticism, the use of dnigs, and the disapproval of our society expressed in the phrases of rebellion which particularly appeal to youth.
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