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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
opFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
JAN 5 1978
5-173761
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Dear
This replies to your letter of October 28, 1977, in uilich you requested
a copy of a GAO report entitled Problems In Slowing The Flo Of Cocaite
And Heroin From And Through South America GGD-75-8, dated May 30, 1975.
Your letter cites the rreedm of Infoniation Act (POIA), 5 U.S.C.
0552. As an agency reponsible to the Congress, the General Accounting
Office is not subject to the provisions of that Act. It is our policy,
however, to make our records available to the public to the extent dis-
closure is consistent with our functions and our responsibilities to the
Congress and is not prohibited by law. Accordingly, we have issued regu-
lations concerning the public availability of GAO records that are pub*
limhed in Part 81 of title 4 of the Code of Federal Regulations. We con-
eider your request s having befn made under these regulations.
The roepert you requested is officially classified confidential and
wve t from the declassificatLon schodule of xecutive Order 11652, as
amended, 3 C.PR. 339 (1974). It therefore is exempt from disclosure
under OAO regulations (4 CoF.R. 181.6(s)(1)).
We are enclosing the following recently issued reports which may be
of use to you in plaring the relationship betieen the international
traffic /m narcotics and mail arms: (1) Illegal Entry At United States-
Hae3xo Border-M)ultiagency Enforceent Efforts Have Not Deen Effective In
St.mfug The Plow Of Drugs And People, 0mcember 2, 1977; (2) November
1977 Staff Study On United States-Mexican Detatios-An Ovwrviev.
In January 1977 the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate
Coaittae on Govrerment Operationxheld hearings on the subject of
suggling weapons in Mexico and its relation to narcotics trafficking from
Mexto to the United States. Por your convenience ws have enlosad a copy
of these heoarings.
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