Also. the drugrelated functions of LEAA. the Law Enforcement Assistance Administrationprimarily in the form of block grants to State and local police for the establishment of narcotics unitswould be coordinated in Justice by the Attorney General through the new drug division of the FBI. The bill also provides for coordination by the President. after consultation with the Attorney General. of all other efforts related to drug law enforcement wherever they may be found in the Federal bureaucracy. These include such diverse efforts as the antismuggling operations of the Border Patrolin the Immigration and Naturalization Service of Justiceand of the Coast Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration--Leach in the Transportation Departmentthe technical assistance for better narcotics enforcement provided to foreign governments by the Agency for International Developmentin the State Departmentthe tax investigations of major suspected drug traffickers by the Internal Revenue Servicein the Treasury Departmentand information gathering on the international narcotics traffic by military intelligencein the Defense Departmentand by the Central Intelligence Agency. Thus. for the first time all Federal activities related to combating traffic in illicit drugs would be subject to basic policy coordination by a single law enforcement agency. To facilitate such coordination. the bill would establish a Policy Committee on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. comprised of the heads of all departments and agencies and their subdivisions which would be subject to the policy directives in the new integrated Federal Drug Enforcement System.
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