Passports obtained under false identities are tied to the lucrative drug tradetraffickers have been apprehended with several passports under fictitious identities. Presumably. identify switches coincide with traffickers plane changes. My concern over the use of false passports and counterfeit visas to facilitate narcotics trafficking has led the subcommittee staff to begin a comprehensive investigation into black marketing of Federal identifiers. I believe the misuse of all types of Government identity cards will also prove to be a costly Government fraud perpetrated on the American taxpayer. We pay a grave social price for narcotics trafficking. an expense not easily measured in dollars.