It is customary for foreign ships in American ports to employ an American shipping agent in order to assist them in all of their business matters. This is encouraged because it insures there is someone in the local area who will have some responsibility for seeing that the bills incurred by the foreign ship ashore are paid. It is standard procedure for a border patrolmen to call the shipping agent when a shipjumping crewman needs to be returned. When Medvid jumped from the launch as he was being returned by the shipping agent. the shipping agent had in his hands an order from the Border Patrol requiring the shipping agent and the master of the ship to take control of Medvid and see to it that he was deported. Technically. it was improper for the Soviet first mate to bring additional Soviet crewmen ashore. but interviews with the shipping agents employees present at the scene indicate that Medvid was not "beaten" by these people. and that they "shackled him" with a strip of plastic that was supplied to them. Third. Despite knowledge of drugs used upon Medvid. why did the American physician who subsequently examined him not order blood and urine tests to see if drugs were currently in his system? Answer. As noted in testimony before the Immigration Subcommittee on February 5. 1986. blood and urine tests merely disclose whether there is a residue of drugs in the system. Both doctors understood there were drugs in Medvids system. However. they were interested not in the presence of drugs. but whether or not the person about to be interviewed was intoxicated by these drugs. or under the influence of them in such a manner that he would not be able to make a rational decision concerning political asylum.
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