NDIC Accomplishments - 2006
The pages below highlight significant accomplishments of the
NDIC.
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NDIC Accomplishments, Fiscal Year
2006
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In Fiscal Year (FY) 2006, our intelligence analysis staff produced
more than 40 major recurring assessments, including NDIC's signature
product, the
National Drug Threat Assessment
2006. This threat assessment is a comprehensive account
of the threat to the United States posed by the trafficking and
abuse of illicit and pharmaceutical drugs. This annual assessment
was disseminated to more than 1,000 VIPs, including the Director
of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), members of
Congress, and key officials in other federal partner agencies in
the war against drugs. NDIC also produced nine regional drug threat
assessments for the U.S. Department of Justice's Organized Crime
and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program and 32 major city
market analyses for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)
program. These reports provided a strategic overview of the illicit
drug situation in each respective region or market by highlighting
significant trends and law enforcement concerns and are frequently
used by the requestors when developing their annual strategies or
allocating assets and resources.
In addition to producing our recurring reports in FY2006, NDIC
also assisted partner agencies in preparing assessments on topics
often closely associated with drug trafficking. For example, we
provided analytic support to the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office
of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and were a principal contributor
to the U.S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment (December
2005). This was the first government-wide analysis of money laundering
in the United States. From this assessment, the National Money Laundering
Strategy was developed. We also provided analytic support to the
Department of Homeland Security's Office of Counter Narcotics Enforcement
on an ongoing drugs and terrorism nexus project and prepared both
classified and versions of Terrorism and Transnational Crime:
Establishing the Link. This report was used by a high-level
official within the Department of Homeland Security in testimony
before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs. NDIC also supported the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
(FBI's) National Gang Intelligence Center in preparing an assessment
focusing on the activities and internationalization of the violent
MS 13 (Mara Salvatrucha) gang. This assessment was shared with Salvadoran
law enforcement officials who were investigating MS 13.
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Document Exploitation
While our intelligence services and products typically have a
conceptual impact by adding to the knowledge or understanding of
the threats posed by drug trafficking, our Document Exploitation
(Doc Ex) program often has an instrumental impact by assisting in
the investigation and prosecution of drug traffickers. That impact
is evident in our FY2006 successes. In FY2006, NDIC conducted 60
Doc Ex missions in support of investigations targeting illicit drug
trafficking, money laundering, terrorism, and other criminal activities
that impact U.S. national security. Almost half of the missions
supported OCDETF investigations, and more than half supported the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or FBI investigations. Other
Doc Ex missions were conducted on behalf of the U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives, U.S. Attorneys Offices (USAO), U.S. Department of State,
and others. These missions were instrumental in identifying previously
unknown associates and hidden assets and frequently provided significant
assistance in the successful prosecution of offenders.
Also in FY2006, NDIC conducted a series of missions in support
of Operation Twin Oceans, a Special Operations Division, OCDETF,
and Consolidated Priority Organizational Target-associated initiative
targeting a drug trafficking organization that transported multiton
quantities of cocaine for at least five different drug trafficking
organizations. The cocaine was destined for the United States and
Europe. By early 2007, Colombian authorities had seized approximately
130 properties, 23 vehicles, and 4 fishing vessels as a result of
Operation Twin Oceans. The total value of the seizures was estimated
to be approximately $70 million. Additionally, Colombian authorities
had seized 58 bank accounts worth approximately $100,000.
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Information Sharing and Training
Finally in FY2006, NDIC continued to provide library and training
services to the law enforcement and intelligence communities. NDIC
produces and disseminates the Counternarcotics Publications Quarterly
(CPQ), an annotated and indexed bibliography of reports, intelligence
memoranda, papers, and target studies submitted by federal, state,
and local agencies. More than 280 copies of the classified CPQ
were disseminated to federal officials and personnel at the headquarters
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, DEA, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency,
and ONDCP; and more than 660 copies of the sensitive CPQ
were distributed to FBI and DEA field offices as well as USAO district
offices, state police headquarters, and sheriffs' offices.
NDIC also trained more than 3,700 federal, state, and local law
enforcement personnel in 59 sessions on topics related to basic
drug intelligence analysis. NDIC trained approximately 1,445 DEA
professionals in 22 sessions and 382 HIDTA professionals in 14 sessions.
In addition, NDIC conducted four iterations of the Multiagency Course,
an intensive 1-week, video tele-training, entry-level drug intelligence
analysis course, taught by instructors from NDIC and other federal
agencies and attended by more than 220 professionals.
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