Dope from Red China

In his Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has headed ever since. Last week Commissioner Anslinger, 62, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who knows more about the worldwide drug traffic than any other man on earth. reported to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a growing narcotic menace: Communist China's $60 million-a-year dope trade, deliberately and officially pursued to earn foreign exchange, "finance political activities, and spread addiction among free peoples."

Anslinger said that in five years Red China's opium production has tripled from 2,000 tons annually to 6,000--ten times world medicinal needs (for morphine, codeine, paregoric, etc.).

Unlike the Chinese Nationalists, who executed as many as 1,000 dope dealers annually in their highly successful efforts to reduce dope addiction, the Communists, while forbidding drugs to party members, organized the National Trading Co. to distribute narcotics under Foreign Ministry supervision.

Commissioner Anslinger documented his report with details supplied by the bureau network of undercover agents abroad. He named Red China's new dope factories and brands (Camel, Race Horse, Red Lion, etc.). He outlined the smuggling system, from camelback to air transport.

Despite the new flow of drugs from Red China, U.S. narcotic addiction has declined, and the rate is now down to one person in 3,000 (some 60,000 addicts) compared to one in 400 (300,000 addicts) in 1930. In Asia, however, Communist China's lucrative narcotic trade has vastly increased drug addiction. Japan, which had no recorded drug addicts until recent years, now has 25,000 or 30,000 entirely supplied by dope from Red China.

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