DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS Yu, APG/1 D3/0/5/995/pt.5 DONALD E. RICHBOURG, J. DAVID WILLSON, JOHN G. PLASHAL, ROBERT V. DAVIS, David F. KILIAN, ALICIA JONES, JULIET PACQUING, TIMOTHY L. PETERSON, GREGORY J. WALTERS, MARCIA L. MATTS, PATRICIA KEENAN, SARA K. MAGOULICK, and GREGORY R. DAHLBERG, Staff Assistants; STACY A. TRIMBLE and C. PAIGE SCHREINER, Administrative Aides DEPOSITORY Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations OCT 1 8 1994 Starlord University DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1995 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania, Chairman NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida DONALD E. RICHBOURG, J. DAVID WILLSON, JOHN G. PLASHAL, ROBERT V. DAVIS, David F. Testimony of Members of Congress and Other 265 81-617 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1994 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Vice Chairman NEAL SMITH, Iowa SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana NITA M. LOWEY, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas JOSÉ E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia DOUGLAS "PETE" PETERSON, Florida JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana JIM KOLBE, Arizona DEAN A. GALLO, New Jersey BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1995 THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1994. DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE WITNESS BRIAN E. SHERIDAN, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, DRUG ENFORCEMENT POLICY AND SUPPORT INTRODUCTION Mr. MURTHA. The Committee will come to order. Today the Committee welcomes Mr. Brian E. Sheridan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support to testify on the fiscal year 1995 budget request for Defense Department counterdrug programs. The amount of this year's budget request is $714.2 million, a reduction of 21.3 percent from the fiscal year 1994 request. Not included in this total is $160 million funded in the service readiness accounts to support DOD counterdrug operations. Mr. Sheridan, since this is your first appearance before the Committee your biography will be placed in the record. Please briefly summarize your statement for the Committee and we will then proceed directly to questioning. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF MR. SHERIDAN Mr. SHERIDAN. Mr. Chairman and Members of the subcommittee, I am very pleased to be here today to discuss the Department's Counterdrug Program. Mr. Chairman, although I am new to this position, on behalf of the Department, I would like to personally thank you for your long-standing support for the Department's counterdrug efforts, particularly with respect to improving counterdrug intelligence support to law enforcement. I think we have made progress in this difficult area and I hope we get a chance to talk about that today. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to talk to the committee for quite some time. For most of you here today, this is our first meeting, although I have worked already with a number of your staffs and I have had the opportunity to meet Congressman Skeen. I have looked forward to this meeting because I have believed for many months that we need to talk and to have a dialogue. There are three principal issues on my mind today. The first thing I would like to talk about, very briefly, is the drug threat to our Ña |