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NCB is a body designated by the appropriate authorities in each member country as is correspondent with the ICPO-Interpol and the other NCBs. ”...Only the member country concerned is responsible for the actions of the NCB, not the organisation.” * An Ecuadorian Interpol head is known to have provided favours to local drug traffickers. * The Peruvian Interpol Chief fom 191 to 1988 was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking. * An Interpol Chief in Panama was tied to the Medellin drug car- tel and was directly involved in drug trafficking on a massive scale. He is now held in Panama by US troops, charged with murder. * Two Mexican Interpol Chiefs have been accused of running the drug trade in their country. One of these Mexican Interpol Chiefs killed his wife, another woman and then himself; the other was recently S charged with involvement in the murder of a DEA agent. * The former ruler of Panama and the fonner ruler of 0 Pakistan, both having records of involvement in the world’s drug trade, inex- plicably received Interpol awards for international effectiveness in combating drug trafficking. While not taking responsibility for the actions of its NCBs, Interpol has shown it wants full control over all personnel assigned to its headquarters, who are expected to give up their allegiance to their individual countries for the term assigned to Interpol. plicably received Interpol awards for international effectiveness in On July 4th, 1989, 13 members of the Council of Europe issued combating drug trafficking. a motion calling for an extensive investigation of Interpol. Some extracts from this motion include: INTERPOL AND POLITICS * Interpol operates internationally with no governmental over- sight from any of its member organisationst; In 1950, the United States withdrew from Interpol after discover- * Interpol provides dossiers, on request, via computer interlink, ing that Czech officials used the Interpol network to hunt down a to police organisation in member countries around the world, group of 10 political refugees who had fled to West Germany for amongst which are kan and Libya who have shown to be involved political reasons. in international terrorism Interpol has an increasingly bQd record for involvement in acting * . Interpol organised as a private organisation by police officers, as pseudo political police. never submitted its constution for rafication by any govemment, has Under Fernando Paredes Pizarro, the Chilean Secret Police have _ located its headquarters in France where it has been granted immu- become infamous for their human rights abuses, including raids on nity from the legal process by the Government of the French the Catholic Church, and widespread torture, abductions, and jail- | Republic, thereby placing the organisation above the laws of any ings. PizarTo, not only heads the Interpol office in Chile, but has land, not being legally accountable for its actsn; also been on the Executive Committee of Interpol since 1987. * “Individuals and organisations have been unable to rectify the Interpol intervened to prevent the extradition of Klaus Barbie files on them that Interpol, while having conclusively proven they from Bolivia and the extradition of Josef Mengele from Paraguay. — were false, has sent unconolled across borders, secretly showing them to judges, leading in several cases to wrong imprisonment of . . the civilians involved; Now what we do know is that the Nazis * .Intelpol insists dat its highest priority is stopping the flow of used Interpol’s files, not to hunt down international drug trafficking, while in recent years, Interpo} offi- international criminals, but to other ends. cials hare been reported as being involved in drug trafficking in sev- . eral South American countries and possibly others.. They wanted these Interpol files of people formerly wanted or of people arrested The motion then calls for the following: once in other countries in order to use or abuse these people for polifical ends... “ a. The status of Inteol with the Council of Europe should be reviewed; b. An inventory of transgressions committed by Interpol should Simon Wiesenthal Beni . oe . . c. Effective ways to control the International Criminal Police Nazi war criminal hunter, Vienna, Austria Organisation, Interpol, in a democratic fashion should be consid- ered ... so that Interpol hereafter will be accountable for its acts; d. Strict measures should be elaborated and recommended to NO CONTROL OVER LOCAL BRANCHES ensure that ... a reusal by Interpol to reveal and rectify files on In many other incidents, too numerous to mention here, Interpol _ request by an individual or organisation is scrutinised by an inde- has clearly acted in violation of Article 3 of its own constitution, | pendent, democratically chosen committee that controls Lnterpol..” ho Fa. mant inn. 1 7 om: ae In 1950, the United States withdrew from Interpol after discover ing that Czech officials used the Interpol network to hunt down a group of 10 political refugees who had fled to West Germany for political reasons. Interpol has an increasingly bQd record for involvement in acting as pseudo political police. Under Fernando Paredes Pizarro, the Chilean Secret Police have become infamous for their human rights abuses, including raids on the Catholic Church, and widespread torture, abductions, and jail- ings. PizarTo, not only heads the Interpol office in Chile, but has also been on the Executive Committee of Interpol since 1987. Interpol intervened to prevent the extradition of Klaus Barbie from Bolivia and the extradition of Josef Mengele from Paraguay. In many other incidents, too numerous to mention here, Interpol has clearly acted in violation of Article 3 of its own constitution, which forbids its involvement in political, religious, military or racial affairs. Williarn Walsh, a Washington D.C., attorney concerned about Interpol’s frequent violations of privacy and human rights, made public a letter he wrote in February 1989 to Interpol Secretary General Raymond Kendall. Kendall’s response of January 1989 states: This perception of Interpol as a slow and bungling organisation is not new. In the November 9, 1975 issue of Parade magazine, Robert Walters wrote: “In novels of international intrigue, Intepol is an infallible, high powered, worldwide police deparnent whose agents roarn the globe in search of master criminals. But to many veteran law officers who have dealt with Interpol, it is a slow moving, archaic bureaucracy which seldom performs useful wok.” Recently, the ICPO-Interpol has been accused of intervening in cases of a religious nature, contrary to Arcle 3 of the organisation's constitution... ”The National Central Bureau (NCB) in each Interpol member country is not part of the legal entity known as ICPO-Interpol’. An Extrscted from: “INTERPOL, - Private Group, Public Men.qce”, 1990. Published by thc Church of Scientology IntemationaL Los Angeles, CA. USA NEXUS - 11 CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF INTERPOL INTERPOL AND POLITICS The motion then calls for the following: NO CONTROL OVER LOCAL BRANCHES JULY/AUGUST 1991 + YEAR BOOK