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Drug Control: DOD Operated Aerostat Ship Although Conferees Denied Funds

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 10, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-93-213
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Summary:

Beginning in the late 1980s, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Coast Guard began operating a small fleet of leased commercial vessels with tethered blimps, called aerostats, to detect and monitor boats and airplanes suspected of drug smuggling. This report discusses (1) the Pentagon's efforts to combine Army and Coast Guard missions in the Caribbean and (2) the Defense Department's use of funds in fiscal year 1992 for the operation and maintenance of sea-based aerostat ships for purposes not authorized by Congress.

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