European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May is 19sg customs crackdown on Export of drug Cash nets $29.4 million stateside Miami a authorities have seized nearly 530 million Cash leaving the United Stales illegally in every thing from Tennis balls to television sets in ii nationwide offensive to Cut into the Export of drug profits operation Backstop has been in customs service s most effective Effort Ever against currency smuggling customs commissioner William von Raab snid monday Cash secures for a comparable period before the opera Tion rarely lopped $ 100,000, he said. Uniformed and undercover customs inspectors used specially prepared profiles to spot people or cargoes being used la Transfer Money but of the country. Mostly Podrug operations in Colombia or Panama said a customs a genl involved in operation Backstop. We looked for fictitious address Nan ski stunt firms anything unusual agent Leon Guinn said the profiles developed and used first in Miami used slippers Export declarations computer checks and other techniques that customs officials would t disclose. We re looking at goods going to he drug source coun tries or Money Haven countries Guinn said. We make More seizures from passengers and baggage and we make bigger seizures from cargo  in Miami looked by Neal a pair of 25-Inch Tele vision screens and discovered 1200.000. They found $4.2 million in two take air compressors scaled and painted Over to make them look like the real thing Guinn said. Agents even came across Lens of thousands of dollars Turtch into Tennis balls. Among those Indr cled As a result of operation Bue Klop were 10 people alleged to be members of a Money Laun Dering ring which customs officials say negotiated directly with several key colombian cocaine cartels to move drug profits out of the United Stales. Soon after Bucu Sloo began last october its potential was recognized in Washington and the program was expanded to a National level Guinn said. It was our name and our game and when it started working everyone around the country became interested in what we  Early this year customs officials came to Miami for a week Long seminar on the mechanics of Backstop and in february the National Campaign began Guinn said. By May customs agents across the United states had seized j29.4 million in currency and arrested 38 people said von Raab. This was the most successful currency interdiction operation Ever undertaken by the customs service tic said. It was so successful in fact that the buc Slop concept will now become a permanent enforcement tool to further our efforts in the War against illegal  officials estimate that $50 billion is illegally earned in the United Stales every year and of thai s5 billion to a Woholo a customs agent finds a Roll of Bills in a deodorant can Sis billion moves into International financial channels. Customs officers trying to Stem the flood of Cash from the country have been using the Federal Bank secrecy act which requires thai records be kept of All Cash transactions of 110,000 or More. Under the act violators face tip to five years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. When you look at the Overall picture it can get frustrating but i like to think that we Are having a disrupting effect on people moving nor alias funds Guinn said. Of the $29.4 million seized. Si9.4 million was slopped in Miami customs officers during thai Lime have also confiscated an additional $16.6 million either from local Money laundering operations or from Money coming into he country official said. Some of the Cash taken in since october has been placed in interest bearing accounts but much of it will rest in a customs vault until the Day it will be used a evidence in court Guinn said. Brock draws Stony silence As he asks teamsters if it s time to clean House Las vegas nov. A labor Secretary William Brock Drew cheers when he said he a addressing the teamsters convention even though its president faces racketeering charges but delegates listened in Stony silence As he asked if it in t just Plain Lime to clean House. The 2,000 delegates gave their embattled president Jackie Presser a thunderous standing ovation monday when he accused investigators in Brock s department a Senate subcommittee Ana certain elements of the Media of waging a five year Vejl Delta against him. Presser s9, called Friday s labor racketeering and embezzlement indictment against him and two other Union officials a desperate attempt to Embarrass the working men and women of our firment International  his election wednesday to another five year Terra is considered foregone despite accusations that he look part in a ghost workers payroll padding scheme to embezzle5700,000 from his Cleveland local. Brock who often Speaks off the cuff when addressing unions and congressional committees stuck to a carefully prepared text in telling the teamsters they have Tost the Public s Trust and Are perceived As bound to slay in  As Secretary of labor it in t easy to hear about mobbed up locals or pension fund abuse misuse of members blood and sweat Brock said. It s impossible for me to ignore that it s necessary for you to address it.". The delegates listened in dead silence just minutes after giving the labor Secretary a rousing ovation when he said he had Rej Ccu a advice to cancel his appearance because of inc teamsters chiefs indictment. To have accepted such advice would have implied con tempt for one fundamental principle. That every person is and must be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of Law he said. Having said that docs not make my talk any easier these arc difficult things to say but these Are difficult times for the  Brock recalled thai the Republican party of which be was chairman in the late 1970s, lost Public Trust after watergate and said the relatively few of us who were is a 5? 0 4sk mme he 1ucst 0115