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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 6767
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to
Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco
Cartel, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER13, 2023
Ms. S
PANBERGER(for herself and Mr. CRENSHAW) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
to submit to Congress an intelligence assessment on the
Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transnational 4
Fentanyl Prevention Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE 1
ASSESSMENT OF SINALOA CARTEL AND 2
JALISCO CARTEL. 3
(a) A
SSESSMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 4
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central 5
Intelligence Agency, in consultation with the heads of the 6
other elements of the intelligence community that the Di-7
rector determines appropriate, shall submit to the appro-8
priate committees of Congress an intelligence assessment 9
on the transnational criminal organizations known as the 10
Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel. 11
(b) E
LEMENTS.—The intelligence assessment under 12
subsection (a) shall include, with respect to each 13
transnational criminal organization specified in such sub-14
section, a description of the following: 15
(1) The key leaders, organizational structure, 16
subgroups, presence in the states within Mexico, and 17
cross-border illicit drug smuggling routes of the 18
transnational criminal organization. 19
(2) The practices used by the transnational 20
criminal organization to import the chemicals used 21
to make synthetic drugs, to produce such drugs, and 22
to smuggle such drugs across the border into the 23
United States. 24
(3) The main suppliers and the main brokers 25
that supply the transnational criminal organization 26
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with precursor chemicals and equipment used in the 1
production of synthetic drugs. 2
(4) The manner in which the transnational 3
criminal organization is tailoring the fentanyl prod-4
ucts of such organization to attract a wider variety 5
of United States consumers, including unwitting 6
users. 7
(5) The degree to which the transnational 8
criminal organization is using human and technical 9
operations to undermine counternarcotics efforts by 10
United States and Mexican security services. 11
(6) An estimate of the annual revenue received 12
by the transnational criminal organization from the 13
sale of illicit drugs, disaggregated by drug type. 14
(7) Any other information the Director of the 15
Central Intelligence Agency determines relevant. 16
(c) F
ORM.—The intelligence assessment under sub-17
section (a) may be submitted in classified form. 18
(d) D
EFINITION OFAPPROPRIATECOMMITTEES OF 19
C
ONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com-20
mittees of Congress’’ means— 21
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 22
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 23
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 24
Affairs, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 25
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Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropria-1
tions of the Senate; and 2
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 3
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Com-4
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Represent-5
atives. 6
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