W 8, Narcotic form,
Lexington, Kentucky.

January 15, 1936.
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL =

Assistant Surgeon General ¥, L, Treadway,
United States Public Health Service,
Washington, BD. C, |

Sir:

Referring to your personal and confidential letter of January 13, 1936,
enclosing a copy of a personal end confidential letter from Mr. EH. J. An=
plinger, Commissioner of Narcotics in BYashington, concerning the smucgl ing
of eontrabend inte this institution, you are advised es follows:

The possible smuggling of contrabend hase been’ kept in mind here from |
the beginning end Mr. Junior our Chief Supervising Guardian was instructed
when the place first opened to keep hie eyes open both as to patients and
to employees. He hes done this and har, on my suggestion, worked in close
eooperation with the narcotic agents in Lexington, giving thes clues and
conaulting with them concerning means to apprehend possible smugglers.

Some time last September a Mre, Harris, the wife of a patient here, was
suspected of heaving visited the institution end on her way out to have given
to one of our truck drivers, a patient, some narcotics. The truth of this
was not confirmed but the narcotic agente were notified and they had Mrs.
Harris under surveillance from that time on. ‘She hes not visited the sta-
tion since September but she was recently arrested in Lexington as a sus~
pect and my information is that nothing was found against her.

Rigeby plead guilty yesterday to a narcotic charge but it did not |
involve this hospitel. Yor your special and confidential information the
narcotic agents listened in by meane of e tepped wire to all telephone con-
vereations to Mr. Rigsby at hie house for a period of three weeks and not
onee during this time was anything mentioned concerning nertotits for this
places .

Ye have had under cbservation several of our guard foree but nothing
has cone of it as yet. Our suspicions or observations now center upon
one man, an Attendant. The nartctic agents and police are also watching
him in Lexington. We are not saying anything to him here sc as to avoid
putting him bn his guard, This action is taken with the hope thet if he
is guilty he will more readily expese himself to detection either by us
or by the narcotic agente and the police of Lexington.
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I ean say very positively that very little if eny nareoties are
veing snuggled into this inetitution, This is also the opinion of the
nercotiec agents in Lexington, Our Chief Supervising Guardien hed ea
conversation with the District Agent yesterday and was told by him
thet he gravely doubted whether anytiing was coming ine Several months
ago I wae personally told by thie eupervisor, Mr. Cunninghas, that all
the reports he could get wes thet this was one of the tightest places
for such activities in the country. It is, of course, possible that a
anall amount of narcotics have come in here and it is almost inevitable
that sooner or later some will come in. It should be remembered in this
connection that we are working a large number of inmates on the outside
and one of theses may eventually arrange through the medium of a dis-
charged inmate to heve narcotics passed over the fence at some desig~
nated place. Ye believe, however, that this has not yet been done.

there has been eome cannabis indica (marihuanea) collected on the
Farm and breught into the institution. We have been vigilent about this,
knowing that the plant crowe here, end have discovered about four viclat-
OYee

I will immediately notify you if anything comes of our investigation
of the Attendant suspect.

Hespectfully,

Lawrence Kolb,
Medical Uireetor,
Medieal Officer in Charge.
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