Memorandum for:
Managers
Prairie Region Investigations
Winnipeg and Calgary Investigations

April 30, 1996

Subject: Use of U.S. Source Documents

As a follow-up to recent telephone conversations and the re-establishment of Operation Wheatbar, with U.S. Customs, I would like to reaffirm that we should not be using U.S. source document sin any of our civil proceedings.

It is our understanding that we will only use the documents when we proceed criminally.  Once the matter has been resolved and the documents are a matter of public record the use thereof, in civil proceedings, can be justified.

Please ensure that we observe these procedures as we do not wish to jeopardize our current document exchange program.

I trust this to be satisfactory, however, should there be any question or comment please feel free to contact me at (613) 954-7625 or John Pinches (613) 954-7633.

Steve Sloan
Chief
Investigations Section
Enforcement Operations Division
Enforcement Directorate
Customs Border Services Branch

cc: Richard Mercier
US Customs Attaché