United States v. Kung How Fong, A/K/A Kwock Tam Kwoon

On this appeal from a conviction on two counts involving possession of heroin, appellant urges three assignments of error, none of which we find to justify reversal.

It is argued that the government here was engaged in impermissible creative activity of the type which we condemned in Greene v. United States, 454 F.2d 783 (9th Cir. 1971) and United States v. Russell, 459 F.2d 671 (9th Cir. 1972). Those cases involved government agents whose activities supplied essential elements to the crimes, chemicals necessary to drug manufacture and components with which to make bootleg whiskey.

Here, there…