Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs organization
also: BN, BNDD, BNDD slash DEA, BNDU, Bunsen, Bureau of Narcotics and Dan gerous Drugs, Bureau of Narcotics Covert Intelligence, DEA, ENDD, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs Office, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, tiNUD, UNDO
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Claims (31)
The Security Project trained
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs documented
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“An operation to recruit process and train undercover internal security agents for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.219
CIA did_business_with
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“For instance the project involving the surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting non-volunteer human subjects was conducted in coordination with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.415
CIA did_business_with
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“The CIA made extensive use of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dan gerous Drugs in conducting its program of drug testing on unwitting SilbjeCts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.74
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs did_business_with
NSA documented
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“NSA's program of monitoring telephonic communications between New York City and a city in South America for example was undertaken at the specific request of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs a law enforcement agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.177
John E. Ingersoll headed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs documented
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“memo from John E Ingersoll Director Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.3
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs did_business_with
NSA documented
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“In addition there are established procedures for non-Board members the Secret Service and the BNDD at the time in question to ask the NSA for information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.14
NSA provided_bridge_financing_for
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“The collection was conducted at the specific request of the BNDD to produce intelligence information on the methods and locations of foreign narcotics trafficking…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.18
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs worked_for
United States Intelligence Board documented
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“In addition there are established procedures for non-Board members (the Secret Service and the BNDD at the time) to task the National Security Agency for information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.24
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs supplied_arms_to
NSA documented
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“The BNDD in 1970 asked the National Security Agency to provide communications intelligence relevant to these foreign aspects and BNDD provided watch lists with some U.S names…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.24
NSA supplied_arms_to
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“NSA provided to CIA names of individuals from the international narcotics trafficking watch list…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.27
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs met_with
Dr. Fordella documented
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“I wish to convey my most sincere appreciation for the hospitality and cooperation which was extended to my representative who recently met with Dr. Fordella and other NSA personnel on this subject.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.155
NSA did_business_with
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“The Bureau assists and cooperates with State and local law enforcement agencies legislators and prosecutors in the free exchange of information and mutual assistance aimed at the effective control of narcotics and dangerous drugs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.157
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs worked_for
United States documented
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“In 1970 NSA began to monitor telephone communications links between the United States and South America at the request of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.205
Lucian Koenig member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“under the guise of anti-narcotics, to be surveilling everybody in the United States. Hunt found a niche for his friend. Koenig was assigned to the BNDD as a strategic intelligence officer and came to control overseas narcotics intelligence,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 17:17
Fred Dick member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at whic…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 19:45
Drug Enforcement Administration merged_with
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 35:02
Bureau of Narcotics succeeded
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Andrew Tartalino, the investigation ended in 1968 with the resignation of 32 agents and the indictment of five. That same year, the FBN was reconstructed in the Department of Justice and became the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 16:53
Drug Enforcement Administration absorbed
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“Inside the new DEA was the intelligence function for the customs that had formerly been outside of the BNDD, the former organization before the DEA was created, but it was folded into the newly formed DEA. Suddenly, the White House had step…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:15
Inger Ingersoll headed
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“Ingersoll's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation of dozens of corrupt FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD. But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 23:11
Patrick Fuller headed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“19 CIA officers infiltrated into the BNDD, ostensibly to spy on corrupt BNDD officials. According to BNDD's chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 23:41
Charles Guttensol member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“case officer primarily selected officers whose career had been stalled due to gradual reduction in forces in Southeast Asia. Those hired were put through the BNDD's training course and assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 24:11
William Colby informed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted
“The rest of this kind of just goes on and tells us all of the stuff that we already know. But it goes on and talks about like in 72, Helms told BNDD director Inglesol that the CIA had prepared files on supposed drug traffickers and that the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 34:05
CIA impeded
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted
“the complicity in the heroin trafficking, and filed a report at the U.S. Embassy. The embassy ignored the report and chose not to forward it to the Washington, D.C. State Department. The BNDD, which is the DEA, also investigated the roots o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 38:27
Charles Grutenson member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Those hired were put through the BNDD training course, assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No records were kept. Some participants never identified. Charles Grutenson was a typical two-fold torpedo. Prior to his recruitment in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 31:36
Tom Tripati member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Seaport and Airport, 100% owned by the CIA. Organizing the SIO fell to CIA officers Adrian Swain and Tom Tripati, both of whom were recruited from the CIA into the BNDD. In April of 71, they accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Shackley…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 34:23
Ralph Friars member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted
“and had a narcotics mission, and the other provided cover for the plumbers. Orders for the domestic political facet emanated from the White House and passed through Koenig to plumber Gordon Liddy and his Operation Gemstone squad of exiled C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 52:52
Adrian Swain member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Seaport and Airport, 100% owned by the CIA. Organizing the SIO fell to CIA officers Adrian Swain and Tom Tripati, both of whom were recruited from the CIA into the BNDD. In April of 71, they accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Shackley…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 34:23
Bureau of Narcotics merged_with
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“They reorganized into the BNDD. Nixon was elected president based on a vow to reestablish law and order. He launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This was a stop and search operation so badly damaged relations with Mexico t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 25:52
CIA infiltrated
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Ted Shackley appeared to explain that it was a delicate balance. What he said in effect was that no one was willing to do anything. Meanwhile, to protect the network, the CIA began infiltrating the BNDD too, taking over its internal securit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 27:49
CIA infiltrated
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“But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneously investigating drug traffickers. He asked CIA Director Helms for help building a counterintelligence capability. Bad, bad, bad. The result was Operation Twofold, in wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 30:36
Jerry Strickler member_of
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“a CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating inside the United States led to the assignment of CIA officers as counterparts …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 22:13
Mentions (30)
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allow drug investigations to go a certain extent and then they are turned off because anything further than that would jeopardize the CIA's total control over the drug network. And the only bust the DEA is allowed to make are the ones this …
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We have illustrated in many of our book reviews early on that the old, oh, what was it called? BNDD, the something, I can't remember the precursor to the DEA. But those people that were involved in the precursor were part of the CIA drug tr…
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Andrew Tartalino, the investigation ended in 1968 with the resignation of 32 agents and the indictment of five. That same year, the FBN was reconstructed in the Department of Justice and became the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, t…
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What he said, in effect, was that no one was willing to do anything. Meanwhile, to protect the global network of drug trafficking, the CIA began infiltrating the BNDD and commandeering its internal security, intelligence, and foreign operat…
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It was during this time during the Nixon administration where they were coordinating the elimination of the Corsican mafia so that they could switch it down to the Sicilian mafia so the CIA could broaden their control. FBN never had more th…
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BNDD agents immediately felt the impact of the CIA's involvement in drug law enforcement operations within the United States. Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 1970, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin…
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a CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating inside the United States led to the assignment of CIA officers as counterparts …
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from exposure. Many Cuban exiles arrested in Operation Eagle were indeed hired by the BNDD and sent throughout Latin America. They got fantastic intelligence, but many were secretly working for the CIA, feeding the BNDD what the CIA wanted …
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Ingersoll's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation of dozens of corrupt FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD. But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneou…
▶ 23:41
19 CIA officers infiltrated into the BNDD, ostensibly to spy on corrupt BNDD officials. According to BNDD's chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to …
▶ 24:11
case officer primarily selected officers whose career had been stalled due to gradual reduction in forces in Southeast Asia. Those hired were put through the BNDD's training course and assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No re…
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Guttensold had spent two years at the CIA base in Laos, which had been a major heroin transit point. Fuller said that when we communicated, I was to be known as Leo Adams for Los Angeles, Guttensold said. He was to be Walter DeCarlo for Was…
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About a month after I arrived, one of the agents said to me, I hear that Pat Fuller signed your credentials. Twofold, which existed at least until 1974, was deemed by the Rockefeller Commission, and that's another joke, to have violated the…
▶ 25:41
The Nixon White House blamed the BNDD's failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capability, a situation that opened the door for even more CIA infiltration. That's so convenient. In late 1970, CIA D…
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E. Drexel Godfrey to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that the BNDD create regional intelligence units and an office of strategic intelligence. The regional offices were to be up and running wit…
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intelligence units with suspicion. The major strategic intelligence office that they all reported to was harder to implement. Given its arcane function as a tool to help managers formulate plans and strategies, the chief director, John Warn…
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We needed to know what kind of protection the Thai police were affording the traffickers. Well, we could have told them they were being paid by the CIA, $35 million. Organizing the Strategic Intelligence Office then eventually falls to CIA …
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They accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Station Chief Ted Shackley briefed them. Through his CIA contacts, Swain obtained maps of drug smuggling maps in Southeast Asia. Upon their return to the U.S., Swain and Tripati expressed frustrat…
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Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
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Kissinger presented a $120 million drug control proposal, of which $50 million was earmarked for this special operations. Three weeks later, Nixon declared his war on drugs, at which point Congress responded with funding of the Strategic In…
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foreign nationals to blow up contraband planes while they were refueling at clandestine airstrips. Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. The creation of the Strategic Intelligence Off…
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on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant on the Far East Asian desk of the BNDD's Strategic Intelligence Office. So he's the fox in the henhouse again. He is also the guy that gave the information to Nixon for …
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post-World War II in Germany. They also worked together in the Cuban exile community in Miami during the Bay of Pigs. Later, it was said that Bolton screwed us, according to the BNDD's Latin American division chief, and so did Shackley. Wel…
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The rest of this kind of just goes on and tells us all of the stuff that we already know. But it goes on and talks about like in 72, Helms told BNDD director Inglesol that the CIA had prepared files on supposed drug traffickers and that the…
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But he wound up in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. He wound up in BNDD. Of course, later it became the DEA. But by then he retired. He passed away in 2008 at 85. So I'm looking at this dude and I'm saying, now, wait a minute he…
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It was a split within the DEA's own ranks, a split rooted in the effective control of Narcotics Intelligence Division, which had been infiltrated by the CIA. Since the DEA's emergence, many of its agents have resigned in disgust over the CI…
▶ 53:59
In 1972, two bugging specialists from the BNDD, the precursor to the DEA, flew from Los Angeles to New Jersey to sweep Vesco's home, an office of surveillance devices. According to the subcommittee, the sweeping tour had been arranged by a …
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And of course, I think lastly, you mentioned that right before the DAA replaces, you know, the BNDD. It's interesting. You mentioned a raid there in 73. If I'm not mistaken, that's the year that the DAA formally replaced the BNDD. So it's v…
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Because it was so effective in what they were doing on a shoestring budget, they were having to actually arrest people they didn't want arrested because of the work Syntac was doing. And they said, we have to get rid of this Syntac thing be…
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Inside the new DEA was the intelligence function for the customs that had formerly been outside of the BNDD, the former organization before the DEA was created, but it was folded into the newly formed DEA. Suddenly, the White House had step…