Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs organization
also: BNDD
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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
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
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
Inger Ingersoll headed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“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
Mentions (25)
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…