Bureau of Narcotics organization
also: Bureau, FBN, precursor to modern-day DEA
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Claims (22)
FBI spied_on
Bureau of Narcotics documented
document
“the FBI was ordered to conduct a discrete 'run-down' on the head of the Criminal Division in 1965 and four persons in Treasury and the Narcotics Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.488
Bureau of Narcotics worked_for
CIA documented
document
“The final phase of LSD testing involved surreptitious administration to unwitting nonvolunteer subjects in normal life settings by undercover officers of the Bureau of Narcotics acting for the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.399
Bureau of Narcotics subsidiary_of
Department of the Treasury documented
document
“the Criminal Division had the Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department wire the witness…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.172
Harry Anslinger headed
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“That explains the economic foundation of the war on drugs and the reasons behind the regulation of medical, pharmaceutical, and drug manufacturing industries. Suffice it to say that by 1943, the nations of the quote-unquote free world were …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 5:20
William J. Donovan recruited
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work undercover in hostile nations. The relationshi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 7:16
Robert DeFau member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“explained, quote, narcotic agents melt covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotic trade. The big difference is that we were in foreign countries legally and through our police and intelligence sources, we could check out just abo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 10:45
John Evans member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“If you're successful because you lie, cheat, and steal, those things will become tools to use in your own bureaucracies, unquote, which goes to explain a lot about why our institutions are corrupted. Institutionalized corruption began at he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 12:09
John Enright headed
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“If you're successful because you lie, cheat, and steal, those things will become tools to use in your own bureaucracies, unquote, which goes to explain a lot about why our institutions are corrupted. Institutionalized corruption began at he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 12:09
Andrew Tartalino headed
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“They tampered with heroin, transferred it to informants for sale, and even murdered other agents who threatened to expose them. Which is exactly what we found in Gary Webb's book with those cops that were skimming the drugs and the money of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 16:19
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
James Ludlam member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“formed a committee on narcotics called the Heroin Committee to coordinate drug policies. The Heroin Committee was composed of cabinet members represented by their deputies. James Ludlam represented CIA Director Richard Helms, a member of th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 17:53
Harry Anslinger headed
Bureau of Narcotics host_asserted
“And the leading Black musicians, to include Billie Holiday, Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, all became heroin addicts. Some would die from overdoses. And Harry Angslinger, who comes up often in this scenario, he was the Bureau of Narcotics di…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 35:50
Henry M. Habig founded
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“who established the first overseas operation in Rome in 1951 of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Manfredi established close ties with Monsieur Giovanni Battista Montini, then the Vatican Undersecretary of State, and later Pope Paul V. Throu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:10:36
Harry Anslinger headed
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“who was the original Federal Bureau of Narcotics guy. And I mean, he was as corrupt as the rest of them. We've read about him a long time ago. Narcotic drugs are a strategic resource. And when Engslinger learned that Peru had built a cocain…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 16:06
Andrew Tartalino exposed
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“basically were going to be whistleblowers. All of this was secretly known at the highest levels. In 1965, at the Treasury Department, they launched a corruption investigation into the FBN headed by Andrew Targalino. The investigation ended …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 25:24
Charles Saragusa member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“I'm trying to get up to where we're at in the story. And then it says, of course, we had the CIA decided to test LSD and the FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses. So they're literally in bed with each other. Relationship was fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 17:22
John Evans member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“In 1966, Agent John Evans was assigned as an assistant to Enforcement Chief John Enright. And that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing. I saw a report on the KMT saying that they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 21:08
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
Bureau of Narcotics laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“So wait, Montini goes on to be the Pope. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics arranged to divert the flow of cash at first through the Merrill Lynch brokerage house before it finally ended up at the Vatican Bank. The transactions were supervised…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:11:07
Charles Saragusa member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the experiments were being conducted. The relati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 7:47
Garland Williams member_of
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“Presumably, Colonel Garland Williams, who performed many intelligence functions through his work at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics with all kinds of Texas oil people in the background of all of these moves. What is instructive is that is t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 4:55
Harry Anslinger headed
Bureau of Narcotics documented
“Throughout the 1950s, reverse propaganda concealed the KMT's active role in smuggling drugs into the United States. The principal source was Harry Engslinger, who was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who charged repeatedly and f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 36:57
Mentions (30)
▶ 35:50
And the leading Black musicians, to include Billie Holiday, Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, all became heroin addicts. Some would die from overdoses. And Harry Angslinger, who comes up often in this scenario, he was the Bureau of Narcotics di…
▶ 1:19:12
Of course. Oh, my God. Maybe we should do a whole show on Covington and Burling. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I could do it without getting sick. Without getting sick. OK. All right. Tough one. So as his job working as a spec…
▶ 5:20
That explains the economic foundation of the war on drugs and the reasons behind the regulation of medical, pharmaceutical, and drug manufacturing industries. Suffice it to say that by 1943, the nations of the quote-unquote free world were …
▶ 6:48
despite receiving intelligence reports that French authorities were permitting opiate smuggling into and out of China and collaborating with Japanese drug traffickers. Federal law enforcement's relationship with espionage establishment matu…
▶ 7:16
that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work undercover in hostile nations. The relationshi…
▶ 7:47
The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the experiments were being conducted. The relati…
▶ 8:17
and began to develop the FBN's foreign operations, because that's the hotbed of Operation Gladio and the stay-behinds at the same time. In the 1950s, FBN agents posted overseas spent half of their time doing quote-unquote favors or missions…
▶ 8:47
A handful of FBN agents were actually recruited into the CIA while maintaining their FBN credentials. Kind of that merging of the two because CIA embeds themselves in FBN and FBN embeds themselves in the CIA. Officially, FBN agents set limi…
▶ 9:17
into the United States as a way, what the CIA told him he was going to be doing, is we're going to traffic drugs into the U.S., but under the guise of finding their networks, which isn't what they were doing at all. Saragusa also said the F…
▶ 10:14
Saragusa again claimed to have refused. There's some dispute of whether he refused or not. But drug traffickers, including most prominently Santo Traficano Jr., were soon participating in CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. As the dom…
▶ 10:45
explained, quote, narcotic agents melt covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotic trade. The big difference is that we were in foreign countries legally and through our police and intelligence sources, we could check out just abo…
▶ 11:10
jumping into the FBN for the CIA deniability because they can always blame it on them, not the CIA, which in turn also offered them impunity because the DEA or the FBN was there legally. To ensure the CIA's criminal activities were not reve…
▶ 11:41
based on a need to know. This institutionalized ignorance sustained the illusion of righteousness in the name of national security. As FBN agent Martin Pira explained, quote, most FBN agents were corrupted by the lure of the underworld. The…
▶ 12:09
If you're successful because you lie, cheat, and steal, those things will become tools to use in your own bureaucracies, unquote, which goes to explain a lot about why our institutions are corrupted. Institutionalized corruption began at he…
▶ 12:39
Enforcement officer John Enright, quote, and that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing, Evans said. Quote, I saw a report on the KMT saying they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that the CIA was underwriting them. Air Am…
▶ 13:10
Forget about it, unquote. So, interesting. Communications that the CIA knew all along, KMT was the, and by KMT, I mean Chiang Kai-shek, the biggest drug dealer in the world. Other things came to my attention, Evans said. That proved that th…
▶ 13:43
and because CIA people were smuggling drugs into the U.S. We weren't allowed to tell, and that fostered corruption within the FBN. Heroin smuggled by CIA people into the United States was channeled by mafia distributors primarily into the B…
▶ 16:19
They tampered with heroin, transferred it to informants for sale, and even murdered other agents who threatened to expose them. Which is exactly what we found in Gary Webb's book with those cops that were skimming the drugs and the money of…
▶ 16:53
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…
▶ 17:53
formed a committee on narcotics called the Heroin Committee to coordinate drug policies. The Heroin Committee was composed of cabinet members represented by their deputies. James Ludlam represented CIA Director Richard Helms, a member of th…
▶ 21:12
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…
▶ 22:42
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 …
▶ 23:11
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…
▶ 15:49
In the early 1970s, allegations surfaced concerning heroin being smuggled back to the U.S. and body bags of corpse of U.S. servicemen. Michael Levin, a former DEA agent stationed in Southeast Asia, claims he was warned by his superiors not …
▶ 36:57
Throughout the 1950s, reverse propaganda concealed the KMT's active role in smuggling drugs into the United States. The principal source was Harry Engslinger, who was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who charged repeatedly and f…
▶ 50:42
Colonel Williams from an Army unit to be part of a campaign. Almost certainly, this was Colonel Garland Williams, the creator of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps. After the war, Williams continued his intelligence career at the Feder…
▶ 51:05
as one of the small group of FBN officials who used their knowledge of the drug world to create mobsters, to recruit mobsters for intelligence purposes. A key example was Williams' former subordinate, George White, who, with the aid of Meye…
▶ 4:55
Presumably, Colonel Garland Williams, who performed many intelligence functions through his work at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics with all kinds of Texas oil people in the background of all of these moves. What is instructive is that is t…
▶ 47:02
was Miles Ambrose, the U.S. Customs Commissioner. It's very convenient when you know the Customs Commissioner if you are illegally bringing shit in the country. And he was also in charge of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, which of course is t…
▶ 1:06:13
The Bureau of Narcotics is closing and being replaced by the new Virginal DEA, which is re-virginated right from the start with the Dirty Dozen from the Phoenix program. So that tells you how Chase, the new DEA, which is supposed to purify …