Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs

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The Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs directly preceded the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs directly preceded the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was a predecessor agency of the Drug Enforcement Administration. It was formed as a subsidiary of the United States Department of Justice in 1968, combining the Bureau of Narcotics (under the United States Department of the Treasury) and Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (under the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Food and Drug Administration) into one agency.

In 1971 the BNDD was composed of 1,500 agents and had a budget of some $43 million (which was more than fourteen times the size of the budget of the former Bureau of Narcotics) [1].

In January 1971 the CIA director, Richard Helms, implemented a program of "covert recruitment and security clearance support to BNDD," on requests of the BNDD's director, Robert Ingersoll. The latter suspected largely spread-out corruption among its agents, and requested in December 1970 the CIA's assistance in rooting-it out [2].

In 1973, it was merged into the newly-formed Drug Enforcement Administration. == Footnotes ==

  1. ^ The Narcotics Business:John Ingersoll's Version
  2. ^ Family jewels CIA declassified documents, p.29, 62, etc.

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