The Office of National Security Intelligence of the
United States
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Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit Illegal drug trade, drug trafficking a ...
(DEA), established in 1973, helps initiate new investigations of major drug organizations, strengthens ongoing ones and subsequent prosecutions, develops information that leads to seizures and arrests, and provides policy makers with
illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drug prohibition, prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibitionism, prohibit trade, exce ...
trend information upon which programmatic decisions can be based.
Additionally, the intelligence program has been one of the
federal organizations that make up the
United States Intelligence Community
The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a group of separate US federal government, U.S. federal government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations that work to conduct Intelligence assessment, intelligence activities which ...
since 2006.
It employs over 680 intelligence analysts (I/As) and is led by the
DEA
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domes ...
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence.
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Functions
The specific functions of the DEA's intelligence mission are:
*Collect and produce intelligence in support of the DEA Administrator and other federal, state, and local agencies;
*Establish and maintain close working relationships with all agencies that produce or use narcotics intelligence;
*Increase the efficiency in the reporting, analysis, storage, retrieval, and exchange of such information; and, undertake a continuing review of the narcotics intelligence effort to identify and correct deficiencies.[
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See also
* El Paso Intelligence Center
The El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) was established in 1974 in response to a study by the Justice Management Division of the U.S. Department of Justice entitled, "A Secure Border."
History
Recommendation number 7 of this study suggeste ...
* Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) is a federal drug enforcement program in the United States, overseen by the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, dis ...
* War on drugs
References
Drug Enforcement Administration
United States intelligence agencies
Intelligence analysis agencies
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