The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) was a bureau within the

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(DOJ) and a predecessor agency of the modern

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(DEA).

History

It was created by § 3 of the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1968, submitted to Congress on 7 February 1968 and effective 8 April 1968. It was formed as a subsidiary of the

, combining the

Bureau of Narcotics The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930, consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board a ...

(from the

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) and

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(from the

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) into one agency. In 1973, the BNDD was merged into the newly formed

(DEA).

Activities

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). In January 1971 the

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(CIA) director,

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, approved a program of "covert recruitment and security clearance support to BNDD", on request of the BNDD director, John Ingersoll. Ingersoll suspected widespread

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among BNDD agents, and in December 1970 requested the CIA's assistance in rooting it out.

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Genealogy
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History

Activities

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