Federal Bureau of Narcotics

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For the Australian bureau, see Australian Federal Police.
Not to be confused with Central Bureau of Narcotics or Central Narcotics Bureau.
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Agency overview
FormedJune 14, 1930; 93 years ago (1930-06-14)
Dissolved1968
JurisdictionU.S. Government
Parent agencyDepartment of the Treasury

The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was an agency of the

Miller Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act of 1922.[1]

History

undercover busts locally. The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US foreign policy considerations: during the Vietnam War
for instance great importance was placed on investigating minor Vietnamese smugglers that could be connected to the resistance while investigations of large scale smugglers from the US ally Thailand were left unfinished.

DEA

Anslinger retired in 1962 and was succeeded by Henry Giordano, who was the commissioner of the FBN until it was merged in 1968 with the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, an agency of the Food and Drug Administration, to form the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, an agency of the United States Department of Justice. The BNDD was a predecessor agency of the current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).[3]

Legal disputes

In Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was sued for violating the 4th Amendment rights of Bivens, through the illegal search and seizure of drugs without a warrant.[4]

See also

  • Sherman v. United States: A U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Bureau.
  • List of United States federal law enforcement agencies

Notes

  1. ^ "Records of the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]". 15 August 2016.
  2. ISBN 9780405135675
    – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Marijuana Timeline | Busted - America's War On Marijuana | FRONTLINE | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. ^ "Webster BIVENS, Petitioner, v. SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS. | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute". Law.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
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