Events Tagged: "FBN"

Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) established - consolidating previous bodies under Commissioner Harry Anslinger

George Hunter White joins FBN - begins dual career that would epitomize intelligence-crime cooperation

White infiltrates Chinese gang Hip Sing Tong drug organization, establishing pattern of FBN-organized crime cooperation (1936-1938)

White works simultaneously for OSS during WWII while maintaining FBN position (1940s)

White promoted to FBN District Supervisor of San Francisco office

Over 80% of US heroin from Southern France, distributed by Corsican Brotherhood (1950s)

White selected by Commissioner Anslinger for MKULTRA work - 'disgruntled employee' with 'truth drug' experience

Federal Bureau of Narcotics posts agents in Asia; Casey co-founds National Strategy Information Center

Valentine's Key Pattern Identified: CIA needed subjects already compromised by deviant behaviors for LSD experiments - used FBN connections to organized crime

Federal Bureau of Narcotics reorganized as BNDD due to corruption - decades of intelligence-crime cooperation reach crisis