Word: deas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, the drug war has been conducted almost exclusively by the DEA...
Pursuing a "buy-bust" strategy against individual dealers, agents have proved adept at going under cover and making arrests. But the DEA has not had enough accountants and skilled investigators to unravel the major international drug rings. Today there are four times more heroin addicts in the U.S. than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...
...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
Says Mullen: "If we can marry the DEA's street savvy with the FBI's talents and its 1,100 accountants-and bring in the Internal Revenue Service as well-then...
...long as their cash flow remains relatively unimpeded-the DEA seized only $3 million last year-big-time drug dealers will not worry much about being arrested. They can easily post million-dollar bails and walk away never to be seen again (TIME, July 6). The forfeited bail is considered a normal business expense...