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The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was a predecessor agency of the Drug Enforcement Administration . It was formed as a subsidiary of the United States Department Of Justice in 1968 , combining the Bureau Of Narcotics (under the United States Department Of The Treasury ) and Bureau Of Drug Abuse Control (under the United States Department Of Health, Education, And Welfare 's Food And Drug Administration ) into one agency. 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) The Narcotics Business:John Ingersoll's Version . In January 1971 the CIA director, Richard Helms , implemented a program of "covert recruitment and security clearance support to BNDD," on requests of the BNDD's director, Robert Ingersoll . The latter suspected largely spread-out Corruption among its agents, and requested in December 1970 the CIA's assistance in rooting-it out Family Jewels CIA declassified documents, p.29, 62, etc. . In 1973 , it was merged into the newly-formed Drug Enforcement Administration . FOOTNOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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