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The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (or '''FBN''') was an agency of the United States Department Of The Treasury . In June, 1930 , Harry J. Anslinger was appointed its first commissioner by Secretary Of The Treasury Andrew Mellon under President Herbert Hoover . Under Anslinger, the bureau lobbied for harsh penalties for drug usage. The FBN is credited for criminalizing drugs such as 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. Anslinger retired in 1962 and was succeeded by Henry Giordano , who was the commissioner of the FBN until it was merged with the Bureau Of Drug Abuse Control to form the Bureau Of Narcotics And Dangerous Drugs in 1968 . |
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