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The strength of the wolf : the secret history of America's war on drugs
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The strength of the wolf : the secret history of America's war on drugs

Author: Douglas Valentine
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN was populated by some of the most amazing characters in American history, many of whom the author interviewed for this book. Working as undercover agents and with mercenary informers around  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1859845681 9781859845684 1844675645 9781844675647
OCLC Number: 53932625
Description: xvii, 554 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Cast of main characters --
Introduction --
1. The birth of a bureau --
2. The commissioner and his clique --
3. Anslinger's angst --
4. Inside the FBN --
5. God's work --
6. Creating a crime --
7. Continental capers --
8. The Beirut office --
9. The secret policeman --
10. True detectives --
11. St. Michael's sergeant at arms --
12. Gangbusters --
13. Anglophiles and Francophobes --
14. A shoofly in the ointment --
15. The magic button --
16. Making the mafia --
17. Aggravating Edgar : Bobby Kennedy and the FBN --
18. The French connection --
19. Valachi --
20. The FBN and the assassination of JFK --
21. No innocents abroad --
22. The eve of destruction --
23. The new French connection --
24. The new barbarians --
25. The law of the jungle --
26. Golden Triangle enterprises --
27. My only friend --
28. Andy's gang --
Epilogue --
appendix --
[Pages from the FBN International List book] --
Notes --
Index.
Responsibility: Douglas Valentine.
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Abstract:

"The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN was populated by some of the most amazing characters in American history, many of whom the author interviewed for this book. Working as undercover agents and with mercenary informers around the globe, these freewheeling "case-making" agents penetrated the Mafia and the French connection, breaking all the rules in the process, and uncovering the Establishment's ties to organized crime. Targeted by the FBI and the CIA, the case-makers were, ironically, victims of their own fabulous success in hunting down society's predators. An incredible, never-before-told story, The Strength of the Wolf provides a new, exciting, and revealing chapter in American history."--Jacket.

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