SOCIAL ENGINEERING

In July of 1973, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was created under the presidency of former President Nixon. The agency main purpose was to stop the wars on drugs in the United States and in foreign countries. For more information on the DEA, click on the below link:


Here are the 6 purposes of the DEA:
(http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/history/1970-1975.pdf)

1. Putting an end to the interagency rivalries that have undermined federal drug law enforcement, especially the rivalry between the BNDD and the U.S. Customs Service;

2. Giving the FBI its first significant role in drug enforcement by requiring that the DEA draw on the FBI’s expertise in combating organized crime’s role in the trafficking of illicit drugs;

3. Providing a focal point for coordinating federal drug enforcement efforts with those of state and local authorities, as well as with foreign police forces;

4. Placing a single Administrator in charge of federal drug law enforcement in order to make the new DEA more accountable than its component parts had ever been, thereby safeguarding against corruption and enforcement abuses;

5. Consolidating drug enforcement operations in the DEA and establishing the Narcotics Division in Justice to maximize coordination between federal investigation and prosecution efforts and eliminate rivalries within each sphere; and

6. Establishing the DEA as a superagency to provide the momentum needed to coordinate all federal efforts related to drug enforcement outside the Justice Department, especially the gathering of intelligence on international narcotics smuggling

More Information:

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/history.htm