Saturday, July 1, 2023

Sunday, July 1, 1973. Birth of the DEA, Sealing Indochina's fate.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created to enforce the Controlled Substances Act, which had come into existance in 1971.  The new entity was a merger of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement.



President Nixon signed the Case–Church Amendment, which prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia without prior Congressional approval.

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