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=== Billie Holiday === | === Billie Holiday === | ||
[[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Billie Holiday singing in 1947]] | [[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Billie Holiday singing in 1947]] | ||
FBN Special Agent [[George Hunter White]] arrested jazz singer [[Billie Holiday]] at the Mark Twin Hotel in | FBN Special Agent [[George Hunter White]] arrested jazz singer [[Billie Holiday]] at the Mark Twin Hotel in San Francisco.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Hari |first=Johann |date=17 January 2015 |title=The Hunting of Billie Holiday: How Lady Day was in the middle of a Federal Bureau of Narcotics fight for survival |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/drug-war-the-hunting-of-billie-holiday-114298/ |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> At a conference of the DEA in 2014, historian John C. McWilliams presented the evidence that White consumed most of the narcotics he was pursuing. <ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> He was most likely high when he arrested Holiday for possession. <ref name=":10" /> | ||
Years later, in 1959, Holiday died in police custody, handcuffed to a hospital bed and surrounded by FBN agents.<ref name=":10" /> The agents did not allow her to see family or friends, and denied her doctors from administering methodone.<ref name=":10" /> | Years later, in 1959, Holiday died in police custody, handcuffed to a hospital bed and surrounded by FBN agents.<ref name=":10" /> The agents did not allow her to see family or friends, and denied her doctors from administering methodone.<ref name=":10" /> | ||
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=== Vietnam War === | === Vietnam War === | ||
The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US [[foreign policy]] considerations: during the | The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US [[foreign policy]] considerations: during the Vietnam War 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.<ref name=":12">{{Citation |title=A Century of American Narcotic Policy |date=1992 |work=Treating Drug Problems: Volume 2: Commissioned Papers on Historical, Institutional, and Economic Contexts of Drug Treatment |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234755/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |publisher=National Academies Press (US) |language=en |last1=Gerstein |first1=Dean R. |last2=Harwood |first2=Henrick J.}}</ref> | ||
=== Dissolution === | === Dissolution === | ||