Photos from the Field
The Saloon, watering hole at the Ponderosa, Saigon, South Vietnam
Operation Hurricane, headquartered in a repurposed former French boarding school
MACV Team 87 Airfield, Xuan Loc, South Vietnam
MACV Team 87 compound officer’s billets, Xuan Loc, South Vietnam
Viet Cong prisoner, MACV Team 87 airfield, Xuan Loc, South Vietnam
Army LTC William Hess pinning on the Bronze Star Medal at Ft. Bragg, N. C.
Operation Bent Penny, May 1971
Defendant Sukree Sukreepirom with 25 kg. of heroin
Lutz, DEA Admin. Peter Bensinger, and Special Agent Lionel Stewart at the Attorney General’s Awards ceremony, Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1976
Heroin delivered to DEA undercover agent Enrico Verdolin at Bangkok, Thailand
Record cocaine bust in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Clandestine coca base laboratory, Chapare, Bolivia
Snowcap team at Santa Lucia, Peru, Feb. 1991
Briefing of AG Janet Reno at DEA’s 20th Anniversary celebration, 1993
Opium poppies in the mountains of Northern Thailand, part of the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos and Burma
Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton”
Standing with mushroom farmer, former 18th ARVN infantryman, Xuan Loc
TSA news conference at Orlando Airport
Armed Forces of the Philippines Outstanding Achievement Medal award ceremony at Malacanang Palace, Manila
The Complicated Legacy of Harry Anslinger, The Drug Czar