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If J. Edgar Hoover suffered a blind spot when it came to the influence of organized crime, one federal law enforcer did all he could to stem its growth and power. In 1930 Harry J. Anslinger was appointed commissioner of the Department of Treasury's Bureau'of Narcotics. Dissatisfied with his opportunities for advancement in the Department of State, where he had been employed for eight years in consular offices in Europe and South America, Anslinger had requested transfer to the Department of Treasury, where he was assigned to the division of foreign control as a prohibition enforcement agent.
Harry Anslinger's strengths lay in his willingness to experiment with new methods of investigation and to adjust his operations to accommodate better ongoing developments in one of the bureau's lesser-known areas of interest, the international narcotics trade-. He was interested in results...
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