The Nixon administration, concerned about rising Southeast Asian heroin seizures, sends a firebreak team of 30 Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Bangkok in 1973-1974 to cut the flow.

Armed with a financial war chest that includes $12 million in narcotics assistance funds, the Bangkok DEA seconds a branch of the Thai police to its service and soon begins making substantial seizures of US-bound heroin.

(Source: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade; Opium)