[1][2][3] In the sum total of the two years that BDAC existed, it investigated and closed around 300 criminal cases, seized 43 clandestine drug laboratories, and made over 1,300 arrests.

[7] BDAC special agents worked closely with local sheriffs and police departments all over the United States to accomplish their mission.

However, in Seattle, FDA relied heavily on assistance from other federal agencies, to include the narcotics unit in the Bureau of Customs.

[8] BDAC was empowered to pursue investigations related to what were called by President Johnson "dangerous drugs," but not what were legally defined as "narcotics.

BDAC seized thousands of dollars worth of LSD, amphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, and hashish - as well as two 25 caliber Beretta automatics and an unspecified number of knives.

These agents incidentally solved a New Hampshire missing persons case, discovering a 17 year old runaway girl living with the gang.

[15] In April 1967, the District Attorney of Nassau County initiated an investigation with New York BDAC to discover the source of LSD being sold on a university campus.

[13] In October 1967, the BDAC San Antonio Residence Office shut down a criminal network and a clandestine hallucinogenic laboratory, seizing $5,000 worth of LSD, peyote and mescaline.

[13] In late 1967, the Colorado Highway Patrol were performing a routine search of a vehicle reported by the Moffat County Sheriff's office, and discovered a mobile hallucinogenic drug laboratory built into the back of a milk truck.

The patrol officers called Denver BDAC, which arrived on the scene and seized LSD, mescaline, DET, raw chemicals, the equipment to make the drugs, and the truck itself.

Around the same time, the two units managed to shut down an unrelated DMT laboratory and arrest the young suburban couple running the lab.

[16] When FBN Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger reached the forced retirement age in 1965, he passed on the torch to Henry Giordano.

Giordano was not well-equipped to absorb the power vacuum left behind by Anslinger's absence, or to confront the changing cultural perception of narcotics in American society.

[17] Additionally, with Anslinger gone, President Johnson felt much more comfortable negotiating with Congress about how to address the new societal perception of narcotics and drugs.

"[17]In 1968, at the urging of FDA Commissioner Goddard, President Johnson merged the two agencies to create the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.