Office of National Narcotics Intelligence
The Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI) was a United States' federal law enforcement agency under the Justice Department that dealt in analysis of illegal drugs and was tasked to develop a National Narcotics Intelligence System. It conducted analysis only and had no operational responsibilities. Liaison was conducted with CIA and NSA. ONNI was founded in August 1972 under order of President Richard M. Nixon. The agency was headed by former FBI Assistant to the Director (third position in FBI after Director and Deputy Director) William C. Sullivan until ONNI was consolidated into the newly created Drug Enforcement Administration in July 1973 (along with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, some Customs officers. Waldo H. Dubberstein, who worked in ONNI's Analysis Division, had been head of all Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysis for the Middle East and South Asia, committed suicide in April 1983 after being indicted for selling classified DIA intelligence reports to Libya. It also helped set up information systems and analytical operations for the EU.
Sources
- Agency of Fear by Edward J. Epstein
- The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism by Henrik Kruger