The Nation - News from April 23, 1987
Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III said he has decided against having the FBI absorb the Drug Enforcement Administration and will keep the DEA as a separate agency. At a meeting of FBI and DEA executives in Phoenix, the attorney general said he will continue to promote efforts to integrate functions of the two. But “at a time when we have made the battle against drug trafficking and abuse one of the nation’s top priorities, it just makes good sense to retain the (DEA) . . . as a separate and distinct agency,” Meese said in a statement.
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