History of DEA’s Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team

DEA's Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST) program deployed specially trained DEA agents to work alongside U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and NATO forces. FAST units partnered with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to identify and dismantle Afghanistan's top drug traffickers, disrupt the opium and heroin trade, and cut off financial pipelines supporting terrorist organizations. The program later expanded to other regions, including Africa, Ukraine, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.